Parliamentary questions

Educational Disadvantage

Cathal Crowe

55. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if her Department will give positive consideration to the application supplied by a school (details supplied) seeking DEIS status. [18142/24]

School Staff

Cathal Crowe

56. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if she will give consideration to the disbandment of Croke Park hours for teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18152/24]

Social Welfare Benefits

Cathal Crowe

96. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider increasing the household benefits package allowance for those in receipt of a pension; and if she will remove the means test for those over 66 years of age. [18133/24]

State Properties

Cathal Crowe

51. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform his plans for the State-owned unit 153 in Shannon Business Park, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15647/24]

State Properties

Cathal Crowe

65. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if his Department has plans to upgrade the State-owned motor taxation office in Shannon, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15646/24]

Departmental Schemes

Cathal Crowe

355. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of a scheme (details supplied); and when he expects it to be open for applicants with water ingress issues to be repaired. [17476/24]

Grant Payments

Cathal Crowe

363. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the rules surrounding the housing adaptation grant (details supplied) will be amended so that an invalidity pension is not included in the means test for adapting a home for disabled access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17585/24]

School Meals Programme

Cathal Crowe

403. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection when the schools (details supplied) announced for the hot school meals programme can expect the meals to be rolled out; and what options are available for those with allergies. [17536/24]

Health Promotion

Cathal Crowe

685. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the reason there is currently no funding plan for a Healthy Food Made Easy programme in County Clare; the reason no facilitator is in place for the delivery of this programme in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18029/24]

Health Promotion

Cathal Crowe

686. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if a social prescribers programme is operating in Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18030/24]

Dental Services

Cathal Crowe

688. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if he will outline plans his Department has to recruit dentists into the HSE dental service so that the huge backlog of children awaiting dental treatment in CHO3 can be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18032/24]

Tourism Policy

Cathal Crowe

12. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her Department has a strategy to ensure tourism in Ireland is more regionally balanced in terms of the entry and exit points of passengers arriving into Ireland, that is, airports and ferry ports. [16690/24]

Sports Funding

Cathal Crowe

39. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media when she expects the sports capital grants to be announced. [16691/24]

Regional Development

Cathal Crowe

62. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on his Department’s efforts, in conjunction with IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, to attract new commerce and industry to County Clare. [16695/24]

Business Supports

Cathal Crowe

117. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will give positive consideration to introducing supports to struggling small and medium-sized businesses to meet the increased costs they are facing. [16694/24]

Departmental Data

Cathal Crowe

303. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if he will outline which public hospitals in Ireland are considered to be teaching hospitals; and if he will outline figures as to the number of nurses placed in each hospital in an average year, in tabular form. [17214/24]

Tax Exemptions

Cathal Crowe

19. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to extending the VAT exemption to counsellors and psychotherapists in Ireland (details supplied). [16878/24]

School Transport

Cathal Crowe

336. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if the rule mandating that School Transport Scheme bus drivers must retire at age 70 will be revised, in view of the severe driver shortage last year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16517/24]

National Archives

Cathal Crowe

533. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that the Irish Land Commission Archive records (details supplied) are made publicly available vis-à-vis the National Archive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16563/24]

Sewerage Schemes

Cathal Crowe

30. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he expects works, funded by his Department, to develop sewerage schemes in the villages of Broadford and Cooraclare (both in County Clare) to commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15641/24]

Housing Provision

Cathal Crowe

45. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an overview of the roll-out of the ‘Housing for All’ strategy in County Clare to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15642/24]

Ukraine War

Cathal Crowe

134. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will overturn a decision to refuse permission to travel to two children (details supplied) who need to sit an exam; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15614/24]

Foreign Birth Registration

Cathal Crowe

42. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for an update on two foreign birth register applications (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15035/24]

National Broadband Plan

Cathal Crowe

83. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications why Newmarket-on- Fergus in County Clare is not included in the National Broadband Ireland Fibre roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13951/24]

National Broadband Plan

Cathal Crowe

84. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications what his long-term plans are to ensure adequate fibre broadband connectivity for Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13952/24]

Commemorative Medals

Cathal Crowe

152. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if his Department will award retired and former soldiers the 1916 Centenary Commemorative Medal if their service had concluded by 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14590/24]

Public Sector Pensions

Cathal Crowe

205. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Transport if he will request the board of an organisation (details supplied) to comply with the spirit of the Mulvey Report 2023 and provide a pension increase for 2024 to pensioners of the IAA, in line with the pension increase recommendations within the Mulvey Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14181/24]

Public Sector Pensions

Cathal Crowe

206. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Transport if will he instruct the board of an organisation (details supplied), in light of the huge increase, since the Covid pandemic ended, in the demand for commercial and leisure air travel and in light of the significant rise in consumer inflation for pensioners, to provide an amount within the Eurocontrol User Charge Unit Rate to ensure that current pensions in payment to pensioners of the IAA receive occasional pension increases concurrently with the occasional pay increases received by their colleagues still working within the State air navigation services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14182/24]

Air Services

Cathal Crowe

244. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Transport for an update on a Public Service Obligation application in respect of a proposed Shannon Airport to Amsterdam Schiphol route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15010/24]

Development Contributions

Cathal Crowe

665. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he plans to extend the temporary development contribution waiver scheme beyond April 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14709/24]

Housing Provision

Cathal Crowe

710. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a progress report on the €8 million project of 30 new social houses at Deerpark, Ennistymon, County Clare (as announced in late 2020); if he can clarify the reasons for delays encountered to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15268/24]

Visa Applications

Cathal Crowe

847. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Justice if she will ensure that the necessary paperwork for an approved Irish visa (details supplied) is issued as soon as possible to allow the person in question to take up their job here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14020/24]

Agriculture Schemes

Cathal Crowe

1001. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will personally intervene in the case of a farmer (details supplied) waiting on a payment under the young farm payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14805/24]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Cathal Crowe

1324. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health what supports his Department will put in place for those who have been on special leave with pay and whose payments are due to cease, but who cannot return to work (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14118/24]

Food Safety

Cathal Crowe

1368. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1369 of 18 April 2023, for an update on plans to address the issue of carcinogenic substances present in oranges (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14345/24]

Health Services Staff

Cathal Crowe

1580. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the supports his Department will put in place for health workers who contracted long-Covid while carrying out their frontline services during the Covid-19 pandemic, who continue to be impacted by their condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15189/24]

Medical Aids and Appliances

Cathal Crowe

1589. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health when a communications device, ordered by the HSE on 11 March 2024 (details supplied), is likely top be supplied to a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15237/24]

Electricity Grid

Cathal Crowe

119. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has had discussions with the CRU on the possibility of adding a second annual application window for the Enduring Connections Process. [12812/24]

Electric Vehicles

Cathal Crowe

165. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Transport if he, in consultation with the relevant departments, will examine a financial incentive for drivers to buy a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) in order to meet Ireland's obligation to move away from diesel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12222/24]

Flood Relief Schemes

Cathal Crowe

291. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the details on when his Department will undertake drainage and flood relief works at Gullet Cross, Cratloe, County Clare. [12273/24]

School Funding

Cathal Crowe

456. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if she can urgently reconsider a decision not to grant emergency works approval to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12318/24]

School Funding

Cathal Crowe

457. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education when the application period for the summer works scheme 2024 will open. [12319/24]

Housing Provision

Cathal Crowe

624. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are plans to extend the current timeline restrictions on the temporary development contribution waiver scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11893/24]

Housing Schemes

Cathal Crowe

646. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if individuals who have fully or partially demolished an old derelict property are also eligible to apply for funding under the croí cónaithe scheme; if so, what percentage of demolition is allowable under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12281/24]

Social Welfare Code

Cathal Crowe

754. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection what supports her Department will put in place for those who have been on special leave with pay and whose payments are due to cease, but who cannot return to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12512/24]

EU Meetings

Cathal Crowe

979. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his priorities for the upcoming discussion on the future of the EU fisheries and aquaculture sector to be held in Bruges on 24 and 25 March 2024. [12017/24]

Irish Language

Cathal Crowe

1544. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his Department provides funding opportunities that Irish PhD students undertaking their studies in the Irish language abroad can avail of; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11663/24]

Human Rights

Cathal Crowe

8. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the case of a political prisoner (details supplied) in Russia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10849/24]

Human Rights

Cathal Crowe

68. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the case of a political prisoner (details supplied) in Russia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10848/24]

An Garda Síochána

Cathal Crowe

286. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Justice if she will consider changing a rule (details supplied) restricting elected representatives from sitting on multiple Joint Policing Committees. [11351/24]