Parliamentary questions

International Protection

Gary Gannon

514. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice the average and mean processing times for positive decisions issued by the Family Reunification Unit, under the International Protection Act 2015, to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23281/23]

International Protection

Gary Gannon

515. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice the average and mean processing times for applications for labour market access permission and a breakdown of those decisions made in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23282/23]

International Protection

Gary Gannon

516. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice the number of people who have been refused leave to land to date in 2023, broken down by nationality; the number of those who subsequently left the State or made an application for international protection, broken down by nationality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23283/23]

Defence Forces

Gary Gannon

161. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide a detailed process of how military housing is applied for. [21554/23]

Defence Forces

Gary Gannon

162. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of applications received for military housing between 2018 to 2023, broken down by year, in tabular form. [21555/23]

Defence Forces

Gary Gannon

163. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of successful applications received for military housing between 2018 to 2023, broken down by year, in tabular form. [21556/23]

Defence Forces

Gary Gannon

164. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide a breakdown of the ranks held by successful applications for military housing from 2018 to 2023. [21557/23]

Defence Forces

Gary Gannon

165. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of married quarters and houses that remain within the possession of the Defence Forces or his Department; and the respective locations of each. [21558/23]

Defence Forces

Gary Gannon

166. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the married quarters and houses that remain within the possession of the Defence Forces or his Department; and the number that are currently occupied. [21559/23]

Defence Forces

Gary Gannon

167. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the married quarters and houses that remain within the possession of the Defence Forces or his Department; and the number currently vacant. [21560/23]

Defence Forces

Gary Gannon

168. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide information on whether the occupied married quarters and houses within the possession of the Defence Forces or his Department are currently occupied by current or former members of the Defence Forces; and if he will provide a breakdown of their respective ranks. [21561/23]

Special Educational Needs

Gary Gannon

290. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the position regarding the provision of autism-specific units for schools (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21552/23]

Social Welfare Rates

Gary Gannon

409. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated yearly cost of increasing the rate of jobseeker's allowance for all young people aged under 25 years in line with the maximum person rate for those aged over 25 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21553/23]

Passport Services

Gary Gannon

33. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs when a person (details supplied) will have their documents returned to them from the relevant office. [20368/23]

State Examinations

Gary Gannon

267. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a timeline on when the updated deferred Leaving Certificate criteria will be announced. [20142/23]

State Examinations

Gary Gannon

268. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if additional time is to be granted to Ukrainian students sitting Junior and Leaving Certificate examinations to ensure that they can make all necessary translations. [20143/23]

Child Poverty

Gary Gannon

8. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the proposed child poverty unit in his Department. [19317/23]

Departmental Strategies

Gary Gannon

9. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Taoiseach if he will outline the current situation in regard to the development of a national security strategy. [19314/23]

Cabinet Committees

Gary Gannon

21. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will meet next. [19315/23]

European Council

Gary Gannon

30. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent meeting of the European Council which he attended; the issues discussed; and the conclusions reached. [19316/23]

Programme for Government

Gary Gannon

243. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason for the decision to abandon the commitment in the Programme for Government to conduct a pilot on universal basic income in the lifetime of the Government (details supplied); if it has been decided to carry out microsimulations of UBI, as recommended by the Low Pay Commission and ESRI; if so, what are the parameters of the proposed microsimulations; who is to carry out the microsimulations; and if this work has commenced already. [19422/23]

Gaeltacht Scholarships

Gary Gannon

290. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if all scholarships under the DEIS Gaeltachta have been allocated for 2023; and if she will provide a breakdown of all scholarships allocations by school and county, in tabular form. [19427/23]

Social Welfare Benefits

Gary Gannon

373. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the total number of people in receipt of one-parent family payment; the total number of people in receipt of jobseeker’s transitional payment; and the number of recipients of each payment who are self-employed, in tabular form. [19423/23]

Social Welfare Payments

Gary Gannon

374. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection when the ending of means testing of child maintenance for lone parents accessing social welfare payments will come into effect. [19424/23]

Social Welfare Benefits

Gary Gannon

375. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the total number of people in receipt of working family payment; the estimated cost of extending eligibility for the fuel allowance to recipients of the working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19425/23]

Parental Leave

Gary Gannon

376. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of one-parent families that availed of parent's benefit and leave in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19426/23]

Schools Building Projects

Gary Gannon

528. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the reasons for the delay in the progression of the permanent building for a school (details supplied), before and since inflationary issues have arisen. [17147/23]

School Accommodation

Gary Gannon

529. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the date on which a school (details supplied) will move from temporary accommodation. [17148/23]

Schools Building Projects

Gary Gannon

530. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the support measures in place for schools or neighbouring schools, impacted by the hold on 58 school building projects; if such extenuating circumstances impact re-allocation of teachers and/or prefabs; and which schools have been impacted in this way. [17149/23]

School Staff

Gary Gannon

531. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the reason a decision has been taken to suppress a ninth teaching post for a school (details supplied), given that it is a developing school and projected enrolment numbers exceed both the required 215 and 231 pupils required to be eligible for an additional post. [17150/23]

School Accommodation

Gary Gannon

532. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the rationale for reversing the decision to allow a school (details supplied) permission to put in place a second block of prefabs for the 2023-2024 term. [17151/23]

Hare Coursing

Gary Gannon

787. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of hares captured from the wild for the 2022-2023 season; and how many times they were used during capture. [17153/23]

Hare Coursing

Gary Gannon

788. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of hares pinned, injured and killed during the 2022-2023 season. [17154/23]

Hare Coursing

Gary Gannon

1099. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of coursing clubs that were active in the 2022-2023 season. [17152/23]

Hare Coursing

Gary Gannon

1100. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any welfare studies have been conducted by his Deptartment or Veterinary Ireland on the physical and mental trauma hares suffer as a result of coursing. [17155/23]

Hare Coursing

Gary Gannon

1101. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any welfare studies have been conducted by his Department or Veterinary Ireland on the physical and mental trauma hares suffer as a result of coursing; and if not, the reasoning for allowing wild animals to be captured, traumatised, injured, and killed for the sake of entertainment and gambling. [17156/23]

Health Services

Gary Gannon

1539. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of the lack of paediatric palliative care in the south-east region; if there are plans to rectify this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17146/23]

Cabinet Committees

Gary Gannon

12. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet committee on housing took place. [14893/23]

Departmental Properties

Gary Gannon

21. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's resource-efficiency action plan. [14894/23]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Gary Gannon

26. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the Spanish Prime Minister. [14895/23]

Cabinet Committees

Gary Gannon

10. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [14890/23]

Ukraine War

Gary Gannon

14. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet Committee on a Humanitarian Response to Ukraine took place. [14891/23]

Departmental Offices

Gary Gannon

23. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the international division of his Department. [14892/23]

Fuel Poverty

Gary Gannon

84. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will ensure that households that have accumulated significant debts, including arrears on bills and on prepayment meters, have access to sufficient support to avoid a long-term legacy of indebtedness and reduced financial resilience among the poorest households in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15179/23]

Social Welfare Code

Gary Gannon

87. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection if there are plans to award the fuel allowance to households in receipt of the working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15177/23]

State Pensions

Gary Gannon

107. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the progress being made towards creating a lifetime carer's pension scheme; if she will provide an update on the promised legislation surrounding this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15175/23]

Departmental Strategies

Gary Gannon

124. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline her Department's consumer protection strategy in the wake of a recent report (details supplied) which showed the numbers unable to heat their homes more than doubled in 2022. [15176/23]

Social Welfare Code

Gary Gannon

147. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will consider targeted measures, such as a social energy tariff, rather than universal payments in its future consumer protection and poverty reduction strategies. [15178/23]

State Examinations

Gary Gannon

56. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update regarding the review of the eligibility criteria of the deferred leaving certificate examinations; when the criteria to be applied to this year's exams will be communicated to students, schools and parents; if a distinction will continue to be made between medical emergencies before and during the examinations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14339/23]

Education Policy

Gary Gannon

84. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education the way the withdrawal of children from the updated sexual education course on the forthcoming curriculum will be facilitated; if that will differ from the facilitation of non-religious children who wish to not attend religious instruction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14340/23]