Written answers

Monday, 9 September 2024

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Programme for Government
      1.To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of his Department.[34017/24]
    • National Development Plan
      2.To ask the Taoiseach to confirm that the €1 billion shared island fund is contained within existing NDP ceilings out to 2030.[34834/24]
    • Departmental Staff
      3.To ask the Taoiseach the number of political staff employed in his Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special advisers, drivers and other relevant...
    • Ministerial Staff
      4.To ask the Taoiseach to provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by his Department since 2020; the Minister and Minister of State whom each adviser is associated with, and...
    • National Security
      6.To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the development of Ireland’s national security strategy; and to provide a timeline for its publication.[35306/24]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      9.To ask the Taoiseach to report on his most recent meeting with the President of France; and if the subject of managing migration at EU level was discussed.[35337/24]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      10.To ask the Taoiseach when details of the next round of funding for capital projects under the shared island fund will be announced.[35824/24]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      11.To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the Covid-19 evaluation; the timeline for publishing the terms of reference; and the reason for the delay.[35897/24]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Air Navigation Orders
      12.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the appropriate diplomatic actions that have been taken or are planned in the matter of breaches reported by an organisation (details...
    • Military Neutrality
      13.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken and will take to uphold the State’s standing and reputation as militarily neutral, given the reported breaches...
    • Passport Services
      14.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason two passports (details supplied) are still outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33828/24]
    • Human Rights
      15.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the protests by students across Bangladesh, who are demanding justice and accountability; if he will condemn the state...
    • Citizenship Applications
      16.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when an application for Irish citizenship for a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Investigations
      18.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of any investigation into the murder of an Irish citizen (details supplied) in Bolivia in 2009.[33969/24]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      19.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33984/24]
    • Overseas Development Aid
      21.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of the way in-country refugee costs are used in the calculation of official development assistance expenditure; the projected...
    • Programme for Government
      23.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of his Department.[34009/24]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      24.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a response and update will issue in the case of a foreign birth registration (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • EU Agreements
      26.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of Ireland's request to the President of the European Commission regarding a review of the EU-Israel Association agreement; and if...
    • Citizenship Applications
      27.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a person born in Ireland who was not officially registered at birth can make an application for Irish citizenship (details supplied); and...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      28.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current status of the opening of an embassy in Tehran; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34200/24]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      29.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on an application for a foreign birth registration (details supplied), given that all necessary additional...
    • Passport Services
      30.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to expedite a passport application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34248/24]
    • Extradition Arrangements
      31.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Government will make political representations to Greenland against the extradition of a person (details supplied) to Japan; and if he...
    • Military Aircraft
      32.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he gave approval for the flyover over Dublin of three US military Osprey aircraft on 26 August 2022; whether his Department carried out a...
    • Foreign Policy
      34.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what engagement his Department has had with the Kingdom of Morocco in the past 12 months regarding the continued occupation of Western Sahara;...
    • Passport Services
      35.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application (details supplied).[34364/24]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      36.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the foreign births register application for a person (details supplied) and when will a decision be made; and if he will make a...
    • Consular Services
      40.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish Consul General based in Miami has met formally with the mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, to date in 2024.[34479/24]
    • Human Rights
      41.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position in relation to draft articles for a treaty on crimes against humanity submitted by the International Law Commission to the United...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      42.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the average processing time for applications to the foreign birth register; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34530/24]
    • Passport Services
      43.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will consider the introduction of an emergency passport appointment system, similar to what is available in the UK, for...
    • Air Navigation Orders
      44.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he authorised the overflight of Israeli cargo plane (registration 4X-ICA) on its flight from Nevatim air base (VTM) to Fairfield Travis Air...
    • Official Travel
      45.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of flights he has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming office.[34757/24]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      46.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34807/24]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      47.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on the Shared Island Civic Society Fund; to provide the total allocation; the expenditure to date; the amount that is contained...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      49.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on an application for a foreign birth registration (details supplied); the reason for the delay in processing the...
    • Departmental Staff
      50.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of political staff employed in his Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special advisers,...
    • Ministerial Staff
      52.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of the expenses paid to ministerial advisers in his Department in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in...
    • Human Rights
      53.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he will take to protest against the ban on women's voices and bare faces in public imposed by the Taliban government in Afghanistan;...
    • Passport Services
      54.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the up-to-date position in respect of an application for a passport (details supplied); if urgent steps can be taken to bring the matter to a...
    • Departmental Transport
      55.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount his Department spent on purchasing State-owned vehicles for official business from Irish embassies and consulate general offices...
    • Military Aircraft
      56.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a US Navy Hercules KC130T (details supplied) was searched or investigated while at Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Consular Services
      57.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the most recent date he or his officials spoke directly with the Irish Consul General based in Sydney.[35178/24]
    • Foreign Policy
      58.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on relations between Qatar and Ireland.[35202/24]
    • Passport Services
      59.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will investigate a passport matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35234/24]
    • Military Aircraft
      60.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland is compliant with the European Council Common Position 2008/944/CFSP of 8 December 2008 in relation to checks on US military at...
    • Consular Services
      61.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department collates or retains cumulative data from Irish embassies or consulates abroad regarding requests for assistance from Irish...
    • Human Rights
      62.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he proposes to take regarding reports that Irish-trained Libyan militia were found at a secret military camp in South Africa; if...
    • Middle East
      63.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures he has taken in order to raise the conditions of Palestinian prisoners; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35532/24]
    • Passport Services
      64.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason a passport application (details supplied) is still outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35554/24]
    • Middle East
      67.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he is taking on an international and European level to prevent and deter escalation of Israeli violence in the occupied West...
    • Official Engagements
      71.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans to invite a person (details supplied) to Ireland before the end of this year.[35675/24]
    • Ukraine War
      72.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts Ireland is currently engaged in with respect to short-term recovery efforts as part of the reconstruction process in Ukraine,...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Job Creation
      73.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can provide figures for direct and indirect jobs potential if Ireland's targets are met in solar energy, onshore...
    • Departmental Schemes
      74.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current wait time for the SEAI better energy warmer homes scheme first stage and the BER assessment stage, in 2024;...
    • Telecommunications Services
      75.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he aware of a recent upsurge in scam calls and texts to Irish phone numbers; if the regulator has control over this;...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      76.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a matter regarding pensions will be addressed (details supplied); the reason they are being decreased unfairly; and if...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      77.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to review correspondence (details supplied); if the matter will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Recycling Policy
      78.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to list the number of recycling initiatives that have commenced since he became minister, in tabular form.[33979/24]
    • Programme for Government
      79.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of his...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      80.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to review the situation in respect of broadband quality in Drogheda town centre, considering the serious impact it is...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      81.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to alleviate and respond to concerns about battery energy storage systems and the long term safety...
    • Environmental Policy
      85.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what Ireland’s responsibilities are concerning noise pollution, specifically motorway noise pollution, and more...
    • Recycling Policy
      86.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a copy of the findings of the interim review of H1 2023 of the IFFPG renewal of approved body status, as per...
    • Departmental Reports
      88.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a copy of a report (details supplied) commissioned by his Department; if he will detail the provision...
    • Energy Infrastructure
      89.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide details of the procedures in place to ensure the safe decommissioning of battery energy storage systems in...
    • EU Agreements
      90.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether his Department has sought agreement to terminate the memorandum of understanding on gas between the European...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      91.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown of the percentage of renewable electricity that was generated from renewable fuel sources; the percentage...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      103.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if broadband will be installed in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34684/24]
    • Departmental Schemes
      105.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment regarding the medically vulnerable scheme, if the scheme is operational since Q3 2023, the energy suppliers that are...
    • Energy Policy
      106.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the situation of residents who use a coin meter for electricity, given that these residents are not...
    • Official Travel
      108.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of flights he has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      109.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the shared island dimension to the Community Climate Action Programme; to provide the total allocation;...
    • Fisheries Protection
      110.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason there is such a long delay in revoking Bye-Law No. C.S.336, 2024, that closed the Ballisodare, County Sligo...
    • Recycling Policy
      111.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of unclaimed refunds in regard to the deposit return scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      114.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of political staff employed in his Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants,...
    • Ministerial Staff
      116.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the expenses paid to ministerial advisers in his Department in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023...
    • Departmental Schemes
      117.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total estimated spending on retrofitting homes for improved energy use over the past three years; and the total...
    • Building Regulations
      118.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the guidance that is given to the SEAI in relation to building guidelines; if the SEAI has a complaints process to...
    • Electricity Supply Board
      119.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of his engagement with the ESB with regard to the establishment of a compensation fund for local communities...
    • Illegal Dumping
      120.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is a process in place to support, encourage and monitor use by local authorities of CCTV and mobile recording...
    • Litter Pollution
      121.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on two studies used to evaluate national litter levels (details supplied) which have yielded differing...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      123.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 14 May 2024, the status of the community-led projects that were successful...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      127.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the working group established to assist in the review of the emissions reduction target for land use, land...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      129.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the efforts currently in hand to ensure much improved mobile phone coverage in an area (details supplied), given neither...
    • Departmental Schemes
      130.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if assistance will be provided to a family (details supplied) for an SEAI appeal; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Post Office Network
      132.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are proposals to expand the range of services available through the post office network; and if he will make a...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      133.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fully operative fibre broadband will be made available to a residence (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Building Energy Rating
      134.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the pre-and post-BER ratings of all deep retrofits completed in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 to date under all SEAI...
    • Waste Management
      138.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the public funding provided to private operators of public refuse collection, disposal and recycling, broken down by...
    • Departmental Schemes
      142.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which real estate investment trust (REIT)-owned residences have availed of the SEAI’s retrofitting...
  • Department of Defence
    • Ukraine War
      147.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to the recent peace summit in Switzerland if he will report on Ireland's contribution towards demining efforts in Ukraine.[33865/24]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      148.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 23 July 2024, the reason the decision was taken to bring the Minister of State with responsibility...
    • Programme for Government
      149.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of his Department.[34004/24]
    • Naval Service
      150.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the LÉ Aoibhinn will be fully operationally deployed; the number of crew that will be required for each deployment; the seas that it...
    • Defence Forces
      152.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of applications or expressions of interest to join the Reserve Defence Force received in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024,...
    • Official Engagements
      155.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has spoken to the UK Defence Secretary since his appointment.[34489/24]
    • An Garda Síochána
      156.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if any gardaí serving as Irish-UN peacekeepers abroad have been returned home over allegations of sexual misconduct; and, if so, how...
    • Official Travel
      157.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of flights he has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming office.[34752/24]
    • Departmental Staff
      158.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of political staff employed in his Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special advisers, drivers...
    • Ministerial Staff
      159.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by his Department since 2020; the Minister and Minister of State whom each...
    • Defence Forces
      161.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a case (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35024/24]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      163.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update in relation to the replacement of the Government's Learjet; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35319/24]
    • Defence Forces
      164.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update in relation to the current operational status of all military vehicles owned by the Naval Service and Air Corps; and if he will...
    • Naval Service
      170.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the timeframe in which it is intended to procure a new multi-role vessel; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35327/24]
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      173.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the clear need for a separate, dedicated Minister for Defence, without amalgamated roles, titles and portfolios; and if he will make...
    • Defence Forces
      174.To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, in view of the Government’s commitment to increase personnel in the Permanent Defence Force, he will ensure further consideration is...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Air Navigation Orders
      175.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he has taken on the information and documentation provided by an organisation (details supplied) to the Government on the use...
    • Traffic Management
      183.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is an emergency plan for serious incidents occurring on the M50 which entail alternative options other than shutting down the...
    • Legislative Process
      184.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 145 of 9 July 2024, whether the National Vehicle and Driver File Bill 2024 was brought to Cabinet,...
    • Driver Licences
      185.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 9 July 2024, the proposed timeframe for the upcoming driving licence directive, which...
    • Bus Services
      186.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of plug-in hybrid busses purchased for the PSO fleet in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024; the number of fully...
    • Road Safety
      188.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the evidence that the proposed upgrades will adequately address the issues raised by Transport Infrastructure Ireland, namely...
    • Commercial Vehicle Testing
      191.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason transport operators here must get a CVRT test on vehicles every year; if there are plans to move away from the system; and if...
    • Bus Services
      192.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the CUPA system for applying for contracts for bus operators is operating satisfactorily; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Test
      193.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average waiting times for driving tests in each county; and the longest waiting time for driving tests in each county, in tabular...
    • Bus Services
      195.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the bus stops that have been descoped from a construction plan (details supplied); how the decision was reached to...
    • Road Projects
      196.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the new Shannon crossing will be open to traffic.[33965/24]
    • Road Safety
      197.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to consider pedestrianisation of the old bridge between Ballina and Killaloe in the future.[33966/24]
    • Greenways Provision
      198.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the south Kerry greenway will be completed.[33967/24]
    • Taxi Licences
      199.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans the NTA has to bring in a new rural taxi licence.[33977/24]
    • Road Tolls
      200.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to engage directly with the TII to seek the total cost to the Exchequer, if the Government were to buy out the remaining ten years of the...
    • Programme for Government
      201.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of his Department.[34019/24]
    • Road Safety
      202.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to conduct a review and or analysis of spending by his Department for Road Safety Strategy 2021-2024; to provide the key...
    • Driver Test
      203.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action being taken to reduce the waiting times for driving test appointments at a test centre (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Parking Provision
      204.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in light of the rising issues surrounding parking during major events, if there are any specific plans being developed to manage future...
    • Commissioners of Irish Lights
      205.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of planned works at a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34157/24]
    • Bus Services
      206.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Bus Eireann are now charging €2 per journey for people who have an up to date free...
    • Airport Policy
      207.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a cap on the number of passengers that an airport can handle to be eligible for funding as a regional airport; if so, if he...
    • Rail Network
      209.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when implementation of the All-Island Rail Review, which was launched recently, will commence; the process by which projects will be...
    • Public Transport
      210.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the public transport options available for travel between Carlow and Portlaoise; the reason there is not sufficient public transport...
    • Rail Network
      211.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if removing the seat booking fee on Irish Rail for those who hold free travel passes will be considered.[34224/24]
    • Electric Vehicles
      212.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the issue of EV charging spaces being used by non-EV vehicles for parking; if he plans legislative...
    • Rail Network
      213.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the design of the Cabra DART station; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34245/24]
    • National Car Test
      214.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review the current situation that where a privately owned car is declared off the road for a period of time and at the end of this...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      215.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department/Transport Infrastructure Ireland can provide a rationale for the necessity of conducting ground investigations on the...
    • Local Authorities
      217.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with Dublin City Council to identify the MetroLink lead within Dublin City Council (details supplied).[34318/24]
    • Traffic Management
      218.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to respond to concerns raised respect of a person's position in AirNav (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Safety
      219.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of N80 safety works in Carlow (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34330/24]
    • Road Projects
      220.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the repair works that are planned for the N72 Mallow-Killarney Road between Clonbanin Cross and Lislehane, Cullen County Cork; when this...
    • Bus Services
      221.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will instruct his Department to have a bus shelter installed on Greenhills Road at the top of the ‘dip’, stop number...
    • Road Safety
      223.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will fund the N52 Calliaghstown road safety improvement scheme in County Meath; if he is aware of the ongoing speeding and spate of...
    • Official Travel
      224.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of flights he has taken from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since he assumed office.[34586/24]
    • Airport Policy
      225.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the contingency plans in place in the event of Dublin Airport being forced to shut down.[34587/24]
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      227.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total quality of extra CO2 emissions each year caused by journeys being taken by people who live closer to other airports, being...
    • Airport Policy
      228.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost to the State, on an annual basis, of unused capacity, respectively, at Cork, Shannon and Knock airports.[34590/24]
    • Aviation Industry
      229.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Government’s aviation policy was last updated; and if he will include an objective to increase the number of slots that...
    • Driver Licences
      230.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures available to assist a person in Donegal (details supplied) requiring driving lessons; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Tolls
      232.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is any requirement for toll operators to notify users of unpaid tolls before they issue a penalty fine; and if he will make a...
    • Road Safety Authority
      233.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of a particular Road Safety Authority advert (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34736/24]
    • Bus Services
      235.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position with the provision of bus shelters at two locations in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Bus Éireann
      236.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Minister will support a Bus Éireann route change (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34790/24]
    • Electric Vehicles
      237.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on Electric Vehicle charging point scheme for Sports Clubs across the island; to provide the total allocation; the...
    • Rail Network
      238.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the introduction of an hourly rail service between Dublin and Belfast; to provide the total allocation; the expenditure...
    • Greenways Provision
      239.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the completion of the cross-border Carlingford Lough Greenway; to provide the total allocation; the expenditure to date;...
    • Road Projects
      240.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to confirm that the €600 million allocated to the A5 North-West transport corridor is contained within existing NDP ceilings out to...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      241.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has plans to cover DAA employed fire service personnel in terms of the increased retirement age from 60 to 62 for local authority...
    • Active Travel
      243.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if active travel funding for the development of walking and cycling infrastructure will be extended to a rural area (details supplied);...
    • Departmental Staff
      244.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of political staff employed in his Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special advisers,...
    • Ministerial Staff
      245.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by his Department since 2020; the Minister and Minister of State whom each...
    • Road Projects
      247.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when it is expected to deliver the bypass of Killarney (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34961/24]
    • Airport Policy
      248.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the present cap on flights through Dublin Airport threatens to disrupt the use of charters to bring persons to upcoming sporting...
    • Bus Services
      249.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will carry out a review of the Swinford to Sligo 922 bus route following the withdrawal of service during Covid; if the...
    • Rail Network
      250.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the access to the Dart station in Clongriffin is continually breaking down and seriously disrupting passenger travel...
    • Transport Costs
      252.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he would recommend to TFI that Greystones be added to the 90-minute fare structure; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35007/24]
    • Electric Vehicles
      253.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered the possibility of making greater incentives available for the switch to EVs in areas where alternative public...
    • Bus Services
      254.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the present coverage achieved by Local link services and the passenger numbers being served; the potential for further growth in the next...
    • Electric Vehicles
      255.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the targeted coverage of the regional EV charging network now in evolution, distinguishing accessibility on major routes and in...
    • Coast Guard Service
      256.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made to date regarding the development of a permanent Irish Coastguard base in west Connemara, County Galway, particularly...
    • Rail Network
      257.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times in the last five years that the escalator at the entrance of Connolly station has failed to function and the cost of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      269.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost in 2025 to double the number of Revenue protection officers within Iarnród Éireann.[35204/24]
    • National Transport Authority
      270.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full year cost to increase the number of WTE NTA employed taxi enforcement officers to 50.[35205/24]
    • Rail Network
      271.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any application has been received by his Department from Iarnród Éireann for the upgrading of the line and stations on the...
    • Public Transport
      274.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans in place to increase the frequency of public transport from Galway to Kilcolgan; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Bus Services
      276.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 20 June 2023, when the E spine of BusConnects Dublin will commence; and if he will make a...
    • Electric Vehicles
      278.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the grant assistance available to support a local business install an EV charging point at its premises for commercial and public use; and...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      279.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of anti-social behaviour complaints/reports submitted to Irish Rail in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a...
    • Bus Services
      282.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the proposed new S3 Sligo Town Bus Service, to serve Finisklin Business Park - Sligo Bus Train Station – Sligo Town...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      283.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a vehicle registration issue for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35378/24]
    • Public Transport
      285.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Sligo to Tubbercurry route will be part of the Connecting Ireland Programme for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Projects
      286.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a record of all specific grant applications from Kerry County Council to his Department for any works in respect of a bridge in...
    • Rail Network
      288.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a Leap card facility will be available at a train station (details supplied); the future plans, in view of the growing rail traffic...
    • Traffic Management
      289.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland will provide funding on safety grounds to progress a traffic calming measures outside a school in...
    • Bus Services
      290.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority will provide funding for a bus shelter at a location in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he...
    • Active Travel
      291.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total funding allocation made by his Department for active travel projects to Dublin City Council since 2020.[35460/24]
    • Transport Costs
      292.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the cost of travel for students and young adults; and the number of student Leap cards issued since 2019, in tabular...
    • Electric Vehicles
      293.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the EV charging grant programme; and the total number of grants issued in the Dublin 9 and Dublin 11 area in each of the...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      294.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider the introduction of a multi-annual funding model to Transport Infrastructure Ireland for large-scale road...
    • Rail Network
      295.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the names of the consultants asked to review the All-Island Rail Strategy and recommend priorities; the terms of reference of the review;...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      296.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide clarity on the recent decision by Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to instruct local authorities to withhold planned road...
    • Departmental Funding
      297.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give funding to local authorities to deal with the issue of ash dieback on trees located on public roads; and if he will make a...
    • Regional Airports
      298.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he last discussed capital funding for the extension to the runway at Waterford Airport; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      299.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when retired CIÉ workers will receive the payment due to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35591/24]
    • Bus Éireann
      300.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent by Bus Éireann on providing security personnel on its buses and stations nationwide in the years of 2023 and to date...
    • Road Projects
      302.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when approval will be granted for contracts (detailed supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35711/24]
    • Rail Network
      303.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a review is being undertaken of the DART+ Coastal North project; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35760/24]
    • Driver Test
      304.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to introduce plain English in the driver theory test, in line with the Government’s policy to incorporate plain...
    • Transport Costs
      305.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason he has not rolled out the 90-minute Leap card travel window to counties outside of Dublin, such as County Clare, which has...
    • Bus Services
      306.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the approval of funding required for the Ennis town bus to progress; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35809/24]
    • Rail Network
      307.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the Luas Finglas; the status of the preliminary business case; the timeline being worked towards in submitting a railway...
    • Transport Policy
      308.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the meetings his officials have held to resolve the issue of the generators stranded at Dublin Port for the past year, as they are too...
    • Bus Services
      309.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the correct name can be displayed on the double decker bus route going from Tralee to Dingle (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Road Safety
      310.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an additional call for schools to join the Safe Routes to School Programme to ensure safety concerns are addressed for students...
    • Taxi Regulations
      312.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 4 July 2024, the progress to date in rolling out a new local area hackney scheme; if in...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      313.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce legislative changes to exempt actively farmed land from the residential zoned land tax, given the concerns that the annual 3% tax on...
    • Programme for Government
      314.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of his Department.[34008/24]
    • Tax Rebates
      315.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will examine a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) about a specific taxation issue; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      316.To ask the Minister for Finance to consider a change in capital gains tax (details supplied), in the upcoming Budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34086/24]
    • Tax Reliefs
      317.To ask the Minister for Finance if the introduction of tax incentives for philanthropic activities is being considered as outlined in the national philanthropy policy; and if he will make a...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      319.To ask the Minister for Finance the supports available to people with disabilities who purchase a motor car and qualify for a primary medical certificate; if there is support under the...
    • Gambling Sector
      320.To ask the Minister for Finance the reason there was not a single gaming licence issued for the city of Dublin, as of Revenue's register of gaming licences dated 3 July 2024, in spite of the...
    • Tax Code
      321.To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the local property tax scheme; if such a review would allow for public consultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34197/24]
    • Tax Reliefs
      322.To ask the Minister for Finance to review the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) relating to depreciation as a factor in BIK calculations; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Irish Stock Exchange
      325.To ask the Minister for Finance the engagement he had on the recent stock market crisis; and if any engagement is being held with his officials on the use of artificial intelligence in the...
    • Redundancy Payments
      326.To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to review the tax treatment of redundancy payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34324/24]
    • Prize Bonds
      327.To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the audit process for Prize Bond draws.[34356/24]
    • Tax Yield
      328.To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue in 2024, 2025, 2026 and 2027 provided in the tax revenue projections in table 10 of the stability programme update 2024 that was generated through...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      337.To ask the Minister for Finance when the revised criteria to qualify for the primary medical certificate will be published that will be fit for purpose; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      338.To ask the Minister for Finance the number of vehicles seized by the Revenue Commissioners under section 141 of the Finance Act 2001, in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.[34472/24]
    • Departmental Contracts
      339.To ask the Minister for Finance the number of times his Department has used a company (details supplied) to carry out services on behalf of his Department in 2023 and to date in 2024; and the...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      340.To ask the Minister for Finance the current rates of VRT that are applied to cars being imported into the State; if he proposes to review the application of this tax; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Rebates
      341.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will change the 9% VAT refund scheme for coaches and buses to include all coach or bus operators operating a passenger transport service, as the present...
    • Tax Exemptions
      342.To ask the Minister for Finance if there is an exemption from stamp duty available for the Traveller ethnic group who are purchasing a home; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Reliefs
      343.To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has plans to accept fresh start applicants into the help-to-buy scheme; if consideration would be given to same, in view that accepting fresh...
    • Tax Code
      345.To ask the Minister for Finance to give strong consideration to a reduction in hospitality VAT on food and beverages to 9%; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34741/24]
    • Official Travel
      346.To ask the Minister for Finance the number of flights he has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming office.[34756/24]
    • Tax Code
      347.To ask the Minister for Finance to consider abolishing the deemed disposal tax on investment funds and ETFs, which requires individuals to pay capital gains tax on unrealised gains after...
    • Departmental Reviews
      348.To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the review of Ireland’s funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34854/24]
    • Departmental Staff
      349.To ask the Minister for Finance the number of political staff employed in his Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special advisers, drivers and other...
    • Ministerial Staff
      350.To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by his Department since 2020; the Minister and Minister of State whom each adviser is...
    • Tax Reliefs
      352.To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible to fund initiatives that encourage skilled Irish professionals, such as builders, teachers, doctors, and nurses, to return to Ireland from...
    • Tax Code
      354.To ask the Minister for Finance for clarification on a financial matter (details supplied); and if there will be changes to inheritance tax going forward.[35246/24]
    • Gambling Sector
      355.To ask the Minister for Finance the number of gaming machines currently licensed, by county, in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35258/24]
    • Tax Yield
      358.To ask the Minister for Finance the amount taken in by the Government in fuel tax in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, by fuel type, and in monetary value.[35277/24]
    • Tax Reliefs
      359.To ask the Minister for Finance if special needs assistants will be included on the flat-rate expenses list; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35329/24]
    • Departmental Reviews
      360.To ask the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to introduce individual savings accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35374/24]
    • Tax Code
      361.To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to deal with the issues of inheritance tax being faced by unmarried partners (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35375/24]
    • Customs and Excise
      362.To ask the Minister for Finance if an issue with postal charges will be addressed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35397/24]
    • Tax Code
      363.To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to reviewing the deemed disposal tax on exchange traded funds, ETFs, taking into account that the 41% tax on ETF gains every...
    • Departmental Reviews
      364.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the introduction of individual savings accounts in Ireland, similar to those available in the UK, to encourage long-term savings, promote...
    • Tax Code
      365.To ask the Minister for Finance to confirm taxi hailing app providers (details supplied) must pay VAT on the commission they charge drivers.[35429/24]
    • Tax Credits
      366.To ask the Minister for Finance the taxpayer units that had made rent tax credit claims since its inception, by county, as of 1 August 2024, in tabular form.[35438/24]
    • Insurance Coverage
      367.To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the escalating cost of insurance premiums in relation to thatched buildings and the burden this represents for those who are operating...
    • Tax Reliefs
      368.To ask the Minister for Finance the number of help-to-buy claims approved since 1 July 2020, by county, along with the number of applicants associated with these claims; and the...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      370.To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the moving of the ship Mathew MV, which is docked at Marina Point in Cork Harbour, and which will now be considered the responsibility of the...
    • Tax Code
      371.To ask the Minister for Finance to address concerns regarding inheritance tax, particularly its impact on young people; if he will address the issue of costs incurred by individuals...
    • Tax Data
      373.To ask the Minister for Finance given his Department's over-estimate of the cost of tax reductions in recent years (details supplied), whether he has initiated any review or actions to better...
    • Illicit Trade
      374.To ask the Minister for Finance his intended response to cross-Border smuggling, and in particular to the increase in seizures of tobacco products, which constitute a serious loss to the...
    • Tax Reliefs
      375.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend agricultural tax reliefs beyond December 2024, including agri-stock relief, the flat rate refund, and excise duty relief on agricultural...
    • Business Supports
      376.To ask the Minister for Finance the actions being taken to improve access to low-cost finance for farmers, given the reported 17% reduction in SME credit to the agricultural sector since...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      377.To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost to increase the number of dogs in the Revenue Commissioners dog unit to 55.[35663/24]
    • Tax Code
      378.To ask the Minister for Finance if the 23% VAT rate on panic alarm bills can be reduced and or removed in view of the fact that this is an essential service for elderly people; and if he will...
    • Legislative Measures
      379.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the finance Acts by reviewing the standard fund threshold in order that senior Gardaí can apply for more senior roles within An Garda...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      381.To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to abolish the levies on ESB pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35776/24]
    • Tax Code
      383.To ask the Minister for Finance to consider reducing tax on savings for retired persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35835/24]
    • Tax Reliefs
      384.To ask the Minister for Finance if there has been any evaluation of the tax incentives for the purchase of bikes and electric bikes; and if he will consider an extension beyond those with...
    • Tax Exemptions
      385.To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the low-income exemption threshold for persons aged 65 years and over, now that the combined value of the personal credit and the credit for a...
    • Tax Credits
      386.To ask the Minister for Finance the take-up of the microgeneration tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35861/24]
    • Tax Code
      387.To ask the Minister for Finance the basis of calculation of the differential in the standard rate cut-off point between single persons, single parents and couples with one earner; when these...
    • Tax Reliefs
      388.To ask the Minister for Finance the take-up of the mortgage relief scheme in Budget 2024; the average value of the relief paid; and if any provision has been made for renewing it for a...
    • Tax Code
      390.To ask the Minister for Finance the rate of VAT on energy products; if an increase in this rate before the end of 2024 is scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35866/24]
    • Tax Reliefs
      391.To ask the Minister for Finance the present ceiling on the price of a home eligible under the help-to-buy scheme; if he is considering a revision in the ceiling, bearing in mind the trend in...
    • Tax Code
      392.To ask the Minister for Finance the thresholds and rates for capital acquisition tax; if the tax advisory group has evaluated how these thresholds relate to current property values; his views...
    • Tax Yield
      394.To ask the Minister for Finance the income tax, VAT and corporation tax returns for Dublin county for the years 2020 to 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      395.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of money that came into Carlow since 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34862/24]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      396.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projected planning application submission timeframe for the Midleton flood relief scheme.[33849/24]
    • State Properties
      399.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW owns or controls the disused church on the grounds of a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Regional Development
      400.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps to be taken to balance regional spending on the northern and western regions of Ireland for the rest of the period of the NDP,...
    • Programme for Government
      401.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of his Department.[34014/24]
    • Departmental Circulars
      402.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has raised concerns over the proposal to apply his Department's Circular 24/2022 retrospectively to December 2022 for healthcare...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      403.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to clarify if the planned windfall capital investment of €0.75 billion and €1.25 billion, outlined in the Summer Economic...
    • State Properties
      405.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of plans for a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34099/24]
    • National Monuments
      406.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there will be opportunities for fourth year apprentices to work on the restoration of the Magazine Fort in the Phoenix Park; and if he...
    • State Assets
      407.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department is bound by any rules on the disposal of land assets to other State bodies or local authorities; if the Department is...
    • State Properties
      408.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all OPW-owned property which is currently vacant, derelict or disused, the current status, location and last...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      409.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are plans to amend the Arterial Drainage Act 1945 to include areas in County Cavan that are subject to flooding; and if he will...
    • Office of Public Works
      410.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a site has been identified for the Laytown Garda Station; when he expects it to be open; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      412.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of a pension matter referred to him by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Office of Public Works
      413.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW intends to put out a tender for the provision of a mobile coffee light snack dock at Iveagh Gardens by end of this year.[34490/24]
    • Pension Provisions
      416.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are pensions pots that have laid dormant since the foundation of the State.[34545/24]
    • Official Travel
      418.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of flights he has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming office.[34762/24]
    • Heritage Sites
      419.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on renewed visitor experience at the Battle of the Boyne site; to provide the total allocation; the expenditure to...
    • Flood Risk Management
      420.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans for maintenance works if any on the Ballinacurra Creek at Ballykeeffe; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34866/24]
    • Public Services Provision
      421.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Expenditure if he will outline the engagement with Deputies and Senators in the design of the indicators in the public service...
    • Departmental Staff
      422.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of political staff employed in his Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special advisers,...
    • Ministerial Staff
      423.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by his Department since 2020; the Minister and Minister of State whom...
    • State Properties
      426.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the Newcastle West Garda station in relation to the build; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35035/24]
    • Heritage Centres
      427.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of times in the past five years the elevator in Kilmainham Gaol has ceased to function and the cost of call out maintenance...
    • Public Sector Staff
      428.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he would provide test centres for Remote Proctoring in the recruitment process for a public job, given that many applicants do not...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      429.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of pension arrangements (details supplied) in view of the fact that this matter has been under active consideration for...
    • Office of Public Works
      430.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of land being made available for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35106/24]
    • Flood Risk Management
      432.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the establishment of the River Shannon Management Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35335/24]
    • Coastal Erosion
      433.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW will fund works to safeguard, from further costal erosion, a scenic area in County Donegal (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Flood Risk Management
      434.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW will fund works to safeguard against further flooding in County Donegal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • State Assets
      435.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the State owns and-or has an interest in a parcel of land (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35469/24]
    • Parking Provision
      436.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount being paid for rental of car parking spaces for Leinster House (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      437.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide the outlined business case, the initial proposed costings and a final costings report for a new bicycle shelter to facilitate...
    • State Properties
      439.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in respect of the Gate Lodge at the main entrance to St. Enda's Park and the Pearse museum, which was originally constructed as a...
    • Regional Development
      441.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department is aware of the updated National Planning Framework’s forecast that 50% of future population and job growth will...
    • Office of Public Works
      442.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works intends on cleaning a river (details supplied) for which it has responsibility, as this river and its banks...
    • Freedom of Information
      446.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the average waiting time for an appeal lodged with the Information Commissioner; if he intends to provide additional resources to speed...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      447.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he plans on reinstating the supplementary pension for members of Dublin Fire Brigade who are on the fast accrual single public service...
    • Brexit Supports
      448.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the composition of Ireland's Brexit adjustment reserve claim; if it has been submitted to the EU authorities at this point; and if he...
    • State Properties
      450.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of a building (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35910/24]
    • Office of Public Works
      453.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW has identified a site for a Garda station in the Castletroy, Annacotty area of Limerick; and how much longer the process is...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      455.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Government Departments, State bodies and agencies where HEPA filtration has been installed and is operational; to list the same for...
    • Office of Public Works
      457.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the upgrading of Castlepollard Garda station will be expedited, as it is currently unfit for an operational Garda station.[35970/24]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Business Supports
      458.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a response will issue to a submission in respect of a smaller business in advance of Budget 2025 (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Consumer Protection
      459.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the competition issues in the drinks industry in Ireland.[33978/24]
    • Programme for Government
      460.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the implementation of the Programme for Government commitments under the remit of his Department.[34006/24]
    • Business Supports
      461.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the increased cost of business grant will be available to businesses who are tenants, where the local authority rate account is in...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      462.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if eligibility guidelines will be reviewed to give commercially viable social enterprises the same access as private businesses...
    • Business Supports
      463.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position in relation to entitlement to the increased cost of business grant in a circumstance where the business has rates arrears...
    • Redundancy Payments
      464.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware that the €600-per-week cap on statutory redundancy payments has not been reviewed or revised upwards in almost...
    • Export Controls
      465.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of dual-use export licences granted for dual-use goods destined for the State of Israel from 1 January 2024 to date; and if...
    • Employment Rights
      466.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a detailed breakdown of matters discussed during the first three meetings of the technical working group set up to consider...
    • Business Supports
      467.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the increased cost of business scheme, or any other such temporary business support scheme, is provided in the expenditure base in...
    • Consumer Rights
      468.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the protection that exists for consumers of medical services, when they have paid the professional involved and that professional...
    • Business Supports
      469.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses that applied for the increased cost of business grant but were refused because they are paying their rates...
    • Official Travel
      470.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of flights he has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming office.[34754/24]
    • Enterprise Support Services
      471.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the Shared Island Enterprise scheme; to provide the total allocation; the expenditure to date; the amount that is...
    • Departmental Staff
      472.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of political staff employed in his Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special...
    • Ministerial Staff
      473.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by his Department since 2020; the Minister and Minister of State whom...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      475.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will indicate the nature of the projects supported by the regional enterprise funds operated by his Department in each of the...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      477.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has considered how remote working might play a role in achieving the balanced population growth envisaged by the...
    • Business Regulation
      478.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of consideration of the complaint by GLAN against the ESB to the National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for...
    • Enterprise Policy
      479.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No 60 of 11 July 2024, the status of the development of the next Action Plan on Business and Human...
    • Trade Missions
      481.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he met with a person (details supplied) during his recent visit to the US.[35199/24]
    • Trade Data
      482.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the value of military export licences, by country, for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Work Permits
      483.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions he is taking to retain both skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers to reduce the rate of emigration; the rationale...
    • Brexit Supports
      484.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is open to a participating lending institution under the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Covid-19 loan scheme to extend...
    • Business Supports
      485.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in each local authority area that have now been approved for the increased cost of business grant; the total...
    • Employment Rights
      486.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he expects to receive the new security workers ERO; when he expects to sign the order; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Consumer Prices
      487.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the recent complaints regarding a company's use (details supplied) of 'in-demand' or 'dynamic' pricing for concert...
    • Job Creation
      488.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the proportion of new jobs in Enterprise Ireland-supported firms from Q1 2021 to Q2 2024 that occurred in each of the five cities and...
    • Enterprise Policy
      489.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has identified any priority sectors when developing the National Clustering Programme due to be published in Q3 2024; the...
    • Job Creation
      491.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the updated National Planning Framework’s projection that 50% of future job growth will occur outside the...
    • Consumer Prices
      492.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are regulations in Ireland governing the use of dynamic pricing of tickets; and if he has sought advice from the Competition...
    • Trade Missions
      493.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are plans for a trade mission to Australia before the end of this year.[35680/24]
    • Enterprise Support Services
      494.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps his Department is taking to ensure that key social enterprises in Ireland have equal access to enterprise support, such as...
    • Business Supports
      495.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to review a business type (details supplied); and if he will outline any grants which are available to them.[35851/24]
    • National Minimum Wage
      496.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the various levels of minimum wage which have been recommended to the Government to take effect from 1 January 2025; whether the...
    • Employment Rights
      497.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of sick days which the employer-funded sick pay scheme will cover during 2025; and the date on which any change will take...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Equipment
      498.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans to include the purchase of devices (details supplied) under the schoolbook scheme for junior cycle in post primary schools,...
    • Education Policy
      500.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if student cards will be issued to primary and secondary pupils (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[33860/24]
    • Education Costs
      501.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of the remote area boarding grant for students from offshore islands that have to board on the mainland for their secondary education...
    • School Transport
      502.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish the total annual revenue received by Bus Éireann for school transport; the amounts paid by her to Bus Éireann and by...
    • School Accommodation
      503.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for a reconfiguration; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[33873/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      504.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that her Department has failed to make a decision on the opening of a multi-disability class at a school (details supplied); and if she...
    • School Admissions
      505.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all steps will be taken to secure a secondary school place for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Enrolments
      506.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in Dublin west without a secondary school place for September 2024, who have been in contact with her Department or the...
    • School Transport
      507.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene in the urgent case of an autistic teenager seeking to access transport to their place of education (details supplied); and...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      509.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the teaching council plan to update their further education requirements to include ASD specific disciplines; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Transport
      510.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action being taken to ensure that pupils attending a school (details supplied), and who are eligible for school transport, are provided with...
    • School Enrolments
      513.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration given to school capacities and locations when considering extra places for new IPA arrivals.[33972/24]
    • School Transport
      514.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of school transport applications received for schools (details supplied) per area in County Donegal, for a particular route in...
    • Programme for Government
      515.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of her Department.[34005/24]
    • School Enrolments
      516.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to review common application processes for secondary schools in areas where there is oversubscription, like Dublin 15, and progress...
    • School Accommodation
      517.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when approval will be sanctioned for a school (details supplied) to proceed with the construction of two ASD Units; and if she will make a...
    • Budget 2025
      518.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on budgetary asks from an organisation (details supplied) ahead of Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34040/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      519.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a capital project at a national school in Cork city (details supplied); the next steps in the process; the estimated timeline for...
    • School Accommodation
      520.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34085/24]
    • School Transport
      521.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a bus service can be provided to transport students from Ardfert, County Kerry to a post-primary school (details supplied) as post-primary...
    • School Accommodation
      523.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a provision of special education classes in a planned extension for a school (details supplied); if in the meantime prefab...
    • Special Educational Needs
      524.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the NCSE has engaged with a school (details supplied) with a view to providing special classes, given that there are no second level special...
    • School Transport
      525.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review a case (details supplied); if she will obtain an update from Bus Éireann on this pick up point and emphasise the difficulties...
    • Legislative Process
      526.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34191/24]
    • School Enrolments
      527.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is public policy to provide enough non-denominational primary school places in school planning areas; the obligations of schools to enrol...
    • Physical Education
      528.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a list of all second-level education institutions aided by her Department that provided physical education as a leaving certificate subject,...
    • School Accommodation
      530.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of six additional classrooms for a school (details supplied); and if the second ASD unit will be sanctioned as...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      531.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to respond to correspondence from a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34246/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      532.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that have had access to the Irish sign language specialist classroom support scheme since the introduction of the in-school...
    • School Funding
      534.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the calculation capitation funding for small schools will be reviewed, given that it does not address inequality as schools without students...
    • School Facilities
      535.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to investigate the lack of facilities and resources at a school (details supplied) where a wonderful staff is doing their absolute best, however...
    • School Patronage
      536.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to identify all second-level education institutions aided by her Department, which have been newly established since 2011 and whose patronage was...
    • Departmental Circulars
      537.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will the provide an update on the issuance of a circular regarding the permission for permanent job-sharing teachers to undertake...
    • School Transport
      538.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions for school transport that will be afforded to students (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34359/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      540.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an application for assistive technology was refused for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      541.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of school transport applications received through the school transport system for County Wexford for the 2024-2025 academic year;...
    • School Accommodation
      544.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 395 of 15 September 2021, to provide an update on the longstanding application for a sports hall by a school...
    • School Admissions
      545.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that a number of families are unable to secure school places for their children at both primary and post-primary level in...
    • School Transport
      546.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport will be provided to a pupil with additional needs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34415/24]
    • School Curriculum
      549.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to a proposal (details supplied) on education around gambling addiction; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      550.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a case regarding school bus ticket allocations (details supplied); if an alternative bus can be provided in this case; and if she...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      551.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the staff included when calculating pupil-teacher ratios.[34447/24]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      552.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of psychologists employed by NEPS in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and to date in 2024; the number of children to access a NEPS psychologist...
    • Special Educational Needs
      553.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that has been provided for the summer programme each year since its inception, in tabular form.[34452/24]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      555.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allocate DEIS status to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34462/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      556.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of WTE SNAs that will be allocated to a school (details supplied), in the coming academic year; if she will consider increasing the SNA...
    • Departmental Data
      557.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 846 of 23 July 2024 and 424 of 9 April 2024, all second level education institutions aided by her...
    • School Accommodation
      558.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an additional accommodation scheme application lodged by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      559.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school transport for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34470/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      561.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 314 of 30 April 2024, the current status regarding the proposed permanent extension at a school (details...
    • Special Educational Needs
      562.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34522/24]
    • School Transport
      563.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review a school transport issue (details supplied); if she recognises the negative impact this could potentially have on enrolment at this...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      566.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an estimated date of when the citizens’ assembly on the future of education will get under way; and if she will make a statement...
    • Schools Building Projects
      567.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a building works application submitted by a school (details supplied).[34596/24]
    • School Accommodation
      568.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a roof replacement application under the additional school accommodation scheme for a school (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      570.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 52 of 17 April 2024, if the Teaching Council has considered whether it can make any further amendment to the...
    • School Funding
      571.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 455 of 9 April 2024, to provide an update on any further progress on the matter; if direct contact has been...
    • Schools Building Projects
      572.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school build (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34663/24]
    • School Transport
      573.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a Bus Éireann school transport case (details supplied), which was submitted through the Bus Éireann Oireachtas help desk, has...
    • Special Educational Needs
      580.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a query (details supplied), which was submitted through her Department and then transferred to Ms. Hildegarde Naughton TD, Minister of...
    • School Transport
      581.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the Proposed changes to school transport scheme, what date will the removal of the ‘nearest school’ requirement if there...
    • School Facilities
      585.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to encourage schools to allow crèches to operate on their grounds where space is available; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport
      586.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a pupil (details supplied) who is eligible for school transport will be issued with a ticket for the school transport service, in view that...
    • School Accommodation
      589.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34744/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      590.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funds will be released this year to schools for summer works; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34749/24]
    • Official Travel
      591.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of flights she has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming office.[34753/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      592.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new ASD classes sanctioned at both primary and secondary level in Dublin 9 and Dublin 11, as of August 2024, compared to 2019, in...
    • School Funding
      594.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital allocation made to a school (details supplied) between 2020-2024, in tabular form.[34778/24]
    • School Transport
      598.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport for a child (details supplied) will be approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34785/24]
    • School Accommodation
      599.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide assistance to a school (details supplied), regarding the ongoing issue with this school’s accommodation needs for their...
    • School Transport
      600.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the selection process for school bus tickets; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34793/24]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      604.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the pilot cooperation programme on educational attainment; to provide the total allocation; the expenditure to date; the amount...
    • School Staff
      605.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, on the basis that many school secretaries have migrated to a scheme whereby their salaries are paid directly to them by the Department of...
    • School Transport
      606.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made regarding a school transport application for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Accommodation
      607.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 541 of 9 April 2024, the status of an application to build an extension to a school (details supplied) for...
    • School Transport
      608.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school bus ticket application by a student (details supplied) will be reviewed; if she will authorise and arrange for Bus Éireann to...
    • School Funding
      610.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Schools Photovoltaic Programme will be opened to schools which were not eligible to apply in the first phase; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      611.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34886/24]
    • School Transport
      612.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a pick-up point for a student in County Mayo (details supplied) can be amended due to the excessive distance from the student's home and the...
    • Departmental Staff
      614.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of political staff employed in her Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special advisers, drivers...
    • Ministerial Staff
      615.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by her Department since 2020; the Minister and Minister of State whom each advisor...
    • School Funding
      617.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will seek information from within her Department on possible funding streams for an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      618.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans to increase the National Educational Psychological Service allocation to schools; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      619.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans to increase autism classes in City West; if there are plans for an additional special school in City West; and if she will...
    • School Transport
      620.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review a school bus ticket application (details supplied); if she will review correspondence which outlines the issues with the authorised...
    • Special Educational Needs
      621.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for not rolling out in-school therapy supports in all special schools and instead running a pilot scheme given therapy supports were...
    • School Enrolments
      622.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if work on revisions will be necessary in the present school planning process operated by her Department in light of the new National Planning...
    • School Funding
      623.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of all second-level education institutions aided by her Department, that participated in Basketball Ireland’s...
    • School Transport
      626.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child (details supplied) can get a school ticket allocated as soon as possible, due to the family’s relocation she had to transfer to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      627.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason work on a school (details supplied), has not yet commenced despite a promised date of week beginning 19 August 2024; will she...
    • School Accommodation
      628.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will sanction a building extension project for the accommodation of ASD classes in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      629.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can get a school ticket allocated as soon as possible as oversubscription has shut them out of the system; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects
      630.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of plans for additional classroom building works at a school (details supplied); the schedule being followed; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      631.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children (details supplied) will be allocated a school bus ticket as soon as possible given a pressing family illness and oversubscription have...
    • Special Educational Needs
      638.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special schools where funding is being provided to cover the cost of private therapists in the absence of HSE therapists being...
    • School Curriculum
      640.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken by her Department to vindicate the right of a pupil (details supplied) not to be in attendance passively or actively at a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      641.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an application for assistive technology will be determined, bearing in mind that the application was made 12 months ago (details supplied);...
    • School Transport
      642.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport will be provided to a school (details supplied) for a pupil; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35256/24]
    • School Admissions
      643.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to the father of a child (details supplied) who has yet to secure a school place in their area; and if she will make a...
    • School Transport
      644.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure to be followed to ensure that a child (details supplied) receives school transport; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      645.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 366 of 30 March 2024 and 167 of 18 June 2024, to examine a case whereby a child (details supplied) still...
    • School Staff
      646.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the shortage of primary teachers, if initiatives have been considered to make it easier to attract suitable people from other...
    • School Transport
      649.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport can be provided to a pupil in County Mayo (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35412/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      650.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) that has planning permission and is in urgent need of replacement, will be allowed to go to tender for a new...
    • School Transport
      651.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will sanction an extended school transport service in west County Sligo to facilitate twenty-four children attending their local secondary...
    • Defective Building Materials
      652.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials from her Department will respond directly to a school (details supplied) which submitted an engineer’s report to her...
    • Schools Building Projects
      653.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a school (details supplied); if retention planning permission is required on the new school building project in light of the time...
    • Home Schooling
      655.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way an individual who has no choice but to avail of the home tuition grant scheme due to a lack of suitable school places in their area can...
    • Schools Building Projects
      656.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new-build special schools planned to be built in the Dublin mid-west area; their current stages of development; and if she will make...
    • School Textbooks
      664.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the text provided (details supplied) was approved by her Department; if she will ensure that textbooks used in Irish schools do not negatively...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      665.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average class size of primary schools, by county and local authority area, in the 2023-2024 school year, in tabular form; and if she will make...
    • School Textbooks
      666.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who will benefit from the free schoolbooks scheme at second level under the junior cycle scheme for the 2024 2025 academic...
    • Schools Building Projects
      668.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will reconsider an emergency works application, which was rejected, for a west Cork national school (details supplied).[35524/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      669.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that was allocated in 2019 and 2020 for in-school therapy supports for children in special schools; and the number of therapists...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      670.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he will take to address the issues highlighted in a 2025 pre-Budget submission by an organisation (details supplied); and if she will...
    • School Transport
      671.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review a school bus ticket application (details supplied); if she will review the authorised collection and pick-up times for this route as...
    • Schools Building Projects
      674.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on her Department’s engagement with Meath County Council in regard to the planning application for a permanent school...
    • School Transport
      675.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a school transport issue (details supplied) is resolved urgently.[35570/24]
    • School Textbooks
      677.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review a book on the curriculum immediately (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35612/24]
    • School Transport
      678.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide clarity or guidance to Bus Éireann regarding a request (details supplied) to allow primary and secondary school students travel on...
    • School Staff
      681.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are emergency measures available to a school (details supplied) which has an increase of 39 new pupils; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Transport
      682.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has requested information from Bus Éireann pertaining the provision of school transport to a primary school (details...
    • Special Educational Needs
      685.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to conduct an urgent review of the school leaver process to ensure a smooth transition from children’s services to adult services for...
    • Teacher Training
      686.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a teacher shortage (details supplied); the actions she will take to work with school management to address...
    • Special Educational Needs
      687.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a student (details supplied) is assessed and a suitable school placement is found urgently.[35752/24]
    • School Transport
      688.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to address the shortfall in school transport places in Galway city and county; the specific steps being taken to ensure that...
    • Special Educational Needs
      690.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that the SENO for Cork north Lee is not currently in post and that the post has not been filled temporarily.[35767/24]
    • School Transport
      691.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on students being asked to take public transport options that will leave them arriving at school before the buildings are opened...
    • Special Educational Needs
      693.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants and vacancies for each county; how many vacances there are currently in County Clare, in tabular form; and...
    • School Transport
      695.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of transporting children to and from schools by way of taxi, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Patronage
      697.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the course of action open to parents who are unable to secure a place for their child in a multi-denominational school, in respect of...
    • School Transport
      698.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school transport being provided to a pupil (details supplied) could be reverted to the pick-up point used in the past; and if she will make...
    • School Textbooks
      701.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision being made to provide free schoolbooks at primary and secondary schools during the coming academic year; the arrangements and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      702.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD places funded for the academic years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35909/24]
    • School Transport
      703.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will engage with a school (details supplied) over the bus operator refusing to collect certain children despite signing a...
    • Schools Building Projects
      704.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request that her officials reassess and increase the grant awarded to a school (details supplied) as building costs have increased and...
    • School Transport
      708.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if issues with a school bus route in Westmeath (details supplied) will be addressed.[35946/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      709.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position regarding the provision of a special school in County Monaghan, as the need for such school provision has been clearly...
    • School Transport
      711.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the proposal to review the mandatory retirement age of 70 years for bus drivers employed by or contracted to Bus Éireann for the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      712.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school projects (details supplied).[35968/24]
    • School Transport
      713.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the alternatives supports available to eligible students for school transport when the Department cannot source a bus to provide said...
    • School Patronage
      716.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has issued any guidance to schools in respect of parents entitlement under the Constitution, to withdraw their children from religious...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Media Sector
      717.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a fund can be created to support local radio stations (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[33867/24]
    • Broadcasting Sector
      718.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has received a proposal from RTÉ for the removal of its plus one channels and its digital radio stations, as outlined...
    • Programme for Government
      719.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of her Department.[34018/24]
    • Sports Funding
      720.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34089/24]
    • Commemorative Events
      721.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the National Famine Commemoration Plaque, which should have been erected in the grounds of the Customs House (famine...
    • Sports Funding
      725.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the Sports Capital Programme awards will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34433/24]
    • Sports Facilities
      726.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if construction of a new national velodrome and badminton centre will commence before the end of 2024 and the estimated budget...
    • Sports Organisations
      727.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding provided by Sport Ireland to GAA in 2023 and to-date in 2024; if arising from the funding provided, did Sport...
    • Sports Funding
      728.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to provide funding to increase training facilities in participation in canoe slalom.[34508/24]
    • Sports Organisations
      729.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she plans to introduce a scheme to help sports clubs deal with the issue of ash dieback on their grounds; and if she will make a...
    • Film Industry
      730.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason for the delayed in appointing a replacement chairperson of Screen Ireland (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Culture Policy
      731.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures in place, if any, to support the establishment of a national diaspora centre in an area of cultural significance...
    • Official Travel
      732.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of flights she has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming office.[34766/24]
    • Sports Facilities
      733.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on Casement Park redevelopment contribution; to provide the total allocation; the expenditure to date; the...
    • Culture Policy
      734.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on shared island dimension to Creative Ireland and cultural heritage projects; to provide the total...
    • Tourism Policy
      735.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on the tourism brand collaboration project; to provide the total allocation; the expenditure to date; the...
    • Arts Policy
      736.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on all-island arts capital investment projects; to provide the total allocation; the expenditure to date; the amount...
    • Departmental Policies
      737.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department is providing any supports to Palestinian artists or cultural institutions in light of the severe restrictions on...
    • Oireachtas Committees
      738.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the actions she will take to implement the recommendations of the report titled 'The Development of Local...
    • Departmental Staff
      739.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of political staff employed in her Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special...
    • Ministerial Staff
      740.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by her Department since 2020; the Minister and Minister of State...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      742.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No 959 of 23 July 2024, the date on which the confidentiality agreement around the sale of...
    • Pleanáil Teanga
      744.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte 954 den 23ú Iúil 2024, cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ar an obair...
    • Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla
      745.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht stádas na tuarascála ón Choiste Comhairleach um Sheirbhísí Gaeilge, bunaithe faoin Acht na dTeangacha...
    • Sports Facilities
      746.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for the development of a 50m swimming pool in Loughrea, east Galway; if a suitable site has been identified where such a...
    • Culture Ireland
      747.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated cost in 2025 if the budget for Culture Ireland increased by 20%.[35173/24]
    • National Cultural Institutions
      748.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the charges that Irish Museum of Modern Art charge for allowing the Royal Hospital Kilmainham to be used as a concert event; the...
    • Tourism Policy
      749.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps taken by Tourism Ireland to promote tourism from the UK market during the winter period for the Dublin region; and the...
    • Sports Facilities
      750.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, following the opening of several new running tracks in south Dublin over the past number of years, at Kilbogget Park,...
    • Sports Funding
      751.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of an application by a club (details supplied) for the sports capital programme; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Tourism Funding
      752.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide a progress report on each of the 22 locations which were allocated €19million in funding from the Department and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      753.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to confirm the names of the applicants from Louth who received grant aid under the 2023 night time economy noise mitigation scheme;...
    • Sports Funding
      754.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for a date for the allocation of the grants under the Sports Capital Programme; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Sports Facilities
      757.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total allocation by her Department to the new all-weather pitch and equipment in Kildonan Park, Finglas, under the sports...
    • Greenways Provision
      758.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the Royal Canal greenway project; and the support provided by her Department for this project.[35455/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      759.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on any funding or projects undertaken by her Department in relation to the Tolka river.[35456/24]
    • Sports Funding
      760.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the sports capital programme allocations are likely to be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35503/24]
    • Tourism Industry
      761.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of WTE sales and marketing executives by gender that are employed by Fáilte Ireland in the years of 2022, 2023 and...
    • Departmental Meetings
      762.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she or her officials last directly met a person (details supplied).[35665/24]
    • Television Licence Fee
      763.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the new arrangements which will apply for the setting of the charge for a TV licence; the range of equipment to which it shall...
    • Sports Funding
      764.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on a sports capital application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35963/24]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Environmental Policy
      765.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department has taken to address the bloom of bluegreen algae in Lough Neagh as 400km2 of the lake’s...
    • Housing Policy
      766.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the growth in population and in the housing stock from 2016 to 2022 across the regional categories identified in the...
    • Budget 2025
      767.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, as part of Budget 2025, he will consider increasing the rates of the mortgage allowance scheme which supports local...
    • Housing Schemes
      768.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the maximum grant for housing aid for older persons is less than it is in SI 670/2007, where the grant specified is...
    • Defective Building Materials
      769.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the enhanced defective concrete block scheme covers the cost if a property is damaged during the demolition of a...
    • Departmental Bodies
      771.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the backlog of cases with the land registry; the average wait time for case decisions; if he would consider an...
    • Housing Provision
      772.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a development in Carlow (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33863/24]
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      774.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the convening of the nature advisory committee, that is, the NPWS stakeholder forum, by the NPWS; who...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      775.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to make any changes to the Open Seasons Order this year.[33880/24]
    • Departmental Schemes
      776.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider an update to the first home scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33891/24]
    • Departmental Data
      777.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will instruct all local authorities to confirm the number that have applied under the fresh start principal; and the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      778.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 11 July 2024, if he will revisit his response and provide direct clarification...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      779.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total cost to the State of legal representation in the case of Heneghan v the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local...
    • Departmental Schemes
      780.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on when payments will be made to owner management companies via the Housing Agency under the...
    • Local Authorities
      781.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Departmental funding for local authority staff, including housing staff, remains with the local authority where there are...
    • Programme for Government
      782.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of his Department.[34012/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      783.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list all housing agencies, AHBs and charities that currently receive public funding.[34028/24]
    • Defective Building Materials
      784.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the support available to homeowners affected by pyrite and are availing of the enhanced defective concrete blocks scheme, who...
    • Departmental Funding
      785.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure in 2023 on social and affordable housing, funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and...
    • Departmental Data
      786.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of council-owned properties retrofitted in terms of insulation, windows, heating systems and so on, in counties...
    • Housing Provision
      787.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of requests from local authorities for funding for acquisitions and for voids that have been refused or put on hold...
    • Planning Issues
      788.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1038 of 23 July 2024, to what extent, if any, MARA has a role in reviewing offshore wind...
    • Housing Policy
      789.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Cork County Council have no policy for the housing of people who have been...
    • Heritage Sites
      790.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to access issues and remediation works needed at a location (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Departmental Programmes
      791.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next funding for the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defective Building Materials
      792.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage of defective block and deleterious material in a house that is allowed for a house to be considered for the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      793.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any imminent or recently issued revised guidelines for local authorities and AHBs with respect to the social and...
    • Departmental Programmes
      794.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the qualifying criteria for well-water grants administered through local authorities; if an...
    • Waterways Ireland
      795.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in view of the stated objectives of the Waterways Ireland Ten Year Plan 2024, and overall government policy regarding greener...
    • Departmental Bodies
      796.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of increasing the number of full-time equivalent staff at the National Building Control Office to 20,...
    • Wildlife Protection
      797.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a manufacturing matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34252/24]
    • Rental Sector
      798.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps open to a landlord or tenant if they are not satisfied with the manner in which the RTB has handled an issue and they...
    • Departmental Funding
      799.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is any grants/assistance available to a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34337/24]
    • Departmental Bodies
      800.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update through the Local Government Management Agency and the National Town Centre First office in respect of the...
    • Departmental Data
      801.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 303 of 28 May 2024, the position regarding the review of the suite engineering...
    • Housing Policy
      802.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Housing for All targets will be reviewed and updated, given the significant migration in recent years; if funding will be...
    • National Monuments
      803.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made on the National Monuments Service review of the Brú na Bóinne Research Framework...
    • Commercial Rates
      804.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether rates must be paid on a portacabin, used for storage by a business, but placed on personal land.[34426/24]
    • Fire Stations
      805.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for the delivery of a fire station in Clonburris.[34440/24]
    • Departmental Contracts
      807.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the names of external HR specialists firms his Department has used in 2023 and to-date in 2024 in tabular form.[34480/24]
    • Building Energy Rating
      808.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the process through which BER assessments are carried out is regulated; the process when a BER assessment is found...
    • Housing Schemes
      809.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost-rental tenant-in-situ scheme requests received by each respective local authority; the number successfully...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      810.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm the SEA of revised WEDGs has adequately assessed the potential impact on wind turbine noise on human health; and if...
    • Housing Schemes
      813.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications made to the local authority home loan scheme in respect of applicants in Galway city since January...
    • Nitrates Usage
      820.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 668 of 20 March 2024, for an update on the 2023 Interim Review of the State’s...
    • Planning Issues
      821.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the report (details supplied) into allegations of malpractice at An Bord Pleanála; the expected timeline for...
    • Housing Policy
      822.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997 was intended to disallow a person on a probation bond from access to the...
    • Housing Schemes
      823.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a detailed response outlining the schedule of meetings and proposed work of the Housing and Justice...
    • Official Travel
      824.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of flights he has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming office.[34760/24]
    • Parking Provision
      825.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on revised planning guidelines, to specifically outline the number of parking spaces per household in city...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      826.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on Construction of the Narrow Water Bridge; to provide the total allocation; the expenditure to date; the amount...
    • Water Services
      831.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a 25 house minimum has been put on rural group water schemes, if this decision will be reversed (details supplied);...
    • Rental Sector
      832.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to legislate to ensure that so-called co-living tenancies come under rent pressure zone laws; his views on the need...
    • Vacant Properties
      834.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has permitted the sale or intends to permit the sale or approved payment to occupiers to vacate of properties in Somerton...
    • Departmental Staff
      836.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of political staff employed in his Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special...
    • Ministerial Staff
      838.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the expenses paid to ministerial advisers in his Department in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to...
    • Housing Provision
      839.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the updated National Planning Framework envisages the future split in house building across the categories of: rural...
    • National Development Plan
      840.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how he envisages that the investment plans developed in the new ten-year county development plans will interact with the...
    • House Prices
      841.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken work to establish how the price of a second-hand residence compares with the price of a new...
    • Vacant Properties
      842.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant or void local authority houses in each local authority at the beginning of 2024; the number of these that...
    • Animal Welfare
      843.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider a phase out of elephants at Dublin Zoo, given that there is sufficient evidence (details supplied) that...
    • Housing Schemes
      845.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received under the domestic lead remediation grant scheme in the years of 2023 and to-date in 2024...
    • Land Issues
      846.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the total quantum of land that would fall under the Residential Zoned Land Tax, broken down by local...
    • Rental Sector
      847.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that when a HAP tenant who has been served notice-to-quit, stops paying their share of the rent and this...
    • Housing Provision
      848.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the number of appeals upheld to rezone land; previously zoned for housing, falling under the scope of...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      849.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when funding will be allocated from the capital budget to undertake works (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Invasive Species Policy
      850.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the use of cherry laurel in Ireland; if it should be recognised as an invasive species; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Licences
      853.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a hunting renewal licence application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Provision
      854.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reassess the inclusion of the working family payment in the income assessment for qualification for local...
    • Electoral Process
      855.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the research in relation to lowering the voting age to 16 years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Fire Safety
      857.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to examine an issue surrounding fire safety in a development (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rental Sector
      858.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how co-living is defined in legislation in terms of the minimum length of stay below which it is no longer a co-living tenancy...
    • Housing Schemes
      860.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action being taken to ensure single applicants to the affordable housing scheme get equal opportunities and consideration...
    • House Prices
      861.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has carried out an estimate of the number of homes in the pipeline for affordable purchase in Dublin; if so,...
    • Housing Provision
      862.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of units currently under design and construction in Dublin 9 and Dublin 11 under Housing for All.[35439/24]
    • Rental Sector
      863.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP tenancies in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.[35440/24]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      864.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total funding allocated by his Department to the conservation project at a location (details supplied).[35442/24]
    • Local Authorities
      865.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way his Department is supporting local authorities to purchase and renovate closed shops and other commercial premises in...
    • Vacant Properties
      866.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans, if any, to amend the croí cónaithe vacant property refurbishment grant; if he has considered the...
    • Work Permits
      868.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if people in Ireland on work permits are included in the homeless figures supplied by his office; and if only those entitled to...
    • Rental Sector
      870.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if legislation will be amended in respect to the RTB whereby if the landlord has a letting agent, that agent is not subject to...
    • Housing Schemes
      872.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding is available to local authorities to construct homes suitable for elderly persons who are living in rural areas in...
    • Rental Sector
      873.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason landlords are obliged to provide the Residential Tenancies Board with a copy of a termination of tenancy notice, if...
    • Legislative Measures
      874.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will move immediately to strengthen the provisions of the Planning and Development Bill 2023 on provision of rights of...
    • Solar Energy Guidelines
      875.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 630 of 25 July 2023, if he has reflected on the possible need to develop specific...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      876.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to develop agricultural land classifications for solar and battery storage such as in place in other jurisdictions;...
    • Housing Provision
      877.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to increase the supply of social housing to support the decongregation of over 260 people living in congregated settings and...
    • Departmental Data
      878.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of heat pumps installed with regard to the retrofitting of social housing in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; the...
    • Housing Provision
      883.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has allocated funds to any local authority specifically to assist with the acquisition and delivery of...
    • Housing Schemes
      884.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the accommodation recognition payment is taken into account when calculating the differential rent of a tenant in receipt of...
    • Planning Issues
      885.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason elected county councillors are being blocked from attending pre-planning meetings with constituents by some local...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      886.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding drawn down for Traveller-specific accommodation in County Clare in the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in...
    • Housing Provision
      887.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delays in processing housing applications and HMD1 forms by local authorities, with a current waiting list...
    • Departmental Funding
      888.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an increase of current expenditure to Clare County Council to meet the specified requirement (details supplied); and...
    • Water Services
      889.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the 16-week wait time for pre-planning applications of water connectivity with Uisce Éireann.[35806/24]
    • Housing Policy
      894.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the house price caps that apply under first homes, and under the local authority home loan; and if he has plans to adjust...
    • Housing Schemes
      896.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current interest charged on local authority home loans and on the outstanding equity under first homes; the way these are...
    • Land Development Agency
      900.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the remit of the Land Development Agency.[35967/24]
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      901.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if specific paid leave will be introduced for persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35987/24]
    • School Meals Programme
      902.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding provision of the hot school meals programme for a school (details supplied).[33788/24]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      903.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will give due consideration to disregarding as means any payment made to a person arising out of a settlement or award...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      904.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a disallowed exceptional needs payment will be re-examined due to the immediate concerns for an individual and their family...
    • Employment Support Services
      905.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider providing funding for a person-centred training service with the goal of creating pathways to employment...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      906.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when pay increases have been awarded to community employment supervisors and other community workers indirectly funded by her...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      907.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the review and appeal for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      909.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer’s allowance payment will be restored immediately for a person (details supplied).[33924/24]
    • State Pensions
      911.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the eligibility for State pension in the case of a person (details supplied), who is seeking to have his level of payment...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      912.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason jobseeker's allowance payment has stopped in the case of a person (details supplied), the procedure to be followed...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      913.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the fees paid per patient to optometrists for each eye examination under the Department's optical benefit scheme now; the...
    • Widow's Pension
      915.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will bring in legislation to give effect to the O’Meara judgment in relation to widow's pension...
    • State Pensions
      916.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person is entitled to State pension (contributory) payments (details supplied).[33994/24]
    • Programme for Government
      917.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of her Department.[34016/24]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      918.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34038/24]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      919.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the reintroduction of a payment for carers will be considered (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      922.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the recent decision to drastically reduce the disability allowance payment to a person (details supplied) will be reviewed...
    • Employment Rights
      923.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of the code of practice on determining employment status following the Supreme Court judgment in a...
    • Social Insurance
      924.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans, if any, to abolish or reduce employers’ PRSI for small businesses; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      925.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has plans to reintroduce the household benefits package for carers, many of whom are struggling to make ends meet,...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      926.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an appeal regarding disability allowance for a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      927.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify the entitlements to a jobseeker's allowance payment to those employed as a retained firefighter with a county...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      928.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will confirm that children's allowance payments are not means tested; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Measures
      929.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 29 May 2024, if she will confirm that no legislation exists to permit...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      930.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection as recipients of jobseekers benefit are eligible to transfer their payment to another EU country for up to 13 weeks, what rate...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      931.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the method by which payments are made to recipients of jobseekers benefit who transfer their payment to another EU country;...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      933.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a review of disability allowance for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Meals Programme
      934.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a school (details supplied) has not been included in the hot meals programme; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      935.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications and refusals for both disability allowance and invalidity pension, over the past 12 months, broken...
    • School Meals Programme
      936.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the up-to-date position regarding the rolling out of further hot school meals in schools in Dublin; the number of new schools...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      937.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Meals Programme
      938.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the case of a school (details supplied); the reason the school is not on the hot meals programme; when the school...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      940.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the provision of fuel allowance for carers who do not live with the person they care for; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      941.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34216/24]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      943.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the guidelines for payment entitlements for a person (details attached); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34233/24]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      944.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if payment status for a person (details supplied) entitles them to a free television licence; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      946.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34244/24]
    • State Pensions
      947.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review existing supports available to those in receipt of the State pension to include financial supports for...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      948.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a farm assist decision appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34328/24]
    • State Pensions
      949.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to concerns from those in receipt of the State pension that suffer from coeliac disease...
    • Maternity Leave
      950.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will implement increased time for maternity and paternity leave associated with multiple births (details supplied); and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      951.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the fuel allowance for a person (details supplied) was stopped; and if it can be reinstated.[34389/24]
    • School Meals Programme
      952.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools who applied for the hot school meals scheme under the expression of interest for the programme and did...
    • Citizens Information Services
      953.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if funding will be provided to Citizens Information Services to enable them to have outreach services in local community...
    • Pension Levy
      954.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to address concerns that the final value of private pensions is often significantly reduced to the level of institutional fees...
    • Civil Service
      957.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE staff by grade working in the Social Welfare Appeals Office, in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular...
    • Housing Schemes
      958.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people accessing HAP and rental assistance payment in Wicklow county from 2014 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in...
    • Departmental Contracts
      959.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a list of all external assurances process reviews tendered in 2023 and to date in 2024; the value of the contracts; and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      960.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of separate applications received for the carer's support grant in 2022 and 2023, by county; the number of...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      961.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34531/24]
    • Social Insurance
      962.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in County Kerry (details supplied) has had their social insurance record updated with their UK contributions; and...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      963.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider an increase in the qualified adult allowance to allow for the additional weekly payment of €10 for...
    • Departmental Reviews
      964.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered a review of her Department’s humanitarian assistance scheme in the wake of severe weather...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      965.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on an invalidity pension application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34682/24]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      966.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a disability allowance appeal (details supplied).[34705/24]
    • Social Welfare Rates
      967.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of an increase for a qualified adult, by gender; and the reason this payment has not been increased...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      968.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the considerations that will be given to a case (details supplied).[34729/24]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      969.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34738/24]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      970.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the €20,000 cap for scholarship income for the purpose of claiming disability allowance (DA) will be revised in line...
    • Official Travel
      971.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of flights she has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming office.[34764/24]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      972.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the family income supplement review for a person (details supplied), when will payment be reinstated; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      973.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration would be given to adding class S PRSI contributions onto the list that count towards illness benefit, in the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      974.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if...
    • Employment Schemes
      976.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in the interest of fairness and equality, she will review the waiting period for Irish nationals in receipt of a...
    • Departmental Staff
      977.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of political staff employed in her Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special...
    • Ministerial Staff
      978.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by her Department since 2020; the Minister and Minister of...
    • Pension Provisions
      980.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34966/24]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      981.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the social welfare clearance of an estate (details supplied).[34976/24]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      982.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has not received any payment from her Department since May 2024, who has been admitted...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      983.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in determining an appeal (details supplied); when a final determination is likely to issue; and if she...
    • Pension Provisions
      984.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide the record of payments of the State pension from 2007 to date relative to a person (details supplied); the...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      985.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a double payment of working family payment will be made at Christmas this year and or if there will be a repeat of last...
    • Pension Provisions
      987.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps being taken to support individuals in situations in which there were two pensions within a household but a spouse...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      989.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35160/24]
    • Pension Provisions
      993.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an invalidity pension review was refused for a person in County Mayo (details supplied), in view of the overriding...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      994.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a breakdown of applications and actual payment of domiciliary carer’s allowance for carers of people with...
    • Pension Provisions
      995.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the pre-Budget 2025 submission to her Department by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      996.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider removing disability allowance and carer’s allowance from consideration as income in the means test...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      997.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to advise on allowance entitlements in a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35367/24]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      999.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the recent refusal of an application for domiciliary care allowance will be urgently reviewed in the case of a person...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1001.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of fuel allowance in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.[35435/24]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1003.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider omitting the carer’s allowance from being means-tested, particularly when parents are applying...
    • Community Welfare Services
      1004.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE community welfare officers in Longford and Westmeath in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the locations...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1005.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an urgent update on carer’s allowance review for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1006.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a disability allowance appeal with the appeals department (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1007.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the maximum amount a person (details supplied) is entitled to earn without affecting their working family payment; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1008.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a working family payment has been refused for a person (details supplied), given their child is living with them...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1009.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection given her Department's large over-estimation of the cost of new measures in recent years (details supplied), whether she has...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1012.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an invalidity pension appeal by a person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1013.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is proposed to re-tender for the contract to deliver the over-the-counter services to social welfare recipients...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1014.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if eligibility for guardianship payment can be reviewed, with a view to awarding payment in the case of a person (details...
    • Departmental Staff
      1015.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE staff, by grade and gender, working in the national Intreo contact centre.[35676/24]
    • Disability Services
      1016.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has actively engaged with school leavers with disabilities over the age of 18 years as part of the early...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1017.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have had disability allowance payments removed because they were found to be in excess of the means...
    • Disability Services
      1018.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available for people on disability in rural areas, to ensure they can afford transport to hospital appointment;...
    • Departmental Data
      1019.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the levels of maternity benefit and maternity leave, of paternity benefit and leave, of parental benefit and...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1020.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered extending the period during which domiciliary care allowance can be paid beyond the 16th birthday for...
    • Pension Provisions
      1021.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the terms on which a full-time carer can be considered for pension eligibility based on their years of caring; if...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1022.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the additional supports or secondary benefits allowed to persons on a carer’s allowance, and to persons on a...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1023.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of carer’s benefit; the typical duration of their claim; and if she has considered...
    • Business Supports
      1027.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the conditions under which support for the commencement of a new business can be made available to persons now on a social...
    • Pension Provisions
      1028.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the option to work beyond the age of 66 years is now available; the level of take-up that has been recorded to date; if...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      1032.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the take-up to date of the concession of free travel to those medically unfit to drive.[35839/24]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1033.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children on child benefit payments; and the way that number has been affected by the extension of payments to...
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      1034.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on the review of a contributory pension claim and a claim for home care period contributions by...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      1035.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a social welfare appeal by a person (details supplied).[35971/24]
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      1036.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied).[35972/24]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Visa Agreements
      1039.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality regarding new visa rules around arrivals from South Africa, if consideration will be given to an exemption period to give South...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1040.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda members assigned to roads policing units; if her Department will update the website with publication of...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1041.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1042.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is in a position to provide a full reply to Parliamentary Question No. 377 of 4 July 2024; and if she will make a...
    • Prison Service
      1043.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who are currently in prison in the State.[33794/24]
    • Protected Disclosures
      1045.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the purpose of the speakup@justice.ie email account; the date upon which this email address was first publicised; the number of...
    • Prison Service
      1046.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners in the State who reported being assaulted while in prison in each of the past ten years; and if a...
    • Departmental Data
      1051.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested for rape and sexual assault in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, in tabular...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1052.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times gardaí have been called to incidents involving persons entering or seeking to enter the River Corrib...
    • Family Reunification
      1056.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is undertaking a review of the family reunion policy; if so, when the review is due to be completed; and if she will...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1057.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any of the recommendations of the 2018 Garda Inspectorate Report have been implemented; and if so, the actions that have...
    • International Protection
      1060.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the length of time it takes to process international protection applicants from South Africa; the length of time to process...
    • Asylum Applications
      1061.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure for appeal of a decision to refuse refugee status in the case of a person (details supplied); if this application...
    • Residency Permits
      1062.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to regularise residency status for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1064.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will receive their certificate of naturalisation having applied over two months ago; and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1065.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda numbers in Tallaght and Rathfarnham Garda Stations 2020-2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Programme for Government
      1066.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of her Department.[34013/24]
    • Family Reunification
      1067.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the grounds under which an applicant for subsidiary protection can apply for family re-unification; the relationship of persons...
    • Departmental Policies
      1068.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in relation to a specific Immigrant Investor Programme application in County Cork (details supplied); and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1069.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí specifically allocated to the drugs unit in the Cavan Monaghan Garda division; where this unit is...
    • Road Safety
      1070.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the numbers of fixed charge notices served for the offence of failure by a vehicle to obey traffic lights, for each of the past...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1071.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, as part of the implementation of Coco’s Law, all Gardaí have been trained in the new law; the training that...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1073.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 11 July 2024, when the issuance of confirmation of non-citizenship will be issued...
    • Legislative Measures
      1075.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the removal of guardianship rights over surviving children in cases of familicide and violent family death, as...
    • Insurance Coverage
      1076.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason part 56, 4 (a) of the Road Traffic Act 1961 is still enforced, given that proof of insurance is visible through the...
    • Prison Service
      1078.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position in relation to funding for prison officers’ medical aid; if it is necessary for an organisation (details...
    • International Protection
      1079.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1522 of 23 July 2024, whilst she refers the matter to the IPO, she does indeed have...
    • Departmental Priorities
      1080.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps, if any, her Department has taken to prepare for any potential riots/civil unrest that could potentially occur in the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1081.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown of the grades and numbers of extra staff assigned to the IPO and IPAT over the years 2020 to 2023 and to date...
    • Immigration Policy
      1083.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department or any organisation under the aegis of her Department now use the Eurodac database for criminal checks; if...
    • Departmental Data
      1084.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the categories of offences carried out by those prisoners who have been given early release within each of the past...
    • Family Law Cases
      1085.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider a wider white paper approach to family law reform; the reforms to supports and services that will take...
    • Prison Service
      1086.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the costs of the modular, independent living units to be located at Castlerea, Shelton Abbey and Loughan House,...
    • Departmental Reports
      1088.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the recommendations of a report (details supplied) have been implemented; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Prison Service
      1089.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the IPS carried out adequate best practices to prevent the recent spate of overdoses in a facility (details supplied) and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1090.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1494 on 23 July 2024, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda...
    • Departmental Strategies
      1101.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made in the establishment of local community safety partnerships (LCSPs); when it is expected that LCSPs will be...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1102.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a case will be reviewed (details supplied); when the certificate will be issued; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Prison Service
      1103.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of addiction counsellors employed by the Irish Prison Service, by institution and by year, from 2013 to date; and if...
    • International Agreements
      1104.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline Ireland’s commitments under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction;...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1105.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe in which people should expect to receive citizenship certificates following a positive decision in relation to...
    • Immigration Status
      1106.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the passport relating to a person (details supplied) can be returned; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[34570/24]
    • International Protection
      1107.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide data for the period 2019 to date on the number of cases involving age-disputed minors identified by the...
    • Immigration Status
      1108.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has accepted assistance offered by an airline (details supplied) with respect to the sharing of photocopied images of...
    • Statutory Instruments
      1109.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she would consider amending the relevant statutory instrument (details supplied) and raising the threshold for the Small...
    • Legislative Measures
      1111.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department is considering new legislation to attempt to address the perceived spike in motorcycle thefts; and if she...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      1113.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 323 of 2 July 2024, when she expects Part 5 of the Garda Síochána (Recording...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1114.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) will receive their certificate of naturalisation, having applied over two months ago; and if...
    • Departmental Regulations
      1115.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a detailed response outlining the schedule of meetings and proposed work of the housing and justice...
    • Official Travel
      1117.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of flights she has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming office.[34761/24]
    • Legislative Measures
      1118.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to urgently review the laws concerning the rights of fathers (details supplied).[34791/24]
    • Immigration Policy
      1119.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, following the meeting on 30 January 2024, Ireland submitted comments and or drafting suggestions concerning Articles 1-6 of...
    • Domestic Violence
      1120.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the proposed development of a domestic violence refuge in County Monaghan, including the proposed location for...
    • Residency Permits
      1121.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a permanent residence application for a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Coroners Service
      1122.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the location of an inquiry (details supplied) could be changed on compassionate grounds; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Legislative Reviews
      1123.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No 1592 of 23 July 2024, the status of the independent review of part 4 of the Criminal Law...
    • Citizenship Applications
      1125.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures undertaken by her Department to reduce citizenship application processing times; the details of the average...
    • Parole Boards
      1126.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an account of the number times documents or written indications of relevant information furnished to the Parole...
    • Visa Applications
      1127.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time for the de facto partner of an Irish or non-EEA national visa application.[34878/24]
    • Court Procedures
      1130.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the inclusion of counsellor notes in court trial proceedings (details supplied).[34896/24]
    • International Protection
      1131.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide the full breakdown of the Garda costs (including the public order unit and the K9 unit) incurred for the IPAS...
    • Departmental Staff
      1134.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of political staff employed in her Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special...
    • Ministerial Staff
      1135.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by her Department since 2020; the Minister and Minister of...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1137.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a certificate of naturalisation will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Residency Permits
      1141.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to regularise the residency of a spouse and two children (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Legislative Programme
      1142.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if legislation is being considered similar to that introduced in the UK to tackle criminal gangs using e-bikes, e-scooters and...
    • Visa Applications
      1143.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the purpose of Stamp 0 visas; the type of visitor that this visa category is appropriate for; and if she will make a statement...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1144.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of WTE civilian forensic accountants and analysts currently attached to the Garda national economic crime...
    • Prison Service
      1145.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of WTE psychologists employed in each prison and the number of vacant positions for psychologists , in tabular...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1146.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of motorcycles attached to the Tipperary roads policing unit as of 31 December 2022 and 26 August 2024, in tabular...
    • Visa Applications
      1147.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the updating of visa stamps in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • International Protection
      1148.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options that are available regarding the reconsideration of an international protection application (details supplied); and...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1149.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined given the person has bee waiting several months to receive an...
    • Family Support Services
      1150.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider the establishment of a child maintenance service agency similar to the Child Maintenance Service in the UK...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1151.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of marked and unmarked Garda vans attached to the Kildare division as of 31 December 2021 and 27 August 2024, in...
    • Departmental Staff
      1152.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of WTE civilian staff, by grade, employed by her Department who work at immigration service delivery at Burgh Quay...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      1153.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on a naturalisation application by a person (details supplied) given the processing time for this application has...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1154.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of alcohol test licensing inspections on bars, clubs, supermarkets and so on, that were carried out by gardaí...
    • Prison Service
      1157.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners who have been given early and temporary release in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if she will make...
    • Residency Permits
      1159.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details on an international residence permit (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1160.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update in on Operation Saul; the number of gardaí involved in this operation; the amount of funding it has...
    • Youth Services
      1167.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update in relation to the expansion of youth justice and youth diversion measures, noting how many staff are assigned...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      1168.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update in relation to proposing solutions to public order and anti-social “wicked problems” through the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1169.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update in relation to the work of Garda juvenile liaison officers; noting how many Garda juvenile liaison officers, by...
    • Restorative Justice
      1170.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times restorative justice was used in both adult and juvenile cases over each year since 2018, in tabular form;...
    • Crime Prevention
      1171.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the Greentown programme, detailing how many staff were assigned at each site; and if she will make a statement...
    • Youth Services
      1172.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount of funding allocated, per year, for youth justice, in each of the years 2000 to date.[35291/24]
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      1173.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of anti-social behaviour orders handed down, per county and by age group, in each of the years 2004 to date; and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1175.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update in relation to the work of Garda crime prevention officers, noting how many crime prevention officers, by rank,...
    • National Security
      1178.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views in relation to recent reports of foreign state espionage in Ireland (details supplied); the measures her Department...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1181.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the 120- to 150-day waiting period for those waiting for labour market access letters to access further education...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1182.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí nationwide, the Cork city Garda division, and within that, the Togher district, in each of the past...
    • Departmental Funding
      1184.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount of funding provided by her Department to community safety innovations; and to provide a breakdown of the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1186.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1481 of 23 July 2024, if she has received the necessary information from Garda...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1188.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of her Department's capital budget allocation that has been spent in the first eight months of 2024 to...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1189.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí, by rank, attached to the Meath/Westmeath roads policing unit as of 28 August 2024.[35497/24]
    • Censorship of Publications
      1190.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a list of books/periodicals currently banned by the Censorship of Publications Board; when such items were last reviewed;...
    • Immigration Policy
      1192.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what constitutes ‘business or trade’ under the restriction relating to the Stamp 2 provision prohibiting...
    • Immigration Status
      1193.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the change of application status number of a person (details supplied).[35517/24]
    • An Garda Síochána
      1195.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to provide the necessary funding to purchase high powered jet skis for the Garda water unit.[35678/24]
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      1197.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide the necessary investment to establish systems that support the full implementation of the Assisted Decision-Making...
    • Community Development Projects
      1199.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the Ballymun Implementation Board which was announced in February 2024; the full membership of the...
    • Prison Service
      1200.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of people released on day/temporary release over the past three years; the number of those that were allocated...
    • Court Orders
      1201.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of confiscation orders implemented in each of the years 1994 to 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
    • Brexit Issues
      1203.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any changes that can be implemented to assist British citizens, who are long-time residents of Ireland, in...
    • Northern Ireland
      1204.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that adequate financial resources continue to be provided for the work of the Independent Commission for the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      1205.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a Garda service will be restored (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35995/24]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Supports
      1206.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to respond to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33793/24]
    • Planning Issues
      1207.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration has been given to restricting or banning the sale of leylandii trees and saplings, which are the bane of many a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1208.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to address concerns regarding the abrupt changes to the straw chopping scheme; if he is aware that tillage farmers had customers...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      1210.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the grid reference boundaries of Fintra Bay, County Donegal for aquaculture licensing purposes; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Animal Welfare
      1211.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether a departmental investigation into the animal cruelty aspects of an RTÉ programme (details supplied) has commenced; if...
    • Legislative Measures
      1212.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the engagements he has had with veterinary practitioners to discuss their concerns in relation to the changes to...
    • Programme for Government
      1213.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of his Department.[34002/24]
    • Live Exports
      1214.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of live horses exported from Ireland, by month in 2023 and up to the end of June 2024, in tabular form.[34020/24]
    • Animal Welfare
      1215.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to address the animal welfare and food safety issues exposed by an RTÉ documentary (details supplied).[34021/24]
    • Forestry Sector
      1218.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to consider implementing a policy providing financial support or compensation to foresters for attending necessary training events...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1220.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of ash crop owners, out of the 6,500 individual owners, that have applied for the RUS scheme; the number of hectares in...
    • Business Regulation
      1221.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on questionable sales practices from a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34151/24]
    • Greyhound Industry
      1222.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the 4,368 non-coursing greyhounds who were born in 2021 and had an active status assigned to them as of 17 April 2024...
    • Dairy Sector
      1225.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reasons that applicants to the dairy equipment scheme cannot receive funding for a robotic milking machine if they previously...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1226.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current situation regarding an ACRES payment to a person in County Cork (details supplied); if he will provide details of the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1227.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of committees, forums, working groups, stakeholder groups, advisory groups currently operational in his Department; the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1228.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the payment for approved applicants under the women farmers TAMS grant; when payments will commence; and if he will...
    • Hare Coursing
      1229.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, in relation to the news that just four out of 200 events in relation to hare coursing have been monitored in the past five years,...
    • Greyhound Industry
      1230.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures, if any, the Government is taking to make exports of greyhounds illegal (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Animal Welfare
      1231.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will put a stop to a cruel sport (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34267/24]
    • Veterinary Services
      1234.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he agrees that no healthy animal should be put down and it should be illegal for vets to do so.[34270/24]
    • Animal Slaughtering
      1235.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he agrees that horses should not be exported for slaughter; and if he will make this practice illegal.[34271/24]
    • Animal Welfare
      1236.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he agrees that laws should be passed to ensure that all horses and greyhounds are rehomed when their racing careers are over.[34272/24]
    • Animal Breeding
      1238.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will propose legislation to limit the number of greyhound pups and foals born each year; if he will limit litters to two per...
    • Veterinary Services
      1239.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dates his Department inspected veterinary clinics (details supplied) since the Animal Remedies Act 1993 regulations regarding...
    • Forestry Sector
      1241.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, in developing the climate resilient reforestation pilot scheme, any analysis was undertaken on the potential impact of the scheme...
    • Departmental Contracts
      1242.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of contracts a company (details supplied) have had with his Department in the years of 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024; the...
    • Middle East
      1244.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has engaged with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations regarding its work to alleviate the humanitarian...
    • Forestry Sector
      1245.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are plans to extend the ash dieback reconstitution scheme to deal with the issue of ash dieback more generally; and if he...
    • Departmental Properties
      1246.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has any responsibility for a location (details supplied); and if he accepts a finding.[34655/24]
    • Official Travel
      1247.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of flights he has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming office.[34750/24]
    • Tillage Sector
      1248.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action he is taking to implement action 26 of the Food Vision 2023 Tillage Group Report, namely to provide greater recognition...
    • Fishing Industry
      1249.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmed salmon that escaped from a farm (details supplied) on Sunday 11 August 2024; when the Department was notified of...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1250.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the development of two new all-island bioeconomy demonstrator facilities; to provide the total allocation; the...
    • Forestry Sector
      1251.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of changes of ownership from private farmer to commercial forester after licences have been awarded to plant forestry for...
    • Tillage Sector
      1253.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions taken to date with regard to the possible introduction of a €100-ha support for tillage farmers; and if he will...
    • Environmental Impact Assessments
      1254.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 298 of 11 July 2024, when he will publish his proposals regarding the independent review of the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1255.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if ACRES land scores can be appealed the following year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34897/24]
    • Departmental Staff
      1256.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of political staff employed in his Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special...
    • Ministerial Staff
      1257.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by his Department since 2020; the Minister and Minister of State whom...
    • Pesticide Use
      1259.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he recently signed a Ministerial order directing companies involved in pest control to take out the toxic product that kills...
    • Fisheries Protection
      1260.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1714 of 23 July 2024, the status of plans for the introduction of measures to protect the sprat...
    • Industrial Development
      1261.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for a national action plan for the development of an indigenous wool industry, arising from the Review of Market...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1263.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if minutes are taken at the meetings of the Wool Council; if any minutes taken are published; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1265.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount paid to the consortium led by the Agile Executive for carrying out the Review of Market Opportunities for...
    • Fishing Industry
      1266.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can provide clarity on the new scheme to support the economic development of the inshore fishing fleet (details supplied); and...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1267.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2023 Acres scheme payment will issue to a farmer in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Harbours and Piers
      1271.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on when the new Rossaveal deep water harbour in Galway is set to proceed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1272.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers issued with a payment in respect of ACRES in the amount of €5,000 who now find that the final amount...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      1274.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when it is intended to seek bids to rent out a building (details supplied); the reason for the delay given the building has lain idle...
    • Departmental Data
      1275.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE staff, by job title currently working in the Office of Agri-Food Regulator; the WTE vacancies, by job title that...
    • Veterinary Services
      1276.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35186/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      1277.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will allocate funding to increase the number of food-trained detector dogs to be based at ports and airports nationwide; and...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1278.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received from each of the three Aran Island, Árann, Inis Meáin and Inis Oirr, under Tranche 2 of...
    • Departmental Communications
      1282.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on his Department’s engagement with relevant EU bodies with respect to the Mercosur Trade Deal; and if he will...
    • Animal Diseases
      1283.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a farmer in County Kerry (details supplied), whose cattle had a clear TB test two weeks before they were sold, has been...
    • State Bodies
      1284.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 918 of 25 July 2023, if there has been any further progress on the case in question; and if he...
    • Harbours and Piers
      1285.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a vehicle owner from Inis Meáin, Árainn, County Galway (details supplied) was refused a parking permit for...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1286.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on ACRES overpayments (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35486/24]
    • Animal Diseases
      1288.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will publish the number of incidences of TB detected nationwide for the years 2014 to 2023; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1292.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Charter of Farmers Rights is still fit for purpose and relevant; his views on whether it should be updated; and if he will...
    • Agriculture Supports
      1293.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants that have joined each of the ACRES 1 and ACRES 2 schemes respectively; the number that have since withdrawn...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1294.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of ACRES scheme participants that received a preliminary payment under the ACRES scheme of €4,000 for the general...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1297.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific measures that will be introduced in Budget 2025 to support the survival and sustainability of various agricultural...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1298.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he intends to introduce the 'forgotten farmers' scheme, which aims to provide support to farmers who missed out on previous...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1299.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of kilograms farmers can spread per hectare in circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Forestry Sector
      1300.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of afforestation licensing, given the recent achievement of licensing 182 hectares for afforestation recently; if...
    • Agriculture Industry
      1303.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the size of the national dairy herd for each of the past 15 years, in tabular form; if there is a target figure for the size of the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      1305.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider the introduction of a farm retirement scheme with funding from CAP and/or national resources; and if he will make...
    • Fodder Crisis
      1306.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is an up-to-date review available concerning the adequacy of fodder stock for the coming winter; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Health Services Staff
      1307.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to consider measures to address the cost of living to attract and retain staff in residential and day supports,...
    • Juvenile Offenders
      1308.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons admitted to the juvenile detention centre in each of the past ten years and to date in...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1317.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 375 of 28 May 2024, the exact wait time in months, and, where applicable,...
    • Childcare Services
      1319.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way he plans to address the issue of crèche owners increasing their fees this September (details...
    • Disability Services
      1320.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the case of a child (details supplied) will be reviewed; the status of appointments for them; and if he will...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1321.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that an independent review of the care system is launched with immediate Government action on...
    • Departmental Funding
      1322.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a grant fund was opened (details supplied); when applications were received; and if he will make a...
    • International Protection
      1324.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Ukrainian refugees and international protection applicants housed respectively, in each local...
    • Childcare Services
      1326.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the action that is being taken by his Department to ensure that price rises by childcare facilities do not...
    • Disability Services
      1329.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the urgent supports required by a child (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement...
    • Programme for Government
      1330.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of his...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1331.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated capital cost of providing one additional four-bedroom residential unit for disabled people; and...
    • Home Care Packages
      1332.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated first and full-year current cost of providing 100, 250 and 400 intensive homecare support packages...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1333.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 31 of 18 June 2024, if the CDNT staff census for 2023 has been published;...
    • Budget 2025
      1334.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on budgetary asks from an organisation (details supplied) ahead of Budget 25; and if he will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1335.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child (details supplied) will have an ASD assessment; to outline the steps in the process; the estimated...
    • Childcare Services
      1336.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on a matter raised in correspondence by a childcare provider in County Cork (details supplied);...
    • Youth Work Supports
      1338.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an increase in funding for youth work organisation capital spending and on-the-ground spending will be...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1339.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications received under the mother and baby homes institutions payment redress scheme; and if...
    • Childcare Services
      1341.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a childcare subsidy is not available to child care providers where parents only need childcare for a...
    • International Protection
      1342.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of premises in each local authority area for which accommodation recognition payments are...
    • Mental Health Services
      1343.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 832 of 20 September 2023, when a full response will issue.[34210/24]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1344.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made in reducing the waiting list for assessment of needs for children on the waiting list; if he...
    • Childcare Services
      1345.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if, in view of the withdrawal of a crèche (details supplied) in Rathfarnham from the core funding scheme,...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      1346.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the long-term State supports and benefits paid to foster families from his Department; to outline the increases...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1347.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons who have engaged with the mother and baby redress scheme since it has opened; and the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1348.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to advise on correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34307/24]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1349.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of graduates each year that are entering the early years and school age system; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1350.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth where the surplus funding for unused resources was allocated in the circumstances where a service provider...
    • Parental Leave
      1351.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has any plans to align the qualifying age limit of the child, by which parental leave must be taken,...
    • Youth Services
      1352.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if concerns regarding the funding of youth services (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services
      1353.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans in place to provide full-time residential care for a person (details supplied); if the lack of...
    • Health Services
      1354.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide additional funding to allow therapy and support services (details supplied) in County Wexford...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1355.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 30 May 2024, if he will ensure that a response is issued by the HSE...
    • Parental Leave
      1356.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will implement increased time for maternity and paternity leave associated with multiple births (details...
    • Childcare Services
      1358.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the public money paid to a company (details supplied); his views on the fact that the company is still operating...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1361.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons on a waiting list for CDNT in Carlow; the number of staff available; and if he will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      1362.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a case regarding childcare fees causing understandable distress to parents (details supplied) will be...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1363.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will liaise with an organisation (details supplied) to provide support for this body to source a larger...
    • Departmental Funding
      1364.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the financial support provided to a centre (details supplied) by his Department, the HSE and other statutory...
    • Health Services Staff
      1365.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth of the 495 applications received in the latest recruitment drive for Children’s Disability Network Teams,...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1366.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1934 of 23 July 2024, the number of children who have had a diagnostic ASD...
    • Care Services
      1368.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that the HSE do not keep a centrally maintained waiting list for respite services.[34454/24]
    • Disability Services
      1370.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will review a case (details supplied); to provide an update on the provision of transport for...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1372.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the provision of a neuro-rehabilitation unit in CHO6; if the proposed roles for the unit have...
    • Childcare Services
      1373.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a creche or childminding facility accepts core funding, if the facility is in breach of its core funding...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1374.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount allocated in the budget for assistive technology in each of the years 2020 to 2024, inclusive; and...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1375.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the frequency with which the aids and appliances list for assistive technology updated; the date this will next...
    • Disability Services
      1376.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the procedure for a review of an assessment for assistive technology; and the timeframe for this review to take...
    • Health Services Staff
      1377.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of specialists in the Central Remedial Clinic that are trained to carry out assessments for assistive...
    • Disability Services
      1379.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is possible to request the HSE to refer a client to an organisation which is not in their CHO catchment...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1380.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1162 of 9 April 2024, the timeframe for a decision on the capital...
    • Disability Services
      1382.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total cost of establishing the decision support service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Care Services
      1383.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if full-time residential care can be provided for a person (details supplied) as their mother is not in a...
    • Disability Services
      1384.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown of CDNT data for CHO9 in regard to staff numbers, caseload, children participating in individual...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      1385.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early years education providers that have withdrawn from core funding in each month since its...
    • Disability Services
      1386.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a service improvement programme board has been established to drive the implementation of the Roadmap for...
    • Community Care
      1397.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the work that has been done to ensure CDNT alignment with 96 community health networks, in line with...
    • Disability Services
      1398.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if, in line with action 2.15 of the Roadmap for Service Improvement 2023-2026, the CDNT information management...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1400.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an ‘interim clinical guidance on assessment of need’ has been issued for staff, in line with...
    • Disability Services
      1402.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if action 2.20 of the Roadmap for Service Improvement 2023-2026 has been implemented; and if so, if he will...
    • Health Services Staff
      1416.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of posts that have been upgraded to a clinical specialist post on CDNTs as part of action 3.12 of the...
    • Disability Services
      1418.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a national placement office has been established within the HSE, in line with action 3.14 of the Roadmap for...
    • Family Support Services
      1432.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and location of new family resource centres that have been opened each year since he assumed office;...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1433.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Youth Services
      1434.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will support an increase of €15 million funding for youth work sector in Ireland; and if he will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      1435.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will revise the recently announced inter-departmental enhanced in-school therapy supports for special...
    • Cabinet Committees
      1436.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to consider the establishment of a Cabinet sub-committee on young people; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Care Services
      1437.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the length of time an application by a person (details supplied) is expected to take; and if he will make a...
    • Official Travel
      1438.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of flights he has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming...
    • Family Resource Centres
      1439.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail the funding allocated by his Department to a centre (details supplied), including any contributions to...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1442.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications for the mother and baby institutions payment scheme, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Health Services Staff
      1448.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when information will issue to an employer to enable a former Section 39 worker (details supplied) to receive...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      1449.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an accommodation contract will be offered to (details supplied) further to the latest submitted request; and...
    • Disability Services
      1450.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of funding that is allocated to adult disability day service providers per individual attending the...
    • Asylum Seekers
      1451.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times staff from his Department, or any other Government Department, have consulted (as distinct...
    • Departmental Staff
      1452.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of political staff employed in his Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial...
    • Ministerial Staff
      1453.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by his Department since 2020; the Minister and...
    • Asylum Seekers
      1455.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an organisation has been tendered to provide a vulnerability assessment to international protection...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1456.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the progress of the capital funding proposal that was submitted to the national HSE office for...
    • Childcare Services
      1457.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to review correspondence (details supplied); if Tusla can expedite this registration; and if he will make a...
    • Youth Services
      1458.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if capital funding is available for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1459.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for an assessment of needs and a timeline for same;...
    • Parental Leave
      1460.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to consider permitting parents to transfer their parental leave from one parent to another, rather than just in...
    • Disability Services
      1461.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to consider allocating sufficient funding to ensure an adequate level of changing facilities for disabled...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1462.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of young adults with an intellectual disability in County Tipperary that are on the waiting list for...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1464.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps and full process involved in the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; specifically, each step...
    • Asylum Seekers
      1465.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeframe in which it is expected that forensic accountants will conclude their work investigating potential...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1467.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an assessment of needs for a child (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disability Services
      1468.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of service users currently availing of transport provided by each HSE funded adult disability service...
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      1469.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Services
      1470.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown of the staff numbers and grade in each of the CDNTs in County Wicklow in 2023 and to-date in 2024,...
    • Mental Health Services
      1471.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current funding allocation provided by TUSLA for therapeutic mental health interventions and support for...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1472.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will secure funding in 2024 and 2025 to set up a community neuro-rehabilitation team in the CHO8 (details...
    • Child Protection
      1473.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1474.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the case of a child (details supplied) who having been referred for an assessment of autism has...
    • Detention Centres
      1475.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capital work projects funded by his Department that were carried out at Oberstown Children's Detention...
    • Childcare Services
      1476.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures that will be implemented to increase services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Disability Services
      1477.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the situation with a service provided by an organisation (details supplied) in Cavan which, due...
    • Childcare Services
      1480.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of a reported long-term shortage of childcare places in an area of Dublin mid-west (details...
    • Disability Services
      1481.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the efforts made to avert a vacancy in the position of children’s disability network manager at Clonmel...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1482.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on the waiting list for assessments of need; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Direct Provision System
      1483.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown, by Dublin post code (i.e., Dublin 1, Dublin 2, and so on), of the total number of people in...
    • Health Service Executive
      1484.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a person (details supplied) cannot access a HSE long-term care plan; and if he will make a statement...
    • Children in Care
      1485.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will respond to a matter raised by an organisation (details supplied) providing services to children with...
    • Childcare Services
      1486.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will respond to a matter raised by a person in Cork (details supplied) in relation to childcare; and if he...
    • Health Services
      1487.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an OT plan for a child (details supplied) will be expedited as a matter of urgency, considering that he has...
    • Disability Services
      1488.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the OT and SLT appointments for a child (details supplied), necessary for his development, will be expedited;...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1489.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1231 of 9 April 2024, if a full assessment has now been carried out; the...
    • Disability Services
      1490.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reasons applications have not yet opened for the promised extended AIM hours for ECCE children for the...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      1491.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department is aware of the negative impacts caused by the practice of serving eviction notices to those...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1492.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting for an ASD assessment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      1493.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position in relation to the payment of the accommodation recognition payment for Ukrainian families to two...
    • Disability Services
      1494.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position in relation to the provision of some respite care support to a family of an adult with ASD in Cork...
    • School Facilities
      1495.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position in relation to the return of in-school therapeutic services at a special school in Cork city...
    • Health Services Staff
      1496.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason there are no permanent contracts being offered to all therapists in an organisation (details...
    • Disability Services
      1497.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a personal assistance (PA) service to a person in County Mayo (details supplied) will be restored to seven...
    • Childcare Services
      1498.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children, by county, who benefitted from supports under the national childcare scheme in 2023 and...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      1500.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied), who applied to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme, can expect a...
    • Thalidomide Victims Compensation
      1501.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide compensation for thalidomide survivors (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • International Protection
      1502.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for details of his extensive engagement with the local community and public representatives regarding the...
    • Disability Services
      1504.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the proposal submitted in September 2023 by an organisation (details supplied) which would allow...
    • Education Schemes
      1506.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding that has been allocated to an organisation (details supplied) for both capital and current purposes...
    • Disability Services
      1507.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will move immediately on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1508.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase investment in multi-disciplinary teams, including physiotherapy, psychology, social work,...
    • Disability Services
      1509.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide increased funding to expand capacity and support alternative models of respite care for...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      1511.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of autism assessment waiting times in CHO1.[35681/24]
    • Disability Services
      1512.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff hired in each children's disability network team, for 2024, in tabular form.[35721/24]
    • Health Services
      1515.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has reviewed the learning from remote, technologically-enabled delivery of services during Covid, and...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1520.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has conducted a policy review of home support, in line with Action A5.2 of the Action Plan for Disability...
    • Disability Services
      1521.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the personalised budgets pilot evaluation has been completed, in line with Action A6.1 of the Action Plan for...
    • Departmental Priorities
      1543.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress his Department has made in respect of adding the socio-economic grounds, as a ground for...
    • Disability Services
      1544.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will accept that the CDNT pathway has not sufficiently alleviated the wait for assessments of needs and...
    • Childcare Services
      1547.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the core funding levels of support per hour to childcare providers and the payments for specific additional...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      1548.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the maximum level of hourly support paid under the NCS in the different age categories for those on lowest...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1549.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a detailed response will issue to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Childcare Services
      1550.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will indicate the eligibility criteria for a child to participate in the free early childhood care and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1557.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department is compensating services for the legal costs incurred during compensation applications under...
    • Family Resource Centres
      1558.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the proposals there are to expand and or provide new family resource centres in 2024 and 2025; and if he will...
    • Childcare Services
      1560.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the methodology used by his Department and the agencies under the remit of his Department in projecting the...
    • Youth Services
      1564.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that detailed consideration is given to the pre-budget 2025 submission of an organisation...
  • Department of Health
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1565.To ask the Minister for Health his views on the waiting times for postmortems in Westmeath (details supplied).[33783/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1566.To ask the Minister for Health to clarify several matters with respect to the National Children’s Hospital (details supplied).[33784/24]
    • Departmental Reports
      1568.To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the report entitled ‘NAS Organisational Redesign’ from December 2022.[33787/24]
    • Hospice Services
      1569.To ask the Minister for Health if the concerns of a group (details supplied) can be addressed with respect to the provision of palliative care in the midlands; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1570.To ask the Minister for Health if hearing aids will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33791/24]
    • Departmental Data
      1571.To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born addicted to drugs or alcohol in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, in tabular form.[33811/24]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      1572.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who contacted the HSE’s drug and alcohol helpline in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, in tabular form.[33812/24]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1574.To ask the Minister for Health the number of children, per county, who are waiting on scoliosis treatment; and if he will provide a breakdown of the time spent on the waiting lists, per...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1575.To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Kerry (details supplied) will receive a date for a cataract operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33820/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      1576.To ask the Minister for Health the costs of wholesaler fees to the HSE for pharmaceutical medicine in 2022 and 2023; to provide an estimate of the portion of that spend that is related to...
    • Medical Cards
      1579.To ask the Minister for Health the changes that have taken place in medical card eligibility since 2021; the number of cards in operation in 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      1580.To ask the Minister for Health if there is a schedule for implementing the detailed implementation plan regarding the transfer of care for children aged eight+ years to local optometrists;...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1581.To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider keeping the reimbursement rates for cataracts under the Northern Ireland planned healthcare scheme at the higher amount of €1,912...
    • Hospital Services
      1582.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the business case with the hospital group/health region for 24/7 primary percutaneous coronary intervention at University Hospital Waterford; the...
    • Nursing Homes
      1583.To ask the Minister for Health if further financial assistance is available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33840/24]
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1584.To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to HSE procurement for taxi services in Cork city and county; if a contract(s) is currently in place; when the next procurement...
    • Health Service Executive
      1585.To ask the Minister for Health the body that owns or controls the disused church on the grounds of a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33852/24]
    • Ambulance Service
      1586.To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate sufficient capital funding to deliver a mid-level ambulance station for Tullamore, County Offaly as a matter of urgency; and if he will...
    • Medicinal Products
      1587.To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to concerns raised in respect of the use of ozempic by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1588.To ask the Minister for Health if a person in County Kerry (details supplied) will be reimbursed for their expenditure for the years 2013 to 2019; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1589.To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment be offered to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33881/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1591.To ask the Minister for Health if the south Kerry compensation scheme will be expanded to ensure that all children in Kerry, who receive apologies for deficits in care received, are entitled...
    • Medical Cards
      1592.To ask the Minister for Health if correspondence (details supplied) will be reviewed; if he plans to change the criteria for medical cards for those with incurable diseases; and if he will...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      1593.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 493 of 9 April 2024, if the processing of the T1 form submitted to the HSE will be expedited in order to facilitate...
    • Care Services
      1594.To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting a long time for their full care package; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33897/24]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1596.To ask the Minister for Health when a chair will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33905/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      1597.To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made by the HSE in assessing ravulizumab for treatment of paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria and atypical haemolytic uremic...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1599.To ask the Minister for Health the proposed development timelines to the provision of a new surgical hub at University Hospital Waterford (details supplied); his Department’s target...
    • Hospital Staff
      1600.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the appointment of two consultant emergency positions recommended by the HIQA report of acute hospital activity at UHW in 2022; the reason for...
    • Hospital Services
      1601.To ask the Minister for Health if the Taoiseach has been in communication with him on an issue (details supplied); if he has conferred with the lead person in relation to same; if he is...
    • Hospital Staff
      1602.To ask the Minister for Health the total number of additional positions that University Hospital Waterford will be awarded authority to recruit or replace as part of the proposed service...
    • Medical Cards
      1603.To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card application by a person (details supplied).[33923/24]
    • Public Sector Pay
      1604.To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered extending the CNM2 salary scale by one further scale point and the introduction of a long-service increment; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Homes
      1605.To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33928/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1606.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 620 of 23 January 2024, when a person (details supplied) will have a date for cataract surgery assigned.[33931/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1607.To ask the Minister for Health the number of job vacancies present in CAMHS in November 2023, if all of these vacancies are to be filled; the CAMHS staffing levels of today versus November;...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      1610.To ask the Minister for Health if free Covid-19 rapid antigen tests will be made available to all HSE employees, particularly those who may be caring for elderly or high-risk family members...
    • Eating Disorders
      1611.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment of new adult eating disorders team in CHO7 for adults that was funded in May 2024 from €10 million additional investment...
    • Health Services
      1612.To ask the Minister for Health the number of optometrists contracted to provide services under the community optometry scheme each year for the past ten years; the waiting list for this...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1615.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting outpatient eye care appointments at present; the steps being taken to reduce this waiting list; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Cards
      1616.To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address medical card renewals and medical card assessments for those with lifelong permanent mental disabilities, unable to...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1617.To ask the Minister for Health the Department’s policy on cocaine abuse in Ireland.[33968/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1618.To ask the Minister for Health if the new 96-bed block in University Hospital Limerick will open in June 2024, as already advised by the HSE.[33970/24]
    • Nursing Homes
      1619.To ask the Minister for Health in what year the new Nenagh community nursing home will open.[33973/24]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1621.To ask the Minister for Health if the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be reviewed and addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33981/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      1623.To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an overview of funding, initiatives and capital works that have been approved and delivered in County Cork since the current Government took...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      1624.To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect a decision on their primary medical certificate application; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Programme for Government
      1625.To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of his Department.[34011/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1626.To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a child (details supplied); if the appointment will be expedited given the circumstances; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Development Plan
      1628.To ask the Minister for Health if he has raised concerns over the proposal to apply the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform Circular 24/2022...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1629.To ask the Minister for Health if there is a specialist intestinal failure centre; if not, the reason; his views on whether there is a need for such a centre; the number of hospitals which...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1630.To ask the Minister for Health the dates, times and attendees of any meetings he and or his officials and or his advisers have had in relation to UHL in 2023 and to date in 2024.[34029/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1631.To ask the Minister for Health the plans to give access to CPD training (details supplied) for allied health care professional social workers in the HSE adult mental health services...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1633.To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a child (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34046/24]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      1636.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the special EU programmes body application from the Co-operation and Working Together Partnership for the Cross-Border Community...
    • Nursing Homes
      1637.To ask the Minister for Health if regulations can be introduced to ensure that relatives of deceased nursing home residents have access to the care and medical records of their loved...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1639.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 157 of 12 July 2022, to clarify whether the stated target of four authorised officers per 10,000 is per 10,000 of the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1640.To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34067/24]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1641.To ask the Minister for Health if urgent eye surgery required for a person (details supplied) will be arranged immediately at Waterford University Hospital as the surgery was to be carried...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1642.To ask the Minister for Health if he will look at expanding the HPV Catch up Vaccination Programme for children who did not receive it; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34072/24]
    • Legislative Measures
      1643.To ask the Minister for Health if Section 26C of the Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2023 addresses the policy concerns regarding prospective non-clinical conception; if...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1644.To ask the Minister for Health the reason sick people are being asked to travel long distances to meet community intervention teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34075/24]
    • Departmental Schemes
      1645.To ask the Minister for Health to consider adding early onset Alzheimer's to the list of medical conditions covered by the long-term illness scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1646.To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make HRT medication free to all women; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34087/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1648.To ask the Minister for Health if an eye appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34094/24]
    • Hospital Services
      1649.To ask the Minister for Health to provide the average emergency department waiting times for Mayo University Hospital compared to Saolta and national averages; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1651.To ask the Minister for Health when the new 50-bed ward block will be open at Portiuncula Hospital Ballinasloe; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34114/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1652.To ask the Minister for Health to urgently intervene and provide clarity on the unacceptable situation outlined in correspondence (details supplied) that the additional €1.5bn...
    • Medicinal Products
      1653.To ask the Minister for Health if a request for a safety sleeper for a child (details supplied) will be granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34119/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1654.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 608 of 5 December 2023, to urgently review the excessive number of vacant posts within Our Lady of Lourdes hospital Drogheda...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1655.To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34126/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1656.To ask the Minister for Health further to the lifting of the recruitment embargo, if improvements will be made in respect of the number of occupational therapists currently working within...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1657.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2277 of 23 July 2024, the number of ophthalmology appointments offered in 2023; if inquiries have been made of the WTE...
    • Health Service Executive
      1658.To ask the Minister for Health the number of children qualified for free orthodontics under the HSE scheme over the past ten years, in tabular from; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1659.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated date for the opening of the MRI unit in Mullingar hospital; the reason for its delay; and the steps he is taking to ensure it does not get...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1661.To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken to increase the number of practicing GPs in an area (details supplied); if he acknowledge the concern of the residents of this area that there...
    • Hospital Staff
      1662.To ask the Minister for Health the number of Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar employees currently out sick from work, on full pay, and the length of each absence, in tabular form.[34164/24]
    • Patient Transport
      1663.To ask the Minister for Health to review case of a person (details supplied); the financial supports available in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34183/24]
    • Medical Cards
      1664.To ask the Minister for Health his views on increasing the income limits on medical card applications by the same amount as the increase given in State pensions through the budget each...
    • Hospital Services
      1665.To ask the Minister for Health the services provided at the dermatology units in Monaghan and Cavan hospitals, respectively; whether there have been any changes in these respective services...
    • Health Service Executive
      1666.To ask the Minister for Health when invoices will be paid for contracts though the HSE (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34198/24]
    • Hospital Services
      1667.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of neurology services in Bantry General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34202/24]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1668.To ask the Minister for Health if the vaccination for shingles could be included in the medical card scheme; if this matter has already been considered by his Department in light of the high...
    • Hospital Complaints Procedures
      1669.To ask the Minister for Health if a stage 3 review under section 49(1)(b) of Part 9 of the Health Act 2004 should be carried out by the same officer that carried out the initial...
    • Medicinal Products
      1670.To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to make the drug NP thyroid, which is used to treat thyroid conditions and autoimmune diseases, available under the drug payment scheme; and if he...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1671.To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek delivery of permanent funding costs of €8 million to enable the full roll-out of the specialist lymphoedema clinic model of care to all...
    • Mental Health Services
      1672.To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be allocated for delivery of an adult ADHD service in Dublin north city and county; if his attention has been drawn to the fact Community...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1674.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 134 of 8 November 2023, if progress has been made regarding the payments made to District Medical Officers, as this reply...
    • Data Protection
      1675.To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a request by a person (details supplied) to have mental health and musculoskeletal injuries related parts of...
    • Cancer Services
      1676.To ask the Minister for Health the reason an essential cancer treatment (details supplied) is not available in County Roscommon; if he will ensure this treatment is made available in the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1678.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on plans to relocate a community mental health facility (details supplied) in Cork; when this relocation is expected to occur; if the relocation...
    • Health Services
      1679.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34255/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1680.To ask the Minister for Health to outline, in relation to the news that the embargo was lifted on recruitment and that if anyone leaves a post in the future their post is not guaranteed to...
    • Cancer Services
      1685.To ask the Minister for Health when he intends to make payment of the funding secured in 2024 for the community cancer support centres (details supplied); if this funding will be made...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1686.To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34284/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1687.To ask the Minister for Health the current number of people awaiting an appointment at the severe asthma clinic in Merlin Hospital Galway; the length of time those referred have been...
    • Health Services
      1688.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34287/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1690.To ask the Minister for Health when a pay issue will be resolved (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34306/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1691.To ask the Minister for Health his views on the exclusion by the HSE of health and social care professionals, HSCPs, from representation on the senior management team in the new HSE health...
    • Primary Care Services
      1692.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for primary care services in Carlow; the number of staff available; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34331/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      1693.To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the proposals made by an organisation (details supplied).[34334/24]
    • Medical Cards
      1694.To ask the Minister for Health the status of a medical card appeal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34336/24]
    • Departmental Data
      1695.To ask the Minister for Health the total number of applicants for roles (details supplied); the number of successful applicants; the total amount of funding provided in the academic years...
    • Middle East
      1696.To ask the Minister for Health what support his Department has provided to medical organisations, including financial support or equipment, operating in Gaza; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services
      1697.To ask the Minister for Health the reasons the HSE is no longer funding the provision of Dexcom sensors for use by diabetics on insulin injections; if there are plans to reverse this...
    • Mental Health Services
      1699.To ask the Minister for Health the stage reached in developing ADHD services for CH0 7t; if these services are now operational given it was stated that they would be by quarter 3 of 2023;...
    • Dental Services
      1700.To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of dentists in County Wicklow who accept medical cardholders; the actions he will take to address this issue;...
    • Departmental Funding
      1701.To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by an organisation (details supplied) for section 39 funding from the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34361/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1702.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the recruitment policy operated by the HSE; if he is aware that all posts vacant at the end of 2023 are now non-existent, that unfunded posts...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1704.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34383/24]
    • National Maternity Hospital
      1706.To ask the Minister for Health for an update in respect of the development of a new national maternity hospital; the amount expended on the project to date; if he has engaged consultancy...
    • Health Services
      1707.To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive hearing aids; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34401/24]
    • Departmental Data
      1708.To ask the Minister for Health for a list of all unfulfilled and frozen roles within hospitals, community health services, mental health services, children's mental health services and...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1709.To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card applicants awaiting a GP assignment in County Louth and east Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34403/24]
    • Departmental Data
      1710.To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the numbers and current waiting times to access each specialist pain clinic; the numbers who accessed each clinic for each of the...
    • Health Services
      1711.To ask the Minister for Health the tests available for Lyme disease and further available treatment within the public health service following a diagnosis either in Ireland or abroad; the...
    • Departmental Properties
      1712.To ask the Minister for Health if the 20% of HSE-owned properties (or 400 vacant properties enlisted to the State), which, according to a person (details supplied), are lying idle during...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1713.To ask the Minister for Health if it is standard practice for GP out-of-hours services to refuse to engage with patients who are not registered with a GP located within a geographical area;...
    • Health Services
      1714.To ask the Minister for Health if services can be provided for patients using a health centre at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34412/24]
    • Pension Provisions
      1715.To ask the Minister for Health to address a pensions matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34413/24]
    • Hospital Services
      1716.To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of blood tests for Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH) that are outsourced; the date blood tests have been outsourced from; the cost of...
    • Medical Cards
      1717.To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no provision with the medical card administrative scheme for oral hearings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34420/24]
    • Mental Health Policy
      1718.To ask the Minister for Health if he will include borderline personality disorder as a recognised diagnosis in the Mental Health Act 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34429/24]
    • Health Services
      1719.To ask the Minister for Health the reason for cancellations of child health and developmental checks carried out by public health nurse services in community healthcare west; given the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1721.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 207 of 20 June 2024, if a patient with complex needs (details supplied) meets the criteria for reimbursement; and if he...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1722.To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34442/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1723.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 269 of 16 May 2024, when the vacancy for a community nursing position for psychiatry of later life, based at a facility...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1724.To ask the Minister for Health the recommended safe doctor to patient ratio and the average doctor to patient ratio across the State.[34446/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1726.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 211 of 3 July 2024, the number of ambulance staff employed at each of the hospitals contained within the reply.[34456/24]
    • Grant Payments
      1727.To ask the Minister for Health if the case of an unpaid respite grant (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34457/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1728.To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider a review of the pay scale for Section 39 workers in the mental health sector, with a view to aligning their compensation more closely with...
    • Departmental Data
      1729.To ask the Minister for Health the number of pharmacy needle exchange facilities in CHO7, in tabular form.[34484/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1731.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric orthopaedic surgeons at CHI Temple Street in the years of 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form.[34486/24]
    • Hospital Services
      1732.To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct Waterford University hospital to release the records requested by a person (details supplied).[34494/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1733.To ask the Minister for Health if there will be adequate and sustained funding to restore hospital-based cardiac rehab staffing to at least a minimal level, to include the multidisciplinary...
    • Hospital Services
      1735.To ask the Minister for Health the new or expanded services being provided in County Tipperary within the healthcare system in hospitals in 2023 and to date in 2024.[34505/24]
    • Ambulance Service
      1736.To ask the Minister for Health to provide the ambulance response times for urgent calls made in County Roscommon in 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      1737.To ask the Minister for Health the provisions he foresees being taken to address the backlog in care at University Hospital Limerick, Ennis, Nenagh, St. John's and Croom Orthopaedic Hospital...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1739.To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will review correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34528/24]
    • Dental Services
      1741.To ask the Minister for Health the progress his Department has made on updating the Dental Act 1985 in light of the abrupt closure of an orthodontic practice in Galway in August 2022...
    • Budget 2025
      1742.To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a budget 2025 submission by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34552/24]
    • Health Services
      1743.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 449 of 28 May 2024, the timeframe within which this service will be delivered; and the location in which it will be...
    • Departmental Data
      1744.To ask the Minister for Health the amount accrued by the HSE in paying interest on late payments of invoices, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Dental Services
      1746.To ask the Minister for Health to outline the restrictions that can prevent graduates of dentistry at Queen’s University Belfast from working in Ireland; the measures that are being...
    • Health Services
      1747.To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not received a service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34602/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1749.To ask the Minister for Health to outline the policy of the HSE in relation to an employee who has been potentially exposed to measles; if they are required to take time off; and if that...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1750.To ask the Minister for Health to respond to concerns raised (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34703/24]
    • Health Services
      1751.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34704/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1752.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on recommendation 45 of the expert review body on nursing and midwifery (details supplied).[34708/24]
    • Health Services
      1753.To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment for a mobility scooter will be arranged immediately for a person (details supplied); and if he will expedite the matter.[34713/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1754.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who, having been referred four years ago to the neurosurgery unit at Cork University Hospital, has yet...
    • Health Services
      1755.To ask the Minister for Health if, in relation to islander healthcare in Bere Island and Cape Clear Island, and the need for 24-hour nursing cover, any progress has been made on sourcing...
    • Departmental Properties
      1756.To ask the Minister for Health for a status update on the future use of the Dublin 12 Davitt Road HSE site; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34718/24]
    • Health Services
      1758.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the efforts his Department is making with the HSE to ensure that developmental checks by the public health nurse resume in Old County Road;...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1760.To ask the Minister for Health if the Government is working to ensure that TRIPS waivers are utilised in the context of future public health emergencies and are provided for in the WHO...
    • Health Services
      1761.To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34732/24]
    • Official Travel
      1762.To ask the Minister for Health the number of flights he has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming office.[34759/24]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1763.To ask the Minister for Health if, in light of the increasing annual renumeration thresholds for health care assistants, he will ensure that there is a commensurate increase in the funding...
    • Health Services
      1765.To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans for improvements to, or increased services in, Ballymun Primary Care Centre.[34771/24]
    • Departmental Data
      1767.To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the number of home care packages allocated in CHO9 since 2020, in tabular form.[34773/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1768.To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that those who are certified by a consultant as having a medical condition as a result of long Covid are granted full medical card...
    • Health Services Staff
      1769.To ask the Minister for Health to review the sick leave entitlements for front line health service workers who contracted Covid as a result of their work.[34805/24]
    • Cancer Services
      1771.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on construction of a respite and therapeutic centre for children diagnosed with cancer from across the island; to provide the total allocation;...
    • Abuse in Hospitals
      1772.To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with a group (details supplied) regarding the 2009 TC Smyth Review; if he will make arrangements to publish the review; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1773.To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34848/24]
    • Health Service Executive
      1774.To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE provides a grant for car safety harnesses for children with disabilities, such as autism; if so is the Minister aware of any discrepancies in this...
    • Dental Services
      1775.To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot access the HSE dental services even though their present issue was not initially treated correctly; and if he...
    • Departmental Staff
      1776.To ask the Minister for Health the number of political staff employed in his Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special advisers, drivers and other...
    • Ministerial Staff
      1777.To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by his Department since 2020; the Minister and Minister of State whom each adviser is...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1779.To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be offered to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34963/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      1780.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the shortage of a medication (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34965/24]
    • Nursing Homes
      1781.To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a long-stay bed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34975/24]
    • Home Care Packages
      1782.To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34982/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      1783.To ask the Minister for Health if he has sought an increase in funding for an organisation (details supplied) in Budget 2025; if he accepts that an allocation for 2025 of €5.5 million...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1784.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2510 of 23 July 2024, to provide an update on the subject access request/public-benefit corporation by the project team...
    • Organ Donation
      1788.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the opt-out register introduced as part of the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Act 2024;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1789.To ask the Minister for Health for clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35033/24]
    • Health Services
      1790.To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) has requested further funding to cover the shortfall of the voluntary settlement with revenue, if he has approved the...
    • Hospital Staff
      1791.To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for commencement of HSE recruitment for non-medical staff in the new national children’s hospital in Dublin 8.[35053/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      1792.To ask the Minister for Health if there is a shortage, or potential shortage, of the chemicals or medication necessary for chemotherapy treatments in any Irish hospitals; the remedial...
    • Hospital Services
      1793.To ask the Minister for Health the current visiting hours for in-patients operating within each public hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35062/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1795.To ask the Minister for Health for details of the process of creating a job description for the post of director of psychology in the South West Regional Health Area in the months leading up...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1799.To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment in Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1800.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for treatment for Osteoporosis in CHO5 and periods spent on waiting list, in tabular form.[35085/24]
    • Disease Management
      1802.To ask the Minister for Health the total funding allocated to diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.[35087/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1803.To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35091/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1805.To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify when non-medical job opportunities at the new Children’s Hospital will be advertised so that local people can apply; will there be a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1806.To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35108/24]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1807.To ask the Minister for Health his views on an issue with the drugs repayment scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35115/24]
    • Medical Cards
      1808.To ask the Minister for Health the procedure for renewal of a medical card and a family GP visit cards in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Reports
      1811.To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to receive the report on the Strategic Review of General Practice, and when he envisions implementing recommendations from the report; and if...
    • Mental Health Policy
      1812.To ask the Minister for Health in light of a proposed reform of the mental health legislation, if he will pay particular attention to proposals to restrict the options available when dealing...
    • Health Services
      1813.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 291 of 21 March 2024, if a review has been carried out into the impact of the cessation of child developmental checks...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1815.To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who, having been referred to University Hospital Limerick for an urgent operation, has yet to receive an...
    • Health Services Staff
      1816.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant orthodontists and specialist orthodontists working within HSE dental services in County Kildare for both adults and children, by...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1817.To ask the Minister for Health the number of resuscitation bays in the accident and emergency department in the Mater Hospital.[35169/24]
    • Health Services
      1818.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of menopause services; the number of clinics available throughout the public health service; the contact details for each...
    • Health Services Staff
      1819.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric urologist and paediatric urologist registrars based at CHI Temple Street in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1820.To ask the Minister for Health the number of resuscitation bays in the accident and emergency department in St. James's Hospital.[35172/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1821.To ask the Minister for Health the total complement of orthodontic dentists in the public system; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35190/24]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1827.To ask the Minister for Health the number of juvenile patients on the orthodontic dental waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35208/24]
    • Health Service Executive
      1828.To ask the Minister for Health the status of a primary medical certificate application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35210/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1829.To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE will recognise myalgic encephalomyelitis under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35216/24]
    • Nursing Homes
      1830.To ask the Minister for Health if an explanation will be provided for a scheme (details supplied); the way a person who is already in fair deal can avail of this scheme; when it was first...
    • Cancer Services
      1831.To ask the Minister for Health to address the concerns raised (details supplied) in respect of reports on the lack of vital chemotherapy drugs and cancelled treatments; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1832.To ask the Minister for Health if pre-registration contracts and post-registration contracts based on interviews conducted in the May/June timeframe will be offered to mental health nursing...
    • Hospital Services
      1833.To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to offer ophthalmic appointments at Roscommon University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35266/24]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1834.To ask the Minister for Health if the locum doctor who is taking over from a doctor (details supplied) will provide services for the same hours as were previously provided by the previous...
    • Abortion Services
      1835.To ask the Minister for Health the total cost of payments made to all providers of termination of pregnancy services for completed abortion procedures from 1 January 2024 to date; and if he...
    • Health Strategies
      1837.To ask the Minister for Health the number of conflict-of-interest declarations that were made relevant to the development of the National Clinical Guideline programme of work agreed between...
    • Youth Services
      1838.To ask the Minister for Health for an update in relation to the work of the HSE Foróige youth health initiative in Balbriggan; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35298/24]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      1839.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the waiting list for the HSE IVF scheme in the Rotunda Hospital; and if any consideration was given to ensuring that if persons opted for...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1840.To ask the Minister for Health when delivery of a communications device previously sanctioned will be secured for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Abortion Services
      1841.To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that approximately forty thousand terminations of pregnancy have been notified to his Department since 2019; if he will accept that this...
    • Health Services
      1842.To ask the Minister for Health the number of hydrotherapy pools available to the public that operate in each county, and the cost to the HSE if they were to support construction of...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1843.To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35368/24]
    • Health Services
      1844.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the shortage of named medicine (details supplied); the measures in place to source this medication; if he will confirm the efforts being made...
    • Hospital Transfers
      1847.To ask the Minister for Health the number of inter-hospital ambulatory transfers that have taken place between Mallow General Hospital and Cork University Hospital, for the years 2023 and to...
    • Health Strategies
      1852.To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a comprehensive newborn screening programme that ensures babies born in Ireland are screened for the European average of a minimum of...
    • Health Services Staff
      1853.To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the lack of dentists available for medical card patients in Sligo and Leitrim to access treatment under the dental treatment services...
    • Medical Cards
      1854.To ask the Minister for Health the considerations that his Department is giving to the inclusion of a drug (details supplied), which is now recognised as valuable medication in the treatment...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      1855.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that Section 39 workers who are funded by his Department were excluded from the pay restoration agreement between the Workplace Relations...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1856.To ask the Minister for Health the process for a child (details supplied) to access the school dental system; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35411/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1857.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35415/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1859.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that despite the recruitment embargo being lifted, the oncology ward of University Hospital Limerick has lost over a dozen nurses with no new...
    • Health Services Staff
      1860.To ask the Minister for Health when the pay scale of clinical placement coordinators will be aligned to the clinical nurse manager 2 pay scale; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1861.To ask the Minister for Health when a paediatric appointment in Letterkenny University Hospital will be given for a child (details supplied) in County Donegal; if the referral was routine or...
    • Health Promotion
      1862.To ask the Minister for Health the details of funding provided to the Sláintecare healthy communities programme in CHO 9 since 2019, in tabular form.[35445/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      1863.To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of the current funding provided by his Department funding for dual diagnosis supports in CHO9; and if he plans to develop a national centre for...
    • Health Promotion
      1864.To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of funding provided by his Department for sepsis awareness campaigns in each of the years 2019 to 2024, in tabular form.[35447/24]
    • General Practitioner Services
      1865.To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in CHO9 currently availing of free GP care.[35448/24]
    • Hospital Services
      1866.To ask the Minister for Health for update on breast cancer services in Beaumont Hospital since 2020.[35449/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1867.To ask the Minister for Health for update on funding to mental health services in CHO9; and if there have been any improvements to services since 2020.[35450/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1868.To ask the Minister for Health for an update on improvements to service delivery in Cappagh Hospital and any waiting list reductions.[35451/24]
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      1869.To ask the Minister for Health if he will support an application for capital funding for an organisation in Cork providing essential addiction services (details supplied), which would enable...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1870.To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the programme for the rollout of the respiratory syncytial virus vaccine to include all babies (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Health Services
      1871.To ask the Minister for Health if a long-stay bed will be offered to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35476/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      1872.To ask the Minister for Health to review the phased dispensing of prescription medication in blister packs for elderly patients living in rural areas (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Hospital Staff
      1873.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE occupational therapists and speech and language therapists, by grade, working in Mullingar Regional Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to date in...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1875.To ask the Minister for Health when a health centre in Donegal (details supplied) will be refurbished in order that a full service can resume in the centre which is essential to the local...
    • Medical Cards
      1876.To ask the Minister for Health the number of over 70s medical cards currently being provided in each local health office area, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1877.To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied).[35568/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1879.To ask the Minister for Health when a community intellectual disability nurse will be allocated to Waterford, the last county in CHO5 without such; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1880.To ask the Minister for Health his plans to fund and appoint a community neurorehabilitation team for HSE community health organisation area 5, now one of only two CHOs without said service;...
    • Health Services Staff
      1881.To ask the Minister for Health when a suicide crisis assessment nurse will be appointed to Waterford to fill the vacancy created by recent retirements; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Cards
      1883.To ask the Minister for Health to provide the latest annual (or quarterly) estimate for the reduction in the number of people in receipt of full medical cards and the increase in the number...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1885.To ask the Minister for Health the number of DNAs (did not attend) outpatient hospital appointments at each public hospital; the number of additional measures he is taking to reduce DNAs to...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1886.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who were removed from public healthcare waiting lists as a result of having passed away, and the numbers who had removed themselves from...
    • Medicinal Products
      1887.To ask the Minister for Health if he can advise on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35594/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1888.To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who urgently needs surgery for a severe coronary issue will receive same; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35610/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1889.To ask the Minister for Health the status of pay and remuneration for section 39 workers; whether payments to agencies will be backdated to when the announcement was made; whether backdating...
    • Health Services
      1890.To ask the Minister for Health if urgent transport assistance can be given to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35642/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1892.To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if an earlier appointment date will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1893.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE staff, by job title, working in the pharmacy department of Cavan General Hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1894.To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults waiting for vascular surgery nationwide.[35668/24]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1895.To ask the Minister for Health the number of funded and staffed high-dependency unit beds in each hospital part of RCSI hospital group in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1896.To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for paediatric neurosurgery nationwide.[35670/24]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1897.To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a specialist menopause clinic to be based in Cavan.[35671/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1898.To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical specialist physiotherapists in paediatric neurosciences at CHI Temple Street in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular...
    • Health Services
      1899.To ask the Minister for Health to ensure adequate funding to respond to the changing needs of people supported by an organisation (details supplied); whether he will take this matter into...
    • Hospital Staff
      1900.To ask the Minister for Health the number of new recruits in St. Michael’s Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park and St. Columcille’s...
    • Health Strategies
      1901.To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ban vapes being marketed to adults and children (details supplied).[35709/24]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1902.To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the HSE South/South West review of 2018-2019, relating to the location of a post-acute specialist regional rehabilitation unit for the...
    • Health Services Staff
      1903.To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff hired across all therapies, in each CHO and LHO, in tabular form.[35722/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1904.To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in relation to an urgent ENT appointment for a child (details supplied).[35754/24]
    • Health Service Executive
      1905.To ask the Minister for Health if he can intervene in the HSE decision to exclude health and social care professionals from the senior management team in the new HSE health regions; and if...
    • Departmental Appointments
      1906.To ask the Minister for Health when a chief pharmacist will be appointed in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35774/24]
    • Medical Cards
      1907.To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to change means testing for pensioners over the age of 70 years when it comes to applying for a medical card; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1908.To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider expanding the long-term illness scheme to more conditions such as early onset Alzheimer’s; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Charges
      1909.To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to accident and emergency charges of over €100 for parents of children with specialist care needs; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1910.To ask the Minister for Health the safeguarding policy in place for vulnerable patients (details supplied) once admitted to the emergency department in University Hospital Limerick; and if...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1911.To ask the Minister for Health the reason a patient (details supplied) has been waiting six months for an appointment, after two GP letters regarding the suspected recurrence of skin cancer,...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1912.To ask the Minister for Health the reason for delays in tonsillectomy for a child (details supplied) whose health is severely compromised due to the wait for this routine procedure; and if...
    • Health Services
      1913.To ask the Minister for Health the progress in extending the LIU hours in each CHO, in particular CHO3, as they are the most pressured CHO in the country; and if he will make a statement on...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1914.To ask the Minister for Health the means by which a pregnant person (details supplied) is supposed to avail of sufficient maternity care if no local GPs are willing to take her on as a...
    • Medical Cards
      1915.To ask the Minister for Health the income thresholds which now apply for the medical card and for the GP-only card; the current level of population eligible for each scheme; and the way the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1916.To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to extend the age range of children eligible for free GP services; if so, when the next age tranche might become eligible; and if he will make...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      1917.To ask the Minister for Health the categories of procedure for which the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) have intervened to deal with those waiting an excessively long time; the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1918.To ask the Minister for Health how the level of reimbursement is set for persons who are referred by medical practitioners for care outside Ireland for different procedures; and whether a...
    • Hospital Charges
      1919.To ask the Minister for Health the charges that remain in place for public patients attending public hospitals; and the situations in which an exemption for such charges is permitted.[35847/24]
    • Home Care Packages
      1920.To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons reached and care hours provided per person by the pilot home care support scheme, in tabular form; whether he has estimated the likely...
    • Hospital Staff
      1921.To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the lack of a dedicated/funded physiotherapy or occupational therapy post to acute stroke in University Hospital Waterford (UHW) (details...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1922.To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the new women’s health building in front of Austin Stack Park, Tralee; if it is correct that further works need to be carried out to ensure...
    • Health Services
      1923.To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in providing the agreed funding to an organisation (detail supplied); the rationale for waiting until services had to be suspended...
    • Health Service Executive
      1925.To ask the Minister for Health how the director of psychology role fits into the overall governance structure of the regional health areas; to outline how the development of the post was...
    • Health Services
      1930.To ask the Minister for Health if he will accept the recommendations of the National Radiation Therapist Review Report; and if he will commit to full implementation of said...
    • National Children's Hospital
      1931.To ask the Minister for Health the reason a department (details supplied) in Crumlin Hospital is not being transferred to the new National Children's Hospital; the plans for the department...
    • Health Services Staff
      1932.To ask the Minister for Health if he will include clinical placement coordinators in the revised PHN/CNM2/CNS salary scale pay agreement; the reason this linked grade has been excluded; and...
    • Hospital Services
      1934.To ask the Minister for Health the reason a maternity hospital is still operating pandemic-related visitor restrictions (details supplied); if there are plans to end this policy; and if he...
    • Nursing Homes
      1935.To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans for a 60-bed community nursing unit in Cashel, County Tipperary; if a new site has been identified (details supplied); the timeline he is...
    • Hospital Services
      1936.To ask the Minister for Health the days and hours of operation of the Cath Lab at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; if the hours of operation have been adjusted recently; and if he...
    • Health Services
      1940.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 627 of 27 February 2024, the current status of the HSE survey to measure the prevalence of long-Covid in the community;...
    • Medical Cards
      1941.To ask the Minister for Health for the continuation of entitlement to a medical card to automatically be available to children who turn 16 years old and domiciliary care allowance...
    • Medicinal Products
      1942.To ask the Minister for Health when investigations will complete on providing approval for a medication (details supplied) on the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      1943.To ask the Minister for Health for expansion of women’s health services to include free hormone replacement therapy services/products; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Service Executive
      1944.To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to the director of psychology post in the South West Regional Health Area; the date this was approved; if this allocation impacted...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1945.To ask the Minister for Health how the decision to pursue the appointment of a director of psychology post in the South West Regional Health Area is in line with the recruitment cap imposed...
    • Hospital Staff
      1946.To ask the Minister for Health when the two advanced nurse practitioner posts for adult type 1 diabetes care at Letterkenny University Hospital that have been applied for will be agreed to...
    • Mental Health Services
      1947.To ask the Minister for Health to provide an outline of the current structure and referral pathways of a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35942/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1948.To ask the Minister for Health if a physiotherapy appointment in the Midlands Regional Hospital Mullingar for a person (details supplied) will be expedited.[35945/24]
    • Home Help Service
      1949.To ask the Minister for Health if the provision of home help hours for a person (details supplied) will be expedited.[35947/24]
    • Hospital Services
      1950.To ask the Minister for Health if there is currently restricted access to the additional MRI scanner at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar; and if this scanner is available for both...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1951.To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment can be expedited for a person (details supplied).[35954/24]
    • Ambulance Service
      1952.To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the permanent ambulance base in a state-of-the-art facility in Carlow town (details supplied); the response rate in Carlow town and county for...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1953.To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) will be called for surgery at the first available date.[35959/24]
    • Health Services
      1954.To ask the Minister for Health the plans he is putting in place to get Ireland ready for the EU Health Data Space Regulation; and if he is confident Ireland can move its health records...
    • Nursing Homes
      1955.To ask the Minister for Health if he will give further consideration to the need to provide additional support for nursing home care; particularly for smaller-scale nursing home providers,...
    • Budget 2025
      1956.To ask the Minister for Health if further consideration will be given to the pre-budget 2025 submission of a national organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1957.To ask the Minister for Health when additional and modern facilities will be provided at a hospital (details supplied) to enable increased capacity and eliminate delays in provision of...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Education and Training Boards
      1958.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of people who have undertaken the mandatory all-terrain vehicle-quad bike training since the introduction of the new regulations in...
    • Third Level Education
      1959.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students from the State studying at further and higher education level in Northern Ireland in the academic years 2022-2023 and...
    • Third Level Fees
      1960.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the income that is assessed in the case of an applicant who may apply for SUSI grant funding whose parents are deceased and who is in the care of...
    • Programme for Government
      1962.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of his Department.[34010/24]
    • Third Level Fees
      1963.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a Susi grant application for a person (details supplied) will be re-examined.[34080/24]
    • Irish Language
      1964.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of expenditure made by each education and training board and SOLAS (in the form of euros and percentages of the total expenditure by...
    • Third Level Education
      1966.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action taken to ensure the HEA’s implementation of a borrowing framework for technological universities (TU); when he last engaged...
    • Irish Sign Language
      1967.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, given that in public bodies Irish sign language is available, but not in adult education centres, which is preventing people upskilling, he...
    • Third Level Education
      1968.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether his Department has provided any support for partnerships between Irish higher education institutions and Palestinian higher education...
    • Third Level Fees
      1969.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider changing the means test for SUSI grants, in order that essential outgoings such as health insurance and mortgages are taken...
    • Student Accommodation
      1971.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to parliamentary question 766 of 30 April 2024, will he provide an update regarding the use that can be made of the dormant funds...
    • Education and Training Boards
      1972.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the age category was changed from 16 to 18 years for the intake of students who had enrolled on the pre-apprenticeship programmes at...
    • Research and Development
      1976.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position Ireland is taking regarding the inclusion of Israel in any successors to Horizon Europe; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Student Accommodation
      1977.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the flaw in the SUSI requirements which potentially excludes those who rent a room under the rent-a-room scheme of being able...
    • Official Travel
      1978.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of flights he has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming office.[34758/24]
    • Further and Higher Education
      1979.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital funding allocated to a university (details supplied) between 2019-2024, in tabular form.[34782/24]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      1982.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the North South Research Programme contribution (rounds 1 and 2, 2022-2027) €50 million; to provide the total allocation;...
    • State Bodies
      1985.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the delays encountered by building workers returning from Australia getting the necessary licences from Solas;...
    • Third Level Fees
      1986.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to excessive fees for graduate entry medicine courses (details supplied); the actions he will take to address...
    • Departmental Staff
      1987.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of political staff employed in his Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special advisers, drivers...
    • Ministerial Staff
      1988.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by his Department since 2020; the Minister and Minister of State whom each...
    • Budget 2025
      1990.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review correspondence (details supplied); if he will make a provision in budget 2025 for such a contribution; and if he will make a statement...
    • Regional Development
      1991.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projects supported by the regional skills funds operated by his Department in support of each of the regional skills fora in the past five...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1992.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students from this State studying at further and higher education level in Britain in the academic years 2022/2023 and 2023/2024;...
    • Qualifications Recognition
      1994.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average timeframe for transferring a recognised construction work licence from Australia to Ireland; what is required for such a transfer to...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1995.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown in apprenticeships available in County Tipperary from 2021 to date in 2024, in tabular form.[35084/24]
    • Further and Higher Education
      1996.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to ensure that there is a further provision of places in third level institutions for students wishing to follow courses in...
    • State Bodies
      1997.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the make-up of the board of Taighde Éireann; the number of researchers currently on the board; and the method for appointment.[35163/24]
    • Student Accommodation
      1999.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures his Department is taking to improve the provision and availability of student rental accommodation; and if he will make a statement...
    • Further and Higher Education
      2001.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the 120 to 150 day waiting period for those waiting for labour market access letters to access further education and his plans to...
    • Student Accommodation
      2002.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the income assessments for SUSI will be reviewed (details supplied); the measures the Government will take to help with the accommodation...
    • Education and Training Provision
      2003.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to intervene in a funding matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35479/24]
    • Further and Higher Education
      2004.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider reviewing the income threshold currently being applied to the higher education access route (HEAR); to details of annual...
    • Third Level Admissions
      2007.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in 2023 that were denied a place on their course of choice due to the ‘third language’ criterion enforced by...
    • Education and Training Boards
      2008.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address a teaching hours matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35555/24]
    • Research Funding
      2010.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will seek information from the Higher Education Authority on the number of higher education institutions that were ineligible for research...
    • Further and Higher Education
      2011.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of the new veterinary training course; whether the location has been finalised; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      2016.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of apprenticeship options which will be available for enrolment in the coming academic year; and the level of respective...
    • Institutes of Technology
      2017.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a proposed building project will proceed to the next stage (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35985/24]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      2018.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in increasing the number of persons taking up apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35986/24]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Funding
      2019.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if additional funding will be provided for a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter.[33872/24]
    • Programme for Government
      2022.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of her Department.[34015/24]
    • Control of Dogs
      2023.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to reduce dog bite incidents in the community; if her attention has been drawn to research which suggests legislation...
    • Community Development Projects
      2024.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason that community recognition fund grants have yet to be awarded for 2024.[34160/24]
    • Control of Dogs
      2028.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the annual 2023 dog control statistics will be published on her Department's website; if she plans to move to a quarterly release...
    • Animal Welfare
      2029.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the dates on which her Department inspected a dog pound (details supplied) since it opened.[34373/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      2030.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider revising upwards the core funding and support staff funding available to an organisation (details supplied); and...
    • Official Travel
      2031.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of flights she has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming office.[34763/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      2032.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a valid CLÁR application has been submitted by a community centre (details supplied); and when a decision on CLÁR...
    • Departmental Staff
      2033.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of political staff employed in her Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special...
    • Ministerial Staff
      2034.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a list of the names of each special adviser employed by his Department since 2020; the Minister and Minister of State whom...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2036.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of community grants issued under the different schemes operated by her Department in each year since 2016; and the...
    • Urban Development
      2039.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development If she will outline the aggregate investment to date in the Town Centre First Project; if she will highlight some of the greatest...
    • Ferry Services
      2040.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the arrangements made with subsidised ferry operators and connecting bus transport links to ensure carriage of small animals such as...
    • Departmental Funding
      2041.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated annual cost of restoring funding to the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme to its 2008 levels, in...
    • Departmental Programmes
      2045.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to give an overview of current EU rules for de minimis LEADER funding, both for community and commercial.[35093/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      2047.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on a proposal regarding LEADER funding (details supplied).[35097/24]
    • Community Development Projects
      2051.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a community centre in County Kerry (details supplied) will be permitted to use savings made on a 2022 community centre investment...
    • Departmental Schemes
      2052.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department will provide Kerry County Council with project returns and details of the local contribution received for a 2022...
    • Library Projects
      2053.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total contribution made by her Department to the construction of the new library in Finglas village.[35441/24]
    • Community Development Projects
      2054.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she expects to announce the 2024 community centres investment fund awards; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35487/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      2055.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of an application (details supplied) for funding under the community centres investment fund; and if she will make a...
    • Control of Dogs
      2056.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development who will be enforcing the ban on the classification of dogs known as ‘XL Bully breed’; the definition of an ‘XL...
    • National Planning Framework
      2058.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she is aware of the updated National Planning Framework’s projections for the geographical distribution of future job and...
    • Departmental Funding
      2060.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the community centres located within both Cavan and Monaghan that received capital funding under the community centres investment fund...
    • Control of Dogs
      2061.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will outline her Department’s provision for the additional funding and resources of veterinary services by local...
    • Disability Services
      2067.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports available for people on disability in rural areas, to ensure that they can afford transport to hospital appointments; and...
    • Departmental Programmes
      2068.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the up-to-date position regarding the review of Clár areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35992/24]

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