Written answers

Tuesday, 19 October 2021

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Cabinet Committees
      27. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Covid-19 last met. [45192/21]
    • Government Communications
      59. To ask the Taoiseach if he will commission a review on the use and security implications arising from the use of personal devices and messaging services by Ministers, Ministers of State and...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      60. To ask the Taoiseach the proposed running order of the citizens’ assemblies committed to under the Programme for Government. [44815/21]
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      62. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the United Nations and on the vaccine distribution to poorer nations. [46099/21]
  • Department of Health
    • Health Services
      98. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the provision of lung cancer screening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50618/21]
    • Disability Services
      99. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take in relation to the Brandon Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50025/21]
    • Nursing Homes
      100. To ask the Minister for Health if an update will be provided on the commencement of changes to the nursing homes support scheme, the fair deal scheme; the benefits of these changes; if...
    • Health Services
      101. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reopening of the HSE Keltoi Rehabilitation Unit. [50813/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      102. To ask the Minister for Health the way the €250 million allocation in Budget 2022 for addressing waiting lists will be disbursed; his plans to assist the HSE in alleviating hospital...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      103. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recent increase in patients on trolleys at Galway University Hospital, a trend which is expected to continue through the...
    • Hospital Staff
      104. To ask the Minister for Health if a commitment can be given that student radiographers will be paid standard HSE allowances for attending clinical placements in public hospitals similarly to...
    • Care of the Elderly
      105. To ask the Minister for Health the additional supports Budget 2022 is providing for persons with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50707/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      106. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase specialist training places in particular for general practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50780/21]
    • Hospital Facilities
      108. To ask the Minister for Health if he will deliver a joint diabetes centre of excellence at Letterkenny University Hospital and Sligo University Hospital as called for by diabetes campaigners...
    • Disability Services
      109. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the additional funding of €105 million earmarked for disability services in Budget 2022 will help to provide greater independence for...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      110. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the way parents are being faced with paying for private needs assessment for their children due to lengthy public waiting times; his further views...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      112. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of waiting lists will be concluded. [50811/21]
    • Health Services
      113. To ask the Minister for Health the status in relation to the expansion of the newborn screening programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50842/21]
    • Hospital Facilities
      116. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail for each voluntary and public hospital the number of beds in each as of 31 March 2021 or latest available; and the number in each on 30 June...
    • Home Care Packages
      118. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons on the waiting list for homecare support in each local health office area in CHO 6; the corresponding figures in each area for the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      119. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to those under 65 years of age and living in a nursing home residential setting who do not qualify for the third vaccination...
    • Hospital Facilities
      120. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to have the 446 ICU beds in place that he announced in December 2020. [50806/21]
    • Disability Services
      121. To ask the Minister for Health the key measures for services for persons with disabilities in the Health budget for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50711/21]
    • Substance Misuse
      122. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the funding including possible future funding that his Department will provide to regional drug taskforces and the HSE in County Louth to...
    • Home Care Packages
      123. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the four CHO sites selected to test a reformed model of service delivery for homecare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50845/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      124. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for surgery for scoliosis patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50841/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      125. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the adequacy of existing mental health supports for children in County Wicklow; the number of children under 18 years of age who are waiting three...
    • Health Strategies
      126. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the cancer strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50621/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      127. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which capacity will be managed with the expansion of free general practitioner care for six and seven year olds; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Primary Care Centres
      128. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his review into primary care facilities. [50810/21]
    • Health Services
      129. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 809 of 28 September 2021, if, considering that a high volume of breast cancer cases are oestrogen-driven and many women...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      130. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting an assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005 in each local health office area in CHO3; the corresponding...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      131. To ask the Minister for Health the way the funding will be disbursed to address waiting lists such as the €250 million allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50839/21]
    • Eating Disorders
      132. To ask the Minister for Health the details of progress made in addressing the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders Goals 2021. [50794/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      133. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that are being taken to address the issue in relation to the recruitment of psychologists for CAMHS in Cork; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      134. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting an assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005 in each local health office area in CHO 4; the corresponding...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      135. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to tackle overcrowding in hospitals coming into the winter period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50835/21]
    • Ambulance Service
      136. To ask the Minister for Health the ambulance protocols governing the tasking of ambulances covering cardiac episodes in the west County Waterford area during out-of-hours; if they are fit...
    • Hospital Facilities
      137. To ask the Minister for Health the progress which has been made to date in identifying a site for the new elective hospital in Cork under the Sláintecare Implementation Strategy and...
    • Mental Health Services
      138. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for restricting the funding of mental health to below 6% of the health budget when the ask of mental health campaigners is to increase it up to...
    • Hospital Facilities
      139. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of beds in Belmullet district hospital; his plans to increase this number in advance of winter; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Emergency Departments
      140. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a project (details supplied); the likely timeline involved; if consideration will be given to using the adjacent Covid-19 assessment unit at...
    • Health Services Staff
      141. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions he has had with colleagues in relation to the advanced practice proposals and pay parity claim by medical scientists; and if he will make a...
    • Care of the Elderly
      142. To ask the Minister for Health the additional supports Budget 2022 is providing for persons with dementia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50693/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      143. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he has taken to allow partners to attend maternity services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50798/21]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      144. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting an assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005 in each local health office area in CHO8; the corresponding...
    • Hospital Services
      145. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the budget allocated to Letterkenny University Hospital, the 13th highest in the State, does not reflect on the fact that the hospital is...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      146. To ask the Minister for Health his progress to date in lowering the waiting times for assessment of needs in Dublin 9 and 11;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50797/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      147. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that have been put in place to retain clinicians in CHO7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50519/21]
    • Irish Blood Transfusion Service
      149. To ask the Minister for Health the work undertaken to date by the post-implementation surveillance monitoring group of his Department established to assess the impact of the change to blood...
    • Hospital Charges
      150. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the process to reduce hospital charges for persons under 18 years of age as referenced in Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Care Packages
      151. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons on the waiting list for homecare support in each local health office area in CHO1; the corresponding figures for each area at the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      152. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to clear the outpatient waiting lists; the timeline for so doing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50800/21]
    • Dental Services
      153. To ask the Minister for Health the measures his Department will take to reduce public orthodontic treatment waiting lists which are as high as six or seven years in the south south west...
    • Health Services
      154. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending access to free contraception to all persons that request it as per the recommendations of the Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth...
    • Health Services Staff
      155. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to assist a service (details supplied) with recruitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50791/21]
    • Disability Services
      156. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the evaluation carried out by the HSE on the services of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50807/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      157. To ask the Minister for Health the action he plans to take to ensure that those who suffered narcolepsy after receiving the pandemrix vaccine will receive appropriate compensation without...
    • Health Strategies
      158. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding being provided for the National Maternity Strategy in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50614/21]
    • Hospital Facilities
      159. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement he has had with Saolta with regard to the vision and a masterplan for the Merlin Park University Hospital site, including clarification on the...
    • Health Services
      160. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions his Department is taking for the implementation of a crisis resolution team for County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Home Care Packages
      161. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons on the waiting list for homecare support in each local health office area in CHO9; the corresponding figures for each area at the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      162. To ask the Minister for Health the status of each capital expenditure projects planned with respect to University Hospital Kerry; and the timeline for their completion. [50809/21]
    • Hospital Services
      164. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the overcrowding of the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick and to mitigate against the increased number of...
    • Health Services
      165. To ask the Minister for Health his views on and the status of the progression of the opening of dedicated menopause clinics as of October 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disabilities Assessments
      166. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting an assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005 in each local health office area in CHO 6; the corresponding...
    • Abortion Services
      167. To ask the Minister for Health when he will introduce the legislation for safe access zones to ensure persons can access reproductive health services in safety with dignity and with the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      168. To ask the Minister for Health the number of capital projects approved under the winter planning within the Covid-19 pandemic October 2020–April 2021 plan; the projected number of...
    • Health Services Staff
      169. To ask the Minister for Health if there are current vacancies in a facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50830/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      170. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the waiting lists for ENT appointments in the Midlands Regional Hospital, Tullamore and a person (details supplied) who has...
    • Emergency Departments
      171. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the detail of the winter plan of his Department for Naas General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50520/21]
    • Home Care Packages
      172. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons on the waiting list for homecare support in each local health office area in CHO 2; the corresponding figures for each area at the...
    • Health Services
      173. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans for a health and social care policy adviser at his Department given the acceleration in expansion of community health in which health and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      174. To ask the Minister for Health the status of Mayo University Hospital in terms of waiting lists for inpatient and outpatients and the current nurse to patient ratio; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      175. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the shortage of staff and resources at Connolly Hospital, Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50596/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      176. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the waiting list for neurology services in County Galway; the steps being taken to address this issue; if more nurse specialists in neurology...
    • Mental Health Services
      179. To ask the Minister for Health the vacancies within the CAMHS south Wexford services that are presently with the national recruitment service; the actions his Department is actively taking...
    • Dental Services
      180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently on orthodontic waiting lists in north County Kildare; the number waiting greater than six months, one year and three years in...
    • Mortality Rates
      181. To ask the Minister for Health the work or efforts his Department is undertaking to reduce and eliminate the differential in breast cancer survival rates in the public versus the private...
    • Hospital Staff
      183. To ask the Minister for Health if more nurse specialists in neurology will be appointed in Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50831/21]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      184. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting an assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005 in each local health office area in CHO9; the corresponding...
    • Abortion Services
      185. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that all maternity hospitals in the State will provide abortion services; if it will be ensured that the review of the abortion legislation...
    • Hospital Services
      187. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reconfiguration of the South Southwest Hospital group as proposed in Sláintecare; the likely implications on the work of University...
    • Home Care Packages
      188. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons on the waiting list for home care support in each local health office area in CHO5; the corresponding figures for each area at the...
    • Mental Health Services
      189. To ask the Minister for Health the key measures for mental health in Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50619/21]
    • Hospital Facilities
      190. To ask the Minister for Health the current progress of the Abbeyleix nursing unit; the new projected timeline for major capital works including an extension; and the estimated cost. [50626/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      191. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of chiropodists in West Cork; and the measure that are been taken to address same; and if he will make a...
    • Home Care Packages
      192. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons on the waiting list for home care support in each local health office area in CHO4; the corresponding figures for each area at the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      193. To ask the Minister for Health the status of Irish citizens who reside in Ireland but have been vaccinated in Northern Ireland and who are trying to apply for an EU Digital COVID...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      194. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the serious delays caused by the waiting lists within the health system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49956/21]
    • National Children's Hospital
      195. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the construction of the new national children’s hospital; and the costs incurred with the construction project to date. [50792/21]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      196. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting an assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005 in each local health office area in CHO7; the corresponding...
    • Disability Services
      197. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the Budget 2022 package for his Department for health and social services for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Care of the Elderly
      198. To ask the Minister for Health the main measures for older persons services in the Health budget for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50710/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      199. To ask the Minister for Health the expected costs, work and timeline for renovation or refurbishment of the Owenacurra Mental Health Centre in Midleton, County Cork. [50594/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      200. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the appointment of a permanent doctor to the general practitioner practice in Swanlinbar, County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Home Care Packages
      201. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons on the waiting list for homecare support in each local health office area in CHO3; the corresponding figures for each area at the...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      203. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting an assessment of need under the Disability Act 2005 in each local health Office area in CHO1; the corresponding...
    • Hospital Facilities
      204. To ask the Minister for Health the projected number of additional beds to be provided under the winter planning within the Covid-19 pandemic October 2020–April 2021 plan; the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      205. To ask the Minister for Health the way he plans to tackle the growing waiting lists for children with scoliosis waiting to receive surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Services
      206. To ask the Minister for Health if Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan will not be downgraded to a model two hospital in line with the 2013 Health National Framework; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      207. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to introduce a no-fault vaccination compensation scheme for severe adverse reactions to State-promoted vaccination programmes; and if he...
    • Home Care Packages
      208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of older persons on the waiting list for home care support in each local health office area in CHO8; the corresponding figures for each area at the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      209. To ask the Minister for Health his views on and the position regarding the 22 October 2021 lifting of maternity restrictions in hospitals across the country; and if he will make a statement...
    • Vaccination Programme
      210. To ask the Minister for Health if he has explored the potential to trade excess vaccines in Ireland which are approaching their expiration date with other states in need of vaccine supplies....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      212. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the implementation of Sláintecare incorporating dealing with accumulated hospital waiting lists with particular reference to the need to...
    • Disability Services
      213. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on securing a copy of the Brandon Report from the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50029/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      214. To ask the Minister for Health if there is funding available to statutory bodies that provide mental health services to refer persons to community and voluntary organisations; and if he will...
    • Health Services
      215. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the new model for public health medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50764/21]
    • Dental Services
      218. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns in relation to medical card holders being unable to get dental appointments due to ongoing issues between dentists...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      219. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his efforts to reduce maternity restrictions at maternity hospitals nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50692/21]
    • Cannabis for Medicinal Use
      220. To ask the Minister for Health if he is a plaintiff in the case related to the Court of Justice of the European Union’s CBD ruling or a respondent in the case (details supplied); and...
    • National Children's Hospital
      221. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has submitted a report to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the most recent cost estimate and timescale for the completion...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      222. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to outsource children for scoliosis surgery; his views on the wait times for scoliosis surgery; the number of children waiting in County...
    • Disability Services
      223. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address children waiting for initial contact with children’s disability network teams in the west Cork network [50795/21]
    • Dental Services
      224. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in the past 12 months to the school dental scheme in counties Laois and Offaly. [50627/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      225. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the ongoing restrictions on partners attending at maternity hospitals. [50834/21]
    • Emergency Departments
      226. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to provide a new emergency department in GUH, Newcastle, County Galway; the progress made to date in the development of hospital services in...
    • Hospital Staff
      227. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he will fully implements the safe staffing framework; the full-year implementation cost; the number of nurses and midwives the health service...
    • Health Services
      229. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the Budget 2022 package for women’s health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50613/21]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      230. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the issuing of free access to the FreeStyle Libre device for all adult diabetics; his plans to remove the age limit for free access to this...
    • Mental Health Services
      231. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the mental health services budget to the internationally recognised level of 12% of the overall health budget in the lifetime of the 33rd...
    • Health Services
      232. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to alleviate the situation whereby women have been diagnosed with breast cancer recently and have a more advanced diagnosis as a...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Media Sector
      233. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide the costs to date incurred by the Future of Media Commission. [50364/21]
    • Departmental Advertising
      234. To ask the Taoiseach if he plans to include all publications in national advertisement campaigns that are under the umbrella of an organisation (details supplied) in view of the fact that...
    • Departmental Communications
      235. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of funds spent by his Department to date in 2021 for Covid-19 public communications activities; and if he will provide a comprehensive breakdown of the funds...
    • Departmental Offices
      236. To ask the Taoiseach the estimated total amount spent by his Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the total amount spent on the procurement, purchase and...
    • Departmental Working Groups
      238. To ask the Taoiseach the working groups his Department has with industry; the members of the groups; and the way the members of each group were selected. [51311/21]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Universal Basic Income
      239. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the work being undertaken to deliver a universal basic income pilot separate to the pilot basic income for arts; the reason these two...
    • Employment Rights
      240. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if undocumented workers who report illegal employment practices as described in Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 7 October 2021 will...
    • Defective Building Materials
      241. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the State organisation that assumed responsibility for ensuring the quality of concrete blocks from the Institute for Industrial...
    • Work Permits
      242. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of non-EEA doctors that are offered critical skills work permits from 2015 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      244. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address concerns (details supplied); the business supports that may be available to severely impacted cottage industries;...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      245. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress to date in the National Remote Work Strategy; when it is expected to implement the recommendations from same; and if he...
    • Work Permits
      246. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address concerns that the delay in issuing work permits for persons from outside the EEA is having an extremely adverse...
    • Industrial Development
      247. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to French President's five-year, €30 billion industrial strategy and investment plan aimed at...
    • Work Permits
      248. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for his decision to exclude home carers from the critical skills exemption list to the non-EEA employment permit system on...
    • Departmental Offices
      249. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated amount spent by his Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the amount spent on the...
    • Work Permits
      251. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address concerns by farmers that factories are advising pig farmers that they may be unable to process their pigs as they...
    • Departmental Working Groups
      252. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the working groups his Department has with industry; the members of the groups; and the way the members of each group were selected....
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Fuel Sales
      253. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the provisions of the Air Pollution Act 1987 (Marketing, Sale and Distribution of Fuels) (Amendment) Regulations...
    • National Broadband Plan
      254. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will investigate the possibility of National Broadband Ireland producing a rolling 12-month plan for broadband...
    • Energy Prices
      257. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some energy companies have stated that they will be increasing their...
    • Energy Conservation
      258. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated number of gas boilers being used in Irish homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50476/21]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      265. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the work of the micro-generation working group; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Energy Conservation
      267. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of warmer home schemes completed in each of the past five years; the average waiting time from application...
    • Energy Policy
      270. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of his Department's review of energy security in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Food Waste
      271. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a report on the National Food Waste Prevention Roadmap and its implementation; and if he will make a...
    • Waste Management
      272. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of permits that have been issued across Dublin city and county by the National Waste Collection Permit...
    • Post Office Network
      273. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a progress report on the Interdepartmental Group for the Delivery of Offline Services; and if he...
    • Waste Management
      274. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a briefing on the criteria for and the level of uptake in relation to the local authority...
    • Aquaculture Industry
      275. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for the development of Cong Hatchery and associated facilities; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      276. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a price for selling back solar energy to the grid will be put in place. [50680/21]
    • Electricity Generation
      279. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to review the current policy and regulatory framework pertaining to direct wire in order to support the...
    • Energy Policy
      280. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the SEAI-administered EXEED scheme is funded nationally or if it receives European Union funding; and if he will...
    • Fuel Poverty
      281. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details of the definition that his Department uses for energy poverty or fuel poverty; and if he...
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      284. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he was consulted by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine regarding the reduction in the space for...
    • Waste Management
      285. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 42 of 12 October 2021, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a company...
    • Energy Conservation
      286. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter in relation to a better energy home grant application (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Departmental Offices
      287. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated amount spent by his Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the amount...
    • Energy Policy
      289. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will instruct his Department to extend the deadline for the town hall consultation meetings for stakeholders in...
    • Climate Change Policy
      290. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the public appointment process that was used to appoint the new members of the Climate Change Advisory Council...
    • National Broadband Plan
      291. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the roll-out by National Broadband Ireland will be extended to an area (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      292. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason only homeowners including landlords, whose homes were built before 2011 can apply for the solar electricity...
    • Departmental Budgets
      294. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount carried over from his Department’s 2021 budget allocation to Budget 2022; the Departmental underspend...
    • Energy Conservation
      296. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes that have been retrofitted to date in 2021; the number estimated to be retrofitted by the end of...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Marine Accidents
      305. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied). [50260/21]
    • Wildlife Protection
      306. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department is taking to ensure that grey seals are not placed at undue risk due to commercial vessel-based or...
    • Public Transport
      307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is now no plan to construct a MetroLink southern route towards Terenure and Rathfarnham or towards Belfield and Stillorgan...
    • Bus Services
      308. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Bus Éireann X20 route serving the towns and villages Oranmore, Craughwell, Loughrea and Ballinasloe, County Galway, will be...
    • Industrial Disputes
      309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to an employment situation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50380/21]
    • Electric Vehicles
      310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will introduce a Bill to make e-scooters legal on public roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50385/21]
    • Road Projects
      311. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the expected timeline for completion of the inner relief road Thurles, County Tipperary linking Slievenamon Road to the Mill Road; if...
    • Haulage Industry
      313. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports in place to assist hauliers to transition to cleaner European standards given that there is no alternative fuel source...
    • Road Projects
      314. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the completion of the Athenry ring road; and the funds that have been allocated to Galway County Council to provide for...
    • Coast Guard Service
      315. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to contradictory information as to whether training was provided to volunteer cliff rescue units prior to...
    • Tax Collection
      317. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason his Department’s website for motor tax online is not enabled to accept the online credit card payments system in line...
    • Taxi Licences
      318. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to implementing an ongoing extension into the future for taxi drivers with cars reaching the 9-to-10-year...
    • Bus Services
      319. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will work with the National Transport Authority and Dublin Bus to ensure the Nitelink bus services are reinstated at the earliest...
    • Taxi Licences
      320. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consult with the National Transport Authority with a view to reducing renewal fees for SPSV licences and given that these many...
    • Public Transport
      321. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans including a timeline for delivery of the DART+ coastal north to Drogheda, County Louth in the context of the recently published...
    • Dublin Bus
      322. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and percentage of the Dublin Bus fleet that is aged over 10 years. [50554/21]
    • Public Transport
      323. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if contact has been made with the relevant landowners of the proposed extension to the LUAS Green Line from Brides Glen, confirming the...
    • Tax Data
      324. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown for 2020 and to date in 2021, of the way in which persons chose to tax their motor vehicle, that is,...
    • Driver Test
      325. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when theory test day support assistance such as reader recorder service and dyslexia support professional will resume. [50629/21]
    • Coast Guard Service
      326. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of helicopter emergency medical services-related calls provided on a monthly basis by a company (details supplied) as part of...
    • Rail Network
      327. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timescale for the electrification of the commuter rail route from Dublin to Maynooth, County Kildare. [50662/21]
    • Dublin Bus
      328. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of having technology installed in each of the Dublin Bus fleet to accept credit or debit card payments. [50663/21]
    • Air Services
      329. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to reports that an airline (details supplied) was used to ferry arms during the conflict in Tigray in...
    • Marine Accidents
      330. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will publish unedited the report commissioned by him from a person (details supplied) that has been with his Department since July...
    • Electric Vehicles
      331. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the legislation to regulate electric scooters in particular in circumstances in which the scooter is on pedestrian...
    • Rail Network
      333. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has had a discussion or meeting with the National Transport Authority over the past two years concerning extending the short hop...
    • Bus Services
      334. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered allocating further funding to the 880 local bus link in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Licences
      335. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider initiating a process to add to the list of states recognised by Ireland for the purpose of providing a driver licence...
    • Road Projects
      336. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide additional funds to Offaly County Council for road maintenance projects particularly in view of the fact that many of...
    • Rights of Way
      340. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that persons (details supplied) are not being offered compensation when they are set to lose their existing access right of...
    • Departmental Offices
      341. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated amount spent by his Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the amount spent on the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      343. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding spent to date on vehicle electrification; the amount of funding that will be provided to establish the office of...
    • Road Projects
      345. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with Transport Infrastructure Ireland in respect of the roadworks taking place on the link road between the N2 to the...
    • Public Transport
      346. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding services included within the youth travel card scheme here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51192/21]
    • Vehicle Clamping
      347. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current regulations regarding the clamping of vehicles by private clamping companies; and when the legislation was last updated....
    • Road Projects
      348. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will conduct a review of the State roads grant to increase funding to local authorities to allow for adequate...
    • Maritime Safety
      349. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the position of Irish vessels not been granted load lines which will result in non-Irish registered vessels...
    • Departmental Data
      350. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the working groups his Department has with industry; the members of the groups; and the way the members of each group were selected....
  • Department of Finance
    • Gambling Sector
      351. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the collapse of a company (details supplied); and the actions his Department plans to take to support those affected. [50391/21]
    • Departmental Schemes
      354. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the bike to work scheme to allow those outside of employment including those on social welfare payments to access the scheme; if he plans...
    • Primary Medical Certificates
      355. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of primary medical certificate applications that are currently pending appeal by county; the measures or additional resources being assigned to...
    • Pensions Reform
      357. To ask the Minister for Finance if monies invested in approved retirement funds which are linked to revenue rather than pension funds will be accessible to persons at age 65 if the...
    • Tax Rebates
      358. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a rebate for hauliers through the diesel rebate scheme given that there is no alternative fuel source available to them; and if he will...
    • Insurance Coverage
      359. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the denial of mortgage protection insurance to those who have recovered from breast cancer who wish to buy a home effectively ruling out home...
    • Pension Levy
      360. To ask the Minister for Finance the total revenue collected by the pension levy on pensions funds; the way in which the money was used; if private pension funds have recovered in value since...
    • Departmental Schemes
      361. To ask the Minister for Finance if he plans to reform and extend the cycle to work scheme to include those on social welfare benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50485/21]
    • Banking Sector
      362. To ask the Minister for Finance the policies he is pursuing to ensure banking services are maintained in rural towns. [50505/21]
    • Customs and Excise
      363. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the new automated import system; the number of users registered across Dublin city and county; the benefits it is bringing to businesses across...
    • Insurance Coverage
      364. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has engaged with insurance companies and or their representative bodies in respect of insurance providers refusing to provide quotes and or premiums to...
    • Vehicle Registration Tax
      365. To ask the Minister for Finance if he and or his officials have engaged with the Revenue Commissioners in respect of lower and or a temporary waiving of VRT in view of inflated prices for...
    • Revenue Commissioners
      366. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the necessary funding for the purchase of two extra mobile x-ray scanner trucks for the Revenue Commissioners. [50661/21]
    • Legislative Measures
      367. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the central bank (individual accountability framework) Bill; when it will be available for pre-legislative scrutiny; and if he will make a...
    • EU Funding
      368. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to oppose the proposal to include nuclear power as a power that can be classified as renewable for the purposes of EU investment in...
    • Tax Reliefs
      369. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of implementing schemes such as the special assignee relief programme and the key employee engagement programme in each year from 2018 to date; the...
    • Tax Code
      370. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for increasing the VAT rate applicable to the hospitality sector from the current rate of 9% at the end of August 2022; if he will address...
    • Tax Credits
      371. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on establishing a tax credit scheme for homeowners with solar panels or other renewable energy generation means who are net contributors of energy...
    • Credit Unions
      372. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of credit unions that are likely to be permitted to pay a dividend to members for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50937/21]
    • Fuel Sales
      374. To ask the Minister for Finance the procedure to be followed in the case in which a consumer purchases coal from Northern Ireland as advertised on social media for direct delivery to other...
    • Departmental Offices
      377. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated amount spent by his Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the amount spent on the procurement, purchase and...
    • Tax Code
      378. To ask the Minister for Finance the investigations that have been carried out to uncover fraud in relation to the employer Covid-19 refund scheme, the temporary wage subsidy scheme or the...
    • Gambling Sector
      379. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a casino (details supplied) was refused support under the CRSS as the Revenue Commissioners determined it was not eligible as per SI No. 452 even...
    • Tax Code
      380. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the type of family connection that would be considered for the 1% rate of stamp duty on agricultural land; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Reliefs
      381. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the tax relief for heritage donations under each of the eligible tax categories (details supplied) in each year since 2006; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      382. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51282/21]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Staff
      384. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of Departments that have sanction to run internal competitions for promotions; the number of internal competitions that were...
    • Road Projects
      385. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if repairs will be carried out to a road (details supplied) in County Kerry that was used as an access road for works on the banks of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      386. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding has been made available for the development of property and exhibits management stores at Tallaght and Naas Garda stations;...
    • Public Sector Staff
      387. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is permitted, under the public service codes of conduct, for a public or civil servant to refuse to give a statement to An Garda...
    • Office of Public Works
      388. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a person (details supplied) has a pension entitlement from his or her employment with the Officer of Public Works; and if he will...
    • Court Accommodation
      389. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the budgeted cost and final cost for the works recently completed on the dome of the Four Courts; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Offices
      390. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount spent per year by each Department on purchasing or renting new office space (details supplied); and the amount spent...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Media Sector
      392. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has received a request from the Future of Media Commission to extend the time for reporting; if she has received an interim...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      394. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason that independent tourism providers not registered with Fáilte Ireland have been excluded from the tourism...
    • Sports Funding
      395. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be provided for a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50446/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      397. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason an accommodation provider cannot avail of the tourism accommodation providers business continuity scheme grant due to...
    • Official Engagements
      398. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on her recent visit to the United States of America; and the companies or senior officials of companies she met...
    • Arts Policy
      399. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide information on the local creative youth partnerships of her Department; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Universal Basic Income
      400. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way she plans to fund the €66.7 million worth of new schemes outlined in budget 2022, including €25 million each...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      401. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the outcomes that are foreseen from the €5 million in extra funding promised to the national cultural institutions in...
    • Maoiniú Chomhlachtaí Stáit
      405. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé hiad na tograí a mhaoineofar leis an €0.7 milliún breise molta don Fhoras Teanga, go háirithe...
    • An Teanga Gaeilge
      406. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé hiad na tograí a mhaoineofar leis an €3.3 milliún breise molta do “Irish language and Gaeltacht...
    • An Coimisinéir Teanga
      407. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén fáth nach bhfuil aon mhaoiniú breise nó aon fhoireann breise fógartha sa Bhuiséad do 2022 chun...
    • Cúrsaí Gaeilge
      408. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén fáth nach bhfuil aon tagairt sa Bhuiséad don Chiste Cobhsaíochta geallta do Choláistí Samhraidh...
    • Universal Basic Income
      410. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the person or body that will be eligible for the pilot basic income for artists proposed in budget 2022; when she expects the...
    • An Teanga Gaeilge
      412. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil machnamh déanta aici ar na moltaí leagtha síos i mBuiséad Malartach Shinn Féin i dtaobh...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      414. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the form of assessment that took place of the value for money of the cost of applications submitted for funding under the live...
    • Freedom of Information
      418. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on findings of the Office of the Information Commissioner (details supplied); if her statement on the matter was made on...
    • Universal Basic Income
      420. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason a tendering process is necessary to engage with stakeholders on the pilot basic income for artists; and the reason this...
    • An Teanga Gaeilge
      427. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an ionann an, additional €7 million package for Irish language, fógartha ar shuíomh na Ranna do...
    • Sports Funding
      428. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next round of the 2021 sports capital programme will be announced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51073/21]
    • Departmental Offices
      429. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated amount spent by her Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the amount spent on...
    • Sports Funding
      431. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department, through Sport Ireland or another aegis, can provide funding or support for a feasibility study in relation to a...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Citizens' Assembly
      432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made to date in relation to the programme for Government commitment to establish a citizens’ assembly to...
    • Housing Schemes
      433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social welfare payments that are calculated for the purpose of the assessment for social housing; if he will provide...
    • Student Accommodation
      434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total approved loans by the Housing Finance Agency to universities for student accommodation since 2018; and if he will...
    • Housing Schemes
      435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 20% discretionary HAP uplift can be applied to an ongoing tenancy in which a tenant has received a rent increase and...
    • Property Registration
      436. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status and reason for the delay on a Property Registration Authority, PRAI, application by a person (details supplied)...
    • Local Authorities
      437. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of funding that was allocated to each local authority in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; the level of funding that was...
    • Fire Stations
      438. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projected timeline for the provision of the new fire station in Rathdowney, County Laois. [50431/21]
    • Rental Sector
      439. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons who currently live in cost-rental accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50445/21]
    • Housing Provision
      440. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 304 of 22 June 2021 and the subsequent publication of the Housing for All strategy, his...
    • Housing Schemes
      441. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the difficulty for applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans in meeting some of the...
    • Rental Sector
      442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has secured Government approval to introduce a new rent pressure zone cap on rents in the private rental sector; if so,...
    • Vacant Properties
      443. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount allocated to each local authority to bring back voids or derelict council homes to council stock over the past five...
    • Defective Building Materials
      446. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 318, 319 and 320 of 5 October 2021, the reason and the way in which representatives...
    • Vacant Sites
      451. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided to each local authority in 2019, 2020 and 2021 to enable it to take possession of derelict sites and...
    • Coastal Erosion
      452. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the National Coastal Change Management Strategy Steering Group, chaired by his Department, is examining the potential...
    • Commercial Rates
      453. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department will be taking to offset the loss of commercial rates from Moneypoint power station for Clare...
    • Tax Code
      454. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions his Department will take to ensure equalisation of local property tax for western seaboard and mid-west local...
    • Water Services
      455. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of developments to address water and wastewater infrastructural deficits facing rural towns and villages, such as...
    • Housing Schemes
      456. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has made a decision on whether social housing allocated under Part V housing provisions can be purchased by tenants...
    • Departmental Funding
      457. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost in 2022 if the current budget for the Residential Tenancies Board increased by 25%. [50660/21]
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      458. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 276 of 5 October 2021, the reason the health and safety regulations for installing...
    • Housing Provision
      459. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the health service is losing vital healthcare workers due to the housing...
    • Heritage Council
      460. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the intended breakdown of the €22 million in additional funding provided under Budget 2022 to...
    • Capital Expenditure Programme
      461. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way the €246 million housing capital carryover is broken down; the programmes that had an underspend; the amount of...
    • Vacant Sites
      462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of the vacant site levy that was collected in 2020 compared to demands; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Waterways Issues
      464. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the costs of remedial work repairs, maintenance, upkeep of the walkways and any other associated costs incurred at Grand...
    • Student Accommodation
      465. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the criteria that higher education institutions most meet in order to access financing from the Housing Finance...
    • Environmental Policy
      466. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish the National Biodiversity Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51004/21]
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      468. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service; when it will be completed; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Projects
      469. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific measures for biodiversity that have been funded under Budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Common Agricultural Policy
      471. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he was consulted by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine regarding the reduction in the space for nature...
    • Housing Schemes
      472. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 12 October 2021, if he will provide a date for the income limits for social...
    • Commercial Rates
      473. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will put in place an alternative income stream for Offaly County Council to compensate for the €1.65 million loss...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      474. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Covid-19 related financial supports made available to Offaly County Council in 2020 will continue into 2022; and if he will...
    • Departmental Offices
      477. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated amount spent by his Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the amount spent...
    • Citizens' Assembly
      479. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the list of external factors under consideration by his Department which need to be considered before the...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      481. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total allocation in Budget 2022 for the National Parks and Wildlife Service; and the value of the increase in the...
    • Housing Schemes
      482. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the participation of the pillar banks in the first home shared equity loan scheme including...
    • Housing Policy
      483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if statistical and other information (details supplied) will be provided. [51210/21]
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      486. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm the membership of his Departmental working group on the review of the CAS AHB Green Book; the way and...
    • Water Services
      487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated by the State to Irish Water under both capital and current expenditures in each year since its...
    • Planning Issues
      489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering exempting peat extraction from the planning system for new developments and the substitute consent...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Services
      490. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied); if the application will be expedited; and if he will make a statement...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      491. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the foreign birth registration service will begin processing applications again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50420/21]
    • Passport Services
      493. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50435/21]
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      495. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration application by a person (details supplied); when this application will be processed and...
    • Ministerial Engagements
      499. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has engaged with the new Japanese Prime Minister to date in 2021; and if he will provide a briefing note in respect of those...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      500. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on recent reports that the Ethiopian state used its national airline to ferry arms into Ireland during the conflict in Tigray in...
    • Passport Services
      501. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50682/21]
    • Ministerial Engagements
      502. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has engaged with the Irish Ambassador to Malaysia to date in 2021; and if he will provide a briefing note in respect of those...
    • Passport Services
      503. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if clarification will be provided in relation to a passport application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Foreign Policy
      504. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland plans to recognise the Myanmar National Unity Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50730/21]
    • Passport Services
      508. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if consideration will be given to renaming passport express to reflect the fact that is the only postal method of passport application and...
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      509. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the OSCE international election observation mission to Uzbekistan is headed by an Irish...
    • Departmental Offices
      514. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the estimated amount spent by his Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the amount spent on the...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      520. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the increase to official development assistance announced in Budget 2022 in real terms; the percentage spend on same for 2022; and if he...
    • Passport Services
      523. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will assist in securing passport renewals for persons (details supplied). [51308/21]
  • Department of Defence
    • Air Corps
      525. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of qualified military aircraft maintenance technicians and qualified military avionics technicians currently in the Air Corps. [50575/21]
    • Defence Forces
      527. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a civilian electrician, plumber and carpenter recruitment campaign will be launched for his Department before year end 2021. [50577/21]
    • Air Corps
      529. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the overall cost of providing, maintaining and fuelling the one Air Corps aircraft provided for helicopter emergency medical services related...
    • Defence Forces
      531. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of efforts to resolve the issue of post-1994 contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50638/21]
    • Departmental Offices
      534. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated amount spent by his Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the amount spent on the procurement,...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Child Abuse
      536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in view of allegations regarding alleged child abuse at colleges (details supplied) she has plans to institute a commission of investigation...
    • School Transport
      537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school transport payment will be made to a person (details supplied). [50363/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that white bright paper does not assist pupils with dyslexia with reading and learning; if she will...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) can expect to have their Teaching Council number issued. [50396/21]
    • School Accommodation
      541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made towards permanent accommodation for a school (details supplied); the temporary arrangements being made for access to...
    • School Transport
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50409/21]
    • Departmental Functions
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that have been taken to ensure that the payroll division of her Department is operating fully in order that it can deal with the many...
    • Special Educational Needs
      544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials from her Department will make contact with a parent of a child (details supplied) with complex learning needs who is currently...
    • Irish Language
      546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing a one-day Irish language training course for all school staff in the State. [50466/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the upgrading of a facility (details supplied). [50537/21]
    • School Curriculum
      553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide information on the music generations programme; the number of programmes in operation across Dublin city and county; and if...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Teaching Council of Ireland is refusing to give full registration to previously registered music teachers unless they do a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) has onsite therapists and behavioural therapists; and, if so, the number. [50642/21]
    • School Facilities
      556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that is being made on the installation of a lift at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport
      557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school transport will be provided for a person (details supplied) who is attending a class for children with learning disabilities. [50646/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new ASD school (details supplied) in Dublin 12 has on-site therapists and a behaviour therapist. [50649/21]
    • Ministerial Engagements
      559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has spoken virtually with her counterpart in the United States of America to date in 2021. [50668/21]
    • School Transport
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school transport for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50669/21]
    • Schools Building Projects
      561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to pay the minor works grant to primary schools for the 2021-2022 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50670/21]
    • School Equipment
      563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schemes in place to allow for primary and secondary school students to avail of laptops after it being deemed necessary for their education...
    • Special Educational Needs
      564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) has onsite therapists and behaviour therapists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50696/21]
    • School Staff
      565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of circular 0050/2021 and principal release days; and if she...
    • Further and Higher Education
      566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of her plans for the former Technological University of Dublin Conservatory of Music campus in Rathmines, Dublin 6; if space at the...
    • After-School Support Services
      567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter regarding the case of a school (details supplied). [50732/21]
    • Special Educational Needs
      568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will have onsite therapists and behavioural therapists. [50858/21]
    • Departmental Properties
      569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the process of when buildings are gifted to her Department to provide schools; the reason such gifts are not always accepted; and...
    • Irish Language
      570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will begin an immediate consultation process to formulate the policy for Irish in the education system from preschool to third-level and...
    • After-School Support Services
      571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) has been told by its school completion programme co-ordinator that...
    • Special Educational Needs
      572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of approved ASD classes for secondary level schools in the Ballincollig catchment area; the timelines for each of these classes to be...
    • School Accommodation
      574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date of expiry of the temporary buildings in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50919/21]
    • School Staff
      575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question number 258 of 30 September 2021, when a payment will issue to a person (details supplied) by the Department for...
    • School Transport
      576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional school transport will be provided for nine students in a rural school (details supplied) in County Leitrim that were unable to...
    • School Staff
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way that section 6 of Circular 50/2021 relating to sequencing of access to substitution for primary teachers will operate in practical terms....
    • Special Educational Needs
      578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of the 145 special education teacher posts promised under Budget 2021 that have been hired. [51052/21]
    • Disadvantaged Status
      581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that will benefit from DEIS status under the €18 million funding announced in Budget 2022. [51055/21]
    • School Transport
      582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the €30 million investment in school transport in Budget 2022 will be designated; the number of additional places on the scheme...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €18 million allocated to DEIS under budget 2022 includes funding to reduce the staffing schedule for DEIS urban band 1 schools by...
    • School Funding
      587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of voluntary secondary schools that will benefit from capitation funding increases in budget 2022; the current capitation level per...
    • School Staff
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures in budget 2022 with regards release days for school leaders. [51062/21]
    • Child Abuse
      590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide additional detail on the ex-gratia scheme in budget 2022; when survivors can apply for this scheme; when it is expected that...
    • School Staff
      591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if secretaries, caretakers, bus escorts and cleaners are included in the 1% pay increase measures contained in budget 2022. [51065/21]
    • School Equipment
      592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the scheme announced in budget 2022 allowing schools to purchase books, audio books and other media; and if this can be used to...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in Cork city that have DEIS status broken down by DEIS band 1, 2 and so on and rural and by primary and post-primary level...
    • Departmental Offices
      595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated amount spent by her Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the amount spent on the procurement,...
    • Residential Institutions
      597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 598 of 28 April 2021, the actions that have been taken post Caranua to ensure continued support of...
    • Schools Building Projects
      598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the submission of a planning application for a permanent build of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which new schools will be identified for inclusion in the DEIS programme following the announcement in budget 2022 that €18...
    • Special Educational Needs
      600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) with seven children with additional needs across five classrooms in a school of 165 children has only one...
    • Education Policy
      601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has conducted a recent evaluation of the need for a new second-level school in a catchment area (details supplied); the projected demand...
    • Special Educational Needs
      602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) who is now currently employed by her Department as an SNA is only entitled to scale 1 on her Department's pay...
    • State Examinations
      603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student (details supplied) had their estimated grade downgraded so substantially from the accredited mark; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will establish the estimated costs of fully implementing the remaining sections and sub-sections of the Education for Persons with...
    • School Staff
      605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on her Department’s strict adherence to the school-teacher ratio which has led to the suppressing of the developing school post...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Gender Proofing of Policies
      608. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will develop a new gender and equality proof labour market activation plan to support women into decent work,...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      609. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure that consideration is given to the incredibly valuable work of community employment supervisors as part...
    • Departmental Staff
      610. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of medical assessors employed by her Department; if they are assigned to individual payment sections; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      611. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider making the Christmas bonus and fuel allowance available for those who receive the working family...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      612. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine the case of a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50458/21]
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      613. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when PPS numbers will issue to persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50502/21]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      614. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who applied for the working family payment received an email confirming that they were...
    • Social Insurance
      615. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
      616. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address concerns (details supplied) and consider extending the pandemic unemployment payment for self-employed...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      617. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has plans to allow for the option of domiciliary care allowance to be extended to children under 18 years of age in...
    • Social Insurance
      618. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the record of a person (details supplied) in order for their contributions to corrected; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      620. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place for those with special needs who have the domiciliary care allowance cut when they turn 16 and are...
    • Departmental Offices
      628. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount spent by her Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the amount spent...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection , further to Parliamentary Question No. 342 of 12 October, the reason the claim for carer's benefit was refused. [51134/21]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if and when arrears of jobseeker’s allowance will issue in the case of a person (details supplied); if the fuel...
    • Registration of Births
      632. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a list of the current average waiting times for the registration of the birth of a child in each county,...
    • Employment Support Services
      633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection , further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 30 September, if she will ensure that local employment services are not...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      634. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the poverty impact of reduced rates of jobseeker's allowance for young persons will be published given that the report...
    • Departmental Reviews
      635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the report of the child maintenance review group will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Payments
      636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of the fuel allowance, by social protection scheme, from September 2019 to date, by payment type and...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Payments
      639. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason an invalidity pension claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been disallowed. [51330/21]
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • International Protection
      640. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a reply will issue to a person (details supplied) in regard to consideration for the inclusion of his or her...
    • Youth Services
      641. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider increasing investment in Budget 2022 for the youth sector in line with the proposals by an...
    • International Protection
      642. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the forthcoming allocation scheme for housing international protection applicants. [50390/21]
    • Assisted Decision-Making
      643. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the process, schedule and level of financial resources committed to provide for the commencement of the Assisted...
    • Direct Provision System
      644. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of progress on establishing an independent inspectorate for direct provision centres; if the Health...
    • EU Programmes
      646. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an update will be provided on the way Ireland is spending the EU child guarantee scheme; and if he will make...
    • Fire Safety
      647. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the fire safety grant is still open and available to providers; the breakdown of funding allocated and...
    • Childcare Services
      648. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way the extension of the national childcare scheme universal subsidy to children under 15 will be applied;...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      649. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way funding of the €69 million for early learning and care and school age services provided in Budget...
    • Childcare Services
      650. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which the additional €9 million for the national childcare scheme will be spent; if he will...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      651. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown of the €78 million ELC funding announced in Budget 2022; if a breakdown of the €41...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
      653. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the one-off measure of €37 million is contained within the additional Covid-19 allocation of...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      654. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a breakdown of the €716 million for ELC next year by programme subhead and the...
    • Departmental Offices
      655. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated amount spent by his Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the...
    • Youth Services
      657. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total funding allocated to the UBU Youth Programme by his Department; and the amount of this total provided...
    • Childcare Services
      661. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the pod system will be removed from childcare providers given that this is causing many providers to...
    • Child and Family Agency
      662. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when pay restoration will be granted to section 56 and 59 workers employed by Tusla in line with recent...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Third Level Fees
      663. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to review the eligibility criteria for SUSI grants to allow those on a stamp 4 to qualify for grants and free fees; if a review of...
    • Third Level Education
      664. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of first year enrolments and the number of graduates, respectively in mental health nursing in each of the years since 2014 to date in...
    • Student Accommodation
      666. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of on campus student beds in each higher education institution in each year since 2011, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Offices
      667. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated amount spent by his Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the amount spent on the procurement,...
    • Departmental Budgets
      669. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total value that will be allocated to subhead B4, general current grants, in budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Third Level Fees
      671. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all recipients on a SUSI maintenance grant will receive an additional €200; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51174/21]
    • Third Level Costs
      673. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total allocation for the student assistance fund in the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 academic years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Third Level Education
      674. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total allocation for the student mental health supports in the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 academic years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the director of the national apprenticeship office will be appointed; if he will provide details on the appointment procedure; and if he...
    • Departmental Staff
      676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a gardener working in a university is entitled to be paid the travel time allowance for craft workers from his Department. [51209/21]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      677. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is funding available for community groups to apply for CCTV cameras; if so, the funding stream that this would fall...
    • Citizenship Applications
      678. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Immigration Status
      679. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the entitlement a person (details supplied) has to remain in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50389/21]
    • An Garda Síochána
      680. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full-time gardaí in Rathcoole Garda station each year from 2010 to date in 2021; and if she will make a...
    • Antisocial Behaviour
      681. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received reports on the level of crime and antisocial behaviour in Dublin city centre; if her Department monitors...
    • An Garda Síochána
      682. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if pension restoration to all ranks of An Garda Síochána has been completed; and if not, if there are plans to...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      687. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed-penalty notices that gardaí issued for parking at a bus stop in 2019 and 2020 and to date in 2021, in...
    • An Garda Síochána
      688. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to each divisional protective services unit as of 11 October 2021. [50565/21]
    • Immigration Status
      689. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the discretionary application to remain by a person (details supplied). [50639/21]
    • An Garda Síochána
      690. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the riot shields and helmets of an Garda Síochána were last updated; and when they will be next updated. [50667/21]
    • Gambling Sector
      691. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline for the establishment of the gambling regulator; the amount allocated for its establishment in budget 2022; and if...
    • An Garda Síochána
      692. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of projected recruits, actual recruits, newly attested trainees and retirements in An Garda Síochána in...
    • Asylum Seekers
      695. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the assistance that can be provided in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Immigration Support Services
      696. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason her Department has not succeeded in closing down an online operation (details supplied) that automatically books...
    • Immigration Status
      697. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda National Immigration Bureau can agree to a face-to-face appointment with an Egyptian national (details supplied])...
    • An Garda Síochána
      698. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there will be a recruitment campaign for an Garda Síochána before the end of 2021. [50743/21]
    • Citizenship Applications
      700. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Irish citizen child unit can waive its usual requirement to submit a child’s passport with the application in...
    • Child Protection
      701. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the legislative measures required to ensure that all offences under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of...
    • An Garda Síochána
      702. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new gardaí allocated to the Kildare Garda division in each of the past three years; the number allocated by...
    • Court Judgments
      704. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 453 of 10 October 2021, the reason a proposed review of an error in a case involving the...
    • Departmental Offices
      705. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated amount spent by her Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the amount spent on...
    • Immigration Status
      707. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to regularise residency status in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      708. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a student visa will be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51213/21]
  • Department of Health
    • Disability Services
      710. To ask the Minister for Health the reason only one week was given for organisations to apply for the €1 million provided for sensory gardens announced on 5 October 2021 with a...
    • Home Care Packages
      713. To ask the Minister for Health if private homecare providers are receiving State funding towards mileage for care assistants to travel to patients' homes. [51183/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      714. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for an ophthalmology operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50360/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      715. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment of the remaining four epilepsy nurse specialist posts of six agreed in 2018 for the implementation of the Pregnancy Prevention...
    • Medicinal Products
      716. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the HSE recommended medication cariban should be added to the approved drugs list under the drugs payment scheme; his views on whether the...
    • Hospital Staff
      717. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels at Ballina District Hospital, Swinford Community Hospital and Belmullet Community Hospital on 1 October 2020 and 1 October 2021 (details...
    • Debt Collection
      718. To ask the Minister for Health the number of debt collectors and or debt collecting agencies engaged by the HSE in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021 in respect of the collection of fees and...
    • General Practitioner Services
      719. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide general practitioner settings with cancer diagnostic tools. [50379/21]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      720. To ask the Minister for Health the current position in respect of the supply of wheelchairs and other medical devices for 28 children in the children’s community health network areas...
    • Hospital Facilities
      721. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the application to the HSE for the provision of a new ward at Ballina District Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50388/21]
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      722. To ask the Minister for Health if he will put in place a consultation framework to prepare for a public enquiry into the tragic loss of life in nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic....
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      723. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment at Sligo University Hospital pain management clinic; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      724. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for the pain management clinic at Sligo University Hospital in each of the years 2018 to 2020 and to date in 2021. [50405/21]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      725. To ask the Minister for Health when the legislation on surrogate parenthood will be amended to give improved rights to parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50406/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      726. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure to be followed to secure a local general practitioner for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50419/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      727. To ask the Minister for Health the process for assessing and putting supports in place for injuries associated with the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50422/21]
    • Healthcare Policy
      728. To ask the Minister for Health if the termination of certain screening programmes when persons reach a certain age can be reviewed in view of the fact it creates the perception that a lower...
    • Disability Services
      729. To ask the Minister for Health if the Spraoi Centre, Portlaoise, County Laois is fully operational; the number of children awaiting speech and language services there; and the longest...
    • Healthcare Policy
      731. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in dealing with the request made by the chiropractic profession to restore the right of a chiropractor to refer a patient for...
    • Gender Recognition
      732. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) is still in receipt of funding from either the HSE or his Department; if it has had its funding suspended as was reported...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      733. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the publication of recommendations from the full health technology assessment of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system. [50450/21]
    • Hospital Services
      734. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are no transitional care services for adolescents using insulin pump therapy at University Hospital Waterford; his plans to provide this...
    • Hospital Staff
      735. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors and nurses working in the community ophthalmology service in County Donegal in each of the years 2001 to 2021, in tabular form. [50486/21]
    • Hospital Services
      738. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of patients in County Donegal on the waiting list for the community ophthalmology service. [50489/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      739. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients in County Donegal on the waiting list for the ophthalmology service at Letterkenny University Hospital. [50490/21]
    • Hospital Services
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the interim arrangements that have been put in place at the Letterkenny University Hospital community ophthalmic service in view of all three physicians having...
    • Departmental Contracts
      744. To ask the Minister for Health the number of management consultancy firms his Department and statutory agencies associated with his Department have under contract in tabular form; the...
    • Nursing Homes
      746. To ask the Minister for Health if a detailed breakdown can be provided to a person (details supplied) in respect of the means assessment made on their nursing home subvention scheme...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      747. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that are waiting for scoliosis procedures by county in tabular form. [50508/21]
    • Health Services
      748. To ask the Minister for Health when respite services in County Galway will recommence in full, given that such services have resumed in other counties; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      749. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which those who are housebound and over the age of 80 years or housebound and under the age of 80 years but who are immunocompromised, will be...
    • Hospital Services
      750. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Tipperary University Hospital does not have access to PCRS in order to prescribe Entresto for the patients; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      753. To ask the Minister for Health the treatments and costs covered by a general practitioner visit card; his views on a situation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services
      754. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a new day care centre for Monasterevin, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50536/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      756. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list to see a consultant paediatric nephrologist at CHI Temple Street. [50567/21]
    • Disability Services
      757. To ask the Minister for Health the locations of feeding clinics across the State supporting persons with disabilities who have difficulties swallowing and are prone to choking due to their...
    • Hospital Services
      758. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of increasing the number of hours the migraine clinic is available at Beaumont Hospital from the current three hours per week to seven hours...
    • Health Services
      760. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for eye examinations in County Kildare. [50571/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      761. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of recruiting 15 additional full-time eye clinic liaison officers. [50572/21]
    • Eating Disorders
      762. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of recruiting 12 additional adult eating disorder teams. [50573/21]
    • Hospital Equipment
      763. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals which have a TRASNA telemedicine stroke machine installed; if each machine is operational; and the uses in each case for the machine. [50574/21]
    • Eating Disorders
      764. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the expenditure of the remaining €3.94 million in 2021 for specialist eating disorder services; the progress that has been made on the...
    • Disability Services
      765. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the expenditure of €3 million as part of the National Service Plan 2021 and implementation of the proposal to reduce and provide a pathway...
    • Health Services
      768. To ask the Minister for Health when chiropody services will be made available in Athenry, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50637/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      769. To ask the Minister for Health when the necessary statutory instrument will be put in place under the Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Act 2020 which will enable...
    • Health Services
      770. To ask the Minister for Health if he will list each waiting list which exists for services provided by the HSE which is not reported by the National Treatment Purchase Fund. [50641/21]
    • Healthcare Policy
      771. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ban smoking in outdoor dining areas in restaurants and pubs serving food; if so, the conditions under which he is considering such a ban; and the...
    • Health Services
      772. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50651/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      774. To ask the Minister for Health the number of secure mental health places that exist in the State; the locations of same; the number taken up as of 12 October 2021; and the number that are...
    • Dental Services
      775. To ask the Minister for Health the primary care centres or health centres that are currently accepting emergency walk in dentistry services in tabular form. [50664/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant paediatric ophthalmologists currently working in the public health services in each of the past four years in tabular form [50665/21]
    • Mental Health Services
      777. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals that can treat patients who suffer with agoraphobia in tabular form. [50666/21]
    • Hospital Facilities
      778. To ask the Minister for Health the current status and projected timeframe for a new build hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50672/21]
    • Health Services
      779. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the type 2 diabetes cycle of care programme since its inception; the number of persons that currently avail of the programme; the number of general...
    • Disability Services
      781. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are only three neurology nurse specialists based at the mid-west regional centre for neurology in UHL...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      785. To ask the Minister for Health if it is envisaged that the assisted human reproduction Bill will legislate for the mother's name to be included on the birth certificate in the case of a...
    • Hospital Staff
      786. To ask the Minister for Health when the eight extra neurology nurse specialists will be appointed for University Hospital Limerick in view of a campaign by an organisation (details...
    • Primary Care Centres
      787. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the primary care centre in Swords, County Dublin as of October 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43955/21]
    • Health Services
      788. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the waiting times of 18 months for a public patient to access a breast check examination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45966/21]
    • Drug and Alcohol Testing
      789. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase the availability of drug testing of legally prohibited drugs as part of an overall strategy of harm reduction; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      790. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for a CT scan in Galway University Hospital taking into account the exceptional circumstances in this...
    • Dental Services
      791. To ask the Minister for Health when an urgent dental appointment will be issued to a person (details supplied) in Shantalla Health Centre, Galway in view of the person's exceptional medical...
    • Hospital Services
      792. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who attended the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick in each of the years 2006 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular...
    • Hospital Facilities
      793. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the development of the 96-bed modular unit at the University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50884/21]
    • Eating Disorders
      794. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of an eating disorder service for adults in the region of counties Cork and Kerry; the numbers of whole-time equivalent staff...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      795. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to legislate in the area of assisted human reproduction; and if he will be doing so in line with the recently published report of the Special...
    • Health Services
      796. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent assistance will be provided to a family (details supplied) to obtain a residential care bed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48442/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      798. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the operation of pop-up vaccination centres; and the uptake at these centres since the start of the 2021-2022 academic year. [49627/21]
    • Medicinal Products
      799. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1051 of 24 February 2021, if the formal pricing and reimbursement assessment of xonvea has been completed and will be...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      800. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that all maternity hospitals and units are following the HSE guidelines permitting partners to attend. [43813/21]
    • Health Services
      801. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the additional resources applied per centre to reduce waiting lists for preliminary team assessment as per the statement made by him on 28...
    • Disability Services
      804. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the significant delays in accessing treatment due to the reconfiguration of children’s disabilities teams in Cork....
    • Dental Services
      805. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that investment in public dental care has decreased dramatically over the past number of years; if he will consider increasing investment in the...
    • Disability Services
      806. To ask the Minister for Health if the assessment of need backlog for children has been reduced from 6,500 to 600 (details supplied); if these children have been referred to the appropriate...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the EU Digital COVID Certificate in relation to Irish citizens vaccinated in Northern Ireland and other EU countries; if he is satisfied...
    • Care of the Elderly
      808. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to research from a group (details supplied); and the way he plans to implement its recommendations. [50929/21]
    • Departmental Strategies
      809. To ask the Minister for Health the portion of the €30 million for national strategies in Budget 2022 that will be allocated for the National Carers Strategy; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      810. To ask the Minister for Health the total agency spend at Wexford General Hospital in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      812. To ask the Minister for Health the outpatient waiting times at Wexford General Hospital in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, by year and specialty in wait time bands of up...
    • Hospital Services
      813. To ask the Minister for Health the number of in-patient hospital cancellations at Wexford General Hospital in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Hospital Facilities
      815. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operational beds at Wexford General Hospital in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      816. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the full capacity protocol was initiated at Wexford General Hospital in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular...
    • Health Services
      822. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the budget measure of free contraception for women aged 17 to 25 years of age; if it includes long-acting reversible contraceptives,...
    • Hospital Services
      813. To ask the Minister for Health the number of in-patient hospital cancellations at Wexford General Hospital in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he...
    • Hospital Facilities
      815. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operational beds at Wexford General Hospital in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      816. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the full capacity protocol was initiated at Wexford General Hospital in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular...
    • Health Services
      822. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the budget measure of free contraception for women aged 17 to 25 years of age; if it includes long-acting reversible contraceptives,...
    • Hospital Staff
      823. To ask the Minister for Health the stage of negotiations on the consultant contract; the number of vacant public consultant positions in the health service; and if a breakdown of vacant...
    • Hospital Services
      824. To ask the Minister for Health the plans he has considered to increase capacity at Cavan General Hospital to deal with likely emergency department overflows in winter 2021 to ensure that...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      825. To ask the Minister for Health the status of child specific waiting list backlogs for urgent scoliosis operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50979/21]
    • Hospital Services
      826. To ask the Minister for Health his views on and the position regarding the committed funding to increase ICU beds and that figure in comparison to other European countries in terms of ICU...
    • Vaccination Programme
      827. To ask the Minister for Health the clinical requirements for booster shots for Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50984/21]
    • Health Services Staff
      828. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to appoint a clinical psychologist to each acute hospital diabetes multidisciplinary team; his views on the fact that psychosocial...
    • Vaccination Programme
      832. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 vaccines that have been procured for Ireland including both vaccines administered and vaccines available for administration; the number...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      834. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to be called for a procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50999/21]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      835. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the long delays for scoliosis surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51011/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      836. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an emergency appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51012/21]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      837. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an assessment of need for a child (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51017/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      838. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many of those that are over 70 years of age have to pay €50 or more in general practitioner fees for a...
    • Medicinal Products
      839. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the cost of zostavax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51021/21]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      841. To ask the Minister for Health the status of equipment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51028/21]
    • Nursing Homes
      843. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 330 of 23 September 2021, the number of nursing homes and the number of residents by county to correspond with the...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      844. To ask the Minister for Health if the go ahead for voluntary groups such as first aid responders to get back up and running will be given as soon as possible following the pandemic. [51050/21]
    • Health Services
      846. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that have been made to screen the women who otherwise missed a BreastCheck screening over the course of the past 19 months; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      847. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the announced expansion of the medical assessment unit in Ennis General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51077/21]
    • Departmental Offices
      848. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount spent by his Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the amount spent on the procurement, purchase and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      850. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the removal of all restrictions for partners attending appointments with patients in maternity units; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      852. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Keltoi Rehabilitation Centre in St Marys Hospital, Phoenix Park was closed and remains closed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51137/21]
    • Health Services
      853. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are available for children and adults diagnosed with foetal alcohol spectrum disorders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51138/21]
    • Disability Services
      857. To ask the Minister for Health when respite will be reinstated in the case of a person (details supplied); the reason the respite has not been reinstated; if all options have been considered...
    • Disease Management
      858. To ask the Minister for Health if it is planned to include chronic kidney disease in the HSE Integrated Care Programme for Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease; and if he will make a...
    • Substance Misuse
      862. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that additional funding is provided in 2022 for the North East Regional Drug Task Force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51153/21]
    • General Practitioner Services
      863. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects free general practitioner care for children under seven announced as part of Budget 2022 will be implemented; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Staff
      864. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to employ more neurology nurse specialists in Tallaght Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51168/21]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      866. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an appointment. [51185/21]
    • Vaccination Programme
      867. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage breakdown of Covid-19 vaccination uptake in each county; the number of persons in each county that have availed of the vaccine; and if he will...
    • Irish Blood Transfusion Service
      868. To ask the Minister for Health when the ITBS established Advisory Committee for Social Behaviours Review will be concluded; when he expects changes to be approved by his Department; and if...
    • Health Services
      870. To ask the Minister for Health the current position regarding funding for the Cleary Centre capital project in Donegal Town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51197/21]
    • Disease Management
      871. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 262 of 29 September 2021, the steps that are in place to ensure that private patients do not receive differing medical...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      872. To ask the Minister for Health the recruitment process undertaken by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland for senior positions (details supplied) in tabular form; the platforms on...
    • Health Services Staff
      876. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to appoint a clinical psychologist to the diabetes multidisciplinary team in University Hospital Limerick as soon as possible.; and...
    • Hospital Staff
      877. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been brought to a campaign (details supplied) which calls for the recruitment of 100 additional neurological nurse specialists including...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      878. To ask the Minister for Health the cost to date to the HSE of the Covid tracker app; the average daily numbers checking in their Covid-19 status for each month since it was launched; the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      880. To ask the Minister for Health if the new elective hospital will cater for both day care procedures and procedures that require inpatient care;; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Care Packages
      881. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to regulate the area of homecare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51236/21]
    • Ambulance Service
      882. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to reform the current centralised ambulance system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51238/21]
    • Hospital Staff
      886. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a campaign (details supplied); his plans to recruit the additional nurses needed nationally and in Tallaght University...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      887. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which he remains satisfied that measures to combat Covid-19 remain sufficiently robust to achieve their initial objective; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      890. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which plans to put in place a new winter programme are afoot; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51258/21]
    • Healthcare Policy
      891. To ask the Minister for Health the intended progress with the Sláintecare programme; if changes are anticipated in respect of its original function; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      894. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which an evaluation has been done in respect of the full staff requirements to tackle and eliminate hospital waiting lists in respect of all...
    • Hospital Facilities
      900. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposed extension of facilities and buildings at Naas General Hospital; the extent to which the plans are in place or envisaged in...
    • Primary Care Centres
      901. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres fully operational in County Kildare; the extent to which further centres are anticipated or planned; and if he will make a...
    • National Children's Hospital
      903. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in respect of the national children’s hospital including the facilities at Connolly and Tallaght; the extent to which the status of...
    • Health Services
      904. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which women’s health specifically remains central to the provision and delivery of a reliable level and quality of health services in all...
    • Mental Health Services
      906. To ask the Minister for Health the ongoing efforts underway to enhance the quality and scale of community and institutional mental health services with particular reference to the need to...
    • Dental Services
      907. To ask the Minister for Health when dental services under anaesthesia at Wexford General Hospital will revert to pre Covid-19 levels of two service days a week; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      909. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of leg supports for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51286/21]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      910. To ask the Minister for Health the way information is gathered on the number of persons diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder; if the numbers of persons diagnosed with autism spectrum...
    • Disability Services
      913. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Progressing Disability Services for Children & Young People and local Implementation groups that are overseeing the...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      915. To ask the Minister for Health the most reliable autism diagnosis data health services use; the number of adults and children that have received a diagnosis; and if he will make a statement...
    • Dental Services
      917. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private dentists presently providing treatment under the dental treatment services scheme in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Agriculture Schemes
      920. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50361/21]
    • Forestry Sector
      923. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 769 of 15 September 2021, if his attention has been drawn to an outbreak of ips typographus,...
    • Veterinary Services
      926. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the delays in assigning a veterinary inspection for a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Forestry Sector
      927. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Coillte is a commercial semi-State body and therefore must abide by the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies; if...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      928. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2021 area of natural constraints payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Food Industry
      930. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date in respect of the establishment of the new office of the national food ombudsman, regulator or equivalent;...
    • Agriculture Industry
      931. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made to date in respect of proposals for the inclusion of the Irish poultry sector under the remit of an organisation...
    • Forestry Sector
      933. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the situation in Rusheen, Lough Sheelin, County Westmeath in which a local resident and fisherman...
    • Departmental Offices
      934. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated amount spent by his Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the amount spent on the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      936. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive an ANC payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51133/21]
    • Aquaculture Industry
      937. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the funding required to resource the proposals in the report of the Seafood Task Force that will be allocated from...
    • Fishing Industry
      939. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the additional arrangements that will be introduced at piers and harbours around the coast to allow fish landings to be facilitated...
    • Forestry Sector
      941. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 679 of 21 September 2021, the dates on which the applications which were returned were received...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Rural Schemes
      943. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will suggest funding possibilities for a school (details supplied) that falls outside the CLÁR area outlined on the map....
    • Community Development Projects
      944. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the detail of the €5 million allocated in Budget 2022 to provide for the establishment of a new small capital grant scheme for...
    • Rural Schemes
      945. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding including additional allocation for rural development in each budget from 2005 to 2022; and the breakdown of the...
    • Departmental Offices
      946. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated amount spent by her Department on the procurement, purchase and rent of new office space; and the amount spent on the...

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