Parliamentary questions

Departmental Contracts

Catherine Murphy

537. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in view of the extreme displeasure he has expressed in his email of 28 April 2023 to elected representatives (details supplied) regarding the actions of persons providing services to his Department under an activated contract, the nature of engagements he has had with the service provider; and if he and or his officials have met with the service provider and or persons acting on its behalf. [21250/23]

Departmental Contracts

Catherine Murphy

538. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1246 of 18 April 2023, if the service provider and-or persons acting on behalf of the provider for the property in question have referred the declaration made by Kildare County Council for a review by An Bord Pleanála (details supplied); if his attention or that of his officials has been drawn to the fact that the statutory time limit for any such referral has passed. [21251/23]

Departmental Contracts

Catherine Murphy

539. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1246 and 497 of 18 and 25 April 2023, if he and-or his officials have engaged with the local authority in the context of its determination that the building environs, the building and changes of use regarding same require planning permission; if he and-or his officials have met with local authority officials in respect of the matter; and if he will set out the details of those engagements (details supplied). [21252/23]

Departmental Contracts

Catherine Murphy

540. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will point this Deputy to the statutory instrument that he is referring to in his email of 28 April 2023 to elected representatives regarding the use of a building (details supplied) under contract to his Department. [21253/23]

National Parks and Wildlife Service

Catherine Murphy

542. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he and-or his officials has been contacted by and-or if he has engaged with the National Parks and Wildlife Service on foot of the felling and removal of mature trees from a site in Leixlip, County Kildare (details supplied). [21321/23]

National Parks and Wildlife Service

Catherine Murphy

543. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he and-or his officials has been contacted by and-or if he has engaged with the Forestry Service on foot of the felling and removal of mature trees from a site in Leixlip, County Kildare (details supplied). [21328/23]

Medicinal Products

Catherine Murphy

585. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he has engaged with a person (details supplied) in respect of their request. [21224/23]

Parliamentary Questions

Catherine Murphy

607. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of parliamentary questions he received in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and number of those per year he has referred to the HSE for a direct answer. [21376/23]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Catherine Murphy

648. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if programme assistants in the Irish Wheelchair Association will receive the pandemic recognition payment. [21695/23]

Tax Yield

Catherine Murphy

151. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance his plans to review in consultation with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which the yield from betting duty and betting intermediary duty is distributed and or used. [21026/23]

Tax Yield

Catherine Murphy

152. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of the yield from traditional betting, betting duty and betting intermediary duty in each of the years 2018 to-date in 2023; and if he will clarify whether 68(1)(a) of the Finance Act is still applicable. [21027/23]

Tax Yield

Catherine Murphy

153. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of the amount collected from all betting duties in the past five years to date in respect of interest is due on late payments of betting duty; the number of enforcements initiated by the Revenue Commissioners in respect of the non-payment of duties and non-payment of interest due on late payments of duties over that same time period; and the number of those enforcements that have been settled to date. [21029/23]

Sports Funding

Catherine Murphy

175. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he has or plans to engage with the Ministers for Finance and Agriculture, Food and the Marine in respect of accessing the revenues raised from the betting duty and betting intermediary duty for his use in the context of funding sport, sport Ireland, the sports capital grant scheme and the large-scale infrastructure scheme. [21028/23]

Foreign Birth Registration

Catherine Murphy

37. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of WTE staff by grade within his Department dealing with foreign birth registrations as of 25 April 2023; and the number of foreign birth registrations currently within his Department. [20502/23]

Air Corps

Catherine Murphy

64. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if the runway at Baldonnel Aerodrome has the capacity to handle Airbus A380 types of aircraft. [20494/23]

Official Engagements

Catherine Murphy

65. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he plans to have a bilateral meeting with his Italian counterpart. [20495/23]

Dublin Bus

Catherine Murphy

92. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the top ten highest yield Dublin Bus routes in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [20505/23]

Rail Network

Catherine Murphy

93. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the amount of funding provided in 2023, 2024 and 2025 to purchase extra LUAS carriages; and when these new carriages will come into operation, in tabular form. [20506/23]

Departmental Meetings

Catherine Murphy

94. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the names of major international airlines and-or airline groups with whom he had bilateral meetings with senior officials in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [20507/23]

Legislative Programme

Catherine Murphy

95. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the current status of the Railway Safety (Amendment) Bill; and when this Bill will move to the next Stage. [20508/23]

Dublin Bus

Catherine Murphy

96. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the up-to-date position regarding the installation of the necessary technology to accept debit and credit cards for payment on the Dublin Bus fleet. [20509/23]

Tax Data

Catherine Murphy

111. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of abolishing stamp duty for first-time buyers of homes costing less than €425,000. [20510/23]

Tax Collection

Catherine Murphy

115. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance , further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 208 to 210, inclusive, of 25 April, if he will clarify with the Revenue Commissioners whether they are recovering amounts dating back to 2011 due to a rounding error in the amounts due versus the amounts collected in the context of the issuing of letters to persons liable for arrears. [20641/23]

National Lottery

Catherine Murphy

124. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he has engaged with the operators of the national lottery or the regulator of the national lottery in the context of gambling addiction in the past five years to date. [20310/23]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

128. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the Garda stations within the Kildare division that were refurbished by the OPW in 2022 and to date in 2023; the nature of the refurbishment, in tabular form, that exceeded works costing €50,000 and above; and if each refurbishment project is still ongoing or completed. [20496/23]

Employment Rights

Catherine Murphy

136. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has been contacted or engaged by a company (details supplied) in respect of job losses at the company; if so, the nature of those discussions; if he is satisfied that the company will comply with communication protocols in respect of redundancies and-or requests to take unpaid leave and-or any other steps deemed to be cost saving; and if he will clarify the obligation of a company to inform him of plans to implement a voluntary time off programme for staff and whether they are obliged to comply with the request. [20308/23]

Schools Building Projects

Catherine Murphy

150. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update in respect of the accommodation brief for a building project (details supplied); if she will provide a further update in respect of the engagements an education and training board has had to date with the patron; and the date on which the project will commence. [20275/23]

Schools Building Projects

Catherine Murphy

163. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update in respect of a site her Department owns and its intended use for a permanent building for a school (details supplied); if she will provide details of her engagements with the patron in respect of same; and the date on which the project will commence its stages to becoming a live project. [20394/23]

Housing Provision

Catherine Murphy

207. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in instances in which his Department is funding the sale of the site back to a local authority for social housing, if he will outline the procedures that are in place to ensure there are no conflicts of interest in respect of the transaction; and if he will set out the due diligence his Department undertakes in respect of funding being released to local authorities for the purchase of lands that will be used for the construction of social housing. [20268/23]

Legal Aid

Catherine Murphy

268. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of criminal legal aid that has been paid out to solicitors in respect of their assignment to a client by the most paid (details supplied); and the amount paid to each of the top ten recipients in fees, by each solicitor and-or company name that received the fees in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [20249/23]

Legal Aid

Catherine Murphy

269. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide a breakdown of the amounts paid to private practitioners by year in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form, indicating the amount paid to each of the top ten recipients of fees, by the practitioner name and fees in those years (details supplied). [20250/23]

Departmental Meetings

Catherine Murphy

274. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide a schedule of meetings he and his predecessors have had with the chief constable of the PSNI and ministerial equivalent in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023 [20282/23]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

275. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of PSNI police officers seconded to An Garda Síochána in the past five years, to date; the number of Garda officers seconded to the PSNI in the same period; and if he will provide the rank of each officer seconded in either direction. [20284/23]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

276. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the plans to provide for PSNI police officers to transfer into An Garda Síochána on a full-time basis at rank and file, sergeant level and inspector level. [20285/23]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

277. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of instances in which An Garda Síochána has made requests to him and-or his predecessors to join PSNI counterparts on operations in Northern Ireland in the past five years to date. [20286/23]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

278. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if he will clarify whether there are formal arrangements in place for the exchange of data and-or intelligence between An Garda Síochána and the PSNI. [20287/23]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

294. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of gardaí by rank attached to each Garda divisional protective services unit as of 25 April 2023, in tabular form. [20503/23]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

295. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if funding has been provided in 2023 to purchase additional Garda prisoner transport vans. [20504/23]

Greyhound Industry

Catherine Murphy

304. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the start-up cost of the greyhound care centre operated by Rásaíocht Con Éireann in Croom, County Limerick; the date the centre opened; the cost to Rásaíocht Con Éireann of operating this centre; the number of dogs homed in Ireland by this centre since it opened; the number of dogs homed outside the country by this centre since it opened; the fee charged, if any, to a breeder or owner per dog placed in this centre and total yield to date in respect of same; the fee charged, if any, to an individual adopting a dog from this centre; and the total yield to date, in tabular form. [20246/23]

Disability Services

Catherine Murphy

355. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full-year cost of providing 180 and 450 additional intensive support packages for children with disabilities who have high or complex support needs, respectively. [20511/23]

Disability Services

Catherine Murphy

356. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full year cost of providing 75 additional emergency residential places. [20512/23]

Disability Services

Catherine Murphy

357. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the full estimated year cost of recruiting three additional senior staff grade physiotherapists and three clinical specialists in the area of psychology for children's disability network teams. [20513/23]

Youth Services

Catherine Murphy

367. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged with his colleague in the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in the context of seeking funding to directly fund or devolve to Tusla for use in youth-focused community and voluntary organisations. [20662/23]

Youth Services

Catherine Murphy

368. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase funding for youth services in view of new census data as it is published; if he will outline the rationale for the freezing of funding at 18% below 2009 levels; and his plans to increase funding to the sector in budget 2024. [20663/23]

Health Services Staff

Catherine Murphy

420. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of neurology nurse specialists by location in the State; and his plans to engage with the HSE with a view to the provision of increased capacity and resourcing in this specialist area. [20438/23]

Health Services Staff

Catherine Murphy

421. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of neurology rehabilitation specialists by location in the State; and his plans to engage with the HSE with a view to the provision of increased capacity and resourcing in this specialist area. [20439/23]

Hospital Staff

Catherine Murphy

434. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if the posts of both national director for genetics and genomics and the bioinformatics lab director have been filled for the Genetic Testing Service at CHI Crumlin. [20497/23]

Health Promotion

Catherine Murphy

435. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of persons who have availed of HSE stop smoking classes within each CHO in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [20498/23]

Hospital Staff

Catherine Murphy

436. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE staff by job title working in the long-Covid clinic at Tallaght University Hospital; the number of WTE staff vacancies by job title at this clinic; and when these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [20499/23]

General Practitioner Services

Catherine Murphy

437. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health his plans to increase direct access to echocardiography for general practitioners through community-based ambulatory care hubs. [20500/23]