Parliamentary questions

Social Welfare Benefits

Carol Nolan

4. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of carer’s allowance and carer’s benefit applications made to her Department, by county, from 1 January 2019 to date, in tabular form; the number of applications that were refused over the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58216/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

39. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Taoiseach if personnel in his Department have been removed from their positions, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of Departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence. [57907/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

40. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if personnel in his Department have been removed from their positions, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of Departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57896/21]

Broadband Infrastructure

Carol Nolan

43. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will request that National Broadband Ireland to escalate the required survey for fibre broadband delivery for homes serviced by the R51 R647, R51 X326 and R51 RX90 roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57714/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

44. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if personnel in his Department have been removed from their positions, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of Departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57897/21]

Road Safety Authority

Carol Nolan

52. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Transport if consideration has been given by the Road Safety Authority regarding the suspension of in-person vehicle and technical inspections of transport operators or businesses in view of concerns from some operators that this may increase the risk of acquiring Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57711/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

54. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Transport if personnel in his Department have been removed from their positions, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of Departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57909/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

66. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Finance if personnel in his Department have been removed from their positions, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of Departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57898/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

69. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if personnel in his Department have been removed from their positions, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of Departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57904/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

72. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if personnel in her Department have been removed from their positions, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of Departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57908/21]

National Parks and Wildlife Service

Carol Nolan

73. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if provision is being made or will be made for compensation to be provided to farmers or landowners impacted by having land or property designated under the National Parks and Wildlife Service farm plan scheme; the number of farmers currently taking part in the scheme by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57712/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

81. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if personnel in his Department have been removed from their positions, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of Departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57902/21]

Foreign Policy

Carol Nolan

86. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the actions the Government is taking to raise the plight of religious and ethnic minorities in Afghanistan, in light of a recent USCIRF report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57887/21]

Foreign Policy

Carol Nolan

87. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the assessment the Government has made of the recent reports from an independent NGO (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57888/21]

Foreign Policy

Carol Nolan

88. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government intends to raise the recent and ongoing destruction of places of religious worship by the military in Myanmar, as evidenced by recent media reports (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57889/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

89. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if personnel in his Department have been removed from their positions, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of Departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57899/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

92. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Defence if personnel in his Department have been removed from their positions, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of Departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57894/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

109. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education if personnel in her Department have been removed from their positions, transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57895/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

127. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection if personnel in her Department have been removed from their positions, transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57906/21]

Direct Provision System

Carol Nolan

133. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to claims regarding alleged sexual assaults being perpetrated against residents of direct provision centres and International Protection Appeals Tribunal-run accommodation (details supplied); the number of such alleged claims that have been reported to his Department from 1 January 2000 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57756/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

134. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if personnel in his Department have been removed from their positions, transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57893/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

141. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if personnel in his Department have been removed from their positions, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of Departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57900/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

157. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice if personnel in her Department have been removed from their positions, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of Departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57903/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Carol Nolan

219. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the number of COVID-19 Recovery Certificate requests that have been made from the time the application process for same began; the number that have been issued and rejected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57891/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

220. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if personnel in his Department have been removed from their positions, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of Departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57901/21]

Agriculture Industry

Carol Nolan

228. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of the factories that have been fined for excessive carcass trimming from 1 January 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57713/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

240. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if personnel in his Department have been removed from their positions, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of Departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57892/21]

Departmental Staff

Carol Nolan

242. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if personnel in her Department have been removed from their positions, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated from 2011 to date due to breaches of Departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57905/21]

Departmental Bodies

Carol Nolan

271. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will expedite the publication of the report by the working group on horticultural peat; the measures being adopted by his Department to save the horticulture sector from collapse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57004/21]

Departmental Funding

Carol Nolan

324. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the funding provided to organisations (details supplied) from 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57533/21]

Social Welfare Benefits

Carol Nolan

414. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider the request by an organisation (details supplied) to make provision for free travel passes to be allocated to persons diagnosed with epilepsy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56871/21]

Departmental Funding

Carol Nolan

447. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding provided to organisations (details supplied) from 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57534/21]

Citizenship Applications

Carol Nolan

466. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice the progress to date in the determination of a citizenship application in the case of a person (details supplied); when the application will be concluded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57086/21]

Departmental Reviews

Carol Nolan

623. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 562 of 16 November 2021, if the three-year review must be initiated or completed by January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57255/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Carol Nolan

650. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if he will he consider making a statement and taking questions in Dáil Eireann on the contract issued by his Department to a company (details supplied) given the clear concerns that have arisen around the miscategorisation of statements made by Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas with respect to Covid-19, vaccines and Government policy in this area more generally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57408/21]

Agriculture Schemes

Carol Nolan

743. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for making membership of An Bord Bia's sustainable beef and lamb assurance scheme mandatory for those wishing to participate in the proposed new suckler carbon efficiency scheme; if he will consider removing this compulsory element for participation of the suckler efficiency scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57443/21]

Child Protection

Carol Nolan

267. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken by Tusla under section 3 of the Child Care Act 1991 to fulfil its statutory function to promote the welfare of children that are not receiving adequate care and protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56608/21]

Child and Family Agency

Carol Nolan

268. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times that Tusla has applied to the District Court for child welfare order under section 13, 17 or 18 of the Child Care Act 1991 when it has found that a child or children are considered to be at immediate and serious risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56609/21]

Child and Family Agency

Carol Nolan

269. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times Tusla has made an application for section 17 orders, interim care orders with respect to newborn babies including in those circumstances in which a pre-birth case conference has taken place and a court has judged that the child will be at serious risk if they do not come into care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56610/21]

Domestic Violence

Carol Nolan

270. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address concerns that there is no emergency accommodation available in County Offaly for victims of domestic violence; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this situation has been ongoing for the past 25 years; the steps he is taking to rectify this service deficit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56621/21]

Housing Schemes

Carol Nolan

70. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Finance if a couple who are first-time buyers who recently bought an unfinished house, which was never inhabited and which was built in 2009, in an unliveable condition at the time of purchase will qualify for the help-to-buy scheme given that the registered builder of the house is not in the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56368/21]

State Examinations

Carol Nolan

118. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education the measures she is taking to ensure that students who are due to undertake the leaving certificate examinations in 2022 will not be placed at a disadvantage (details supplied); if she will provide the class of 2022 the option to sit exams under the same marking scheme applied as 2021 in order that they are competing on the same footing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56444/21]

Third Level Admissions

Carol Nolan

173. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the measures he is taking to guarantee that there will be a greater number of third-level places created for the leaving certificate class of 2022 in view of the fact that there will be a higher than normal levels of CAO applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56445/21]

Education and Training Boards

Carol Nolan

352. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education the options available to a person working in the education and training board sector who claims they are not being paid according to their correct rate of pay as processed by education shared business services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55601/21]

Departmental Contracts

Carol Nolan

503. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 492 of 12 October 2021, the amount paid by his Department to a laboratory (details supplied) in view of reports that excluding VAT it was paid €87,750 for its work with his Department and not €78,000 excluding VAT as previously indicated; if the laboratory was engaged in work on a trial basis by his Department in December 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55539/21]

Departmental Contracts

Carol Nolan

504. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if a laboratory (details supplied) was engaged by his Department on a trial basis at any time during the period from 1 January 2017 to 1 November 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55540/21]

Abortion Services

Carol Nolan

562. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if he will commit to fulfilling the three year review of abortion legislation by 1 January 2022 as set out under section 7 of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018; the length of time he plans to leave open the period of public consultation during this process; his views on whether this period will be sufficient time to receive and reflect upon submissions adequately before the full report is submitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55745/21]

Agriculture Schemes

Carol Nolan

672. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55743/21]

Wind Energy Generation

Carol Nolan

4. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it will be ensured that the revised wind energy development guidelines will prioritise community consultation and address householder concerns about noise and flicker levels; when he expects the revised guidelines to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55282/21]

Wind Energy Generation

Carol Nolan

199. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the details of the funding his Department has provided to develop onshore wind energy projects from 1 January 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55283/21]