Written answers

Tuesday, 14 November 2023

  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Local Authorities
      2. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of properties acquired by local authorities under our rural future in 2022 and to date in 2023 by each local authority; the...
    • Community Development Projects
      4. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there will be a round of community halls funding; when this will be; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50006/23]
    • Vacant Sites
      8. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the measures being taken to tackle vacancy and dereliction in our towns and villages; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      13. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide an update on the Social Innovation Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49609/23]
    • Departmental Priorities
      18. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she and her Department propose to ensure the widest possible availability of schemes likely to be of major...
    • Island Communities
      19. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress made in providing improved pier facilities on Inis Meáin and Inis Oírr; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Library Services
      20. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if communities in Cavan will benefit from the recently announced funding of €1.3 million for the provision of new information...
    • Flood Risk Management
      21. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to ensure the viability and sustainability of towns and villages in rural Ireland that were built on floodplains and have...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      22. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will engage with the Charity Regulator regarding the status of an application (details supplied); the average length of time an...
    • Island Communities
      23. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 26 September 2023, for an update on the work of the steering committee tasked with...
    • Rural Schemes
      24. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she expects the next tranche of successful CLÁR funding applicants to be announced; how much she expects to announce in these...
    • North-South Interconnector
      26. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has received any correspondence from rural community groups expressing concerns over the construction of the North-South...
    • Library Services
      27. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to make a statement on the issue of staff in libraries being subjected to threats and intimidation; and if there any plans by her...
    • Departmental Properties
      28. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will list all the empty or unused buildings owned by her Department; and if he will detail their locations. [49413/23]
    • Rural Schemes
      29. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details on the total amounts of monies awarded to Louth County Council by her Department for all rural schemes including the town...
    • Cabinet Committees
      30. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 4 of 26 September 2023, the status of the monitoring committee for the implementation of the new...
    • Community Development Projects
      31. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development with reference to the 2023 Community Centres Investment Fund-New Builds Measure, if lead parties could have included primary or second...
    • Rural Schemes
      32. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development how her Department will work with local authorities to encourage them to apply for new funding for the town and village renewal scheme;...
    • Control of Dogs
      33. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the recommendations provided to her by the Control of Dogs Working Group; if she will advise when she...
    • Rural Schemes
      34. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she can provide an update on when the successful applicants for CLÁR funding under Measure 1 will be announced; and if she will...
    • Departmental Strategies
      35. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development what considerations she gave to the recommendations contained in the National Disability Authority submission on her Department's...
    • Community Development Projects
      36. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she intends introducing a new scheme for the development of new community centres where there is a clear community need for same due...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      38. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on the Re-imaging Communities investment area under the PEACEPLUS programme. [49557/23]
    • Rural Schemes
      39. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development in relation to the local improvement scheme, how much funding is available for County Meath under the scheme; what initiatives are...
    • Employment Schemes
      40. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development in relation to internships, apprenticeships and graduate schemes run by her Department, what places are available in County Meath; how...
    • Library Services
      41. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if communities in Carlow will benefit from the recently announced funding of €1.3 million for the provision of new information...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • National Minimum Wage
      42. To ask the Taoiseach the number of people who are being paid at the current minimum wage of €11.30 per hour. [49384/23]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      43. To ask the Taoiseach the capital ceilings for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 in relation to the shared island unit, and the level of expenditure in each year in tabular form, and the number of...
    • Departmental Bodies
      44. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Senior Officials Group meetings in relation to the Government’s response to the war in Ukraine; the Government Departments, that were represented at...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Child Safety
      46. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether any steps can be taken to repatriate children (details supplied) who were removed from Ireland by their father, against the wishes of...
    • International Bodies
      47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland has ever made a referral to the International Criminal Court to independently investigate allegations of war crimes or other such...
    • Middle East
      48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the rights of Palestinian people to protest within the state of Israel and the West Bank, and the international law position on...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to list all foreign ambassadors, or equivalent, who have been expelled since the foundation of the State; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Foreign Birth Registration
      51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the foreign birth registration applications of two persons (details supplied), following the recent provision...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      52. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the €776 million allocated to international cooperation in Budget 2024, and the...
    • Military Aircraft
      53. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the process for ensuring that all US military aircraft which pass through Shannon Airport are not carrying weapons or munitions of...
    • Official Travel
      55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he plans to visit Australia early in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49592/23]
    • Middle East
      56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the efforts being made by his Department to assist and secure the release of Irish passport holders held hostage in Gaza following...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      63. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the costings of Ireland's aid programmes in Sub Saharan Africa for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023....
    • Middle East
      64. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on any recent meetings or communications he has had with the relevant EU bodies with regards to the situation in Israel-Palestine;...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      65. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will take immediate action to stop the fighting in Sudan; if he will commit to delivering food and medical aid to the Sudanese people...
    • Middle East
      67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what actions his Department is taking to ensure the safe release of an Irish-Israeli citizen (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Human Rights
      68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he will call on Pakistan to halt the forced deportation of 1.7 million Afghan refugees; and to detail the work being conducted by his...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • Departmental Bodies
      69. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the pay, and any other benefits, including benefit-in-kind, of each CEO of State agencies under the remit of his...
    • Fishing Communities
      75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the process of establishing new Fishery District Committees (provided for under the Wild...
    • Angling Sector
      76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the work of the Angling Consultative Council of Ireland (ACCI); if he will publish the...
    • Energy Conservation
      77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly in the warmer homes scheme operated through the SEAI that does not allow...
    • Departmental Bodies
      78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the dates he last met each of the CEOs or equivalent in each State agency under the remit of his Department, in tabular...
    • Electricity Grid
      79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on when his officials last met with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities to discuss the...
    • Broadband Infrastructure
      80. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether his attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); and to detail what work his Department are...
    • Illegal Dumping
      81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the draft Codes of Practice for the use of CCTV by local authorities to deter and detect dumping have been submitted...
    • National Broadband Plan
      82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide in tabular form, the number of premises connected to broadband under the National Broadband Ireland (NBI)...
  • Department of Defence
    • Vaccination Programme
      83. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if it is mandatory for personnel deploying overseas with UNIFIL to be Covid-19-vaccinated (details supplied). [49346/23]
    • Defence Forces
      84. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for details surrounding a "military photoshoot" conducted on Knockfierna hill in Limerick on 14 October; what measures the Defence Forces have in...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Public Transport
      88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which the young adult Leap card fare change to include all 19- to 25-year-olds will happen, in line with Budget 2024...
    • Airport Policy
      89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of full-time and part-time staff employed by DAA to provide VIP Platform services at Dublin Airport in the years 2022 and to...
    • Bus Services
      90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional buses and service improvements that will be allocated to Dublin Bus in 2024 arising from Budget 2024. [49286/23]
    • Road Projects
      91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided for a project (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49311/23]
    • Greenways Provision
      92. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if works will be carried out at a location in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49328/23]
    • Road Projects
      93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a timeframe on a project for County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49332/23]
    • Driver Test
      94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49336/23]
    • Road Projects
      95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when funding will be allocated for safety improvement works (details supplied) that are urgently required; and if he will make a statement...
    • Driver Test
      96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on what steps are being taken to address the significant backlog and lack of availability for driving tests, which is...
    • Road Safety
      97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to list the number of cyclists killed on Irish roads in each year from 2000 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49394/23]
    • Bus Éireann
      100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request Bus Éireann to change their 355 route from Waterford at 5:40pm to continue their journey to Cahir (details...
    • Middle East
      101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will take measures to ensure that no arms are transported to Israel through Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Driver Test
      102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) receives a date for their driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Military Aircraft
      103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of exemptions permitting the carriage of munitions of war on civil aircraft in Irish sovereign territory that have been...
    • Bus Éireann
      104. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Bus Éireann plans to have its bus route 4 stop at Kilkenny train station in both directions; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Projects
      105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the delay in announcing the preferred route for the upgrade of the N24; his views on the impact this will have for those...
    • Driver Test
      106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average waiting time for those applying for their driver test in Mullingar Driving Test Centre, County Westmeath; if new driver...
    • Military Aircraft
      107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of a situation at Shannon Airport (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49638/23]
    • Greenways Provision
      109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update and timeline on projects (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49726/23]
    • Public Transport
      110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the list of agents, by county, where student leap cards can be printed, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Test
      112. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons waiting for a driving test; the number of persons waiting for a theory test in Cork city and county, by test...
    • Bus Services
      114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Dublin Bus or the NTA will provide the necessary funding for the installation of electric vehicle charging points in each Dublin Bus...
    • Departmental Offices
      116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details on the proposal to move his Department’s offices in Shannon, County Clare to Ennis, County Clare; to...
    • Electric Vehicles
      117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Government will consider the introduction of grants to enable the installation of safe electric vehicle charging points in high...
  • Department of Finance
    • Housing Schemes
      118. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are schemes in which the State provides loans to developers/builders for housing development projects; if he can provide details of any such schemes;...
    • Insurance Industry
      119. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person's insurance premium has increased so much (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49341/23]
    • Tax Code
      120. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding proposed changes for January 2024 in the way the Revenue Commissioners treat general medical services income within general...
    • Debt Restructuring
      121. To ask the Minister for Finance what measures are in place to provide farmers with fair facilities to resolve debt issues and ensure they can remain on their land; what he will do to protect...
    • Tax Reliefs
      122. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the details of mortgage relief, as announced in Budget 2024; when people should apply; the details of how to apply; and if he will make a statement...
    • Ukraine War
      123. To ask the Minister for Finance if he agrees with recent comments made by a senior civil servant at his Department that sanctions against Russia are "unenforceable" in Ireland, that Irish...
    • Tax Collection
      124. To ask the Minister for Finance if interest payable on phased payment arrangements for tax liabilities owed under the tax debt warehousing scheme will be made tax deductible, as is the case...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      125. To ask the Minister for Finance when a substantive reply can be expected to correspondence (details supplied) with his office dated 19 September 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Schemes
      126. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) is unable to avail of the disabled drivers scheme unless they modify their car, given that this person does not need...
    • World Bank
      127. To ask the Minister for Finance when he last spoke formally with the World Bank President; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49581/23]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      128. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the necessary funding to purchase two additional mobile X-ray scanner trucks for the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a statement...
    • State Assets
      129. To ask the Minister for Finance following the sale of the 5% equity stake in AIB, and in relation to the Irish Strategic Investment Fund, if he can outline the current value of its...
    • Home Schooling
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance if, further to previous correspondence where he confirmed that the Department of Education has an "administrative agreement" with the Revenue Commissioners,...
    • EU Funding
      131. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline how much Ireland received under the SURE EU programme; to confirm how these funds were used; what auditing was required under the EU facility; how...
    • State Assets
      132. To ask the Minister for Finance if he would consider extending the duration of loans from the SBCI to ten years for certain categories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49925/23]
    • Revenue Commissioners
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance the money owed to Revenue due to overpayments arising from the employment wage subsidy scheme, by sector, in tabular form. [49947/23]
    • Media Sector
      137. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the plans for implementing the recommendations of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight outlined in its report on the 481 tax credit, particularly...
    • Tax Reliefs
      138. To ask the Minister for Finance if the mileage bands relating to BIK rates (details supplied) will remain at the pre-2023 bands or if they are to revert to the proposed 2023 bands; and if he...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Correspondence
      139. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason a person (details supplied) must sign for credits with the Department. [49730/23]
    • An Garda Síochána
      140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the interdepartmental working group examining the retirement requirements for post-1995 entrants to An Garda Síochána...
    • Office of Public Works
      141. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW will provide the necessary funding in 2024 for the installation of an electric vehicle charging point for visitors at the...
    • EU Funding
      142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding allocated towards the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science under the EU...
    • Bus Services
      143. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of coach hire companies currently on the Office of Government Procurement muti-supplier framework for the provision of bus...
    • Pension Provisions
      144. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are staff shortages in the National Shared Services Office which are causing delays in the processing of applications for...
    • Heritage Sites
      145. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on the proposed bridge across the River Liffey at the War Memorial Gardens; the timeline for construction; and if...
    • Flood Risk Management
      147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what plans his Department has to reduce the risk of flooding nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49282/23]
    • National Development Plan
      150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when will the next National Development Plan review take place; if student accommodation is being considered as part of this review; and...
    • Office of Public Works
      152. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, following a request to the OPW that the gates at Meelick and Lusma on 6, 10 and 12 July be opened in order to enable the river to...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will respond to concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49662/23]
    • Flood Risk Management
      155. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status of works on the weir at Ballincollig Regional Park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49824/23]
    • Office of Public Works
      156. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Garda stations within the DMR that are scheduled for refurbishment by the OPW between now and the first half of 2024; the nature of...
    • Weather Events
      157. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any additional or emergency funding will be provided for flood relief works in the Inch Lane, The Ragg area of Thurles in County...
    • Flood Risk Management
      158. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform how many times the Shannon Flood Management Group met in 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49969/23]
  • Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
    • Trade Promotion
      159. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to report on the work of the Enterprise Ireland office in Singapore since its establishment. [49300/23]
    • Work Permits
      161. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 382 and 383 of 7 November 2023, if he will provide a breakdown of general employment permits...
    • Patent Applications
      163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline his plans, if any, for the establishment of an oversight committee to support the work of a referendum on the Unified...
    • Middle East
      166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of licences for dual use items issued for trade with Israel in each of the past five years; and if he will make a...
    • Pension Provisions
      167. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the reason for the long delay in processing the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Relation to Pension...
    • Trade Promotion
      168. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the breakdown of the number of site visits hosted by IDA in counties Carlow and Kilkenny during the first three quarters of 2023; and...
    • Work Permits
      169. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on when the Employment Permits Bill 2022 is likely to be progress to report stage in Dáil Éireann; and if he...
    • Trade Promotion
      170. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine the current situation regarding the use of an IDA advance facility in Kerry (details supplied); his views on...
    • Departmental Meetings
      171. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 20 September 2023, if there have been any further engagements by his Department or...
    • Business Supports
      172. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the increased-cost-of-business grant scheme will be up and running; and if the upper limit of €20,000 rates paid could be...
    • Human Trafficking
      175. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment given that serious concerns in relation to the WRC labour inspectorate's interactions with migrant workers - and, in particular,...
    • Protected Disclosures
      176. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will confirm whether a disclosure to Minister Fitzgerald in July 2017 (details supplied) was included in the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Education and Training Boards
      177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline, given the ETB's commitment to the Irish language, what plan is in place to ensure that internal systems, such as the HR core...
    • Road Safety
      178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify that in the event of an accident on a road outside a school (details supplied), who will take responsibility; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs
      179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the provision of an SEN class at a school (details supplied); when works will commence; and if an indication of a completion...
    • School Staff
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update regarding the establishment of a transfer/relocation scheme for teachers; what progress has been made on this...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address the issue of the barriers to full Teaching Council registration for a teacher (details supplied) who has obtained qualifications...
    • Schools Building Projects
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction works on a new school (details supplied) will be completed; and the estimated cost of this project to date. [49287/23]
    • School Funding
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding made available to recognised primary and post-primary schools by way of grants for ICT for the academic year 2023-2024; the maximum...
    • School Transport
      184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the temporary pause of a school bus service (details supplied) due to staff shortages; if an urgent temporary...
    • School Funding
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown of the amounts of ICT funding each secondary school receives; whether there are different funding rates; the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she is taking to ensure that every child who requires an SNA is catered for and to ensure that all those who have applied for the SNA...
    • School Staff
      189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to address the growing number of teacher shortages; what she intends to do in the short- and medium-term to address this...
    • School Facilities
      190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure all schools in the State have access to drinking water for students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49389/23]
    • School Staff
      191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, given the current crisis of teacher shortages, she will consider revaluating the criteria that must be satisfied in order for service at that...
    • School Curriculum
      193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider including Home Economics as a subject choice in the free upskilling programmes; and if she has plans to introduce other...
    • Special Educational Needs
      194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will develop a centralised national database for children with special needs at primary and secondary level to streamline forward planning...
    • Schools Building Projects
      195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for further delays in the delivery of the permanent four-special-classroom-extension project at a school (details supplied); when the...
    • National Educational Psychological Service
      196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the child of a person in Meath (details supplied) will get an appointment for a NEPS assessment; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Funding
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what funding allocations, if any, are made to schools for purchase of financing of educational technology. [49466/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the findings of the recent INTO, IPPN and CPSMA survey that clearly indicates the negative impact that the teacher shortage is having on...
    • School Funding
      201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any programmes or funding avenues available for mentorship programmes (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Community Development Projects
      202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will proceed to give permission to MSLETB to proceed with a lease on a portion of derelict grounds at Drumshanbo, County...
    • Child Abuse
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason behind the delay in the scoping inquiry into historic abuse at a school (details supplied); if she will give a commitment that the...
    • School Facilities
      206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide improved facilities including a sports hall for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the reason for the delay; and if...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied) with her office dated 11 October 2023; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why a student with dyspraxia and ADHD who is allowed to use technology in his exams has been refused permission to do so for his upcoming Leaving...
    • Employment Rights
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the circular relating to the management of sick leave will issue for the education sector, similar to the one that issued for the civil...
    • After-School Support Services
      210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49521/23]
    • Schools Building Projects
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update and current position regarding a school site (details supplied) in Celbridge which has been identified as a preferred new location...
    • Departmental Staff
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many staff members were employed to support the school completion programme in Carlow in 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a permanent school building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49651/23]
    • School Transport
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when students will get a seat on a bus (details supplied) from Pallas, Portlaoise, to a named school; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Bus Éireann
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the disparity between Bus Éireann drivers with regard to illness pay (details supplied). [49780/23]
    • Special Educational Needs
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD places available in secondary schools in Ballincollig, Cork for September 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Projects
      218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the school building programme in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49827/23]
    • School Funding
      219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what digital funding has been made available for primary and post-primary schools for the 2023/2024 academic year. [49836/23]
    • Departmental Strategies
      220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the strategies and the specific policy tools which are driving the uptake of digital technology in secondary schools; if...
    • Special Educational Needs
      221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all efforts can be made to ensure a school place in a local ASD unit can be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • School Transport
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether a contractor has been identified to provide school transport to a school (details supplied); the timeline for commencement of the...
    • Special Educational Needs
      223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the update position with an application for an additional SET room for a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; if this application has been...
    • School Admissions
      225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a map of the catchment area for a school (details supplied) as some local residents have found they cannot get school places...
    • Schools Building Projects
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify what is to be done with a premises (details supplied) now that the new school has been built and is up and running, as there has been...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Raidió Teilifís Éireann
      228. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to state whether advertisements on RTÉ television and radio reminding the public about the TV licence, which are stated to be...
    • Sports Funding
      229. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will allow an organisation (details supplied) to apply for a scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49518/23]
    • Print Media
      230. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has any plans to assist the free newspaper publishers of Ireland, who perform a very important function in society; if she...
    • Sports Funding
      231. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide details on what criteria or factors will be taken into account when determining the timing of the reopening of the...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Fire Safety
      232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in light of reports of fires in multi-storey car parks, some of which seem to emanate from either car or bicycle...
    • Vacant Properties
      233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied). [49277/23]
    • Rental Sector
      234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on census figures which show a much higher proportion of properties being rented out than those that are registered;...
    • Departmental Staff
      235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of whole-time equivalent, WTE, qualified arborists employed by his Department as of 1 April 2022 and 3 November...
    • Waterways Issues
      236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the River Basin Management Plan will be updated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49318/23]
    • Housing Provision
      237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on a housing scheme for County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49331/23]
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service
      238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49338/23]
    • Defective Building Materials
      239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the public funding will be released in order that the Donegal defective block (Mica) pilot schemes (local authority and...
    • Water Services
      240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to reopen Measure A8 of the multi-annual rural water programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Constitutional Amendments
      241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline his plans to engage with relevant stakeholders in drafting of legislation in respect of the recent Supreme...
    • Climate Change Policy
      242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to implement the recommendations of the Report of the Inter-Departmental Group on National Coastal Change...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 24 May 2023, to list the number of funding applications submitted in 2022 and in...
    • Local Authorities
      244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the qualifying criteria for well water grants administered through local authorities; if an...
    • Housing Provision
      245. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the planned and already provided accommodation (details supplied) from 2018 - 2023 within Mayo County Council that...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding housing estates in urban areas that are not connected to the sewerage network; if any grant funding is...
    • Marine Protected Areas
      252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the process of developing and agreeing Designated Marine Area Plans, including the breakdown of areas...
    • Housing Provision
      254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the eight local authority housing units approved for construction in a location (details supplied) have finished...
    • Departmental Data
      266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of thatched buildings, both private and public, within the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Provision
      267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm what the anticipated overspend is on Limerick Council's Part 8, which is the build of 43 units on the Condell Road...
    • Local Authorities
      268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can provide an update on what actions Tipperary County Council have taken since the elected members of the Nenagh...
    • Defective Building Materials
      269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason funding for owners of defective apartments is being withheld pending legislation; if emergency funding can be made...
    • Building Regulations
      270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has made representations to the Minister for Justice in respect of moving responsibility for the regulation of...
    • Energy Conservation
      273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any application has been received by his Department in respect of an estate in terms of retrofitting opportunities (details...
    • Departmental Bodies
      274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on his Department’s attendance at Senior Officials Group meetings in respect of the...
    • Rental Sector
      275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current timelines for a Residential Tenancies Board adjudication on a termination notice; the plans, if any, there are to...
    • Fisheries Protection
      277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to reports of recent trawling activity by large vessels (details supplied) in and around the...
    • Heritage Sites
      278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Hill of Allen can be included on the Register of Historic Monuments; if the option of bringing the site into public...
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, with regard to the housing units on the grounds of a site (details supplied), he will clarify when funding will be...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      280. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for delaying the extension of the child benefit payment to 18-year-olds in full-time education until August...
    • State Pensions
      282. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants currently being processed within her Department for the State pension contributory. [49293/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      283. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide an update on auto-enrolment for retirement savings system for employees; when she expects it to be...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      284. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to respond to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in respect of the current timeline for the implementation of the...
    • Weather Events
      285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a family (details supplied) will receive payment for the recent flooding in east Cork; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the working limit for eligibility for home carers from 18.5 hours to 21.5 hours to allow for...
    • Social Welfare Payments
      287. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to state for each category of welfare payment administered by her Department in 2022, the total amount paid in cash; the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      289. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider a special pardon for family carers who engaged in work (details supplied) during Covid-19, given the...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      291. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what provisions are made to accommodate clients who wish to conduct business through Irish in local social welfare offices....
    • Pension Provisions
      292. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for invalidity pension will be awarded in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      293. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite a decision regarding an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Employment Rights
      295. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will instruct her Department to investigate a case (details supplied); if she will ensure this person receives...
    • Public Transport
      296. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be reissued a free travel card. [49566/23]
    • Pension Provisions
      297. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection why a person on a ARF (Approved Retirement Fund) pension and less than 65 years of age would be classified for PRSI purposes...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      298. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress to date in determination of eligibility for fuel allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if...
    • Pension Provisions
      300. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review can be undertaken of the recent decision to refuse an application for an invalidity pension in the case of a...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      301. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the legislation involving child maintenance payments being excluded from social welfare means tests will be signed into...
    • Employment Rights
      302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in relation to a matter (details supplied), she will now accept that the approach of using precedential group and/or...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      305. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made for a carer’s benefit review (details supplied); the current processing times for such...
    • Pension Provisions
      307. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of an application for a pension (details supplied); if she will ask her officials to review the situation;...
    • Public Sector Staff
      308. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of WTE staff, by grade, in each employment support team within INTREO offices within Dublin as of 8 November 2023,...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      310. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the backlog of claims for disability allowance; if her Department is allocating any...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Ukraine War
      312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of the number of Ukrainian refugees who have arrived in Ireland since the start of the year with a...
    • Property Management Companies
      313. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to create a register of owner management companies (OMCs) detailing information, such as the size of the development...
    • An Garda Síochána
      314. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality as of 6 November 2023, the amount of funding owed to An Garda Síochána in respect of non-public duty charges for...
    • Official Engagements
      317. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has spoken formally with the UK Home Secretary in the past three months. [49299/23]
    • Departmental Data
      318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of antisemitic offences committed against Jewish people in the State in each year from 2016 to date; and if she will...
    • Gender Recognition
      320. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 364 of 2 February 2023, to clarify whether the Prison Service has published the updated...
    • An Garda Síochána
      321. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality on what date the next intake of Garda recruits is expected to pass out/attest; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • International Protection
      324. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of applications for temporary protection received in the years 2021, 2022 and...
    • International Time Zones
      331. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has any plans to reform the policy on daylight savings time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49447/23]
    • Building Regulations
      332. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the Government’s commitment to review the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; if she will...
    • Residency Permits
      333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the average length of time for an application under the Afghan Admission Programme; the...
    • International Protection
      334. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many international protection applicants were received and how many were approved during all of 2022; how many were...
    • Visa Applications
      337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for a visa in the case of a person (details supplied); when a...
    • An Garda Síochána
      338. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí, by rank, attached to Carlow-Kilkenny Garda diversion forensic collision investigation unit as of 7...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      342. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) who attended their citizenship ceremony on 2 October 2023 will receive their certificate and...
    • An Garda Síochána
      343. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of designated community gardaí in the Cork City division for each of the years 2019 to 2022 and to date in...
    • Building Regulations
      344. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will make a statement on the appropriateness of responsibility for the regulation of multi-unit developments and related...
    • Airport Policy
      346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the issues arising from her Department's decision to suspend the requirement for re-entry visas for children...
    • An Garda Síochána
      347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to replace sworn Garda personnel with civilian Department immigration officers at other points of entry to the State....
    • Naturalisation Applications
      349. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether there is any reason for the long delay in the naturalisation process for a person (details supplied) who has been...
    • Citizenship Applications
      352. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what the median processing times are for citizenship applications; what measures are in place to address the long processing...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Hare Coursing
      354. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if hare coursing meetings at Fermoy and Trim, scheduled to take place last weekend, were called off; if so, to outline the reasons...
    • Environmental Policy
      355. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline what body has overall responsibility for dealing with vulnerable/weak or diseased trees. [49913/23]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      356. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify whether joint herd owners will qualify for the knowledge transfer programme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • State Bodies
      357. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the pay and any other benefits, including benefit-in-kind, of each CEO of state agencies under the remit of his Department for each...
    • Agriculture Supports
      358. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Forest Service of his Department have cross referenced the Ash dieback RUS applications with corresponding road licence...
    • Forestry Sector
      360. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 760, 740, 744, 748, 754, 772, 773, 776 and 778 of 20 September 2023, to detail in a giant...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      362. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide his response to reports of biodiversity levels in the Burren dropping sharply in the past ten months; if he is...
    • Forestry Sector
      365. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given that at a recent forest service training day in Killaloe, County Clare, the forest service representative stated that the new...
    • Coillte Teoranta
      369. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what measures are in place to encourage bodies (details supplied) to sell unplantable land to young farmers and new entrants to...
    • Animal Welfare
      370. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will take the necessary steps to ensure there is an authorised animal welfare officer for County Clare (details supplied); and...
    • Agriculture Supports
      371. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if payment will issue to farmers (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49414/23]
    • Forestry Sector
      372. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of afforestation licences issued to date in 2023 as a percentage of his Department's targets in this area for 2023; and if...
    • Teagasc Activities
      376. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the position of his Department on the involvement of Teagasc in the production of the Dublin Declaration of...
    • Animal Diseases
      377. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to concerns related to the potential presence of RHDv2 infections in wild hares and domestic rabbits;...
    • Fishing Industry
      378. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and his Department officials will meet with representatives of the National Inshore Fishermen's Association (NIFA), the...
    • Agriculture Supports
      379. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farm payments will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49527/23]
    • Departmental Appointments
      380. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive further correspondence with regard to a job application they have made to his...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      381. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the terms and conditions surrounding the new knowledge transfer programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Greyhound Industry
      382. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of surgical artificial inseminations carried out on greyhounds between 2012 and 2022; and the number of those...
    • Weather Events
      385. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, following the recent flooding in north Louth, he will outline the compensation and funding schemes available to farmers for loss...
    • Common Fisheries Policy
      387. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will work to ensure that any future agreements between the EU and Third (non-EU) Countries about access to Irish waters under...
    • Crime Prevention
      388. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will advise what all-island mechanisms are in place to tackle and identify theft of farm animals; if he will advise on the...
    • Animal Diseases
      389. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if consideration has been given to establishing an all-island system of identifying cases of TB and BVD; if he will advise what...
    • Agriculture Supports
      390. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person in County Kerry (details supplied) can avail of a grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49779/23]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      391. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with reference to his Department’s Minimum Specifications for the Installation of Solar Photovoltaic Systems S.198 and in...
    • Forestry Sector
      392. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what engagement is being carried out with stakeholders in the commercial timber sector in response to concerns about planting...
    • Flood Risk Management
      399. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers who lost grazing will be supported by the Shannon Callows Flood Scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fisheries Protection
      402. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 26 October 2023, if his attention has been drawn to reports of recent trawling activity...
    • Agriculture Supports
      403. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment for BISS and ANC will issue to a person in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
    • Care Services
      404. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49851/23]
    • School Staff
      405. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to concerns regarding a lack of therapists in a school (details supplied); what...
    • Youth Services
      406. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which he continues to liaise with youth development officers throughout urban and rural Ireland...
    • State Properties
      407. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what his Department's plans are for a premises in County Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Health Services
      408. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of funding for a Community Neurorehabilitation Team in CHO9; and the timeframe he is working towards....
    • Disability Services
      409. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current caseload for Blanchardstown CDNT as of 31 October 2023; how many children are receiving services;...
    • Child and Family Agency
      411. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the extraction of records relating to St. Gerard's from the larger Saint Patrick's Guild file received by...
    • Departmental Schemes
      412. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on when he expects a motorised transport grant and mobility allowance scheme to be...
    • Health Services
      413. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an occupational therapist will call out to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Funding
      414. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify in detail why a group (details supplied) has not been successful in securing funding from his...
    • Disability Services
      415. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when transport will be provided to a person in Drogheda (details supplied) to attend much-needed disability...
    • Departmental Funding
      416. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a group (details supplied) was not successful in its application for community services funding,...
    • Ukraine War
      417. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total costs arising from refugees from Ukraine in 2022, including accommodation, assistance payments, health...
    • International Protection
      420. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how many months the current longest international protection applicant has been in direct provision awaiting a...
    • Departmental Policies
      421. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current position on the requirement on services providing accommodation to beneficiaries of temporary...
    • Child and Family Agency
      422. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current position of Tusla in terms of requiring services providing accommodation to children under the...
    • International Protection
      423. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth who IPAS have contracted for the management and operation of International Protection Services at Kilbride Army...
    • Ukraine War
      428. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for his urgent assistance with a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49513/23]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      429. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what the funding pathway and opportunities are for an existing community childcare limited company by guarantee...
    • Emergency Accommodation
      430. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on a matter (details supplied); if he will outline what is currently being planned by his...
    • International Protection
      431. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of plans to locate international protection refugees in a location in Rosslare harbour, County...
    • Health Services
      433. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the whole-term equivalent staff, by job title, that would be needed to be recruited to fully staff a community...
    • Disability Services
      434. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to improve disability services in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • International Protection
      435. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what engagement his Department has had with the wider community of Coole, County Westmeath regarding the...
    • Disability Services
      436. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department engages with local authorities regarding planning applications for residential or day services...
    • Asylum Seekers
      437. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of the number of asylum seekers who have arrived in Ireland since the start of the year and a...
    • Ukraine War
      438. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of Ukrainian refugees and international protection applicants who are accommodated in Kerry, by...
    • Departmental Funding
      441. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown in tabular form of the spending and allocation of the asylum, migration and integration...
    • Disability Services
      443. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on disability service waiting lists for children's disability networks teams, by CHO/CDNT...
    • Disabilities Assessments
      445. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children on waiting lists for an assessment of need for October 2019 to 2023, inclusive, in...
    • Youth Services
      446. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 63 of 7 November 2023, how much Exchequer funding has been given to an...
    • Departmental Funding
      459. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a petition (details supplied) in respect of funding; his plans to provide...
    • Trade Unions
      460. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will be supporting a campaign (details supplied) launched by a number of trade unions for improved...
    • Gender Equality
      461. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has developed an online reporting system for the 2023 Gender Pay Gap reporting cycle which will consist of...
    • Disability Services
      462. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to the response from a Topical Issue on disability on 17 October 2023 (details supplied), if the...
    • Budget 2024
      463. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the allocations to the various Programme E sub-headings contained in...
    • Direct Provision System
      464. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost, broken into current and capital, of ending direct provision. [49884/23]
    • International Protection
      466. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the updated estimated cost, broken into current and capital, of providing State-owned and operated accommodation...
    • Departmental Priorities
      470. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what his Department’s plans are for a family home in County Cork (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Child Abuse
      471. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 18 October 2023, if an inquiry was ever held by the Eastern Area...
    • Direct Provision System
      472. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people currently in the direct provision system; to list the type of accommodation IPAs are being...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      473. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects the Pobal Annual Early Years Sector Profile 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 to be published; and if he...
    • Sports Facilities
      474. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what measures, if any, are in place for the provision of space/venues for sports and fitness activities for...
  • Department of Health
    • Supreme Court Rulings
      475. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department, and all the agencies to report to his Department fully respects and understands the Ruth Morrissey Supreme Court judgement, which was ruled...
    • Mental Health Services
      476. To ask the Minister for Health to take the necessary steps to ensure that the individual placement and support service is equally accessible for people with mental health difficulties...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      477. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any restriction on the opportunity to advertise e-cigarettes in Irish media; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49892/23]
    • Health Services
      478. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of a medical service for Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Procedures
      480. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent appointment for a person (details supplied) for a cataract removal can be facilitated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49275/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      481. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2024 to recruit 12 additional WTE clinical nurse specialists in Dementia, in tabular form. [49303/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      482. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the specific measures taken to enhance ambulance services in advance of the opening of new major trauma centres; the specific funding...
    • Health Services Staff
      483. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dentists, dental hygienists and dental nurses working in each HSE health centre and primary care centre within CHO9 in the years 2022 and to...
    • Hospital Admissions
      484. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that were admitted to the National Spinal Injuries Unit at the Mater Hospital in the years 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form....
    • Ambulance Service
      486. To ask the Minister for Health if he will launch an investigation into the unacceptable delay on 4 November of over six hours for an ambulance to attend a gravely ill person (details...
    • Nursing Education
      487. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the payment of clinical placement allowances to undergraduate supernumerary nursing and midwifery students, as set out in...
    • Dental Services
      488. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the professional independence of clinical dental technicians; if he accepts that they are a growing cohort of practitioners across the...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      489. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49337/23]
    • General Practitioner Services
      491. To ask the Minister for Health whether he is aware that the HSE has no remit to assist in sourcing GP care for children under 18 years who have no medical or GP-visit card; and if he will...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      492. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) cannot get an appointment in Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49353/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      493. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the atropine 0.01% eye drops, under trial since prior to 2021; to confirm if the trial will be concluded in January 2024, as outlined in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      494. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be called for an appointment; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49374/23]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      495. To ask the Minister for Health if he will conduct an investigation into the rising costs of mobility aids, including wheelchairs, mobility aids, silicone socks and prosthetic limbs as the...
    • Hospital Facilities
      496. To ask the Minister for Health to comment on the significant structural problems that were identified by HIQA in the Sycamore and Willow Unit within Cherry Orchard Hospital, in May 2023; to...
    • Public Sector Staff
      497. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical doctors and former general practitioners who are employed either in the Department or by the HSE in policy, advisory or other internal...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      498. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to be seen by child and adolescent mental health services by CHO and LHO, in tabular form; and the length of time that persons...
    • Budget 2024
      499. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of funding allocated to social inclusion groups in Budget 2024. [49418/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      500. To ask the Minister for Health under the HSE budget allocated to University Hospital Waterford as part of the Herity Protocol to engage 24 wholetime equivalates to UHW cardiac service, this...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      501. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment can be expedited for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49434/23]
    • Health Service Executive
      502. To ask the Minister for Health what the HSE intends to use a site for (details supplied). [49435/23]
    • Vaccination Programme
      503. To ask the Minister for Health if he has an estimated date for when the health technology assessment on the herpes zoster vaccine, which protects against shingles, will be completed. [49446/23]
    • Dental Services
      504. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of dentists in County Kerry providing services for medical card holders under the dental treatment services scheme (details...
    • Departmental Funding
      505. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 542 of 14 February 2023, if he will confirm when the promised resource for the Drogheda area, by way of provision for a...
    • Mental Health Policy
      506. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the publication of the National Action Plan on Traveller and Roma Mental Health; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      507. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a team (details supplied) has been excluded from the Building Momentum pay increases, cost-of-living pay increases, and the reduction in the...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      508. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for CAMHS services in County Wicklow; the number of children on the waiting list broken down by wait times; and if he will make a statement...
    • Mental Health Services
      510. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend CAMHS services to include children who have ADS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49475/23]
    • Traveller Community
      511. To ask the Minister for Health to outline in detail what new resources have been allocated to Traveller health, including resources to support implementation of the National Traveller Health...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      512. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a clear and updated timeline on when the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022, inclusive of the surrogacy provisions, will be presented...
    • Health Service Executive
      514. To ask the Minister for Health how much the HSE has allocated for the refurbishment of Keltoi; if it has gone to tender; when it will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Pension Provisions
      515. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for a delay in the pension processing for some healthcare assistants (details supplied); his plans to resolve this issue; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      517. To ask the Minister for Health the plans to upgrade facilities at St Dympna’s Hospital, Carlow; if a contractor has been appointed; the expected start date for refurbishment; the...
    • Health Services
      518. To ask the Minister for Health if there are any plans for an expanded Caredoc operated service developing an injury clinic for Carlow; if he has had any engagement with stakeholders willing...
    • Dental Services
      519. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department plans to reopen the x-ray clinic and dental clinic in St Dympna’s Hospital in Carlow, which have been closed for remodelling; and if...
    • Hospital Staff
      520. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant orthopaedic surgeons and WTE orthopaedic registrars based at University Hospital Waterford in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date...
    • Health Service Executive
      521. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical nurse specialists in cardiovascular disease employed by the HSE, by location, in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in...
    • Home Care Packages
      523. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intensive homecare packages delivered to persons in CHO5 to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49590/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      524. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric rheumatologists at CHI Temple Street in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [49591/23]
    • General Practitioner Services
      525. To ask the Minister for Health what plans his Department has to increase GP capacity in Tipperary, as many people are unable to get a GP to take them on in Tipperary due to a lack of...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      527. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Cork (details supplied) will receive an urgent appointment to attend an assessment with ophthalmology services in respect of cataract...
    • Departmental Data
      529. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of in-patients in each acute hospital over the years 2012-2022 that have been admitted for more than one year, in...
    • Child Abuse
      530. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 18 October 2023, when a substantive reply will issue from the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Mental Health Services
      531. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49725/23]
    • Emergency Departments
      533. To ask the Minister for Health the average patient experience time to admission via an emergency department for all patients for October for each year 2018-2023 inclusive, Statewide, and for...
    • Hospital Procedures
      537. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital-initiated scheduled care cancellations, by appointment type, for October for each year 2022-2023 inclusive, by hospital group and...
    • Hospital Facilities
      539. To ask the Minister for Health the number of inpatient beds, by bed type, available at each acute hospital for October for each year 2019-2023, inclusive; and the number of bed days...
    • Departmental Data
      540. To ask the Minister for Health the number of delayed transfers of care for October for each year 2019-2023 inclusive, at each location, in tabular form; the number of delayed discharges and...
    • Health Service Executive
      543. To ask the Minister for Health the number of assaults recorded against patients at HSE facilities for October for each year 2019 to 2023 to date, inclusive, in tabular form. [49741/23]
    • Ambulance Service
      545. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO and clinical status 1 DELTA incidents responded to by a patient-carrying vehicle in 18 minutes and 59 seconds or less...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      548. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients on primary care and community healthcare waiting lists, for each care service, for October 2019-2023, in tabular form; the breakdown by...
    • Medical Records
      552. To ask the Minister for Health if all the medical records of a person (details supplied) can be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49756/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      553. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will get a diagnosis following an ADHD assessment with CAMHS Donegal town; if he is aware that there is no psychiatrist in...
    • Health Services Staff
      554. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of correspondence from Caredoc (details supplied); if he will keep the terms and conditions of these workers in line with Section 38 and HSE...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      555. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will receive an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49782/23]
    • Medicinal Products
      556. To ask the Minister for Health the reason adults who have spinal muscular atrophy are not being administered medications (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Homes
      557. To ask the Minister for Health what clinical and financial protocols were used for the decision to take over a nursing home (details supplied). [49789/23]
    • International Agreements
      559. To ask the Minister for Health his position on the draft World Health Organisation Pandemic Preparedness Treaty; if he agrees with an assessment (details supplied) that the treaty is...
    • Hospital Admissions
      560. To ask the Minister for Health the number of admissions for RSV to all hospitals in the period 1 September 2023 to 8 November 2023, by age of the person admitted and by hospital, in tabular...
    • Medicinal Products
      561. To ask the Minister for Health what is causing the shortage of the diabetes medication ozempic (semaglutide); the reason the HSE is overruling GP recommendations that it be prescribed to...
    • Care of the Elderly
      562. To ask the Minister for Health to assist in resolving the difficult situation a stage 4 COPD and dementia patient (details supplied) being refused care by at least three nursing homes,...
    • Hospital Overcrowding
      563. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the upward trend noted by the INMO's 'Trolley Watch' (details supplied) in the last week; what measures his Department is taking to significantly...
    • Home Care Packages
      564. To ask the Minister for Health if and when it might be expected that homecare provision will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      565. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49808/23]
    • Health Services
      566. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be reimbursed for treatment received under the treatment abroad scheme - EU Cross Border Directive; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      567. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE radiographers by grade working in both CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin in the years 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [49811/23]
    • Hospital Procedures
      568. To ask the Minister for Health the number of maxillofacial surgeries carried out at St. James's Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [49812/23]
    • Hospital Staff
      569. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant general paediatrician with a special interest in paediatric neurodevelopment and neurodisability at CHI Temple Street in 2022 and...
    • Hospital Procedures
      570. To ask the Minister for Health the number of lung transplant procedures carried out in the years 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [49815/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      571. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE stop smoking advisors employed by the HSE working in CHO7 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and the locations where these Stop...
    • Hospital Staff
      572. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE secretaries working in the neurology department in Beaumont Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [49818/23]
    • Health Services Staff
      573. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE speech and language therapist posts within CHO7; and when these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [49819/23]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      574. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the consultation process which is planned to begin on 7 November 2023 in respect of the new Tobacco Products Bill, as announced by him on...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      575. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a CORU registration of a health professional (details supplied). [49821/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      576. To ask the Minister for Health the date a medical institution will reopen (details supplied). [49837/23]
    • Medical Cards
      577. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49850/23]
    • Mental Health Services
      578. To ask the Minister for Health to outline what is currently being done to address discrimination against autistic children in mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      581. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE staff, by job title, currently working in the Mater Smithfield rapid injury unit; and the number of vacancies, by job title, currently in the...
    • Mental Health Services
      582. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give due consideration to ringfencing 10% of the health budget for mental health to bring the State into line with international standards, in view...
    • Departmental Funding
      585. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set aside dedicated funding to secure multi-annual funding for the support of the community and voluntary sector; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Mental Health Services
      586. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set aside funding to address the impact of and prevailing mental crisis arising from COVID; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49871/23]
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      588. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the steps that he will take to address the growing numbers on waiting lists within the CAMHS services, considering that there was an almost 60%...
    • Mental Health Services
      589. To ask the Minister for Health to ensure that additional resources are put in place to facilitate the changes that will be brought about by the upcoming reform of the Mental Health Act 2001;...
    • Departmental Funding
      590. To ask the Minister for Health to give due consideration to set aside dedicated funding for National Clinical Programmes in relation to Women’s Mental Health, Eating Disorders, and...
    • General Practitioner Services
      591. To ask the Minister for Health the correct procedure to be followed to renew a discretionary GP card in the case of a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      592. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time people in Galway are waiting to access dialectical behaviour therapy; if work is being done to expand access to this therapy; and if he will...
    • General Practitioner Services
      594. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will assign a GP to a person (details supplied) where all local GPs are fully subscribed. [49907/23]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      595. To ask the Minister for Health to review correspondence (details supplied); and if he will provide an update on this payment. [49915/23]
    • Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
      597. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a timeframe for the construction of the new renal dialysis unit in Sligo university unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49930/23]
    • General Practitioner Services
      598. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 552 of 24 October 2023, if by year-end he intends to implement any interim measures to address the concerns of GPs...
    • Regulatory Bodies
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Products Regulatory Authority’s role in conducting an inquiry into breaches of Article 17 of the Global Code of Conduct for Research that...
    • Health Services Waiting Lists
      604. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting for an eye specialist/optician appointment in each CHO area, in tabular form; the reason there is a delay in such...
    • Mental Health Services
      605. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of beds in Lakeview Mental Health Facility in Naas, County Kildare; how many are currently occupied/available; if he can investigate why...
    • Abortion Services
      608. To ask the Minister for Health to list the maternity units currently providing abortion services under Section 12 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018, in tabular...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      610. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in her senior years can expect to receive an appointment for cataract eye surgery (both eyes) as she is visually impaired and...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances
      611. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in her senior years who has been waiting over 12 months for hearing aids replacement can expect to receive an appointment for...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Employment Rights
      612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the circular relating to the management of sick leave will issue for the higher education sector, similar to the one that issued for the...
    • Adult Education Provision
      613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to concerns raised by adult education tutors in relation to contract proposals published by his Department in May...
    • Youth Services
      614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current number of Youthreach centres; the number of students attending Youthreach centres, by county; if his Department has carried out any...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any assistance that can be given to people who wish to apply for apprenticeships but have been diagnosed in the past as colour blind;...
    • Dental Services
      616. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to increase places for dentists on college courses around the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49593/23]
    • Budget 2024
      617. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in 2024 if the budget for MentorsWork programme increased by 50%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49596/23]
    • Student Accommodation
      618. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware that student accommodation providers with the backing of the colleges around the Dublin area are proposing to move to 51-week...
    • Third Level Fees
      619. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in light of additional supports for students, when refunds will be issued to those who have paid their college fees in full prior to the Budget...
    • Adult Education Provision
      620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the work ongoing in his Department to provide adult education tutors with a public service contract or incremental salary scheme; and...
    • Further and Higher Education
      621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for not appointing a contract for a second veterinary school to the University of Limerick; his plans for the provision of extra...
    • Departmental Funding
      622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of each of the higher education institutes across the country, to provide details of capital investment allocations to each of these...
    • Adult Education Provision
      624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a contract for adult education tutors which offers parity with their full-time colleagues. [49999/23]
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Harbours and Piers
      625. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current status of a request by Galway County Council for funding to appoint consultants to develop an updated Feasibility Report...
    • Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
      626. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be provided to an organisation in County Mayo (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Regulatory Bodies
      627. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated cost in 2024 to recruit an additional WTE compliance concerns manager and an additional WTE registration manager at the...
    • Rural Schemes
      628. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on CLÁR 2024; when it is likely to open; whether she has any plans to review the CLÁR areas in Cavan and...
    • Departmental Funding
      629. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which other State or local authority funds can be used in conjunction with community centres investment funding to carry...
    • Public Inquiries
      630. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of tribunals, public investigations and commissions of investigations in process; the length of time each has been...
    • Control of Dogs
      631. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the degree to which she remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of dog control measures applicable here; and if she will make a...
    • Community Welfare Services
      632. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she continues to maintain contact with community-based groups involved in the promotion of community support...
    • Digital Hubs
      633. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she continues to promote the development of digital hubs throughout the country to facilitate companies seeking to...
    • Departmental Funding
      635. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which the Leader programme continues to assist urban and rural communities to the development of various support...
    • Tidy Towns
      638. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which she continues to assist with the efforts of tidy towns committees the length and breadth of the country; and if...

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