Parliamentary questions

Covid-19 Pandemic

Ivana Bacik

241. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if a dedicated helpline and email address will be created for business owners in the tourism hospitality industry to seek clarity on the permissibility of planned events in the context of public health advice during the pandemic. [47871/21]

National Council for Special Education

Ivana Bacik

401. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education if she will consider requesting the NCSE to adopt a policy of assumption of allocation of a special needs assistant at secondary level in cases in which a child had one at primary level. [47874/21]

School Staff

Ivana Bacik

402. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education if she plans to commence a teacher recruitment programme to address shortages of teachers in certain geographical areas. [47875/21]

School Staff

Ivana Bacik

403. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education if she plans to introduce supports for school principals experiencing burnout. [47876/21]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Ivana Bacik

484. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to introduce additional entry points during the year for parents availing of the ECCE scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47870/21]

Child Protection

Ivana Bacik

485. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he plans to ratify the optional protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; and if so, if he will supply a timeline for same. [47873/21]

An Garda Síochána

Ivana Bacik

533. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if her attention has been drawn to reports that appointments with the Garda National Immigration Bureau are being booked and sold online by a non-authorised entity; the steps her Department has taken to investigate this matter since it was raised in a parliamentary question (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48177/21]

Citizenship Applications

Ivana Bacik

534. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the number of Irish citizenship applicants currently waiting longer than 12 months for a decision on their application; and the number of citizenship applicants currently waiting longer than 24 months for a decision on their application. [48178/21]

Citizenship Applications

Ivana Bacik

535. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the average waiting time for citizenship applications to date in 2021. [48179/21]

Citizenship Applications

Ivana Bacik

536. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the number of citizenship applicants her Department plans to communicate a decision to in 2021. [48180/21]

Residential Institutions

Ivana Bacik

642. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health if the Time to Move on from Congregated Settings policy of his Department will facilitate service users to continue to live in congregated settings in circumstances in which it is their will and preference. [47872/21]

Economic Sanctions

Ivana Bacik

60. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs further to the registration on 8 September 2021 by the EU Commission of a European Citizens' Initiative (details supplied), if he will raise at EU level the potential for an EU-wide ban on the importation of goods from the occupied territories. [47066/21]

Middle East

Ivana Bacik

73. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on a current campaign (details supplied) which seeks to raise awareness about the intimidation, harassment and obstruction faced routinely by Palestinian children as they try to get safely to their classrooms in the West Bank, Gaza and the occupied territories and about the seriously detrimental impact for their education, safety and welfare. [47067/21]

Middle East

Ivana Bacik

125. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to a recent testimony (details supplied) regarding incidents that have had a severe impact on access to education for over half a million children across the Occupied Palestinian Territory; if his attention has been drawn to reports that three out of four attacks were perpetrated by Israeli forces over a 30-month period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47046/21]

Trade Data

Ivana Bacik

84. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details on the level of trade between Ireland and Bahrain in 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45210/21]

Energy Policy

Ivana Bacik

122. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of the review of the security of energy supply of Ireland’s electricity and natural gas systems; and if the review will examine the cost of a ban on the importation of fracked gas within the timeframe included in that review. [45137/21]

Recycling Policy

Ivana Bacik

123. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the estimated annual cost of including glass bottles in the proposed deposit return scheme of his Department. [45138/21]

Dublin Bus

Ivana Bacik

164. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Transport the estimated cost of providing 100 additional buses to the Bus Éireann fleet. [45133/21]

Defence Forces

Ivana Bacik

347. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Defence the amount spent on purchasing specialist fire service vehicles for the Defence Forces fire services in 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [45208/21]

Departmental Reports

Ivana Bacik

416. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of research into the cost of disability here which was commissioned by her Department (details supplied); and when it is expected to be published. [45207/21]