Written answers
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Departmental Functions
31. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [19799/22]
- Ukraine War
39. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent discussions with the Prime Minister of Ukraine. [21767/22]
- Programme for Government
40. To ask the Taoiseach the mechanism by which his Department will review progress made in implementing the Programme for Government. [21768/22]
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
55. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the release of a report in advance of its publication (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23587/22]
- Rental Sector
56. To ask the Taoiseach if he will indicate the trend in the private rents sub-index within the CPI over each of the past five years; the way in which data on the average rents paid by tenants...
- Wildlife Conservation
57. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that provide shelter and habitat...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Employment Rights
58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that workers in a company (details supplied) are not receiving the correct rate of pay as...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
59. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the case of a person case (details supplied) will be reviewed; if clarity will be provided on this matter in relation to this...
- Wildlife Conservation
60. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports that are in place to assist the events and exhibition industry given the re-allocation of large event space over the...
- Regional Aid
62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of funding provided to each county under the Regional Aid Map 2014 to 2022 per year in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Industrial Development
64. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA promoted visits to south County Kildare in the past six years; the location and date of such visits; and if he will...
- Regional Aid
65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason that the Graigcullen, Portarlington Municipal District, County Laois was removed from the new Regional Aid Map; if this...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Energy Policy
66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the implementation report on the 2016-2019 Energy Poverty Strategy will be available and the status of the new...
- Energy Infrastructure
67. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider introducing a RESS auction for multi-day energy storage. [23605/22]
- Renewable Energy Generation
69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the targets that are in place with regard to facilitating households to sell renewably generated electricity back to the...
- National Broadband Plan
70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband will be available for a home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Wildlife Conservation
71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install...
- Post Office Network
72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on designating the post office network as the offline gateway of choice for citizens availing of State...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Driver Licences
73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options that are available to a person (details supplied) whose drivers’ licence expired in 2016; the processes in place in...
- Driver Test
74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options that are available to an older person who is unable to use a computer if they intend to sit the RSA driver theory test; and if...
- Fire Safety
75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the concerns raised by members of the Dublin Airport Environmental Working Group at its meeting of 17...
- Coast Guard Service
76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeline for the final approval and the formal site transfer from Wicklow County Council to his Department for the Coast Guard station...
- Driver Licences
78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify the legislative basis for a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23740/22]
- Bus Services
79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport is there are plans to reintroduce a bus service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23741/22]
- Wildlife Conservation
80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Exemptions
81. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the tax exemption for those renting a room in their home to encourage persons to rent a room in their home to those coming to...
- Insurance Coverage
82. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures that he will take to ensure that those with thatch properties can obtain insurance following a decision by the remaining insurer covering such...
- EU Directives
83. To ask the Minister for Finance the timeline as to when he will give effect to EU Directive 2022/542 and to reduce VAT on solar panels. [23598/22]
- Tax Exemptions
84. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reduce to zero the VAT rate on automated external defibrillators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23632/22]
- Financial Services
85. To ask the Minister for Finance the protections that are in place for consumers particularly younger people availing of buy-now, pay-later lending services; and if these providers are...
- Departmental Priorities
93. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline proposals to support small businesses to cope with the increasing costs of heat and electricity; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Financial Services
94. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the recent purchase of a large number of ATMs by a company (details supplied) from pillar banks; if the companies that...
- Wildlife Conservation
96. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that provide shelter and...
- State Claims Agency
97. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update from the State Claims Agency on the number of claims outstanding for more than five years; the value and volume of cases concluded...
- Departmental Data
98. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of lifetime loans that have been issued to older persons over the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Wildlife Conservation
99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- International Agreements
101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Ireland will opt in to article 31 of the European Social Charter on the right to housing [23638/22]
- Housing Schemes
102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a regulatory impact assessment was carried out on the Croí Cónaithe Cities Fund; if an assessment of its impact...
- Heritage Sites
103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has taken further steps to protect the archaeological history of the entirety of Vinegar Hill, County...
- Commissions of Investigation
104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of commissions of investigation under the remit of his Department currently ongoing in the State; the cost of each...
- Energy Infrastructure
105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the interim guidelines for the installation of rooftop solar panels. [23603/22]
- Local Authorities
106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will take on the Moorhead Report recommendation on devolution of more powers to local authorities; and if he...
- Housing Schemes
107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average length of time spent on the social housing list in Kildare County Council; his plans to reduce these times; the...
- Local Authorities
109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to chronic staff shortages at Kildare County Council; his plans to address same; and if he...
- Housing Policy
110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will lift the cap on the ability of local authorities to purchase homes in cases in which there is a housing assistance...
- Departmental Funding
111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will resource the Residential Tenancies Board to properly enforce the Government's rent regulations; and if he will make...
- Local Authorities
112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated and drawn down by Kildare County Council for re-let works on council properties for each of...
- Housing Provision
114. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing allocations made by Kildare County Council to persons who were on the housing list for less than two...
- Planning Issues
115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any circumstances in which a late appeal will be accepted by An Bord Pleanála; if the time limit for appeals...
- Housing Schemes
117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP properties; and the number of new HAP agreements signed for counties Westmeath and Longford, respectively,...
- Housing Provision
120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing starts and completions by approved housing body for counties Westmeath and Longford, respectively, in...
- Local Authorities
122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount allocated by his Department under the housing grants for local authority housing; and the amount drawn down for...
- Housing Provision
123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount allocated by his Department under the housing grants for private dwellings; and the amount drawn down for counties...
- Emergency Accommodation
126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent each year on emergency accommodation for counties Westmeath and Longford, respectively, in 2020, 2021 and...
- Departmental Funding
128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of capital applications submitted for approval; the number that were approved; and the value of same for counties...
- Ukraine War
130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with the HSE to examine if the site in Crooksling, Brittas, County Dublin is suitable for medium-term...
- Housing Provision
132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes that were delivered in 2021 under Part V arrangements; the number of these Part V agreements that...
- Wildlife Conservation
133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied). [23530/22]
- Diplomatic Representation
137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will condemn comments from United States officials which refused to rule out military action against the Solomon Islands; and if he...
- Passport Services
138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport application for a person (details supplied) will be dispatched in time for their travel plans; and if he will make a statement...
- Defence Forces
141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties experienced by members of the Defence Forces (details supplied) who have served as part...
- Passport Services
143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will establish a passport office in Belfast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23618/22]
- Diplomatic Representation
145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that will be taken in 2022 and 2023 to enhance Ireland’s network of embassies; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Brexit Issues
146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the work in relation to the Ireland Protocol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23621/22]
- Official Engagements
147. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his most recent conversation with the UK Foreign Secretary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23622/22]
- Foreign Policy
148. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the proposed timeframe to honour the Government commitment to recognise the state of Palestine. [23623/22]
- Official Engagements
149. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on recent discussions he has had regarding the proposed convention on the rights of older persons; and if he will make a...
- Passport Services
150. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the problems experienced by his officials in the Passport Office who have difficulty making contact with...
- Foreign Birth Registration
151. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their Irish citizenship application which was submitted in April 2020. [23713/22]
- Wildlife Conservation
155. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that...
- Department of Defence
- Ukraine War
156. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if any refugees are being housed or intended to be housed in properties in the ownership of his Department; and if he will make a statement on...
- Historical Conflicts
157. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to parliamentary question No. 244 of 24 March 2022, the status of the implementation of the report by the independent review group on...
- European Union
158. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the recent drive by President Macron of France to form a European Union army and deeper European Union military integration in view...
- Defence Forces
159. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the engagement he has had with military authorities on increasing the budgetary figure for meals for personnel in line with the rise of...
- Wildlife Conservation
161. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Education Welfare Service
162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of files that are waiting to be actioned by educational welfare officers in Dublin Fingal; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects
164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions that her Department is taking in view of the refusal of planning permission for a proposed school (details supplied) by Fingal County...
- School Staff
165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an appeal by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; the status of this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23523/22]
- Education and Training Boards
166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an updated timeline for the commencement of building works at the site designated in 2013 for the new headquarters building...
- Schools Building Projects
171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that is being made with the building of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23614/22]
- Disadvantaged Status
172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary has not been granted DEIS status given that the two other secondary schools in...
- Special Educational Needs
173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the ability to bank special education teaching hours has been removed from schools; and if so, if this decision will be reversed given the...
- Disadvantaged Status
174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that a school (details supplied) in Galway has been overlooked for DEIS status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23770/22]
- Special Educational Needs
176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to make the July Provision Programme mandatory for special schools; the analysis her Department has carried out in this regard; and if...
- Disadvantaged Status
177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools which had DEIS status for the 2021/2022 year, but which will not have DEIS status for the school year 2022/2023; the...
- School Funding
178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to increase the standard capitation rate for pupils in primary schools by 20%, from 1 September 2023 to 31 December 2023 and...
- School Curriculum
182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement that is planned to take into consideration all second level teachers’ opinions and concerns on the newly announced leaving...
- Wildlife Conservation
185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Benefits
186. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total amount spent on rent supplement in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23529/22]
- School Meals Programme
187. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to an anomaly in the school meals programme whereby newly added schools for the DEIS...
- Social Welfare Benefits
188. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if she will provide an update on this matter. [23579/22]
- Citizens Information Services
189. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a service (details supplied) which has been closed since the start of the pandemic; and if she will make a...
- State Pensions
190. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current status of a State pension (non-contributory) overpayment file in respect of the estate of a deceased person...
- Social Welfare Benefits
191. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in County Westmeath in receipt of carer’s allowance, carer’s respite care grant and...
- Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
192. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in counties Westmeath and Longford, respectively, who transferred from the pandemic unemployment...
- Social Welfare Benefits
193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if long-Covid is being cited as a condition in medical certification for social welfare payments and supports; and if so, the...
- Ukraine War
195. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider reducing the amount of time that a person must be on the live register in order to qualify for a...
- Social Welfare Benefits
196. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will assist a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23776/22]
- Wildlife Conservation
197. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit have policies in place to install artificial...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Departmental Funding
198. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has completed the core funding contract with the childcare sector; and if he will make a...
- Childcare Services
199. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has considered the rise in the cost of living in the context of capping childcare fees due in...
- Child and Family Agency
200. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the official procedure for Tusla giving instructions to foster carers; if instructions are to be made in writing...
- Childcare Services
202. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in some parts of the country foster carers are not given care...
- Departmental Funding
204. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on childcare core funding fee and education requirements (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Childcare Services
205. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the options that are available to ensure that a child (details suppled) receives their ECCE year. [23581/22]
- Data Protection
208. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission is permitted under legislation to disclose or share...
- Childcare Services
209. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline proposals to increase the number of childcare providers in the Newcastle, County Dublin area;...
- Immigration Support Services
210. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of international protection applicants deemed vulnerable since the commencement of the pilot project;...
- Wildlife Conservation
213. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Disability Services
214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of staff allocated to access or disabilities offices to support students with disabilities in each of the further and higher...
- Grant Payments
216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the approximate cost of expanding the SUSI grant to students registered with disabilities services studying on a part-time basis; and if he will...
- Wildlife Conservation
217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Road Traffic Offences
218. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions of motorists in each of the past five years for failure to make progress and drive at the...
- An Garda Síochána
219. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to establish an appeals process within the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. [23568/22]
- Emergency Services
221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of 999 calls processed by the Dublin Metropolitan Region dispatch centre in 2021 and to date in 2022; and the...
- Prison Service
223. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the addiction supports available to prisoners in each prison; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23629/22]
- Wildlife Conservation
224. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department, and the public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit, have policies in place to install...
- Stardust Fire
225. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the legal aid funds paid to date in the Stardust inquests that commenced pursuant to a direction by the Attorney General in...
- Residency Permits
226. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an Irish residency permit renewal application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a...
- Department of Health
- Care of the Elderly
227. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the policy of personalisation for budgets and services to older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23631/22]
- Citizens' Assembly
228. To ask the Minister for Health when the citizens' assembly on drug use will be convened [23637/22]
- Hospital Staff
229. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Irish and European Union, and the number of non-European Union doctors, who were awarded intern posts in each of the years 2016 to 2022, in...
- Departmental Data
230. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against medical, nursing, midwifery and other health and social care professionals across HSE hospitals and community...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
231. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes based on clinical need of any age; and if he will...
- Nursing Homes
233. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department is considering expanding the fair deal scheme to allow patients access private to home care packages as opposed to only nursing or...
- Disability Services
234. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in the Dublin Fingal area awaiting appointments with the children's disability network team; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Disability Diagnoses
235. To ask the Minister for Health if there are clinical psychologists working in the private sector from whom the HSE will accept a report confirming a diagnosis of autism; and if he will make...
- Disability Services
236. To ask the Minister for Health when the vacant occupational therapist posts and speech and language therapist posts that are allocated to the four children's disability network teams in...
- National Maternity Hospital
237. To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed inpatient perinatal mental health service will be part of the planned national maternity hospital located at St. Vincent's University Hospital;...
- Hospital Staff
238. To ask the Minister for Health if there are hospitals with a heart failure unit that do not have an advanced nurse practitioner; the cost of providing an advanced nurse practitioner in each...
- Hospital Equipment
240. To ask the Minister for Health the number of heart failure units that do not have access to BNP testing and other appropriate diagnostic testing; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
241. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of rolling out heart failure virtual clinics nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23534/22]
- Obesity Levels
243. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that is being made to reach the WHO global target to halt the rise in obesity by 2025, particularly given that the WHO European Regional Obesity...
- Healthcare Policy
244. To ask the Minister for Health if a breastfeeding position paper has been developed by the Obesity Policy Implementation Oversight Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23538/22]
- Disability Services
246. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide access to a personal assistant service as a legislative right for people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Appointments Status
248. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23576/22]
- Covid-19 Pandemic
249. To ask the Minister for Health if he will acknowledge how severely ill those who develop long Covid can become; if the matter will be addressed; if he will offer protection from reinfection...
- Hospital Staff
250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff midwives working at the Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise; the number of staff midwives on long-term sick leave; the number of staff...
- Disabilities Assessments
251. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the assessment of needs for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23633/22]
- Care of the Elderly
252. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to move away from congregated settings in the care of older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23641/22]
- Ukraine War
253. To ask the Minister for Health if any refugees are being housed or intended to be housed on properties in the ownership of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Healthcare Policy
254. To ask the Minister for Health if matters raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; the funding mechanisms that may be open to such persons; and if he will...
- Health Service Executive
255. To ask the Minister for Health when a letter will issue from the HSE confirming intent to provide funding for the day-to-day expenditure for the running of a facility (details supplied); and...
- Departmental Properties
256. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the Holles Street hospital site once the National Maternity Hospital has relocated; if it will be repurposed within the HSE; if not, if it will...
- Hospital Overcrowding
257. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 521 of 4 May 2022, when the assessment of University Hospital Limerick’s patient pathways is expected to conclude;...
- Medicinal Products
258. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will approve the reimbursement under the high-tech drug arrangements for kaftrio for children under 12 years of age; the reason for the delay in...
- Covid-19 Pandemic
259. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are currently notified as having long-Covid; if there is a national registry point for same; if so, the person or body that is in...
- Dental Services
261. To ask the Minister for Health if supports are in place for persons who are diagnosed with an eating disorder and require dental treatment as a result of their eating disorder but do not...
- Medical Aids and Appliances
262. To ask the Minister for Health the position in respect of the reimbursement of the FreeStyle Libre continuous glucose monitoring system for those with type 1 diabetes; if consideration has...
- Disease Management
263. To ask the Minister for Health if he will assist a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23775/22]
- Disability Services
264. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department classifies Alzheimer's disease as an official disability as this would allow people to attain the rights and entitlements that being declared...
- Wildlife Conservation
265. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures that provide shelter and...
- Medical Research and Training
266. To ask the Minister for Health the number of trainee doctors trained within Ireland in each of the years since 2016; the number of persons who took up a post in Ireland; the average cost per...
- Hospital Staff
267. To ask the Minister for Health when the respiratory physiotherapist post in St. Vincent's Hospital is due to be filled; if this professional will be available to those patients with...
- Health Services
268. To ask the Minister for Health if he will encourage the HSE to re-examine and improve the access pathway for patients with bronchiectasis in order to avoid them having to attend the...
- Health Services Staff
269. To ask the Minister for Health the details of staffing levels of the disability teams at HSE health clinics (details supplied) in Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services
271. To ask the Minister for Health the number of water birthing facilities available in HSE maternity hospitals and units; the number of water births which occurred in these facilities between 1...
- Mental Health Services
272. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent findings that members of the Traveller or Mincéirs community have high rates for self-harm presentations at hospital emergency...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Forestry Sector
273. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the backlog in the issuing of felling licences will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23616/22]
- Agriculture Schemes
274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the dates relating to the cutting of silage for participants in relevant strands of agri-environmental schemes have been altered...
- Food Industry
278. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will meet with representatives of a sector (details supplied) to discuss ongoing challenges related to feed; and if he will...
- Agriculture Industry
279. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the definition of young poultry is defined by EU Reg 2018/848; if not, if it is within the remit of his Department; the action...
- Wildlife Conservation
283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit have policies in place to install artificial structures...
- Fishing Industry
284. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to provide the closure of the line caught mackerel fishery in 2022; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Schemes
286. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason that rural areas in north County Dublin are excluded from the local improvement scheme. [23571/22]
- Legislative Reviews
287. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the review of the Control of Dogs Act 1986 has been completed; if she will publish the submissions made under the public...
- Legislative Measures
288. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the promised amendments to the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010. [23602/22]
- Departmental Reviews
289. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the outcome of a review (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23759/22]
- Wildlife Conservation
290. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit have policies in place to install artificial structures...
- Departmental Funding
291. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of investment and funding that her Department has provided to south west Cork since 1 January 2017; the schemes under which...
