Written answers

Tuesday, 11 June 2024

  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Citizens Information Services
      2.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to put adequate funding in place to ensure that the business case submitted to the Citizens' Information Board by...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Data
      23.To ask the Taoiseach to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in his Department during the period 2021 to date; the content...
    • Labour Market
      24.To ask the Taoiseach to provide the most up to date numbers on employment levels in the hospitality sector and whether there is any evidence of reduced hours or net job losses [25147/24]
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      26.To ask the Taoiseach the number of PPS numbers issued to Ukrainian adult and children beneficiaries of temporary protection and to estimate how many of these are still active [25151/24]
    • Departmental Contracts
      27.To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      28.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 the application has passed...
    • Departmental Data
      30.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in his Department during the...
    • Legislative Measures
      31.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer recess; and if he...
    • Middle East
      32.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on Ireland’s participation in an initiative of shared commitments to UNRWA; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Passport Services
      34.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications which were discarded having been in processing for six months, in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to...
    • Departmental Staff
      36.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the next recruitment intake of Third Secretaries will take place; the number of roles likely to be recruited for; and if he will make a...
    • Military Neutrality
      37.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 28 May 2024, if he will publish the non-paper and the text of the letter; and if he will make a...
    • Passport Services
      40.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application (details supplied) can be escalated as the application has passed the target issue date; and if he will make a...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      43.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional staffing and personnel that will be based at the Irish Embassy in Paris during the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic games; and...
    • Departmental Staff
      44.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of females and males that applied for the post of consular officer and administrative officer at the Irish Consulate General Office...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      45.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the civil service grades each Irish Ambassador and each consul general is at, in tabular form. [24871/24]
    • Foreign Policy
      47.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the current diplomatic relationship between Ireland and Western Sahara, and between Ireland and the Polisario Front; and if he...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      48.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a status update in respect of a foreign birth registration (details supplied); if he will expedite the application process for...
    • Foreign Policy
      49.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a list of all agreements, treaties and conventions Ireland has with Morocco, both bilateral and as a member of the European Union....
    • Passport Services
      50.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what is being done to address the backlog in passport applications [25029/24]
    • Official Travel
      52.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is scheduled to visit the United States before the end of this year. [25100/24]
    • Official Engagements
      53.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagements with the government of the Philippines in the past 12 months. [25101/24]
    • Passport Services
      54.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish passports notified to his Department as stolen and lost in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [25102/24]
    • Middle East
      56.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that at least 11 Palestinian graduates who came here to study on ICOS/Department of Foreign Affairs-/Irish Aid-sponsored...
    • Foreign Policy
      57.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to make a statement on the crisis in Myanmar; to list the meeting he had which addressed the matter and what actions Ireland can take to help...
    • Passport Services
      58.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade how a person (details supplied) can obtain a passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25154/24]
    • Overseas Development Aid
      59.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a breakdown of international development assistance funding provided to each country in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      63.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 2 February 2024 when a person (details supplied) who applied to the foreign birth register will...
    • Passport Services
      64.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if passports for siblings in County Donegal applied for on 22 March 2024 will issue on time for a travel date of 27 June 2024; and if he will...
    • Departmental Contracts
      66.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed...
    • Passport Services
      67.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to expedite the passport applications of (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25490/24]
    • Middle East
      68.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to detail funding and resources provided by Ireland to organisations for the maintenance and establishment of field hospitals in Gaza; whether...
    • International Sanctions
      69.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the value of frozen Russian assets in Ireland and in Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25559/24]
    • EU Agreements
      70.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the ‘urgent review’ of the EU-Israel Association Agreement requested jointly by Ireland and Spain on 14 February...
    • Passport Services
      71.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25584/24]
    • Ukraine War
      74.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what assessment he has made of the implications for Ireland of the Council decision to use the proceeds from immobilised Russian assets to...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Energy Policy
      75.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the proposed investment for the national grid to support delivery on our renewable energy targets by 2030; and if he will...
    • Departmental Data
      76.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in his...
    • Legislative Measures
      77.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil...
    • Pension Provisions
      78.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a decision will issue in relation to an appeal (details supplied) [24739/24]
    • Inland Fisheries
      79.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason his officials in the inland fisheries division have failed to engage on an issue over an approximate ten-year...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      83.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the Copper Switch Off Working Group established with the participation of ComReg and Eir; the membership...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      84.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can provide a record of brown out events, by county for the years 2019 to 2024; the number of events that were...
    • Inland Fisheries
      85.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount the State has spent or has committed to spend defending inland fisheries against anglers in regard to the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      86.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband will be connected to a residence (details supplied) give the person needs same for their employment;...
    • Haulage Industry
      87.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will confirm that the Irish road haulage sector will be impacted by a proposed €10 per tonne levy on the...
    • National Broadband Plan
      88.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the amount of his Department’s pre-committed capital expenditure under the National...
    • Energy Policy
      89.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 50 of 14 May 2024, to provide a breakdown of how the figure of 16,600 heat pump...
    • Inland Fisheries
      91.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment on what scientific basis or rationale a two-trout bag limit was introduced on the River Clare, County Galway, and what...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      95.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will detail the spending and outputs of €1.2m allocated to the UN Convention to combat desertification in...
    • Inland Fisheries
      96.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Minister will ensure that a copy of this report (details supplied) is provided to the requestor, given point 4.6;...
    • National Broadband Plan
      97.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the provision that has been made in the National Broadband Plan for issues known as direct buried ducting which can...
    • Departmental Contracts
      98.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details...
    • Recycling Policy
      99.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25498/24]
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      100.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 9 May 2023, if he will revisit the supports provided by his Department to family members of former...
    • Departmental Data
      102.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in his Department during the period...
    • Legislative Measures
      103.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer recess; and if he will...
    • Defence Forces
      104.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of a person’s application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24740/24]
    • Departmental Contracts
      105.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if as some media reports suggest, Ireland pays an Israeli government owned weapons company (details supplied) €295,000 each year to...
    • Naval Service
      106.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Haulbowline naval base has the capability to dock a military naval ship of 210 metres in length; and if not, the funding that would be...
    • Departmental Contracts
      107.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed...
    • Naval Service
      108.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if any of the Naval Service vessels currently have helicopter landing capabilities. [25573/24]
    • Defence Forces
      109.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the recruitment budget allocated to the Defence Forces in the years of 2022, 2023 and 2024; the percentage of that budget that was actually spent...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Bus Services
      110.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the recruitment and retention plans for mechanics, the lack of which is contributing to the crisis in respect of bus services; and if he...
    • Active Travel
      111.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on expenditure on active travel programmes in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24619/24]
    • Bus Services
      112.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected cost of upgrading the public bus fleet to an electric fleet as part of the Pathfinder programme; the proposed timeline for...
    • Driver Test
      113.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options available for truck and bus driving test applicants who need to take a test urgently and are available for a cancellation...
    • Departmental Data
      114.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in his Department during the...
    • Legislative Measures
      115.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer recess; and if...
    • Air Services
      116.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an outline of all flight paths out from Dublin Airport; if any new flight paths have commenced this year; and if he will make a...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      117.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in relation to the CIÉ superannuation scheme 1951, he will take steps to ensure the benefits of the scheme will be protected and...
    • Greenways Provision
      119.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the progress of the remaining stretch of the Midleton-Youghal Greenway project, including a timeline for...
    • Public Transport
      120.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on measures being taken to improve public transport links in rural areas of east Cork, especially those routes which...
    • Taxi Licences
      121.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to reintroduce the issuing of new taxi licences for sale for saloon cars; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Licences
      122.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the National Transport Authority will only accept payment for licence applications by postal order or bank draft; if the...
    • Coast Guard Service
      123.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the 2023 and 2024 capital budget allocation for the Irish Coast Guard, in tabular form [24880/24]
    • Bus Éireann
      124.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of the Bus Éireann PSO fleet that have the capabilities of having one wheelchair space and one buggy space on board;...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      125.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of proposed cuts to the spending programme of Transport Infrastructure Ireland; if he provided sanction for such...
    • Public Transport
      126.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 9 April 2024, the total cost of agreements reached between Transport Infrastructure Ireland...
    • EU Directives
      127.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the EU directive 2012 HGV legislation (Unladen Weight to Gross Vehicle Weight) is being enforced since its proposed implementation; and...
    • Road Projects
      128.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if information will be provided in relation to Fintra Bridge, Fintra, Killybegs, County Donegal which has been in the planning stage for...
    • Air Navigation Orders
      129.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of inspections carried out under Article 8 of the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods)...
    • Public Transport
      132.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 120 of 16 May 2024, to provide a breakdown of services that have been curtailed due to unacceptable...
    • Coast Guard Service
      134.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if contracts have been signed by both parties in respect of a new coast guard building in Howth; and if not, when his Department expects...
    • Rail Network
      135.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the refurbishment works that Iarnród Éireann carried out at a location (details supplied) in the years of 2023 and to date in...
    • Bus Services
      136.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a company (details supplied) has not increased its service following the discontinuation of another service. [25127/24]
    • Córas Iompair Éireann
      138.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he is aware of the recent court judgement on the CIÉ pension scheme; his views on the matter and whether he will now support...
    • Bus Services
      139.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on BusConnects as part of the greater Dublin area capital programme, including detail on the anticipated start date...
    • Rail Network
      140.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on MetroLink as part of the greater Dublin area capital programme, including detail on the anticipated start date for...
    • Public Transport
      142.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on Luas Green Line Capacity enhancement as part of the greater Dublin area capital programme, including detail on the...
    • Taxi Regulations
      145.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legislative or regulatory provisions governing taxi vehicles driving in bus lanes. [25175/24]
    • Rail Network
      146.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of the amount of his Department’s pre-committed capital expenditure under the National Development Plan that...
    • Road Projects
      148.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of the amount of his Department’s pre-committed capital expenditure under the National Development Plan that...
    • Rail Network
      149.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of the amount of his Department’s pre-committed capital expenditure under the National Development Plan that...
    • Transport Policy
      150.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of the amount of his Department’s pre-committed capital expenditure under the National Development Plan that...
    • Ports Policy
      151.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of the amount of his Department’s pre-committed capital expenditure under the National Development Plan that...
    • Driver Licences
      152.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the efforts being made by the NDLS to facilitate older people; if the NDLS provides hardcopy forms by post if requested; if the...
    • Public Transport
      153.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport on if his Department will reconsider LUAS speed of 19.5 km/hr when the average road speed limit of the same commute is more than 50km/hr;...
    • Road Projects
      154.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the policy that local authorities are required to inform TII before proceeding to tender on maintenance and improvement schemes on...
    • Public Transport
      155.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a local service link will be established for an area in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Projects
      156.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the details of the road budget provided to Kildare County Council for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in...
    • Transport Costs
      157.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify the new policy recently instituted by Irish Rail where a finite number of seats for the free travel pass are allocated,...
    • Public Transport
      158.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a service (details supplied) will be provided to County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25334/24]
    • Transport Policy
      159.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport which unit in his department handles yacht and marine vessel registration; and if he can provide contact details for the same. [25458/24]
    • Departmental Contracts
      160.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the...
    • Public Services Card
      161.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what the protocol is regarding inspectors on Bus Éireann stopping elderly people from going on the bus because their public services...
    • Official Engagements
      162.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he last met formally with the CEO of a company (details supplied); and when he is next scheduled to meet the CEO. [25536/24]
    • Vehicle Testing
      163.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of the current numbers and wait times for RSA CPC walkaround tests for both truck and bus drivers at each test...
    • Pension Provisions
      164.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the shortfall in what is paid to retirees under the Irish airlines pension scheme; if he is aware of the hardship...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      165.To ask the Minister for Finance if an issue in relation to the exclusion of a person (details supplied) from the help-to-buy scheme will be examined and addressed. [24916/24]
    • Tax Forms
      166.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify, with regard to claiming back medical expenses, when and why the MED 1 form used for this purpose was discontinued; the reason medical...
    • Tax Code
      167.To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 23 May 2024, the reason there is a delay in Revenue resolving an issue in relation to taxation of further...
    • Budget 2024
      168.To ask the Minister for Finance the expected net effect of carryover measures carried over for 2025 as a result of Budget 2024 measures; the way in which it is accounted for in the budgetary...
    • Tax Code
      169.To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated total cost of introducing a financial transactions tax in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24615/24]
    • Tax Yield
      170.To ask the Minister for Finance the expected revenue yield from 15% minimum effective corporate tax rate for large firms if successfully implemented; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Exemptions
      171.To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 17 April 2024, the reason the VAT exemption for counsellors and psychotherapists will not apply until the...
    • Insurance Coverage
      172.To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that there is a lack of insurance cover available to cover children's activity and sporting summer camps (details supplied); if he plans to...
    • Departmental Data
      173.To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in his Department during the period 2021 to date;...
    • Legislative Measures
      174.To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer recess; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      175.To ask the Minister for Finance if the tax revenue projections from 2025 in the Stability Programme Update incorporate indicative tax packages in each of the years from 2025; and if so, to...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      176.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider expanding the criteria for the primary health care certificate to include persons with a single upper body amputation; if there are plans...
    • Official Engagements
      178.To ask the Minister for Finance if he has spoken formally with his Turkish counterpart in the past six months. [24882/24]
    • Pension Provisions
      179.To ask the Minister for Finance the current situation regarding a claim for a pension by a person in County Cork (details supplied). [24921/24]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      180.To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 28 May 2024, if his attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied) which appears to contradict the...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      181.To ask the Minister for Finance how many audits have been carried out by the Revenue Commissioners on persons (details supplied) in the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      182.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will examine the hospitality VAT rate given restaurants and cafés are struggling to survive (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      183.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the example of New Zealand where all vehicles using the road have a requirement to be registered; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      184.To ask the Minister for Finance to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if arrangements can be made to facilitate general practices operated by registered...
    • Departmental Contracts
      185.To ask the Minister for Finance the number of contracts awarded by his Department to a company (details supplied) to carry out work on behalf of his Department in the years of 2023 and to...
    • Fiscal Data
      186.To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details on the reason why the stability programme update is projecting the increase of gross debt in nominal terms despite running a general...
    • Tax Data
      187.To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the implementation of each of the recommendations outlined in the 2022 Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report: Foundations for the Future;...
    • Banking Sector
      188.To ask the Minister for Finance for his view on the potential to introduce a windfall tax on Irish banks given their increasing profit margin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      189.To ask the Minister for Finance if he has set a deadline for when the final proposals on the review of the primary medical certificate for motor and fuel tax concessions will be brought to...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      190.To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the level of both voted and non-voted overseas development aid contained within the SPU projections; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Revenue Commissioners
      191.To ask the Minister for Finance his response to concerns from a company (details supplied) that were refused a refund on VAT items that previously qualified; when an updated guidance document...
    • Tax Exemptions
      192.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider raising the tax exemption for persons of pension age to account for inflation and the rising cost of living (details supplied); and if he...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      193.To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 237 of 14 May 2024 and 220 of 21 May 2024, how many companies had failed to engage with the Revenue Commissioners as of...
    • Tax Code
      194.To ask the Minister for Finance the projected revenue raised from legislated increases in the carbon tax in each year from 2025 to 2030 relative to the rate of €56 per tonne in 2024,...
    • Departmental Programmes
      195.To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details of the ISIF funding for the Greystones media campus; what safeguards were put in place to ensure that the development progressed in line...
    • Departmental Data
      196.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the number of payments made under the Help to Buy Scheme and their average value to date for each county, in tabular form. [25420/24]
    • Housing Schemes
      197.To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 7 December 2023, if any further consideration has been given to this issue; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      198.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost;...
    • Universal Social Charge
      199.To ask the Minister for Finance if a person is in receipt of a medical card, do they pay a lower rate of universal social charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25496/24]
    • Tax Code
      200.To ask the Minister for Finance the reason recycled plastic water drinking troughs are not included in the list of components that a farmer can reclaim VAT on; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tax Data
      202.To ask the Minister for Finance if the residential premises rental income relief is in the tax base, under the stability programme update, in each of the years 2025, 2026 and 2027,...
    • Tax Credits
      204.To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year cost if the single person child carer credit increased by €200. [25531/24]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Office of Public Works
      205.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Garda mounted unit stables were refurbished. [24885/24]
    • Insurance Coverage
      206.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of State indemnity for public liability insurance in an instance where a lease would be signed by the OPW with a landowner...
    • Departmental Data
      207.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in his Department during the...
    • Legislative Measures
      208.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer recess; and if...
    • Flood Risk Management
      209.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update from his recent visit to east Cork in Castlemartyr, Killeagh, Mogeely and with the residents of an area (details...
    • Public Sector Staff
      211.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of plans for prison officers (details supplied) to increase the mandatory retirement age for An Garda Síochána, the...
    • Office of Public Works
      213.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on preparatory works being undertaken by the Office of Public Works in order that a new building for a...
    • Court Accommodation
      215.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what works or proposed works have been undertaken on the Wicklow Town courthouse; what the future plans are for this premises, whether he...
    • An Garda Síochána
      216.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when upgrade works, including the creation of suitable female staff welfare facilities, improved safety measures and space for staff, and...
    • Coast Guard Service
      217.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a renewed tender process has begun for the coastguard station in Greystones; when he expects that to be completed; when it is intended...
    • State Properties
      218.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department is the owner of the Civil Defence building to the rear of the courts building in Wicklow Town; what plans he has for...
    • Office of Public Works
      219.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW intends to put a tender out for a café/restaurant service in Dublin Castle before the end of the year. [25093/24]
    • Public Sector Pensions
      220.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of the implications of the taking of "term time" by public servants on the value of pensions when these workers reach...
    • Office of Public Works
      222.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of any agreement, tacit, inferred, implied or otherwise which might prevent the Office of Public Works for asserting its...
    • Departmental Contracts
      223.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      224.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to amend the procurement regulations to incentivise the enhanced use of wood in public construction projects...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Labour Market
      225.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, given the skills shortage in areas such as construction, healthcare, teaching, farming, and caring, there are plans to progress a...
    • Departmental Data
      226.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Minister to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in his...
    • Employment Rights
      227.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or the Minister for State with responsibility for Business, Employment and Retail has received a proposal from the Labour Court...
    • Legislative Measures
      228.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer recess; and...
    • Employment Rights
      229.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures from a report (details supplied) that have been implemented; the measures still outstanding;; and if he will make a...
    • Export Controls
      231.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 23 May 2024, the names of the companies in respect of which fourteen individual dual-use...
    • Trade Data
      232.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total value of trade between Ireland and Northern Ireland for the years 2018 to 2023, broken down by exports and imports per year,...
    • Employment Rights
      235.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the implementation of the new Employment Regulation Order for workers in the security sector; and if he will...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      236.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the plans that are in place to update legislation and policy governing the Workplace Relations Commission in relation to...
    • Trade Agreements
      240.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the last time discussions on strengthening ties between the EU and Indonesia were discussed. [24879/24]
    • Grant Payments
      241.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the hair and beauty sector that are primarily small businesses in the retail sector, have been excluded from the second...
    • Legislative Measures
      242.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he intends to sign and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas the draft Security Employment Regulation Order which has been...
    • Business Supports
      243.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if early years and childcare providers are entitled to the second round of ICOB payments (details supplied). [24931/24]
    • Legislative Measures
      244.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for the delays in bringing forward the Employment Regulation Order for security officers; when the EROs will be signed into...
    • EU Directives
      245.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages will be implemented by the Government; if apprentices will be included in this; and if...
    • Grant Payments
      246.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware that a county council (details supplied) was not made aware that the increased cost of business grant was extended,...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      247.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in relation to the Dublin Simon Community 100 bed health and addiction care facility located at Usher's Island, Dublin 8, if he can...
    • Employment Rights
      248.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status regarding the Employment Regulation Order for security officers in 2024; if he has received a proposal from the Labour...
    • Departmental Data
      249.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide the most up to date numbers on the opening of new hospitality businesses and closures of such businesses; and whether there...
    • Employment Rights
      251.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the recent Employment Regulation Order for the Contract Cleaning Industry, which provides for a pay increase for the sector that...
    • Departmental Contracts
      252.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied);...
    • Employment Rights
      253.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has read the communication from an organisation (details supplied) regarding the delay in signing the new Employment Regulation...
    • Industrial Development
      254.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Turkish companies IDA Ireland has engaged with in relation to setting up within the State in the years of 2023 and to...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      255.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a girl based in County Leitrim (details supplied) cannot access a full-time SNA given the severe difficulties experienced by the young...
    • Schools Building Projects
      256.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24605/24]
    • School Enrolments
      260.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the allocation of the remaining secondary school places for those pupils in Greystones, County Wicklow, who are still...
    • School Staff
      261.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will sanction an additional teacher for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24631/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      262.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional supports that will be in place for a child (details supplied) who is beginning junior infants in September 2024 and has a full...
    • Departmental Data
      264.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in her Department during the period...
    • Special Educational Needs
      265.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SENO vacancies currently in north Cork. [24688/24]
    • Legislative Measures
      270.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer recess; and if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects
      271.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she expects the design of a new school (details supplied) to progress to planning permission and tendering stage; and if she will make a...
    • School Textbooks
      272.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review correspondence from Monaghan County Council (details supplied); and if she will address the issues highlighted and respond to same....
    • Grant Payments
      273.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a grant (details supplied) will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24734/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      274.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) will be granted a special school place. [24738/24]
    • Grant Payments
      275.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a payment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24744/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      279.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a land transfer (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24761/24]
    • School Enrolments
      280.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place will be provided for a child (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [24789/24]
    • School Funding
      281.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will provide immediate funding and investment for a school (details supplied) to ensure it can deliver the best possible...
    • School Transport
      282.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to an ongoing case (details supplied); the actions she will take to ensure that this child is accommodated on a...
    • School Facilities
      283.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of furniture and IT grants for a new ASD unit at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Capitation Grants
      284.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost if the capitation grant increased to €205 per pupil at primary level. [24883/24]
    • School Staff
      285.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to reports from schools that this year's ancillary grant is insufficient to cover the cost of staff not on her...
    • School Funding
      287.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a schedule of all upcoming grants for national schools; and if this schedule has been provided to schools. [24897/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      290.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) which applied for additional accommodation for two SET rooms in 2019 and additional classroom accommodation...
    • Education and Training Boards
      291.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will facilitate employees of education and training boards who may be eligible to claim professional added years, to calculate their...
    • School Transport
      292.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the funds disbursed through the school transport scheme in 2023 for transport of children with special needs, not...
    • Education Schemes
      293.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a person (details supplied) who was partaking in the Carline Project until this year and who has no school place for the...
    • School Transport
      294.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will take immediate steps to address the work pay and conditions that school bus escorts are faced with (details supplied); and if she will...
    • School Staff
      295.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to change assault leave legislation for teachers and special needs assistants who work with children with additional...
    • School Funding
      298.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that her Department increases funding for Transition Year programmes in schools across Ireland to ensure that there is enough...
    • Schools Building Projects
      299.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the building projects under consideration for a school (details supplied); and when they might be in a position to proceed to construction. [25027/24]
    • School Staff
      300.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will undertake a review of the number of SNA posts allocated to a school (details supplied) following the reduction in the number of SNA...
    • School Transport
      302.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if assistance will be provided to secure school transport arrangements under the school transport scheme for a school in Stonetown, County Louth...
    • School Funding
      303.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the ancillary grant for a school (details supplied) has been reduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25046/24]
    • School Facilities
      304.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position with respect to an application from a school (details supplied) in County Cork for reconfiguration works to existing...
    • Special Educational Needs
      305.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to respond to a query on July provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25058/24]
    • Child Abuse
      306.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will implement the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights no. 35810/09, ECHR 2014-I under Article 46(2) of the European...
    • Special Educational Needs
      307.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 16 May 2024 if she will consider funding an ASD class at a school (details suppled); and if she will...
    • School Textbooks
      308.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will issue exceptional funding to a school (details supplied) given the increased strain in trying to meet the costs associated with the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      310.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request her officials to move a school rebuilding project (details supplied) to stage 2B; or if not will she ask her officials to meet...
    • Special Educational Needs
      311.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a child with autism (details supplied) who cannot get a place in any local primary school with an autism unit; and...
    • School Funding
      312.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the status of the revised application for funding to her Department from a school (details supplied). [25180/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      315.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can assist in a case where a child with autism (details supplied) who will be ten years old at the start of the new school year currently...
    • School Staff
      316.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an appeal submitted by a school (details supplied) regarding the proposed loss of a mainstream post; to provide a timeline...
    • Schools Building Projects
      318.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 181 of 9 May 2024, if clarity can be provided on when it is expected that the design phase is expected to...
    • School Transport
      319.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be provided with transport to his day care centre. [25270/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      320.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a school building project (details supplied); when this project will progress; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Facilities
      322.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the recently announced IT grant for schools will be paid out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25297/24]
    • School Enrolments
      325.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide assurance that a school's enrolment numbers (details supplied) will return to 240 in September 2025, following the approval of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      326.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address financial support and SEN support shortfalls for primary schools ahead of the 2024/2025 school year; and the steps she has...
    • School Accommodation
      327.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a funding application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25330/24]
    • School Enrolments
      328.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what plans are in place to ensure that all children in the Greystones area that have yet to receive a secondary school place for September 2024...
    • Schools Building Projects
      329.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of the site proposed for a new school build (details supplied); the number of students that it will accommodate; the process...
    • School Accommodation
      331.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of the interim temporary accommodation being provided for a school (details supplied); the timeline for the delivery of those...
    • Schools Building Projects
      332.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction work will begin on site for the new build of a school (details supplied); the timeline for delivery and completion of this...
    • Special Educational Needs
      333.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans in place for the provision of an extra special needs classroom in the Greystones area; when that room will be delivered;...
    • School Accommodation
      334.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, given her Department states that "new schools are established by the Department on the basis of identified demographic demand in an area", she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      336.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether schools (details supplied) have applied to create special education classes or for any other additional special education supports, given...
    • Irish Language
      337.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the collaborations in place, if any, between third-level institutions and secondary schools to aid the transition of students moving from Irish...
    • School Curriculum
      338.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Korean is being considered as a Leaving Certificate subject. [25381/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      340.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the lack of secondary school places for children with special needs in Dublin 7, where there are 11 special needs classes but...
    • School Accommodation
      341.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department with meet with representatives from the Board of Management of a school (details supplied) as a matter of urgency to progress an...
    • Special Educational Needs
      342.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine a case (details supplied) and expedite an application with the Teaching Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25461/24]
    • Departmental Contracts
      344.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed...
    • School Accommodation
      345.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why there has been a delay of over 3 years for the delivery of the approved extension to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      348.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport to siblings (details supplied) could be extended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25549/24]
    • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
      349.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills céard é líon na scoileanna atá ag teagasc trí Ghaeilge sa Ghaeltacht; ainm gach scoile acu agus líon na...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      351.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans, if any, to amend the legislation under which the Teaching Council operates to ensure that they accept and process applications for...
    • Special Educational Needs
      352.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what avenues are available for a pupil diagnosed with dyspraxia and dyslexia (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Data
      353.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in her Department...
    • Legislative Measures
      354.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer recess;...
    • Artists' Remuneration
      355.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports in place for artists reliant on universal basic income after 2025; her views on initial data gathered by way of the...
    • Departmental Funding
      356.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht what grant funding, if any, is available for the purpose of renovating a garage beside a dwelling housing into one for commercial...
    • Pleanáil Teanga
      357.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a dhéanfar faomhadh ar phlean teanga an Chlocháin, baile seirbhíse Gaeltachta; agus an ndéanfaidh...
    • Sports Funding
      358.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount allocated under the last round of the sports capital grant that has yet to be claimed; the amount that has been drawn...
    • Departmental Programmes
      360.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the application for funding of a group under the cultural capital grant scheme (details supplied)....
    • Tourism Industry
      361.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will act in relation to correspondence (details supplied) regarding the mistreatment of staff and racism in the tourism...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      362.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the Minister will outline her Department's plans to improve funding to grassroots football; if she is aware of the lack of...
    • Departmental Contracts
      363.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details...
    • Tourist Accommodation
      364.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht what direct financial supports, if any, are available to encourage people to invest in hostel-type accommodation in vacant units in...
    • Swimming Pools
      365.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which Kildare County Council has continued to promote the case for a swimming pool in Maynooth, County Kildare, as...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Environmental Policy
      366.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will meet with a group (details supplied), as promised in Dáil Éireann recently; and if so, when he will meet...
    • Animal Welfare
      367.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide each local authority that has an animal welfare officer in place; the date from which there has been no welfare...
    • Rental Sector
      368.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the recommendation by the Housing Commission to make rental data and cost publicly available; if this is...
    • Housing Schemes
      369.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the grants available for the upkeep and maintenance of thatched cottages owned by private individuals. [24606/24]
    • Departmental Data
      370.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in his Department...
    • Local Government Reform
      371.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the duties listed as part of the general service supervisors agreement under the Better Local Government Agreement of 1996; and...
    • Housing Schemes
      372.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason equity share monetary values in affordable housing have been limited based on density. [24691/24]
    • Legislative Measures
      373.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer...
    • Rental Sector
      374.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households currently renting a house or flat from a local authority. [24724/24]
    • Local Authorities
      378.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to review correspondence from Monaghan County Council (details supplied); and if he will address the issues highlighted and...
    • Defective Building Materials
      379.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider a more flexible approach to the rebuild location under the defective blocks scheme, particularly in...
    • Parking Provision
      380.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a request (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24755/24]
    • Planning Issues
      381.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to three previous Parliamentary Questions (details supplied), the status of the investigation into alleged planning...
    • Legislative Measures
      382.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide legislation to regulate light pollution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24767/24]
    • Housing Provision
      383.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide, in tabular form, a detailed update on the completion of social and affordable housing units in the east Cork area,...
    • Water Services
      385.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will expand the powers of the Commission for Regulation of Utilities in respect of investigating failures by Uisce...
    • Housing Schemes
      388.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what financial assistance, if any, is available to assist with the cost of works on a house due to rising damp in the home of...
    • Rental Sector
      390.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to consider extending the remit of the Residential Tenancies Board to cover all tenants under the rent-a-room scheme; to detail...
    • Housing Provision
      391.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a development (details supplied) will be given to a local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24812/24]
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      392.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of residences that the NPWS currently owns; and the number of those residences that are currently occupied,...
    • Rental Sector
      393.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is an official pause on the cost-rental tenant-in-situ scheme; if such a pause exists, how long it is intended to last...
    • Housing Provision
      394.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason some local authorities clarify what position applicants for social housing are on the housing list; the reason some...
    • Rental Sector
      396.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will resource the Private Residential Tenancies Board to take a proactive role in investigating improper conducts by...
    • Planning Issues
      397.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will amend the waiver scheme for developments where the planning is for retention and completion and where utility...
    • Waterways Issues
      398.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the hoarding around the canal will be removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25001/24]
    • Water Services
      399.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that Uisce Éireann’s delivery programme has been truncated because of inflation costs; and if he...
    • Planning Issues
      403.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider waiving development fees for large extensions on homes similar to the waiving of fees for new builds, where...
    • Departmental Staff
      404.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of WTE quantity surveyors grade 1 employed by his Department in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in...
    • Rental Sector
      405.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider increasing the income threshold for HAP or introducing additional supports for people who are struggling to...
    • Planning Issues
      407.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of section 179A planning exemptions that have received stage 1 approval from his Department, broken down by local...
    • Energy Conservation
      409.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 50 of 14 May 2024, the target for heat pumps in new builds to 2030; and if he will make a...
    • Defective Building Materials
      410.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if people who are eligible for the defective concrete block scheme can simultaneously avail of the housing adaption grants for...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      411.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify when work on the new sewage scheme for Broadford will commence; and if the scheme will be extended as far as...
    • Departmental Reports
      412.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will expedite the publication of the Mulcahy Report, in view of the fact that to not do so gives rise to a perception...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      413.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to a previous Parliamentary Question (details supplied), if he will confirm when payment will issue to a person in...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      414.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the revised wind energy guidelines signed off by his predecessor in 2017 will become operational; the reason for the...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      415.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review correspondence (details supplied); if he will outline the issue relating to interest rates as addressed in...
    • Planning Issues
      416.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if access to pre-planning meetings with local government is provided as standard; if not, which local authorities provide it as...
    • Energy Conservation
      417.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when air to water home heating/hot water systems will be installed in (details supplied) under his Department’s Energy...
    • Planning Issues
      418.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if planning guidance relating to short-term rentals will be published and circulated in advance of the enactment of the planned...
    • Departmental Contracts
      419.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details...
    • Land Issues
      420.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on and those of his Department to claims made (details supplied) that credit servicers are falsely registering as...
    • Building Regulations
      421.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to amend building regulations to incentivise the construction of modular homes; the enhanced use of wood...
    • Housing Schemes
      422.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to enhance the rate of grant available for housing aid for older people and people with a disability;...
    • Housing Provision
      423.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the publication of the report by Government on "Housing Options for our Ageing Population", if he will outline the...
    • Tax Code
      424.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the residential zone tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25507/24]
    • National Parks
      426.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline, in the context of the designated areas of Corca Dhuibhne as a national park, what material difference this...
    • Traffic Management
      427.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the basis on which the Abbey bridge, Naas, County Kildare is proposed for closure on whatever grounds given that the bridge was...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      428.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, with regard to a non-habitual Irish citizen who has returned to Ireland for health reasons in order to avail of their...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      429.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the appeal of a person (details supplied). [24603/24]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      431.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) who is self-employed and who was placed on the temporary Covid payment during the pandemic has...
    • International Protection
      432.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of a €1 increase in payments to international protection applicants living in direct provision...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      433.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the eligibility criteria for illness benefit to include people who are self-employed who become ill or...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      434.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current timeframe for appeals; if there is currently a lengthy delay registering appeals; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Data
      435.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in her Department...
    • Legislative Measures
      436.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      437.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the benefits or pensions that are available to a spouse on behalf of a deceased spouse; the query relates to a person (details...
    • State Pensions
      438.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the State pension (contributory) being paid to a person (details supplied) will be increased to the maximum, based on...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      439.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if assistance is available to a family that use public transport to take their six-year-old daughter (details supplied) to and...
    • Social Welfare Code
      440.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in relation to the legislation arising from a case (details supplied), cohabiting couples without (dependent) children...
    • Gender Recognition
      444.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what plans there are to enable those who hold a gender recognition certificate to update their name on their child's birth...
    • State Pensions
      446.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of her engagement in 2024 with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Tusla, and...
    • International Protection
      448.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of media reports that social protection payments may have been issued to international protection applicants...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      449.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if steps can be taken to expedite an application for carer’s allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      451.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give consideration to setting up a dedicated appeals department for each type of social welfare payment to ensure...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      453.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application by an individual (details supplied) for domiciliary care allowance; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      454.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) keeps getting denied carer’s allowance. [24937/24]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      455.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carer’s allowance will be approved for a person (details supplied). [24949/24]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      459.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made by her appeals office in relation to a lady (details supplied) whose living alone allowance was...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      460.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current situation regarding a carer’s allowance application by a person in County Cork (details supplied); if her...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      461.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the fees paid by her Department to optometrists for tests under the PRSI scheme; when this level of fee payment was...
    • Departmental Contracts
      462.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of contracts awarded by her Department to a company (details supplied) to carry out works on behalf of her...
    • Pensions Reform
      463.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider taking any legislative or policy measures in order to combat the recent finding in a report (details...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      464.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was categorised as self-employed even though they have never been self-employed. [25125/24]
    • Labour Court
      466.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to detail the action she is taking to avert strike action by workers in the National Advocacy Service who have not received a...
    • Gender Recognition
      467.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she would support a change in the law to allow people to register their gender as intersex or to change it from...
    • Social Welfare Code
      468.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what state supports and benefits are paid to foster families who have cared for a special needs person for over 20 years from...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      469.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will look into a case (details supplied) whereby a person on invalidity pension was refused a fuel allowance; and if...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      472.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria and checklist used to assess an application by a person for disability allowance. [25218/24]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      473.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in the case of a person (details supplied), she will instruct her Department to assess an application based on hours...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      474.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an itemised breakdown of how the Budget 2023 allocation of an additional €1 million in funding to expand the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      475.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review will be undertaken into the case of a person (details supplied) with a view to restoring IQA payment to full rate...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      478.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the backlog of social welfare appeals, which are pending while the Social Welfare Appeals Office assesses the impact of...
    • Social Welfare Code
      479.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, on foot of the ruling of the CJEU in a case (details supplied) in December 2023, there has been any consideration or...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      480.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the domiciliary care allowance tax credit to 18 years of age to provide support for people with...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      481.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the review/appeal for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      483.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the rent supplement option to vulnerable persons who are privately renting; and if she will make a...
    • Question Heading for question(s) 485
      485.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the disability allowance application for a person (details supplied) could be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      486.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on an application for carer’s allowance (details supplied); when the application will be...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      488.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of eligibility for the rent-a-room scheme for those on a social welfare payment (details supplied); and if she...
    • School Meals Programme
      489.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to explain why schools, newly designated as DEIS in 2022, are solely eligible either for a hot meal (if they are a primary...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      491.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the case of an appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25453/24]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      492.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when legislation will be published to establish the right of non-marital long term partners to ‘Widows Pensions’...
    • Rental Sector
      493.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a rent supplement appeal lodged by a person in County Galway (details supplied); the reason...
    • Departmental Contracts
      494.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details...
    • Employment Schemes
      495.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any plans to introduce a new scheme/payment for people who wish to take a career break for a year or less from...
    • Pension Provisions
      496.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal in the case of a person (details supplied) who has applied for a...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      498.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will add any additional schemes under the new CAP to those currently deemed non-assessable income regarding farm...
    • Pension Levy
      499.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 216 of 23 May 2024, if it can be clarified as to why the applicant was informed in...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      500.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive an answer from the Social Welfare Appeals Office, as this appeal is pending...
    • Pension Provisions
      502.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what financial support is available for a person with coeliac disease, on the state pension, for the purchase of food. [25569/24]
    • Official Engagements
      503.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has spoken formally with her United States counterpart to date in 2024. [25572/24]
    • State Pensions
      504.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she is considering entitlement to the State pension (contributory) in line with the level of necessary...
    • Pension Provisions
      505.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which it might be possible to allow for top-up pensions to be paid to former EU nationals living in this country...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      506.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent, if any, to which time taken to determine appeals can be improved; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Payments
      507.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of exceptional needs payments made to persons or families in other than bereavement circumstances in each of the...
    • Pension Provisions
      512.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications made for an invalidity pension in each of the past three years to date; the number granted; the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      513.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications made for the working family payment in each of the past three years to date; the number granted;...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • International Protection
      515.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide clarity regarding the placement of people seeking temporary international protection at Bert House, Athy, as...
    • Victim Support Services
      516.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the need for urgent legislation in relation to a victims right to be informed about the release of their...
    • Domestic Violence
      517.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of providing the additional 140 domestic abuse refuge spaces to double the number of refuge spaces in...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      518.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 22 May 2024, to outline the situation with respect to the need for data controllers...
    • Animal Welfare
      519.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether it is proposed to introduce legislation to deal with the theft of companion pets; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      520.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she agrees that a victim’s counselling notes should not be used in a rape trial and that this could deter them from...
    • Departmental Data
      521.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in her Department...
    • State Gifts
      522.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total cost savings in each year to date of the decision in 2011 to abolish the entitlement of former Taoisigh to the use of...
    • Legislative Measures
      523.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      524.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for naturalisation based on Irish association received in the years 2019 to date; the average...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      525.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on domestic violence survivors’ experiences of navigating the courts system and dealing with An Garda...
    • Asylum Seekers
      526.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent on free legal aid to people who have failed in their initial application for asylum in Ireland for each of the...
    • Visa Applications
      527.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of spousal visa applications made from Abu Dhabi; and the number that were rejected over the past five years. [24757/24]
    • Citizenship Ceremonies
      528.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will be invited to attend their citizenship ceremony. [24770/24]
    • Gambling Sector
      529.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the ban on under-18s being in a bookmakers provided for in the Betting Act 1931 will be maintained in the Gambling Regulation...
    • Probate Applications
      530.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the report will be available from the Working Group on Conveyancing and Probate; what actions she will take to implement...
    • An Garda Síochána
      532.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 1 May 2024, when the information will be provided. [24818/24]
    • Coroners Service
      533.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the upcoming changes to the coroners’ service can include a particular circumstance (details supplied); and if she...
    • Prison Service
      534.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will put in place a temporary arrangement to allow prison officers who reach the age of 60 years prior to the...
    • Property Management Companies
      535.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a situation (details supplied) will be examined. [24843/24]
    • Departmental Data
      536.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports to gardaí of incidences of arson attacks on homes in Dublin Mid-West in the past 12 months, by...
    • Departmental Funding
      537.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding has been provided this year to refurbish the stables within the Garda mounted unit. [24885/24]
    • An Garda Síochána
      538.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of companies that applied for the contract for the new aircraft and helicopters for the Garda air support unit. [24886/24]
    • Legislative Measures
      543.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the opt-in to the Directive on Combating the Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation of Children and Child Sexual Abuse Material...
    • Immigration Status
      544.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current and expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) who is currently on a stamp 2 visa; and if...
    • Departmental Properties
      545.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to use the former prison at the Curragh camp in County Kildare; what these plans are; what stage any such...
    • Citizenship Applications
      546.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to confirm clearly the stage a person’s application for citizenship is at (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Youth Services
      547.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the work of the youth diversion programme in County Kildare. [25097/24]
    • An Garda Síochána
      548.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 483 of 30 April 2024, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • Citizenship Applications
      549.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for citizenship currently being processed; and the countries of origin of the applicants and the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      550.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether members of An Garda Síochána are designated to work full-time for RTÉ’s Crimecall TV show, and if...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      551.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 30 May 2024, in relation to a person (details supplied), if she will identify how...
    • International Protection
      552.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality procedures, inclusive of the processing time for first instance decisions, as well as IPAT appeals and judicial reviews in...
    • Commemorative Events
      553.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consult with the Garda Commissioner on whether there are any plans in 2025 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      554.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has received the correspondence attached from (details supplied); and if so, the timeframe within which she...
    • Legislative Measures
      555.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to change the law in order to preclude persons convicted of rape or other serious crimes in Ireland that...
    • Citizenship Applications
      557.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); when the application is due...
    • Family Reunification
      558.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on an appeal for family reunification visa for a minor (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Citizenship Applications
      559.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for Irish citizenship (details supplied); the expected timeframe in which a decision will be made;...
    • Child Abduction
      561.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports made to An Garda Síochána on attempted child abductions and child abductions for the years 2019...
    • Departmental Contracts
      562.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details...
    • Land Issues
      563.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on and those of her Department to claims made (details supplied) that credit servicers are falsely registering as...
    • Peace Commissioners
      564.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process for a person to relinquish their position as Peace Commissioner; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • An Garda Síochána
      565.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of Garda roads policing unit fleet that are currently fitted out with automatic number plate recognition system;...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Schemes
      567.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to look into introducing an item created by a young entrepreneur (details supplied) as a qualifying item under TAMS; and if he will...
    • Departmental Data
      569.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in his Department during...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      570.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the unharvested crop support scheme covers the costs associated with loss of seeds; if not, if he will consider extending the...
    • Legislative Measures
      571.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer recess; and...
    • Forestry Sector
      572.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the backlog in afforestation licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24819/24]
    • Departmental Schemes
      573.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding approved by his Department for an organisation (details supplied) under the equine technical support scheme for the years...
    • Forestry Sector
      574.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of people excluded from receiving the climate action performance payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Agriculture Schemes
      575.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a payment, considering that his application was approved for payment several weeks ago;...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      576.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the capital works funded by his Department that are currently ongoing within Howth fisheries harbour centre; when each of these...
    • Farm Inspections
      577.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the issue of farm waste recorded during a Bord Bia audit on a farm (details supplied) can be rectified as agreed on the day before...
    • Agriculture Supports
      578.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a cash payment receipt was deemed ineligible for a national farm safety measure from farmers in County Kerry (details...
    • Forestry Sector
      579.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to address concerns arising from the proposed setback distances being introduced for forestry felling licences (details supplied); and...
    • Fishing Industry
      580.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans in place for negotiating a quota for Irish fishermen to catch tuna; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25290/24]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      581.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of rejected applications to the Shannon Callows flood scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25379/24]
    • Departmental Contracts
      582.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied);...
    • Greyhound Industry
      585.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of external security companies that provide security personnel at Shelbourne Park Greyhound Stadium in the years of 2023 and...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      586.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of external security companies that provide security personnel at Curragh, Leopardstown, Fairyhouse and Punchestown...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      587.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25586/24]
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      588.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of enduring powers of attorney (EPA) lodged with the decision support service (DSS) since the service...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      592.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when applicants to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme can expect to receive the payment;; and if he...
    • Disability Services
      595.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a detailed update on the timeframe for the re-introduction of the motorised transport grant....
    • International Protection
      596.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the position in relation to a building in County Waterford (details supplied) and its use by his...
    • Direct Provision System
      598.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that residents of direct provision accommodation cannot be moved for no justified reason, aware...
    • Departmental Funding
      601.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason emergency funding for sustainability of an organisation (details supplied) has not been paid; and if...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      602.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he could provide clarification around a case (details supplied) where they are awaiting a multidisciplinary...
    • International Protection
      603.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason his Department has decided to move over 200 Ukrainians from a location (details supplied) after two...
    • Departmental Data
      606.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in...
    • Disability Services
      607.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24686/24]
    • Legislative Measures
      608.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the...
    • Immigration Policy
      609.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Government has sent communications out internationally on traditional and social media in numerous...
    • Youth Services
      610.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of grants and or funding, by heading and by county, for youth services for 2023....
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      611.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide guidance on accessing the mother and baby homes redress scheme when the concluding year of an...
    • Disability Services
      612.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the recruitment embargo applies to clerical staff working in the disability sector; and if he will make a...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      613.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department is aware that the phone line for the mother and baby homes scheme (details supplied) has been...
    • Disability Services
      614.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of additional WTE senior social workers and senior dietitians that were recruited into CDNTs within...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      617.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there has been an update on details relating to a person’s time in mother and baby home (details...
    • Departmental Funding
      621.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review the decision to refuse transport for three days per week to a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Health Service Executive
      622.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will engage with the estates section of the HSE regarding a proposal (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      623.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early years educators who have completed continuous professional development under quality training...
    • International Protection
      632.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of BOTS recipients and IPA applicants, by Dáil constituency from January 2023 to date, in tabular...
    • Ukraine War
      633.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an accommodation offer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24984/24]
    • Disability Services
      635.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if long-term care can be provided for a person in County Donegal (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Ukraine War
      636.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current accommodation supports and the rates of payment that Ukrainian refugees are entitled to, broken down...
    • Disability Services
      637.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what full-time care facilities are available for a person with intellectual disabilities (details supplied) in...
    • Freedom of Information
      639.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a decision will be made on an FOI request (details supplied); if he is aware that the delays in receiving...
    • International Protection
      640.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the date on which his Department first received an offer from the owners/operators of a hospitality business...
    • Departmental Funding
      641.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what state supports and benefits are paid to foster families who have cared for a special needs person for over...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      642.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of the 7,922 children enrolled in the access inclusion model who are also enrolled in the national...
    • International Protection
      644.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of State-owned buildings that have been built or acquired for the purposes of accommodating...
    • Direct Provision System
      649.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline his plans and provide a timeline for the closure of Direct Provision accommodation by the end...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      650.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how a parent would get an appropriate handwriting assessment for a child with dyspraxia that would be accepted by...
    • Disability Services
      651.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to indicate if residential care can be facilitated as soon as possible in the case of (details supplied), who...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      652.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a decision will be made on an application to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme (details...
    • Disability Services
      653.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will advise on the application process for permanent residential care for a person (details supplied); and...
    • Childcare Services
      654.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when ECCE funding will issue for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      655.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children availing of the universal National Childcare Scheme subsidy; and the number of children...
    • Adoption Services
      657.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether there is any expedited process available to facilitate the adoption of orphaned children in Gaza. [25316/24]
    • Ukraine War
      658.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures that can be taken to provide a transport link/bus stop for the people currently accommodated at Bert...
    • Maternity Leave
      660.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what measures are being put in place to ensure that women who fall ill whilst on maternity leave can avail of...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      661.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will explain the basis for the 180 days' residency requirement in a scheduled institution as a child in...
    • International Protection
      662.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a site (details supplied) has been considered as a location to house International Protection applicants; and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      663.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the increases made to the mobility allowance over the past ten years, in tabular form; to...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      664.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to examine the case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25454/24]
    • Departmental Contracts
      665.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date...
    • International Protection
      666.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 501 of 21 May 2024, the reason no response has issued yet (details...
    • Disability Services
      667.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25526/24]
    • After-School Support Services
      670.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding currently available to afterschool service providers and creches for the provision of services to...
  • Department of Health
    • Health Services Staff
      671.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the HSE recruitment embargo impacting the speech therapy unit in school (details supplied) which will result in children waiting 12 months for...
    • Departmental Funding
      672.To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that the operational funding for the critical and much-needed development (details supplied) for adults who find themselves with complex needs and...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      673.To ask the Minister for Health if, with regard to St. Columcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown, he is aware of reports that the hospital’s MRI machine has broken and has not yet...
    • Health Services
      675.To ask the Minister for Health if, with regard to a non-habitual Irish citizen who has returned to Ireland for health reasons in order to avail of their family’s support, considering...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      676.To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine an issue (details supplied). [24607/24]
    • Medical Cards
      677.To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made in respect of an appeal against a decision to remove a medical card from a person (details supplied), given there was just a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      678.To ask the Minister for Health if a case (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24636/24]
    • Hospital Services
      679.To ask the Minister for Health the procedures used for the allocation of beds in the cancer care centre at University Hospital Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24638/24]
    • General Practitioner Services
      681.To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to increase the availability of the GP in Cappawhite, County Tipperary, from three days a week to five days a week, in light of demand and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      682.To ask the Minister for Health to outline the entitlement to the Covid-19 pandemic recognition payment for the staff of a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      684.To ask the Minister for Health the impact of the HSE recruitment freeze on the National Ambulance Service; when candidates on the recruitment panel can expect further engagement or offers;...
    • Health Services
      686.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board; the timeline for opening the register; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Care Centres
      688.To ask the Minister for Health the total number of primary care centres operating within the counties of Louth and Meath, in tabular form, by location, itemised services, and the areas that...
    • Medicinal Products
      689.To ask the Minister for Health if brincidofovir can be used alongside a bone marrow transplant treatment; how patients can apply for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24656/24]
    • Hospital Services
      690.To ask the Minister for Health the number of first-time spinal appointments that have taken place in CHI over the past three years, broken down by month, in tabular form. [24657/24]
    • Departmental Data
      692.To ask the Minister for Health Minister to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in his Department during the period 2021...
    • Health Services
      693.To ask the Minister for Health the future plans for the health centre at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24685/24]
    • Departmental Data
      694.To ask the Minister for Health the reported rate of elder abuse incidences in each community healthcare organisation, CHO, area; the total national reported incidence rate; and if he will...
    • Legislative Measures
      695.To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer recess; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      696.To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the fund for those suffering from the long-term effects of Covid; if this fund is currently in operation; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Cards
      697.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the medical card section is not accepting notices of assessment for couples, that shows both the taxpayer and spouse’s income as proof of...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      699.To ask the Minister for Health the reason a 68-year-old lady (details supplied) has been on a waiting list for breast surgery for over two years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      700.To ask the Minister for Health the existing policies to support medical staff who have contracted long-Covid and are now unable to work; his plans to introduce such a scheme; and if he will...
    • Childcare Services
      701.To ask the Minister for Health to sanction pay increases to child care employees (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24747/24]
    • Vaccination Programme
      702.To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on his Department's request to HIQA to carry out a health technology assessment examining the cost benefits of an enhanced vaccine...
    • Cancer Services
      703.To ask the Minister for Health if plans exist to make bowel cancer screening available to all persons aged 70 years and over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24751/24]
    • Health Services
      704.To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will be supplied with an insulin pump. [24758/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      707.To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the exorbitant prices being charged for melatonin which has been prescribed for adolescents, as much as €60 per month,...
    • Dental Services
      710.To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure orthodontal surgery is expedited for a patient (details supplied). [24788/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      711.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. [24796/24]
    • Health Services
      712.To ask the Minister for Health the number of children accessing speech and language therapy in community healthcare organisation, CHO 7; the number of children awaiting assessment for...
    • Health Services Staff
      714.To ask the Minister for Health if he will lift the HSE's recruitment embargo, considering the negative impact it is having on the already lengthy waiting lists within the HSE, and...
    • Healthcare Policy
      715.To ask the Minister for Health to outline the medical trials in which a person (details supplied) was involved in the Eastern Health Board between 1981 and 1998; to outline the uses of...
    • Health Services
      716.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 28 February 2024, what proportion of autistic people start on hormone therapy with the National Gender Service....
    • Medical Inquiries
      717.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 28 February 2024, what medical literature underpins the National Gender Service's statement that unsupported autism...
    • Health Services
      718.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 311 of 14 February 2024, if the National Gender Service will commit to collecting statistics on how many referrals are...
    • General Practitioner Services
      719.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 256 of 23 May 2024, if, in the intervening two years, the HSE will be taking any actions to decrease the number of GPs who...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      720.To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive an urology appointment in Cork University Hospital for a medical procedure; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      722.To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department is taking to increase bed capacity at Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin considering the statement made by the CEO of Dublin Midlands...
    • Hospital Staff
      723.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant urologists based at University Hospital Limerick in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [24873/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      728.To ask the Minister for Health the number of authorised officers currently available for assisted admissions within the health service in Waterford city and county; if he considers this an...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      730.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the waiting-list initiative in operation in the Cork primary care child and adolescent psychology services; the date this initiative commenced; how...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      731.To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists, and their grade, recruited to the Cork primary care psychology waiting-list initiative for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; the form of...
    • Nursing Homes
      732.To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to conduct a review in respect of the extra funding that is required for private nursing homes to keep their doors open with many closing as...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      733.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a case (details supplied); and when the person concerned can expect an appointment at Temple Street Children’s Hospital, Dublin....
    • Hospital Staff
      734.To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently engage with the HSE to allow a nurse (details supplied) returning from a career break resume their role in UHL. [24915/24]
    • Health Service Executive
      735.To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify if the HSE owns the land at a location (details supplied); if there are any future plans for the land when the hospital is fully built; if...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      736.To ask the Minister for Health if and when an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24923/24]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      737.To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to regulate for the over-labelling of non-Irish health warnings on vaping products, which is fuelling a grey market in such products; and if he will...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      738.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24930/24]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      740.To ask the Minister for Health the status of an assessment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24944/24]
    • Hospital Services
      741.To ask the Minister for Health the reason services are being removed from MUH if adult beds in CUH may be needed to meet need for these services; and whether consideration has been given to...
    • Health Services Staff
      742.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1 of 2 May 2024, if he can clarify what is meant by “limited recruitment in very specific cases”; if he will...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      743.To ask the Minister for Health when the new 24-bed block for Nenagh Hospital will be built [24953/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      744.To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect to receive a new date for a procedure in Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      745.To ask the Minister for Health the reasons hospitality/retail staff at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda who are employed by a company (details supplied) have been excluded from coverage...
    • Health Services Staff
      746.To ask the Minister for Health if the lack of availability of pathologists to carry out post mortems will be addressed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24991/24]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      748.To ask the Minister for Health whether or not the intake of new patients to a facility (details supplied) has been suspended for the time being; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medicinal Products
      749.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with diabetes who were funded for the Dexcom G6 continuous glucose monitoring CGM sensors by the HSE; the number who were over 18 years of...
    • Hospital Services
      754.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned satellite hemodialysis unit at Ennis General Hospital; the timeline for delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25007/24]
    • Disease Management
      755.To ask the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); the steps he is taking to ensure that patients with chronic auto-immune disorders such as...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      756.To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people attending diabetes clinics in each of the CHI Hospitals Group (CHI Crumlin, CHI Temple Street, CHI Connolly in Blanchardstown and CHI...
    • Health Services
      763.To ask the Minister for Health when he will sanction funding for an increase in optometrists' fees, which currently do not meet the actual cost of providing a modern eye examination, given...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      764.To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive a date for scoliosis surgery considering she has been waiting for over a year; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Healthcare Policy
      765.To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances in which puberty blockers can be currently administered to children; and whether, in the light of the recent publication of an expert report...
    • Health Services Staff
      766.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE posts allocated to cancer services as per his letter of determination to the HSE outlining his funding priorities following Budget 2024; the...
    • Ambulance Service
      767.To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider opening an intake of paramedics into the National Ambulance Service, recruiting from individuals already on panels; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      768.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1282 of 20 March 2024; for an update on the reimbursement of pegvaliase; when a final decision will be made; and if he...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      769.To ask the Minister for Health the reason no response has been received from the HSE in relation to Parliamentary Question Nos 1201, 1202 and 1203 of 9 April 2024 about a child in County...
    • Hospital Services
      770.To ask the Minister for Health the services currently available in Letterkenny University Hospital for adults and children who have diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      771.To ask the Minister for Health the level of fees paid by his Department to optometrists for eye tests for medical card holders; when this fee was established; when it was last reviewed; and...
    • Mental Health Services
      772.To ask the Minister for Health the length of time that a service provider (details supplied) has been providing online mental health supports in Ireland; to detail the services they provide;...
    • Hospital Staff
      778.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE nurses working in the National Rehabilitation Hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if this number will be further...
    • Hospital Facilities
      779.To ask the Minister for Health the refurbishment works that were carried out at the Rotunda Maternity Hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [25088/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      780.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE urology registrars at the Mater Hospital in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [25089/24]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      782.To ask the Minister for Health the facilities that are in place for diabetes patients for the safe disposal of used needles. [25091/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      783.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric ophthalmologist registrars at CHI Temple Street in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [25092/24]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      784.To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for hearing aids will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25111/24]
    • Health Services
      785.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of significant concerns over lack of appropriate consultation and dialogue with doctors and their representative organisations over major changes...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      786.To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment with a gastroenterologist at St. James's Hospital, Dublin for a person (details supplied) and make a comprehensive statement...
    • Hospital Services
      787.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that essential radiology scans for cancer care patients on maintenance treatments, which must happen at three-month intervals for optimum...
    • Mental Health Services
      788.To ask the Minister for Health if Turas, a mental health course delivered by the National Learning Network, can be made available in Athlone to all residents, given that Athlone is split into...
    • National Children's Hospital
      789.To ask the Minister for Health the current projected final cost of the National Children’s Hospital; if he is satisfied that the projected final cost is accurate; if any extension of...
    • Legislative Reviews
      790.To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reviewing the Health Act 1970 with a view to replacing the outdated terminology of mental handicap with more appropriate language. [25136/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      791.To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25140/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      792.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that Ireland continues to have poor outcomes for respiratory illnesses like COPD according to OECD statistics; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medicinal Products
      793.To ask the Minister for Health to explain why lidocaine patches when prescribed by a pain medicine consultant are not reimbursed on the DPS; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      795.To ask the Minister for Health if full payment will continue to be made to a person (details supplied) out of work since 2020 with COVID related health issues [25160/24]
    • Medical Register
      796.To ask the Minister for Health if the frequency and capacity of Dental Council’s registration examination for non-EEA dentists will be increased, in view of the fact that the exam is...
    • Home Help Service
      797.To ask the Minister for Health when additional home help hours will be put in place for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25182/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      801.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 204 of 22 May 2024, what data of clinical activity are recorded by individual psychologists of the CHO 4 primary care...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      802.To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the system in place for people on the drugs payment scheme where they are renting a CPAP machine, where a person has to fill out the required...
    • General Practitioner Services
      803.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the future of the GP surgery in Ardara, County Donegal after the resignation of the surgery’s GP; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Services
      804.To ask the Minister for Health if, in relation to the case of a person (details supplied), he will provide clarity and transparency around the procedures used for the allocation of beds in...
    • Health Services Staff
      806.To ask the Minister for Health the target number of psychologists that need to be employed to ensure full national coverage of psychology in primary care for adults; the current number of...
    • Mental Health Services
      807.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people seen by the psychology in primary care adults’ service in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to date respectively [25225/24]
    • Home Help Service
      809.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who is currently a resident at the rehab unit of St. Ita’s Community Hospital, Newcastle...
    • Public Sector Staff
      810.To ask the Minister for Health regarding the status of the Civil Registration Office for the register of births, deaths, and marriages located at the Roscrea Primary Care Centre; if he is...
    • Health Services Staff
      811.To ask the Minister for Health the target number of psychologists that need to be employed to ensure full national coverage of Psychology in Primary Care for those under 18 years of age, the...
    • Mental Health Services
      812.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people seen by the Psychology in Primary Care children's service in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to date, respectively; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      814.To ask the Minister for Health to report on the status of the waiting list action plan for psychology services for children and young people that has been funded through the HSE's National...
    • Mental Health Services
      815.To ask the Minister for Health for an itemised breakdown of how the 2023 mental health budget allocation was spent; what percentage of the allocation was spent; and if he will make a...
    • Eating Disorders
      816.To ask the Minister for Health for an itemised breakdown of the cost of funding one adult eating disorder team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25247/24]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      817.To ask the Minister for Health if he is looking into setting up a fund for the Covid vaccine injury (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25257/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      818.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25258/24]
    • Gender Recognition
      819.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people currently attending the transgender clinic in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda. [25260/24]
    • Disability Services
      825.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the speech and language service in Dublin South West has been closed; and the action he is taking to address this. [25266/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      826.To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can receive an earlier appointment in Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25269/24]
    • Health Services
      827.To ask the Minister for Health if all referring organisations are made aware of the reimbursement parameters around accessing cataract procedures in Ireland under the Northern Ireland planned...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      829.To ask the Minister for Health the length of the waiting list and how much it currently costs to receive cataract surgery under the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      830.To ask the Minister for Health the number of clients referred to the north Lee, south Lee, west Cork and north Cork primary care child and adolescent psychology services for each of the years...
    • Departmental Inquiries
      831.To ask the Minister for Health the name of the Secretary General who signed off on the construction contract for the National Children’s Hospital. [25281/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      832.To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a person who is due to retire (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25284/24]
    • Home Care Packages
      833.To ask the Minister for Health if an application for a home care package for a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25288/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      834.To ask the Minister for Health if he will allow a derogation to fill a role (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25291/24]
    • Health Service Executive
      835.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 3 December 2021, if he will provide a copy of the Service Level Agreement between the HSE and a company (details...
    • Health Services
      836.To ask the Minister for Health when respite services for the elderly will be returned to a centre (details supplied). [25298/24]
    • General Practitioner Services
      837.To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of new GPs in Kinnegad, Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25309/24]
    • Legislative Measures
      839.To ask the Minister for Health if there is anything in legislation which prohibits patients funding care using a mechanism (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Services
      840.To ask the Minister for Health his plans to speed up the process for the assessment for and issuing of wheelchairs to children in view of the regularity which a child needs to be issued a new...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      842.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the waiting list for shoulder surgery in St. James’s Hospital, Dublin. [25319/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      843.To ask the Minister for Health the reason people seeking mental health treatment in Kildare mental health day hospital are summarily discharged after only four weeks of treatment, with no...
    • Hospital Staff
      844.To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is still no consultant neurologist at Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise, despite one being promised since 2020, causing neurology patients...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      845.To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25333/24]
    • Hospital Services
      846.To ask the Minister for Health if the Naas Hospital injury unit, a recently opened pilot scheme for patients of Kildare and west Wicklow, will continue to operate as a permanent service; and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      847.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a child (details supplied) who, following a referral by University Hospital Limerick to CHI at Temple Street in October 2023...
    • Home Care Packages
      848.To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding drawn down for the complex needs homecare package in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Care Services
      851.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the current situation in Waterford city and county regarding the lack of respite facilities; if he is aware that currently St. Patrick's care...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      852.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. [25365/24]
    • Health Strategies
      853.To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for approval and publication of the HSE’s Digital Health Strategic Implementation Roadmap 2024-2030; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      854.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the HSE’s savings target of €80 million on agency staff through the conversion of this staff to HSE employees, as outlined...
    • International Bodies
      856.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Irish delegate at the World Health Assembly abstained last week on a motion demanding the release of Israeli hostages and condemning the abuse of...
    • Dental Services
      857.To ask the Minister for Health his plans, if any, to clear the backlog of children on the orthodontic waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25380/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      858.To ask the Minister for Health the details of the recent revision by the HSE of the Low Vision Aid Reimbursement Guidelines; the reason a three year time span has been introduced regarding...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      859.To ask the Minister for Health if he will personally and urgently look into a case (details supplied) where a person is awaiting surgery. [25455/24]
    • Health Service Executive
      860.To ask the Minister for Health to examine a case (details supplied) and explain why payments stopped; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25463/24]
    • Departmental Contracts
      862.To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      863.To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the delay in providing an MRI scan to an individual (details supplied) who is suffering from severe pulmonary lung disease and heart...
    • Medical Cards
      864.To ask the Minister for Health to grant extensions to medical card entitlements for children for whom domiciliary care allowance is being paid beyond age 16 to when they complete school, as...
    • Hospital Facilities
      865.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 241 of 1 May 2024, the update on the development of the new elective hospital in (details supplied); the status of the...
    • Primary Care Centres
      866.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 1 May 2024, the status of the proposed primary care centre for Galway city; the expected timeline for the delivery...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      868.To ask the Minister for Health when a place will become available in the National Rehabilitation Hospital for a patient with a severe brain injury (details supplied), who has been waiting for...
    • Care Services
      869.To ask the Minister for Health if respite care will be given to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25506/24]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      870.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an urgent update on the position of a service (details supplied) in County Donegal; what are the current plans for the facility; can he confirm if...
    • Hospital Facilities
      871.To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the National Children’s Hospital; on page four of the 2022 financial statements of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      872.To ask the Minister for Health if elective procedures in a hospital (details supplied) are being cancelled as day surgeries are being used for accident and emergency cases; how many have been...
    • Mental Health Services
      873.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 561 of 21 May 2024, if a case can be referred (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25525/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      874.To ask the Minister for Health the primary care centres within CHO7 that provide baby nursing clinics; and the hours and days of the week each clinic is available, in tabular form. [25532/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      875.To ask the Minister for Health the number of graduate nurses that were offered permanent full-time jobs within a hospital (details supplied) in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024; and of...
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      876.To ask the Minister for Health the number of cyberattacks that have been carried out on the HSE, or organisations contracted to provide services to the HSE that may have access to...
    • Alcohol Sales
      877.To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to amend the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 to prohibit the practice outlined in correspondence (details supplied); if the HSE referred this...
    • Disability Services
      878.To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25565/24]
    • Hospital Services
      879.To ask the Minister for Health the public hospitals that carry out gallbladder surgeries in tabular form. [25577/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      880.To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional WTE mental health nurses recruited by the HSE in CHO3 and CHO5 in the years of 2023 and to-date in 2024 in tabular form. [25578/24]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      881.To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of any contracts granted by the HSE for building and maintenance works on Tipperary University Hospital since January 2021; The...
    • Hospital Staff
      882.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE opticians by grade employed by HSE working in CHO3 in the years of 2023 and to-date in 2024 in tabular form. [25580/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      883.To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25587/24]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      884.To ask the Minister for Health the extent of the discussions that have taken place in regard to the provision of primary care centres in Leixlip and Maynooth, County Kildare; the extent to...
    • Healthcare Policy
      885.To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent each year, and in total, for the last ten years, by the HSE in paying out legal claims or defending legal claims by patients or other...
    • Hospital Services
      886.To ask the Minister for Health why 24 paediatric patients of Cavan and Monaghan hospital are still having to travel to Our lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, after a new pathway of care for...
    • Disability Services
      887.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the situation with the Irish Wheelchair Association services in Cavan which, due to a lack of staff, was reduced to an outreach-only model; the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Costs
      888.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of increasing the student maintenance grant by €1,000 for full-time students at third level; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Data
      893.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills Minister to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in his Department during the...
    • Legislative Measures
      894.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer recess; and if he will...
    • Third Level Reform
      895.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being put in place for those with special educational needs within further and higher education; the resources that have been given...
    • Further and Higher Education
      898.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide clarification and a solution to a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24820/24]
    • Third Level Fees
      899.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the colleges that are covered by the exemption in fees for the study of medicine in Northern Ireland; how a student qualifies; and if he will make...
    • Third Level Education
      900.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when SUSI will be giving detailed information of how the pilot scheme for SUSI grants for students undertaking part-time third level courses will...
    • Third Level Admissions
      901.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places for dental nurses students in Irish universities for each of the past four years; and how many of these are used for...
    • Grant Payments
      902.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is appropriate for SUSI to seek to recoup an overpayment to an individual (details supplied) who was given incorrect...
    • Period Poverty
      903.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of the €250,000 allocated to publicly-funded higher education institutions, that aim to deliver free and sustainable period...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      904.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will take the necessary steps to ensure that those undertaking apprenticeships at this time do not experience lengthy delays in their...
    • Departmental Contracts
      905.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and total value of contracts his Department has had over the past 12 months with a company (details supplied). [25094/24]
    • Departmental Consultations
      906.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has visited Maynooth University since his appointment as Minister; and if so, the purpose of the visit. [25095/24]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      907.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentice plasters, bricklayers and plumbers recorded within the State in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form....
    • Third Level Admissions
      909.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the breakdown of the number of veterinary places available in each university, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      910.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of planners that have graduated from Irish Universities in each of the past 10 years, in tabular form; and if the Minister knows where...
    • Grant Payments
      911.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to review the current SUSI grant system, in particular with regard to assisting mature students, some of whom because of the housing...
    • Third Level Fees
      913.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he proposes to apply the scheme available to students attending university in Northern Ireland, whereby they contribute a rate equivalent to...
    • Irish Language
      914.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions his Department is taking to increase the number of Irish speakers going into the workforce from third-level, in alignment with the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      916.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed...
    • Departmental Appointments
      917.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on appointments (details supplied). [25529/24]
    • Asylum Seekers
      918.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his department has been made aware of any Palestinian students who have been evacuated from Gaza by the Department of Foreign Affairs and wish...
    • Third Level Admissions
      920.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what state supports are provided for Ukrainian students, and how such supports compare to those offered to those fleeing other conflict zones,...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Data
      921.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide details of any anti-racism or unconscious bias training and presentations made available to staff in her Department during...
    • Legislative Measures
      922.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department will be prioritising the progression of any specific pieces of legislation prior to the Dáil summer recess; and...
    • Animal Breeding
      923.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of prosecutions, fines, closure and partial closures resulting from offences under the Dog Breeding Establishment Act 2010...
    • Local Area Plans
      924.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she plans to open the Community Centres Investment Fund in 2024 for a new round of funding; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Communications
      925.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she last met formally with the Charities Regulator; and when they are next scheduled to meet. [25108/24]
    • Rural Schemes
      926.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25159/24]
    • Agriculture Supports
      927.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a compensation fund for farmers will be established (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25287/24]
    • Animal Breeding
      928.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of dog breeding facilities in Mayo; the average size; the number of inspections carried out in each of the years 2019 to...
    • Rural Schemes
      929.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the CLÁR application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25359/24]
    • Departmental Contracts
      930.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied);...
    • Animal Welfare
      931.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the new Stakeholder Group on Dog Control will make recommendations on strengthening dog control policy; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Budgets
      932.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the percentage of the 2023 Budget Allocation for the Community Centres Investment Fund that was spent; if any of the budget that was...

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