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Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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Financial Services
Catherine Murphy
50. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the number of vacant WTE staff, by job title, in the Office of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman as of 8 November 2023; the estimated full-year cost of filling these vacancies; and when these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [50069/23]
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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Office of Public Works
Catherine Murphy
62. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the OPW heritage sites that currently have a restaurant/cafe service onsite; the number of these restaurants/cafés that are staffed by OPW; and the number of these restaurants/cafés that are staffed, by external agency, in tabular form. [50078/23]
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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State Bodies
Catherine Murphy
66. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacant full-time staff, by grade, currently in the Workplace Relations Commission and the Labour Court; the estimated full-year cost of filling each of these vacancies; and when each of these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [50077/23]
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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School Transport
Catherine Murphy
81. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the average number of buses in the Bus Éireann school transport fleet for Kildare specifically for 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [50086/23]
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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Departmental Expenditure
Catherine Murphy
94. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount paid by his Department to date in 2023 on outside or third party reports of a technical nature or qualitative nature, in tabular form. [50085/23]
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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Social Welfare Benefits
Catherine Murphy
101. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost to increase carer's allowance by €6.50 per week. [50083/23]
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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Social Welfare Benefits
Catherine Murphy
102. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for domiciliary care allowance that were refused by her Department in the first ten months of 2023. [50084/23]
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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An Garda Síochána
Catherine Murphy
106. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of intoxilyzer machines allocated to each Garda division, in tabular form. [50081/23]
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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Prison Service
Catherine Murphy
107. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the additional accommodation capacity currently undergoing construction in each of the prisons in Ireland; when each of these construction projects will be completed; and the additional accommodation capacity that will be provided upon completion. [50082/23]
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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Care Services
Catherine Murphy
124. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full-year cost to increase the number of State residential care units for children in care by 33%. [50079/23]
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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Disability Services
Catherine Murphy
125. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of respite beds available for people with a disability in CHO7 in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [50080/23]
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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Hospital Waiting Lists
Catherine Murphy
141. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to see each of the consultant paediatric neurologists at CHI, Temple Street. [50074/23]
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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Health Service Executive
Catherine Murphy
142. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE HSE staff, by grade, working in the HSE national medical card unit. [50075/23]
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
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Home Care Packages
Catherine Murphy
143. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost in 2024 to provide an additional 20,000 intensive homecare packages. [50076/23]
Tue, 14 Nov 2023
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Departmental Funding
Catherine Murphy
459. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked 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 assistance to the named group; and if he can outline the rationale for not providing funding. [49783/23]
Wed, 8 Nov 2023
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Local Government Reform
Catherine Murphy
66. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has reviewed the most recent report from the Council of Europe on the state of local democracy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48959/23]
Wed, 8 Nov 2023
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Local Government Reform
Catherine Murphy
67. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the principles contained in the European Charter of Local Self Government which came into force with respect to Ireland in 2002 played any part in the Baseline Funding Allocation Review announced in recent months; if so, if he will outline how it complies with Article 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48960/23]
Wed, 8 Nov 2023
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Local Government Reform
Catherine Murphy
68. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the plans, if any, he has to address the local autonomy index (LAI) where Ireland recently recorded a score of 42 and has one of the lowest score rankings, just above Hungary, the Russian Federation and Moldova, when compared against 57 against all investigated countries (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48961/23]
Tue, 7 Nov 2023
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Ministerial Staff
Catherine Murphy
88. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will provide a schedule of same. [47655/23]
Tue, 7 Nov 2023
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Ministerial Staff
Catherine Murphy
104. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will provide a schedule of same. [47647/23]