Written answers
Wednesday, 2 October 2024
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Special Educational Needs
7. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that have been taken to address the shortage of additional need services at a school (details supplied);...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
14. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration will be given to raising the pay of early years educators by €1.50 per hour, as sought by...
- Childcare Services
15. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost of moving the entire childcare system into a public State model operated by the Department of Education,...
- Disability Services
16. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will consider the provision of new clinical therapies such as kinesitherapy for children with...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
17. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early learning and childcare facilities in the mid-Cork region that have withdrawn from Core...
- Disability Services
18. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the budgetary measures implemented since 2020 to support and improve services for adults with additional needs in...
- Disabilities Assessments
19. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress being made to ensure that every child who requires an assessment of needs has early access to same,...
- Childcare Services
20. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the most recent data on childcare closures and new openings; if he has data on expansions and on the number of...
- Departmental Projects
21. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects the proposed national centre for research and remembrance to advance; when physical works will be...
- International Protection
22. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he agrees with the Taoiseach that immigration is causing the homelessness crisis; and if he will make a...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
23. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to provide capital funding for the development of facilities for providers of early childhood care and...
- International Protection
24. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has conducted a socio-economic impact assessment in relation to the accommodation recognition...
- Childcare Services
25. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration will be given to implementing Sinn Féin's €10 a day childcare affordability plan;...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
26. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare services availing of the new Equal Start support package; if he has plans to expand the...
- Disability Services
27. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the work of his Department in providing assistive technologies to aid children with autism; and...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
29. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration has been given to increasing financial assistance for parents who are sending their children to...
- Childcare Services
30. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on his efforts to make childcare accessible and affordable; the amount he believes it is...
- Departmental Schemes
31. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the national childcare scheme will be open to childminders who are not registered with Tusla; and if he will...
- Childcare Services
32. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will engage with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the provision of childcare...
- Youth Services
33. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the new measures he has implemented in the area of youth work and youth employability; and if he will make a...
- Childcare Services
34. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to increase core funding for childcare providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39083/24]
- Disability Services
35. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the discussions he had with the Minister for Social Protection in advance of Budget 2025 with regard to...
- International Protection
36. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of international protection applicant refugees that are currently without accommodation; and if he...
- Flexible Work Practices
37. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is a plan to expand entitlements to flexible working and remote working contained in the Work Life...
- Equality Issues
38. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on development of the next LGBTQI+ inclusion strategy; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Childcare Services
39. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether an up-to-date audit of the gaps in childcare provision is being planned to inform future capital...
- Rights of People with Disabilities
40. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to ensure the ratification of the Optional Protocol of the United Nations Convention on...
- Mother and Baby Homes
41. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 291 of 18 June 2024, the number of applications to the mother and baby...
- Disability Services
42. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE staff that will be removed from each CDNT into special schools, in tabular form; and if he...
- Health Services
43. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the work currently being undertaken to recognise foetal alcohol syndrome as a long-term condition and disability;...
- Childcare Services
44. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will establish a publicly owned childcare service in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Meetings
46. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times he has met with the Minister for Health in person regarding pay and conditions for CDNT...
- Departmental Funding
47. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding streams available under his Department to assist with migrant integration; the amount allocated under...
- Disability Services
48. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average waiting times for services in community disability network teams in Dublin mid-west; and if he will...
- Child Poverty
49. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on his Department's efforts to tackle child poverty in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...
- Special Educational Needs
50. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will approve a suite of interim funding arrangements for special schools to hire their own school...
- Disability Services
51. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress being made in addressing the delivery of assessment of need and therapy services for disabled...
- Special Educational Needs
52. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the next phase of the pilot programme to reinstate in-therapy supports to special schools; when...
- Childcare Services
53. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is satisfied with the availability of childcare facilities, given the increasing need for both parents to...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Departmental Contracts
54. To ask the Taoiseach the breakdown of the fees received by each external barrister, senior counsel or legal firm engaged by his Department or the Attorney General in relation to a tax case...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Middle East
55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions Ireland has taken to comply with the 19 July 2024 determination by the International Court of Justice on Israel’s presence...
- Passport Services
56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for long delays in the processing of first-time passport applications. [39270/24]
- Foreign Birth Registration
57. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on a foreign birth registration (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39284/24]
- Passport Services
58. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the rationale for the random selection of passport applications for spot checks following consideration by a checker; when this procedure was...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Fishing Industry
63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied with the current perverse salmon angling regulations that compel anglers to return alive rod caught...
- Special Areas of Conservation
65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or his officials have ever issued a ministerial consent under ‘ARC 02’ for the stocking of...
- Inland Fisheries
66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of WTE fisheries officers employed by Inland Fisheries Ireland in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular...
- Departmental Bodies
67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the ongoing issues faced by PhD researchers funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Córas Iompair Éireann
68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if steps can be taken to enhance the CIÉ 1951 pension scheme which has not paid out an increase for the past sixteen years; and if he...
- Bus Services
69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of service-related fines Go Ahead has received in the past three years, broken down by the relative route/reasoning. [39254/24]
- Road Network
70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will arrange for an engineer’s report into an ongoing hazardous water lodging situation with a junction (details supplied)...
- Departmental Correspondence
71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if clarity will be provided on this issue and make a statement on same. [39290/24]
- Airport Policy
72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will approve funding for the runway extension at Waterford Airport; if he will set out a timeframe for a decision; and if he will...
- Bus Services
73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an update in respect of the commencement of the W6 bus route can be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39305/24]
- Telecommunications Infrastructure
74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the radar and associated communications infrastructure at a location (details supplied) has been decommissioned and no longer in use;...
- Departmental Bodies
75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount expended by the Road Safety Authority and the National Transport Authority on external communications advice or training for...
- Bus Services
76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of putting in place a rapid bus transit system alongside the Midleton to Youghal greenway in east Cork; and if he will...
- Airport Policy
77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the technical financial analysis in full detail that has delayed a Department review of the Waterford airport business...
- Departmental Expenditure
79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the names of other projects approved for capital support in excess of €1 million in the last ten years, where the...
- Department of Finance
- Departmental Correspondence
80. To ask the Minister for Finance if correspondence (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39281/24]
- Departmental Contracts
81. To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of the fees received by each external barrister, senior counsel or legal firm engaged by his Department in relation to a tax case (details...
- Departmental Schemes
82. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 4 July 2024, if there is to be an update to the disabled drivers and passengers scheme in this budget cycle;...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Courts Service
83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) regarding the issue of enduring cuts to criminal fees, which is impacting on the...
- Heritage Sites
84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he proposes to begin construction of the new protective structure to accommodate the Turoe Stone at Turoe, Bullaun, Loughrea, County...
- Office of Public Works
85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount expended by the OPW on external communications advice or training for its senior leadership team in 2022, 2023 and to date in...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Departmental Bodies
87. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount expended by the IDA and Enterprise Ireland on external communications advice or training for its senior leadership team in...
- Work Permits
88. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the additional quota of 500 visas for home carers that were due to be released on 2 September 2024 will be approved and made...
- Official Engagements
89. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he met with a person (details supplied) during his recent visit to the west coast of the USA. [39246/24]
- Departmental Expenditure
90. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of the €7.5 million funding the Government gives to the alcohol industry yearly that is ringfenced or dedicated to...
- Department of Education and Skills
- State Examinations
91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce extra time in second-level examinations for students with dyslexia, dyscalculia and other learning difficulties; and if she...
- School Accommodation
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expressly accept and approve the appeal made to her Department by a school (details supplied) in respect of a refused emergency works...
- School Transport
93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address the shortage of school buses for a school (details supplied), which means that after four weeks of school term, some students are still...
- School Accommodation
94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an additional accommodation project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39228/24]
- State Examinations
95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to the provision of additional time in second-level examinations for students with dyslexia, dyscalculia, and other...
- School Accommodation
96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a response will issue to a communication from a school (details supplied) in County Donegal relating to a grant aid for major capital works...
- Schools Building Projects
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in respect of the provision of permanent school buildings for a school in Kildare north (details supplied). [39236/24]
- School Transport
98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a parent’s request (details supplied) for appropriate school transport services can be reviewed to ensure that their son can access the...
- School Accommodation
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39257/24]
- School Patronage
100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will launch the planned national survey for parents on school ethos as part of Government efforts to change more...
- School Funding
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review correspondence from a school (details supplied); the funding options open to this school; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 186 of 24 September 2024, the reason there was no reference to the reluctant decision by the board of...
- Teaching Council of Ireland
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a person (details supplied) to the Teaching Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39300/24]
- Departmental Correspondence
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or her legal representatives will expedite a reply to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Schools Building Projects
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the recent progress of a school building project (details supplied), given that planning permission issued in 2021; and if she...
- Sports Facilities
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Topical Issue debate No. 2 of 25 September 2024, if she has received a request from Cork Education and Training Board pertaining to...
- School Accommodation
107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for a reconfiguration project; when the project will commence; and if she will make a...
- School Enrolments
108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail any engagement with a national school in County Louth (details supplied) that is faced with falling student numbers; and if she will...
- School Transport
109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she proposes to increase the hourly rate of €13.40 paid to bus escorts for special education schools; when this rate was last revised;...
- State Examinations
112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration is being given to introducing extra time in State examinations for those with certain learning differences (details supplied);...
- School Enrolments
113. 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...
- School Accommodation
114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if grants are available to schools for the replacement of old carpets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39460/24]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Sports Funding
116. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reasons an organisation (details supplied) was awarded significantly less than it applied for under the sports capital scheme;...
- Swimming Pools
117. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the Government has any intention of providing a public swimming pool in Loughrea, Galway (details supplied); and if she will...
- Sports Funding
118. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reasons a grant application from a club (details supplied) was refused; when this GAA club will be able to submit an appeal;...
- Artificial Intelligence
121. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the use of AI generative art by An Post; if her Department has issued any guidelines to public...
- Sports Funding
122. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of sports capital applications, successful and unsuccessful, per county, in tabular form; and if she will make a...
- Broadcasting Sector
123. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will give detailed and urgent consideration to the issues raised in correspondence from a national representative...
- Swimming Pools
124. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will finally ensure that a project (details supplied) is approved given that it was first initiated fifty years ago and...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- State Bodies
125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount expended by An Bord Pleanála on external communications advice or training for its senior leadership team in...
- Seanad Elections
126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason graduates from private and independent higher education institutions in Ireland, specifically those awarded QQI,...
- Electoral Process
127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has considered lowering the voting age to 16- or 17-years-of-age; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Wildlife Protection
128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of third-party bodies who conduct counts of bird species in Ireland on behalf of his Department or the...
- Planning Issues
132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the process by which an individual may submit an objection or observation on a development seeking planning permission change...
- Approved Housing Bodies
134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the name of the approved housing body that will manage the 326 social homes approved for capital advance leasing facility...
- Domestic Violence
135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the review of guidance for local authorities in relation to assisting victims of domestic violence with...
- Special Areas of Conservation
136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he and his officials in the National Parks and Wildlife Service have plans to designate the Aughrim River catchment, County...
- Defective Building Materials
137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to this Deputy’s previous correspondence on the inclusion of Sligo in the defective concrete blocks grant...
- Wastewater Treatment
138. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific timeline on the completion of the wastewater scheme for Ramsgrange, County Wexford; and if he will make a...
- Housing Provision
139. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will with a matter of urgency authorise the purchase of a minimum of 200 houses from the open market to facilitate the...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Payments
141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in a disability allowance payment to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Benefits
142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children in receipt of domiciliary care allowance in 2020, 2022 and 2023; the number of children who...
- Departmental Contracts
143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount her Department paid to external companies to provide security personnel at Intreo offices in 2023 and to date in...
- Social Welfare Benefits
144. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a domiciliary care allowance application submitted by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will make...
- Social Welfare Appeals
146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm the status of an appeal for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be likely to be reached in this case...
- Departmental Properties
147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason there are no public toilet facilities at the Sligo INTREO office, Cranmore Road, Sligo (details supplied). [39303/24]
- Departmental Schemes
148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to consider changes that could be made to the rural social scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Social Welfare Benefits
149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Social Welfare Code
150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration could be given to revising the means test required to qualify for disability allowance (details supplied);...
- Social Welfare Benefits
151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider providing every person with a disability a free travel pass (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Departmental Websites
153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection regarding the delay in processing address changes uploaded to mywelfare.ie, if she is aware that persons (details supplied)...
- School Meals Programme
154. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to expand the school hot meals programme in 2025; the work in hand for same; and if she will make a statement on...
- Social Welfare Benefits
155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the income threshold for fuel allowance in order that those in receipt of public service pensions are...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Road Traffic Offences
156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convictions have taken place under the Road Traffic (Traffic and Parking) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 since they...
- Prison Service
157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners who are addicted; and the number of full-time addiction nurses are there employed in Mountjoy Prison....
- An Garda Síochána
158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made in the past six months regarding the new Garda dog training centre. [39244/24]
- Citizenship Applications
160. 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...
- Domestic Violence
161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding model for domestic violence refuges in Ireland. [39273/24]
- An Garda Síochána
162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1055 of 9 September 2024, if a breakdown of the 300 Garda transfer applications approved,...
- Naturalisation Applications
163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a naturalisation certificate will issue in the case of a person (details supplied), who paid the required fee in May 2024;...
- Courts Service
164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number prosecutions that have been carried out under section 26 of the International Protection Act 2015 in the past five...
- Prison Service
166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of counselling hours provided by prison in 2017 and 2024, respectively, in tabular form.; and if she will make a...
- Family Reunification
169. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a family reunification application in respect of a family (details supplied). [39421/24]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Energy Infrastructure
170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 25 September 2024, if he will clarify that his Department has evidence of insurance cover...
- Agriculture Industry
171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has taken any steps to consider appropriate setback rules for anaerobic digestors similar to those in place for...
- Energy Policy
172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department has taken to ensure that anaerobic digestion projects will provide a social benefit to the communities in...
- Agriculture Schemes
173. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person in County Cork (details supplied) will receive their ACRES payment. [39221/24]
- Agriculture Industry
177. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the slurry spreading deadline; whether his Department is reviewing this matter; and if he will make a statement on...
- Agriculture Schemes
178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an ACRES 2023 balance payment for a person (details supplied) will be received; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Veterinary Services
179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagement he has had with the beekeeping community regarding proposals to make all anti-parasite medicines only available on...
- Horse Racing Industry
180. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount expended by Horse Racing Ireland, the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board and Rásaíocht Con Éireann on...
- Greyhound Industry
181. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of individual greyhound pups born in Ireland during the period 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023, with a breakdown of...
- Agriculture Schemes
182. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a basic income support for sustainability and areas of natural constraint payments will issue to a person (details supplied) in...
- Food Safety
185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he remains satisfied that food and food products, with particular reference to meat imported into this country, are subject to the...
- Departmental Data
186. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of dairy and meat products that have been imported into this jurisdiction in each of the past five years to date, by...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Disability Services
187. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to provide respite services for disabled people in County Cork. [39322/24]
- Disabilities Assessments
188. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when parents can expect to receive an ASD assessment through the HSE for their child (details supplied); and if...
- School Staff
190. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE on-site school therapists, by grade, operating in each special school in Dublin in 2022, 2023...
- Health Services Staff
191. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the locations within CHO7 where community specialist teams are based, in tabular form. [39249/24]
- Health Services
192. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the locations within CHO9 where community specialist teams are based, in tabular form. [39250/24]
- Early Childhood Care and Education
193. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to ensure that early childhood education and childcare services are able to deal with...
- Disability Services
194. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the proportion of respite places (day and night) available in CHO9 compared to the other CHO areas for 2023,...
- Child and Family Agency
195. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount expended by TUSLA on external communications advice or training for its senior leadership team in...
- Family Resource Centres
196. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding available for family resource centres (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Disability Services
197. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a report on the number of sanctioned whole-time posts across CDNTs in September 2020, September 2021,...
- Childcare Services
198. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the scheme for registration with Tusla and access to the national childcare scheme is open to persons who...
- Youth Services
199. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider increasing youth work funding to pre-austerity levels, adjusted for inflation and population...
- Departmental Budgets
200. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which the funds available to his Department remain adequate to meet whatever challenges may arise,...
- Childcare Services
201. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which it may be possible to provide sufficient childcare places at an affordable rate to ensure...
- Disability Services
203. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which disability services for children are readily available throughout north County Kildare; the...
- Youth Services
205. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he continues to liaise with youth groups and representatives in County Kildare and...
- Childcare Services
206. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which his Department liaises with the Department of Education with a view to putting in place...
- Equality Issues
207. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he proposes to use equality as a means of ensuring proper and adequate services to those...
- Mental Health Services
208. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which the concerns of parents of children with mental health problems are regularly monitored,...
- Children in Care
209. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children currently in the various forms of care, institutional or otherwise; the degree to which...
- Disability Services
210. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if further funding will be provided to deal with the problems with CDNTs in County Donegal, such as long wating...
- Department of Health
- National Children's Hospital
212. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the bill of quantity for the National Children’s Hospital tender and contract; to provide a bill of quantity for the National Maternity...
- Hospital Services
213. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to secure spare capacity in the renal department at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39198/24]
- Tobacco Control Measures
214. To ask the Minister for Health the logic of allowing a 17-year-old bring tobacco and alcohol into the country through duty free, but banning the purchase of tobacco until the age of 21 in...
- Health Services Staff
216. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unfilled positions for speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and psychologists in CHO4, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Appointments Status
217. To ask the Minister for Health when a person from Donegal (details supplied) can expect a date for a back operation from Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- National Children's Hospital
218. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the plan, timescale and the costs for providing the necessary equipment for the National Children’s Hospital; if existing or old equipment...
- Health Service Executive
223. To ask the Minister for Health whether the land currently owned and used by the HSE in Corduff as a mental health day centre and formerly the primary care centre, could also be used to...
- Health Services Staff
225. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39256/24]
- Nursing Homes
227. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE can continue to operate a nursing home (details supplied) on an interim basis in order to allow a timeframe for prospective purchasers/investors to...
- Dental Services
229. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in CHO7 currently waiting on dental and orthodontic treatment and the length of time spent on the list for treatment. [39269/24]
- Nursing Homes
230. To ask the Minister for Health the measures HIQA will take to ensure the safety and well-being of vulnerable residents in a nursing home (details supplied). [39271/24]
- Medicinal Products
231. To ask the Minister for Health that actions that are being immediately taken to ensure that a person (details supplied) can have access to their prescribed medication within the State; and...
- Health Service Executive
233. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39285/24]
- Health Services
234. To ask the Minister for Health to provide additional funding to an organisation (details supplied) which can currently only provide 20 hours of day care at home for people with...
- Medicinal Products
235. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2092 of 23 July 2024, the reason only €61.9 million of the €98 million allocated to new medicines was spent...
- Departmental Meetings
236. To ask the Minister for Health the number of meetings his Department’s working group (details supplied) has held in 2024; the specific date of the last online or in-person meeting of...
- Departmental Policies
237. To ask the Minister for Health if there are pathways available for individuals with advanced qualifications such as a masters in chaplaincy to become registered wedding and funeral...
- Healthcare Policy
238. To ask the Minister for Health if he could re-examine the waiting times for a patient to be considered under the access to care scheme for urgent medical procedures, from the current 36...
- Hospital Appointments Status
239. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be urgently expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39319/24]
- National Children's Hospital
240. To ask the Minister for Health the amount expended by the HSE and the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board on external communications advice or training for its senior leadership...
- Cancer Services
241. 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 the recommendations on...
- Hospital Equipment
242. To ask the Minister for Health if a CT scanner has ever been considered or approved for installation in St. Michael’s Hospital, Dún Laoghaire; if so, the outcome; where the...
- Health Services Staff
243. To ask the Minister for Health the name and location of each section 38 and section 39 organisation; the number of staff employed at that location and their grades; and the disparity between...
- Health Strategies
244. To ask the Minister for Health if the new national drugs strategy will definitively address alcohol in a comprehensive manner, or if a standalone national alcohol strategy is needed; and if...
- Vaccination Programme
245. To ask the Minister for Health if he would consider extending RSV immunisation to babies who were due on or after 1 September 2024 but were born prematurely; and if he will make a statement...
- Health Services
246. To ask the Minister for Health when a child in County Kerry will receive a date for an appointment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39338/24]
- Clinical Trials
248. To ask the Minister for Health the details of clinical trials that are taking place in Ireland; the rate of clinical trials that have taken place over the past four to five years; the...
- Hospital Facilities
249. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on capital funding for the approved 97-bed ward extension at Wexford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39348/24]
- Pharmacy Services
250. To ask the Minister for Health when pay for community pharmacies will be restored (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39376/24]
- Cancer Services
251. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a report (details supplied); if he will accept and implement the recommendations of the report; in particular, his plans to fully implement the...
- Hospital Staff
253. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the process to appoint a new cardiology consultant at Cavan and Monaghan Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39387/24]
- Health Services Staff
254. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide a dedicated stoma nurse for primary, community and continuing care services in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on...
- Primary Care Centres
255. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to provide a primary care centre for Youghal, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39401/24]
- Hospital Staff
256. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a report on the number of sanctioned whole-time posts in the Ireland East Hospital Group in September in 2020, September 2021, September 2022,...
- Mental Health Services
257. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a report on the numbers of sanctioned whole-time posts across CAMHS in September 2020, September 2021, September 2022, September 2023 and September...
- National Children's Hospital
258. To ask the Minister for Health the procurement process of the Children's Hospital, its expected opening date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39432/24]
- Mental Health Services
259. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, in respect of the county Clare CAMHS structures, the number of teams in place, if there are any vacancies on these teams; and if he will make a...
- Primary Care Services
260. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the problems facing Shannondoc; the reason its services are now limited to those living in the west Clare; and if he will make a statement...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Hospital Facilities
261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progress of the new Wexford campus of SETU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39349/24]
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Funding
262. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the cumulative funding provided in each Dublin local authority area since 2020 to date in 2024 under the Social Inclusion and...
