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Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Hospital Services
Eoin Ó Broin
505. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health to confirm the closure of the endoscopy unit in a hospital (details supplied) for the month of January under the Winter Initiative; the reason for the decision to close the department; what impact assessments were carried out in advance of the closure; if the closure will be reconsidered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3736/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Hospital Services
Eoin Ó Broin
506. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health if the bowel screening programme in a hospital (details supplied) is impacted as a consequence of the closure of the endoscopy unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3737/24]
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
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Dental Services
Eoin Ó Broin
517. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the number of children assessed at category 5 and awaiting orthodontic treatment in CHO7, by those waiting over 1, over 2, over 3 and over 4 years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3856/24]
Wed, 24 Jan 2024
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Energy Policy
Eoin Ó Broin
64. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications what actions he has taken to work with like-minded European States to promote and support changes to European energy laws, in particular the revision of the European Union's Gas Directive and Gas Regulation in order to allow the importation of fracked gas to be restricted since the publication of the Policy Statement on the Importation of Fracked Gas. [3115/24]
Wed, 24 Jan 2024
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Driver Licences
Eoin Ó Broin
79. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 277 of 17 January 2024, the reason drivers with medical issues on a three year licence must pay double the amount of a driver without medical issues to renew their licences over a ten year period; and if a reduction in the fee for a three year licence will be considered. [3113/24]
Wed, 24 Jan 2024
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Electric Vehicles
Eoin Ó Broin
80. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Transport if he has considered plans to incentivise uptake of electric vehicles in rural areas. [3114/24]
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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Tax Reliefs
Eoin Ó Broin
217. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the total number of claims for the private rental tax credit in 2023; the average amount of the claims for 2023; the total cost of the claims in 2023; and a breakdown, by local authority area, of the number of claims and the average amount claimed. [2716/24]
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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Housing Schemes
Eoin Ó Broin
336. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the first home shared equity loan can be combined with a local authority mortgage for the purchase of a new build property and if so, if he will outline the rules. [2424/24]
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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Defective Building Materials
Eoin Ó Broin
345. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out in tabular form the number of new applications to the enhanced defective block redress scheme; the number of transfers from the old scheme; where these applications are at in terms of the stages of the process; the number who have drawn down funds to date; and the number who have drawn down their full grant, broken down by local authority area and year. [2523/24]
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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National Standards Authority of Ireland
Eoin Ó Broin
346. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the NSAI review of IS 465. [2524/24]
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Eoin Ó Broin
378. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection to outline the process through which a person (details supplied) can defer their pension and extend their employment. [2388/24]
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
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State Bodies
Eoin Ó Broin
137. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide details of the contracts that have been awarded by the SEAI to a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2018 to 2024, in tabular form and for each contract to detail the service provided and the total value of the contract. [2226/24]
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
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Renewable Energy Generation
Eoin Ó Broin
138. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the number of 100% community-owned renewable energy projects and number of 51% community-owned renewable energy projects from RESS 1 that have received the enabling grant. [2252/24]
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
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Vacant Properties
Eoin Ó Broin
212. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant and derelict home refurbishment grants drawn in 2023 and the average value of the grants drawn down. [2227/24]
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
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Departmental Data
Eoin Ó Broin
213. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority mortgages that were drawn down in 2023 and the average value of the mortgages drawn down. [2228/24]
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
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Departmental Data
Eoin Ó Broin
214. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of first home scheme shared equity loans drawn down in 2023 and the average amount of the draw down. [2229/24]
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
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Departmental Data
Eoin Ó Broin
215. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure in 2023 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure. [2230/24]
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
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Naturalisation Applications
Eoin Ó Broin
239. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice to provide a further timeframe regarding the processing of a naturalisation application for a person (details supplied). [2111/24]
Wed, 17 Jan 2024
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Environmental Policy
Eoin Ó Broin
8. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Taoiseach whether the Central Statistics Office will consider ceasing the use of 'world population' as an environmental indicator, as used in its graphic posted to the CSO's social media channels (details supplied) in light of the evidence of very highly unequal resource distribution including from reports by an organisation (details supplied) which show the richest 1% of the world's population has the same emissions as the poorest 50%. [56963/23]
Wed, 17 Jan 2024
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Driver Licences
Eoin Ó Broin
277. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Transport if he is aware that drivers who are limited to a three year driving licence due to medical reasons, when renewing their licence pay almost double that of a driver without medical issues in a ten year period where a three year licence is currently €35 and a ten year licence is €55; the reason this is the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1475/24]