Written answers
Thursday, 30 May 2024
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Tourism Funding
6. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total funding allocated to tourism agencies for the years 2019 to 2023; and of this, the total spend on tourism in counties...
- Culture Policy
12. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline funding opportunities to support cultural development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24303/24]
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
14. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte 16856/24, an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar an obair athbhreithnithe atá déanta...
- Arts Council
16. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the exclusion of both comedy and musical theatre from funding opportunities by the Arts Council; if she will use...
- Sports Facilities
17. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps that Monaghan County Council should take to secure funding for a swimming pool in Carrickmacross. [23860/24]
- Arts Centres
18. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way her Department is encouraging and supporting the establishment of arts centres in all parts of the country, to articulate...
- Sports Organisations
19. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she plans to maintain the enhanced level of financial support for an organisation (details supplied) following their successful...
- Film Industry
20. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the work of the stakeholders’ forum, one of the recommendations of the recent report on...
- Sports Events
21. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on her Department’s engagement with national governing bodies with regard to...
- Raidió Teilifís Éireann
22. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on reform of governance and accountability at RTÉ, making particular reference to the role of the...
- Sports Funding
23. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on large scale sports infrastructure funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24301/24]
- Reachtaíocht Teanga
26. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an ndearna sí aon ghníomh nó iarracht, mar an tAire freagrach as cur chun cinn na Gaeilge, in aghaidh an maolú...
- Arts Policy
27. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way her Department is promoting expansion and appreciation of the arts in all parts of the country; her policy in this regard;...
- Gaeltacht Policy
28. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht what strategy she has for Gaeltacht island communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20941/24]
- Sports Facilities
29. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether the National Development Plan has sufficiently taken into account and is adequately resourced to meet the growing demand...
- Tourist Accommodation
30. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her engagement with other Departments and State agencies to support hotels in rural communities. [23859/24]
- Tourism Policy
32. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if consideration is being given to the development of new tourism amenities on a cross-Border basis in areas such as Cavan and...
- Sports Funding
33. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider reallocating the €2 million allocated under the LSSIF to an organisation (details supplied) for a...
- Broadcasting Sector
34. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for new legislation in the broadcasting arena drawing on the various studies into the sector; and if she will make a...
- Pleanáil Teanga
35. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte 16895/24, cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ar an obair athbhreithnithe ar na chéad...
- Sports Organisations
36. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on female representation on the boards of funded national governing bodies of sport, local sports partnerships, and...
- Sports Facilities
37. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current position regarding the Fáilte Ireland-funded outdoor water-based activity facility in Claycastle, Youghal, Cork;...
- Commemorative Events
38. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the location and date chosen to host the National and the International Famine Commemorations in 2025; if she will commit to making...
- Scéimeanna Tacaíochta Gaeilge
39. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé fós i gceist aici Scéim Labhairt na Gaeilge a athbhunú, cén dáta faoina mbeidh sé...
- Tourism Policy
40. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress to date in developing new tourism amenities (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24357/24]
- Tourism Promotion
41. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she continues to take to ensure that tourism is given every opportunity to develop and grow in the future notwithstanding...
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
42. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte 16854/24, an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar an bplean a d’eascair as an obair...
- Tourism Promotion
43. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans in place to market the national famine walkway internationally; if there any plans to introduce a grant scheme to support...
- Olympic Games
44. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding Departmental support that has been made available in relation to Irish participation in the Olympic and...
- Scoláireachtaí Gaeltachta
45. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil i gceist aici tuilleadh scoláireachtaí a bhronnadh ar scoláirí ón mórthír le freastal...
- Universal Basic Income
47. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on the basic income for the arts pilot scheme. [24220/24]
- Broadcasting Sector
48. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her future plans for funding of RTÉ and other broadcasters and radio film and television sector operators; and if she will...
- Scoileanna Gaeltachta
49. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil i gceist aici scéim a bhunú a thabharfadh tacaíocht do scoileanna beaga ar an mór thír agus ar...
- Sports Funding
50. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the degree to which she expects to be in a position to continue to assist the sporting sector given the increased importance of...
- Tourism Promotion
51. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide an update on her Department’s efforts to support tourism sites in north County Dublin; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Strategies
52. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to report on the progress to date in the development of the national counter disinformation strategy; when she expects this...
- Údarás na Gaeltachta
54. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dtabharfaidh sí sonraí maidir le hanailís ar bith atá déanta ag a Roinn nó ag Údarás na...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Provision
65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the delivery of affordable homes in the Poolbeg SDZ. [24291/24]
- Housing Schemes
67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase housing assistance payment rent limits in Kerry, in line with Cork and Limerick rates; and if he will make...
- Housing Provision
69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the impact of Housing for All in Carlow to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24421/24]
- Fire Service
72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline any progress he has made in getting an increase in the retainer paid to retained firefighters; if he has brought any...
- Housing Schemes
73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will reconsider the criteria and thresholds of the affordable housing scheme, given that Louth County Council cited these...
- Fire Safety
74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the Stardust acknowledgement when the remediation scheme for fire safety defects in apartments and duplexes will be...
- Housing Provision
75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 11 April 2024, the details of his and his Department’s engagement with the...
- Housing Schemes
76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that there are only 27 cost-rental homes in the pipeline for Cork city in 2024. [24431/24]
- Housing Provision
79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the delivery of affordable housing in 2023 compared to 2022; his expectations for same in 2024; and if he will make a...
- Housing Policy
81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the actions or recommendations in the recent report of the Housing Commission that have already been implemented,...
- Septic Tanks
84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the criteria for the septic tank grant; if he will acknowledge that many people who want to avail of the...
- Rental Sector
85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on rental prices in County Meath; how he plans to address these high costs and to increase the housing...
- Heritage Projects
86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the heritage grants available to community groups for local historic structures in their area; and if he will...
- Housing Schemes
87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his proposals to amend the social housing income thresholds.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24037/24]
- Housing Provision
88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his plans to further strengthen the capacity of local authorities to increase delivery of social housing, as stated...
- Housing Schemes
90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing schemes currently underway using the Part 8 derogation including the number of units to be...
- Housing Provision
96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on progress being made under Housing for All; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23906/24]
- Homeless Persons Supports
99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he will take to address the scale of babies and toddlers from being born into and brought up in homelessness as...
- Electoral Process
100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding adjustments to Part 4 and Part 5 of the Electoral Reform Act 2022, based on the Proposal for a...
- Vacant Properties
101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering additional funding to the Land Development Agency for a specific purpose of funding acquisition of...
- Housing Provision
103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the provision of specialist staff to boost delivery of more affordable homes; and if he will make a...
- Defective Building Materials
104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to make changes to the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme to address the concerns of the estimated...
- Energy Conservation
105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the retrofitting of local authority homes with heat pumps; if he is aware of concerns that this is...
- Housing Schemes
106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the croí cónaithe scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24222/24]
- Defective Building Materials
107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will respond to the growing criticism of the revised defective block remediation scheme from home owners in the impacted...
- Vacant Properties
108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the voids return programme in Cork city. [24430/24]
- Energy Conservation
109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to allocate more funding to Louth County Council in respect of the retrofitting scheme and housing adaptation...
- Heritage Sites
110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next opportunity will be to add Céide Fields on UNESCO's tentative list for world heritage status, considering...
- Housing Policy
111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has reviewed the impact of the 2019 work between his Department and the Department of Health on planning accommodation...
- Housing Schemes
115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of grants approved for the help-to-buy scheme and the first home scheme in Cork city and Cork county; and if he...
- Cúrsaí Tithíochta
117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government cén fáth nach bhfuil na treoirlínte pleanála Gaeltachta foilsithe go fóill, cén dáta faoina...
- Defective Building Materials
118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government Government and Heritage if those undertaking remediation of their properties are accommodated under the defective block scheme...
- Irish Language
119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail his plans for the development of the Irish language through the bodies under his aegis such as the Heritage Council...
- heading
120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government their targets for delivering affordable housing in County Monaghan; and the number delivered in the years 2020 to date. [24036/24]
- National Parks
121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to publish legislation to provide a legal basis for national parks, as outlined in Action 1E2 of the National...
- Gaeltacht Policy
122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 44 of 11 April 2024, the timeline for the publication of the draft planning guidelines...
- Heritage Sites
123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will support the UNESCO world heritage site application for the passage tombs of County Sligo, by ensuring state...
- Housing Schemes
125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on his Department’s efforts to increase the supply of cost rental homes; and if he will make a...
- Defective Building Materials
126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plan/scheme that is in place for social housing tenants who are still living in pyrite affected homes; and if he will make...
- National Monuments
128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will work to designate the Cairns Hill West passage tomb as a national monument. [24364/24]
- Housing Schemes
129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the completion date for the regeneration, refurbishment or rebuild projects of social housing complexes in Dublin 8, 10, 12...
- Housing Provision
130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the long standing housing issues in Carndonagh and Milford town, County Donegal whereby Donegal County...
- Defective Building Materials
133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the challenges with the defective concrete block scheme in Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will expedite a passport application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24426/24]
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- National Broadband Plan
140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the connection date for an area (details supplied) has again been pushed back for connection under the...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces
142. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to his appearance before the Oireachtas Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on 24 May 2024, if he has withdrawn his appeal...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Public Sector Pensions
143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason CIÉ retired workers have received no increase in their occupational pension since 2008; if the CIÉ board or...
- Road Tolls
144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the body that operates profits from the toll bridges on the M50 motorway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24439/24]
- Rail Network
149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of tickets sold for the Limerick to Galway train line in the past ten years and to date in 2024; and the breakdown of tickets...
- Bus Services
153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the removal of a bus service (details supplied) and the considerable difficulties this causes for older and disabled people;...
- Driver Licences
154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is possible for a person (details supplied) to transfer their driving licence back to an Irish licence; the process for same; and...
- Parking Provision
155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there was a public call for submissions on the review of the disabled parking scheme; when this consultation closed to submissions;...
- Greenways Provision
156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that where greenways are installed, that proper and appropriate fencing in height, and sturdy character, is erected in...
- Public Transport
157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the pilot public transport proposal between Delvin and Mullingar. [24565/24]
- Department of Finance
- Tax Data
158. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount collected in fuel tax in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, by fuel type, and in monetary value. [24438/24]
- Fiscal Policy
159. To ask the Minister for Finance the level of impact built into the revenue projections in the stability programme update from OECD Pillar 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Primary Medical Certificates
161. To ask the Minister for Finance when a review to an entitlement to a primary medical certificate will be undertaken in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
- Work Permits
162. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he will sign and confirm the Statutory Instrument required to open the occupation of sea-fisher for eligibility for the general...
- Business Supports
163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total amount expended on the Red Cross emergency flood relief scheme in each month from October to December 2023; the number of...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Funding
164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that as a result of her Department’s decision to cut funding for primary schools by €16 per pupil, at least one...
- School Patronage
165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is her policy to have a choice of primary school places available in each school planning area by providing non-religious and...
- Schools Building Projects
166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide specific updates in respect of each in the bundle Project Boyne; and the funding allocation made in respect of each project....
- School Staff
167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to an urban DEIS band 1 primary school in circumstances (details supplied), what recourse is available to the school; how the school...
- Special Educational Needs
168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a SNA will be reinstated for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24496/24]
- School Accommodation
169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the dire situation in a school (details supplied) in relation to a shortage of classrooms; if her attention has been drawn to...
- School Funding
170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason funding under a scheme has been reduced (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24556/24]
- Schools of Music
171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a situation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24577/24]
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Sports Funding
172. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the rolling out of the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme in terms of the timeframes, given that applications...
- Tourism Promotion
174. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she and her Department are engaged in the promotion of Irish culture at home and abroad, perhaps targeting the...
- Irish Language
175. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she and her Department continue to promote and develop the use of the Irish language in all Gaeltacht areas...
- Sports Funding
178. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which her Department proposes to put special emphasis on local sporting and community organisations when considering...
- Tourism Promotion
179. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she and her Department propose to take specific initiatives to encourage boost of the tourism industry; and if...
- Sport and Recreational Development
180. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the degree to which she continues to engage with the various sporting authorities, with a view to maximisation of sporting...
- Television Licence Fee
182. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the latest up-to-date figures regarding TV licence renewal and purchase of TV licences for 2024 versus 2023; the figures for July...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Rental Sector
183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will legislate to restrict no-fault evictions. [24573/24]
- Planning Issues
184. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 414 of 30 April 2024, to outline the conditions under which local authority section 48...
- Heritage Schemes
185. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on his Department’s support for Ireland’s built heritage sector; and if he will make a...
- Vacant Properties
186. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons who have availed of the vacant property refurbishment grant in each of the past ten years and to date in...
- Septic Tanks
191. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to change the qualifying criteria for the septic tank grant to enable households to self-report a fault to qualify, rather...
- Departmental Bodies
192. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will grant the request of retired members of staff of Ordnance Survey Ireland to attend OSI HQ in Phoenix Park on 21...
- Planning Issues
193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is any mechanism in place to guarantee developers follow through on agreements with local authorities for affordable...
- Housing Schemes
194. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the fresh start principle can apply to a person who sold the family home following legal separation or divorce, either by...
- Renewable Energy Generation
195. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the drafting of new guidelines for renewable energy projects includes the requirement that an SEA be carried out in advance...
- Heritage Schemes
196. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he has in mind plans for the protection and restoration of heritage structures/listed buildings which...
- Housing Schemes
197. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority home loans approved and drawn down in each local authority area in the past two years to date;...
- Departmental Data
198. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses likely to become available from the private sector developments to meet the needs of local authority...
- Vacant Properties
199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which he proposes, through the various local authorities, to utilise abandoned or derelict buildings in the...
- Planning Issues
200. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which young people seeking to remain resident in their native areas can be facilitated throughout rural Ireland...
- Housing Provision
202. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of direct-build local authority houses started or completed in each of the past three years to date; the extent to...
- Housing Schemes
204. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the public housing programme is progressing in north Kildare, with particular reference to the issue of...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Social Welfare Code
205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in relation to the recent Supreme Court findings (details supplied) concerning the right of the bereaved partner to...
- Social Welfare Schemes
206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a new bus pass will be issued immediately to a person (details supplied). [24518/24]
- School Meals Programme
207. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of primary and secondary schools in Kerry approved for the hot school meals programme; the total number...
- Social Insurance
208. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a complete list of all payments from the social insurance fund, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement...
- Social Welfare Payments
210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their working family payment application. [24458/24]
- State Pensions
215. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the queries from her Department relative to the State pension (non-contributory) of a person (details supplied) have been...
- Social Welfare Payments
216. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for carer's allowance in the name of a person (details supplied); if the appeal submitted by...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Closed-Circuit Television Systems
220. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects the installation of the CCTV project that was sought for three schemes (details supplied) in Killarney, County...
- Coroners Service
221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the reductions made to salaries and payments to a sector (details supplied) under the provisions of the Financial Emergency...
- Naturalisation Applications
224. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) who became an Irish citizen by naturalisation, having been granted...
- Family Reunification
227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is considering or working on introducing any similar approach for dependant spouses of PhDs as has been introduced for...
- Visa Applications
228. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of successful applications for a holiday visa, a working visa or a student visa or any other visa for each of the...
- Citizenship Applications
229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a Northern Irish marriage certificate can be used by an applicant to prove marriage to an Irish national when they are...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Public Sector Pensions
231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the pension of a person (details supplied) to ensure they are receiving the correct grade/scale and rate of...
- Animal Culls
232. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when action will be taken in an area (details supplied) to address the overpopulation of a species; and if he will make a statement...
- Agriculture Schemes
233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when approvals will issue for those in ACRES co-operation who applied for non-productive investments in 2023; when payments under...
- Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Family Resource Centres
236. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on an application by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Residential Institutions
237. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an institution in Cork (details supplied) is included in the mother and baby redress scheme; if not, if an...
- Maternity Leave
238. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if plans are in place to allow women diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy or postpartum to defer their...
- Missing Children
239. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who have gone missing while under State care in 2023; the procedures that are been...
- Child Protection
240. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to a previous Parliamentary Question, if Tusla will issue the payments due to a person (details...
- Missing Children
241. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of children currently missing in Ireland, by the total number, the year they went missing...
- Department of Health
- Ambulance Service
242. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1440 of 9 April 2024, if he will provide an update on the current status of the National Ambulance Service recruitment...
- Nursing Homes
243. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the cost demands being placed on private nursing homes by HIQA, considering the large financial cost that can be placed on a nursing home...
- Health Services
244. 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. [24451/24]
- Nursing Homes
245. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline, in relation to a nursing home (details supplied), who made the decision to deregister, HIQA or the management company;; and if he will make...
- General Practitioner Services
246. To ask the Minister for Health when the GP surgery in Lettermacaward in County Donegal will be open to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24472/24]
- Mental Health Services
247. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 619, 620 and 621 of 25 April 2023, to provide a full update on the matter; to provide details on the discussions or...
- Hospital Facilities
248. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1737 of 17 January 2024, if he can seek an urgent update and outcome of the business case that was submitted to the HSE...
- Hospital Services
249. To ask the Minister for Health when respite services will be available again at Killybegs community hospital; when the service will be returned to a five-day-a-week service; and if he will...
- Health Services
250. To ask the Minister for Health if the spark initiative (details supplied) will be considered for long-term funding and/or expansion across all of CHO8, considering the impact and...
- Mental Health Services
251. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a comprehensive breakdown of funding for trainee counselling psychology positions at Trinity College Dublin; what options are available to students...
- Health Services
252. To ask the Minister for Health the reason no response has issued to a previous Parliamentary Question from the HSE (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24494/24]
- Hospital Services
253. To ask the Minister for Health when colposcopy testing will resume in Portlaoise Hospital, given that women who need this procedure in the midlands have to travel to either Galway or Dublin....
- Nursing Homes
254. To ask the Minister for Health if a nursing home (details supplied) in Nenagh has received HIQA accreditation. [24503/24]
- Health Services
255. To ask the Minister for Health the services and supports that have been put in place for a child (details supplied); if he has responded to correspondence from the child’s mother; and...
- Disabilities Assessments
257. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange an immediate autism assessment for a child (details supplied); if the range of services they urgently require will be put in place; and if...
- Health Services
258. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish a fully funded comprehensive newborn screening programme given how far off Ireland is from the EU average for newborn screening; and if he...
- Hospital Facilities
261. To ask the Minister for Health if a permanent cath lab for University Hospital Sligo will be provided; when the National Cardiac Review will be published; and if he expects Sligo to be...
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
262. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the limits that are placed on the provision of free tests for sexually transmitted diseases (details supplied); if he plans to address this;...
- Health Services
263. To ask the Minister for Health when a response will issue from the HSE to a representation reference (details supplied) submitted on 26 February 2024; if measures will be put in place to...
- Hospital Services
265. To ask the Minister for Health the total budget allocation to each HSE and public voluntary hospital in each of the years since 2020, in tabular form. [24574/24]
- Departmental Reports
266. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 18 April 2024, the status of the strategic review of radiation therapy which commenced in December 2022; and if he...
- Health Services Staff
267. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 604 of 8 May 2024, if he has engaged with the HSE in respect of immediate measures to address the shortage of public...
- Nursing Homes
268. To ask the Minister for Health if he will give urgent and detailed consideration to the issues outlined by a national organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Teagasc na Gaeilge
269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil dualgais reachtúla ar Bhoird Oideachais agus Oiliúna chun (a) tacaíocht a chur ar fáil do ghrúpaí pobail...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Rural Schemes
270. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding allocated to each county in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024 under the ORIS programme, in tabular form;...
