Written answers

Thursday, 1 July 2021

  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Schools Building Projects
      5. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school development (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35270/21]
    • Disadvantaged Status
      6. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the consultation process in relation to the DEIS programme will be completed at an early date in view of the need to give further consideration...
    • School Transport
      14. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected capacity on buses within the school transport service in September 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35167/21]
    • School Equipment
      15. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her position on the choice of devices selected by secondary schools for students; and if guidelines around type, costs and usage of same will be...
    • School Staff
      16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the loss of a teaching post in a school (details supplied) since the 2019-2020 school year that resulted in an...
    • State Examinations
      17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider extending the current flexible grading for future leaving certificate students up to at least 2022; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Establishment
      18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide additional education facilities at both primary and post primary level in Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 824 of 15 June 2021, the status of the promised review of the policy on reading classes and schools; and if...
    • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
      20. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills céard é an próiséas ar faoi a dhéanfar cinneadh maidir leis an moladh atá ann dhá shonraíocht...
    • Schools Building Projects
      22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if plans for the delivery of a school (details supplied) can be expedited given the pressing need for additional school places in Rush, County...
    • School Staff
      24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to the board of a school (details supplied) to retain its fourth classroom teacher; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protection of grade inflation that is anticipated in 2021, if any in leaving certificate results; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the commencement of a school building project (details supplied) which is due to commence on 1 July 2021; if this is the case; and...
    • Oideachas trí Ghaeilge
      27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad iad na céimeanna a ghlacfaidh sí chun a chinntiú go mbeidh go leor múinteoirí nua-cháilithe ann a mbeidh Gaeilge...
    • Teacher Training
      28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that quotas on primary school teacher training are applied to public institutes of higher education but not private colleges; the steps...
    • Departmental Consultations
      29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in finalising the consultation process in relation to the DEIS programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Examinations
      30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s plans for the leaving certificate 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35294/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the strands of the summer provision programme in 2021; the details of measures to increase participation on account of exceptional...
    • Irish Language
      33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports provided to Irish language schools to promote the use of Irish, including strengthening of partnerships between schools and Gaeltacht...
    • State Examinations
      34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if clarity will be provided on the future of the leaving certificate grading process; and if the practice of school profiling will resume...
    • School Transport
      35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school transport review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35406/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy on mental health support services in primary education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35171/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the building of a new school building for a school (details supplied). [35258/21]
    • School Enrolments
      39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the shortage of secondary school places for children in the catchment area surrounding Milltown, County Kerry; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts she has made in respect of implementing a review of the Education of Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004; if this will be...
    • School Transport
      41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school bus transport scheme issue that has been repeatedly identified in County Clare in particular the concessionary ticket...
    • Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta
      42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén uair a chomhlíonfaidh sí an gealltanas a tugadh do scoileanna Uíbh Ráthach go mbronnfar stádas eisceachtúil...
    • School Accommodation
      44. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if confirmation will be given to a school (details supplied) of the location of its temporary school in September 2021; if she will ensure that...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the DEIS band classification of a school (details supplied); if she will allow for a reassessment of this particular school;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will issue a circular to schools to allow the live broadcast of lessons to leaving certificate students outside the school building who...
    • School Transport
      47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether students who are forced to apply for a concessionary place on school transportation should have to pay for these places; and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the scale of programmes supported by the education excellence fund; and if she has plans to expand this method of funding of innovation. [34507/21]
    • School Accommodation
      49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a new school building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35269/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of ASD units and multi-disability classrooms in County Clare. [35276/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills status of the new permanent build for a college (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35330/21]
    • Schools Establishment
      52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will authorise the establishment of a school (details supplied) to restore the choice of parents and pupils to continue second-level...
    • Crime Prevention
      53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking to combat the scam telephone calls and text messages that are being received in relation to her...
    • Special Educational Needs
      54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which special needs requirements as set out by the relevant school authorities continue to be met in full at primary and...
    • School Staff
      55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outcome of discussion with representatives of school secretaries; if further discussion is planned; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Education Policy
      56. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 343 of 13 May 2021, the status of the workshops on the promotion of wellbeing and resilience in schools...
    • Special Educational Needs
      57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have signed up for the enhanced summer July provision programme for children with additional educational needs; the...
    • School Transport
      59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reconsider the criteria for places on school transportation in which the student is unable to avail of their closest school due to...
    • School Admissions
      60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with parents and teacher representatives in the Clondalkin area of Dublin 22 to discuss the crisis in secondary school places for...
    • Schools Building Projects
      61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of proposed building works for a school (details supplied); the stage of capital appraisal the school is at; the likely timeline to...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider taking action to reduce class sizes in primary schools in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34499/21]
    • School Accommodation
      63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the installation of prefabs in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34833/21]
    • School Admissions
      64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the promised review of the impact of the provision of section 62(10)(b) of the Education (Admission to Schools)...
    • Special Educational Needs
      65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional and total number of SNAs allocated to schools in the Clondalkin and Lucan catchment area for the coming year; and if she will make...
    • Site Acquisitions
      66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of engagements that have taken place with the landowner of a proposed new school site (details supplied), if there has been engagement...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to reduce the pupil-teacher ratio; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35414/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent of the delay in planning for the transfer of a school (details supplied) to the existing building of another school for the start of...
    • State Examinations
      70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she will take regarding the scale of the issues with the leaving certificate oral exams; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will work with a school (details supplied) to ensure the acquisition by her Department of a building for a specific ASD unit and as a...
    • School Transport
      72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a demand-based school transport scheme rather than a geographical based scheme to allow for all students to be catered for;...
    • Special Educational Needs
      73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children with special educational needs in special schools who traditionally availed of two weeks’ school provision and 20 hours home...
    • School Staff
      74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she has taken to address the challenges facing teaching principals in smaller schools who manage special classes. [35378/21]
    • Oideachas Gaeltachta
      75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén cúnamh atá ann do mhúinteoirí i meánscoileanna Ghaeltacht na nOileán, idir mheantóir, liúntas...
    • State Examinations
      76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students completing State examinations in 2022 have the option of bereavement leave or exceptional circumstances during their written exams;...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide clarity on the accreditation of the national training programme for SNAs at UCD. [35380/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the preparations that are been made to progress children with special needs from primary schools to secondary schools. [35385/21]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 13 May 2021, the engagement she has had in the 2020-2021 academic year with representatives of DEIS...
    • School Curriculum
      80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the senior cycle; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35402/21]
    • School Staff
      81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene to ensure that a school (details supplied) does not lose a teacher in the next academic year due to being one pupil short of...
    • School Admissions
      82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the serious challenges related to the provision of secondary school places for September 2021 in Greystones,...
    • School Curriculum
      83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the publication of the new relationship and sexual educations programme; the status of same versus any other relationship and...
    • Special Educational Needs
      84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy of her Department in relation the requirements of national school children with severe dyslexia with regard to extra reading class...
    • School Meals Programme
      85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the school meals and hot school meals programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35405/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SENOs are required to make a visit to schools in September 2021 as part of the SNA exceptional reviews for post-secondary schools; if there...
    • School Facilities
      87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been any update in relation to the provision of funding for the construction of a PE hall for which planning permission has already...
    • School Curriculum
      88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has plans to accelerate the delivery of senior cycle reform. [34506/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will initiate its review of reading classes and reading schools for children and young persons with special needs; what the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will vacate its temporary site not later than after one year's duration; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Transport Policy
      91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way she is encouraging active travel to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35178/21]
    • Education Policy
      92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the possibility of there being no public single sex secondary education option on the northside of Cork city. [35259/21]
    • State Examinations
      93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which she will resolve any unfair marking down of students’ grades in their leaving certificate oral examinations. [35379/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a standard ventilation system is recommended for schools; if schools have been supported by a grant to install pandemic ventilation; and if...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have benefited from the parent’s benefit per county since its introduction and since its expansion in April 2021....
    • Education Policy
      96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools in the State that had only one classroom teacher, that is, the principal of the school during the school year...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the promised catch up fund; the amount that has been put aside for same; the use it will be put to; and when the funds will be...
    • Special Educational Needs
      98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she plans to take to cater for the increasing numbers of special needs pupils at primary level; if she has assessed the impact of the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all school staff will be vaccinated ahead of the next academic year; if she is communicating with the Department of Health to ensure same; and...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate the obstacles facing a qualified teacher (details supplied) who holds qualifications from outside of Ireland but who is...
    • School Accommodation
      101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which her Department continues to respond expeditiously to requests for new schools or extensions to existing schools at primary...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if in the event of longer restrictions in the matter of the pandemic, she will commit to increasing expenditure on the...
    • Bord na Móna
      117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 489 of 10 February 2021, the steps which she has taken to address the plight of workers...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures being taken to ensure continuance of face to face appointments for the public with community welfare officers...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      119. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider not reducing the pandemic unemployment payment given the level of poverty experienced by those on social...
    • Disability Services
      120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she plans to take in order to introduce a cost of disability as committed to in the Programme for Government; and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      121. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has examined the estimated number of persons who will remain on the pandemic unemployment payment by September 2021...
    • Employment Support Services
      123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of funding allocated to local employment services and jobs clubs in 2019 and 2020. [35008/21]
    • Youth Unemployment
      124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she will take to tackle the crisis of youth unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34795/21]
    • Programme for Government
      125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to’ develop a carer’s guarantee...
    • State Pensions
      126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person in their 80s who has been in receipt of the State pension (contributory) and a qualified adult increase...
    • Youth Unemployment
      127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered increasing the role of local employment services and jobs clubs as part of the plan to tackle increased...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to extend provision of rent supplement for survivors of domestic abuse beyond 2021; and if she will make a...
    • Social Insurance
      129. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the capacity the social insurance fund has to support workers in the face of new challenges in the work, life environment;...
    • Employment Schemes
      130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of providing the WALK PEER employment support service model nationally; and her views on the overall use...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications from airline workers for assistance since April 2021; and the percentage of applications that were...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      132. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the thresholds for earnings in relation to qualification for the carer’s allowance can be examined; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the action she will take to account for the ruling from McDonagh versus the Chief Appeals Officer and the Minister for Social...
    • Crime Prevention
      134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps her Department is taking to combat the scam telephone calls and text messages that are being received in relation...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding requirements to apply a detail-orientated approach to ensure the removal of the pandemic unemployment...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason Covid-19 support payments for workers are to be cut; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30408/21]
    • Labour Activation Measures
      137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the role labour activation measures can play in the post-Covid recovery; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      139. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for rent supplement for 2020 and to date in 2021. [35358/21]
    • Social Insurance
      140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has read the recent NESC report on the self-employed. [34171/21]
    • Departmental Reports
      141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 428 of 25 May 2021, the timeline for when the report will be made available; her views...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      142. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out in supplementary welfare for 2020 and to date in 2021; and the areas of payment per county in tabular...
    • Employment Support Services
      145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to meet with representatives of local employment job schemes in relation to the proposed tendering of services;...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she expects appeals against various social welfare decisions to be facilitated in early date including...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have benefited from the parent’s benefit since its introduction and since its expansion in...
    • State Pensions
      149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the Total Contributions Approach 2012 review for those effected by the 2012 rate band changes; and if she will...
    • Departmental Schemes
      150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has initiated the process to establish a dedicated and appropriately resourced employment status unit in the Workplace...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the scale of developmental interventions which she views will be necessary in the post-Covid-19 environment; and the...
    • Pension Provisions
      155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to develop a pension solution for family carers...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the eligibility criteria in the back of education allowance and jobseeker’s allowance and payment...
    • State Pensions
      158. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the efforts she has made in respect of implementing a total contribution approach to the contributory pension system; when...
    • Employment Support Services
      160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her review of the local employment services will include a new tendering process. [35356/21]
    • Employment Schemes
      161. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress on the launch and implementation of the Pathways to Work strategy; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      162. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way her Department will process applications for various social protection payments that require certificates such as...
    • Employment Schemes
      163. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans in ensuring post-pandemic jobs schemes focus on ensuring quality employment; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      166. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 854 of 15 June 2021, her plans to defer the 13-week requalification period for partial...
    • School Meals Programme
      167. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the hot meals pilot to reach more children and schools that are under the school meals programme.; and if...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      170. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the cost of disability payment will be introduced as committed to in the Programme for Government; the status on the...
    • State Pensions
      172. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of measures to address anomalies in the homemaker’s scheme for those who provided the majority of their...
    • Pension Provisions
      174. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the marriage requirement in existing legislation in order to qualify for the widow’s pension; and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      175. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the take-up of the enhanced carer’s support grant for 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35342/21]
    • State Pensions
      177. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the engagement that has been had with the Minister for Finance to ensure that adult dependant recipients who are 80 years and...
    • Departmental Schemes
      178. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the target processing time for schemes under her Department; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      179. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to acknowledge the phenomenal work done by carers throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. [35260/21]
    • School Meals Programme
      180. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the analysis her Department has carried out into the impact of the change to the new regional employment service model on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      183. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason no proof of unemployment was required when persons were applying for the pandemic unemployment payment; and the...
    • Departmental Staff
      184. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of staff in her Department that are working remotely on a permanent basis; the number working from home; the...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Energy Production
      185. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if information will be provided on the notifications or directions submitted by his Department to An Bord Pleanála...
    • Climate Change Policy
      187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the warmer homes scheme will currently consider applications from pensioners that are on qualifying payments, have...
    • Energy Policy
      188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage breakdown of the work done under the energy efficiency schemes administrated by the SEAI between work...
    • Energy Usage
      190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of recent power outages in the Rush and Lusk areas of north County Dublin; the frequency and reason for...
    • Waste Management
      191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the provision of an annual support towards the cost of pay by weight bin changes for homes which have a...
    • Legislative Measures
      192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is considering changes to the Electronic Commerce Act 2000 to allow the use of digital signatures on documents in...
    • Energy Policy
      193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it is planned to provide incentives such as low-interest loans or other incentives to businesses to encourage them...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Transport Policy
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the full amount allocated under the alternatively fuelled heavy duty vehicle purchase grant scheme has been distributed to applicants;...
    • Driver Test
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will receive a driver test appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35512/21]
    • Bus Services
      198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason an area (details supplied) does not have a summer service; if the matter will be re-examined; and if he will make a statement...
    • Driver Test
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a driver test application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35623/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the process for persons to obtain the EU Digital COVID Certificate; if persons will receive their certificate in advance of 19 July 2021;...
    • National Car Test
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the pass rate at each NCT test centre for the most recent annual report; the reason for the variation in pass rates between centres; and...
    • Taxi Licences
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to amend the law to allow taxi drivers have licensed taxi vehicles that are up to 12 years old in view of the financial...
  • Department of Finance
    • Revenue Commissioners
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of forensic accountants employed by the Revenue Commissioners in 2020; and the associated wage costs. [35446/21]
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance the VAT implications for a registered charity building an animal shelter as a new build; if exemptions are available on the VAT; and if he will make a...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance if a vehicle purchased by an organisation (details supplied) to transport persons to medical appointments and hospitals and so on will be included in the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the employment wage subsidy scheme for aviation workers until the return of widespread air travel and incomes of workers in the sector...
    • Credit Availability
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance the volume of SBCI lending to SMEs through the retail banks for each of the years 2015 to 2020, by financial institution in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance when a person (details supplied) will receive a response to an application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35701/21]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Brexit Issues
      210. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown by Department of the allocations to be received from the €1.05 billion Brexit Adjustment Reserve in tabular form....
    • Civil Service
      211. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the delays experienced by some civil service pensioners who are living abroad in terms of the late...
    • Office of Public Works
      212. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the pay policy for protected employment in the Office of Public Works increases in line with other public sector pay increases; and...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      213. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is progress regarding the publication of an updated sports action plan; if she will report on the implementation of the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      214. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider introducing a second live performance support scheme in 2021 given that some businesses were not aware that...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Planning Issues
      215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the assessment on the imperative reasons of overriding public interest planning for Galway Port recommended by An Bord...
    • Rights of Way
      216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to extend the period of time by which all rights of way must be registered given the disruption caused by...
    • Planning Issues
      217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all guidelines and policy directives issued to An Bord Pleanála under sections 28 and 29 of the Planning...
    • Departmental Schemes
      218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 304 of 22 June 2021, the reason the review is only for the first 12 months of the...
    • Nitrates Usage
      219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the proposed upcoming changes to the nitrates action programme will be altered to include changes to regulations on the...
    • Fire Safety
      221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action being taken by local authorities to ensure that landlords are complying with minimum standards and current fire...
    • Local Authorities
      223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities can use their discretion to look upon a housing applicant’s pandemic unemployment payment as...
    • Departmental Schemes
      224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if grants are available for a person to replace roof tiles on their home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35601/21]
    • Local Authorities
      225. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost to date to his Department of the provision of funding to each local authority for the post of vacant homes officers...
    • Animal Diseases
      227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the monitoring of the RHD2 virus in hares; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35640/21]
    • Departmental Schemes
      228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding provided under each of the housing adaptation grants in each of the years since 2010. [35690/21]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding made available under the capital assistance scheme in each of the past three years. [35693/21]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      232. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the representations that have been made in relation to vaccine supplies in Nepal, especially with regard to the availability of second doses...
    • Anglo-Irish Relations
      233. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the outcome of the recent meeting of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Historical Conflicts
      234. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will recognise the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as genocide against Ukrainians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35591/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      235. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the new procedures that will be put in place in circumstances in which a person travels to Ireland from non-EU countries after 19 July 2021...
  • Department of Defence
    • Naval Service
      236. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the activities Naval Service sea vessels undertook on 27 June 2021 at a nearshore location on the north shore of Galway Bay, east of An...
    • Anglo-Irish Relations
      237. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the engagement he has had with the UK Secretary of State to date in 2021 with regard to the defence memorandum of understanding between Ireland...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Curriculum
      238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to progress the recommendations of the special Dáil Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution report specifically its...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the Citizens' Assembly on education committed to in the programme for Government is expected to take place. [35001/21]
    • Education Schemes
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the summer programme for 2021 including registrations to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35398/21]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the planned measures to support children and young persons who are at risk of the highest levels of educational disadvantage; and if she will...
    • Education Welfare Service
      242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the planning in place to support students due to sit the 2022 leaving certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35403/21]
    • Health Services
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of public health supports available to schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35404/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the expenditure of the over €2 billion in funding for special education as part of Budget 2021; and the way this funding is...
    • School Facilities
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be supported in purchasing land to install a safe set down area and carpark for the school which is located...
    • School Transport
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) in County Kerry who is eligible for free school transport under the medical card scheme to their nearest...
    • State Examinations
      248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to reform the leaving certificate exams; her engagement with the State Examinations Commission in respect of same; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs
      250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to staff shortages affecting the July provision in a school (details supplied); if a solution will be provided;...
    • School Funding
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funds will be made available to schools (details supplied) to allow them to build permanent accommodation and move to their temporary...
    • Departmental Properties
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is in charge of an old school building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35618/21]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a new school by a school (details supplied) which was lodged with her Department in March 2020 and for which the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the SNA review for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35635/21]
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications processed by the Teaching Council in 2020 and to date in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35638/21]
    • School Staff
      257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in 2022 and in a full year of providing career guidance counsellors to the approximately 130 schools who currently do not have...
    • Special Educational Needs
      258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of provisions made for children requiring special needs teaching; and if she...
    • State Examinations
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she remains confident regarding the provisions made to facilitate leaving and junior certificate exams in 2021; and if she...
    • School Facilities
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she has been in a position to respond to requests for upgrading of accommodation at existing primary and second-level schools...
    • School Staff
      263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of teachers currently employed at primary throughout the country; the extent to which this meets requirements at the present...
    • School Facilities
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which she expects to be in a position to provide minor improvement works to primary schools throughout County Kildare by way of the...
    • Schools Building Projects
      269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and location of primary schools throughout County Kildare with a requirement for improvement and upgrade works of a major or minor...
    • Special Educational Needs
      271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which special needs placements remain available at primary and post-primary schools throughout County Kildare; the adequacy of such...
    • School Enrolments
      274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the enrolment process at primary-school level remains amenable to most families throughout the country; and if she will make...
    • School Transport
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the school transport system is being monitored with a view to ensuring resolution of most argumentative issues that have...
    • School Funding
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which provision continues to be made to ensure the viability of smaller and denominational rural or urban schools; and if she will...
    • School Accommodation
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which progress continues to be made towards permanent accommodation for a Gaelcholáiste in Maynooth, County Kildare; and if...
    • School Facilities
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the time schedule for the provision of new second-level facilities at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staff
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a behaviour therapist will be provided from its commencement for a school (details supplied). [35418/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to look at mainstream and autism classes to expand the pilot scheme for speech and language therapists and occupational therapists for...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Youth Unemployment
      282. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is working on plans to combat youth unemployment with specific focus on those not in education, employment...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      283. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase expenditure on the pandemic unemployment payment if further Covid-19 restrictions are required. [32281/21]
    • Birth Certificates
      284. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it will be ensured that all same-sex parents are facilitated in being recognised as the parents of their children,...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the period of time a person can receive jobseeker’s benefit before they are means...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      287. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a carer’s allowance appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
    • Public Services Card
      288. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will receive a PPS number for their newborn daughter; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pensions
      289. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the difficult circumstances that workers who are nearing retirement are faced with whereby...
    • Vaccination Programme
      290. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if client identity applications can be expedited for persons (details supplied) to access the Covid-19 vaccination programme;...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      291. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason applicants for the new transitional payment for persons aged 65 years are deemed ineligible to receive this...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      293. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused the wage subsidy scheme to enable them to employ a person with a...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      294. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports that are available for single parents with 50% or less custody of their child and or children; if her Department...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      295. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35604/21]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      296. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the payment of the fuel allowance for the full year will be examined (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      298. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2022 and in a full year for every 1% and every €1 per week increase in basic social welfare...
    • Employment Schemes
      301. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the approximate number of job coaches in whole-time equivalent terms currently funded through EmployAbility; the way in which...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost in 2022 and in a full year of restoring the subsidy under the wage subsidy scheme for persons with...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      303. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which she plans to meet the commitment in the Programme for Government to expand the Ability Programme; the...
    • Employment Equality Training
      304. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funding currently devoted to training for employers in relation to diversity and disability awareness. [35688/21]
    • Employment Support Services
      305. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding currently devoted to disability grants and other supports for employers and to the promotion of these amongst...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      306. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the level of Covid-19 related payments has tapered off in recent weeks; and if she will make a statement...
    • Youth Unemployment
      308. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she and her Department have continued to monitor youth unemployment levels; the extent to which such...
    • Labour Market
      309. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she foresees an improvement culminating in a drop in unemployment levels in all age cohorts as we...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      310. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which exceptional needs payments have been availed of in the past 12 months by various applicants in terms of...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      312. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the degree to which cross-Border employment trends and opportunities are being restored as the levels of Covid-19 recede; and...
    • Departmental Budgets
      313. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she expects the budgetary requirements of her Department to fluctuate in the next 12 months; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      314. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the number of applications for various social welfare payments has fluctuated over the past 12 months;...
    • State Pensions
      315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of State pension (contributory) or State pension (non-contributory) aged 100 years or more;...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      316. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a carer’s allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) will be accepted; and if she will...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      317. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding adequacy of the provision of preschool teaching facilities...
    • Childcare Services
      318. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if assistance is available for a community crèche (details supplied) to acquire alternative premises; and...
    • Child and Family Agency
      319. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the criteria by which Tusla quantifies complex needs in a child; the number of children categorised as such...
    • Child Protection
      322. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35704/21]
    • Equality Proofing of Policies
      323. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will update the document How to Conduct a Disability Impact Assessment Guidelines for Government...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      324. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to ensure all playgrounds have accessible features for children with disabilities; and if...
    • Direct Provision System
      327. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons in direct provision; the number of these living in independent living units with...
    • International Protection
      328. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the accommodation arrangements made for applicants for international protection in County Galway who are working...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Education
      329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount it costs to run the HEAR and DARE initiatives on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35433/21]
    • Further and Higher Education
      331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the European funds that contribute to higher and further education in Ireland; if any contribute towards improving access to further and or...
    • Grant Payments
      332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to increase the SUSI rates available for postgraduate students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35447/21]
    • Third Level Fees
      333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to decrease the cost of college fees if courses continue to be conducted online for the upcoming academic year; and if he will...
    • Third Level Costs
      334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of an additional 100 undergraduate nursing places; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35637/21]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Legislative Measures
      335. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to amend section 30 of the Data Protection Act 2018 to prevent targeted advertising to children or to produce a...
    • Citizenship Applications
      336. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) will be determined. [35429/21]
    • Immigration Policy
      337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will respond to correspondence (details supplied) arising under proposals to regularise undocumented migrants; and if...
    • Coroners Service
      338. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the matter of coroners charging families for reports on their deceased relatives. [35437/21]
    • An Garda Síochána
      339. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cancelled 999 calls by Garda division and by the subject of the cancelled calls by division in tabular form; and...
    • Immigration Status
      340. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to regularise status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • An Garda Síochána
      341. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has raised with An Garda Síochána, the situation whereby children would have been in the number of 999 calls...
    • Legal Aid
      342. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of the free legal aid scheme for criminal justice in 2021 and in each of the past five year in tabular form; the...
    • An Garda Síochána
      343. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to section 41 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (details supplied), if she is satisfied that the Garda...
    • Online Safety
      346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the implementation of the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020 has made an impact on the issue...
    • Prison Service
      347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 365 of 24 June 2021, the number of category A complaints from the Dóchas centre over...
    • Family Law Cases
      352. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her plans to reform the family law court system can ensure that in future family law cases are held in local courts to...
    • Online Safety
      354. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which harassment on or offline whereby business persons are targeted by way of malice have been reported to An...
    • Prison Service
      355. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to publish the three-day monitoring report on operations in the Dóchas centre submitted to her office in...
    • Proposed Legislation
      358. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to publish the criminal justice (mutual recognition of custodial sentences) Bill which is on the priority...
  • Department of Health
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      359. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the University Maternity Hospital Limerick went against a risk assessment carried out by its internal...
    • Vaccination Programme
      361. To ask the Minister for Health if pregnant healthcare workers and high-risk pregnant healthcare workers are being prioritised for Covid-19 vaccinations according to the current priority...
    • Disease Management
      362. To ask the Minister for Health if he will designate fibromyalgia as a rare disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28419/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      363. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unborn children known to have been adversely impacted through the prescription of sodium valproate; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      364. To ask the Minister for Health when respite homes will be able to reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28421/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      366. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the establishment of an inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate and the filling of the four currently unfilled...
    • Health Promotion
      367. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of action item 3.13 of the National Breastfeeding Action Plan which pertains to the WHO Code of Marketing of Breast-milk...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      368. To ask the Minister for Health if information will be provided on egg freezing for women who have had a cancer diagnosis specifically those who will need to have a hysterectomy due to...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      370. To ask the Minister for Health if the situation will be clarified regarding inward travel to Ireland from Canada by Irish citizens who have received one dose of a vaccine (details supplied);...
    • Health Services Staff
      371. To ask the Minister for Health when will the four currently unfilled epilepsy nurse specialist posts approved in 2018 will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28504/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      372. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate which he announced in November 2020; the timeline to establish a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      373. To ask the Minister for Health the number of prisoners who have been vaccinated to date against Covid-19; the number vaccinated who are over 60 years of age; the number vaccinated who are...
    • Health Services Staff
      374. To ask the Minister for Health the current turnaround time for applications for physiotherapist registration to an agency (details supplied); the average turnaround time in each of the years...
    • Disability Services
      375. To ask the Minister for Health when a report (details supplied) commissioned into Prader-Willi syndrome is due to be published and the recommendations implemented; and if he will make a...
    • Health Strategies
      376. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of action item 3.13 of the National Breastfeeding Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28509/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      378. To ask the Minister for Health if the classification of services into categories of essential and non-essential work is still being implemented as the restrictions are eased from level 5;...
    • Departmental Data
      381. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons resident in the State that are known or estimated to live with congenital disabilities as of April 2021. [28532/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      383. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the provision of swimming lessons; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Legal Services
      384. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s total spend on external professional legal services in 2014, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [28535/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      386. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered adding a suitable product for those with epilepsy to the Medical Cannabis Access Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      387. To ask the Minister for Health the current position in relation to persons travelling to Ireland who have been fully vaccinated with any of the WHO and EMA approved vaccines following the...
    • Health Services Staff
      389. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to ensure that hospital staff are supported in doing their work during the extraordinary situation in which they find themselves...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      390. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to address the increased waiting lists that will result from the suspension of many procedures due to the recent cyber-attack. [28663/21]
    • Cybersecurity Policy
      391. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he plans to take to prevent to the greatest extent possible the reoccurrence of a similar cyber-attack. [28664/21]
    • National Maternity Hospital
      392. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the transfer of the National Maternity Hospital from Holles Street to St. Vincent’s Hospital; the timelines for developing the new...
    • Hospital Facilities
      393. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to move four maternity hospitals from their current locations to be co-located with an acute adult hospital: Holles Street, the Coombe, the...
    • Health Services
      394. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 781 of 10 March 2021, the status of the work undertaken by CHO6 to reopen the GMHS; the progress made to date regarding...
    • Medicinal Products
      396. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the prospective reimbursement of a drug (details supplied); the status of same following the meetings which were scheduled to take place...
    • Vaccination Programme
      397. To ask the Minister for Health if the period between the doses of a vaccine (details supplied) can be reduced for those in the over 60 years of age category. [28670/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      398. To ask the Minister for Health if a series of matters in relation to the Covid-19 hub (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive a response; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      399. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28672/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      401. To ask the Minister for Health the status update on the development of a registry to record women who have been prescribed sodium valproate during pregnancy; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Strategies
      403. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his work on the implementation of action Item 3.13 of the National Breastfeeding Action Plan which pertains to the WHO Code of Marketing of...
    • Medicinal Products
      404. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is actively considering the purchase of the drug partisan for use by sufferers of familial amyloidosis; if there is a projected timeframe for the...
    • Abortion Services
      405. To ask the Minister for Health the details of his plan for a review of the Termination of Pregnancy Act 2018; the form this review will take; if it will include hearings or submissions from...
    • Medicinal Products
      406. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to progress the recommendations of the special Dáil Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution report, specifically its...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      407. To ask the Minister for Health the number of guests who will be permitted at wedding ceremonies and receptions over the coming months. [28822/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      409. To ask the Minister for Health if a matter in relation to the provision of pharmacists (details supplied) in Kenmare Community Hospital will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      410. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the temporary assistance payment scheme available to nursing homes will continue beyond 30 June 2021, having regard to the ongoing risk...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      411. To ask the Minister for Health if a primary medical certificate will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28826/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      412. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons in care homes are not allowed indoor or home visits; the HSE guidelines in relation to the matter; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      414. To ask the Minister for Health the vaccination options that are available for those who are housebound and unable to travel to their general practitioner or local vaccination centre and do...
    • Health Strategies
      415. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE National Steering Group responsible for implementation of the neurorehabilitation framework will next meet; if meetings will take place on a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      416. To ask the Minister for Health if those members of staff who had been transferred from mental health services to supplement Covid-19 services will be returned to mental health services; and...
    • Health Services Staff
      417. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the commitment made in the programme for Government to fill positions for consultants, psychiatric nurses and in peer support in mental health...
    • Hospital Services
      418. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons presenting at accident and emergency units for Beaumont Hospital, the Mater Hospital and James Connolly Memorial Hospital,...
    • Health Strategies
      419. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the omission of heart valve disease from the list of conditions addressed in the National Heart Programme, which includes diabetes, asthma, COPD...
    • Health Services
      420. To ask the Minister for Health if he will list procedures provided to patients who are covered under the general medical scheme for the treatment of heart valve disease; the proportion of...
    • Hospital Admissions
      421. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private patients treated in public hospitals for heart valve disease; the details of the proportion of patients treated using transcatheter...
    • Healthcare Policy
      422. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has taken a position on the HIQA recommendation contained in its Health Technology Assessment of transcatheter aortic valve...
    • Hospital Procedures
      423. To ask the Minister for Health the regional breakdown of transcatheter aortic valve implantation and surgical aortic valve replacement procedures performed throughout the State on a regional...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      424. To ask the Minister for Health the status of antigen testing usage in a return to international travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28901/21]
    • Health Services
      425. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28912/21]
    • Hospital Services
      426. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a situation in a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28913/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      427. To ask the Minister for Health if a drug (details supplied) will be included on the drug payment scheme for pregnant women. [28930/21]
    • Health Services
      428. To ask the Minister for Health if public health nurses will be provided with bilirubin meters for conducting checks on newborn babies in order that they do not have to be sent to a general...
    • Vaccination Programme
      429. To ask the Minister for Health when residents of direct provision centres will receive their Covid-19 vaccine given that their need is particular acute due to rules prohibiting re-entry to...
    • Primary Care Centres
      430. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the planned primary care centre based in Drimnagh, Dublin 12 which was committed to, planning permission granted but never completed under his...
    • Vaccination Programme
      431. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) who is waiting five weeks for the Covid-19 vaccine and has contacted the HSE helpline several times will receive confirmation...
    • Health Services Staff
      434. To ask the Minister for Health when persons in the health care sector (details supplied) will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29048/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      435. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that residents living on the Kilkenny side of counties Wexford and Kilkenny border in Ferrybank are being asked to...
    • Health Services Staff
      436. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that night nursing staff at a community nursing home (details supplied) in County Mayo are not adequate; the steps...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      437. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29051/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      438. To ask the Minister for Health the way he plans to provide vaccination to the thousands of undocumented persons who are residing in Ireland; the process that will be put in place in relation...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      439. To ask the Minister for Health if the temporary assistance payment scheme for nursing homes will be continued beyond June 2021; if any engagement has taken place with nursing home...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      440. To ask the Minister for Health if provisions are in place for an adolescent with very profound sensory issues who has to travel for essential reasons but who is not able to withstand the PCR...
    • Medicinal Products
      441. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria that is in place for persons wishing to avail of dupixent (details supplied); his plans to relax the criteria to allow more persons to avail of...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      442. To ask the Minister for Health if the two reports of the Expert Group on the Role of Ventilation in Reducing Transmission of Covid-19 sent to NPHET can be made publicly available; and if he...
    • Nursing Homes
      444. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of building and fitting out a 20-bedroom public nursing home on a greenfield site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29097/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      445. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that were treated for a gambling addiction in each of the years 2017 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29098/21]
    • Dental Services
      446. To ask the Minister for Health the current extent of public orthodontic services in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29099/21]
    • Health Services
      447. To ask the Minister for Health when day care services will be allowed to reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29102/21]
    • Abortion Services
      448. To ask the Minister for Health if the scheduled three-year review of the operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 will be conducted independently of his...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      450. To ask the Minister for Health if the temporary assistance payment will be continued into the future (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29107/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      451. To ask the Minister for Health if advice will be provided on a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in relation to vaccination; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      452. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the temporary assistance payment scheme for nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29109/21]
    • Health Services
      453. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a child (details supplied) will be expedited in view of the circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29110/21]
    • Dental Services
      454. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists who are currently providing services under the medical card scheme; the number of dentists who have withdrawn from providing services...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      455. To ask the Minister for Health if advice and clarification will be provided on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29112/21]
    • Health Service Executive
      456. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable practice across the health service for patients receiving end of life care at a hospital to be moved into a nursing home;...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      457. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to easing restrictions on nursing home visits to permit fully vaccinated residents to leave their care homes for walks with...
    • Health Strategies
      458. To ask the Minister for Health the status of Ireland’s progress on implementing via legislation the WHO Code of Marketing on Breast-milk Substitutes; and if he will make a statement...
    • Vaccination Programme
      460. To ask the Minister for Health if higher numbers of vaccines will be allocated to local general practitioners in rural areas to facilitate the vaccination of persons who cannot travel to...
    • Official Engagements
      463. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to meet with his counterpart in Northern Ireland further to his invitation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29169/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      464. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the temporary assistance payment scheme to support the nursing home sector and that no cliff-edge will present with regard to Covid-19...
    • Vaccination Programme
      465. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements put in place for persons in their 60s who have refused a vaccine (details supplied) to avail of an alternative vaccine; and when are they due...
    • Health Services
      466. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 538 of 17 December 2020, if HSE Community Healthcare West has signed a lease for an alcohol treatment centre in Galway...
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      467. To ask the Minister for Health if a measure will be introduced to provide equal treatment to patients (details supplied); and if medical cannabis products will be funded at source the same...
    • Health Services Staff
      468. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assistant psychologists currently working in a voluntary capacity within HSE services in relation to the recent advertisement for unpaid...
    • Health Services
      469. To ask the Minister for Health the new supports that will be forthcoming from his Department in 2021 and 2022 for the 40,000 persons living with epilepsy in Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      471. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to extend the temporary assistance scheme to support private and voluntary nursing homes with additional costs due to coronavirus Covid-19; and if...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      472. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider amending the current legislation to allow outdoor drive-in movies and cinemas to operate at present; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      473. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a person (details supplied) in need of urgent surgery. [29212/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      474. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which research has been undertaken or can be undertaken expeditiously with a view to availing of high standard air purification equipment which...
    • Covid-19 Tests
      475. To ask the Minister for Health if the use of the antigen test will be utilised more readily in order to facilitate international travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29222/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      476. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the Minister expects to update the mental health services in line with modern requirements having particular regard to ongoing commentary...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      477. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which projects such as the new children’s hospital, the new national maternity hospital, Naas General Hospital and others such projects...
    • Vaccination Programme
      478. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the roll-out of vaccines continues at pace in line with expectations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29225/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      479. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which rare and orphan drugs are being cleared for use and reimbursement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29226/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      480. To ask the Minister for Health when it is expected that the standard, quality and accessibility to mental health services is likely to be improved; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Healthcare Policy
      481. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which the administration of health services is moving towards the provisions set out in Sláintecare; the expenditure to date arising...
    • Health Services Staff
      482. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts remaining to be filled in the Kildare psychology services; the efforts currently in hand to address this issue; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services
      483. To ask the Minister for Health when it is expected that modern child and adolescent assessments can be made available to children with such requirements in County Kildare; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      484. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which actions are in hand to minimise the recent cyber-attack on the most sensitive of services provided by the HSE including oncology,...
    • Hospital Services
      485. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he has examined and approved the plans for the reopening of general hospital services, post-Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Dental Services
      486. To ask the Minister for Health when the appropriate action will be taken to ensure the provision of full-scale orthodontic treatment for children; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      487. To ask the Minister for Health when a paediatric service (details supplied) will resume in University Hospital Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29262/21]
    • Mortality Rates
      488. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Research Board have not conducted an analysis of drug and alcohol deaths since 2017; and when it plans to publish such a study again....
    • General Practitioner Services
      490. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reopening of SouthDoc Blackpool. [29265/21]
    • Hospital Admissions
      492. To ask the Minister for Health the number of alcohol-related admittances to hospitals in 2020 and to date in 2021, by month in tabular form. [29267/21]
    • Health Services
      494. To ask the Minister for Health when an organisation (details supplied) will resume providing services to older persons; the timeline for reopening; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services
      495. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recruit more clinical psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29270/21]
    • Disability Services
      496. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the disability capacity review report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29271/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      497. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the free general practitioner care for under 8's will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29272/21]
    • Dental Services
      498. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the primary school dental programme is set to resume for vital check-ups and follow-up dental care; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      499. To ask the Minister for Health the provision for a paediatric emergency department and urgent care facility or outpatient appointments service for children in Naas hospital that is planned;...
    • National Children's Hospital
      500. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the emergency department unit in Tallaght University Hospital will be wound down and moved to the new children’s hospital as part of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      501. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be offered a date for vaccination; the way in which the person can register given that they have been unable to source a...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Schemes
      502. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if funding will be provided to fund a pilot programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35445/21]
    • Forestry Sector
      503. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to visit any ash plantation in the immediate term during the growing season to see first-hand the rate at which ash...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      507. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on the review of a decision on a BEEP application by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Energy Policy
      508. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the change will be clarified of the south east cardinal marker at the Marine Institute’s Offshore Electricity-Generating...
    • EU Regulations
      509. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the proposed introduction of veterinary regulation 2019/6 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Brexit Issues
      510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which negotiations are in hand to safeguard jobs at a location (details supplied) in County Kildare which has depended...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      511. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to provide extra resources to the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board to ensure that appeals are heard expeditiously; the...

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