Written answers

Tuesday, 4 July 2023

  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Disability Services
      60. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to address staffing shortages on Children’s Disability Network Teams. [32533/23]
    • Care Services
      61. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of beds, in tabular form, in each unit, in each LHO, assigned for respite for relatives of families...
    • Disability Services
      65. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to improve disability services in County Cork. [32534/23]
    • Departmental Reports
      68. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the Government’s own Cost of Disability report indicated that people with disabilities...
    • Family Resource Centres
      70. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the need to review the funding streams for FRC’s. [32577/23]
    • Children in Care
      71. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who have gone missing from State care in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2023;...
    • Equality Issues
      72. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that Ireland ranks lowest in the EU for both its disability employment rate and disability...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      73. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the need to address the unintended anomalies in the core funding for early years settings. [32578/23]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      74. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on how his Department is addressing the waiting lists for clinical assessments identified...
    • Health Services Staff
      75. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the engagements his Department has had with the Minister for Public Expenditure,...
    • Childcare Services
      76. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he monitors the extent to which local authorities are applying the criteria of need for childcare places in...
    • Child and Family Agency
      77. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which children’s welfare and wellbeing is protected by Tusla in all situations; and if he...
    • Special Educational Needs
      78. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what engagement that has been held with the Minister for Education in regard to the provision of special schools...
    • Children in Care
      79. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on legislation that will transfer the registration and inspection functions for...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      80. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to change the fee structure for early childhood care service providers; and if he will make a...
    • Equality Issues
      81. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on a review of the Equality Acts; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      82. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the Programme for Government commitment to establish an agency (details supplied) to...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      83. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his Department's plans to allow parents of children who need or received an assessment of need privately to claim...
    • Departmental Reports
      84. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will publish an action plan and allocate resources to support the findings of the Government’s own...
    • Disability Services
      85. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 60 of 30 May 2023, to outline the progress made, if any, by his Department...
    • Community Care
      86. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what is being put in place to resolve the crisis in staffing issues in SLT in CHO2; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services
      87. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current staffing levels of CDNTs in Cork. [32444/23]
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      90. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects the Optional Protocol of the UNCRPD will be adopted by Ireland; what is the reason for the delay...
    • Job Losses
      91. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has met with Rehab Enterprises in Navan to discuss the risk of job losses there; if he will put measures in...
    • Child and Family Agency
      93. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will be support Tusla with the necessary capital investment required to achieve 50:50 public private...
    • Disability Services
      94. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the Disability Capacity Review Action Plan will be published; the reason for the delay in the publication of...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      96. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will confirm the number of early years services that have been unsuccessful for the sustainability grant by...
    • Disability Services
      97. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what engagement he has had with staff representatives in the CDNT sector in terms of pay and conditions [32058/23]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      98. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will comment on the recent early years pilot meals programme; to disclose the services that took part in...
    • Disability Services
      100. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extra funding provided to disability organisations for new services this year; the number of new services...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      102. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has identified the need for new supply in early childhood education and childcare; and if he has developed...
    • Road Projects
      103. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is possible to engage with a local authority on the improvement of a road to allow a bus service support...
    • Disability Services
      104. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to support and ensure adequate staffing of children's disability network teams; and if he...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      105. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration is being given during the process ahead of Budget 24 to the issues of wages and job progression...
    • Disability Services
      106. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to improve access to personal assistant hours this year; if there are plans to improve national...
    • Departmental Strategies
      110. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the Autism Innovation Oversight and Advisory Group; when the next public...
    • Community Care
      111. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the progress of the Neuro-Rehabilitation Strategy Implementation Framework; an update on...
    • Disability Services
      112. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to support the provision of allied health services to children with a disability within...
    • Special Educational Needs
      114. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the return of therapists to special schools in Cork. [31631/23]
    • Children in Care
      115. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a study (details supplied) which expressed concerns over the sexual...
    • Child and Family Agency
      116. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details on the €700,000 in dormant accounts funding to Tusla; what this funding will...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      118. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has examined ways of reducing the level of bureaucracy associated with the National Childcare Scheme for...
    • Disability Services
      120. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children waiting on assessment of needs and the average waiting time in each Community Disability...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the proposals, if any, he has to increase substantially the level of grant-aid available under...
    • Care Services
      122. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will comment on the low levels of internal promotion from social care level to social worker level, given...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Consultations
      123. To ask the Taoiseach the amount paid out to all consultancy firms for any services rendered; and the cost per contract for the year to date in 2023, in tabular form. [31699/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      124. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department purchased or produced any memorabilia such as pens, stationery, pins, badges, mugs or other types of souvenirs to mark or celebrate Pride 2023; and if...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      125. To ask the Taoiseach for an overview of the Shared Ireland Programme since its establishment in 2020; the key initiatives taken; and his assessment of their impact to date. [31854/23]
    • Departmental Policies
      126. To ask the Taoiseach the main policy achievements of his Department since 27 June 2020. [31872/23]
    • Disadvantaged Status
      127. To ask the Taoiseach if he will arrange for a requested meeting (details supplied) to take place at an early date. [31980/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      128. To ask the Taoiseach the total advertising budget allocated by his Department and agencies in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2023, respectively; the funding provided directly to...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises
      129. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department collates statistics on the number of SMEs which close each year; and if so, if he will furnish this Deputy with statistics pertaining to each of the...
    • Sports Funding
      130. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that his Department can provide to an association (details supplied), heading...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • United Nations
      131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 37 of 21 June 2023, to clarify the meaning of the statement that 'no new peacekeeping missions have...
    • Passport Services
      133. 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. [32256/23]
    • Sports Funding
      134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that his Department can provide to an association...
    • Official Engagements
      135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he spoke with the United States Secretary of State at the recent Ukraine Recovery Conference in London. [32310/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      136. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the competition for the new Department of Foreign Affairs election monitoring roster will be advertised; the number of places...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extra resources and personnel that will be deployed at the Irish Embassy in Paris during the upcoming Rugby World Cup; and if a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a breakdown of the training and development and incidental expenses incurred by his Department in the years ending 31 December 2013, 31...
    • Passport Services
      140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on a passport (details supplied) given it has now passed its issue date. [32598/23]
    • Departmental Staff
      141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline what training the human resources disability officer in his Department has undertaken and is scheduled to undertake in the...
    • Passport Services
      142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the renewal of a passport for a person (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish Ambassador to the United States has spoken with the Governor of the State of Virginia in the US to date in 2023. [32667/23]
    • EU Membership
      144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current status of the applications for EU membership in respect of, separately, Kosovo, Georgia, Moldova, Bosnia Herzegovina,...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Electricity Generation
      145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of dramatic increases in electricity in air-to-water/geothermal households; if he will consider further...
    • Inland Fisheries
      146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions being taken by Inland Fisheries Ireland and the EPA in relation to an ongoing fuel leak into the Slaney...
    • Energy Policy
      147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline the interdepartmental engagement process on the distribution of revenues raised from the windfall...
    • Electricity Generation
      149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the initial 907 pilot scheme generators will receive their payments under the Government-backed microgeneration...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      150. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of times he has met with or corresponded with the Director General of RTÉ since he took office; and the...
    • Bord na Móna
      154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to clarify the nature and extent of his and his Department's statutory role with respect to the oversight and funding...
    • Climate Action Plan
      155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will confirm that, in light of the recent EPA emissions projections and the subsequent confirmation by his...
    • Climate Change Policy
      156. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will confirm that the projected carbon emissions data provided by the EPA for the cumulative carbon budget period...
    • Sports Funding
      157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that his Department can provide...
    • Postal Services
      158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an Eircode will be issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32336/23]
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update and a timeline/date for the roll-out of Broadband in an area of County Sligo (details supplied); and if...
    • Climate Change Policy
      161. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will outline what consideration has been given to calculating carbon credits for the agricultural sector, in view...
    • Departmental Staff
      162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the whole-time equivalent staff, by job title, working in the geological survey division of his Department as of 28...
    • Regional Development
      163. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is a stream of funding under the Just Transition Fund that a company establishing operations in Littleton,...
    • Departmental Bodies
      164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the District Heating Steering Group has reported to him regarding the sustainability of wood pellet stoves; and if...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces
      165. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the current situation with respect to Irish soldiers who used malarone, doxycycline and lariam for overseas service; if any...
    • Naval Service
      167. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the status of each vessel currently used by the Naval Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32150/23]
    • Defence Forces
      169. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for a breakdown of the numbers of people joining and leaving the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps, by month, over the past five years, in...
    • Air Corps
      170. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update in relation to the replacement of the Government's Learjet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32153/23]
    • Defence Forces
      172. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update in relation to the at least 87 empty Defence Forces family accommodation; what plans there are to utilise these; and if he will...
    • State Properties
      174. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the various capital works taking place on Haulbowline Island; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32157/23]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      175. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the full cost of the Consultative Forum on International Security Policy, in tabular form, to include the cost of policing and security, the use...
    • Sports Funding
      176. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that his Department can provide to an association...
    • Defence Forces
      177. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of males and females that applied to become instrumentalists within the Defence Forces School of Music from the most recent...
    • Official Engagements
      178. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has spoken with the United States Defence Secretary to date in 2023. [32341/23]
    • Departmental Data
      179. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 176 of 20 June 2023, the breakdown of the miscellaneous expenses incurred by his Department in the years...
    • Defence Forces
      180. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence why only seven women were accepted into the Defence Forces in the last call despite over 617 women applying; if he thinks that this low number...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Projects
      181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an outline of the expected cost to the Irish taxpayer for the State to fund 50% of the A5 motorway upgrade; and to outline...
    • Greenways Provision
      182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a breakdown of the cost for the Blessington Greenway Project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32814/23]
    • Road Projects
      183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will urgently engage with Louth County Council and Meath County Council to investigate whether any additional funds can be provided...
    • Transport Policy
      186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on what measures he has undertaken to ensure that Ireland meets the mandatory quote of 5.5% renewable fuel...
    • Bus Éireann
      188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with Bus Éireann regarding an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32128/23]
    • Road Projects
      189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a preferred corridor or route for the N22 Macroom to Ovens has been identified by TII; if information on the most specific current...
    • Departmental Data
      190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of times his predecessor (details supplied) met with or corresponded with the Director General of RTÉ while he was in...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how much glyphosate was used by TII and its servants or agents in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, respectively;...
    • Pension Provisions
      193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking in response to the absence of an increased in pension payments (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Sports Funding
      194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that his Department can provide to an association...
    • Bus Éireann
      195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details on all Bus Éireann services which now stop in Moate, County Westmeath, on a daily basis. [32297/23]
    • National Car Test
      197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the provision of a second NCT centre in County Clare; where the centre will be located; when it will be...
    • Bus Services
      199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated investment to date in the Dublin BusConnects initiative; and the estimated final cost; and the expected impact when it is...
    • Rail Network
      200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish Rail plans to increase the number of carriages from three to four on both the 09.33 and 17.33 Dublin Connolly to Rosslare...
    • Bus Services
      201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport who is the regulator for the 15 bus route; how a person can submit an official complaint about this service; and if there is an option to...
    • Fisheries Protection
      202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how many three-yearly inspections of ships have taken place under section 5(3) of SI 376/2014 since that Instrument came into force; how...
    • National Transport Authority
      204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the NTA’s bus stops upgrade programme will be extended to Limerick city and county; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Pension Provisions
      205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will sanction a cost-of-living increase in the CIÉ pension; when that increase will be processed; and if he will make a...
    • Electric Vehicles
      206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to detail the number of CHADEMO/CCS charge points which have been removed in both Galway city and county since January 2022; and if he...
    • Transport Infrastructure Ireland
      207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a successor agreement between TII and the IFA (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32623/23]
    • Bus Éireann
      208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and percentage of coaches and double-decker buses within the Bus Éireann fleet that currently have a toilet onboard; and...
    • Dublin Airport Authority
      209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Aer Rianta International, as a subsidiary of the Dublin Airport Authority, currently operates or oversees retail spaces in either...
    • National Car Test
      210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting time for tests in each NCT test centre nationwide; to outline the measures he has put in place to reduce waiting times; and...
    • Rail Network
      211. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the investment that is planned by Iarnród Éireann for its network in County Clare during 2023 and 2024; if...
    • Driver Test
      212. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting for a driving test and a theory test in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32699/23]
    • Electric Vehicles
      213. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of and a breakdown of the categories of reports filed with the Road Safety Authority in respect of e-bike and e-scooters in...
    • Public Transport
      218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what public transport strategies are in place to facilitate disabled wheelchair users in regional towns to allow them access essential...
    • Road Tolls
      219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount collected by road toll collectors in each month of 2022 and to date in 2023; the amount outstanding in payments yet to be...
  • Department of Finance
    • Insurance Industry
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance whether he is aware that insurance providers refuse travel insurance to people with congenital heart defects even when these have been repaired; and if he...
    • Departmental Priorities
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance if he would consider establishing a national compensatory fund for people who have been financially frauded; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Reliefs
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance the total sum of tax relief deducted from the purchase of diesel-fuelled buses through the VAT71 scheme in 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Code
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance to engage with an organisation (details supplied) concerning the implications of changing VAT rates on hospitality services. [32228/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that his Department can provide to an association (details supplied),...
    • Tax Code
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will advise on rates of heavy oil tax from 2020 to the end of 2024 including rate changes through each of these years; if he will provide a breakdown of...
    • Rental Sector
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the public policy rationale for the changes made in the Finance Act 2022 in relation to the obligations of tenants and collection agents of...
    • Tax Reliefs
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give positive consideration to introducing tax relief measures for parents who have to take extended leave from work to care for young babies who,...
    • State Savings Schemes
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance the historical State savings rates for the past 20 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32464/23]
    • Illicit Trade
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance what resources, such as x-ray scanners and detector dog units, are currently available to the Revenue Commissioners to combat smuggling at the nation’s...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received the pre-Budget 2024 submission from group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32520/23]
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking in response to a recent increase in interest rates for people with mortgages on their family homes. [32527/23]
    • State Savings Schemes
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration can be given to the introduction of a Government savings scheme similar to the special savings investment scheme which ran previously. [32563/23]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received the letter from a person (details supplied); his views on the letter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32622/23]
    • Budget Statement
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure that Budget 2023 is published in a format that is clear, accessible and in plain English, in order to ensure that the document is...
    • Customs and Excise
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance if the tendering process for a replacement customs cutter vessel has been completed. [32684/23]
    • Tax Code
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider abolishing any capital gains tax arising from the sale of a residential property to tenants in situ; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Reliefs
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 22 June 2023, how many applications were received and accepted or refused under a scheme (details supplied), in...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Housing Provision
      243. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will be issuing a public tender or inviting tenders for the construction of two-storey modular homes; and if he will...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      244. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of times he has met with or corresponded with the Director General of RTÉ since he took office; and the dates upon which...
    • National Lottery
      248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total value of National Lottery unclaimed prize money in the past six years to date; the total amount spent on advertising in the...
    • Sports Funding
      249. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that his Department can provide to an association...
    • Office of Public Works
      250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of qualified window fitters employed by the OPW as of 1 January 2022 and 23 June 2023, in tabular form. [32308/23]
    • Departmental Bodies
      252. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with the regard to the establishment of a Senior Posts Renumeration Committee if he would ensure that a public interest appointee is a...
    • Office of Public Works
      253. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of electric vehicle charging points in each OPW site available to visitors to that site, in tabular form. [32686/23]
    • State Bodies
      254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 28 June 2023, whether the HSE is categorised as a non-commercial State agency; and if he...
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Employment Rights
      256. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the case of four workers (details supplied) who have been dismissed by a company for trade union activity; if he...
    • Industrial Relations
      258. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to ensure that persons adjudicating in State industrial relations mechanisms have training on disability...
    • Employment Rights
      259. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of a court injunction (details supplied). [32267/23]
    • Sports Funding
      260. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that his Department can provide to an...
    • EU Bodies
      261. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a report on what amendments to the national patent legislation will be required to recognise both the new unitary patent...
    • Legislative Process
      262. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the work on drafting the amendment of the constitution (unified patent court) Bill seeking to amend the Constitution...
    • National Minimum Wage
      263. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32381/23]
    • Work Permits
      264. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will intervene in a situation where a practising doctor in County Galway (details supplied) has been refused a stamp 4 support...
    • Food Industry
      266. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the meetings held by his Departmental officials from assistant principal level upwards with representatives of the food industry in...
    • Flexible Work Practices
      267. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the preparation of a Code of Practice by the Workplace Relations Commission under Part 4 of the Work Life...
    • Film Industry
      268. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or the relevant senior official in his Department will meet with representatives from an organisation (details supplied) to...
    • Enterprise Support Services
      269. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline how much in IDA grants and supports have been awarded to a company (details supplied) since 1997; and if he will make a...
    • State Bodies
      271. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a matter in relation to funding for State companies (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Trade Missions
      272. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the IDA plans to have a trade and investment mission to Singapore before the end of year. [32668/23]
    • Industrial Development
      273. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the breakdown of the number of site visits hosted by the IDA in counties Galway, Clare and Limerick during the first six months of...
    • Workplace Relations Commission
      274. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the qualifications required for appointment as an adjudicator in the Workplace Relations Commission for the purpose of adjudicating...
    • Industrial Development
      275. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide, in tabular form, the number of visits by the IDA to counties Roscommon and Galway, and the location of each visit in 2022...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • State Examinations
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will create a bespoke examination for children with acquired brain injury within the secondary school system that will ensure students...
    • School Staff
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how SNAs can contact staff working in the payroll section with queries (details supplied). [32089/23]
    • Residential Institutions
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if money granted by Caranua to a survivor of an institution that was to be used, only for household goods, but not yet used may still be claimed;...
    • School Facilities
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given that there are approximately 2,500 children enrolled in three schools in Oranmore, County Galway, if there is any scheme within her...
    • Education and Training Boards
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the number of teachers recruited to ETB schools in counties Laois and Offaly since 2020; the number of these who have retained their...
    • School Staff
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a policy to intervene with schools that demonstrate an above-average inability to retain teaching staff; if her Department...
    • Third Level Education
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of psychology students who graduate from Irish universities every year; the number of psychology placements available every year; if...
    • School Accommodation
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on land acquisition adjacent to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32184/23]
    • School Transport
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the school transport application of a person (details supplied); if, given that the person must travel further than 6 km to their...
    • Schools Building Projects
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Mayo will be able to proceed to construction; if her officials have completed the review of the tender...
    • School Facilities
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process in which a school (details supplied) must engage in order to receive funds to facilitate the construction of a gym and social canteen...
    • School Staff
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the situation whereby some school secretaries may be worse off financially under the new changes to regularise the employment,...
    • Sports Funding
      289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that her Department can provide to an association...
    • School Accommodation
      290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she expects that a quantity surveyor will visit a school (details supplied) in County Clare in order that its application for additional...
    • Home Schooling
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many persons worked as home tutors per annum for 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; how many of these are full-time on 39 hours per week...
    • School Transport
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a person (details supplied) will receive the school transport scheme remote area grant for the 2023-24 academic year; and if she will...
    • School Textbooks
      294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider extending the free schoolbook scheme her Department has launched for primary schools to include all students attending...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a number of concerns from a teacher (details supplied) regarding their critical illness application; and if she will make a...
    • State Examinations
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the dates in 2023 upon which she has met the Chief Executive Officer of the State Examinations Commission, in tabular form. [32311/23]
    • Teaching Qualifications
      297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any plans to allow teachers who are already registered with the teaching council in the UK to be recognised by the Irish Teaching...
    • School Transport
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reply will be issued to a representation by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32337/23]
    • School Facilities
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider financing a joint project with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and Sport...
    • Maternity Leave
      301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements in place to provide maternity leave for primary school teachers whose children have been born through surrogacy; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs
      302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans for facilitating flexible modes of study for full-time students who are wheelchair users and students who are hearing or...
    • Schools Building Projects
      303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the ASA application, with the capital appraisal section of her Department, made by a school (details supplied);...
    • School Admissions
      305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a person (details supplied) who has been unable to secure a school place in their locality or in their neighbouring...
    • Schools Building Projects
      310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on her engagement with a school (details supplied); when the works will be completed; if she will accept that the project is...
    • School Staff
      312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in Donegal had to wait over a year to have an appeal of special education teaching allocation decided; and...
    • Education Policy
      314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legislative or policy basis on which the parents of a child (details supplied) are being requested to sign an insurance indemnification form...
    • School Staff
      315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) can retain the additional permanent mainstream teacher which has been provisionally approved for 2023/2024; and if...
    • School Accommodation
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32639/23]
    • Departmental Records
      319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if information will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32653/23]
    • Home Schooling
      320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a full-time home school community liaison officer for schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) in Naas, County Kildare, will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staff
      322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on recent Departmental engagement with representatives on the issue of post-primary redeployment of teachers. [32719/23]
    • Mental Health Policy
      323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address concerns (details supplied) regarding the funding of current trainee educational psychologists; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Admissions
      324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if pupils (details supplied) will have a school place after the summer break; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32749/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills is she will intervene in the case of a child (details supplied). [32766/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of a school site in Celbridge which has been identified as a preferred new location for three schools (details supplied); the delays...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Broadcasting Sector
      328. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of times she has met with or corresponded with the Director General of RTÉ since she took office; and the dates...
    • Sports Funding
      332. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that her Department can provide to an...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      333. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the infrastructure map that is being developed by Sport Ireland; if his Department will develop a fund or a grant heading to fill...
    • State Bodies
      334. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of WTE vacancies, by job title, at Fáilte Ireland; the estimated full-year cost of filling each of these...
    • National Cultural Institutions
      335. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she last met with the CEO and/or Chairperson of the National Concert Hall; and when she is next scheduled to meet the CEO...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      336. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she believes if it is desirable there should be a personnel link between the RTÉ Authority and the Executive Board of...
    • Sports Funding
      337. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on when the next round of sports capital funding will be open for applications. [32782/23]
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Wildlife Protection
      339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will join the Island of Jersey in condemning the Faroe Islands' barbaric 'grindarap', which involves the annual massacre...
    • Office of Public Works
      340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if officials from the Office of Public Works can provide details of what birds nest on Scattery Island, County Clare; what...
    • Wildlife Protection
      341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has been made aware of any reports relating to the potential harmful effects of polystyrene foam on bird...
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions being taken by the National Parks and Wildlife Service in relation to an ongoing fuel leak into the Slaney river...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he and his Department officials will issue a substantive response to a person (details supplied). [32042/23]
    • Housing Schemes
      344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider introducing a €50,000 grant scheme to support individuals who are self-building their first-time...
    • Water Pollution
      346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to allocate additional funding to recruit a sufficient number of new inspectors for water...
    • Public Sector Staff
      347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the adequacy of timeframes for replacing public sector staff; the associated internal processing delays in...
    • Urban Development
      348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his plans to progress the legislative underpinning for a joint urban area plan for Drogheda between Louth and...
    • Housing Schemes
      349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the croí cónaithe grant can be applied for in the case of a derelict property that has to be knocked and rebuilt...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when funding will be provided for the refurbishment of accommodation and site facilities as the current residents are living...
    • Wildlife Protection
      351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to monitor mink hunting with dogs, including the actions to prevent these hunts disrupting other...
    • Register of Electors
      352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that there will be no requirement for the provision of a Personal Public Service Number for inclusion on the...
    • Sports Funding
      353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that his Department can provide to an...
    • Register of Electors
      354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to grant voting rights to members of the Ukrainian community now residing in this country as a result of the...
    • Vacant Properties
      355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all local authorities have furnished the details on the total number of derelict properties currently on their registers;...
    • Departmental Staff
      357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated full-year cost to recruit two additional WTE senior assistant fire advisors for his Department, in tabular form....
    • Housing Schemes
      358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the most up-to-date separate capital cost ceilings and averages for each local authority for the Social Housing Investment...
    • State Bodies
      359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is concerned with the operating deficit at An Bord Pleanála; if he or his officials have had any discussions with...
    • Building Energy Rating
      360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the BER which rating that is acceptable in the terms of the new croí cónaithe scheme to refurbish derelict and...
    • Planning Issues
      363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to strengthen the legislation around planning enforcement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32395/23]
    • Hare Coursing
      364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if given the biodiversity crisis, the pressure on the Irish hare and due to animal welfare issues if he will refuse to issue...
    • Rental Sector
      365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ask local councils to ensure that those who receive a child dependency payment do not have this included in their...
    • Septic Tanks
      367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will adopt a suggestion by a council (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32510/23]
    • Wildlife Conservation
      368. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if subsidies or grant supports are available from his Department or any agency under the aegis of his Department for the...
    • Local Authorities
      369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the number of new operatives and new trades apprentices hired into each of the 31 local authorities for each year...
    • Housing Policy
      370. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that actions outlined in the Implementation Plan for the Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027...
    • Rental Sector
      371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline, on a step-by-step basis, the process provided for in section 24A of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (as...
    • Departmental Staff
      372. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline what training the human resources disability officer in his Department has undertaken and is scheduled to undertake...
    • State Bodies
      373. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advise on the current backlog of cases with An Bord Pleanála; the average timeline for completion on...
    • Housing Provision
      374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of affordable housing developments currently in the planning process or under construction, broken...
    • Land Issues
      375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide his advice on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32663/23]
    • Departmental Schemes
      376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a scheme (details supplied) will be open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32720/23]
    • Septic Tanks
      377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider reopening the period for the registration of septic tanks in view of the recent reports about septic...
    • Vacant Properties
      379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify if the planning exemptions announced by him in February 2022, where he stated that no planning permission is needed...
    • Banking Sector
      381. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or his Department have had any negotiations or consultations with banks or mortgage providers with respect to...
    • Seaweed Harvesting
      382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his Department’s investigation into alleged unlicenced seaweed harvesting in the Kenmare River by a...
    • Rural Schemes
      383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for the publication of the revised guidelines for rural housing; the expected timeline for the public...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the development of section 28 guidelines for planning in Gaeltacht areas; if the draft guidelines have been...
    • Housing Schemes
      385. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will be made on an application by Louth County Council for additional funding for the housing adaptation...
    • Hare Coursing
      386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department records the survival rates of hares after coursing; if their movements are tracked post release; and if he...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Payments
      387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the clear guidelines for carers in receipt of carer’s allowance where the person being cared for must...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to make the fuel allowance a qualifying payment for carer’s allowance, including in circumstances where the carer is...
    • Citizens Information Services
      389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she expects the review of the draft service level agreements for citizens information service companies will be...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      390. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is currently considering applications under disablement benefit from former coal miners based in Arigna,...
    • Fire Service
      391. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the manner in which a retained firefighter is assessed for jobseeker’s payments; the types of income which are...
    • Departmental Data
      392. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE staff, by grade, working in the Blanchardstown Intreo centre as of 1 January 2022 and 27 June 2023, in...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to have a decision on the financial review on their disability allowance...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      395. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to have a decision on their application for carer’s allowance completed;...
    • State Pensions
      396. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection why a person (details supplied) does not qualify for a State pension (contributory or non-contributory); and if she will make...
    • Pension Provisions
      397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she plans to introduce a pensions cost-transparency initiative, as referenced in the Pensions (Amendment) (Transparency...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the eligibility for household benefits in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Community Employment Schemes
      400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will fund the external statutory audit costs for community employment scheme considering that the external...
    • Pension Provisions
      401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline what will happen to the pension entitlements of an individual born in 1944, who does not qualify for the full...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process used to select individuals for a review of carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • An Garda Síochána
      408. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to set out in tabular form, for the years 2018 to 2023, the number of gardaí by rank and division in County Louth; and if...
    • Visa Applications
      409. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a visa will be granted to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32051/23]
    • Citizenship Ceremonies
      410. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will confirm a future date for a person (details supplied) to attend a citizenship ceremony; if she will confirm their...
    • Domestic Violence
      411. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will seek the figures on breaches for domestic violence orders for the years 2021 to dates for the greater Drogheda and...
    • Departmental Programmes
      412. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an application (details supplied) for funding under the immigrant investor programme was made, approved by the independent...
    • Gambling Sector
      413. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what plans the Government has in relation to a potential ban of advertising for gaming, lottos, competitions and so on. [32121/23]
    • Domestic Violence
      414. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staffed domestic violence refuge centres and the number of supported units open in each county, in tabular form;...
    • Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
      417. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Tusla funding allocation for each of the years 2020 to 2023 inclusive for staffed refuges, domestic violence support...
    • Asylum Seekers
      418. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Ukrainian refugees who have transferred or sought a transfer to Ireland from another EU country having originally...
    • Departmental Bodies
      420. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to provide an extension to the operational period of the Drogheda Implementation Board; and if she will make a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      421. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the present number of Gardaí allocated to the Drogheda district, by rank, since 2020; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Citizenship Applications
      422. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will reduce the costs for persons who have been long-term residents in Ireland to become Irish citizens; and if she will...
    • Visa Applications
      423. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for when a person (details supplied) may receive news on a visa application. [32218/23]
    • Crime Statistics
      424. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convictions there was between 2015 to 2023 for rape or sexual assault of children under 18 years. [32221/23]
    • Immigration Status
      425. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she is taking to reform the family reunification process of Non-EEA healthcare assistants. [32232/23]
    • Sports Funding
      426. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that her Department can provide to an...
    • Immigration Status
      427. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average turnaround for a ‘permission to remain in the State as the spouse of an Irish national’ application....
    • An Garda Síochána
      428. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding has been provided for the purchase of additional state-of-the art drones for use by An Garda Síochána....
    • Immigration Status
      431. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of two applications for admission to Ireland under the Afghan admission programme (details supplied). [32363/23]
    • Courts Service
      432. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the current, or planned, involvement of her Department and the Courts Service of Ireland with the...
    • Visa Applications
      433. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of applications for visas in the case of persons (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Prison Service
      435. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the ability of prisoners in Castlerea Prison to receive visits from family members; and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Programme
      436. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 26 April 2023, the timeline for the publication of the Criminal Justice (Sexual...
    • An Garda Síochána
      438. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí, by rank, attached to each district community policing units within the Kildare Garda division as of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      440. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a full breakdown will be provided of the capital expenditure, including in Vote 20, by programme for 2022, in tabular form....
    • Departmental Appointments
      441. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the process of appointing two further commissioners to the Data Protection Commission; the date upon...
    • An Garda Síochána
      442. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of and a breakdown of the categories of reports filed with An Garda Síochána in respect of e-bike and...
    • Departmental Policies
      443. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if, in light of the UN's recommendation that Ireland raise the age of criminal responsibility from 12 to 14 years, the age...
    • Departmental Priorities
      444. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department is on schedule to publish the Defamation (Amendment) Bill in Quarter 4 of 2023; if she plans to remove...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Brexit Issues
      445. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of financial allocations from his Department under the Brexit adjustment reserve fund; the recipients and...
    • Hare Coursing
      446. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the rules and penalties which apply for unauthorised and unlicenced entry to a person's land in connection with...
    • Agriculture Supports
      447. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise on what supports his Department will offer to grain growers in the State in relation to recent grain import costs...
    • Fisheries Protection
      448. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the appointment process for Ireland’s two expert representatives on the Expert Committee for Fisheries and...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an oral hearing for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32290/23]
    • Animal Welfare
      453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the appalling conditions that 3,000 bulls and heifers were subjected to on 30 May 2023 on a shipment of cattle that...
    • Horse Racing Industry
      454. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that Horse Racing Ireland publishes figures for racing attendees including everyone who attends, even those who...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      455. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated current costs if his officials were present in the passenger terminal at Dublin Airport between the hours of 8am and...
    • Greyhound Industry
      456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and breakdown by sex of all non-coursing greyhound deaths registered on Greyhound Racing Ireland Traceability System per...
    • Agriculture Industry
      459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of BDGP herds that were also included in BEEP-S in 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      461. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of BEEP herds, by county in 2022 and to date 2023, by the number of herds with 15 cow/calf pairs or less; the number of...
    • Food Industry
      463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the meetings held by his departmental officials from assistant principal level upwards with representatives of the food industry in...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      464. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the horticultural exceptional payment scheme (HEPS) will be opened for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Food Promotion
      466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is developing value-enhancing alternative market avenues in the context of live exports and animal welfare, as per...
    • Departmental Staff
      467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline what training the human resources disability officer in his Department has undertaken and is scheduled to undertake in the...
    • Forestry Sector
      468. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if accrued carbon credits will remain with the respective farmer or forestry owner under the new forestry programme; if consideration...
    • Grant Payments
      469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the outstanding issue of delayed payments to the basic income support for sustainability and areas of...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Disability Services
      470. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the details discussed on a programme (details supplied) on 23 May 2023 regarding the lack of...
    • Home Care Packages
      472. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will received their approved home support package; and if he...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      473. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to respond to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Children in Care
      474. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what measures will be taken to better protect young people in State care from sexual exploitation; and if he...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      475. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide in tabular form the number of children waiting to be seen by children's disability network teams in...
    • Health Services
      476. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a detailed timeline of the planned delivery of a neurorehabilitation centre for CHO 6; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      477. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for the up-to-date outline of predicted staff levels and specialities needed for the planned neurorehabilitation...
    • Special Educational Needs
      479. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of any assistance available to childcare providers or summer camp operators, or directly to...
    • Health Services Staff
      480. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unfilled positions for speech and language therapists in each of the community disability network...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      485. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will re-examine the decision not to grant an earlier date of payment for a core funding application for a...
    • Child Abuse
      487. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm what action his Department will take following reports that teenage girls in the care of the State...
    • Direct Provision System
      488. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when she was made aware that the 24-hour security presence at a location (details supplied) had ceased; if the...
    • Family Resource Centres
      490. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the long-standing arrangement remains that the national FRC programme budget is a distinct budget within the...
    • Disability Services
      495. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects the transport support scheme to come into operation; if the scheme will encompass both public...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      496. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether any groups or individuals contacted his Department to express concerns in relation to the timeframe for...
    • Equality Issues
      497. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 421 of 21 January 2023, when he will publish findings of the consultation...
    • International Protection
      498. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps by which a refugee family can get on a list for modular housing. [32224/23]
    • Disability Services
      499. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to provide services for autistic adults/adults with autism; and if he will make a...
    • Legislative Measures
      500. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline when the Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act 1871, concerning wards of court, will be repealed. [32226/23]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      501. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a parent can expect to receive an ASD assessment through the HSE for their child (details supplied); and if...
    • International Protection
      502. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether his Department is accepting proposals for accommodation related to the temporary protection directive or...
    • Sports Funding
      503. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that his Department can...
    • Residential Institutions
      504. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and type of residential care centres provided by Tusla; the location of each centre; and the bed...
    • Mental Health Services
      505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to establish a neurorehabilitation team in CHO8; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Data
      506. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 574 of 27 June 2023 (details supplied) regarding unaccompanied minors; if...
    • Community Care
      507. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will take action to ensure that CHO 9 is getting the day-only and overnight respite sessions it urgently...
    • Mental Health Services
      508. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if more investment will be given for community neurorehabilitation (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Community Care
      509. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the length of time that children in CHO 9 wait for supports from the CDNT; if he will examine...
    • Maternity Leave
      511. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will give positive consideration to extending the paid maternity leave period in budget 2024 to reflect...
    • Disability Services
      512. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the Government will publish the Action Plan on the Disability Capacity Review; and if he will make a...
    • Ukraine War
      517. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the updated position regarding his Department’s engagement with the ATU and the Department of Further and...
    • Disability Services
      518. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the date on which the Disability Capacity Review Action Plan will be published; and if he will make a statement...
    • Ukraine War
      523. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding accommodation for a Ukrainian family (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Data
      524. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children awaiting appointments and assessments with early intervention services in counties Clare,...
    • Disability Services
      526. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) and assist this person in being granted a place...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      527. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when it is expected that all waiting lists for children with special needs/disabilities are likely to be...
    • Departmental Priorities
      529. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent, if any, to which the provision of appropriate services for children continues to be a major...
    • Departmental Policies
      530. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he proposes to use equality as a means of ensuring proper and adequate services to those...
    • Ukraine War
      531. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he and his Department continue to offer assistance to children and families fleeing from the...
    • Departmental Policies
      532. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the efforts currently in hand to ensure that Ireland can have a national childcare scheme where the prices paid...
    • Child Protection
      534. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he and his Department are aware of children who may be at risk for one reason or another,...
    • Departmental Policies
      535. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the manner in which he proposes to address issues of the need for suitable jobs for people with disabilities;...
    • Departmental Priorities
      536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which services affecting the welfare and wellbeing of children continue to be readily and...
    • Youth Services
      537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he continues to liaise with various youth services throughout County Kildare and throughout...
    • Departmental Data
      538. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of residential places available to children or women who may find themselves, for one reason or...
    • Constitutional Amendments
      539. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on progress in relation to the referendum on equality and care due to take place in November; when...
    • Departmental Data
      540. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide in tabular form the number of children on waiting lists for assessment of needs in counties Roscommon...
    • Disability Services
      541. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether consideration will be given to providing respite/support services to a person (details supplied) and who...
  • Department of Health
    • Health Services
      543. To ask the Minister for Health for a comprehensive update on the process for retrospective parental orders under the proposed new legislation; if the High Court will remain the main vehicle...
    • Hospital Facilities
      544. To ask the Minister for Health when a project team will be assigned in terms of delivery of a cancer centre of excellence within a Model 4 Hospital at Galway University Hospital; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      545. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults currently waiting on a spinal surgery in Tallaght University Hospital; the length of waits endured thus far; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      546. To ask the Minister for Health the number of completed spinal surgeries in the years 2020, 2022, 2023 in Tallaght University Hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      549. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults waiting on spinal fusion in this State and the time waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32022/23]
    • Hospital Services
      550. To ask the Minister for Health to outline what clinical pathways are available for those transitioning from children spinal service to adult spinal services; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Procedures
      551. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new insulin pump starts done in all hospitals within the RCSI Hospital Group in people aged between 0-17 years and those aged 18 years or greater...
    • Pharmacy Services
      552. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of moneys paid to community pharmacies is due to commence; if he will engage with an organisation (details supplied) as a matter of urgency in...
    • Health Services Staff
      553. To ask the Minister for Health to provide, in tabular form, the number of HSE psychology posts that remained unfilled after being advertised since January 2022, by CHO and by service type,...
    • Medical Qualifications
      554. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek to address the lengthy delays in the process of accreditation of psychologists who trained and qualified overseas and who wish to work in...
    • Health Services Staff
      556. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the funding of counselling psychology and educational psychology training courses as part of a move towards equity of training for...
    • Nursing Homes
      557. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing homes that had unannounced HIQA inspections after hours or and on weekends for each year since 2020; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Ambulance Service
      559. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department might be in a position to sell any older ambulance vehicles that are no longer in use, or in limited use, to a charitable fund (details...
    • Cancer Services
      560. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to lower the breast cancer screening age below the current level of 50 to 40 or 45 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32049/23]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      562. To ask the Minister for Health when a wheelchair will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32086/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      563. To ask the Minister for Health if an earlier appointment will be given to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32087/23]
    • Medical Cards
      564. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the cancellation of a national contract that will make vasectomies no longer available on a medical card in seven counties...
    • Health Services Staff
      565. To ask the Minister for Health what assistance is given to non-EEA healthcare assistants when moving to Ireland as well as what support is given for family reunification; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      568. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who was referred by their GP to the dermatology service at University Hospital Limerick...
    • Medical Cards
      569. To ask the Minister for Health what criteria are used for applicants who suffer with cancer to obtain a medical card; the reason some people qualify and others (details supplied) are...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      571. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who was referred by their GP in October 2022 to the diabetic outpatient service at...
    • Medical Cards
      572. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in providing prescribed solpadine for holders of a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32116/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      573. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on funding available to psychology trainees undertaking doctorates for counselling and education psychology, now the current academic year is...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      574. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the situation in CORU whereby there is a four-month deadline to evaluate applications, but no fixed deadline for evaluating appeals, and if...
    • Health Services
      575. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the plan for publicly funded IVF as announced in Budget 2023, with €10 million being allocated by the then finance Minister, as...
    • Healthcare Policy
      576. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a prohibition on price discounting or special offers for infant formula in Irish shops; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32147/23]
    • Health Services
      578. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the costs of Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injections to be covered by the HSE (details supplied). [32160/23]
    • Departmental Funding
      579. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown of funding for wages for trainees in the counselling psychology postgraduate degree at Trinity College Dublin; where this funding has been...
    • Hospital Staff
      580. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech therapists in Sligo University Hospital; the number of current vacancies, if any; the length of time each vacancy has existed; the plans...
    • Hospital Facilities
      581. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new rehabilitation unit at Roscommon University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32187/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      582. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of speech therapists employed in Roscommon University Hospital; the number of current vacancies, if any; and if...
    • Nursing Homes
      583. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding any discussions being held with representatives of the private nursing home sector regarding concerns related to the fair deal scheme;...
    • Dental Services
      584. To ask the Minister for Health how contact can be made with the school dental service by the parents of a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32208/23]
    • Health Services
      585. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that has been given to the Hereditary Cancer Model of Care in 2023; the expected funding for each year of implementation; and if he will make a...
    • Ambulance Service
      587. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made to retain paramedics in the National Ambulance Service. [32219/23]
    • Family Reunification
      588. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his engagement with the Minister for Justice concerning reform of the family reunification process of Non-EEA healthcare assistants. [32230/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      589. To ask the Minister for Health to provide his response to a campaign concerning Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (details supplied). [32231/23]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      590. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider increasing the NTPF funding to private nursing homes in view of the rising cost of inflation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing Homes
      591. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the situation for private nursing homes with regard to the services that are provided to patients in public nursing homes but are not...
    • Departmental Bodies
      592. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek an update on the status of a report (details supplied) which was granted funding by the Health Research Board; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      593. To ask the Minister for Health what measures are being put in place to alleviate lengthy waiting list times for breast reconstruction surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Procedures
      595. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently on a waiting list for a mastectomy for each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023 by each waiting time...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      598. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting for genetic testing for each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023 at by each waiting time period, in each...
    • Pension Provisions
      599. To ask the Minister for Health when retired HSE workers will receive their pension increments; the reason former HSE staff are awaiting over a year for these increments to commence; and if...
    • Sports Funding
      600. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that his Department can provide to an association (details supplied),...
    • Hospital Facilities
      601. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital beds, excluding critical care beds, currently provided in each public/voluntary hospital, in tabular form. [32292/23]
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      602. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the current organisational structure of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland; the number and grade of staff in each directorate,...
    • Hospital Staff
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric urologists based at Cork University Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [32305/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      604. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE vacancies, by job title, at Borrisokane and Tipperary town primary care centres; and when each of these vacancies will be filled, in tabular...
    • Health and Safety
      605. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inspections carried out on retailers that offer tanning and sun beds in 2022 and to date in 2023; the number and percentage of these retailers...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      606. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied), or if this person can be treated through the National Treatment Purchase Fund. [32320/23]
    • Nursing Education
      607. To ask the Minister for Health the implementation status of each of the recommendations of the Short-Term Review of Clinical Placement Allowances for Student Nurses and Midwives and the...
    • Medical Cards
      609. To ask the Minister for Health if a GP is entitled to charge for conducting a mental competency test for a medical card holder for the purpose of drawing up a will; if so, if there are any...
    • Departmental Data
      610. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated through parking charges at the public car park at the Mater Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023; and of the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      611. To ask the Minister for Health the number of shoulder surgeries carried out at Cappagh Orthopaedic Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [32351/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      612. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant endocrinologists based in each hospital part of the RCSI Group in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [32352/23]
    • Primary Care Centres
      613. To ask the Minister for Health the services provided at each primary care centre within CHO7 and CHO9, in tabular form. [32353/23]
    • Disability Diagnoses
      614. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot get a letter from a consultant to apply for assistance technology; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Abortion Services
      615. To ask the Minister for Health to explain the discrepancy between the 8,876 combined termination procedure and aftercare claims under the primary care reimbursement scheme in 2022, whilst...
    • Departmental Meetings
      616. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the number of meetings, in tabular form, held with the Attorney General on the issue of safe access zones legislation since January 2022 to date in...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      618. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in relation to nurses who contracted Covid during the course of their duties, who are now suffering from long-Covid and who need an extension of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      621. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount of money spent on abortion services in 2022 (including abortions carried out in hospitals, community settings or via telemedicine, and...
    • Abortion Services
      622. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of the number of adverse incidents, in tabular form by severity scale and broken down by month, reported to the State Claims Agency which...
    • Health Services Staff
      623. To ask the Minister for Health what engagement his Department had with the Department for Justice on visa criteria for non-EEA healthcare assistants particularly with regard to family...
    • Nursing Homes
      624. To ask the Minister for Health what measures are being implemented to rectify the situation where nursing homes prior to the fair deal scheme were mischarging residents; and if he will make...
    • Medical Cards
      625. To ask the Minister for Health if any consideration has been given to increasing medical card income thresholds for under- and over-70s ahead of the upcoming budget, with consideration to...
    • Health Services Staff
      626. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he intends to take to remove the pay difference between Section 38 and 39 health care workers which is causing major problems for the retention of...
    • Dental Services
      627. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to restore walk-in dentistry services within primary care settings in CHO7. [32426/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      628. To ask the Minister for Health the ambulance response times relative to key performer indicators for Echo and Delta callouts for May 2023, by ambulance region, in tabular form. [32427/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant maxillofacial surgeons based at St. James's Hospital in the years of 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [32428/23]
    • Hospital Services
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vascular surgeries procedures carried out at Beaumont Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [32429/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      631. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE nurses working in Cherry Orchard Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if this number will be further...
    • Nursing Homes
      633. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the audit of the €150 million temporary assistance payments scheme for voluntary and private nursing homes to be completed; the date the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      634. To ask the Minister for Health whether the national children’s flu vaccine programme will continue to be free of charge for the 2–17 age group for the 2023/2024 flu season;...
    • Departmental Programmes
      636. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the implementation of the Cost of Disability Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32496/23]
    • Departmental Meetings
      637. To ask the Minister for Health the meetings held by his officials from assistant principal level upwards with representatives of the food industry in 2022 and 2023 to date; the dates,...
    • Budget Process
      639. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received the pre-Budget 2024 submission from a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32519/23]
    • Hospital Services
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to avoid individuals who do not wish to be in mixed gender wards being placed in these settings. [32528/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      641. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 313 of 1 February 2023, while filling vacancies may be a key priority, what is the current strategy to fill vacancies in...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      642. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 182 of 29 March 2023, if “exceptional circumstances” includes capacity issues; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      643. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in County Clare on a waiting list for speech and language therapy services, by age and length of time that they have been waiting in...
    • Mental Health Services
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently on the waiting list for child and adolescent mental health services in County Clare by length of time, that is, less than...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      645. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently on the waiting list for eye examinations in County Clare by length of time waiting in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Dental Services
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently on the waiting list for dental examinations and check-ups in County Clare by length of time waiting in tabular form; and if he...
    • Nursing Homes
      647. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address concerns (details supplied) relating to the funding of nursing homes under the fair deal scheme. [32585/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      648. To ask the Minister for Health if pain management patches can be supplied to a person (details supplied). [32588/23]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      649. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a referral to the National Rehabilitation Hospital at Dún Laoghaire (details supplied). [32589/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      654. To ask the Minister for Health to provide, in tabular form, the number of radiographers employed on a full-time and part-time basis at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      655. To ask the Minister for Health the opening and closing times for radiology at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32608/23]
    • Hospital Facilities
      656. To ask the Minister for Health the number of rooms currently being used in radiology at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32609/23]
    • Health Strategies
      657. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a heart failure registry to help reduce high hospital admission and mortality rates among patients with the condition; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Services
      661. To ask the Minister for Health to list the hospitals that provide a clinical psychology service to heart failure patients, those treating heart failure that have no dedicated service for...
    • Health Strategies
      662. To ask the Minister for Health in light of a survey by an organisation (details supplied) survey finding that 50% of heart failure patients did not receive adequate cardiac rehabilitation;...
    • Medicinal Products
      664. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 513 of 25 April 2023, if he can seek clarification on whether the HSE is confirming that seroquel is being prescribed to...
    • Vaccination Programme
      666. To ask the Minister for Health the preparedness of Ireland for the forthcoming influenza seasons with specific reference to people over 65 years of age; whether there are any plans to...
    • Hospital Staff
      667. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently review the need for the appointment of six genomic resource associates at the department of clinical genetics at Crumlin Hospital to reduce...
    • Health Strategies
      668. To ask the Minister for Health for advice and clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32660/23]
    • Health Services
      669. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to research (details supplied), published on 6 June 2023, which reveals that services for over-8s are based on a geographic lottery to...
    • Departmental Funding
      670. To ask the Minister for Health if current trainee counselling psychologists in second and third year of their doctorate programme will receive funding; the timeline he is working towards in...
    • Grant Payments
      671. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the yearly €500 travel and subsistence scheme grant for first-, second- and third-year student nurses and midwives; the reason this has...
    • Hospital Staff
      672. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant in emergency medicine-based in the accident and emergency department of Naas General Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in...
    • Cancer Services
      673. To ask the Minister for Health the full-year cost to reduce the waiting list for cancer genetic screening by 50%. [32678/23]
    • Departmental Data
      674. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients that have attended cardiology risk clinic at Tallaght University Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [32679/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant intervention cardiologist attached to Beaumont Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [32680/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time HSE employed drug and alcohol outreach workers in County Kildare in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [32681/23]
    • Hospital Equipment
      677. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hoists currently in use in radiology departments at both CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin, in tabular form. [32682/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      678. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the necessary funding to recruit one WTE consultant clinical geneticist for Beaumont Hospital. [32683/23]
    • Health Services
      679. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the status of podiatry services provided by the HSE in County Clare; the status of the service going forward; the number of persons on the waiting...
    • Hospital Services
      680. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the rate of theatre utilisation in UHL Dooradoyle for 2022; if he will provide the rate of theatre utilisation in Ennis, Nenagh and St...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      681. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting on hip and or knee surgery and cataract surgery in counties Clare, Limerick and Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Consultations
      682. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a representative organisation (details supplied) was not consulted about the development of the National Endometriosis Framework; if he intends to...
    • Health Strategies
      683. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a heart failure registry to provide vital real-time information to help cut excessive mortality and hospital admission rates; and if he...
    • Hospital Services
      684. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to tackle the revolving door syndrome in heart failure treatment that has resulted in a 90-day re-admission rate to hospital of 30%, according to the...
    • Care of the Elderly
      687. To ask the Minister for Health if he can confirm when the HSE older persons’ services in the south east region will meet with local representatives in south Tipperary and local...
    • Medical Research and Training
      688. To ask the Minister for Health to address concerns (details supplied) regarding the funding of current trainee educational psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32738/23]
    • Eating Disorders
      689. To ask the Minister for Health what services are available in County Longford for adults living with eating disorders. [32750/23]
    • Hospital Charges
      690. To ask the Minister for Health whether the Government intends to introduce caps on hospital car parking charges, as per the 2020 Programme for Government commitment; if so, the timeline for...
    • Health Services
      701. To ask the Minister for Health the gross income and net income received through car parking charges in each of the hospitals managed by the South/Southwest Hospital Group in each of the...
    • Ambulance Service
      705. To ask the Minister for Health what steps are being taken to address the ongoing recruitment and retention crisis in the National Ambulance Service. [32767/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      710. To ask the Minister for Health to provide, in tabular form, the number of current vacancies across each department in hospitals (details supplied); and the length of time each vacancy has...
    • Mental Health Services
      711. To ask the Minister for Health the number of recommendations in the Roscommon Mental Health Services report of 2017 which have been implemented; and the number outstanding. [32773/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      712. To ask the Minister for Health to provide in tabular form the number of children on waiting lists for initial appointments/assessments with primary care for speech & language...
    • Health Services
      714. To ask the Minister for Health if the extension of a service (details supplied) is being considered by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32778/23]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      716. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) who five years ago was referred to Croom Orthopaedic Hospital, Limerick, for knee replacement surgery and...
    • Covid-19 Pandemic
      717. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details, by occupation and grade and location of the payments made, to health-care personnel of the one-off Covid-19 recognition payment;...
    • Health Services Staff
      718. To ask the Minister for Health how much has been allocated in Budget 2023 for the training and upskilling of physiotherapists to work with patients with complex brain injury within the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      720. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an urgent appointment for surgery at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital; and if he will...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      721. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail in tabular form the health infrastructure projects currently underway in CHO2; the projects completed since June 2020; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Homes
      723. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints made to HIQA in respect of nursing homes in each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and to date in 2023; the number of adverse...
    • Mental Health Services
      724. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the current accommodation for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Further and Higher Education
      726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being taken to prevent paramedicine students from not having sufficient work experience during their degree to meet the needs of...
    • Sports Funding
      727. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that his Department can provide to an association (details...
    • Student Accommodation
      728. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if student accommodation being used to accommodate Ukrainian refugees and International Protection applications over the summer months will,...
    • Further and Higher Education
      729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of rolling out a one-year blue cert certification process to professionalise the small and medium enterprise sector pilot...
    • Third Level Costs
      730. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the determination of an appeal regarding a higher education grant in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he...
    • Further and Higher Education
      731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a case (details supplied) will urgently be reviewed within her Department considering that the private report submitted should suffice for the...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Community Development Projects
      732. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide an update on the community services programme, which aims to encourage operational employment in the community...
    • Rural Schemes
      733. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development whether she plans to roll out further grants for existing community centres to assist with maintenance and upgrades; and if she will...
    • Animal Welfare
      734. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to outline the process by which a closure order for a premises engaged in dog breeding is withdrawn, including the list of rationales...
    • Sports Funding
      735. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that her Department can provide to an...
    • Rural Schemes
      736. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to outline in tabular form any current available grants for communities seeking to develop a playground; and if she will make a...
    • Harbours and Piers
      737. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the cost of the study at Roonagh pier, County Mayo; when the report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Men's Sheds
      738. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will introduce an annual men’s shed sustainability grant system. [32602/23]
    • Rural Schemes
      740. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the upcoming LEADER programme; the budget for this programme; and what headings projects will be...

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