Written answers

Tuesday, 5 November 2024

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Programmes
      1. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of his Department's shared island unit. [43250/24]
    • Cabinet Committees
      4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [42937/24]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      9. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent visit to Washington D.C. [41649/24]
    • European Council
      16. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update following his attendance at the EU-Gulf Cooperation Council Summit and European Council. [42872/24]
    • Middle East
      21. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent discussions he has had with other world leaders in connection with the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [44965/24]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Citizens' Assembly
      22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the commitment given in the programme for Government to hold a citizens' assembly on the future of education. [44829/24]
    • State Examinations
      23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it has been brought to her attention that students from the Republic are missing out on college places in the UK, including Northern Ireland,...
    • School Costs
      24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the practice of voluntary contributions in schools; whether her Department has collected data on the number of schools that...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills as per her recent press release extending the therapy pilot scheme to schools seeking DEIS status, how many therapists this involves; the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional resources she plans to provide for children with additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44964/24]
    • School Transport
      27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional routes that have been added for the school year 2024-25. [44971/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of issues faced by a special school (details supplied) where students with high support needs who would have been allocated an SNA...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce a DEIS-plus band for the most disadvantaged schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44960/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the recent announcement regarding a new special school for Cork for the 2025-26 school term, if a location has been identified for the...
    • Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta
      32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén obair a rinne sí i dtaca leis an ngealltanas sa Chlár Rialtais chun líon na ndaltaí i scoileanna lán-Ghaeilge a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date plans for the school inclusion model; the timeline for this plan; if costs have been determined for this plan; and if she will make...
    • School Staff
      35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to fill the almost 1,000 vacant teaching posts across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44992/24]
    • Education Standards
      36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the latest data available to her on literacy and numeracy performance across schools; if she will indicate how great is the deviation between...
    • Special Educational Needs
      37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that no artificial cap is placed on the number of students who can attend an ASD unit within a school (details supplied). [44995/24]
    • School Funding
      38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she will take to ensure that a school (details supplied) is not forced to close due to a loss of funding from the Central Remedial...
    • School Accommodation
      39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a further update regarding the urgent need for an ASD unit at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Special Educational Needs
      40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe and capacity of the proposed special school in County Monaghan. [44994/24]
    • School Funding
      41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider further development of excellence funds to promote innovation within schools and between clusters of schools; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is intended to review and change the method by which SET hours are allocated to primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Enrolments
      44. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she will take to provide appropriate school places this school year for all children who need them; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Pleananna Oideachais
      45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén fáth nach bhfuil díolúine ar fáil ón mBéarla sa chaoi is a bhfuil ón nGaeilge, fiú i scoileanna...
    • School Enrolments
      46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made to ensure sufficient school places at all schools, primary, second level and special needs, throughout Kildare North,...
    • School Staff
      48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to establish a comprehensive support system for educators who become victims of violence within the workplace, ensuring a swift and empathetic...
    • Special Educational Needs
      49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is putting in place to ensure that children with additional needs are not left without their SETs due to the shortage of...
    • State Examinations
      50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider implementing an extra time allowance for secondary school students with dyslexia during State examinations under the RACE...
    • Special Educational Needs
      51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is intended to review and change the method by which SNAs are allocated to primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Enrolments
      52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she continues to ensure the availability of an adequate number of teaching staff in all primary, second level and special...
    • School Staff
      53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to extend benefit to provide assault leave to teachers and SNAs for the duration of the medically certified leave, not just three to six months....
    • School Enrolments
      54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions taken since September 2024 to ensure that every child who is seeking a school place has one. [44970/24]
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of capital investments in the school estate. [44935/24]
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Inquiries
      56. To ask the Taoiseach the reason he does not intend to provide for compellability of witnesses who will not voluntarily co-operate with the Covid-19 inquiry; and, if not, the reason; and if he...
    • Departmental Programmes
      57. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an overview of the shared island programme since its launch in 2020, including the funding provided to each project and the initiatives supported, in tabular...
    • Labour Market
      58. To ask the Taoiseach the number of people employed in the manufacturing and servicing sectors in County Kildare, respectively; and the degree to which this number has fluctuated in the past...
    • Departmental Staff
      59. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in his Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of staff, by grade, on a career break of more than...
    • Energy Prices
      61. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 29 of 23 October 2024, the cost of importing electricity energy in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form....
    • Civil Service
      62. To ask the Taoiseach if he is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform Circular 4/2013 are being properly...
    • Departmental Equipment
      63. To ask the Taoiseach the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Official Engagements
      68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagements with Israeli officials in relation to the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      69. 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...
    • Departmental Staff
      70. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in his Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of staff, by grade, on a...
    • British-Irish Co-operation
      71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the status of his negotiations with the British Government on an agreement that would resolve the long-standing...
    • Rockall Island Ownership
      72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the status of his negotiations with the British Government on an agreement that would reinstate access for Irish...
    • Departmental Staff
      73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of civil servants, by grade, in his Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those who in 2023 and...
    • Civil Service
      74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform Circular 4/2013...
    • Consular Services
      75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of a very tragic case (details supplied); if his Department is in direct contact with the family to offer support in order to...
    • Passport Services
      76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will examine an issue regarding the issuing of an Irish passport (details supplied) under a name legally changed by deed poll, and...
    • Military Aircraft
      77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if permission was granted for flight RCH700 to operate within Irish sovereign airspace on 16 and 17 October 2024, specifically following its...
    • Passport Services
      78. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if passports for persons (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44535/24]
    • Human Rights
      79. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is monitoring the increased crackdown on freedom of assembly and expression in Bahrain in response to pro-Palestine protests since...
    • Passport Services
      83. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the average time it takes to process a passport application where the documentation provided is correct and complete for a person born abroad...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when an application (details supplied) will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44810/24]
    • Departmental Equipment
      91. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress to date in the foreign birth registration in the case of a person (details supplied); when the application is expected to be...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish Consul General based in Los Angeles has met or spoken directly with the Governor of Hawaii to date in 2024. [45060/24]
    • Passport Services
      95. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to indicate the steps to be taken in the case of a passport application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of WTE solicitors employed by his Department in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45177/24]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      97. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of foreign birth registration applications received by his Department in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and the number...
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      98. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will be nominating Irish representatives to the upcoming OSCE election observation mission in Romania; and if he will make...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Departmental Schemes
      99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment why persons have been refused the medically vulnerable scheme for the needs of their daughter (details supplied); and if...
    • Seaweed Harvesting
      100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when an application for a seaweed harvesting licence applied for under the Foreshore Act 1933 (details supplied) will...
    • Departmental Schemes
      102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of people eliminated from getting the ESB credits over the past four years; and if he will make a statement...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      103. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the setback figure that was used relative to residential dwellings for the modelling that confirms Ireland's onshore...
    • Marine Protected Areas
      104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when it is expected that marine area consents will be decided on by Marine Area Regulatory Authority, given that the...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason no meaningful habitat enhancement works have been carried out on the Owenriff system in County Galway that...
    • Fisheries Protection
      106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason, given that the initial public consultation on the proposed Waterford Fisheries District, (River Barrow)...
    • Angling Sector
      107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the Angling Consultative Council of Ireland (ACCI) established by himself in November 2020 has now been...
    • Fisheries Protection
      108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44008/24]
    • Departmental Schemes
      109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the protracted waiting times that people are experiencing with the fully funded energy upgrades...
    • Climate Change Policy
      110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 15 October 2024, if he expressed views on the policy options that are...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the sectoral emission ceilings for carbon budget 1, 2021-25, for all sectors, including LULUCF, will be set before...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what actions and decisions were made by his Department when it received a joint submission (details supplied), signed...
    • Departmental Staff
      113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in his Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of...
    • Air Quality
      115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for the most up-to-date regulations on wood-burning, and any future changes coming down the line in relation to...
    • National Broadband Plan
      117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are any plans to expand the national broadband plan to the many parts of Donegal that are not featured in the...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the solar electricity grant for solar PV panels will be reduced in 2025; the date range for grant applications; and...
    • National Broadband Plan
      119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to review a case (details supplied); and if he will provide an update on fibre broadband in this instance. [44493/24]
    • Departmental Schemes
      120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average waiting time to access the warmer homes scheme in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he...
    • Waste Management
      122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of the recently published report from the Dublin Taskforce (details supplied); if he is aware that one...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he supports the streamlined process for pension increases to ensure fair and timely adjustments for retired members;...
    • Fisheries Protection
      126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the use by anglers of replica dead baits and-or dead bait imitation lures is allowed under the recently signed...
    • National Broadband Plan
      129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on fibre broadband (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44612/24]
    • Energy Policy
      130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the Government's policy in relation to the development of infrastructure for the commercial import of LNG;...
    • Illegal Dumping
      132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to tackle the issue of illegal dumping in Kildare; whether the barriers in relation to CCTV have...
    • Departmental Schemes
      133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average cost to install a heat pump, broken down by post-BER rating and by SEAI scheme, in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023,...
    • National Broadband Plan
      136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes and businesses in County Roscommon that have had National Broadband Ireland rolled out to them....
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether solar panels are covered under the “fully funded energy upgrade scheme” administered by SEAI and...
    • Departmental Equipment
      141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the revaluation of deferred benefits for An Post pensions will be completed; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Schemes
      143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he was aware that boilers done through grants are only available for ‘bunded’ boilers; the reason this...
    • Departmental Meetings
      144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he last spoke formally with the CEO of An Post. [45044/24]
    • Departmental Bodies
      146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the dates in 2024 on which his Department has received each of the 2023 audited financial statements and 2023 annual...
    • Departmental Schemes
      147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the provisions made for those who are unable to avail of the electricity credit allowance due to the meter having been...
    • Energy Prices
      148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that Ireland has the fifth highest gas prices in the EU and the second highest electricity prices in the...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Staff
      149. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in his Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of staff, by...
    • Defence Forces
      150. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to examine a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44144/24]
    • Departmental Staff
      153. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of civil servants, by grade, in his Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those who in 2023 and 2024...
    • Civil Service
      154. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform Circular 4/2013...
    • Defence Forces
      155. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence what help is offered to those returning from overseas service to cope with any trauma, mental health issues or unforeseen experiences that those...
    • Departmental Equipment
      169. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and...
    • Air Corps
      170. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of promotions from the rank of second lieutenant to lieutenant within the Air Corps that occurred in 2023 and to date in 2024, in...
    • Naval Service
      171. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of promotions from the rank of sublieutenant to lieutenant within the Naval Service, in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form....
    • Defence Forces
      172. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the present establishment strength of the Naval Service, the Army and the Air Corps, respectively; the actual strength of each, broken down...
    • Naval Service
      174. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost of providing the Naval Service with a balanced fleet that would include tier 3-type OPVs, that is, fully integrated and...
    • Defence Forces
      176. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 14 of 17 October 2024, if his Department has compiled a list of the functions formally provided by the...
    • Naval Service
      178. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of naval patrols scheduled, conducted and cancelled in 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024; in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Defence Forces
      179. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the timeframe in which he believes members of the Defence Forces will see their blanket exclusion from the protection of the Working Time...
    • Commemorative Plaques
      180. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if some form of monument or commemorative plaque will be put in place at Ballymullen Barracks, Tralee, to mark the burial place of the recently...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Rail Network
      181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the rail stop at Crusheen on the western rail corridor in Clare, which was allocated €1.5 million for...
    • Air Navigation Orders
      182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if officials from his Department acted on information (details supplied) to prevent the transit of weapons through Irish airspace in...
    • Coastal Erosion
      183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding that has been allocated from the Office of Public Works in terms of protection against coastal erosion along the...
    • Driver Licences
      184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the countries with which reciprocal driving licence arrangements are being examined at present; and the reasons for selection of these...
    • Road Projects
      186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 5 October 2023, to provide an update with respect to the review of the strategic assessment...
    • Public Transport
      187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why the public transport issues in Knocklyon have not been addressed, given that this has been raised with him by this Deputy on several...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for updates on the CIÉ 1951 pension scheme; if his Department will ensure the scheme has the sufficient capacity and funds to pay...
    • Electric Vehicles
      189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of electric vehicle, EV, buses deployed in Ireland over the past three years; the breakdown of these EV buses between...
    • Departmental Staff
      191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in his Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of staff, by grade,...
    • Rail Network
      192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 288 of 9 September 2024, when a reply will be received; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Licences
      193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on allowing non-EEA professional drivers to apply for their licence exchange while they are waiting on their Irish residence...
    • Departmental Staff
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of civil servants, by grade, in his Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those in 2023 and...
    • Civil Service
      196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform Circular...
    • Transport Policy
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to request from the NTA an update on the status of the proposed transportation plan for the Drogheda area, including parts of east Meath;...
    • Driver Test
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update from the RSA on the efforts it has made in 2023 and to date in 2024 to develop a permanent driving test centre in...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport which body will be responsible for evaluating the success of the average speed cameras as more are rolled out; if baseline data will be...
    • Road Projects
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44472/24]
    • National Transport Authority
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport who within the public, private and voluntary sectors is given access by the National Transport Authority to its transport modelling...
    • Bus Services
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review correspondence regarding Bus Éireann service 109x; to request Bus Éireann to increase provision on this route; and if...
    • Driver Test
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driving tests completed in each test centre in County Cork, including Cork city, for each of the years 2022, 2023 and to...
    • EU Regulations
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out the Irish and EU legislation regulating the use of heavy goods vehicles, HGVs, on Irish roads; whether all relevant EU...
    • Public Transport
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures his Department is taking to ensure that next-generation ticketing on public transport services is implemented in the most...
    • Road Projects
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will take immediate action to address the ongoing concerns of the Durrow community and all parties who are affected by the dangers...
    • Driver Test
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review an application by a person (details supplied) for a driving test; and when a test date will issue for same. [44631/24]
    • Military Aircraft
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if contact has been made with ASL Airlines Ireland about reports that it has transported munitions of war to Israel and, if so, when was...
    • Electric Vehicles
      214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the total number of electrical buses servicing Galway; the total number not currently in use; and whether he is aware of any...
    • Bus Services
      215. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address issues with a bus service (details supplied); and if he will reconsider the contract given the volume of negative...
    • Transport Costs
      216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Irish Rail commuter fares can be extended to a particular train station (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rail Network
      217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if wheelchair access can be provided at a train station (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44650/24]
    • Bus Services
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the 103 Bus Éireann bus service; its performance standard and plans to improve it; and if he will make a...
    • Road Projects
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress being made in upgrading roads infrastructure in County Kildare, particularly in areas experiencing heavy traffic congestion;...
    • Park-and-Ride Facilities
      220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide park-and-ride or park-and-share facilities in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44682/24]
    • Cycling Facilities
      221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on cycling infrastructure development in Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44684/24]
    • Road Safety
      222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what measures are being taken to improve road safety in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44690/24]
    • Electric Vehicles
      223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what steps are being taken to improve access to high-capacity electric vehicle charging infrastructure in County Kildare; and if he will...
    • Rail Network
      224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on refurbishment works to be carried out at train stations in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Safety
      225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide a safe route to school for students at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bus Services
      226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve the capacity and reliability of the 139 bus route between Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, and Naas, County Kildare; and...
    • Driver Test
      227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average wait time at present for a driving test; the steps being taken by him to authorise the recruitment of more driver testers to...
    • Electric Vehicles
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason an electric vehicle model (details supplied) does not appear on the triple E register; if the model will be included on the...
    • Reachtaíocht um Thrácht ar Bhóithre
      231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport an bhfuil i gceist na rialacháin, atá ann nach féidir ceadúna tiomána aicme C a athnuachan gan na...
    • Legislative Measures
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the remaining sections of the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 will come into effect. [44854/24]
    • Departmental Equipment
      233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets...
    • Insurance Industry
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that car insurance loading is taking place by some insurance companies based on age; and if insurance companies are...
    • Driver Test
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for information and data regarding the car driving test outcomes in County Tipperary; the percentage of driving tests conducted at each...
    • State Bodies
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of the 2024 security budget allocation by Irish Rail that has been spent in the first ten months of 2024. [45169/24]
    • Ports Policy
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered reviewing the national ports policy to allow for increased State funding flexibility options, especially through...
    • Rail Network
      239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider supporting the reopening of Crusheen railway station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45289/24]
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Reliefs
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will suspend the proposed agricultural relief changes pending the report of the Commission on Generational Renewal; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Data
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of VAT paid on housing and apartment building products and services in Ireland in each of the past five years; and what percentage of the total...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      243. To ask the Minister for Finance the interest rate charged by Home Building Finance Ireland for each of the past five years; and if there are multiple rates, if he will detail these rates and...
    • Banking Sector
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance the equity-to-debt ratio rules for banks when they lend to developers; and how these compare with other European countries. [44013/24]
    • Departmental Budgets
      245. To ask the Minister for Finance if he considered the establishment of a ringfenced alcohol-related harm fund, as proposed by an organisation (details supplied) in the recent Budget 2025...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is aware of unplanned downtimes on the Revenue ‘ ROS system at this time of the year, with peak filings; if filing deadlines will be...
    • Fiscal Data
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance if the net tax expenditures outlined in the summer economic statement are incorporated at the same level within the projections for revenue and balances...
    • Insurance Industry
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance what measures are being considered to ensure that the introduction of mandatory insurance does not lead to overcharging due to a lack of competition among...
    • Tax Reliefs
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the provision of a fit-for-purpose vehicle adaptation scheme to replace the disabled drivers and passenger's scheme; if a timeline is...
    • Climate Change Policy
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 15 October 2024, if he will provide an update on policy options relating to new sources of climate finance; the...
    • Tax Code
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance whether he intends to review the tax regime associated with exchange traded funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44117/24]
    • Departmental Staff
      253. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in his Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of staff, by grade, on a career break of...
    • Insurance Coverage
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance in circumstances where individuals live on a designated flood plain, such as near the Camac, but which has never flooded, the options available to them where...
    • Tax Yield
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue of increasing stamp duty on residential property with a value over €1 million to 6%, including all multi-unit purchases of houses...
    • Tax Credits
      256. To ask the Minister for Finance what is in the base each year for the rent tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44180/24]
    • Tax Data
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 16 October 2024, to outline the full cost estimated for the planned increases to the standard fund threshold...
    • Tax Reliefs
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of properties in Dublin that qualified for the help-to-buy scheme in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale to cap the maximum employer contribution of a PRSA to 100% of an individual’s salary in the year of payment from 1 January 2025; if there...
    • Insurance Coverage
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts he is making to support motor sports in Ireland, particularly relating to the ability to secure insurance cover; and if he will make a statement...
    • Business Regulation
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance what measures are in place to ensure that the treatment of businesses making repayments as part of the warehouse repayments scheme is fair, transparent, and...
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance given current tax clearance certificate policies, which prevent businesses from applying for grants or new State contracts without one, to clarify why this...
    • Tax Collection
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the exit tax collected on ETFs in the past five years, in tabular form; the relative prevailing tax rate for each year; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      268. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of civil servants, by grade, in his Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those who in 2023 and 2024 were on a...
    • Tax Reliefs
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies who availed of KEEP each year since its introduction, in tabular form. [44358/24]
    • Civil Service
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform Circular 4/2013 are being...
    • Insurance Coverage
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance what assistance is available to persons experiencing difficulties acquiring life insurance following recovery from a serious illness; and if he will make a...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance to review correspondence in relation to VRT (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44494/24]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      274. To ask the Minister for Finance if a Revenue certificate for the estate of a person (details supplied) will be issued as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Insurance Industry
      275. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures, if any, being taken by the Government to end insurance companies’ discriminatory time limit cap on holiday insurance for the over-70s;...
    • Fuel Prices
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of fuel merchants in Northern Ireland selling fossil fuels in the Republic of Ireland at a price which fuel merchants in the Republic are...
    • Tax Exemptions
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance if the exemption from income tax, capital gains tax and capital acquisitions tax on payments made to the women impacted by the failures in the CervicalCheck...
    • Tax Reliefs
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance if agricultural tax relief on the investment of money in agricultural land for a period of two years following inheritance will be retained in the Finance...
    • Tax Code
      280. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered amending section 126 (2B) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 to ensure that adult dependant social welfare pensions could be paid...
    • Tax Data
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer in each of the years 2025 to 2030 to not proceed with any additional carbon tax increases, to undo 2024 carbon tax...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has issued an instruction to the Revenue Commissioners to ensure that all public services and forms, including the former Revenue Commissioners form...
    • Insurance Coverage
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the introduction of an insurance scheme (details supplied); if he has heard reports that 1 in 20 buildings is challenged when accessing...
    • Departmental Equipment
      286. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills...
    • Insurance Coverage
      287. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide assistance regarding insurance issues for a youth organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44879/24]
    • Tax Reliefs
      288. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44881/24]
    • Official Engagements
      289. To ask the Minister for Finance if he met the US treasury secretary during his recent visit to Washington DC. [45046/24]
    • Tax Yield
      290. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be raised by increasing stamp duty on any residential property other than the primary residence to 6%; the estimated...
    • Tax Exemptions
      291. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the increase in the exemption from income tax from €18,000 to €40,000 for persons aged over 65, whose sole income is pension...
    • Customs and Excise
      292. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to amend the regulations that apply to duty free allowances to address the anomaly whereby a 17-year-old would be permitted to bring tobacco and...
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      294. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding an application for clearance in respect of a probate case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45150/24]
    • Budget 2025
      295. To ask the Minister for Finance if an inflationary analysis has been conducted regarding the once off payments included in Budget 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45288/24]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Flood Risk Management
      296. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the National Flood Forecasting and Warning Service; the amount expended on the development of the service to date; the...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      297. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the pension increase for retired staff of 2.5% for Eir from 1 July 2024, and a 2% increase for An Post from 1 January 2024, will be...
    • Flood Risk Management
      298. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are plans to update the flood risk map in an area in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • State Bodies
      299. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of WTE and HTE staff, by grade, working in the Standards in Public Office Commission; and the estimated cost of increasing...
    • Fiscal Data
      300. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the non-tax new measure expenditures outlined in the summer economic statement are incorporated at the same level within the...
    • Departmental Staff
      302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in his Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of staff, by grade,...
    • Public Sector Pay
      303. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to examine a pay query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44138/24]
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      305. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update from the Office of Public Works on a flood relief scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff
      307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants, by grade, in his Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those who in 2023...
    • Civil Service
      308. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform Circular...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      309. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will respond to a matter raised in correspondence by a person in County Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Coast Guard Service
      310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans in place for the development of facilities for the Coast Guard Services in Courtown, County Wexford and Arklow, County...
    • Office of Public Works
      311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made on the provision of a planned new Garda station in Laytown, County Meath; if he will provide a timeline for the...
    • Departmental Funding
      312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to report on the applications received for the climate, infrastructure and nature fund to date; to provide a breakdown, by Department,...
    • Civil Service
      314. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether the provisions of his Department’s Circular 4/2013 are being implemented in full; whether civil servants whose career...
    • Land Issues
      315. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on progress being made on discussions with the Attorney General in relation to the compulsory acquisition...
    • Office of Public Works
      316. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW intend developing the facilities at the Dún Aonghasa site on Árann which attracts many thousands of visitors each...
    • Coastal Erosion
      317. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of serious costal erosion at Pilmore Beach, County Cork; the action the Office of Public Works may take as a result; and...
    • Departmental Equipment
      318. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on...
    • Flood Risk Management
      319. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 284 of 20 March 2024, the up-to-date position in relation to same; when the viability review will...
    • Heritage Sites
      320. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount that has been collected in parking charges where parking fees apply at OPW Heritage sites, 2023 and to date in 2024. [45062/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason an NGO (details supplied) which published reports on transparency and funding of all NGOs in Ireland, was denied funding to...
    • Heritage Sites
      322. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons that have visited Trim Castle in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45179/24]
    • Ethics in Public Office
      323. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the 2020 Programme for Government commitment to reform and consolidate the ethics in public office legislation; and if he...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Employment Rights
      324. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline the protection provided to former employees of a company (details supplied) under the Protection of Employees...
    • Health and Safety
      325. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason a Health and Safety Authority notice was erected at a location (details supplied); the relevance of such a notice to the...
    • Departmental Staff
      326. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in his Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of staff, by...
    • Business Supports
      327. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if an application by a business for the increased cost of business grant scheme could be amended and recategorised (details...
    • Departmental Staff
      328. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of civil servants, by grade, in his Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those who in...
    • Export Controls
      329. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 23 May 2024, the number of dual-use export licence applications in respect of end-users...
    • Civil Service
      330. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform...
    • Work Permits
      331. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline his plans to add skilled construction workers to the critical skills occupational list given the requirement for...
    • Business Supports
      332. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what supports are being provided to encourage new business start-ups in Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44688/24]
    • Consumer Protection
      333. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he has taken on claims of unfair competition and market abuse by SOLAS in relation to the safe pass programme; the timeline...
    • Departmental Contracts
      334. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of contracts (details supplied) had with his Department in 2023 and to-date in 2024; the nature of services this company...
    • Departmental Equipment
      335. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on...
    • Industrial Development
      336. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary is currently not included in the IDA's plans to bring industry to the area; and if he...
    • Business Supports
      340. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the targeted supports or relief measures that are in place to help coffee shops manage financial challenges amid rising operational...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      341. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacant WTE posts, by job title, currently at the Workplace Relations Commission; and the estimated timeframe in which...
    • Labour Court
      342. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacant WTE posts, by job title, currently at the Labour Court; and the estimated timeframe in which each of those...
    • Official Engagements
      343. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has spoken formally with the US Trade Representative to date in 2024. [45030/24]
    • Business Supports
      345. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will amend the power-up grant scheme so that ‘visitor attractions’ and ‘health services’, such as...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      347. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the situation regarding organisations that can be supported by Enterprise Ireland as opposed to the local employment offices, and...
    • Business Supports
      348. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a query in respect of grant support for certain businesses (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs
      349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the efforts made to provide additional schools places for children with ADHD and ASD in Waterford; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Enrolments
      350. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider establishing an independent Gaelcholáiste in Ennis, County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44989/24]
    • Departmental Schemes
      351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual funding allocations in 2024 and 2025 for the small school's initiative; and the number of schools invested in each year. [43901/24]
    • Site Acquisitions
      352. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43906/24]
    • Parental Leave
      353. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans to extend the parental leave scheme to allow it to be taken in blocks of one day a week; and if she will make a statement...
    • Schools Building Projects
      354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on an application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43919/24]
    • School Enrolments
      355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and second level special classes at present in the Dublin 9 and Dublin 11 areas with a full list of these classes. [43932/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for a grant for assistive technology can be urgently reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • School Accommodation
      359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to provide temporary accommodation in the short term, and a permanent structure in the longer term, for a school...
    • School Staff
      360. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason teachers in new appointments must wait eight weeks without pay for her Department to get them on payroll; if she appreciates the...
    • School Transport
      361. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student has not received a school bus seat (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43951/24]
    • School Accommodation
      363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43992/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the recent announcement to establish a new special school in Tipperary next year to cater for the increasing number of students with...
    • School Accommodation
      366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct her Department to urgently engage with a school (details supplied) where the roof is in serious disrepair, is an active threat...
    • Special Educational Needs
      367. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SNAs at a school (details supplied); why the numbers have been cut for 2024/25; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Staff
      371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy rationale for school secretaries not getting the same Covid leave (five days) as teachers and SNAs, given that they are as exposed to...
    • Special Educational Needs
      372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the matters raised (details below) can be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44057/24]
    • School Transport
      373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process in place for exchange students to access school transport (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44103/24]
    • School Admissions
      375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any provision, or policy in place, for families in situations where a child’s eligibility for local secondary schools in a new...
    • Schools Building Projects
      376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the status of a new school building (details supplied), and on the works required before commencement can take place; and if she...
    • School Staff
      377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will fully reinstate the 'teaching through Irish’ allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44108/24]
    • School Funding
      378. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene to support a school (details supplied) that is under significant financial pressure; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in her Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of staff, by grade, on a...
    • School Staff
      380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the pay review for bus escorts; when the review will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44139/24]
    • School Funding
      381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is engaging with a school (details supplied), and the steps being taken to ensure future funding of the school. [44142/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a planned extension for a school (details supplied). [44145/24]
    • School Transport
      383. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if approval will be given for a school transport grant for a special needs student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staff
      384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the decision to remove a teacher from a school (details supplied) can be immediately reversed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Accommodation
      385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 607 of 9 September 2024, the number of students attending the autism unit in a school (details supplied) in...
    • School Funding
      389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review and revoke the decision to remove the 15 hours of EAL in the primary school (details supplied). [44203/24]
    • State Examinations
      390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the current arrangement for sraithpictiúir in the Leaving Certificate Irish oral exam, whereby 10 pictures are required to be learned for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 561 of 9 September 2024, the current status regarding the proposed permanent extension at a school (details...
    • Education and Training Boards
      392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the implementation of the job evaluation scheme in education and training boards; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge
      393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén fáth ar fágadh Gaelscoileanna ar nós Bunscoil an tSléibhe Dhuibh in Iarthar Bhéal Feirste amach as Scéim...
    • Special Educational Needs
      395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a proposed ASD class for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44295/24]
    • Departmental Staff
      396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of civil servants, by grade, in her Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those who in 2023 and 2024...
    • Physical Education
      397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy of her Department regarding the provision of physical education in post-primary schools; her views on the opening up of school...
    • School Staff
      398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 33 of 25 September 2024, if the analysis of the survey relating to school caretakers’ work pattern,...
    • School Accommodation
      399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the additional accommodation application made by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • School Staff
      400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a teacher will receive payment (details supplied). [44357/24]
    • Civil Service
      401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform Circular 4/2013...
    • Education and Training Boards
      402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will give permission to the LMETB to issue tender documents for the development of the LMETB head office building in Drogheda...
    • Schools Building Projects
      403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of a situation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44412/24]
    • School Staff
      404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to the loss of a teaching post at a school in Cork city (details supplied); if she will examine ways to save this...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to NEPS providing urgent support for a pupil in Cork (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Enrolments
      406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 376 of 22 October 2024, the options now available to persons (details supplied) who have still been unable...
    • School Staff
      407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why a person (details supplied) has not moved up further on the pay scale; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44430/24]
    • School Transport
      408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) will receive school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44431/24]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of NEPS posts that are currently vacant either through illness, leave or through a staff member leaving the post; the location of...
    • School Transport
      412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a response to a representation regarding school transport (details supplied) will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) will receive an assessment; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44447/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction of an extension to a school (details supplied) will begin, having signed an acceptance letter with her Department in November...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently revise the DEIS status of a school in County Clare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44466/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      416. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to a recent announcement of five special schools, two of which are to be in Dublin, the locations of the schools in Dublin and the way...
    • School Equipment
      417. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene with the supply of heating equipment for a specific room at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Special Educational Needs
      418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she and the NCSE will urgently examine the lack of autism class spaces in west Clare and give consideration to opening an additional autism...
    • School Accommodation
      419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to address urgent repair works at a school in County Cork (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to the opening of an ASD class in a secondary school in County Cork (details supplied); if she will examine this issue;...
    • Home Schooling
      421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any financial or other supports available to mother who is homeschooling her seven children of various ages under home tuition; to...
    • School Staff
      422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is aware of the costs associated with a process (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44496/24]
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an assessment will be carried out on a child (details supplied) considering that concerns were first raised two years ago; and if she will...
    • School Facilities
      426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene to allow a path to be opened while ownership discussions take place (details supplied). [44547/24]
    • Schools Building Projects
      427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 162 of 24 September 2024, if there is a further update on the status of a new school building for a school...
    • Site Acquisitions
      429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to Parliamentary Question No. 317 of 12 December 2023, to provide an update on the request to consider the acquisition of additional land at a...
    • School Enrolments
      430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a breakdown of the number of school places available in secondary schools and in primary schools, respectively in Meath in each of...
    • Special Educational Needs
      437. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the current expenditure pre-committed to her Department for responding to demographic pressures and pay in Meath East as regards...
    • School Transport
      447. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the provision of school bus transport services in Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44683/24]
    • Irish Language
      448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the provision of Irish-language education in schools in Kildare, including any refurbishment or development of Gaelscoileanna...
    • School Funding
      449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what supports are in place to assist schools in Kildare in accommodating children from migrant families; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide the two special classes approved by the National Council for Special Education in March 2021 at a school (details supplied);...
    • Site Acquisitions
      451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will engage with the parish of Sallins to secure the three acres currently for sale at Church Avenue, Sallins, County Kildare...
    • Special Educational Needs
      452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 223 of 1 October 2024, when work will commence on an SEN project for a school (details supplied); and if...
    • School Staff
      453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to ensure equal treatment of all school support staff, in particular school secretaries, regarding access to...
    • Schools Building Projects
      454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress on the new site for a school (details supplied); and the indicative timeline for completion of the new school. [44747/24]
    • Departmental Budgets
      455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount allocated to the school completion programme for each of the past four years; the allocation of funding for this programme for 2025;...
    • Oideachas Riachtanas Speisialta
      456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil athbhreithniú á dhéanamh ar an liúntas do Chúntóirí Riachtanais Speisialta (SNA) atá ag scoil...
    • School Enrolments
      458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish data on future demand for a new secondary school in Newcastle, County Dublin; if she will make a statement on projected...
    • Departmental Functions
      459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on reform of her Department since taking office. [44804/24]
    • Site Acquisitions
      460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on the sale of a two-acre site adjacent to a school (details supplied); and if her Department assessed the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a child (details supplied), who is six years old, has not been awarded a place in an autism unit or special school; and when they will...
    • School Transport
      462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average number of buses in the Bus Éireann school transport fleet for Wicklow in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [44851/24]
    • Departmental Equipment
      464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by her Department on handsets and...
    • Schools Building Projects
      465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on her Department’s plans to include a secondary school for an area (details supplied) in the School Capital Buildings...
    • Site Acquisitions
      466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify if the Department is considering selling land earmarked for a school in an area (details supplied) to a developer; if so, the reason...
    • Special Educational Needs
      467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans for the addition of extra classrooms to facilitate special needs students in a school in County Cork (details supplied); and...
    • School Transport
      468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any financial supports available to families who are utilising private school transport, i.e., their children are not attending what...
    • Schools Building Projects
      470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position following the further submissions by a school, and when approval will be given for a project (details supplied); and if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; if immediate action will be taken to review this refusal and approve the allocation...
    • Religious Discrimination
      473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a denominational primary school should uphold the child and family’s constitutional rights (details supplied) where just one child...
    • Special Educational Needs
      475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the SNA workforce plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43584/24]
    • School Staff
      476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is provision to provide immediate financial assistance to cover expenses related to medical bills, therapy sessions and medication for...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process to amalgamate two primary schools, a boys' school and a girls' school, into one school. [44954/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans she has in place for the opening of an autism class in a school (details supplied); if this classroom will be open by September 2027...
    • Schools Building Projects
      479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give a firm timeline for the move of a school to a new site (details supplied); and to outline the issues if any to ensure a timely...
    • School Staff
      480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full details of all unfilled posts across the Dún Laoghaire constituency, by school. [45108/24]
    • Special Educational Needs
      481. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration is being given to accommodating a pupil (details supplied) at a school through a commitment to providing them with teaching and...
    • School Textbooks
      482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific measures her Department has implemented to address the funding shortfalls some schools are facing under the free book schemes; if...
    • School Admissions
      483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if every effort can be made to secure a school place for the son of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff
      484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of WTE solicitors employed by her Department in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45188/24]
    • School Transport
      485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken by her Department to better manage data on busy school transport routes to ensure that all places allocated are being...
    • School Enrolments
      486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of school places required at primary and second level in Celbridge, County Kildare, with particular reference to the needs...
    • School Facilities
      491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position in regard to replacement of accommodation and facilities for a school (details supplied); if she is satisfied that the need...
    • School Enrolments
      492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which adequate school places remain available at Straffan, County Kildare; if she is mindful of the expanding population and the...
    • School Accommodation
      495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action in hand to address the ongoing safety concerns of parents regarding their children’s safety travelling to a school (details...
    • School Enrolments
      496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts in hand to ensure that all students in Kill secure a school place in September 2025 given the number of refusals for primary school...
    • Special Educational Needs
      498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which special needs teachers and SNAs continue to be available to the extent required in County Kildare, and all areas throughout...
    • School Enrolments
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent of progress in ensuring the provision of a new primary school in Newtown, Enfield, County Kildare; the degree to which such provision...
    • Special Educational Needs
      500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she expects to be in a position to meet the special needs education requirements throughout north Kildare, with particular...
    • School Accommodation
      501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which primary school places at Johnstownbridge, County Kildare continue to be assessed, with a view to ensuring that accommodation...
    • School Facilities
      502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the progress in the provision of extra school facilities at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • School Accommodation
      503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which primary school places at Broadford, County Kildare, continue to be assessed, with a view to ensuring that accommodation is...
    • Schools Building Projects
      504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which progress has been made in respect of the provision of new school building for a school (details supplied); the recent...
    • School Enrolments
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which adequate school places remain available to parents and school children at Moyvalley, County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • After-School Support Services
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the ongoing efforts, if any, to liaise with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, with a view to providing...
    • School Accommodation
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which new school buildings are required throughout north Kildare, whether replacement or the building of new schools; the progress...
    • School Discipline
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures currently in place or envisaged to combat school bullying in its various forms at primary and second level schools throughout the...
    • School Accommodation
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when essential works will commence to repair a roof of a school (details supplied) given there are at least five separate leaks seeping water...
    • Artificial Intelligence
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 285 and 286 of 18 September 2024, if her Department has ever used artificial intelligence in the...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Budgets
      512. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the annual Exchequer funding allocations in 2024 and 2025 for Foras na Gaeilge. [43899/24]
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      513. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is funding available for upgrading existing playgrounds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43939/24]
    • Legislative Measures
      514. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht what prompted she or her officials to include a definition of “gender” in the general scheme of a broadcasting...
    • Departmental Staff
      515. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in her Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of staff, by...
    • Sports Funding
      516. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the efforts she is making to support motorsports in Ireland, particularly relating to funding; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      517. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of civil servants, by grade, in her Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those who in...
    • Civil Service
      518. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform...
    • Sports Funding
      519. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on an application by a club (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44411/24]
    • National Cultural Institutions
      524. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has considered including representation for the workers at the National Gallery of Ireland on its board of governors; and...
    • Culture Policy
      525. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline any planned investment to support cultural initiatives in Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Sports Facilities
      526. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the investment being planned to develop sports facilities in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44685/24]
    • Departmental Contracts
      527. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of times her Department hired out an external forensic accountant to carry out works on behalf of her Department in...
    • Departmental Equipment
      528. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by her Department on...
    • Sports Funding
      529. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an appeal was received (details supplied); when this club can expect to receive a decision on the appeal; and if she will make...
    • Departmental Staff
      534. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of WTE solicitors employed by her Department in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45187/24]
    • Departmental Meetings
      535. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she intends to travel to China; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45258/24]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Departmental Projects
      536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will facilitate a briefing of locally elected members of Cork City Council by the Attorney General and senior Department...
    • Water Services
      537. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any plans to provide an extension to allow property owners to connect to the main sewer in Alderwood Road in...
    • Departmental Funding
      538. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will approve applications for refurbishment funding which are currently pending with the Department of Housing, Local...
    • Vacant Sites
      539. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount collected in counties Roscommon and Galway under the vacant sites levy since it was introduced; and the number of...
    • House Prices
      540. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what other soft costs, such as connection fees and levies, are included in the price of each house; and the amount the...
    • Development Contributions
      541. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to extend the temporary waiver scheme in respect of development contributions beyond the commencement notice...
    • Waterways Ireland
      542. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government why the latest draft of the Waterways Ireland Shannon and Canal Bye-laws has only been shared with an organisation (details...
    • Housing Schemes
      544. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable purchase scheme homes that have been delivered in County Mayo in each of the past five years, and the...
    • Election Expenditure
      545. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what research was undertaken by his Department in advance of his decision to increase the spending limits for Dáil...
    • Turf Cutting
      546. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the cessation of the turf-cutting compensation scheme will complete its 15-year duration in 2025; and if he will make a...
    • Postal Voting
      550. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider changing rules relating to postal voting, in order that the spouses, partners and dependants of voting age...
    • Departmental Staff
      551. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in his Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of staff,...
    • Housing Schemes
      552. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the relative success of the croí cónaithe (cities) scheme, the secure tenancy affordable rental, STAR,...
    • Housing Policy
      553. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made and the roll-out timetable of the interim remediation scheme; and when legislation to address the overall...
    • National Parks
      557. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44254/24]
    • Local Authorities
      558. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an assurance that Kerry County Council water services workers will be guaranteed that their net pay, equivalent to...
    • Community Development Projects
      559. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if provision has been made to continue the Economic and Social Intervention Fund in Limerick in 2025 and beyond, given that it...
    • Departmental Communications
      560. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the establishment of an interdepartmental working group to address coastal change management; how the...
    • Departmental Staff
      561. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of civil servants, by grade, in his Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those who...
    • Coastal Erosion
      562. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the critical situation faced by six families in the Burrow, Portrane given their homes are at imminent risk...
    • Water Services
      563. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Multi Annual Rural Water Programme Expert Panel review will be complete; when funding will be available to the group...
    • Legislative Programme
      564. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the apartment defects legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44348/24]
    • Fire Service
      565. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the public sector sick leave scheme has been extended to cover those employed in the retained fire service; if the details...
    • Housing Schemes
      567. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered any assistance for those qualifying for the croí cónaithe grant who cannot manage the upfront...
    • Departmental Staff
      561. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of civil servants, by grade, in his Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those who...
    • Coastal Erosion
      562. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the critical situation faced by six families in the Burrow, Portrane given their homes are at imminent risk...
    • Water Services
      563. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Multi Annual Rural Water Programme Expert Panel review will be complete; when funding will be available to the group...
    • Legislative Programme
      564. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the apartment defects legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44348/24]
    • Fire Service
      565. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the public sector sick leave scheme has been extended to cover those employed in the retained fire service; if the details...
    • Housing Schemes
      567. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered any assistance for those qualifying for the croí cónaithe grant who cannot manage the upfront...
    • Housing Policy
      569. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider the diseases of Crohn's and colitis as qualifying conditions for housing adaptation grants provided for by...
    • Local Authorities
      570. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will respond to a matter raised in correspondence by a person in County Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      571. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has any concerns about the quantum of cost estimated by the European Commission for implementation of quaternary...
    • Local Area Plans
      572. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of targets for Meath for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and for each year out to 2030, in tabular...
    • Housing Schemes
      573. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of LIHAF applications received for Meath since its inception; the number that were approved and not approved,...
    • Homeless Accommodation
      574. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons who are homeless in County Meath; to provide a breakdown of the number of homeless people in County...
    • Housing Provision
      575. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people on the social housing lists in County Meath in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and to date in 2024; to provide a...
    • Community Development Projects
      576. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the project development board will be established for the retendering of the Cork event centre; and the persons that will...
    • Fishing Industry
      577. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the invasive/non-native freshwater fish of pike (esox lucius) and zander (sander lucioperca) were not added to the...
    • Water Pollution
      578. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the Questions on Promised Legislation debate of 19 September 2024, if he has made any decisions with regard to the...
    • Housing Schemes
      580. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount spent by Galway City and Council on HAP and RAS in the years 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a...
    • Planning Issues
      581. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of planning applications related to Galway that are currently waiting on a decision from An Board...
    • Derelict Sites
      582. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken to address dereliction in urban and rural areas of Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      583. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacancies in the National Parks and Wildlife Service by grade and location, in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Hare Coursing
      591. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of hare coursing licences issued, by county, over the past four years; the number of hares captured under those...
    • Local Authorities
      592. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff employed by each local authority in each of the past five years relative to the population of each local...
    • Road Projects
      594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide a second bridge over the Liffey at Celbridge, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Schemes
      596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) who has been trying to access funding from Mayo County...
    • Fire Stations
      597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected timeframe for construction of a new fire station in Charleville, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Planning Issues
      598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the present delay in deciding planning appeals by An Bord Pleanála including the percentage of cases where it is taking...
    • Defective Building Materials
      599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the enhanced defective block grant scheme to allow homeowners to have their engineer fees reimbursed if that...
    • Housing Policy
      600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the social housing income limits; if he will outline his plans for same; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Waterways Ireland
      601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he last met the CEO of Waterways Ireland; and the issues discussed. [44847/24]
    • Departmental Equipment
      602. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department...
    • Local Authorities
      603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) received a reduction in their terms and conditions in a local authority; and if he will...
    • Defective Building Materials
      604. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if properties in Tipperary with issues related to pyrite and other contaminants in the cement and concrete blocks used to...
    • Fire Service
      605. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details for all capital plans for the development of fire services in counties Cavan and Monaghan. [45005/24]
    • Departmental Budgets
      606. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the 2023, 2024 and 2025 budget allocation for the historic structures fund, in tabular form. [45036/24]
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of biologists employed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service; and what areas they specialise in. [45045/24]
    • Defective Building Materials
      609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide and make public all testing results carried out on the aggregate that was used in the manufacture of concrete...
    • Fire Service
      611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to a 2021 circular which allowed public sector staff to work until 70 years of age, if a fire service station officer,...
    • Planning Issues
      612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to amend the legislation relating to S. 254 licences under the Planning and Development Act 2000, given the way it...
    • Rental Sector
      614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the provisions made for those who are unable to avail of the electricity credit allowance due to the meter being installed by...
    • Defective Building Materials
      615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a development (details supplied) comes under the defective apartment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Heritage Projects
      616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the 12-foot medieval longboat discovered on the bed of the River Boyne, Drogheda in July 2007 and taken...
    • Defective Building Materials
      617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a family who have been forced out of their primary home due to unsafe conditions brought about by defective concrete blocks...
    • Rental Sector
      618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 14 of 7 December 2023, if the review on the differential rent review has been completed;...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      619. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on an appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43898/24]
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      620. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider paying travel expenses to assist with sourcing a lunch supplier for a school (details supplied). [43913/24]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      621. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will urgently investigate a serious anomaly in an application for invalidity pension (details supplied). [43927/24]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      622. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for partial capacity benefit in the case of a person (details...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      623. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of international protection applicants since 2019 who have been issued PPS numbers and who subsequently applied to...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      625. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal of a decision for admittance into the register of solemnisers (details...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 17 October 2024, of the 15,947 people who are currently in receipt of a...
    • Social Welfare Code
      631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she will introduce the legislation for cohabiting couples to gain access to the widow’s, widower’s and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      632. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on a carer’s allowance application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      634. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to correspondence received (details supplied), whether her Department exerts control over the salaries and the job...
    • Pension Provisions
      636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a pension certificate can be issued to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44069/24]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how the procedures for means testing for disability allowance are carried out; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Meals Programme
      640. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what engagement her Department has had with the Department of Education in ensuring that school meals can be provided to...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a decision in regard to a carer’s allowance appeal in respect...
    • Pension Provisions
      643. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the findings of a means test relative to an application for a non-contributory pension in the name of a person (details...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      644. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 342 of 8 October 2024, to confirm that the high scenario cost estimate of €2...
    • Departmental Funding
      648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding provided to Turas Nua and Seetec for the operation of the JobPath scheme each year from its inception to date; if...
    • Departmental Schemes
      649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the maximum rate awarded per child per day for the school meals scheme 2024/25; the funding rates for hot meal lunches and...
    • Pension Provisions
      650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a couple (details supplied), whose sole income and means is their contributory pensions, is entitled to a top-up under the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      651. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, for example, a Polish couple who meet the habitual residency condition, work in Ireland for over 12 months, have a child...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an appeal for invalidity pension (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Public Services Card
      653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the policy regarding the issuing of a public services card for adopted persons; when the review of the public services card...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a claim by a person (details supplied) for disability allowance will be reinstated; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff
      655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of civil servants, by grade, in her Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      656. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she agrees that the double payments that will be made over Christmas by her Department should be extended to include those...
    • Birth Certificates
      657. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether it is possible to have the General Registry Office recognise a UN birth document for a refugee born overseas (now an...
    • School Meals Programme
      658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what assistance her Department can offer in circumstances where a small rural school is having difficulty in procuring a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on a fuel allowance application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Civil Service
      663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider the diseases of Crohn’s and colitis as qualifying conditions for disability and invalidity...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to ensuring that individuals who have been part of the social welfare system for several years...
    • Departmental Schemes
      667. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of the Farm Assist for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made on a claim originally...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a domiciliary care allowance review (details supplied); the current processing...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will urgently approve a social welfare appeal for an invalidity pension payment (details supplied). [44492/24]
    • Departmental Schemes
      671. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in each county in receipt of the carer’s support grant, in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in...
    • Pension Provisions
      672. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on how the State pension payment is being protected, as set out in the Programme for Government, in...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      676. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average time it is taking for the Independent Social Welfare Appeals Office from receipt of an appeal to decision, broken...
    • Departmental Schemes
      677. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are discussions ongoing with her Department on behalf of the administrators of CE schemes to provide extra funding...
    • Departmental Staff
      679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 126, 127, 128 and 129 of 23 October 2024, the number of staff coming to an end of...
    • Departmental Reviews
      681. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review a case (details supplied); to review the four questions/points outlined; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Meals Programme
      682. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that Irish-sourced foods are used in the delivery of the school meals programme; if any attempt was made...
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service
      683. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding provided to MABS in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [44845/24]
    • Departmental Contracts
      684. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of contracts (details supplied) a company had with her Department in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the nature of...
    • Departmental Equipment
      685. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by her Department...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      686. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to a disability allowance appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Schemes
      687. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the grounds on which an optician can charge an additional fee in cases in which a person has been approved for a free eye...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal following a successful...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      689. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to engage on the issue of community employment supervisor pay to uphold the commitment given to re-enter talks given to the...
    • Pension Provisions
      690. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for applying different rules as regards contributory pension credit eligibility for family carers who have...
    • Social Welfare Inspections
      691. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the annual cost of deploying inspectors to assess compliance with State benefits for family carers, in each of the past ten...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      692. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a review of the decision not to award a transition payment to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      693. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the fuel allowance was last increased. [45028/24]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      696. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a claim to a reduced pension by a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      698. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person in County Cork (details supplied) has been refused the carer's allowance; if the appropriate income...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      699. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the case of a person (details supplied) where they are being requested to repay monies owed from rent...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Visa Applications
      701. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a visa request (details supplied) will be expedited as a matter of urgency given the extenuating circumstances. [45153/24]
    • Departmental Data
      702. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown of staffing levels in the immigration service delivery visa division, specifically the number of staff...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      703. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that have been taken regarding the processes and functions of peace commissioners in light of the RTÉ...
    • An Garda Síochána
      704. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an evaluation of the current model for supervision and or debriefing for members of An Garda Síochána (AGS)...
    • Citizenship Applications
      707. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on a citizenship application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43923/24]
    • Deportation Orders
      708. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people currently subject to a deportation order who have not been deported because their home country refuses to...
    • An Garda Síochána
      709. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of criminal prosecutions that were struck out, or discontinued in the past one or two years, due to the prosecuting...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      710. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to indicate the progress to date in the determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details...
    • An Garda Síochána
      711. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reported incidences submitted through the Garda traffic watch online reporting system; the number of reported...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      712. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for naturalisation (details supplied) will be determined; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Coroners Service
      714. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what plans are in place for the district of Kerry north, in view of the fact that the coroner there is due to retire shortly...
    • Legislative Measures
      717. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 528 of 12 December 2023, if she will provide an update on the matters raised; and if she...
    • Departmental Staff
      718. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in her Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of staff,...
    • Citizenship Applications
      719. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 431 of 1 October 2024, in relation to the international checks mentioned in her reply, if...
    • Legislative Measures
      720. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address concerns that the definition of ‘gender’ within the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence...
    • An Garda Síochána
      721. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of sworn members in An Garda Síochána at present. [44204/24]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      722. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to confirm correspondence has been received from a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • An Garda Síochána
      723. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule in respect of the number of instances in which the An Garda Síochána has placed...
    • Family Reunification
      724. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44277/24]
    • Judicial Appointments
      725. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons she has decided not to increase the number of judges on the Supreme Court; whether she believes the size of that...
    • An Garda Síochána
      727. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide the number of Gardaí currently serving the Bray district area in 2024 [44315/24]
    • Visa Applications
      728. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many joint family visa applications have been finalised in each week to date in 2024 in the Dublin visa office; and if she...
    • An Garda Síochána
      729. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of armed raids of houses carried out by An Garda Síochána in Dublin in the each of the last five years;...
    • International Agreements
      736. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what each of the four remaining articles of the Budapest Convention that Ireland is still unable to achieve entail (details...
    • Legislative Measures
      737. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is in her power or the power of this Government to repeal article 19a whereby a victim of sex abuse, which also includes...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      738. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to reply to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44452/24]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      739. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the status of an application for naturalisation for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      740. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of running the Garda Training College for one year; and for a breakdown of this cost, by Garda recruits and members,...
    • Immigration Support Services
      741. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration can be given to waiving the €300 fee for the immigration residence permit for two Gazan scholars...
    • An Garda Síochána
      742. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of juvenile liaison officers, by rank, attached to the Meath Garda division in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      749. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress on the evaluation of the drug treatment court, as identified as a strategic priority under the National Drugs...
    • Prison Service
      750. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress on repealing enactments providing for the ineligibility of those serving presumptive minimum sentences for...
    • Driver Licences
      752. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who has been living in Ireland since they were a baby, has...
    • Immigration Policy
      753. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 448 and 445 of 20 June 2023, to outline a breakdown of investment to the 6 REIT...
    • Prison Service
      755. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on work to be carried out in building or refurbishing prisons throughout the State; and if she will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      756. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa application to enter Ireland by a person who has received a work permit (details supplied); and if she...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      758. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average delay in processing applications for naturalisation from people who have lived legally for the requisite period in...
    • Immigration Policy
      759. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 227 of 10 October 2024, if she has followed up on the matter; and if she will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      760. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44790/24]
    • Prison Service
      761. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if pods are being built in Portlaoise prison to increase the number of places available in the prison; if so, the total number...
    • Visa Applications
      765. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of applications for a visa by persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44819/24]
    • Citizenship Applications
      767. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for citizenship granted on foot of Section 16 – Irish associations, in each of the past four...
    • Visa Applications
      768. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of appeals for visas in the case of a family (details supplied); when the appeals can...
    • An Garda Síochána
      769. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a new recruitment campaign for persons to apply to join An Garda Síochána will be launched before the end of this...
    • Departmental Equipment
      772. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by her Department...
    • An Garda Síochána
      773. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the latest intake into the Garda reserve. [44875/24]
    • Visa Applications
      774. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for a family reunification visa (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Guardian Status
      775. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on her plans to bring forward legislation ensuring that a parent convicted of the murder of the other parent does...
    • Immigration Policy
      776. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of return decisions her Department has issued in the past five years, broken down by the nationality of the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      777. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of mountain bikes attached to each Garda district within Cavan-Monaghan division as of 29 October 2024, in tabular...
    • Prison Service
      778. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost in 2025 if 220 new recruit prison officers were recruited into Irish Prison Service. [45009/24]
    • An Garda Síochána
      779. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda cars and vans allocated to the Cavan-Monaghan division to date in 2024; and the number of those...
    • Departmental Funding
      788. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the budget allocation for the Criminal Assets Bureau in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [45051/24]
    • An Garda Síochána
      789. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of penal warrants outstanding in the Garda R District as of 25 October 2024; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Road Traffic Accidents
      795. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of serious and fatal road traffic collisions that Gardaí attended between Junctions 7-11 on M50 in both...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      796. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vehicles seized for having no insurance within the Garda Y district in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      797. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of public order instructor courses held for Gardaí within the DMR region in the years of 2023 and to date in...
    • Age Identity Cards
      798. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda age ID cards issued to date in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45075/24]
    • Bench Warrants
      799. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of bench warrants that are currently outstanding in the Garda C district within DMR as of 29 October 2024; of the...
    • International Protection
      800. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the vetting process that will be conducted on the international protection applicants that are due to be placed in the Midlands...
    • Visa Applications
      801. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for a visa can be urgently re-examined in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Crime Prevention
      802. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the chairperson of the local community safety partnership for Galway City Council has been appointed; if not, to provide a...
    • Legal Aid
      803. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if additional funding can be allocated to the Legal Aid Board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45131/24]
    • Illicit Trade
      804. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports relating to the suspected import or sale of non-duty paid tobacco products that were referred by An Garda...
    • Prison Service
      806. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of over 70-year-olds within the prison population. [45170/24]
    • An Garda Síochána
      807. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to Meath divisional protective service bureau. [45171/24]
    • Visa Applications
      810. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on a visa application for an individual; if her Department will address matters in the correspondence (details...
    • Immigration Policy
      811. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if some form of replacement of the IIP is being considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45284/24]
    • Emergency Services
      812. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on computer-aided dispatch; the training dispatchers receive regarding the geography of areas they are...
    • An Garda Síochána
      813. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if more gardaí have been recruited in each of the past four years than retired in the same years; if recruitment does not...
    • Prison Service
      814. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of those in overcrowded conditions in the Irish Prison Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Departmental Licences
      815. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on an application for an equine licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43825/24]
    • Agriculture Supports
      816. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the case of a person can be examined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44028/24]
    • Fishing Industry
      817. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the results of the public consultation on a review of trawling inside the six nautical mile zone, and the baselines, will be...
    • Special Areas of Conservation
      818. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider action against large offshore vessels fishing in special areas of conservation. [44033/24]
    • Departmental Meetings
      819. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and or his officials have met with the SEAI and RECI; the dates of any such meetings; the agenda for such meetings; the...
    • Coillte Teoranta
      820. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he has confidence in a person as a non-executive director of a body (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      821. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the case of a person can be examined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44102/24]
    • Departmental Staff
      823. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in his Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of staff, by...
    • Live Exports
      824. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that it is now illegal to export live animals from the UK (details supplied); how this affects Irish livestock and...
    • Fishing Industry
      825. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will seek a derogation from the ban on pollack fishing for some limited categories of inshore and island fishers that can...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      826. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to address concerns in respect of a body (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44200/24]
    • Departmental Data
      827. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to have regard to an issue (details supplied). [44238/24]
    • Harbours and Piers
      828. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to specify the funding that is pre-committed under the National Development Plan for fishery harbour centre improvements in each of...
    • EU Funding
      830. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding committed to Ireland under the European maritime, fisheries and aquaculture fund in each of the years 2023 to 2027, with...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      832. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments in respect of a commonage and some farmers who are in the commonage area in acres will receive their payment in respect...
    • Departmental Staff
      833. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of civil servants, by grade, in his Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those who in...
    • Animal Slaughtering
      834. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of horses slaughtered to date in 2024; the number of horses that have been slaughtered since Shannonside was closed;...
    • Agriculture Supports
      835. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will re-examine the cases of young farmers who were established prior to 2008 and were not eligible for the new...
    • Civil Service
      836. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform...
    • Fishing Industry
      837. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on a matter regarding fishing in Kenmare Bay (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44421/24]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      839. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of participants, the total number of eligible suckler cows for which payments are made and the average herd size under the...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      844. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 397 of 8 October 2024, the reason Horse Racing Ireland claimed that seven horses used at this...
    • Poultry Sector
      845. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to end the process of egg production using caged hens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44707/24]
    • Forestry Sector
      846. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to address ash dieback disease in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44708/24]
    • Food Industry
      849. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of inspections that have taken place in each meat processing plant in Kildare in each of the past five years, in tabular...
    • Farm Safety
      850. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants to date for grants under the national farm safety measure in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
    • Seirbhísí Oileán
      851. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén fáth a bhfuil srian á chur le líon na n-áiteanna páirceála d’oileánaigh ó...
    • Forestry Sector
      852. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will publish his licensing and scheme approval plan for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44771/24]
    • Forbairt Calaí agus Céanna
      855. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén beartas atá aige maidir le ligean foirgneamh folamh ag calaphoirt iascaigh; cad é líon agus achar na...
    • Scéimeanna Talmhaíochta
      856. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine an bhfuil sé i gceist ag a Roinn fiosrúchán a dhéanamh faoi cén fáth ar tharraing beagnach 50% de na...
    • Departmental Staff
      857. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE qualified veterinary inspectors, by grade employed by his Department in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form....
    • Departmental Equipment
      858. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on...
    • Grant Payments
      859. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a grant application can be reviewed on behalf of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44884/24]
    • Greyhound Industry
      860. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of non-coursing greyhounds registered as 'deceased' in the Irish Coursing Club's stud book for each of the years...
    • Departmental Properties
      861. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will give consent to the sale of a site (details supplied); the reasons for the hold-up given the Department of Public...
    • Greyhound Industry
      862. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds born between 1 January and 31 December 2023 that were subsequently registered with the Irish...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      866. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of outstanding cases where the scorecards of a plot or plots of applicants under ACRES were omitted inadvertently when the...
    • Departmental Staff
      867. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE qualified horticulturists, by grade, employed by the Department in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in...
    • Departmental Budgets
      868. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the budget allocation in 2023, 2024 and 2025 for capital works projects under the Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      870. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the IT issue preventing payment of a 2023 Acres scheme payment to a farmer in County Kerry (details supplied) has been rectified;...
    • Animal Welfare
      873. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of pet passports issued by his Department in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45183/24]
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Care of the Elderly
      874. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the guidance his Department offers to individuals seeking to establish legal decision-making processes for...
    • Disability Services
      875. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a meeting that groups in Donegal have requested (details supplied) with Minister of State Rabbitte to discuss...
    • Special Educational Needs
      876. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken to support the children in the special care unit at Johnstown, Navan, as they...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      877. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who is awaiting an assessment of needs; and if...
    • Child and Family Agency
      878. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will investigate Tusla’s involvement or lack of involvement in the case of a four-year-old boy...
    • Departmental Budgets
      879. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is funding available for upgrading existing playgrounds; to provide a list of such funding and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      882. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of the ARP programme for refugees; how many individuals have availed of it in 2024; the overall...
    • Departmental Funding
      883. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full-year costs of this year’s expected delivery on residential places; the amount of funding that...
    • Budget 2025
      884. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of funding that was allocated in Budget 2025 to deliver the announced 40,000 additional home support...
    • Departmental Funding
      885. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of funding allocated to the progressive alignment of the PA rate and home support rate with older...
    • Disability Services
      886. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a breakdown of CDNT data for both Tipperary teams for 2024 in regard to staff numbers; positions filled and...
    • Departmental Properties
      888. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has purchased a property (details supplied) to repurpose as a community hotel; and if he will...
    • Rights of the Child
      889. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress in the awareness raising campaign, stated in a reply to a Parliamentary Question from this Deputy...
    • Childcare Services
      890. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 541 of 15 October 2024, if an assessment has been conducted that would...
    • Disability Services
      891. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on a payment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      892. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the grants available to a facility (details supplied) to purchase a site for the development of a new centre;...
    • Departmental Staff
      893. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in his Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the...
    • Childcare Services
      894. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to replace a childcare service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      895. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a project can be reviewed (details supplied); and if he can provide an update on the current status of the...
    • Disability Services
      896. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason there is no HSE hydrotherapy pool in the north west region that can cater for wheelchair users, which...
    • Special Educational Needs
      897. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when full-time therapists will be restored to each special school. [44202/24]
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      898. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an institution (details supplied) is now included in the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act...
    • Ukraine War
      899. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether a costing has been developed on the potential moving costs of modular homes if planning is refused when...
    • EU Directives
      900. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) will be transposed; how many EU directives are...
    • Disability Services
      901. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the HSE has indicated that there is not an interest in the premises at Cootehill, County...
    • Departmental Data
      902. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what action he and his Department will take to ensure that the historical pay increments for the staff of St....
    • Disability Services
      903. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are any plans to provide a full-time respite service for children in Cavan and adults in Cavan; if she...
    • Children in Care
      907. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost of increasing the foster care allowance payment in 2025 by €1; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services
      909. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of respite services available in Cavan and Monaghan for children and for adults; the further proposals...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      911. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a response will issue to correspondence received by his Department (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Environmental Impact Assessments
      912. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will he publish the environment impact assessment statement for the proposed development at Lissywollen,...
    • Public Sector Staff
      913. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan...
    • Disability Services
      914. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of positions currently filled at the north Louth CDNT under the following headings: dietitians,...
    • Ukraine War
      921. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of payments to accommodation suppliers that are being consulted upon by a company (details supplied);...
    • Health Service Executive
      922. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there has been any funding allocated in the HSE’s Capital Plan for 2025 to build a facility to provide...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      923. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Early Learning Care and School-Age Childcare services inspected in 2023 and 2024, broken down by...
    • Departmental Funding
      925. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total funds provided from his Department to youth groups and youth organisations in County Donegal, broken...
    • Departmental Data
      926. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied minors in the State; the number of which are under the care of Tusla; and if a...
    • Disability Services
      928. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the HSE funds adult disabilities day care centres within CHO 8 that are opened on the weekends; and if so,...
    • Gender Proofing of Policies
      930. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has developed an online reporting system for the 2024 gender pay gap reporting cycle, which...
    • International Protection
      931. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has been in consultation concerning a property (details supplied) for use as IPAS/BOTP...
    • Mother and Baby Homes
      941. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 18 of 24 October 2024, the number of payments made in each category of...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      942. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration will be given to granting a second overage exemption for the ECCE programme (details supplied),...
    • Disability Services
      943. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position in relation to the provision of a residential placement for a person in County Cork (details...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      947. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of children on waiting lists for assessments of need in counties Roscommon and Galway; and the...
    • Child and Family Agency
      948. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of individuals whose Tusla files were lost, either wholly or partially, in the HSE cyberattack of May...
    • Health Services
      950. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for details of which HSE Health areas will be reviewing the 2025 section 39 funding applications for an...
    • Home Schooling
      951. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if financial or other supports are available to a mother who is homeschooling their seven children of various...
    • EU Directives
      952. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if Directive (EU) 2019/1158 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on work-life balance...
    • Departmental Equipment
      953. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by...
    • Childcare Services
      962. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full year cost of increasing pay for childcare staff by 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, and 25%, respectively....
    • Health Services
      963. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the HSE health areas that will be reviewing the 2025 section 39 funding applications for an organisation...
    • Child and Family Agency
      965. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken to support a person (details supplied), who has lost her aftercare as a result of...
    • Health Strategies
      966. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the First 5 Strategy; the work that is being carried out for children and families not offered...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      967. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to develop a national pathway and specialist multidisciplinary functional neurological disorder...
    • Disability Services
      968. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of home personal assistant hours delivered in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45007/24]
    • Public Inquiries
      970. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will support the call by the parents of a child (details supplied) for a public inquiry into the...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      977. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of providers that have been paid AIM funding for 2024; and the number awaiting payment, by county, in...
    • Disability Services
      978. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address specific issues raised in respect of the provision of services to a child with ASD in County...
    • Departmental Staff
      979. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE solicitors employed by his Department in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45186/24]
    • Disability Services
      980. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child with additional needs in County Cork (details supplied) will receive services; where the child...
    • Nursing Homes
      981. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people aged under 65 residing in nursing homes in each of the years since 2020. [45263/24]
    • Disability Services
      982. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will report on the case of a person with cerebral palsy (details supplied) who cannot receive their full...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      984. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the review of the eligibility criteria for the ECCE scheme; if that review will look at the lower...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      985. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the rationale behind the delay in an assessment of needs for a child (details supplied); how much longer the...
    • Disability Services
      986. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current number of vacancies in the CDNT services, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      987. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children waiting longer than six months for AON assessment in Clare; how long they are waiting, in...
  • Department of Health
    • Health Services
      988. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that patients from Mayo are forced to travel to Galway University Hospital to see access optometry services required as a consequence of...
    • Mental Health Services
      989. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of dietetic services to child and adolescent mental health services nationally; and for a breakdown of which services have...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      992. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43905/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      993. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans to add food allergies to the long-term illness scheme due to the costs of adrenaline pens, antihistamines and doctors' visits.; and if...
    • Medical Qualifications
      994. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for registration made to the Irish Medical Council (details supplied) will be expedited and approved; the timeframe for such applications;...
    • Health Service Executive
      995. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE patient transport service, and how a patient can avail of this service to attend hospital appointments using a taxi or ambulance,...
    • Health Services Staff
      996. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the lack of payment for clinical placement in fields such as general nursing, mental health nursing, early childhood education, medicine,...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      997. To ask the Minister for Health if a mobility scooter can be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43929/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      998. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 707 of 11 June 2024, if the HSE pricing and reimbursement application process with regard to the drugs payment scheme has...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1000. To ask the Minister for Health the position on whether a person with type 1 diabetes will be approved for a Dexcom sensor in Cork city (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Home Help Service
      1001. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Ireland does not have a regulatory authority overseeing homecare companies; the reason Ireland does not have a register for health care assistants;...
    • Medicinal Products
      1002. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of an issue (details supplied) with applying for the hardship scheme in relation to the need for a consultant to sign the forms, given the huge...
    • Hospital Staff
      1003. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no healthcare professional (details supplied) at a particular hospital; the status of this post; if a replacement is being sought; and if...
    • Medicinal Products
      1004. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the process for applying for the hardship scheme for medication not covered under the drugs payment scheme; if he is aware in some cases, patients...
    • Medical Cards
      1006. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has sought to resolve the issue regarding the loss of medical cards due to the pension increase in Budget 2025; and if he will make a...
    • Health Service Executive
      1007. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) has applied to the HSE to have a service level agreement considered with it; when a decision will be made on this...
    • Ambulance Service
      1008. To ask the Minister for Health the actions being taken to improve handover times for the National Ambulance Service at hospitals, which is currently impacting service. [43976/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1010. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals made to both CAMHS teams in County Tipperary in 2024; the number of referrals accepted; the number of referrals rejected; and if he...
    • Dental Services
      1012. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of children referred for dental extraction under general anaesthetic, per CHO area, for the years 2018 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Mental Health Services
      1022. To ask the Minister for Health if an article can be reviewed (details supplied); when this team/service will be in place on the ground in Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Staff
      1023. To ask the Minister for Health how many genetic counsellors are currently funded and active in the health service; whether there will be any increase in genetic counsellors in the upcoming...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1024. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made towards delivery of the new primary care centre in Portumna, County Galway; when the centre is expected to open; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Register
      1025. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for registration made to CORU in the name of a person (details supplied); the timeframe for such applications; if there is...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1026. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a medical appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44027/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1028. To ask the Minister for Health the projected growth in the number of GPs working in Ireland until 2033, in tabular form. [44037/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      1037. To ask the Minister for Health the drugs payment scheme threshold between 2011 and 2024 inclusive, in tabular form. [44046/24]
    • Health Service Executive
      1038. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of outpatient appointments provided by the HSE between 2011 and 2024 inclusive, in tabular form. [44047/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1041. To ask the Minister for Health whether the HSE staffing embargo is still in place across all hospitals; and specifically, if there is an embargo in place for the Midlands Regional Hospital,...
    • Insurance Industry
      1042. To ask the Minister for Health to examine an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44060/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      1043. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent approval can be granted for the medicines nivolumab (opdivo) and chemotherapy, authorised by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) since October 2021...
    • Medical Records
      1045. To ask the Minister for Health the reason it is taking so long for a person's medical records to be given to their GP (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1046. To ask the Minister for Health when an urgent hospital appointment is likely to be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Irish Blood Transfusion Service
      1048. To ask the Minister for Health whether he has confidence in a person as chairperson of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44091/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1049. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be given to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44095/24]
    • Health Services
      1050. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given in 2025 to the provision of a national follow-up eyecare scheme for children aged between 8-12 years under the €420...
    • Hospital Charges
      1052. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 677 of 22 October 2024, if he will provide details of the remaining hospitals that have parking charges that exceed...
    • Nursing Homes
      1053. To ask the Minister for Health if a long-stay bed will be considered for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44116/24]
    • Departmental Staff
      1054. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in his Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of staff, by grade, on a career break of...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1055. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds opened at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) under the current Government; the number of beds opened across the mid-west under the current...
    • Hospital Services
      1057. To ask the Minister for Health the current full-year cost of trauma services in Galway, Dublin and Cork, in tabular form. [44150/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1058. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost to the Exchequer of increasing the number of consultants in emergency medicine by a further 50%. [44151/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1059. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated average full-year cost to the health service of employing one health and social care professional. [44152/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1060. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated total full-year cost to the Exchequer to open 3,000 more hospital beds. [44153/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      1061. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated total full-year cost to the Exchequer to halve the drugs payment scheme monthly maximum payment from €80 to €40. [44154/24]
    • Health Services
      1062. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated total full-year cost to the Exchequer to fund one sexual assault treatment unit under the HSE. [44155/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1063. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the counsellors and psychotherapists registration board of CORU to have completed its review of the submissions received regarding the draft...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1064. To ask the Minister for Health if an early appointment for assessment for a hip operation will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied), as their GP considers the case to be...
    • Mental Health Services
      1065. To ask the Minister for Health the status of redress to patients of psychiatric hospitals who feel they have an historic claim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44188/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      1066. To ask the Minister for Health to report on any professional understanding that exists around the treatment options of ‘multiple monitored ECT’, the use of sodium amytal in...
    • Mental Health Services
      1067. To ask the Minister for Health in regard to patients who have suffered trauma as a result of psychiatric institutional sectioning and treatment, what supports exist in the health system to...
    • Health Services Staff
      1068. To ask the Minister for Health if the panel that the HSE set up for the role of MWCG 23.021 senior dental nurse still exists; if the role in question is subject to the HSE recruitment...
    • Nursing Homes
      1069. To ask the Minister for Health the measures in place to ensure that the financial assessments and contributions required of individuals in nursing homes under the fair deal scheme are fair...
    • Hospital Staff
      1071. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 256 of 2 October 2024, when a reply will issue from the HSE to the request to provide a report on the number of sanctioned...
    • Vaccination Programme
      1072. To ask the Minister for Health if the shingles vaccine will be provided free of charge to a person (details supplied) at high risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44219/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1073. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the details on the Women’s Health Action Plan on postnatal supports for mothers; to provide details of the funding and the progress on each...
    • Pension Provisions
      1081. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the matter of pensions payable to retired medical scientists, in light of the Devine Report (2023), the recent pay award for medical...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1082. To ask the Minister for Health given the urgent need for improved healthcare resources for patients with amyloidosis in Ireland, including access to the serum amyloid P component (SAP)...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1084. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE provide funding for people who have had accidents, have broken bones and are unable to walk, cycle or drive for a number of...
    • Hospital Staff
      1085. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44249/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1086. To ask the Minister for Health to review a case (details supplied); why the person has not been referred for further investigation to the Mater Hospital; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1087. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a new wheelchair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44259/24]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1088. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the previous position to exclude staff of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service from the pandemic bonus payment, given the essential...
    • Ambulance Service
      1091. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 712 and 713 of 16 April 2024, if the privileging course has begun, as committed to by the National Ambulance Service;...
    • Health Strategies
      1093. To ask the Minister for Health to provide clarification and an explanation of the current status and progress of the HSE national diabetes clinical programmes; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1094. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed timeline for the initiation, progress, and finalisation by his Department of the Steering Group for the National Review of Specialist...
    • Departmental Bodies
      1097. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a schedule of the various budgets, cost estimates and actual outrun of costs incurred by the Steering Group for the National Review of Specialist...
    • Departmental Policies
      1098. To ask the Minister for Health if the findings of the Herity report are used by his Department in determining cardiac care policy in the south east of Ireland. [44286/24]
    • Departmental Data
      1099. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has any isochrone or administrative travel time data informing its own policy around geospatial location of acute and primary care services;...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health if, given the absence of a diabetes registry and clinical audits, he can outline how his Department plans to identify gaps and issues in diabetes care more...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1101. To ask the Minister for Health the number of insulin pumps allocated to children and adults by the HSE between 2020 and 2024, in tabular form, including the make and model and the cost...
    • Health Service Executive
      1102. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the products and services provided to the HSE by its various contracted manufacturers for patients with type 1 diabetes; and if he will make a...
    • Health Strategies
      1103. To ask the Minister for Health how his Department and the HSE plans to widen access to continuous glucose monitoring technology for people with Type 1 diabetes to improve their diabetes...
    • Health Services
      1104. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the establishment of multidisciplinary diabetes teams, and the integrated model of care for diabetes patients, between hospitals...
    • Departmental Staff
      1105. To ask the Minister for Health the number of civil servants, by grade, in his Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those who in 2023 and 2024 were on a...
    • Hospital Staff
      1106. To ask the Minister for Health the additional responsibilities and roles taken on or assigned to consultants in public health following the creation of this grade; the number of doctors...
    • Dental Services
      1107. To ask the Minister for Health what action is being taken to address the extremely long waiting times for orthodontic treatment; if he would accept that these long waiting times place an...
    • Ambulance Service
      1108. To ask the Minister for Health if an ambulance will be provided to take a seriously ill patient for treatment in a Dublin hospital (details supplied). [44356/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1110. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a hospital has resisted using a charter medical service to clear waiting lists (details supplied) [44362/24]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1113. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce a vaccine for RSV virus. [44366/24]
    • Civil Service
      1115. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform Circular 4/2013 are being...
    • Hospital Services
      1116. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for an assessment relative to the urgent need for a hip replacement will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [44387/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1117. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has an ophthalmologist available at the Drogheda Primary Care Centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44391/24]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1118. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an appointment to see an ophthalmologist under the Drogheda Primary Care Centre up to 1 October 2024; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      1119. To ask the Minister for Health the number of positions currently filled at the south Louth CDNT under the following headings: dietitians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists,...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      1120. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under the aegis of the south Louth CDNT who are currently awaiting first appointments with, an occupational therapist, a speech and...
    • Health Services
      1121. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite care beds available in the Village Residence, Dublin Road, Drogheda; the number of beds at the facility currently available for those...
    • Nursing Homes
      1125. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of all private nursing homes taken charge of by the HSE in each of the past five years; the dates on which those nursing homes were...
    • Disease Management
      1126. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the work of National Rare Disease Steering Group; whether the new national rare disease strategy will be finalised and published by Q4...
    • Departmental Funding
      1128. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the exact provision of funding and resourcing to rare diseases within Budget 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44426/24]
    • Health Strategies
      1130. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an early/interim access scheme to provide early access to EMA-approved therapies for rare diseases has not been introduced; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products
      1131. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 752 of 22 October 2024, when the HSE will meet the manufacturer to reconsider the possible approval of the reimbursement...
    • Health Service Executive
      1132. To ask the Minister for Health to outline what additional measures the HSE has put in place to minimise chemotherapy delays at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Services
      1133. To ask the Minister for Health when scalp cooling will resume for patients undergoing chemotherapy at University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44442/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1134. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant specialist nursing posts at University Hospital Limerick, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44443/24]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      1136. To ask the Minister for Health why frontline staff working with the Irish Blood Transfusion Service were not included in the pandemic recognition payment scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Cards
      1137. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will be renewed in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44446/24]
    • Health Services
      1138. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to urgent support being provided for a child in Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44451/24]
    • Pension Provisions
      1140. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that retired medical scientists are excluded from the benefit of the pay parity that was implemented in January 2024; if there are plans to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1141. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline his Department’s plans to extend the special scheme of paid leave for healthcare workers suffering from long Covid; if he intends to...
    • Departmental Reviews
      1142. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to implement the Radiation Therapist Review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44497/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1144. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of two machines (one for radiation therapy and one CT scanner) being off in University Hospital Galway as they cannot be staffed, while two...
    • Ambulance Service
      1146. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the new base for Gorey ambulance service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44504/24]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1147. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the new primary health centre for Gorey, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44506/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1148. To ask the Minister for Health if he can provide a list, detailing the numbers on the waiting lists for CAMHS in CH08, broken down by county or local area, and broken down by 3-, 6-, 9-,...
    • Dental Services
      1151. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons within CHO8 on a waiting list for dental services. [44513/24]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1152. To ask the Minister for Health the budgetary allocations to CAMHS psychology in CHO8 in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [44514/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1153. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE child and adolescent psychiatrists employed at CAMHS mental health intellectual disability services within CHO8 in the years of 2023 and to...
    • Dental Services
      1154. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of waiting lists for dental surgery and orthodontics for CHO8, by county and by year, from January 2019 to October 2024; and if...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1155. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on plans to increase general practitioner numbers (details supplied) in Cork city suburbs, particularly on the southern side; and...
    • Medicinal Products
      1156. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to make dupilumab (dupixent) available for a person with COPD (details supplied) and other COPD patients in this country; and if he will make a...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1157. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide financial assistance to those with increased electricity bills due to the use of oxygen machines (details supplied); and if he...
    • Middle East
      1158. To ask the Minister for Health further to his statement of 18 September 2024 (details supplied), the number of children evacuated from Gaza to Ireland to date; the number of children...
    • Hospital Staff
      1159. To ask the Minister for Health the number of liaison psychiatrists for children available in CHO3 and CHO5; and the number of liaison psychiatrists for children at Tipperary University...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1160. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44609/24]
    • Pension Provisions
      1161. To ask the Minister for Health to carry out an investigation in relation to an occupational pension, to address the concerns raised, to issue a direct response in relation to email...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1162. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 2 October 2024, when a decision will be made on the business case for the CT scanner which was submitted to HSE...
    • Addiction Treatment Services
      1163. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the progress in implementing the 22 recommendations outlined in the 2022 Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice report entitled ‘An...
    • Departmental Data
      1166. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing numbers for the Cashel minor injuries unit for the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, broken down by profession; if the recruitment ban is...
    • Ambulance Service
      1169. To ask the Minister for Health if he has any plans to introduce an ambulance service on Inis Oírr; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44637/24]
    • Dental Services
      1170. To ask the Minister for Health how many dentists in Galway currently accept medical cards; and if will provide the names of these practice. [44638/24]
    • Health Services
      1171. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of respite services in Galway; the total number of people currently availing of them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44639/24]
    • Vaccination Programme
      1172. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a delay in the rollout of HPV vaccine to schools in the north east (details supplied) which were due in March 2024, cancelled and never...
    • Health Services
      1173. To ask the Minister for Health the average number of public detox beds available in CHO5 each month over the past 12 months; the target his Department has to increase the number of public...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1174. To ask the Minister for Health what steps are being taken to increase the number of primary care centres in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44687/24]
    • Health Services
      1175. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2185 of 23 July 2024, the way the National Gender Service calculates the number of staff it requires for assessments;...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1177. To ask the Minister for Health the current average waiting time for audiology appointments in Roscommon, Galway and Mayo CHO2; and the number currently waiting to be seen, including...
    • Departmental Funding
      1179. To ask the Minister for Health for details of the HSE Health areas that will be reviewing the 2025 section 39 funding applications for an organisation (details supplied); if he will arrange...
    • Health Services Staff
      1180. To ask the Minister for Health why students in fourth year children's and general integrated training courses are not receiving the €500 subsistence payment (details supplied). [44776/24]
    • Industrial Relations
      1181. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on any upcoming engagements between a union (details supplied) and his Department; if he will commit to pay parity for section 39...
    • Nursing Homes
      1182. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the State subvention of private and public nursing homes varies across the State and between whether they are in public or private ownership;...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1183. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No's. 134 of 8 November 2023 and 1674 of 9 September 2024, if progress has been made in negotiations regarding allowances...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1184. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who was referred to Croom Orthopaedic Hospital for a hip replacement and has yet to receive an...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1185. To ask the Minister for Health when surgery will be offered to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44813/24]
    • Dental Services
      1187. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a procedure with a dental specialist will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if financial supports are available to help...
    • Health Services Staff
      1188. To ask the Minister for Health the number of palliative care teams and staff members in CHO7 at present. [44830/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1189. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE staff, by job title, currently within the accident and emergency department of Beaumont Hospital; and the estimated timeframe in...
    • Fire Safety
      1191. To ask the Minister for Health the last dates each external in-person fire safety audit was carried out on behalf of the HSE in each hospital part of Dublin Midlands Hospital Group; the...
    • Mental Health Services
      1192. To ask the Minister for Health the locations of WTE psychiatrists that are based in primary care centres within CHO9 in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [44834/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1193. To ask the Minister for Health the rate of theatre utilisation for St James's Hospital to date in 2024. [44835/24]
    • Ambulance Service
      1195. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances, motorcycles and rapid response vehicles that came into the National Ambulance Service fleet in the years of 2023 and to date in...
    • Departmental Equipment
      1196. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills...
    • Health Services
      1197. To ask the Minister for Health what funding streams are available for community parent support groups and breastfeeding groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44874/24]
    • Medicinal Products
      1198. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons the administration of interferon-alpha (details supplied) has been suspended; the alternative that is offered to patients previously on the drug;...
    • Health Services
      1199. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44903/24]
    • Health Service Executive
      1200. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE health areas that will be reviewing the 2025 section 39 funding applications for an organisation (details supplied); if they will contact the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1201. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and the status of a hospital appointment for this person. [44921/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1202. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); when full funding will be approved for their appointment to a position in Tallaght University...
    • Health Services
      1203. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 315 of 17 October 2024, when a full and detailed reply will issue on the substantial part of this question; and if he...
    • Health Services Staff
      1206. To ask the Minister for Health the public health nurse staffing levels in each area of Dublin; the vacancy rates for each area; if P1, P2 or P3 services are offered in these areas, in...
    • Medical Cards
      1207. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card holders at present; and the number of medical card holders at the end of each year for the past ten years. [44950/24]
    • Nursing Homes
      1208. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who is of limited financial means and is currently residing in care at a location availing of...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1209. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44952/24]
    • Health Services Staff
      1217. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2465 of 23 July 2024, for an updated breakdown of the nursing vacancies in UHL; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Primary Care Centres
      1218. To ask the Minister for Health the new primary care centres currently undergoing construction within CHO1; the services that will be provided at each centre when opened; and the estimated...
    • Ambulance Service
      1219. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated costs of increasing the capital spend on the National Ambulance Service by 15% above the 2024 allocation. [45013/24]
    • Primary Care Centres
      1220. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE physiotherapists within primary care settings in CHO1 in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45014/24]
    • Disease Management
      1221. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to improve the awareness and treatment of lyme disease within the State. [45015/24]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      1222. To ask the Minister for Health if a hearing aid will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45021/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1223. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in emergency medicine based at Tipperary University Hospital in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form....
    • Mental Health Services
      1224. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people on the waiting list for Jigsaw in CHO3 at the end of September 2024. [45023/24]
    • Dental Services
      1225. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of vacancies currently within HSE orthodontic services in County Tipperary. [45024/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1226. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant interventional cardiologists based at University Hospital Limerick in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular...
    • Eating Disorders
      1227. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons being treated for eating disorders in Tipperary in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45026/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1228. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE oral and maxillofacial surgeons at Cork University Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45027/24]
    • Health Services
      1229. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the progress made in addressing the needs of child scoliosis patients who need surgery; if he will outline his further plans to get on top of this...
    • Mental Health Services
      1230. To ask the Minister for Health the protections the Mental Health Bill 2024 will offer for people with personality disorders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45042/24]
    • Care Services
      1231. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocation in 2023, 2024 and 2025 for dementia specific day care services in tabular form. [45055/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1232. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant plastic surgeons at Beaumont Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45056/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1233. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a progress update on the expansion of community intervention teams to prevent unnecessary Hospital admissions and to support the timely discharge...
    • Health Services Staff
      1234. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the estimated full-year costs of employing four additional advanced nurse practitioners. [45058/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1235. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE Dietitians by grade working at Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown, in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45059/24]
    • Health Services
      1236. To ask the Minister for Health to examine the case of a child (details supplied) needing urgent attention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45063/24]
    • Mental Health Policy
      1237. To ask the Minister for Health the reason people with a condition (details supplied) are signed off from CAMHS at 18 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45064/24]
    • Healthcare Policy
      1238. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are no standard diagnostic policies or guidelines for diagnosing or treating children with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Ireland; what...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1243. To ask the Minister for Health when a person will have knee surgery (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45106/24]
    • Mental Health Services
      1244. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of 6 March 2024, when a service will be available to access adult diagnostic assessments for ADHD in County...
    • Ambulance Service
      1245. To ask the Minister for Health if it is policy for ambulance arrival times not to be shared with callers during emergency calls; if this is the case, the reason for this; and if he will...
    • Hospice Services
      1246. To ask the Minister for Health to examine a case involving publicly funded fertility treatment (details supplied). [45116/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1247. 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. [45119/24]
    • Departmental Strategies
      1249. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline specific measures planned to address the gap in access to newly approved cancer drugs by the European Medicines Agency between private and...
    • Emergency Departments
      1250. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 708 of 18 September 2024, when a response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45125/24]
    • Departmental Policies
      1251. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the inclusion of the shingles vaccine in his Department's policy decision following the health technology assessment recently carried out...
    • Healthcare Policy
      1254. To ask the Minister for Health when Ireland intends to align with the NICE recommendations on CGM for certain eligible cohorts of insulin-using individuals with type 2 diabetes (details...
    • Ambulance Service
      1260. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 311 of 17 October 2024, which was not answered sufficiently, if all National Ambulance Service staff, including those...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1262. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be called for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45157/24]
    • Departmental Inquiries
      1264. To ask the Minister for Health if he will have a separate inquiry led by experienced medical persons, such as the Leas Cross inquiry into what happened in relation to nursing homes taken...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      1265. To ask the Minister for Health if he sought the views of other persons or bodies involved in the Covid pandemic; if so, to list them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45165/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1266. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE occupational therapists within older persons services in CHO8, in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [45172/24]
    • Emergency Departments
      1267. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the average emergency department waiting times at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan. [45173/24]
    • Hospital Facilities
      1268. To ask the Minister for Health the capital works projects currently ongoing at the Mater Hospital; the estimated cost for each of these capital works projects; and when each of the capital...
    • Departmental Data
      1269. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that attended the gastroenterologist outpatient clinic at CHI Temple Street in 2023 and to date in 2024 in tabular form. [45175/24]
    • Home Care Packages
      1271. To ask the Minister for Health when additional home help hours will be put in place for a person as a priority (details supplied). [45203/24]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      1272. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [45246/24]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1273. To ask the Minister for Health the current position with ophthalmology services in Clonmel; if the service is operating and how long it is taking to be seen. [45250/24]
    • Departmental Programmes
      1274. To ask the Minister for Health to address matters relating to a pilot treatment programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45260/24]
    • Care Services
      1275. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the work of the Commission on Care for Older People; the status of the three modules; to provide further details in respect of the...
    • Budget 2025
      1276. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed breakdown of the Budget 2025 allocation to eHealth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45265/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1277. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors who undertook specialist training for general practice in each of the years from 2018 to 2024; the number who completed the training...
    • Health Services Staff
      1278. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GP training places on offer in each of the years from 2018 to 2024; the planned increases in training places; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1279. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed update on implementation of the new HSE health regions; if the hospital groups and CHOs have been stood down; and if he will make a...
    • Legislative Measures
      1280. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 407 of 11 July 2024, to provide an update on his Department's consideration of the Law Reform Commission's report...
    • Departmental Reports
      1281. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on implementation of the Covid-19 Nursing Homes Expert Panel Report, by recommendation. [45270/24]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      1282. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the enhanced provision of elective care programme; the status of his plans for elective-only hospitals in Dublin, Cork and Galway...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1283. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on acute inpatient bed delivery (details supplied); the number of additional beds delivered since publication of the Acute Hospital...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1284. To ask the Minister for Health the current hourly direct cost and indirect cost of delivery home care; and the total cost of direct and indirect delivery of home care in each of the years...
    • Home Help Service
      1285. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a percentage split of home care service provision between direct and indirect delivery (details supplied). [45274/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1286. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the uptake of the public-only consultant contract, by principal clinical site, in tabular form (details supplied). [45275/24]
    • Departmental Data
      1287. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of patients attending for assessment under the school screening dental programme in each of the years since 2019 by CHO and LHO, in tabular...
    • Dental Services
      1289. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of dentists participating in the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years since 2019, by CHO and LHO, in tabular from. [45278/24]
    • Nursing Homes
      1290. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people in nursing homes under the fair deal scheme in each of the years since 2020. [45279/24]
    • Departmental Data
      1291. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of nursing home beds in the State in each of the years since 2020, broken down by HSE-provided, HSE-funded under Section 38 and 39 of the...
    • Medicinal Products
      1293. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the shortage of a medication used to treat and manage polycythemia vera (details supplied); if an alternative medication is...
    • Hospital Deaths
      1294. To ask the Minister for Health to outline how long the disciplinary procedures in respect of the six individuals in the UL Hospitals Group connected to the circumstances that led to the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      1295. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the delivery timeline for the Ennis haemodialysis unit (details supplied). [45307/24]
    • Hospital Staff
      1296. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Ennis Mental Health Day Hospital is currently operating without a psychologist after the retirement of the existing doctor; the reason patients...
    • Health Services
      1298. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to vindicate the rights of families and children living with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45310/24]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Further and Higher Education
      1299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of alternative education establishments/settings (excluding Youthreach services) which operate outside of the traditional...
    • Grant Payments
      1301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the stipulation in the guidelines for SUSI grants to ensure that the “first point of entry” requirement for...
    • Departmental Staff
      1303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in his Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of staff, by grade, on a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1304. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full economic cost of EDI initiatives in the third-level sector on an annual basis, inclusive of staff time spent on such initiatives; if a...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details regarding rates of pay or training allowances for apprentices from SOLAS (details supplied); if he is aware of an...
    • Grant Payments
      1306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a SUSI appeal will be granted for a student (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44290/24]
    • Departmental Staff
      1307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of civil servants, by grade, in his Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those who in 2023 and 2024...
    • Grant Payments
      1308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if higher education grants have been awarded to post-graduate students who were in receipt of a stipend or bursary that included the payment of...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that the additional supports announced in Budget 2025 for students in further and higher education will be made available to...
    • Departmental Staff
      1311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform Circular 4/2013...
    • Museum Projects
      1312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged with the OPW in respect of the delivery of a children’s science museum in view of the fact that his Department is the...
    • Third Level Fees
      1313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to review a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44484/24]
    • Departmental Funding
      1314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 838 to 841 of 18 September 2024, where he stated that ‘to be eligible to apply for competitive...
    • Third Level Fees
      1316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €1,000 reduction in university fees will apply to students studying their second degree; what financial supports are available to...
    • Student Accommodation
      1317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the progress of the joint application by ATU Mayo and Mayo County Council, made in October 2022, for the provision of...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      1318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to support apprenticeships and vocational training in Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44695/24]
    • Nursing Education
      1319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students enrolled in level 5 pre-nursing courses in the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 academic years, in tabular form. [44839/24]
    • Departmental Equipment
      1320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and...
    • Adult Education Provision
      1321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when issues will be resolved in relation to contracts for education providers (details supplied); if he will ensure an early resolution of the...
    • State Bodies
      1322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has received the 2023 Annual Report from the Higher Education Authority; and when will same be published online. [45184/24]
    • Education and Training Boards
      1323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of guidance counsellors directly employed by each ETB; and the number that were contracted in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular...
    • Further and Higher Education
      1324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the case of a person (details supplied) who successfully secured a course in further and higher education in Ennis and...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Social Enterprise Sector
      1325. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the timeline for establishing a trading for impact stakeholder engagement group to coordinate input into the delivery of the 'Trading...
    • Departmental Funding
      1326. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is funding available for upgrading existing playgrounds; to provide a list of such funding and timelines for applying; and...
    • Grant Payments
      1327. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the grants available to a facility (details supplied) to purchase a site for the development of a new centre; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Staff
      1328. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of staff vacancies, by grade, in her Department at the end of August 2023 and August 2024; and the number of staff, by...
    • Departmental Policies
      1329. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps he proposes to guarantee unimpeded rights of access to local authority-owned graveyards (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Departmental Staff
      1331. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of civil servants, by grade, in her Department who were on a career break in 2023 and 2024; the number of those who in...
    • Civil Service
      1332. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she is satisfied that the provisions of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform...
    • Departmental Funding
      1333. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a school (details supplied) in Offaly is located an area eligible for Clár funding; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1334. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the name, location and number of participants and managers on all the community services projects in counties Mayo and Galway; the...
    • Regeneration Projects
      1335. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the projects that were funded under the town and village renewal scheme in County Kildare in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular...
    • Departmental Equipment
      1336. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by her Department on...
    • Departmental Funding
      1337. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if matters raised in correspondence in relation to a club (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if an update on the grant under...
    • Departmental Programmes
      1338. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to detail the projects in counties Cavan and Monaghan that received funding under the Clár programme; and the amount of funding...
    • Grant Payments
      1339. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the position regarding certain grant applications (details supplied) made to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Regeneration Projects
      1340. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the towns within County Meath that were funded for works under the rural regeneration and development fund in 2022, 2023 and to date...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1341. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the percentage of the budget allocation for the senior alert scheme that has been spent in the first ten months of 2024; and if she...

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