Written answers

Wednesday, 20 March 2024

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Referendum Campaigns
      37. To ask the Taoiseach if the decision to hold the two referenda was a Cabinet decision. [13091/24]
    • An Garda Síochána
      38. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or physical threats being addressed to staff...
    • Public Inquiries
      39. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for long-Covid to be included in the terms of reference for the upcoming Covid inquiry. [12139/24]
    • Departmental Bodies
      40. To ask the Taoiseach the breakdown of expenditure from the shared island unit, broken down by year and Department since 2020, and by the revised estimates for projected expenditure for 2024,...
    • Departmental Staff
      42. To ask the Taoiseach the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department and bodies under his aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of...
    • Departmental Funding
      43. To ask the Taoiseach if he will publish a list of the NGOs funded by his Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in the past three years, in tabular form. [12728/24]
    • Referendum Campaigns
      44. To ask the Taoiseach if there will be an independent investigation into the leaking of the Attorney General’s referendum advice to the media the day before the referendum. [12882/24]
    • Public Private Partnerships
      45. To ask the Taoiseach to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the anticipated or known cost...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • An Garda Síochána
      46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or physical...
    • Human Rights
      47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 15 February 2024, the rationale for the Government’s position of non-intervention in the...
    • Passport Services
      48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to clarify how long an Irish passport must be expired to be considered a first-time application with the Passport Office. [11778/24]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a substantive reply will issue to email correspondence (details supplied) from this Deputy with his Office of 17 January 2024; and if he...
    • Passport Services
      51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application (details supplied) can be escalated as the applicant's travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Middle East
      53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his discussions with international partners regarding the air dropping of food to Gaza; the timeframe in which it is...
    • Consular Services
      56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he and his consular officials will engage with their counterparts in India to ensure that the family of a person (details supplied) will...
    • Shannon Airport Facilities
      57. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the US Air Force Gulfstream 5 executive jet number 99-0402 was permitted to fly and through Irish air space and land and refuel in Shannon...
    • Foreign Policy
      58. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make a statement on the deteriorating situation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. [12221/24]
    • Passport Services
      59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will clarify the issues that are complicating a passport application for an individual (details supplied) given the issues in this...
    • Official Engagements
      60. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to his statement (details supplied) the occasions on which he suggested to people in the United States that they speak with members...
    • Departmental Staff
      61. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department and bodies under his aegis and of bodies he funds in...
    • Passport Services
      62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 29 February 2024, the steps a person (details supplied) can take to ensure they receive their...
    • Northern Ireland
      64. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if in line with the recent report of Operation Kenova in Northern Ireland, he will advocate for a national day of commemoration on 21 June,...
    • Passport Services
      65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in instances in which a person has recently changed their name to its Irish version by deed poll and therefore cannot provide the requisite...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government will consider signing up to an organisation (details supplied) which aims to scale up school meal programmes around the...
    • Foreign Policy
      67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagements with the government of Indonesia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12558/24]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the percentage of staff based at the Irish embassy and consulates in China who are fluent in speaking and writing in Mandarin Chinese. [12634/24]
    • Passport Services
      69. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 5 March 2024, the number of passport applications received from persons with an address in the...
    • Departmental Funding
      70. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will publish a list of the NGOs funded by his Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in the past three years, in...
    • Departmental Meetings
      71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that he or officials from his Department and...
    • Consular Services
      72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of times in 2023 and to-date in 2024 where the Irish consulate general or deputy consulate general based in Los Angeles has met...
    • EU Meetings
      73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the current situation in Haiti was discussed at the last EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. [12788/24]
    • Passport Services
      74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport for a person (details supplied) will issue before 24 March 2024 as they are due to travel on a school trip on that date but the...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on a foreign birth register application (details supplied); the reason for the delay in processing the...
    • Passport Services
      77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13112/24]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      78. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to confirm receipt of a foreign birth registration application from a person (details supplied); and if an indication of a turnaround time is...
    • Middle East
      80. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Ireland's position on the Egyptian authorities charging Gazans thousands of dollars to gain entry to their state; and if he will make a...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      81. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost;...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Energy Conservation
      82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the new low-cost EIB group-supported home energy upgrade loan scheme will be delivered; if he will provide more...
    • An Garda Síochána
      83. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if their Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of windfarms; the related installed capacity of these windfarms which have exited their support scheme...
    • Legislative Measures
      85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether he intends to legislate for a ban on disposable e-cigarettes; and if so, whether he intends this to be a...
    • Local Authorities
      86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a noise abatement order under Section 108 of the Environmental Protection Agency Act 1992 is granted; what...
    • Recycling Policy
      90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update and report on the return deposit scheme; the number of stores that are up and running; and the uptake by...
    • Telecommunications Services
      93. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has had any policy discussions with ComReg to encourage telecommunications providers to introduce social broadband...
    • Energy Conservation
      94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what monies were allocated to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) residential and community retrofit...
    • Departmental Meetings
      96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the presence he or his Departmental officials will have at the Wind Europe annual event in Bilbao, Spain from...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to the introduction of a public subsidy where an estate in a town or urban area for which...
    • EU Directives
      99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans regarding the transposition of the requirements of the Revised Renewable Energy Directive, with particular...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will give consideration to the issues outlined in correspondence concerning prices for broadband and mobile...
    • Inland Fisheries
      101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment where within the Inland Fisheries Act 2010 it stipulates the procedures for appointing a deputy or interim CEO; the...
    • Climate Change Policy
      105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures which are currently being undertaken to identify and implement strategies that will assist in reducing...
    • Data Centres
      107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide clarity on the extent to which his Department has implemented a moratorium on additional data centres in the...
    • Departmental Staff
      108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis...
    • Legislative Measures
      109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to concerns related to the wording of the plastic bag levy legislation (details...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he aware a case (details supplied) in relation to broadband; the reasons that the connection was not extended to...
    • Post Office Network
      111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the number and locations of post offices run directly by An Post; and the number franchised...
    • Recycling Policy
      112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the latte levy on disposable cups will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12535/24]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what measures are being taken to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy in Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Prices
      115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of any omissions by the electric supply company in terms of customers receiving the correct energy...
    • Recycling Policy
      116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that the Houses of the Oireachtas have been granted an exemption (details supplied) as part of the...
    • Departmental Funding
      117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish a list of the NGOs funded by his Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in the past...
    • Departmental Meetings
      118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that he or officials...
    • Electricity Grid
      119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has had discussions with the CRU on the possibility of adding a second annual application window for the Enduring...
    • Climate Change Policy
      122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will advise on measures to provide due regard to the special economic and social role of agriculture with regard...
    • Energy Conservation
      123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the retrofitting of solid fuel homes; how many solid fuel homes were retrofitted; how many solid...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the provision of fibre broadband to a property (details supplied). [13100/24]
    • Litter Pollution
      125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for a breakdown of the amount of funding drawn down by each local authority from the anti-litter and anti-graffiti...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated...
  • Department of Defence
    • An Garda Síochána
      127. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or physical threats...
    • Defence Forces
      128. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the acquisition of Airbus C295W; the expected delivery date; if the aircraft will have the capacity to participate in...
    • United Nations
      129. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is aware of media reports in relation to civilians in Beirut detaining a UNIFIL vehicle which while conducting routine logistical...
    • Defence Forces
      130. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the implications of an increased retirement in the Defence Forces; his considerations in relation to this; and if he will...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      131. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 168 of 17 January 2024, the status of the project aiming to explore the establishment of a defence...
    • Defence Forces
      132. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the nomination of Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces to the position of Chair of the European Union Military Committee;...
    • Departmental Staff
      135. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis and of bodies he funds in...
    • Defence Forces
      136. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of vacancies by rank in the Defence Forces School of Music as of 11 March 2024; the timeframe within each of those vacancies will be...
    • Departmental Data
      138. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the originating airport that an aircraft (details supplied) took off from before its initial landing at Casement Aerodrome, County Dublin on 10...
    • Departmental Funding
      140. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will publish a list of the NGOs funded by his Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in the past three years, in tabular...
    • Departmental Meetings
      141. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that he or officials from his Department and...
    • Defence Forces
      142. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of the new working group to develop a complaints process for civilian employees and civil servants who work with the Defence Forces;...
    • Departmental Contracts
      146. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 14 and 15 of 28 February 2024, the month of each expenditure in relation to orbiter 3 unmanned air...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      147. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Penalty Points System
      148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the fact that, ten years after the Garda inspectorate recommended that a system be introduced immediately to ensure that all...
    • Bus Services
      149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the removal of the 18 bus service has left residents of the Cashel Avenue/Ravensdale Park area in Crumlin without not...
    • An Garda Síochána
      150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or physical...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what measures are proposed to address anti-social behaviour along the DART line which acts as a disincentive for people using public...
    • Rail Network
      152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reconsider resurrecting the Bantry line of the west Cork railway; if he will make funding available to run cost-benefit...
    • Departmental Data
      153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 17 January 2024, the number of fleet owners/managers and motor traders that have yet to...
    • Airport Policy
      154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in any discussions with stakeholders on the passenger cap at Dublin airport, the capacity at Cork airport has been discussed; and if...
    • Public Transport
      156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11812/24]
    • Active Travel
      157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason none of the €3 million active travel investment grant was allocated to Graiguecullen despite this being the third...
    • Rail Network
      158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport with regard to the Cork Area Commuter Rail Programme, when works begin on each of the new rail stations of Blarney/Stoneview, Monard,...
    • Driver Test
      161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position in relation to the number of driving testers recruited in 2023 and 2024, those on short term contracts, and whether...
    • Departmental Reports
      162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, when and the extent to which future reviews as to the schedule for the complete implementation rollout of all recommendations made in...
    • Airport Policy
      163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the disturbances to the residents of Firhouse due to loud air traffic over Firhouse (details supplied); if he will take...
    • Public Transport
      164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost to extend the young adult travel card to 24-year-olds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12204/24]
    • Electric Vehicles
      165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he, in consultation with the relevant departments, will examine a financial incentive for drivers to buy a plug-in hybrid electric...
    • Climate Change Policy
      166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the draft national demand management strategy which was prepared in 2023 will be published; the other Government Departments and or...
    • Departmental Staff
      167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 52 of 6 March 2024, for a breakdown of the table provided to indicate the number of payments and...
    • Bus Éireann
      169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with Bus Éireann regarding concerns about a bus route in Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12385/24]
    • Active Travel
      171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding for the pedestrian/cyclist facilities at River Fane bridge crossing in Inniskeen, County Monaghan; and if he...
    • Driver Licences
      172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans in place to change licensing rules (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12442/24]
    • Public Transport
      173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans to deal with the provision of increased public transport in Dublin 8, particularly around Kilmainham-Inchicore which suffers...
    • Departmental Policies
      174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he has considered the proposal of a working group being established to look into a vehicle being fitted with a breathalyser,...
    • Official Engagements
      175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he met the Brazilian President during his recent visit to Brazil for St. Patrick's Day events; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Transport
      176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the value of performance related penalties issued to each public transport provider by the NTA in 2023 and for the first two months of...
    • Rail Network
      177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to a recent reply to correspondence from a person with a disability (details supplied), where the NTA confirmed that 42,000...
    • National Car Test
      178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the contract with the service provider of the National Car Testing Service contains any performance related or penalty clauses for...
    • Departmental Strategies
      179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he has monitored the progress made under the actions specified in the National Positive Ageing Strategy 2013 and published annual...
    • Driver Test
      180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that the language within the driver theory test is simplified into plain English to make it more accessible for those...
    • Greenways Provision
      181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider requesting that the TII designate the 53km Shannon Erne Connectivity route as a proposed national strategic greenway...
    • Departmental Funding
      182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will publish a list of the NGOs funded by his Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in the past three years, in...
    • Departmental Meetings
      183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that he or officials from his Department...
    • Driver Licences
      184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport with regard to recently announced changes to licensing categories, if he will review the change to category W licences, given the...
    • Rail Network
      185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to improve the intercity rail serving Gorey and by extension Wexford (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of defibrillators located in public areas in both terminals within Dublin Airport; and the number and percentage of DAA staff...
    • Bus Services
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost to remove a roundabout as part of BusConnects (details supplied). [12806/24]
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 1 February 2024, the status of the roll-out of park and ride in Galway city; and if he will...
    • Bus Services
      190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to increase the frequency of the 109A bus services which connect with DCU; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rail Network
      192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Glasnevin (interchange) DART+ and MetroLink rail station will be opened and operational; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Safety
      193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views regarding the rejection of a Section 38 request for a safety improvement project funded under safety improvement works (details...
    • Greenways Provision
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what he considers to be best practice in relation to consultation on route selection for greenways through urban areas, noting that his...
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to the CIÉ superannuation scheme 1951; if his Department has finished considering the draft SI in conjunction with...
    • Legislative Measures
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to legislate to shorten the amount of time gardaí have to wait before they have power to seize vehicles without...
    • Driver Test
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will change the rules where a person who does their driving test in an automatic car currently will not be licensed to drive a...
    • Cycling Facilities
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider the provision of additional funding for the expansion of the Cork city bike scheme into the north side of Cork city...
    • Active Travel
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reconsider the decision not to install a walkway as was planned over the Clady river at Bunbeg, County Donegal; to detail the...
    • Pension Provisions
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the board of a company (details supplied) to comply with the spirit of the Mulvey report 2023 and provide a pension...
    • Rail Network
      203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the current progress for the MetroLink; what is the estimate for completion of this project; and how he will...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital...
    • Aviation Industry
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the impact that increased Irish Aviation Authority fees could have on smaller flying clubs and students; if he is...
    • Driver Licences
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he was informed by the RSA on their plans to implement restrictions on tractor and work vehicle licences; what measures are in place...
    • Road Safety
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for the up-to-date position on road safety improvements works for the N22 junctions between Macroom and Ballincollig; the up-to-date...
    • Bus Services
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what measures he is taking to ensure revised fare structures are considered on expressway services operating in the Cork region as the...
  • Department of Finance
    • Departmental Expenditure
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a breakdown of all non-voted spending, including commercial State bodies for each year since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Aviation Industry
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline any approaches or negotiations engaged in by Ireland with other EU Member States to waive the exemption on aviation fuel tax for...
    • An Garda Síochána
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or physical threats being...
    • Tax Code
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce an annual threshold for VAT free barter similar to other EU countries (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to commission an independent assessment of the extent to which tobacco excise increases in recent years are leading to increased illicit...
    • Departmental Policies
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered changes to the recognition of mortgage applicants to meet repayment costs - at present many private tenants are paying significant...
    • Insurance Coverage
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps his Department is taking to ensure that community centres and halls have access to insurance for public liability. [11697/24]
    • Tax Code
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is giving consideration to changing the VAT rate for the food industry back to 9% from the current 13.5% rate (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Housing Schemes
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance whether legally divorced persons who have no legal interest in any property are excluded from the help to buy scheme; and if so, the reasoning behind this...
    • Banking Sector
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 5 March 2024, if he will recontact An Post on the matter, given there has been no contact with the beneficiary...
    • Tax Code
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider his decision to introduce an increase in fuel excise on 1 April 2024, given the fact that the UK has just announced it will not...
    • Prize Bonds
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance the person or body that conducts the independent analysis of weekly prize bond draws conducted by the National Treasury Management Agency. [12060/24]
    • Tax Exemptions
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to introducing similar tax exemptions for petrol purchased by fishermen as is available when they purchase marine diesel. [12091/24]
    • Departmental Reviews
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 5 October 2023, if he remains committed to undertaking a review of the remittance basis of tax and the domicile...
    • Tax Credits
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications to the mortgage interest tax credit which have been rejected on the grounds that an applicant does not have a sufficient income tax...
    • Departmental Staff
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis and of bodies he funds in full or in...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of gaming machines seized by the Revenue Commissioners under section 43 of the Finance Act 1975 in each of the years 2020 to 2023, in tabular form....
    • Financial Services
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to concerns of an organisation (details supplied) regarding its clients’ difficulty in qualifying for mortgages, life...
    • EU Bodies
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of Ireland's bid to host the EU Anti-Money Laundering Agency; the breakdown of this cost including advertising and so on. [12495/24]
    • Official Engagements
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance if he met his Chinese counterpart during his recent visit to China for St. Patrick's Day events; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12562/24]
    • Departmental Policies
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the actions being taken to implement the proposals for a modern, fit-for-purpose vehicle adaptation scheme in line with international best...
    • Tax Yield
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue raised by the sugar-sweetened drinks tax each year since its introduction, and to date in 2024, broken down by the yield in each band; and if he...
    • Tax Code
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance the goods and services subject to the second reduced rate of VAT; the revenue generated through VAT for each good and service subject to the second reduced...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners' review of the taxes paid by Irish real estate funds has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12700/24]
    • Tax Code
      256. To ask the Minister for Finance whether services such as yoga, pilates, boxercise and spinning are being afforded a financial advantage over activities such as martial arts and gymnastics,...
    • Departmental Funding
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish a list of the NGOs funded by his Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in the past three years, in tabular form. [12719/24]
    • Departmental Meetings
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that he or officials from his Department and bodies under the...
    • Tax Code
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance to give consideration to committed couples including those with children being jointly assessed for tax purposes and in addition being able to apply for home...
    • State Bodies
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Residential Property Service long-term leased properties have been transferred to the LDA; and if not, when this transfer will take...
    • Departmental Data
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of people paying the domicile levy each year since 2010; the number of non-tax-residents who have paid the domicile levy since 2010; the...
    • Tax Yield
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be generated, assuming no change in behaviour, if Ireland were to introduce a remittance charge on a euro equivalent basis to...
    • Tax Code
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance to discuss any plans for the restoration of tax exemption liability that was in place before the economic crash; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Credits
      266. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to allowing surplus tax credits from the year of a deceased individual to be carried over subsequent years, particularly when...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance if provisions are in place for an individual whose application for a primary medical certificate was refused and subsequently appealed the decision, but is...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      268. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will seek EU funding to cover the costs to replace two customs cutter vessels for the Revenue Commissioners; and the current status regarding the...
    • Tax Reliefs
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the rent-a-room relief; if he will consider creating a registry to ensure legitimacy and transparency; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) is paying high levels of income tax. [13008/24]
    • Tax Reliefs
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance in a context where the Finance Act 2017 introduced relief on capital gains tax and capital acquisitions tax for landowners who have leased their land for the...
    • Housing Schemes
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to reports that applicants for the help-to-buy scheme who are still repaying Covid supports are being automatically rejected;...
    • Departmental Data
      274. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received from his Departmental officials or the Revenue Commissioners an estimate, range of estimates or data enabling an estimate of the Exchequer...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding new NGCT relief provisions being prepared by the Revenue Commissioners; when are they expected to be commenced; and if he will make a...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the anticipated...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • An Garda Síochána
      279. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or physical...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if interim flood relief measures will be considered in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11639/24]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on plans to draft legislation to restore the supplementary pension to post-2012 gardaí and other uniformed members of...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost to the Exchequer of running the two Constitutional referendums on 8 March 2024. [11688/24]
    • Public Sector Staff
      283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of occasions since January 2018 that his Department has sanctioned a financial package for an individual leaving the public...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      284. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the results will be available in respect of an assessment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11795/24]
    • Coast Guard Service
      285. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when a project (details supplied) which was granted planning permission in 2022 can proceed; if this project has been advertised in...
    • Freedom of Information
      286. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to expand on the schedule of prescribed bodies in the Freedom of Information Act 2014 (details supplied); and if he has...
    • International Protection
      287. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has received communication from the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth requesting...
    • Heritage Sites
      289. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the definition of what comprises general visitor traffic in the matter of the avenue at Castletown House; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Policies
      290. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what provisions his Department is obliged to make to ensure Government services, such as the Revenue Commissioners, are accessible to...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      291. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details on when his Department will undertake drainage and flood relief works at Gullet Cross, Cratloe, County Clare. [12273/24]
    • Departmental Staff
      292. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of exit and-or severance and-or redundancy packages granted by his Department, bodies under his aegis and bodies he funds in...
    • Heritage Sites
      293. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW plans to refresh and refurbish the exterior of Rathfarnham Castle (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      295. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full cost of the referendums held on 8 March 2024; and the breakdown of those costs. [12677/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      297. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will publish a list of the NGOs funded by his Department; and the level of funding each NGO received in the past three years, in...
    • Departmental Meetings
      298. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings he or officials from his Department and...
    • Flood Risk Management
      299. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW chair will reconvene the meetings of the steering group on the flood mitigation at Ballycar; if the group will report to the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      300. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of his Department's capital budget allocation that has been spent in the first two months of 2024; and if he will provide the...
    • Office of Public Works
      301. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 235 of 5 March 2024, if he will accept that the response is misleading, given An Garda...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total capital spend for each year since 2018, broken down by Exchequer and non-Exchequer, by core and non-core, and what the...
    • Heritage Sites
      304. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of rent the OPW has collected from external agencies to have a café-restaurant service in each heritage site under the...
    • Office of Public Works
      305. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons who will be offered a job as a chef within OPW following the recent recruitment campaign for chefs; and when each...
    • An Garda Síochána
      306. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what steps have been taken by the Office of Public Works in identifying a suitable location for a Garda station in Castletroy, Limerick;...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form, all projects with a value of over €20 million that are currently under construction and their...
    • Heritage Sites
      308. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13127/24]
    • Public Private Partnerships
      309. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital...
    • Energy Conservation
      310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide details on all energy performance contracts implemented or in development across the public sector; and if he will make a...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a breakdown of all non-Exchequer funding in the Public Capital Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Private Partnerships
      312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide details on the indexation of PPP contract indexation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13210/24]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      318. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the Morell flood relief scheme at Killeenmore and Turnings, Sallins/Straffan, County Kildare; whether the works are almost...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • EU Directives
      319. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will transpose the EU directive on adequate minimum wages into Irish law; the implications of this directive for early years...
    • Departmental Data
      320. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to the Dáil debate on the forty-first Amendment of the Constitution (Agreement on a Unified Patent Court) Bill 2024, the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      321. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or...
    • Departmental Policies
      322. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence in relation to the new sick pay scheme (details supplied); and if he...
    • EU Directives
      323. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there is an established action plan prepared or being prepared regarding the transposition of the EU Directive on an adequate...
    • Energy Conservation
      325. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the take-up rate of the LEO energy efficiency grant, by the number of businesses issued with a grant, the number of businesses...
    • Departmental Meetings
      326. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the presence, if any, he or his Departmental officials will have at the Wind Europe annual event in Bilbao, Spain from...
    • Industrial Development
      327. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason no businesses are operating in the IDA business and Technology Park, Fermoy, County Cork in 2024, 22 years after the...
    • Business Supports
      328. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the rates rebate for businesses that was announced as part of Budget 2024 will be rolled out; how qualifying businesses will...
    • Departmental Staff
      330. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 6 March 2024, whether the beneficiary of the end of service payment has been engaged by...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      332. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the percentage breach rate of employment law uncovered from the total number of WRC investigations in 2023, in tabular form. [12428/24]
    • Company Law
      333. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a complaint can be referred to the Corporate Enforcement Authority by an Oireachtas Committee (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Official Engagements
      334. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he met the Indian Prime Minister during his recent visit to India for St. Patrick's Day events; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Strategies
      335. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether he has monitored the progress made under the actions specified in the National Positive Ageing Strategy 2013 and published...
    • Legislative Measures
      336. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in light of recent the Supreme Court jurisprudence, he will bring forward legislation setting out the extent of a positive right...
    • Departmental Funding
      337. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will publish a list of the NGOs funded by his Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in the past three years,...
    • Departmental Meetings
      338. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that he or officials from his...
    • Trade Sanctions
      339. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has carried an assessment on how effective the trade sanctions are with Russia; if he is confident these sanctions are not...
    • Business Supports
      340. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12878/24]
    • Work Permits
      341. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 8 February 2024, for an update on plans to remove dental nurses from the ineligible...
    • Social Media
      342. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of social media influencers, and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      343. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known...
    • Work Permits
      344. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will detail the number of work permit applications received by country of origin over the past four years; the number of...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Accommodation
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support an application from a school (details supplied) for funding to complete the building of a general purpose/early years room,...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what actions she has planned to deal with calls from a number of primary school principals in Tallaght for enhanced supports for disadvantaged...
    • School Accommodation
      348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite an application for a school in County Clare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11563/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can indicate a definite schedule for when a permanent build project (details supplied) will start construction; when it is scheduled for...
    • An Garda Síochána
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if their Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or physical threats...
    • Education Policy
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is funding available for students to attend immersive modern foreign language courses similar to the funding available for post-primary...
    • Language Schools
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the best course of action for a European language school owner to engage with the relevant parties in relation to funding; and if she will make a...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the exemption allowing teachers who qualified abroad are allowed complete their induction in Ireland be extended in view of the pressure on...
    • Special Educational Needs
      356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the best route forward for a school (details supplied) in terms of progressing their request for an identified ASD need within the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in the tender process and construction of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the ongoing school bus application for (details supplied); if her Department can seek a resolution with Bus...
    • School Accommodation
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that funding sanctioned in June 2020, for four new classrooms for an ASD unit at a school (details supplied) has not yet delivered;...
    • School Transport
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can get a place on the school bus to Virginia college; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11687/24]
    • School Staff
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how her Department plans to address significant delays in returning teachers from abroad receiving payroll as the backlog can take up to 22...
    • School Accommodation
      365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can address the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11708/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine a case (details supplied) whereby a child does not have a special education place for September 2024; and if she will make a...
    • School Staff
      367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the ongoing recruitment issues in St. Michael's House; if there is a strategy in place to address these issues; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      368. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a situation in a school (details supplied) whereby there should be seven SET teachers, but they currently only have one due to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11749/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      370. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support an application for an ASD unit for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11753/24]
    • School Transport
      371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 7 February 2024, to provide an update on when a person (details supplied) will receive a personal...
    • Education Policy
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's stance on the awarding of exemptions from the study of the Irish language for students diagnosed with dyslexia (details...
    • School Funding
      374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to delays in allocating emergency funding for a school (details supplied); if a timeline for drawdown can be...
    • School Accommodation
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the second modular classroom in a school (details supplied) will be delivered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11777/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide further clarity on the proposed changes to the current integration model for children with autism accessing special...
    • School Accommodation
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the building project for an ASD unit for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11785/24]
    • School Textbooks
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown, by county of the 212,000 students enrolled in approximately 670 post-primary schools who will benefit from the new scheme to...
    • School Accommodation
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action in hand to address the ongoing safety concerns of parents regarding their children's safety travelling to a school (details...
    • School Funding
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason all schools were not accepted to the recent STEM grant competition which was held for funding for a core curricular area and a key...
    • Special Educational Needs
      388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to regularise or provide guidelines for the assessment of needs process vis a vis regulation of interpretation of diagnoses; if there...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of NEPS psychologists per annum in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11850/24]
    • Education Schemes
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied) has not been sanctioned for home tuition hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11851/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the review of the second tender report for a school (details supplied); when the school can expect to be contacted on this...
    • School Funding
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a lottery was held when the number of applications for the STEM grant exceeded expectations; if she will point to the relevant area in...
    • School Admissions
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child (details supplied) can get accepted into a school in Letterkenny, County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a full update on the school site at Hollywoodrath, including the appointment of contractors; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SENO vacancies nationwide; the number per county; the average waiting time for the appointment of a new SENO, in tabular form; and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the schools summer works scheme; if the scheme will open for summer 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11897/24]
    • School Accommodation
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's position on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11900/24]
    • Departmental Regulations
      409. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether the Covid Amendment Regulation 2023 will be extended in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11902/24]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      410. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the board of management of a school (details supplied) in Donegal can expect a response to its letter of 21 February 2024; and if she will...
    • Education Policy
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the process whereby a parent can appeal a decision taken by a primary school and its board of management in...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise on a specific case (details supplied) regarding a student who is due to graduate and wishes to return to Ireland to complete...
    • School Accommodation
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on progress under the additional accommodation scheme for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the building works programme for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11939/24]
    • School Transport
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department and Bus Éireann will consider establishing a special communications unit to deal with specific queries around school...
    • Special Educational Needs
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a response to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11950/24]
    • Teacher Training
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of places in each master's degree in primary teaching per public university in Ireland. [11956/24]
    • Teaching Qualifications
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11960/24]
    • Teacher Training
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of places offered and the total number of persons enrolled in primary and post-primary masters in a college (details supplied)...
    • School Facilities
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans for a new classroom and wheelchair accessible WC at a school (details supplied). [11977/24]
    • Scoileanna Lán-Ghaeilge
      423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills anan bhfuil sé ag teacht salach ar chearta páistí go mbeadh an Stát ag brú orthu aistriú ó oideachas trí...
    • Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta
      424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén fáth nach dtugtar aitheantas do leanúnachas oidis trí Ghaeilge maidir le hiarratais ó dhaltaí a bhfuil an...
    • School Staff
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received an appeal from a school (details supplied); if favourable consideration will be given to this appeal; and when a decision is...
    • School Transport
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school bus route (details supplied) has not resumed since it was stopped during Covid restrictions. [12018/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the new school building for a school (details supplied); the reason for the significant delays on this project; and if she...
    • School Admissions
      431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school place for September 2024 will be offered to a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12045/24]
    • School Funding
      432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position regarding an application for funding for a school (details supplied) to meet an overrun on the cost of recent necessary...
    • Special Educational Needs
      433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reply will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12056/24]
    • School Transport
      436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a bus service will be provided for a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12063/24]
    • School Staff
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure that a school secretary (details supplied) will be transferred to DES payroll; and if she will make a statement...
    • Schools Building Projects
      438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the tender process for the construction of a permanent building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role her Department has in the operation of the per cent for art scheme as it applies to new school buildings and school extensions funded by...
    • Schools Building Projects
      442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a school project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12200/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a school appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12207/24]
    • Education Policy
      444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a proposal (details supplied); if he will consider funding this and rolling it out State-wide; and if she will make a...
    • School Admissions
      445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a student (details supplied) will have a school place for the academic year beginning September 2024. [12226/24]
    • Residential Institutions
      446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to extend the package of supports for survivors of abuse in industrial schools, reformatories and related institutions to include a...
    • Departmental Funding
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount allocated for service provisions in St. Christophers, Longford, per heading for 2023, 2022, and 2021, in tabular form; and if she will...
    • School Staff
      448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current vacancies per role for St. Christophers in Longford, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12247/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay to the start date of construction for a school (details supplied) from December 2024 to September 2025; when that...
    • School Curriculum
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if existing primary teachers will be required to teach modern foreign languages as part of the new primary language curriculum. [12253/24]
    • School Staff
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the selection process for these teachers will work; the professional development they will receive; the allowances they will...
    • School Facilities
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a new sports hall for a school (details supplied); if she is concerned about the impact of having no indoor sports...
    • School Transport
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter in relation to school transport (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12303/24]
    • School Funding
      456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can urgently reconsider a decision not to grant emergency works approval to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • School Accommodation
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update and timeline for a decision on an application for additional accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current locations of special schools and the number of students at each centre; the locations in which new special schools are due to open in...
    • Departmental Staff
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by her Department, and bodies under her aegis and of bodies she funds in...
    • Special Educational Needs
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12366/24]
    • School Accommodation
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an extension application for a school in County Mayo (details supplied) will progress from pre-stage 1 to planning stage, in view of the...
    • School Funding
      463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to the minor works scheme for primary schools, which for some if not many schools have not been paid for 2022 and 2023;...
    • Schools Building Projects
      464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a review being undertaken by her Department in respect of a Stage 2B submission will be finalised and the school (details supplied)...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement to date with schools in general regarding amalgamation and the provision of a co-educational offering; if she will review the...
    • School Enrolments
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a central portal will be established for parents to enrol their children at both primary and second level schools in large towns (details...
    • Special Educational Needs
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special educational needs organisers (SENOs) that are currently assigned to County Monaghan; if Monaghan has been served by SENO...
    • School Accommodation
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the significant delay with the special four classroom extension progressing to tender for a school (details supplied); and if she...
    • Education Policy
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the Government's Divestment Programme; how many schools have been successfully reconfigured; how many schools...
    • School Admissions
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if boards of management are required to use catchment area as a selective criteria in their admission policy; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Curriculum
      472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether she is considering including Ukrainian as an exam subject on the second level curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Inquiries
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will act immediately when the scoping inquiry into abuse in schools run by religious orders is provided to her in June 2024, given this...
    • School Staff
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review a case (details supplied) regarding the allocation of a permanent EAL post at a school; to provide an update on this matter; and if she...
    • Education Policy
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will seek to establish a gaelcholáiste in Dublin 8, given the number of feeder primary schools which have no...
    • School Accommodation
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the additional school accommodation scheme in respect of a school (details supplied); if her Department has considered the...
    • School Costs
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that despite reduced pupil teacher ratios and increased capitation grants, many schools are finding it difficult to manage given...
    • School Admissions
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place will be provided as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12541/24]
    • School Facilities
      481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will fund the construction of a general purpose/physical education hall in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • School Admissions
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can advise on a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12577/24]
    • School Accommodation
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development project for a school (details supplied); the expected date for the completion of this project; and if she will make...
    • School Admissions
      484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can ensure a place is made available for a child in a school (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12594/24]
    • School Funding
      485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of capital works funding her Department has provided to a school (details supplied) in 2023 and to-date in 2024; and the capital works...
    • Schools Building Projects
      486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she expects construction works at a school (details supplied) to be completed; and the estimated cost for these works. [12596/24]
    • School Enrolments
      488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of each school in the Donaghmede, Howth D13 school planning area, primary and post primary; the capacity of each...
    • School Funding
      489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of schools in County Clare that applied for STEM Grants in 2023. [12599/24]
    • Education Policy
      491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail what future planning is undertaken to ensure that the necessary number of places required in both mainstream of special schools by...
    • Schools Building Projects
      492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the provision of a new 1,000 pupil school at Magee Barracks in the Curragh; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the individual total capital expenditure on new primary and post primary school accommodation projects in County Meath from 2019 to 2023, in...
    • School Accommodation
      495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the progress of an ASD unit for a school (details supplied); and if the classroom will be operational for the 2024-2025...
    • Education Schemes
      496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) concerning the allocation of home tuition hours; the status of this case; the...
    • School Accommodation
      497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when it will be possible for a school (details supplied) to make a decision to go ahead with a tender for a school extension; and if she will...
    • School Funding
      498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an emergency works application can be made retrospectively in the case of necessary works to ensure the functioning of the fire alarm system;...
    • School Staff
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what progress has been made in addressing the contract of employment of school caretakers; her plans to include them under her Department; her...
    • Departmental Funding
      500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish a list of the NGOs funded by her Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in the past three years, in tabular...
    • Departmental Meetings
      501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that she or officials from her Department, and...
    • Departmental Policies
      502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to review the apparent anomaly that sees first and second-year teaching students carry out unpaid work within schools during...
    • School Enrolments
      503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the issue of an added stream for junior infants in a school (details supplied), with whom the final decision in granting additional...
    • School Admissions
      504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a child (details supplied) who is living in the village of Dunmore who did not get a school place for next year in...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the ongoing supports available for survivors of abuse in industrial schools, reformatories and related institutions; and if she will make a...
    • School Accommodation
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can expedite a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12777/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can provide assistance and advice on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12780/24]
    • School Funding
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide funding to a school (details supplied) to provide a SEN class to six pupils enrolled for the class to start next September;...
    • School Staff
      510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will retain the same number of teachers in the coming academic year; and if she will ensure the school can cater...
    • School Enrolments
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all steps possible can be taken to ensure that the son of a person (details supplied) secures a school place in the same school as their...
    • Bus Éireann
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish the bank accounts of Bus Éireann that show the moneys held in reserve by Bus Éireann for school transport and on...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 249 of 24 March 2024, the status of the development of the next policy on Gaeltacht education, to replace...
    • School Funding
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review correspondence from a school (details supplied); what financial assistance can be offered to this school to assist it with the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application for a school extension (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12872/24]
    • School Facilities
      517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a second ASD class will be sanctioned in a school (details supplied) to accommodate applications; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter in relation to Teaching Council registration (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Enrolments
      520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all efforts can be made to ensure a school place can be found for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Discipline
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of Cineáltas as an effort to address bullying in schools; if the initiative will address any shortcomings with regard to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if potential sites or locations in County Monaghan have been yet considered for a new special school; the timeframe envisaged to deliver a new...
    • School Transport
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a maximum timeframe that it is considered appropriate for any child to spend on a school bus to travel to and from a special school;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide in tabular form, the annual expenditure on design teams for capital projects each year since 2016; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Policies
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to her Department recruiting on a permanent basis architects, engineers, and quantity surveyors in order to...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 195 of 7 February 2024, what criteria is actually examined and referenced with respect to this individual...
    • School Facilities
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline recent allocations to a school (details supplied) for improvements to the buildings; and if she will outline any planned...
    • Schools Building Projects
      531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the permanent school building for a school (details supplied); the timeline for the start date for construction; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will arrange for a further review of a case (details supplied) in respect of their need for a special education placement; and if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the new building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13005/24]
    • School Facilities
      535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the prefabricated classroom which was applied for in March 2023 for a school in Donegal town (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update and timeframe for the delivery of the development works at a school (details supplied). [13057/24]
    • School Transport
      539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capacity of the school bus that services a school (details supplied) from the Wood Lane Pollagh Callan County Kilkenny area; and if she will...
    • School Admissions
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will be adding additional places in existing reading schools for the children of Dublin mid-west; in the meantime, what additional...
    • Schools Building Projects
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the provision of a new special school in Monasterevin, County Kildare; the type of special school it is or will be; which locations...
    • School Enrolments
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, with regard to the placement of people seeking temporary international protection in locations in south Kildare, she will outline the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school building project for a school (details supplied); and the timeline for completion of the project. [13170/24]
    • Public Private Partnerships
      545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in respect of the schedule of school projects in Kildare (details supplied). [13243/24]
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • An Garda Síochána
      547. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written, including electronically, or...
    • Arts Council
      548. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the conditions imposed on arts companies that received funding grants from the Arts Council in relation to adherence to employment...
    • Sports Funding
      549. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a decision will be made on an application for a sports club (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Television Licence Fee
      550. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of TV licences purchased, by month, in each of the months January 2022 to February 2024, in tabular form. [11759/24]
    • Legislative Measures
      552. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on progress made to date in respect of legislation regarding a company (details supplied) and short-term...
    • Tourism Industry
      553. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how Fáilte Ireland can award the Employer Excellence Programme award to establishments (details supplied). [11924/24]
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      554. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide information on the upcoming elections for a representative from Mayo to Údarás na Gaeltachta; and if she...
    • Culture Policy
      555. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated cost to introduce a pilot culture and media card scheme to the value of €200 for 18- to 24-year-olds; and if...
    • Sports Events
      556. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Broadcasting Sector
      558. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her Department's working definition of public service broadcasting; if the term should be taken to imply all activity by...
    • Departmental Staff
      560. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of exit and-or severance and-or redundancy packages granted by her Department, bodies under her aegis and bodies she...
    • State Bodies
      561. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the whole-time equivalent, WTE, staff vacancies, by job title, currently at Coimisiún Na Mean; and if she will make a...
    • Sports Funding
      562. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will support a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12618/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      563. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will publish a list of the NGOs funded by her Department; and the level of funding each NGO received in the past three...
    • Departmental Meetings
      564. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings, she or officials from her...
    • Sports Funding
      565. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is a delay in issuing sports capital grants applied for in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12753/24]
    • Departmental Budgets
      567. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the percentage of her Department's capital budget allocation that has been spent in the first two months of 2024; and if she will...
    • Sports Funding
      568. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a grant will issue to a club (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12827/24]
    • Horse Racing Industry
      569. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 173 and 174 of 6 March 2024, the amount of funding provided by either Horse Sport Ireland...
    • Sports Events
      570. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 252, 253 and 254 of 27 February 2024, if the Irish taxpayers' commitment to the Ryder Cup...
    • Official Engagements
      573. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she met the Mayor of Austin, Texas, during her recent visit there.. [12976/24]
    • Departmental Contracts
      574. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of social media influencers, online personalities and television and-or radio personalities engaged...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      575. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the costs incurred to date in respect of two external reviews into HR and governance/culture at RTÉ. [13130/24]
    • Departmental Reports
      576. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the date for publication of the final report by the working group to develop a National Disinformation Strategy; and if she will...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      577. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known...
    • Departmental Funding
      578. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she can identify funding lines to cost a project (details supplied). [13219/24]
    • Tourist Accommodation
      579. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will pause the introduction of a register (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13323/24]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Departmental Funding
      580. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a proposal for additional funding for the Cork Event Centre will be brought to the Cabinet. [11521/24]
    • Local Authorities
      582. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department can extend the deadline for the voluntary redundancy scheme for local authorities' water staff; and if he...
    • An Garda Síochána
      583. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or...
    • National Planning Framework
      584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government within the pending review of national planning framework, if he has considered the impact of present required density...
    • Planning Issues
      585. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered what new statutory guidelines will be enforced with respect to planning appeals to An Bord Pleanála;...
    • Water Services
      587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what review has taken place in terms of the bureaucracy that surrounds access to utilities such as water and wastewater...
    • Housing Schemes
      588. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government where the development of new housing schemes using modular building methods have already taken place in Munster; the scale and...
    • Septic Tanks
      589. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of additional households that became eligible for septic tank grants since his announcement in November 2023 of...
    • Departmental Strategies
      594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total funding that has been spent to date in implementing the Youth Homelessness Strategy; and if he will make a statement...
    • Housing Provision
      598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of 18–24-year-olds that are registered for social housing on local authority waiting lists, provided by...
    • Housing Schemes
      603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an applicant for the local authority home loan will be considered as a second chance applicant if they are divorced but...
    • Hedge Cutting
      604. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to extend the period for hedge cutting beyond 1 March 2024 and commencing earlier than 1...
    • Housing Policy
      606. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his Department's examination of the creation of a system of holding rental deposits as set out...
    • Housing Provision
      607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost to the Exchequer in 2023 per unit of accommodation for each of the housing funding streams; and if he will...
    • Housing Schemes
      609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the revolving Housing Agency Acquisitions Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11723/24]
    • Housing Provision
      610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total spend via the social housing current expenditure programme in 2023, broken down by lease types (details supplied);...
    • Departmental Policies
      611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if allowing for publication of election candidates' home addresses is mandated in statute; and, if not, if he has given...
    • Departmental Data
      612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date on which the 2023 Q4 social and affordable housing statistics will be available; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Policy
      613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects the tripartite agreement on the delivery of social and affordable housing in the Poolbeg SDZ will be finalised...
    • Housing Provision
      614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown, by county of the 39,900 homes, in the context of planning measures introduced in 2021, with some 39,900 homes...
    • Housing Policy
      615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a tenant’s top-up led them to accumulating arrears would he consider HAP rates for this case; and if he will make a...
    • Election Management System
      617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether any analysis has taken place as to what would be required to replace schools as polling stations with community...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will respond to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) in respect of access to the housing market for...
    • Housing Provision
      619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11808/24]
    • Vacant Properties
      620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of current vacant and void properties identified in County Laois, in tabular form; to list the towns and villages...
    • Housing Provision
      621. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the up-to-date position with a housing development in County Kildare (details supplied); if the local authority have advanced...
    • Housing Policy
      623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the HAP limits for counties Louth and Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11889/24]
    • Emergency Accommodation
      625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 411 of 5 March 2024, if the technical working group deemed suitable for progression...
    • Building Regulations
      626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the review of Part B of the Building Regulations and the associated technical guidance documents, the reason...
    • Energy Conservation
      627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total capital investment in the construction of social housing units in 2023; the average spend per unit under the deep...
    • Local Elections
      629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the official date of the forthcoming local elections; to confirm his intention to sign the statutory order for that date; and...
    • Planning Issues
      630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can provide an update on an application (details supplied) in relation to an extension for a house under disability...
    • Housing Schemes
      631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the process for transferring homeless HAP from one local authority in Dublin to another, that is, from Dublin City Council to...
    • Defective Building Materials
      632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason engineers from the housing agency are overruling the professional recommendations of engineers acting on behalf of...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rights that affected adjacent property holders have in situations in which the National Parks and Wildlife Service carry...
    • State Bodies
      635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the LDA intends to use the Davitt Road site in Drimnagh for housing which was previously earmarked for a primary health...
    • Rental Sector
      636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the regulations restricting short-term lets in rent pressure zones. [12097/24]
    • Student Accommodation
      637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of certain private student accommodation providers (details supplied) increasing rents by more than the 2%...
    • Housing Schemes
      640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of first home scheme approvals since it was introduced; and if he can provide a breakdown by county; and if he will...
    • Vacant Properties
      641. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant property refurbishment grants which have been paid in each county. [12135/24]
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      645. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines and the targeted publication of the final updated...
    • Housing Schemes
      646. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if individuals who have fully or partially demolished an old derelict property are also eligible to apply for funding under...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      647. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff employed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service; the number of staff employed at each grade; and to...
    • Local Authorities
      648. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the review of the qualifying criteria for well-water grants administered through local authorities; if...
    • Electoral Process
      649. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason postal votes cannot be arranged in advance of election day to accommodate people who are abroad/cannot make it to...
    • Rental Sector
      650. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his Department's policy regarding the registration through the planning process of short-term...
    • Departmental Staff
      651. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis and of...
    • Housing Schemes
      652. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a local authority has the authority to make a decision to approve a local authority home loan application even after...
    • Housing Provision
      655. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the composition of housing units (details supplied) that is, one bed, two bed and so on; the...
    • National Oversight and Audit Commission
      657. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider commissioning the National Oversight and Audit Commission to carry out a piece of work, as per section...
    • Electoral Process
      658. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a circular issued to staff at polling centres which would, in certain circumstances, prevent some disabled people...
    • Housing Schemes
      659. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many people in County Mayo, have been successful in their local authority home loan and fresh start scheme applications,...
    • Local Authorities
      660. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of developments that have requested to be taken in charge by local authorities but have not yet been taken in...
    • Housing Schemes
      663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost rental backstop tenancy purchases completed; the number in progress and the number refused, by county, in...
    • Fire Safety
      664. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the establishment of the interim remediation scheme to tackle some of the most serious fire safety issues in...
    • Fire Service
      666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if retained firefighters will be included in pension age increase for uniformed workers. [12659/24]
    • Vacant Properties
      667. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will permit applicants for the vacant property grant reside in the house prior to applying for the grant where they are...
    • Nitrates Usage
      668. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide outline details of the results of the 2023 Interim Review of the State's current Nitrates Action Programme (NAP);...
    • Housing Provision
      669. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units provided through long-term leasing in 2023; if he will provide a list of these developments...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      670. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a possible increased danger to the public was taken when extending the deer hunting season period to include August which...
    • Housing Provision
      674. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of the locations where affordable housing has been provided for through long term arrangements,...
    • Rental Sector
      675. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has plans for when long term leasing arrangements are concluded; if social housing tenants will need to be...
    • Planning Issues
      676. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a private developer is to go through the normal planning process on private lands for building Ukrainian modular...
    • Departmental Funding
      677. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish a list of the NGOs funded by his Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in the past three...
    • Departmental Meetings
      678. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that he or officials from his...
    • Housing Schemes
      681. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost rental scheme houses in Mayo at present; the plan for this scheme over the next five years for Mayo; and if...
    • Waterways Issues
      682. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will detail the reason for the delay in adopting the third-cycle 2022-2027 River Basin Management Plan for Ireland; the...
    • Housing Schemes
      683. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason none of the housing agency tenant in-situ purchases have been converted into cost rental tenancies to date; and the...
    • Housing Provision
      686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of single rural houses provided, by each local authority in the past ten years, in tabular form. [12924/24]
    • Housing Policy
      688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected date of publication of the summary of social housing assessment 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Architectural Heritage
      691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will look favourably upon an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12993/24]
    • Strategic Infrastructure
      692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a strategic development (details supplied); if he intends to use a statutory instrument to fast-track planning;...
    • Housing Policy
      693. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider supporting the Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill...
    • Rental Sector
      696. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify in the situation whereby a social housing tenant in local authority housing is providing a couch for a...
    • Planning Issues
      697. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the size of an extension from 40 to 60 square metres as exempted development; and if he will make a...
    • Grant Payments
      698. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider an increase in the threshold to the income limits for the mobility aids grant taking into account current...
    • Housing Provision
      699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has carried out a review of his Department's voids programme to take account of construction inflation; if not, his...
    • Electoral Process
      701. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken to fix all discrepancies and inaccuracies on the electoral register and bring it up to date in advance...
    • Local Authorities
      702. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if charity shops are exempt from payment of rates to local authorities (details supplied) [13106/24]
    • International Protection
      703. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the facility to fast track the provision of temporary accommodation without the need for planning permission for Ukrainian...
    • Housing Provision
      704. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the time spent to carry out the four-stage approval process for publicly funded capital projects for each social housing, cost...
    • Local Authorities
      705. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update in relation to the negotiations between him and the Minister for Rural and Community Development about hiring...
    • Electoral Commission
      707. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of an issue (details supplied); the changes he will implement to ensure that this does not happen in the...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      708. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      710. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what proposals he has received for additional emergency accommodation by a Local Authority (details supplied) in the past 12...
    • Planning Issues
      712. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the national policy with respect to planning permission for log cabins; if he will establish a new category of planning...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Departmental Correspondence
      714. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      716. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for illness benefit will be processed in respect of a person from County Kerry (details supplied); and if...
    • Widow's Pension
      717. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an unmarried person can now claim the widow's pension entitlement following the recent judgement by the Supreme Court in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      718. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if those children who turned 18 between January and now and had child benefit halted, but remain in full time education, will...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      719. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the decision of an appeal's officer in the recent appeal case for carer’s allowance (details supplied) can reissue...
    • An Garda Síochána
      720. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if their Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically)...
    • Disability Services
      722. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will roll out WALK employment across the State to ensure that young people with intellectual disabilities finishing...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      723. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for an appeal decision for a domiciliary allowance; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      724. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what supports are in place for those suffering from long-Covid who are no longer able to continue in employment; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      725. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is in receipt of maximum benefit. [11896/24]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      726. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal (details supplied) by a person; when a decision is likely to be received, as this has been pending...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      727. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether the Government has a duty to ensure that all children are treated equally and fairly in relation to the...
    • Departmental Data
      728. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 455 of 5 March 2024, the reason her Department requires the destination of a person's...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      729. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider backdating child benefit payments for the intervening period from May 2023 to May 2024 for the small...
    • Departmental Data
      730. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans, if any, to update the Code of Practice on Determining Employment Status which was published in July 2021; and if...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      731. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in determining an appeal (details supplied); when a final determination is likely to issue; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      732. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in determination of review in the case of a person (details supplied) who has applied for an invalidity...
    • Departmental Reports
      734. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the independent external evaluation of the proposal that claims that higher financial returns can be achieved...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      735. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason self-employed people are not entitled to claim carer's benefit; if she will consider changing the eligibility...
    • Pension Provisions
      736. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will adjust the new flexible pension arrangements to allow people under the age of 70 years to work if they so choose...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      737. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the challenges facing some schools (details supplied) in sourcing venders to provide a hot...
    • Pension Provisions
      741. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a history of contributions made by a person (details supplied) to determine if they have sufficient...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      742. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department has declined to issue a PPSN to a person (details supplied) given they are an Irish citizen and...
    • Departmental Offices
      743. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if additional resources will be provided to the social welfare appeals office to address the three-month delay in registering...
    • Departmental Staff
      744. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff in the independent social welfare appeals office for the past five years, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      745. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals registered by the independent social welfare appeals office for the past five years, in tabular form;...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      748. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an application for a carer's allowance in the case of a person (details...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      749. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a public services card is required for a person to collect their pension from their local post office or if it is...
    • Departmental Data
      750. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by her Department, and bodies under her aegis and of...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      751. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial supports available for people to assist in furnishing their unfurnished social home; the eligibility for these...
    • Social Welfare Code
      754. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what supports her Department will put in place for those who have been on special leave with pay and whose payments are due...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      755. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in undertaking review of case of a person (details supplied) who requested same on 19 February 2024 by...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      756. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the designation of long-Covid as an occupational illness. [12533/24]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      758. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has concerns regarding the equitability of the fact that disabled people over the age of 65 years were not entitled to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      759. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      761. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to comments made by him on Budget Day (details supplied), what support are available to households that do not...
    • Gender Recognition
      762. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether any social welfare payment administered by her Department would be lost by a claimant in the event of them changing...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      763. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 246 of 7 December 2023, the number of appeals that were decided on by the original...
    • Departmental Funding
      764. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will publish a list of the NGOs funded by her Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in the past...
    • Departmental Meetings
      765. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that she or officials from...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      766. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update from her Department in response to the recent decision of the Supreme Court to rule in favour of a person...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      767. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was not paid the double week in January when they were in receipt of a carers...
    • Social Welfare Code
      768. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to change the treatment of persons who are in receipt of supplementary pension payment in the context of...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      769. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider allowing parents with children the right to claim domiciliary care allowance while living outside the...
    • Departmental Communications
      775. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities...
    • Departmental Properties
      776. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure disability access is installed at the Intreo office, Athlone. [13006/24]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      777. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current situation regarding an invalidity pension payment to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [13009/24]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      779. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for the State pension (non-contributory) in the case of a person (detail supplied) has been refused; and if...
    • Departmental Staff
      780. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pay claim for citizens information staff was received by her Department from the Citizens Information Board in its...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      781. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if changes are going to be made to jobseekers allowance and X and O system to allow people working as care assistants/home...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      784. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) whose sole means is their State pension (contributory) is entitled to an increase in same due...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      785. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress of the review for domiciliary care allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      787. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a working family payment will issue/be reinstated to a person (details supplied), with particular reference to their...
    • Departmental Data
      788. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the length of time it is taking her Department to process and complete applications for each payment (details supplied), in...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      789. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection where the payment of a qualified adult allowance is under review, if half of the savings of a couple are automatically...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      790. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      791. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the circumstances under which a pension payment may continue posthumously to next of kin; the family members entitled to such...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      792. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an invalidity pension award in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be backdated to the date they...
    • Public Services Card
      793. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal status of the Public Services Card to be used as a form of identification of an individual; her plans in this...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Wildlife Regulations
      794. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons injured each year as a result of discharges from licensed firearms by deer hunters; and if she will make...
    • Asylum Seekers
      795. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what provision her Department has made for Palestinians who have fled the war in Gaza to seek asylum in Ireland in...
    • Asylum Applications
      796. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of family reunification applications received in 2023; the number of family reunification applications pending...
    • Immigration Support Services
      797. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has provided assistance, financial or otherwise to BOPT applicants to transport their personal vehicles to...
    • International Protection
      798. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details in relation to the International Protection Office for each of the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, in...
    • Legislative Programme
      799. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the Sale of Alcohol Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11587/24]
    • An Garda Síochána
      800. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or...
    • Citizenship Applications
      801. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on a citizenship application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11606/24]
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      802. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what steps are being taken so that local authority provided closed circuit television can be used for the dual uses of crime...
    • Residency Permits
      803. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of instances where a fee of €300 was paid for the issuing of an IRP (formerly GNIB) card (including...
    • Road Safety
      804. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many prosecutions for dangerous cycling were taken in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11637/24]
    • Departmental Data
      805. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the increase in motorbike theft, specifically expensive types of motorbikes; and if she will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      806. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures in place to alleviate the backlog and streamline the visa application process for family reunification. [11728/24]
    • Legislative Reviews
      807. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason she is not removing or amending Article 19A of the Criminal Evidence Act 1992 whereby in certain criminal cases the...
    • Court Judgments
      808. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convictions for non-payment of the TV licence in each of the months January 2022 to February 2024, in tabular...
    • Child Protection
      812. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the Minister for State in her Department stated on 1 December 2023 that the State should be in a position to ratify...
    • Probation and Welfare Service
      813. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many individuals released on licence in the UK have returned to Ireland during their licence period in the past five years;...
    • Residency Permits
      814. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      815. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what options are available to an individual who has been unsuccessful in their application for naturalisation due to an error...
    • Immigration Policy
      816. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if guidelines for carriers under section 2, subsection (8) of the Immigration Act 2003 have been published, and if so, if she...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      817. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the progress of the establishment of Cuan, the new statutory domestic, sexual and gender based violence...
    • An Garda Síochána
      818. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of independent appeals officers appointed by her Department as part of the Garda National Vetting Bureau process in...
    • Legislative Programme
      819. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the Gambling Regulation Bill 2022; and when it will proceed to the remaining stages. [11865/24]
    • Legal Aid
      820. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider increasing the disposal income of €18,000 to qualify for free legal aid; the last time the limit was...
    • Irish Prisoners Abroad
      821. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an Irish citizen currently incarcerated in a French prison (details supplied); and the status of transferring the...
    • Court Orders
      822. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the resources available to the State and to the relevant authorities to pursue a person who is avoiding the order...
    • International Protection
      823. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants for protection under the International Protection Act 2015 that had access to the labour market in...
    • Departmental Strategies
      824. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to publish the regulations under section 18(7) and 19(9) of the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011, which were...
    • Legislative Programme
      825. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to bring forward the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill 2023 following the...
    • Residency Permits
      826. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to publish the waiting times for the renewal of IRP cards at the immigration office in Anglesea Street Garda station, Cork; if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      827. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the deployment of body cameras for Gardaí in the DMR north central. [12098/24]
    • Legislative Programme
      828. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it is intended to bring forward the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill 2023 for second stage...
    • Joint Policing Committees
      829. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when joint policing committees should cease meetings, given the transition to community safety partnerships; and if she will...
    • Legislative Measures
      830. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the progress of defamation law reforms, specifically addressing the concerns raised by publishers,...
    • Traveller Community
      833. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No 112 of 22 November 2023, what measures have been taken with regard to named...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      834. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and/or expected position in regard to naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in respect of...
    • International Protection
      835. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of unsuccessful applicants for protection under the International Protection Act 2015 who were deported/removed from...
    • Legislative Programme
      864. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the sale of alcohol Bill 2022, which was to change the law and remove the extinguishment rule when trying to obtain a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      865. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details of the number of gardaí who were committed to community policing in each of the past five years, in...
    • Visa Applications
      869. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of a visa application by a person (details supplied) which was submitted some months...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      870. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will receive their naturalisation certificate following their citizenship ceremony that look...
    • Victim Support Services
      871. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received the final report of the Law Reform Commission's project on compensating the victims of crime, which was due...
    • Youth Services
      878. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown of the funding provided to youth services in the Finglas and Ballymun areas; the number of posts funded; and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      880. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to Ballymun Garda station, by grade, at the end of February 2024, or the latest date...
    • Protected Disclosures
      887. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commission an independent review of the treatment of whistleblowers within the Irish Prison Service and An Garda...
    • Court Procedures
      888. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider amending the relevant legislation to allow for claims to the value of up to €5,000 to be handled by...
    • Departmental Staff
      889. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by her Department, and bodies under her aegis and of...
    • Legislative Programme
      891. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has any update regarding owners' management companies (OMCs) legislation, including the publication of new...
    • International Protection
      892. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for international protection within the meaning of the International Protection Act 2015 that were...
    • An Garda Síochána
      922. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of referrals made to the Garda Juvenile Diversion Programme, for each year from 2010 to 2023, for the following...
    • Visa Applications
      926. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 434 of 30 January 2024, when contact will be made with the person; and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Measures
      927. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the definition of a relevant game as it applies in the Gambling Regulation Bill 2022 when referring to the maximum stakes and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      928. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full year cost to increase the number of forensic examiners at engineering grade 3 level to 55 in the Garda...
    • Policing Co-operation
      929. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she met the New York Police Department Commissioner during her recent visit to New York for St. Patrick's Day events; and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      930. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated amount that An Garda Síochána spent on sending out poor quality CCTV camera images to external...
    • International Protection
      932. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an appeal might be considered in respect of an application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Residency Permits
      933. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in regard to residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • An Garda Síochána
      935. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 462 on 13 February 2024, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • Court Orders
      937. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of protection orders, safety orders and barring orders that were granted in 2023, in tabular form. [12635/24]
    • Citizenship Applications
      938. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a citizenship application number can be sent to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Prison Service
      939. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the cultural audit of the IPS 2023 scheduled for 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12675/24]
    • Citizenship Applications
      940. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1015 of 17 January 2023, when a citizenship application by a person (details supplied)...
    • An Garda Síochána
      941. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the resources that were allocated in 2023 by An Garda Síochána to providing daily security outside the Russian...
    • Departmental Funding
      942. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will publish a list of the NGOs funded by her Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in the past three...
    • Departmental Meetings
      943. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that she or officials from her...
    • Court Procedures
      944. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions for perjury in civil actions in each year from 2010 to date; the number of convictions in each year;...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      945. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will receive their naturalisation certificate following their citizenship ceremony which took...
    • Immigration Policy
      946. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the transfer and the scope of immigration operations that will transfer from the Garda National Immigration...
    • An Garda Síochána
      947. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of detective inspector posts filled within Kildare Garda division in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form....
    • Visa Applications
      950. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in determination of the appeals for visas in the case of the family (details supplied); when the appeals...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      951. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a naturalisation certificate will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Immigration Status
      952. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if advice will be provided for persons (details supplied) in respect of their current status within the country; and if she...
    • Coroners Service
      953. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ascertain the reason, if any, for the delay of an inquest (details supplied); when progress will be achieved and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      954. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 478 of 5 March 2024, with the addition of another member of An Garda Síochána...
    • Prison Service
      955. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support the need for an independent review of the treatment of whistleblowers within the Irish Prison Service...
    • An Garda Síochána
      956. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details of categories (details supplied) in relation to the number of persons who have died in Garda custody,...
    • Policing Authority
      960. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received a report from the Policing Authority regarding the issuing of public order training and resources arising...
    • An Garda Síochána
      961. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the progression made in establishing a Garda station in Castletroy, Limerick; and if she will make a statement...
    • International Protection
      962. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any specific measures are in place to protect the safety of vulnerable individuals currently being forced to live in tents...
    • An Garda Síochána
      963. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the Garda Vetting Review Group's report, considering it has been almost three years since their first...
    • Coroners Service
      965. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to significant delays to coroners' reports brought about by systematic failings; if she is...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      967. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known...
    • Sentencing Policy
      968. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what steps she has taken to ensure that first-time non-violent offenders who have breached a piece of legislation (details...
    • Spent Convictions
      969. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to review the legislation on spent convictions; what particular items are for consideration in the review; and...
    • Prison Service
      970. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what steps she is taking to tackle chronic overcrowding in Irish prisons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13316/24]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Beef Sector
      971. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has conducted any preliminary analysis of the additional financial benefits that may accrue to Irish farmers...
    • An Garda Síochána
      972. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or...
    • Civil Service
      973. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the salary of a person has been cut (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11613/24]
    • Marine Protected Areas
      974. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine regarding the special protection area off the Wexford coast, to specify any changes to be introduced to the current fishing grounds,...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      975. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any consideration was given to dismissing a bid in a tender process for breach of publicity guidance during the tender process...
    • Animal Welfare
      976. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what measures his Department is taking to ensure animal welfare standards are increased during the transport of live exports; and...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11932/24]
    • EU Meetings
      979. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his priorities for the upcoming discussion on the future of the EU fisheries and aquaculture sector to be held in Bruges on 24 and 25...
    • Forestry Sector
      980. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the distance land needs to be outside of a special protection area before forestry planting can occur; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      981. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 28 February 2024, if there has been direct engagement with any farmers whose scores are...
    • Horticulture Sector
      982. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on concerns raised in relation to imports of hawthorn and the risk of fireblight; what measures will be introduced...
    • Live Exports
      983. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has actively sought new outlets for beef rather than live animals, in relation to live exports outside the EU; and...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      987. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on claims that consistent incompatibility problems within the new computer system in his Department is resulting in delayed...
    • Fishing Industry
      988. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the landings of fish, by species at each pier and harbour across the State in each of the years, 2007 to 2024, inclusive, in tabular...
    • Greyhound Industry
      989. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds that participated in at least one official trial whose year of birth was 2021 as recorded on...
    • Agriculture Industry
      994. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to establish the drainage status of grassland peat soils in Ireland further to the findings of a study (details supplied);...
    • Forestry Sector
      995. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No.449 of 20 February 2024, if he will supply the information sought specifically by the three...
    • Brexit Supports
      996. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on an appeal under the Brexit blue economy enterprise development scheme (details supplied); and if he...
    • Greyhound Industry
      997. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in what areas of the country is the greyhound racing industry one of the few meaningful sources of employment, as claimed in an...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      998. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department changed space for nature percentages for Eco scheme applications online after the applications were...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1000. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine who developed the agrisnap app for recording information on farms; the amount the app cost to set up; if all the IT issues and...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1001. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if additional resources were allocated to deal with the IT issues arising from the 2023 BISS, Eco scheme, CRISS and ANC application...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1003. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many of the 10,914 non-coursing greyhounds born in 2021, and registered on RCETS at microchipping stage, have been exported to...
    • Fishing Industry
      1007. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reinstate the restrictions on vessels over 18 metres in length from operating within both the baseline and the six...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1008. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 407 of 7 February 2024, when the nitrogen level per tonne of chicken litter was changed;...
    • Agriculture Supports
      1009. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a progress update on the plan to provide supports to the Forgotten Farmers; if he can provide a definite schedule...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1010. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the welfare status and location of a 20-month-old greyhound (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12302/24]
    • Grant Payments
      1013. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an issue with a farm payment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12328/24]
    • Departmental Staff
      1014. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis and of bodies...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1015. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the structure of the Irish Pedigree Breeders Council under headings (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1016. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the IT issues that farmers and FAS advisors experienced with BISS, Eco scheme, CRISS and ANC applications in 2023; if a guarantee...
    • Tax Exemptions
      1017. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has engaged with the Minister for Finance on the residential zoned land tax on behalf of farmers to ensure that farmers whose...
    • Local Authorities
      1019. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider developing a national initiative in view of the success of a recent free trees initiative by a local authority...
    • Pigmeat Sector
      1021. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on revelations during the week in relation to pig farming (details supplied), and how he will respond to this. [12513/24]
    • Official Travel
      1022. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of his engagement with South Sudanese officials as part of his St. Patrick's Day visit. [12526/24]
    • Forestry Sector
      1025. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of access information on the environment requests have been submitted to the forestry section in each of the years 2020...
    • Animal Welfare
      1026. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine who holds responsibility for the welfare of sick or dead animals on public roads. [12573/24]
    • Agriculture Industry
      1027. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12624/24]
    • Animal Passports
      1028. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce an electronic system with full traceability of all horses, such as the AIM system for cattle, that would...
    • Departmental Funding
      1029. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will publish a list of the NGOs funded by his Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in the past three years,...
    • Grant Payments
      1030. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment for a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay in issuing the payment; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1031. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that he or officials from his...
    • Wildlife Protection
      1032. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he is taking to restrict the importation of non-native sub-species, hybrid honeybees and queens into the State; what...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      1033. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the difference between the shellfish licence and the mussel licence; the status of licences for persons (details...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1034. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of each bonus payment to employees of Horse Racing Ireland in 2023. [12801/24]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      1035. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will consider a scheme to support more wind powered microgeneration on farms. [12822/24]
    • Grant Payments
      1037. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an Eco and hardship payment will issue to persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Horticulture Sector
      1038. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recorded/confirmed dates of fireblight erwinia amylovora infections detections by his Department to date, per county;...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1039. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration is being given to extending the closing date for the spreading of lime under the liming scheme, given challenging...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1041. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 153 and 154 of 6 March 2024, to name the contractors/employees named as part of the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1047. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review a series of procurement processes undertaken by Government (details supplied); if he is satisfied that correct...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      1048. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 6 March 2024, why no reasons were provided to the question; if he will provide the...
    • Agriculture Supports
      1054. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2023 BISS payment will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in County Kerry for leased lands; and if he will make a statement...
    • Food Industry
      1055. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of food products seized by his Departmental officials at both Dublin Airport and Dublin Port in 2023 and to-date in 2024,...
    • Forestry Sector
      1056. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has concluded its consideration of the report on supports for landowners affected by ash dieback; if so, when he...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1058. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter concerning the Irish native honeybee (details supplied). [13107/24]
    • Live Exports
      1059. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that the master's confidential report is missing for the first shipment of in-calf heifers that left Waterford for...
    • Pigmeat Sector
      1065. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he shares animal rights activist concerns that the EC Pig Directive is routinely breached not only by almost all pig farmers but...
    • Animal Passports
      1066. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when equine passports will issue for three foals (details supplied), with an application submitted in October 2023; the reasons for...
    • Pigmeat Sector
      1067. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide all antibiotic usage data in relation to pig farms in Ireland, broken down by farming system, for example...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      1068. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known...
    • Fodder Crisis
      1069. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of concerns about farmers facing a shortage of fodder over the coming weeks; if he is considering supports for...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Departmental Inquiries
      1070. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if financial assistance will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services
      1072. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff in the HSE's Children’s Disability Network Teams; the number of staff in Section 38...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1077. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the process used to prioritise children on waiting lists for both an assessment of needs and access to...
    • International Protection
      1078. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a contract for a facility (details supplied) will be renewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Direct Provision System
      1079. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capacity of each direct provision centre by county, to include the number of places available in each...
    • International Protection
      1081. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capacity and occupancy of each EROC centre, to include the number of places available and actual occupancy,...
    • Disability Services
      1082. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a bus service can be reviewed on behalf of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1084. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth why a person (details supplied) is waiting on an assessment of needs; if he can speed up the appointment; and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1085. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including...
    • International Protection
      1086. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any commitment was ever given to anyone by the Department or the Minister that the number of international...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      1090. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many parliamentary questions forwarded by him to Tusla are awaiting response, due to industrial action or...
    • Children in Care
      1091. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will list the occasions and dates upon which he has met with representatives of the voluntary sector...
    • Asylum Seekers
      1092. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to instances where children seeking asylum in Ireland have ended up sleeping in...
    • Child Protection
      1094. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who have died while either in State care or known to child protection services in each...
    • Direct Provision System
      1095. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons residing in the direct provision system currently who have been granted asylum in the...
    • Childcare Services
      1096. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on Tusla’s Residential Childcare Strategy, launched in January 2022; the targets...
    • Disability Services
      1097. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that many parents feel as though the care and support provided to their disabled children has...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1098. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the further education, training and employment opportunities for young people with intellectual disabilities...
    • Disability Services
      1099. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of respite places available in Cork from 2018 to date for patients aged under 65 years; in tabular...
    • Gender Recognition
      1100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the proposed bill to ban conversion therapy; to the estimated date of publication; and...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1104. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an assessment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Strategies
      1105. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the likely date for an awareness raising campaign to commence in relation to the new Criminal Law (Sexual...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      1106. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department plans to act on correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • International Protection
      1107. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether accommodation previously assigned for those seeking temporary protection from Ukraine is becoming...
    • Childcare Services
      1108. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider moving to a fully publicly funded model of early years and school age care to bringing...
    • International Protection
      1114. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of IPAS applicants now residing in a facility (details supplied) by status, that is, male, female or...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1116. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the 16,500 children awaiting an AON as per CDNT estimates are included in a schools assessment as per the...
    • Adoption Services
      1119. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress to date of the DNA working group established to consider the potential role of DNA in the context...
    • Childcare Services
      1122. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to assist families with newborns where maternity leave/payment ends at 26 weeks, but the vast...
    • Housing Provision
      1123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of his Department’s plans to use the HSE-owned lands on the Heywood Road, Clonmel, County...
    • Disability Services
      1125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 459 of 7 March 2023, if the Preliminary Design (Stage 1) Report for the...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      1128. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether a property (details supplied) is being considered for refugee accommodation; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services
      1129. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to review the motorised transport grant and tax relief for drivers and passengers with...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1132. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number currently awaiting an assessment of need by the children's disability network team, broken down by...
    • Disability Services
      1133. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a staffing breakdown for the childrens disability network team for each CHO; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Properties
      1134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is satisfied that information relied upon by his Department in concluding that a property (details...
    • Disability Services
      1136. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to improve disability services in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • International Protection
      1138. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of currently vacant beds in accommodation centres contracted for Ukrainians under temporary...
    • Childcare Services
      1140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail his plans to secure adequate and safe accommodation for all international protection applicants and...
    • Departmental Funding
      1141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost to implement a 10% increase across the board for youth funding schemes; and if he will make...
    • Disability Services
      1143. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current vacancies per role for St. Christopher’s in Longford, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      1144. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown in the funding provided by his Department to youth services in the Finglas and Ballymun areas;...
    • Childcare Services
      1147. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the notice to quit issued to a creche (details supplied) that provides essential childcare...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 14 December 2023, if the negotiation process between the expert...
    • Departmental Staff
      1149. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of exit and-or severance and-or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to review a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12361/24]
    • After-School Support Services
      1151. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what funding or schemes are available to support communities with after-school services; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services
      1152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if all the services and therapies required in the case of a person (details supplied) have been put in place;...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is any provision to include survivors of mother and baby homes who contributed towards the...
    • Disability Services
      1154. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what action his Department is taking to ensure a standardised rate of pay for the different types of home and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1155. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of his Department's expenditure (details supplied), on a monthly basis for the past six...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      1156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide the full list of purpose-built student accommodation complexes that are currently being paid to...
    • Disability Services
      1157. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the HSE, CDNTs and CHOs do not employ behavioural therapists. [12497/24]
    • Departmental Policies
      1160. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to his comments (details supplied), the reason for his acceptance of using a symbol created by a hate...
    • Childcare Services
      1164. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in view of the delay in opening the portal for the submission of financial data for the core funding support of...
    • International Protection
      1165. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with regard to providers of accommodation and serviced accommodation to BOTPS and or separately IPAS...
    • Official Engagements
      1172. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he met his Japanese counterpart during his recent visit to Japan for St. Patrick's Day events; and if he...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      1173. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will now immediately publish in full the minutes and documents associated with the interdepartmental...
    • Disability Services
      1174. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) will receive support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12622/24]
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1176. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when applications for the mother and baby institutions payment scheme are open, if an individual will be able...
    • Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children
      1177. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of unaccompanied children in the care of the Child and Family Agency; the number of those...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1178. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children waiting and the length of time they are waiting for initial contact from CDNTs in CHO2;...
    • Departmental Funding
      1179. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will publish a list of the NGOs funded by his Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1180. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that he or...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1181. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can stand over a situation in Tipperary south where a child (details supplied) who was referred for an...
    • Disability Services
      1183. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the progress of the new build for children's services in Carlow shared between...
    • Childcare Services
      1184. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of children availing of his Department's funding programmes CCSP Saver Programme, ECCE, NCS in...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      1186. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there will be an independent investigation into the leaking of the Attorney General’s referendum...
    • International Protection
      1187. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any site or property in Coole is being considered for an IPAS accommodation centre; if information will be...
    • Childcare Services
      1189. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who are availing of the full 45 hours under the national childcare scheme; the number of...
    • International Protection
      1190. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans for a centre (details supplied) in Kilkenny as a potential housing solution for Ukrainian refugees;...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1191. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide the rationale for capping the amount of funding for the Early Learning and Care Building Blocks...
    • Childcare Services
      1192. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he proposes measures to ease the pressure on childcare providers resulting from the carer-child ratio laid...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      1193. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can advise what plans are in place for demountable dwellings to be installed at a location in County...
    • International Protection
      1194. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an application has been made to move Ukrainian refugees into accommodation at a location (details supplied);...
    • Parental Leave
      1197. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration is being given to allowing parents to transfer parental leave if they work for different...
    • Disability Services
      1198. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can assist a school (details supplied) and address the matter raised in correspondence in respect of CDNT...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      1199. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the...
    • Disability Services
      1200. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will advise on the areas of priority for disability in CHO3 under the national prioritisation plan, which...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1201. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of children awaiting a multidisciplinary assessment in County Clare, in chronological order,...
    • Disability Services
      1202. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons with disabilities that are currently living in nursing homes under the age of 65 years;...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1205. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children awaiting first contact from Clare CDNT, by the number of days waiting in chronological...
  • Department of Health
    • Disability Services
      1206. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the understanding and managing adult ADHD programme was not chosen for funding by the HSE for 2024; what supports he intends to provide to it in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1207. To ask the Minister for Health if he can expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied). [11518/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1208. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the outpatient waiting lists in each department of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda, including details of the number of...
    • Hospital Staff
      1209. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent medical staff by section at Naas General Hospital; the number of vacancies in each of those sections; and the last...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1210. To ask the Minister for Health when HSE Services at the new primary medical centre on Station Road, Newcastle West, County Limerick will take up occupation; and if he will make a...
    • Emergency Departments
      1211. To ask the Minister for Health when it is scheduled for Beaumont Hospital to open a new accident and emergency department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11536/24]
    • Medical Qualifications
      1212. To ask the Minister for Health when a CORU application will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1213. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and psychologists employed by the HSE; and if he...
    • Mental Health Services
      1217. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the decision by the HSE to withdraw funding for the Understanding and Managing Adult ADHD Programme (UMAAP) in 2024 and if his Department...
    • Eating Disorders
      1220. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for private hospital care is available to persons with eating disorders who are not accepted to public facilities for care; and if he will make a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1226. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or physical threats being...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1227. To ask the Minister for Health when a person will receive a date for surgery (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11611/24]
    • Medical Qualifications
      1229. To ask the Minister for Health whether the requirements to become a HSE international board-certified lactation consultant (IBCLC) could be widened to reflect the pathways to become...
    • Hospital Services
      1230. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on infant formula in maternity hospitals in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11625/24]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1231. To ask the Minister for Health who represented Ireland at the COP10/MOP3 global anti-tobacco conferences; what agenda items were priority for the Irish delegation; what are the outcomes of...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1233. To ask the Minister for Health for health for an update on the progress being made for the proposed reopening of a health centre in Wicklow (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1234. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the urgent need to expand a health centre in Wicklow (details supplied) to allow wheelchair access for patients with mobility issues and to...
    • Hospital Services
      1235. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will commence chemotherapy treatment at Letterkenny University Hospital; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1236. To ask the Minister for Health the position for an update in relation to the HSE-led implementation group considering the Joint Committee on Health report on the proposed legislative...
    • Abortion Services
      1237. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a timeline as to when the remaining two maternity hospitals are due to be in a position to offer full termination of pregnancy services, as...
    • Health Services
      1241. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 147 of 28 February 2024, the date on which he last requested this advice; in what format that advice was given; who gave...
    • Hospital Staff
      1243. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of public health nurse vacancies, by health centre in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11698/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1245. To ask the Minister for Health what steps have been taken to date to establish the grade of advanced practice physiotherapist, following his commitment to do so at a conference 2020...
    • Hospital Staff
      1247. To ask the Minister for Health if he will work with the relevant bodies to establish a defined career pathway for clinical physiotherapy tutors to include recognition of specialism and...
    • Health Services
      1249. To ask the Minister for Health if he will be providing funding to a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11704/24]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1250. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include pharmacists in the MMR catch-up programme, given the current GP shortage, which may delay the provision of the service; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      1251. To ask the Minister for Health to establish a clear clinical pathway for assessment of babies with suspected Pierre Robin sequence between the maternity hospitals and the ENT teams in the...
    • Hospital Services
      1252. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to increase investment in audiology services in Beaumont Hospital, specifically in relation to operative aftercare for patients accessing...
    • Cancer Services
      1253. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to increase the level of financial support and practical transport provision for cancer care patients who have to travel significant...
    • Care Services
      1254. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite places available in Cork from 2018 to date for patients aged over 65 years, in tabular form. [11730/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1255. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the National Gender Service waiting list currently; the number waiting for an initial appointment; and the length of time individuals...
    • Health Services
      1259. To ask the Minister for Health whether he or his Department have engaged with representatives from trans organisations in relation to concerns about the national gender service and the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1264. To ask the Minister for Health to reverse the decision for the withdrawal of funding for a programme that provides ADHD support to adults (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Staff
      1265. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical officer will be appointed to the Plunkett Home, Boyle, County Roscommon, given this position was advertised and approved at the end of 2023....
    • Medical Cards
      1267. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding members of the public who are not eligible for medical cards but cannot find a general practice to take them on in their area...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1268. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to extending the temporary scheme created to pay healthcare workers who were unfit to work after contracting long-Covid; and if...
    • Home Care Packages
      1269. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure for a new company providing home support to be placed on the approved providers list in CHO6; if the tendering process only occurs once per...
    • Hospital Services
      1270. To ask the Minister for Health when surgery will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11811/24]
    • Health Services
      1271. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding for care for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11820/24]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1273. To ask the Minister for Health how many people have been diagnosed with long-Covid since the start of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11829/24]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1275. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the delivery of a primary care centre for Glanmire, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11839/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1278. To ask the Minister for Health when Section 39 organisations will receive the additional funding for staff pay arising from the Workplace Relations Commission agreement in October 2023; and...
    • Hospital Services
      1279. To ask the Minister for Health the average wait times for an adult in north Tipperary to see both a speech therapist and physiotherapist after receiving a referral from their doctor; and if...
    • Health Services
      1282. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the reimbursement of pegvaliase, considering the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, NCPE. finished its appraisal in September 2022; when...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1284. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position with the construction of a new hospital (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11884/24]
    • Care Services
      1285. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position with the provision of a new day care centre (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11885/24]
    • Health Service Executive
      1286. To ask the Minister for Health to outline plans for the use of the HSE-owned lands on the Heywood Road, Clonmel, County Tipperary; if these lands are being considered for the provision of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1287. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of healthcare workers suffering long Covid whose pay will cease on 31 March (details supplied) will be examined and discussed further; and if he...
    • Hospital Staff
      1288. To ask the Minister for Health the number of child psychiatrists employed by the HSE in the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, in the CHO 5 area; the number of children...
    • Departmental Communications
      1289. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that all public information made available by his Department and the HSE is in a format that is easily read, with particular...
    • Hospital Services
      1290. To ask the Minister for Health if there are clear guidelines for treating the symptoms of Paediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome, PANS, and Paediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1292. To ask the Minister for Health if he will retain GP services in the Swanlinbar primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11916/24]
    • Mental Health Commission
      1294. To ask the Minister for Health if the Draft Overarching National Standards for the Care and Support of Children using Health and Social Care Services standards developed by HIQA and the...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      1295. To ask the Minister for Health if in the coming weeks he will meet mid-west Oireachtas members and mid-west Health Forum members to discuss the crisis in the UHL hospital group. [11931/24]
    • Health Services
      1296. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive their next appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11933/24]
    • Health Service Executive
      1297. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will get another appointment with any peritoneum consultant within the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bereavement Certificate
      1298. To ask the Minister for Health his views on recent legislation passed in Westminster to create an optional bereavement certificate for pregnancy loss before 24 weeks' gestation; and his...
    • Health Services Staff
      1299. To ask the Minister for Health when a neurologist will be appointed to a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11954/24]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1300. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of reports that Covid testing laboratory staff employed by private providers were excluded from the Covid-19 recognition payment, although they...
    • Health Services
      1301. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in issuing an appointment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11963/24]
    • Home Care Packages
      1302. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons in County Wexford currently in receipt of home care support hours; the total current number of home care support hours being...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1304. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for physiotherapy in CHO6 and CHO7 in County Wicklow; broken down by length of time 3, 6, 12+ months, in tabular...
    • Dental Services
      1307. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are currently on waiting lists for dental appointments through the school age dental service in County Wicklow, broken down by...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1309. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults on the orthodontic waiting list in Wicklow; the average waiting times for appointments broken down by 1, 3, 6 and 12+...
    • Dental Services
      1312. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the number of dental practices who are signed up to the dental treatment scheme; the breakdown of the number, by county; and if he...
    • Health Services
      1313. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) is expected to begin treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11989/24]
    • Dental Services
      1314. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons under 18 years-of-age who are currently waiting to commence orthodontic treatment in County Wexford; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1321. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department will approve funding for a whole time paediatric dietician solely for the Wexford CAMHS team; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1322. To ask the Minister for Health the top five procedures which citizens availed of under the treatment purchase fund in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1323. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the urgent provision of GPs in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12006/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1324. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 74 of 29 February 2024, if the HSE can provide an update on the 45 recommendations that fall under its remit; and if he...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1325. To ask the Minister for Health if he will announce a timeline for construction of the new primary health centre, including when a planning application will be made; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1326. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no appeal mechanism is included in the job evaluation scheme conducted by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12031/24]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      1327. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of citizens of Northern Ireland availing of procedures and treatment in the State under a scheme similar to the treatment purchase fund; and if...
    • Health Services Staff
      1328. To ask the Minister for Health if he can assist in expediting a registration with CORU (details supplied). [12057/24]
    • Health Services
      1329. To ask the Minister for Health if assessments and diagnosis services for adults within counties Louth or Meath are available through the public system; if not, the reasons for same; if they...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1330. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12071/24]
    • Disease Management
      1331. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 219 of 24 January 2024, given the criteria to qualify for the scheme outlined in his response, if he will instruct the...
    • Medical Cards
      1332. To ask the Minister for Health the medical card entitlement income thresholds in 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019, in tabular form. [12079/24]
    • Hospital Services
      1333. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the services that have been reduced at a hospital (details supplied); the steps being taken to restore the level of services; and if he will make...
    • Health Services
      1334. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 20 February 2024, how exactly hormone concentrations are used in dosage increases; and if any international...
    • Emergency Departments
      1338. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the new emergency department at Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12110/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1339. To ask the Minister for Health the number of autistic children refused CAMHS treatment because on absence of a moderate to severe mental disorder in 2023, broken down by CHO area, in...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      1340. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the suspension of planned surgeries, procedures and appointments at the UL Hospitals Group to facilitate surge capacity at the constituent...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1341. To ask the Minister for Health if the new 96-bed block of beds that are being constructed for UHL will be all new beds for the hospital; if not, if some of them be replacement beds; if so,...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1343. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to have a planned cardiac procedure carried out at the Mater Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Commission
      1344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of reviews of reported deaths carried out by the Standards and Quality Assurance division of the Mental Health Commission in each year of the past...
    • Mental Health Services
      1345. To ask the Minister for Health the number of deaths in approved centres and mental health services reported to the coroner for the past ten years; the follow up procedures when a death is...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1347. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made in the construction of the 96-bed unit at University Hospital Limerick; when construction will be finished; and if he will make a...
    • Dental Services
      1351. To ask the Minister for Health if orthodontic treatment will be facilitated for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12152/24]
    • Care of the Elderly
      1353. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to establish a commissioner for ageing and older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12202/24]
    • Dental Services
      1354. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment with the orthodontic department in St. Finbarr's Hospital, Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Eating Disorders
      1355. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that there are almost 200,000 people suffering from illness relating to eating disorders and that there are huge barriers to access proper...
    • Hospital Services
      1356. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the patient discharge policy operating in St. Vincent's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12219/24]
    • Dental Services
      1357. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the long waiting lists for child dental and orthodontic services in St. Finbarr's County Cork, and if he plans to introduce measures to alleviate...
    • Mental Health Services
      1358. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of children on a waiting list for their first appointment to CAMHS in the CHO6 area; and the number of those waiting more than six months....
    • Hospital Services
      1359. To ask the Minister for Health in light of a care facility (details supplied) declaring that diabetes care for type 1 diabetes in Letterkenny University Hospital is in crisis, if he plans...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      1360. To ask the Minister for Health if further financial support can be granted to a community addiction group (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1361. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that people who have become ill and debilitated with long-Covid, contracted while delivering essential services during the pandemic, face the...
    • Medical Cards
      1362. To ask the Minister for Health the eligibility for a medical card in the case of children (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12290/24]
    • Health Services
      1363. To ask the Minister for Health the reason neuro physiotherapy services are not available in the mid-west (details supplied). [12293/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1364. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12294/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1365. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to open new rounds of funding under a walking tracks initiative (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12297/24]
    • Health Services
      1366. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the continued closure of the former health centre (details supplied); if his Department proposes to bring this building...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1369. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration being given to the establishment of a helicopter emergency medical system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12329/24]
    • Ambulance Service
      1370. To ask the Minister for Health if doctors are part of paramedic teams who attend road traffic collisions; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12330/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1372. To ask the Minister for Health further to a recent Parliamentary Question, the explanation of ‘restricted procedure for works contractor’ protocol (details supplied); what...
    • Departmental Policies
      1373. To ask the Minister for Health further to a recent Parliamentary Question, if he will provide an explanation of this framework (details supplied) to include all of its sub-components and...
    • Departmental Staff
      1374. To ask the Minister for Health the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis and of bodies he funds in full or in...
    • Dental Services
      1375. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment for orthodontic treatment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12362/24]
    • Health Services
      1376. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the scopolinem patch; if there are plans to make it available for medical card users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12363/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1377. To ask the Minister for Health when the GP streaming service for UHL Hospital that was announced by the CEO of the HSE recently will commence operating; the way in which it will work; and...
    • Medicinal Products
      1378. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to an investigation into the illegal administering of botox-type products by individuals and businesses and the use of unlicenced products (details...
    • Medical Register
      1381. To ask the Minister for Health if he will amend the Dentists Act 1985 to expand the regulatory role and powers of the Dental Council, following a recent investigation into the administering...
    • Hospital Services
      1382. To ask the Minister for Health the specifics of the enhanced community care pathway for cardiology at Mayo University Hospital; the investments made by his Department and the HSE since 2020...
    • Hospital Staff
      1383. To ask the Minister for Health the enhancements in the number of cardiology consultants, staffing, and bed allocation at Mayo University Hospital to improve the treatment of cardiac...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1385. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the new CT scanner project at Mayo University Hospital; when the exiting scanner will be replaced to have two functional...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1386. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken by his Department and the HSE to recognise pre-hospital emergency medicine as a sub-specialty in Ireland, given its recognition and...
    • Emergency Services
      1387. To ask the Minister for Health how his Department and the HSE plans to integrate doctors into the critical care helicopter emergency medical service considering the positive impact of such...
    • Ambulance Service
      1388. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are being considered by his Department and the HSE to expand the scope of practice in the National Ambulance Service, to include treatments...
    • Emergency Services
      1389. To ask the Minister for Health what plans are in place to provide training for critical care trauma interventions in the National Ambulance Service, given their proven effectiveness in the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1390. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE will consider leveraging the evidence and experience of the group of Irish pre-hospital personnel working in the UK to improve...
    • Health Services
      1391. To ask the Minister for Health if a patient transport service is available to patients in north and south Tipperary who are receiving radium treatment in Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      1392. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff currently employed and the number considered a full cohort WTE, by department, in Cork University Hospital, in tabular form. [12431/24]
    • Health Services
      1394. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 7 February 2024, if he will detail the HSE services that operated within the day care centre prior to the opening...
    • Hospital Services
      1395. To ask the Minister for Health the current funding and resource allocation for Mayo University Hospital, specifically for neurological services; what steps are being taken to ensure that...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1397. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the special scheme to provide special leave with pay for eligible health sector staff in respect of long-Covid; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      1398. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of delays in processing blood tests at LUH; the impact this will have on services; if steps are being taken to address the delays; and if he...
    • Health Services
      1399. To ask the Minister for Health for clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12455/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1400. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will get an appointment at Our Lady's Hospital Navan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12465/24]
    • Health Services
      1401. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for the permanent ill health exit package for a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1403. To ask the Minister for Health the current situation regarding negotiations for public health service employees diagnosed with long Covid; if he has considered best international practice...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1404. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the case of a person (details); and when they can expect a hospital appointment. [12484/24]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1405. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the policy regarding the reuse and recycling of wheelchairs and crutches across all sectors of the health system; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Nursing Education
      1406. To ask the Minister for Health how student nurses in certain circumstances (details supplied) can qualify for travel expenses while on placement; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1407. To ask the Minister for Health the areas to which funding is going, when the filled positions as denoted by the HSE staff census or by the total number of therapists and administration...
    • Health Services
      1409. To ask the Minister for Health the reason CHOs have such a differing opinion on what is covered by GDPR and what information is entitled under freedom of information. [12501/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1410. To ask the Minister for Health the reason information metrics are not centrally located. [12502/24]
    • Health Service Executive
      1411. To ask the Minister for Health how the HSE can issue a staff census or accurately figure up therapeutic hours, if the numbers are not centrally located. [12503/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1412. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether there are guidelines for each CHO to decide what people are entitled to under FOI requests. [12505/24]
    • Dental Services
      1413. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) can expect to receive an appointment to have orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12514/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1414. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE seeks an indemnity on vehicle insurance policies of student nurses in order for them to claim travel expenses; if all grades of HSE...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1415. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of a project (details supplied); the current timeline of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12538/24]
    • Nursing Homes
      1416. To ask the Minister for Health when the decision was made to open the new community nursing home in Nenagh as a step-down facility for UHL patients; who made the decision to do this; and on...
    • Medicinal Products
      1417. To ask the Minister for Health the work that has been carried to develop pharmaceutical capacity in hospitals to make or compound highly expensive medicines on a small scale for their...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1418. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times to see a consultant paediatric nephrologist at CHI Crumlin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12564/24]
    • Departmental Meetings
      1419. To ask the Minister for Health if he visited the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital during his recent visit to Australia for St. Patrick's Day events; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      1420. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients travelling from Kilkenny and from Carlow to receive treatment for age related macular degeneration at the ophthalmic clinic at the...
    • Hospital Staff
      1421. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant anaesthesiologist posts in University Hospital Waterford in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Health Services
      1422. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion in percentage terms of the annual health budget spent on medical continuous glucose monitoring devices in relation to overall medical...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1423. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the number of persons who are out on sick leave due to long-Covid within the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12578/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      1424. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to address the growing concern of diabetics regarding the difficulties in obtaining ozempic, some persons are finding it impossible...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1425. To ask the Minister for Health if an extension will be given to those people working in the HSE, that is, nurses who are out on sick leave due to long-Covid and whose full pay is to end in...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1426. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of renovations to Millfield House, Blackpool; the cost of construction of apartments for mental health residents; and the number of residents...
    • Medical Cards
      1428. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which a person (details supplied) exceeds the income limits for qualification for a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      1431. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE lactation consultants based in CHO8 in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [12603/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1432. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to develop a model of care for people with avoidant restrictive food intake disorder; and if there is a clinical lead within the HSE. [12604/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1433. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE general practitioners based in the accident and emergency department in Mullingar Regional Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024; and...
    • Legislative Measures
      1434. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the health (amendment) (licensing of home support providers) Bill. [12606/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1435. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE vacancies by job title at St. Joseph's Campus, Longford; and the estimated timeframe for which these vacancies are expected to be filled, in...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      1437. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a CORU registration (details supplied) in which all documents have been verified will take up to four months to be finalised; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1438. To ask the Minister for Health to review correspondence (details supplied); when an appointment will be rescheduled for a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12623/24]
    • Ambulance Service
      1439. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown on the spend on ambulance services across CHO8 in 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [12626/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1440. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dietitian vacancies currently within the primary care service in County Meath; and when those vacancies will be filled, in tabular form....
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1443. To ask the Minister for Health the refurbishment works that were carried out at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024; and the nature of these works that...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1444. To ask the Minister for Health if he has monitored the progress made under the actions specified in the National Positive Ageing Strategy 2013 and published annual progress reports; and if...
    • Health Services
      1445. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 330 of 8 February 2024, in light of the increased number of people attending Cashel minor injuries unit, if projections...
    • Hospital Services
      1446. To ask the Minister for Health the reason medical scans on patients that require a scan on their kidney, bladder and urethra are being cancelled because of a lack of funding in Sligo...
    • Health Services Staff
      1448. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined, given they have not received their Covid recognition payment despite being fully eligible for the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1449. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12668/24]
    • Health Services
      1450. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline, process and rationale used, that resulted with the need to move residents from a unit (details supplied); what engineering reports and risk...
    • Public Sector Pay
      1452. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be released to fund the agreed pay increase to Section 39 workers funded by the HSE (details supplied) including the backdated element of...
    • Health Services
      1453. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the scheme to support public sector bodies to purchase vending machines equipped with free period products; and if he will...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1454. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a building (details supplied); if the building will be brought back into use; if not, if it has been deemed to be surplus to requirements and...
    • Departmental Funding
      1455. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish a list of the NGOs funded by his Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in the past three years, in tabular form. [12722/24]
    • Departmental Meetings
      1456. To ask the Minister for Health the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that he or officials from his Department and bodies under the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1457. To ask the Minister for Health to explain in detail the decision to withdraw funding for the Understanding and Managing Adult ADHD Programme for 2024; if he will reconsider this decision;...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1458. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Glenwood House, Carrigaline has not yet opened as a mental health facility since it received planning permission from An Bord Pleanála in...
    • Health Services Staff
      1460. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to review the recruitment pause in the case of mental health professionals given its impact on mental health waiting lists; and if...
    • Medicinal Products
      1461. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking to ensure a focus remains on ensuring Irish patients have timely access to rare disease treatments (details supplied) and...
    • Hospital Services
      1462. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to calls for the provision of local neurology services including access to a consultant neurologist in Wexford General...
    • Health Services Staff
      1463. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE vacant dental nurse positions currently in the Kildare primary care system; and the timeframe for which these vacancies will be filled, in...
    • Health Service Executive
      1464. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated costs required for the purchase of additional helicopter for the HSE aeromedical services. [12794/24]
    • Health Services
      1465. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that were treated in the minor injuries unit in Smithfield in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [12795/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1468. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants working within the clinical speciality of obesity and bariatric surgery across public health service. [12798/24]
    • Departmental Data
      1470. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who died by suicide within 12 weeks of their discharge from a psychiatric hospital or unit, by hospital or unit, in 2021, 2022, 2023 and...
    • Health Services
      1471. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can avail of treatment for a condition under the treatment abroad scheme or the cross border directive. [12805/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1472. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting for an appointment at the ophthalmology department at University Hospital Limerick...
    • Health Services
      1473. To ask the Minister for Health the new criteria used to assess applications for discretionary payments for items such as specialised spectacles for children in the CHO network; and if he...
    • Health Services Staff
      1474. To ask the Minister for Health if a consultant neurologist post and services will be made available for Wexford General Hospital, in relation to commitments made to provide community care...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1475. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the serious shortage of GP availability and GP appointment availability in the Dublin mid-west area; the steps that are being taken to...
    • Mental Health Services
      1476. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider removing mental health services from the present health recruitment embargo; and if a manpower plan for 2024 is close to agreement. [12850/24]
    • Health Services
      1477. To ask the Minister for Health the status of funding to support community-based service providers in the provision of health services across country for a service in County Carlow (details...
    • Health Services Staff
      1478. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a matter concerning the lack of administrative support staff working in the oncology department of the HSE primary care centre on Mitchel...
    • Medical Cards
      1479. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to assessing medical card applications for individuals over 70 years-of-age based on their net income, in alignment with the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1481. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be given to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12885/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1482. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to introduce subsidised or free FETAC Level 5 healthcare courses to ensure there are no barriers to entering the healthcare assistant...
    • Nursing Homes
      1483. To ask the Minister for Health when full payment under fair deal scheme as per the approval letter will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      1484. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include the vaccine for chickenpox in the childhood immunisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12894/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1486. To ask the Minister for Health the training CAHMS staff are receiving in terms of providing care on gender and transgender issues to children; who is providing the training to CAHMS staff;...
    • Health Services
      1487. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 593 of 20 February 2024, the steps a person (details supplied) who is employed in a private company, but worked on a...
    • Medical Cards
      1503. To ask the Minister for Health what efforts are being made to ensure that adequate dentists participate in the scheme to provide dental services to medical card patients as the current...
    • Health Services Staff
      1504. To ask the Minister for Health whether his Department, where it mistakenly placed an employee on too high a PRSI deduction for a lengthy period, will repay the over-deduction over the full...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1505. To ask the Minister for Health if early arrangements can be made for the appointment of a neurology consultant in Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1506. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the Connecting for Life Implementation Plan 2023-2024; for an update on the status of the seven goals in the plan; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1508. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange for an early assessment for ADHD and ASD for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13050/24]
    • Departmental Data
      1510. To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide a breakdown of the number of children waiting on a CAMHS appointment in CH08 and a breakdown for each county within that CHO; and if he will...
    • Medical Cards
      1511. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the policy on blood tests as part of monitoring a medical condition for patients holding a medical card or GP visit card; the steps that can be...
    • Health Service Executive
      1512. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 514 of 30 January 2024 (details supplied), when a full HSE response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1514. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in discussions concerning the potential acquisition of a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13087/24]
    • Nursing Homes
      1515. To ask the Minister for Health the options being considered regarding long stay beds at a nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13088/24]
    • Departmental Data
      1516. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born with Down syndrome in Ireland in each of the years 2017 to 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Service Executive
      1517. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a query has not been responded to by the HSE (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13101/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1518. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an ADHD assessment. [13110/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1519. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE still has management control over a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13126/24]
    • Departmental Data
      1520. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses for the Dublin south central area; the number of vacancies; the population of children in the catchment area of each; the...
    • Health Services
      1521. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provided to a person (details supplied) on available supports for required dental treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1522. To ask the Minister for Health when it is proposed to open a care facility (details supplied) where all the necessary works have been completed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1523. To ask the Minister for Health what actions CHI has taken to respond to the field safety notice issued in late 2021 about magec rods. [13168/24]
    • Home Care Packages
      1526. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have their home care package hours filled, given the urgent nature of the case; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1527. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to women following a mastectomy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13180/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1530. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will receive an appointment for hip replacement surgery at Cappagh Hospital; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      1531. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the anticipated...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1532. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13218/24]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      1534. To ask the Minister for Health following an Inquiry (details supplied) on the investigation into the retention of baby’s organs and other individuals whose organs were taken without...
    • Cancer Services
      1535. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the cold cap services not being made available to cancer patients in CUH; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13248/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1536. To ask the Minister for Health the impact of the recruitment ban on mental health services, especially what services have been prioritised and which have been closed; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1537. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the growing concern at the fact that there appears to be currently inordinate delays in accessing blood tests in public hospitals in some...
    • Departmental Data
      1539. To ask the Minister for Health the number of those receiving treatment under the MCAP since the opening of the scheme to date, by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1540. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether he thinks the Medical Cannabis Access Programme has been a success and whether he has faith in its continuation on a permanent...
    • Departmental Consultations
      1541. To ask the Minister for Health the process that an adult must undertake to receive an autism assessment in the public health system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13321/24]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Staff
      1542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or physical threats...
    • Student Accommodation
      1543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills as to whether the cross-departmental project group to be formed to establish appropriate standards in the delivery of affordable, purpose built...
    • Irish Language
      1544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department provides funding opportunities that Irish PhD students undertaking their studies in the Irish language abroad can avail of;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 28 February of 2024, the amount of the €40 million relates to payment of social protection...
    • Student Accommodation
      1548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to tackle and halt the issue of private accommodation providers increasing rents significantly by refurbishing their student...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to reduce the student contribution by €1,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12206/24]
    • Education Schemes
      1552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 641 of 27 February 2024 (details supplied), if there is an estimated timeframe the Minister envisions for...
    • Official Engagements
      1554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Minister of State within his Department visited University of Pittsburgh during his recent visit to the US for St, Patrick's Day events;...
    • Departmental Funding
      1555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be made available to a college (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12708/24]
    • Departmental Meetings
      1557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that he or officials from his Department and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a shortage of training places in Dublin for those wishing to do apprenticeships, which is requiring people to train far away from...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the 2024/2025 SUSI application process will open. [12953/24]
    • Student Accommodation
      1560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the national student accommodation strategy will be published; its current status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12995/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      1561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will comment on his decision to provide zero capital funding for technological universities, preventing them from building and borrowing;...
    • Student Accommodation
      1562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the situation that students often find themselves in when renting digs, such as curfews being imposed, no privacy and issues...
    • Departmental Policies
      1563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, with regard to the advanced healthcare assistant, QQI level 6 (details supplied), if any plans are being considered to have the same course...
    • Departmental Administrative Arrangements
      1564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason personal assistants in the further and higher education sector are paid monthly and not bi-weekly as compared to those who are...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      1565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the...
    • Departmental Data
      1566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on adult education classes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13220/24]
    • Student Accommodation
      1567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons for the delays in publishing progress reports on the National Student Accommodation Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Funding
      1569. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when a payment will issue to a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12616/24]
    • Departmental Policies
      1570. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has reviewed Water Safety Ireland's recommendations and compared them to those prevailing in Northern Ireland; if she plans to...
    • Departmental Data
      1571. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of dog wardens employed in each local authority in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13138/24]
    • Library Projects
      1573. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the capital envelope that will be required for a library project proposed for Blackrock/Mahon in Cork city. [11523/24]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1574. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has had the need to contact An Garda Síochána due to verbal, written (including electronically) or...
    • Departmental Policies
      1575. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if it is planned to have a 2024 call for the Community Centres Investment Fund-New Builds Measure (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Departmental Funding
      1577. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she intends to release another tranche of funding for both the community enhancement grants and grants for women's sheds to local...
    • Departmental Data
      1578. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of FTE staff and the grades of the staff assigned to the tidy town's unit in her Department; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Projects
      1580. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the role her Department takes in devising the marking scheme for the annual tidy towns competition; and the annual adjudication...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1581. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when funding allocations to local authorities will be announced for the local improvement scheme for 2024; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1582. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 1450 of 7 November 2023, the status of an upgrade to Mayfield Library in Cork; and if she will...
    • Departmental Policies
      1583. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will include an organisation (details supplied) in the newly established Stakeholder Group on Dog Control; and if she will...
    • Departmental Funding
      1584. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding allocated in 2023 to each county under the local improvement scheme, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      1586. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of a library (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12209/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      1587. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding under town renewal scheme or any such funding was approved by her Department for an area (details supplied); and if she...
    • Departmental Policies
      1588. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a Pobal deprivation index could be reviewed; if there is a process for appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff
      1589. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by her Department, and bodies under her aegis and of bodies...
    • Departmental Data
      1590. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current number of live studies, reviews and research commissioned by her Department; the date by which each study, review and...
    • Departmental Funding
      1591. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when allocations under the Community Centres Investment Fund will be announced; the up-to-date position of an application under this...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1592. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development what schemes are available as part of a rejuvenation scheme for an area in Cork (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Funding
      1593. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will publish a list of the NGOs funded by her Department; and the level the funding each NGO received in the past three years,...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1594. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of engagements, including online meetings, webinars, briefings and in-person meetings that she or officials from her...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1595. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if it is proposed to introduce a scheme that would help local authorities to put in place the necessary infrastructural changes in...
    • Public Private Partnerships
      1597. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known...
    • Departmental Funding
      1598. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide emergency funding to Clare County Council under CIS and LIS following a very rough winter period which made...

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