Parliamentary questions

Cancer Services

Ivana Bacik

620. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the number and overall proportion of people who attended prostate rapid access clinics, within 20 working days of receipt of referral, in the cancer centres in each of the years 2018 to 2022, in tabular form. [4055/23]

Cancer Services

Ivana Bacik

621. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the total number of people who attended lung rapid access clinics in each month in each of the years 2018 to 2022, in tabular form. [4056/23]

Cancer Services

Ivana Bacik

624. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the total number and overall proportion of persons who attended lung rapid access clinics within ten working days of receipt of referral in designated cancer centres in each of the years 2018 to 2022, in tabular form. [4062/23]

Cancer Services

Ivana Bacik

625. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the number of patients who completed radical radiotherapy treatment, excluding palliative care patients in each month in each of the years 2018 to 2022, in tabular form. [4063/23]

Cancer Services

Ivana Bacik

626. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the number and overall proportion of patients undergoing radical radiotherapy treatment who commenced treatment within 15 working days of being deemed ready to treat by the radiation oncologist, excluding palliative care patients in each month in each of the years 2018 to 2022. [4064/23]

Cancer Research

Ivana Bacik

627. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health when the National Cancer Strategy 2022 implementation report will be published. [4065/23]

Hospital Staff

Ivana Bacik

628. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health the number of vacant nurse oncologist posts each quarter across all hospitals in each of the years 2019 to 2022, in tabular form. [4066/23]

Housing Provision

Ivana Bacik

82. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the slow-down in the construction of social housing, and on the implications of this slowing-down for renters reliant on the housing assistance payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3749/23]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

2. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [60876/22]

North-South Implementation Bodies

Ivana Bacik

15. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach to report on the work and status of the shared island unit. [3342/23]

Departmental Bodies

Ivana Bacik

38. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach to report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [3344/23]

Defective Building Materials

Ivana Bacik

103. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the eligibility criteria for the proposed construction defects redress scheme. [3748/23]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

3. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [60875/22]

Climate Action Plan

Ivana Bacik

18. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [2120/23]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

28. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [2119/23]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Ivana Bacik

164. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to Northern Ireland. [2121/23]

Tax Credits

Ivana Bacik

227. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Finance if he will report on the number of renters who have claimed the renter's credit to date. [2746/23]

International Protection

Ivana Bacik

292. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department possesses projections as to the number of hotels that are not expected to renew State contracts to host refugees in 2023; and his plans to ensure any shortfall in accommodation is made up. [2747/23]

Local Authorities

Ivana Bacik

325. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to report on the maternity in situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3347/23]

Pension Provisions

Ivana Bacik

389. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the need to require of pension providers that they disclose the portion of any pension fund available for investment here is made up of fossil fuel assets and that they provide an option to pension holders to opt for a fund which does not include fossil fuel; her Department’s role in the State’s divestment from fossil fuels.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2745/23]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Ivana Bacik

415. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on the policy preventing access to the working family payment for persons who are self-employed; and if she has plans to broaden access to the payment. [3348/23]

International Protection

Ivana Bacik

422. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department possesses projections as to the number of hotels that are not expected to renew State contracts to host refugees in 2023; and his plans to ensure any shortfall in accommodation is made up. [2748/23]

Pharmacy Services

Ivana Bacik

643. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health if he has plans to introduce greater prescription powers to pharmacists to reduce the burden on GPs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3349/23]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

9. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach the number of Cabinet committees that are in place; and if he will provide a list of the persons who attend each committee. [2122/23]

Energy Policy

Ivana Bacik

90. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the publication date for the Energy Poverty Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63941/22]

Departmental Data

Ivana Bacik

143. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Transport his views on the need to collate data on the number of assaults perpetrated against transport workers, such as taxi drivers, bus drivers, and rail staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63186/22]

Construction Industry

Ivana Bacik

522. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the criteria that were applied to select members of the Interdepartmental and Agency Group tasked with preparing the Options Paper on a possible remediation scheme in respect of construction defects; if any members of the group live in a multi-unit development or have lived in one in the past ten years; if any members of the group are or have been directors of an owners’ management company in the past ten years; and if any members of the group have provided professional services to an owners’ management company in the past ten years. [63939/22]

Departmental Policies

Ivana Bacik

903. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on the implementation of the recommendations of the child maintenance review group. [1462/23]

International Protection

Ivana Bacik

971. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to avoid housing international protection applicants in inappropriate or dangerous accommodation; and the position regarding contingency plans to avoid such situations arising when a shortage of accommodation arises. [63940/22]

Crime Prevention

Ivana Bacik

1063. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice his views on the need to collate data on the number of assaults perpetrated against transport workers, such as taxi drivers, bus drivers, and rail staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63187/22]

Departmental Reviews

Ivana Bacik

1496. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health if his Department is accepting the recommendations of the Expert Review Body on Nursing and Midwifery; if he will provide a timeline for the implementation of each of those recommendations; and if he will report on the implementation of the recommendation for the extension of the qualification allowance CNM3 grade in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1459/23]

Departmental Reviews

Ivana Bacik

1497. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health his views on the Report of the Expert Review Body on Nursing and Midwifery; if backdated pay will be provided in respect of relevant recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1460/23]

Health Services

Ivana Bacik

1498. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health if a community neurorehabilitation team will be provided to HSE area CHO 6; his views on the need for the establishment of community neurorehabilitation teams in each CHO, as recommended in the National Neurorehabilitation Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1461/23]

Climate Action Plan

Ivana Bacik

69. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the ways in which the ongoing review into energy security will integrate sectoral emissions ceiling and carbon budget obligations; his plans to ensure that as-demand reduction measures are prioritised in the review; and the ways in which the principles of a just transition will be integrated into the review. [62757/22]

Data Centres

Ivana Bacik

73. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans to ensure that confirmed data centre connections will not increase emissions; and his plans to ensure that confirmed data centre connections do not lock in higher gas demand. [62758/22]

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Ivana Bacik

75. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the strategies in place to mitigate against increased emissions in the event that certain sectors exceed the total amount of permitted greenhouse gas emissions allowed by their sectoral emissions ceilings; his views, in particular, on reports (details supplied) that reducing methane emissions by 30% by 2030 is not feasible under current projections for the agriculture sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62760/22]

Energy Prices

Ivana Bacik

93. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if mechanisms exist to reimburse residential customers of district heating schemes who pay for domestic energy at a commercial rate for excess costs; and if the examination of such a policy is in the remit of the steering group due to report on district heating schemes in 2023. [62761/22]

Environmental Policy

Ivana Bacik

142. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on introducing a moratorium on new data centre connections in the context of energy security and carbon emissions targets. [62759/22]

Departmental Meetings

Ivana Bacik

179. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will report on the cross-jurisdictional collaboration which took place in 2022 between his Department and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Rural and Community Development in Northern Ireland. [63134/22]

Public Transport

Ivana Bacik

193. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Transport if he is satisfied that night-time transport options in urban areas will be able to meet increased demand during the Christmas period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63058/22]

National Lottery

Ivana Bacik

211. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the need for the annual publication in a national newspaper of details of the disbursement of "Funds for Good Causes", in light of the report on the independent review of the allocation and utilisation of National Lottery funding. [63056/22]

Housing Schemes

Ivana Bacik

219. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the higher social housing income thresholds will come into effect. [62862/22]

International Protection

Ivana Bacik

225. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are plans to issue a call for larger properties for the housing of refugees, as was issued in respect of pledged accommodation in individual residential homes. [63059/22]

Special Educational Needs

Ivana Bacik

239. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 360 of 29 November 2022, if she will provide an update on girls with special educational needs in education; if she has plans to review the adequacy of service delivery for such students and pupils; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63055/22]

Departmental Schemes

Ivana Bacik

261. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the national disability inclusion strategy transport working group approved the review of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers' scheme at its meeting on 8 December 2022; when the final report will be published; and if submissions made by TWG members between September and October 2022 will be published. [63054/22]

Immigration Policy

Ivana Bacik

290. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if she will report on the regularisation scheme for undocumented migrants. [63060/22]

Abortion Services

Ivana Bacik

363. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Health if the independent evaluation of the experiences of abortion service providers by Manchester Metropolitan University will be published by the end of the year. [63057/22]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Ivana Bacik

1. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the French President. [60877/22]

Departmental Functions

Ivana Bacik

2. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [60878/22]

Cabinet Committees

Ivana Bacik

3. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Environment and Climate Change will next meet. [60879/22]