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Thu, 11 Apr 2024
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Departmental Schemes
Frankie Feighan
276. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will outline each individual project awarded funding in County Cavan since January 2020 under funds and schemes (details supplied); the amount of funding allocated to each project and the purpose of the grant, in tabular form;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15948/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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Vaccination Programme
Frankie Feighan
1328. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health for a progress update on the Programme for Government commitment to examine the possibility of introducing a national immunisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14185/24]
Tue, 9 Apr 2024
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Hospital Services
Frankie Feighan
1431. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health if he will approve funding for the upgrade of audiology services at Sligo University Hospital which are in urgent need of funding for new equipment and the upgrade of clinic rooms (details supplied). [14549/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Energy Conservation
Frankie Feighan
113. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will outline any further details regarding the new low interest retrofit loans for homeowners scheme which was announced in October 2023 and due to be in place by February 2024 (details supplied); can he confirm these details and make a further statement on the timing and details of this initiative. [12593/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Greenways Provision
Frankie Feighan
181. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider requesting that the TII designate the 53km Shannon Erne Connectivity route as a proposed national strategic greenway (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12679/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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School Transport
Frankie Feighan
416. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Education if her Department and Bus Éireann will consider establishing a special communications unit to deal with specific queries around school transport (details supplied) that liaises with the local inspectors and management to provide clear and expedient replies to parents and school management. [11948/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Frankie Feighan
769. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider allowing parents with children the right to claim domiciliary care allowance while living outside the State for the purpose of availing of specialist care for their children in that particular country, that is not currently available in Ireland; and if she will consider a mechanism where a special application could be made whereby the designated care and treatment programme for the child in the other state was sanctioned by an approved Government agency in Ireland before the parents could then apply for the domiciliary care allowance while living and caring for them abroad. [12861/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Health Services Staff
Frankie Feighan
1265. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health when a medical officer will be appointed to the Plunkett Home, Boyle, County Roscommon, given this position was advertised and approved at the end of 2023. [11754/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Departmental Projects
Frankie Feighan
135. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs when funding applications under the global Irish festival series will be made available to local authorities and other relevant bodies (details supplied). [11242/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Departmental Schemes
Frankie Feighan
259. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 218 of 29 February 2024, if he will provide an update on the conservation advice pilot grant scheme (details supplied). [11372/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Apprenticeship Programmes
Frankie Feighan
436. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason a Leitrim based apprentice (details supplied) who trained under SOLAS are not recognising the time he spent working at an accredited company from July 2020 to May 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11373/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Departmental Schemes
Frankie Feighan
218. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the conservation advice pilot grant scheme (details supplied). [9766/24]
Wed, 28 Feb 2024
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Planning Issues
Frankie Feighan
68. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will extend the exemption for local authorities from the part 8 own development approval process and from planning, for the provision of specified forms of housing developments on designated State lands, beyond the current deadline of 31 December 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9485/24]
Wed, 21 Feb 2024
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Social Welfare Code
Frankie Feighan
107. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection if she would consider reviewing the means test for non-contributory and part-contributory pensioners who may rent their home and live with relations or friends, within the framework of the next budget, to incentivise older people who have options around moving in with relatives and may have sizeable homes to consider the rental market without a serious implication for their income. [8148/24]
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
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Coastal Erosion
Frankie Feighan
240. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the reason the publication of an OPW funded study into coastal erosion in Strandhill, County Sligo has not been released publicly to date; the reason it has taken almost two years to complete and release this report findings; when the draft report is set to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8011/24]
Wed, 7 Feb 2024
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Tax Reliefs
Frankie Feighan
112. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider as part of his planning for Budget 2025 re-introducing the tax relief at €2,000 for persons paying tax in the State who have private health insurance and have experienced the dramatic price rises in their premiums in recent months. [5441/24]
Thu, 1 Feb 2024
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Site Acquisitions
Frankie Feighan
249. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Education if any further consideration has been given to the proposal to sanction a new primary school for Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim; if the Board of Management has identified a potential site for a new school; and whether communication has been received by her Department seeking approval to negotiate with any potential site owner. [4691/24]
Wed, 31 Jan 2024
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Industrial Development
Frankie Feighan
33. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what action he is taking to safeguard the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland, and future investment in manufacturing and research and development into Ireland, from any unintended consequences as a result of the European Commission pharmaceutical review, currently under way; if he can update on any meetings his Department has had on the subject in Ireland and at an EU level since 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4401/24]
Wed, 31 Jan 2024
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Medicinal Products
Frankie Feighan
161. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health for an update on the development of Ireland's national position on the revision of the EU general pharmaceuticals legislation as proposed by the European Commission; when Ireland will be making its official response to the European Commission on the pharmaceutical review known; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4400/24]
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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Waste Management
Frankie Feighan
405. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered providing a reduction or payment assistance in relation to domestic waste charges for disabled people particularly to persons who have excess charges because they suffer from incontinence or other similar issues that incur extra waste disposal charges. [2954/24]
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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General Practitioner Services
Frankie Feighan
608. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health if it is a requirement for a doctor who is seeking to be issued with a GMS registration that he/she must agree to an allocation of (public) patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2619/24]
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
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Hospital Facilities
Frankie Feighan
660. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a full update regarding the development of the 42 bed unit extension to Sligo University Hospital; the timelines around tender closing dates and expected construction commencement and competition; and if he will update regarding other capital developments in and around the hospital campus in Sligo. [2993/24]
Wed, 17 Jan 2024
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Departmental Data
Frankie Feighan
972. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people in receipt of jobseekers allowance payments for 12 months or longer, for two years or longer, three years or longer, four years or longer and for five years or longer, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1679/24]
Wed, 17 Jan 2024
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Departmental Data
Frankie Feighan
973. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people on jobseekers allowance who are long-term unemployed and who had penalties applied to their payments in 2023 due to failure to engage with her Department's labour activation services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1680/24]
Wed, 17 Jan 2024
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Departmental Data
Frankie Feighan
974. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of people on jobseekers allowance who are currently in receipt of a reduced jobseekers allowance payment due to a penalty imposed on their payment for failure to engage with her Department's activation services; if she will consider stepping up control work in this area in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1681/24]
Wed, 17 Jan 2024
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Departmental Policies
Frankie Feighan
975. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps her Department intends to take in 2024 to ensure that long-term unemployed persons are encouraged to take up employment given the labour shortages being experienced in many sectors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1682/24]
Wed, 17 Jan 2024
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Departmental Data
Frankie Feighan
976. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection the savings achieved by her Department arising from control work in respect of jobseekers allowance payments for each year between 2013-2023; the savings she estimates her Department will achieve in 2024 from control measures in relation to long term jobseekers allowance payments, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1683/24]
Tue, 12 Dec 2023
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School Funding
Frankie Feighan
346. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a list of the normal funding options for small DEIS schools; if her Department will introduce a small grants work (minor works) scheme and IT support grant; if the current ancillary (general) grant will be reviewed and increased in line with recent inflationary pressures on energy and other related increases that many small schools are experiencing; if information or opportunities for such funding will be provided to a school (details supplied) in County Leitrim that finds itself under financial pressure due to the lack of grant funding opportunities. [55240/23]
Tue, 12 Dec 2023
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Vacant Properties
Frankie Feighan
450. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it is a prerequisite for local authorities to insist on applicants for the vacant home refurbishment grants to supply full details and professional and technical reports on the condition of the existing septic tank of the property before they consider processing the vacant homes grant application; if applicants can seek funding under this scheme to provide for an upgrade of the septic tank system; if not, if the funding opportunity comes solely under the septic tank renewal grant which is due to be increased in 2024; if all local authorities are ‘at one’ in how they interpret the vacant homes grant on the issue of funding of septic tanks across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55276/23]
Tue, 12 Dec 2023
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Social Welfare Payments
Frankie Feighan
487. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive a decision regarding the review of their carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54926/23]
Tue, 5 Dec 2023
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Social Welfare Eligibility
Frankie Feighan
373. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection if she would provide clarification as to whether children who turned 18 this year but are still attending secondary school are entitled to have their child benefit reinstated after the recent budget 2024 announcement, noting that if this measure only came into effect from September 2024, this would put all leaving certificate students who turn 18 years of age before completing their secondary school education next year at a disadvantage; and if a student decides after their leaving certificate to continue with full-time education, if they would be entitled then to receive the extended child benefit. [53788/23]
Tue, 14 Nov 2023
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Community Development Projects
Frankie Feighan
202. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Education when her Department will proceed to give permission to MSLETB to proceed with a lease on a portion of derelict grounds at Drumshanbo, County Leitrim to the local community centre committee (details supplied) to develop a new sports facility and playing courts which may not proceed unless matters around the lease are progressed soon. [49491/23]
Tue, 14 Nov 2023
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Community Development Projects
Frankie Feighan
203. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Education if her Department would grant the additional funding to a school (details supplied) in County Leitrim to pay for the use of the local community centre's facilities which over the years has meant that the said school did not have to invest in new capital buildings for assembly and sports uses. [49492/23]
Thu, 9 Nov 2023
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Community Care
Frankie Feighan
18. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health to outline the progress made to date in expanding community-based care by increasing opening times for unscheduled care, radiology, and diagnostic services. [48867/23]
Thu, 9 Nov 2023
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Hospital Overcrowding
Frankie Feighan
23. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details on his Department's latest work in tackling overcrowding in hospitals. [48866/23]
Wed, 8 Nov 2023
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Hospital Admissions
Frankie Feighan
121. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health the number of paediatric hospitalisations in Ireland associated with chickenpox in 2022 and to date in 2023; the percentage increase, if any, in hospitalisation between both years; the economic impact of such hospitalisations in terms of bed nights on our public paediatric system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48915/23]
Wed, 8 Nov 2023
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Health Services
Frankie Feighan
122. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health what impact illnesses like, Strep A, RSV and chickenpox are expected to have on the public paediatric health system in Winter 2023; what preventative measures are been taken by his Department and the HSE in advance to limit such impacts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48916/23]
Wed, 8 Nov 2023
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Health Services
Frankie Feighan
123. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health when the 2024 HSE Service Plan is expected to be published; if it is anticipated to return the publication of this important plan to the year-end period of the preceding year, which was the norm prior to the impact of Covid-19, i.e., December 2023 for the year 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48917/23]
Wed, 8 Nov 2023
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Vaccination Programme
Frankie Feighan
124. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated for the provision of the primary childhood immunisation programme in the years ranging from 2018-2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48918/23]
Tue, 7 Nov 2023
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School Accommodation
Frankie Feighan
485. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update regarding an application by a school (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47777/23]
Tue, 17 Oct 2023
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Schools Building Projects
Frankie Feighan
13. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Education when her Department will review and sanction the application for a building extension at a school (details supplied) as the current situation around accommodation for students is not sustainable due to its enrolment at 663 (an increase of almost 50% since its original accommodation was granted in 2019) which includes a co-educational aonad stream. [45048/23]
Tue, 17 Oct 2023
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State Pensions
Frankie Feighan
352. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Social Protection when her Department is expected to pay the pension arrears and the exact amount to a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44721/23]
Tue, 3 Oct 2023
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International Protection
Frankie Feighan
525. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that a number of hotels and other approved accommodation centres across Ireland, (details supplied) have quite a number of rooms/beds available and are not fully occupied, despite the best efforts of management and owners in highlighting the vacancies there seems to be no take up from IPAS and the Department to fill those vacancies; if the Minister provide an explanation for this policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42304/23]
Wed, 27 Sep 2023
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Water Services
Frankie Feighan
98. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will clarify if a housing estate in County Roscommon (details supplied) can be included in the resolution programme under the National Development Plan for the period 2021-2025, to address legacy water services issues; if any of the existing allocated €68.5 million funding will be allocated to estates not viable to connect to the public water supply; and if it is not, if he can confirm whether any other funding can be considered or made available before 2025. [41863/23]
Wed, 20 Sep 2023
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Wastewater Treatment
Frankie Feighan
513. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in a housing development with developer-provided infrastructure for wastewater treatment plants that cannot be connected to a public mains in order that Uisce Éireann can take these over, if there are plans for this to be addressed by his Department to alleviate the burden that is been placed on residents of the estates that have this infrastructure or if there is any funding available for same apart from the multi-annual programme. [40137/23]
Mon, 11 Sep 2023
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Driver Licences
Frankie Feighan
284. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Transport the number of persons who lost their driving license on medical grounds in each of the years 2018 to 2022; the number who lost their license who were aged over 66 years; the number who lost their license who were aged under 66 years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37841/23]
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
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Foreign Birth Registration
Frankie Feighan
25. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason for the prolonged delays for decisions regarding foreign birth registrations within his Department; and the reason one such case (details supplied) demands certain documents that appear irrelevant. [35815/23]
Thu, 13 Jul 2023
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Tax Collection
Frankie Feighan
278. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) will be afforded the opportunity to file form 11, 2022, manually and not on-line, given the person in question does not have access to broadband or the internet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34866/23]
Wed, 12 Jul 2023
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Disability Services
Frankie Feighan
204. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department is considering providing funding to deal with the non-payment of increments to staff working within the disability sector, including an organisation (details supplied), who, despite numerous meetings and appeals, to date have no indication the said increments will be retrospectively paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34423/23]
Wed, 12 Jul 2023
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Health Service Executive
Frankie Feighan
254. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is not progressing the sale of a property (details supplied) in County Leitrim to provide for a new health resource for the town in question; and if he will intervene in the matter with the HSE. [34555/23]