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Tue, 21 May 2024
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Renewable Energy Generation
Michael Creed
171. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the quantity of renewable wind energy generated between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22930/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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State Pensions
Michael Creed
396. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if an applicant (details supplied) will be approved for the maximum State pension (contributory). [22760/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Creed
409. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if all documentation (details supplied) was reviewed in the context of an application for carer’s benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22820/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Agriculture Schemes
Michael Creed
490. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review a young farmer's complementary income support scheme application and decision in light of circumstances (details supplied). [22819/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Dental Services
Michael Creed
622. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Health the current state of the school dental service; if he is aware that in certain circumstances the service is only providing access for emergency cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22837/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Education Schemes
Michael Creed
648. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason a HEAR grant application (details supplied) has been turned down; if his Department was aware of the personal circumstances of the applicant when refusing the grant and if the case will be reviewed. [22931/24]
Tue, 21 May 2024
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Education Schemes
Michael Creed
649. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the range of assistance available for a student at third level (details supplied). [22932/24]
Thu, 16 May 2024
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Schools Building Projects
Michael Creed
177. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education the current situation regarding a proposed extension at a school in County Cork (details supplied); when her Department will sign off on the proposed design; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22237/24]
Wed, 15 May 2024
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Agriculture Schemes
Michael Creed
87. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has yet to receive their full basic payment. [22129/24]
Tue, 14 May 2024
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Road Safety
Michael Creed
174. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Transport if a request for funding for road and pedestrian safety measures was submitted by Cork County Council for a location (details supplied). [21353/24]
Tue, 14 May 2024
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Social Welfare Appeals
Michael Creed
398. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason an appeal of carer’s allowance application is taking so long. [21237/24]
Tue, 14 May 2024
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Qualifications Recognition
Michael Creed
655. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Health if assistance will be provided to expedite a registration with CORU (details supplied). [21818/24]
Tue, 14 May 2024
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Health Services
Michael Creed
656. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) will be provided with speech and language therapy. [21819/24]
Thu, 9 May 2024
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School Funding
Michael Creed
169. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education if funding has been approved under the emergency works scheme for a school in County Cork (details supplied); if these funds can be used for a purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20952/24]
Thu, 9 May 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Creed
227. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the current status of an application for domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied). [21118/24]
Thu, 9 May 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Creed
228. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the current situation regarding a claim for carer’s allowance or carer’s benefit by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; the reason this application was refused in light of the compelling medical evidence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21141/24]
Wed, 1 May 2024
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Housing Schemes
Michael Creed
127. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Finance when the help-to-buy scheme will be approved for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19697/24]
Wed, 1 May 2024
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Social Insurance
Michael Creed
142. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education if a person now resident and retired in the UK who worked in the Irish education system from 1973 to 1976 as a teacher is entitled to a refund of her social insurance contributions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19582/24]
Tue, 23 Apr 2024
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School Accommodation
Michael Creed
317. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education the current situation regarding a request for approval for a modular classroom at a school (details supplied). [17951/24]
Tue, 23 Apr 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Creed
418. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection when it is expected a decision will issue on a carer's allowance application (details supplied). [17948/24]
Wed, 17 Apr 2024
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School Accommodation
Michael Creed
41. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education if she has received an application for additional classroom accommodation from a school in County Cork (details supplied), and in light of significant planned increased enrolment and existing classroom inadequacies, if she will expedite approval in this case. [16874/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Social Welfare Appeals
Michael Creed
466. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the current situation regarding a carer’s allowance appeal for a person (details supplied). [16335/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Pension Provisions
Michael Creed
475. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the social welfare credits available for persons about to apply for the State contributory pension in circumstances where they have had to retire from their own work to care for their spouse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16508/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Agriculture Industry
Michael Creed
555. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when proposals to address a longstanding issue for a group of farmers (details supplied) which he has committed to address will be brought forward; the funding required to address this issue; the details regarding eligibility under a proposed scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16502/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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Tax Collection
Michael Creed
309. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Finance if he can clarify the situation regarding liability for stamp duty by approved affordable housing purchasers and, if liable, whether the liability is on the discounted affordable house price or the full market value; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14948/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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School Accommodation
Michael Creed
392. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education the reason a school which applied for additional accommodation for two SET rooms in 2019 and additional classroom accommodation in 2020 is still awaiting sanction from her Department to proceed with this construction project (details supplied). [13596/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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School Discipline
Michael Creed
465. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 521 of 20 March 2024, if the reason boards of management cannot act on cases of confirmed assault are to do with GDPR (details supplied); if she will specifically address these issues in new guidelines to schools Cinnealtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14362/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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Schools Building Projects
Michael Creed
545. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education given the space constraints at a school in County Cork (details supplied), how she proposes to facilitate the provision of three ASD classes which have been sanctioned; if she is familiar with defects identified by the school in part of the school building; if, in the context of the urgent requirement for additional ASD units in the Ballincollig area and the fact that there are twenty-one students in the school who have been diagnosed with autism but do not have access to an ASD classroom, she will reconsider the decision regarding a proposal to demolish and rebuild part of the school, particularly in the context of sanctioned modular classrooms which could also be accommodated within the demolished and rebuild proposal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15240/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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Social Welfare Appeals
Michael Creed
742. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the current situation regarding a social welfare appeal in respect of disability allowance for a person in County Cork (details supplied). [13986/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Creed
750. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if a decision will issue on a carer’s allowance application (details supplied). [14139/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Creed
751. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if a decision will issue on a disability allowance application (details supplied). [14151/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Michael Creed
764. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details provided) is entitled to a six-week payment after the death of their father. [14366/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Creed
769. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm receipt of the necessary details in respect of an invalidity pension review (details supplied); and when a decision can be expected in this case. [14410/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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Social Welfare Appeals
Michael Creed
775. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the current situation regarding an application for domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied). [14485/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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Agriculture Schemes
Michael Creed
935. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in payment of a grant details provided to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [13757/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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Agriculture Schemes
Michael Creed
1024. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all outstanding issues regarding the IT system supporting the ACRES scheme have been resolved; if so, when all outstanding payments will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14933/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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Agriculture Schemes
Michael Creed
1025. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the first payments under the ECO scheme issued; the number of payments still outstanding; the reason for the delay in issuing these payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14934/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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Hospital Services
Michael Creed
1207. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Health the current situation regarding an issue (details supplied). [13595/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Banking Sector
Michael Creed
227. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 5 March 2024, if he will recontact An Post on the matter, given there has been no contact with the beneficiary since 15 December 2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12026/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Tax Code
Michael Creed
271. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) is paying high levels of income tax. [13008/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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School Discipline
Michael Creed
521. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education the current status of Cineáltas as an effort to address bullying in schools; if the initiative will address any shortcomings with regard to school disciplinary processes where the Garda juvenile justice system is also involved in investigating such incidences; if she is aware that for alleged GDPR reasons the outcome of such juvenile justice enquiries cannot be shared with schools' boards of management who are subsequently left in the invidious position of not being able to act on proven assaults as per Garda enquiries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12917/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Michael Creed
756. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the designation of long-Covid as an occupational illness. [12533/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Michael Creed
777. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the current situation regarding an invalidity pension payment to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [13009/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Payments
Michael Creed
784. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) whose sole means is their State pension (contributory) is entitled to an increase in same due to the reduced level of payment. [13104/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Schemes
Michael Creed
791. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the circumstances under which a pension payment may continue posthumously to next of kin; the family members entitled to such continued payments and the duration of these payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13222/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Health Services Staff
Michael Creed
1328. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Health if he can assist in expediting a registration with CORU (details supplied). [12057/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Michael Creed
1403. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Health the current situation regarding negotiations for public health service employees diagnosed with long Covid; if he has considered best international practice with regard to dealing with this matter both from a medical and a financial point of view for the employees diagnosed; the state of negotiations with an organisation (details supplied) regarding healthcare workers in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12481/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Banking Sector
Michael Creed
224. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Finance if the appropriate interest rate should be paid on the delayed issue of matured saving instruments and if he will investigate a case (details provided) which has not been paid almost five months after maturity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10466/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Creed
447. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person in County Cork (details supplied) has been refused illness benefit. [10396/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Benefits
Michael Creed
453. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) has had their disability allowance withdrawn. [10525/24]