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Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Energy Conservation
Rose Conway-Walsh
310. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide details on all energy performance contracts implemented or in development across the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13207/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Capital Expenditure Programme
Rose Conway-Walsh
311. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide a breakdown of all non-Exchequer funding in the Public Capital Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13208/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
312. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide details on the indexation of PPP contract indexation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13210/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Energy Conservation
Rose Conway-Walsh
313. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide an update on expanding the role of the NDFA to lead procurement of energy performance contracts (EPCs) for the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13211/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
314. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if there is a cap on the aggregate level of annual expenditure on PPP unitary payments, relative to the Exchequer capital envelope; if any work has been carried out this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13212/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
315. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the percentage level of PPP unitary payments as a share of each vote capital budget, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13213/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
316. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if all PPP unitary payments are classified as capital expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13214/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
317. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the average share of unitary payments that are subject to inflation increases across all sectors that use PPP contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13215/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
343. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the anticipated or known cost to the Exchequer over the lifetime of the contracts; the annual total payment of PPP unitary charges and the percentage share of the total capital budget for his Department and all public bodies under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13193/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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School Funding
Rose Conway-Walsh
498. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education if an emergency works application can be made retrospectively in the case of necessary works to ensure the functioning of the fire alarm system; if she is aware of an application of a school (details supplied) in Mayo that was refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12666/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Expenditure
Rose Conway-Walsh
525. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education to provide in tabular form, the annual expenditure on design teams for capital projects each year since 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12944/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Departmental Policies
Rose Conway-Walsh
526. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education if consideration has been given to her Department recruiting on a permanent basis architects, engineers, and quantity surveyors in order to provide in-house design team support for school capital projects; if any analysis has been carried out on the potential savings of such an approach; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12945/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
545. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the anticipated or known cost to the Exchequer over the lifetime of the contracts; the annual total payment of PPP unitary charges and the percentage share of the total capital budget for her Department and all public bodies under the aegis of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13192/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
577. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the anticipated or known cost to the Exchequer over the lifetime of the contracts; the annual total payment of PPP unitary charges and the percentage share of the total capital budget for her Department and all public bodies under the aegis of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13205/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Housing Schemes
Rose Conway-Walsh
681. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of cost rental scheme houses in Mayo at present; the plan for this scheme over the next five years for Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12782/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
708. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the anticipated or known cost to the Exchequer over the lifetime of the contracts; the annual total payment of PPP unitary charges and the percentage share of the total capital budget for his Department and all public bodies under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13199/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
709. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the PPP social housing bundle 1 and 2; the total capital cost; the total projected Exchequer cost spread over the lifetime of the contract; the hand back date; the cost per unit on the capital cost; the cost per unit on the projected Exchequer cost, in tabular from; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13216/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
790. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the anticipated or known cost to the Exchequer over the lifetime of the contracts; the annual total payment of PPP unitary charges and the percentage share of the total capital budget for her Department and all public bodies under the aegis of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13203/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
967. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Justice to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the anticipated or known cost to the Exchequer over the lifetime of the contracts; the annual total payment of PPP unitary charges and the percentage share of the total capital budget for her Department and all public bodies under the aegis of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13200/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
1068. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the anticipated or known cost to the Exchequer over the lifetime of the contracts; the annual total payment of PPP unitary charges and the percentage share of the total capital budget for his Department and all public bodies under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13189/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
1199. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the anticipated or known cost to the Exchequer over the lifetime of the contracts; the annual total payment of PPP unitary charges and the percentage share of the total capital budget for his Department and all public bodies under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13190/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Medicinal Products
Rose Conway-Walsh
1417. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Health the work that has been carried to develop pharmaceutical capacity in hospitals to make or compound highly expensive medicines on a small scale for their patients as allowed for under EU law, given increasing medicine costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12555/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Health Services
Rose Conway-Walsh
1451. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Health the number of people on the public health sector special scheme for long-Covid each month since it was introduced in July 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12685/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
1531. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Health to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the anticipated or known cost to the Exchequer over the lifetime of the contracts; the annual total payment of PPP unitary charges and the percentage share of the total capital budget for his Department and all public bodies under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13198/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
1565. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the anticipated or known cost to the Exchequer over the lifetime of the contracts; the annual total payment of PPP unitary charges and the percentage share of the total capital budget for his Department and all public bodies under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13197/24]
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
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Public Private Partnerships
Rose Conway-Walsh
1597. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide details on all planned PPP projects and ongoing PPP contracts; the status of each project; the anticipated or known capital cost; the anticipated or known cost to the Exchequer over the lifetime of the contracts; the annual total payment of PPP unitary charges and the percentage share of the total capital budget for her Department and all public bodies under the aegis of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13202/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Legislative Programme
Rose Conway-Walsh
32. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [3497/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Middle East
Rose Conway-Walsh
67. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to outline any engagement he or his Department has had with EU High Representative Josep Borrell Fontelles, or his office, on the potential suspension of the EU-Israel trade association agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11145/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Defective Building Materials
Rose Conway-Walsh
104. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the steps he is taking to make sure that people with defective concrete blocks and are engaging with the Government defective concrete block scheme can avail of SEAI funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11144/24]
Thu, 7 Mar 2024
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Transport Infrastructure Ireland
Rose Conway-Walsh
187. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Transport the rationale presented to him by Transport Infrastructure Ireland for the use of a private operator for the Luas, unlike all other rail infrastructure in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11219/24]
Tue, 5 Mar 2024
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Local Authorities
Rose Conway-Walsh
399. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he will take to ensure that local authority employees are treated in the same manner as civil servants in relation to situations where staff who are in an acting position do not get the benefit on the point on the pay scale if promoted to a higher role, only benefiting if they are promoted into the acting role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10186/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Nursing Homes
Rose Conway-Walsh
11. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Health what assistance can be given to a person who is living in full-time care in a nursing home, registered disabled, non-verbal, and has no family assistance and requires transport for various treatment at different hospitals; who is responsible for transport costs to and from medical appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9701/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Healthcare Infrastructure Provision
Rose Conway-Walsh
41. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the planned developments at Belmullet and Ballina District Hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9700/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Special Educational Needs
Rose Conway-Walsh
188. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Education if she will introduce exemptional measures in terms of eligibility for CID for all educators affected by the recently announced changes to special education funding, given many people are being negatively impacted in their careers such as in this case of a person (details supplied) where they are one contract away from CID in their current school but the school is no longer able to offer them a fixed term due to the cuts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9820/24]
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
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Legislative Programme
Rose Conway-Walsh
300. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [3503/24]
Wed, 28 Feb 2024
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Public Transport
Rose Conway-Walsh
24. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Transport if any consideration has been given to bringing the Luas under the direct management of Iarnród Éireann rather than tendering for a new private operator ahead of the expiration of the current contract in November 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9643/24]
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
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Legislative Programme
Rose Conway-Walsh
17. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [3496/24]
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
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Legislative Programme
Rose Conway-Walsh
28. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide an update on the legislative programme. [3499/24]
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
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Turbary Rights
Rose Conway-Walsh
47. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to impose buffer zones around areas where turf cutting is permitted in commonage areas and the effect this will have on ACRES payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8201/24]
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
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Legislative Programme
Rose Conway-Walsh
77. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [3505/24]
Wed, 21 Feb 2024
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Primary Care Centres
Rose Conway-Walsh
156. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the Ballyhaunis primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8177/24]
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
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National Security
Rose Conway-Walsh
5. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Taoiseach if he will develop a national security strategy and functioning security agency to deal with future security events. [8090/24]
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
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Cabinet Committees
Rose Conway-Walsh
15. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [8091/24]
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
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Legislative Programme
Rose Conway-Walsh
87. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the legislative programme. [3501/24]
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
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Defective Building Materials
Rose Conway-Walsh
348. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what plan/scheme is in place for social Housing tenants who are still living in pyrite effected homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7627/24]
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
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Defective Building Materials
Rose Conway-Walsh
358. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will allow people in the defective concrete block scheme in rural areas that have the necessary space to build beside their existing home in order to reduce costs of demolition and accommodation during construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8073/24]
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
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Hospital Services
Rose Conway-Walsh
541. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Health to list and detail any acute beds that have been removed from Mayo since 2020; the net acute bed position from the start of 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7628/24]
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
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Mental Health Services
Rose Conway-Walsh
594. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Health the total number of children being treated in-patient adult mental health facilities. [7864/24]
Thu, 15 Feb 2024
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Legislative Programme
Rose Conway-Walsh
61. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide an update on the legislative programme. [3502/24]
Thu, 15 Feb 2024
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Legislative Programme
Rose Conway-Walsh
82. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [3498/24]