Parliamentary questions

Covid-19 Pandemic

Jackie Cahill

652. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the length of time it takes KOSI to process and issue payment on employer claims for the pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8592/23]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Jackie Cahill

662. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if reconsideration will be given to PSRP eligibility to include day service section 39 staff, including an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8670/23]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Jackie Cahill

663. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the engagement of an organisation (details supplied) with the federation of voluntary bodies and HSE disability services in relation to the exclusion of section 39 day service staff under the PRSP programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8671/23]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Jackie Cahill

673. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the reason day service staff in section 39 organisations have not been included in the issuance of the pandemic special recognition payment, given they faced risks throughout the pandemic, were deemed essential workers during the pandemic and were deemed priority one under the HSE vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8744/23]

Housing Policy

Jackie Cahill

238. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in the case of a publican selling their liquor licence and wishing to renovate the premises and turn it into apartments, if there are grants available for the renovation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7861/23]

Bus Services

Jackie Cahill

58. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Transport the NTA's plans to roll out a permanent bus service in Clonmel town; the rationale behind the route and stops decided for the temporary service, given it differs from the previous local service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7469/23]

Employment Rights

Jackie Cahill

108. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is incumbent upon an employer to provide all employees with three days sick leave on full pay in 2023 without requiring proof of a sick note from a GP or doctor, in relation to the Sick Leave Act 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7049/23]

Road Safety

Jackie Cahill

145. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Transport if he will seek an update from TII and ensure the expeditious processing of its investigation into issues raised in relation to Barronstown Cross, Laffan, County Tipperary, following liaison with Tipperary County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6657/23]

Road Safety

Jackie Cahill

146. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Transport the efforts that will be made to improve safety at Barronstown Cross, County Tipperary for all road users, given the serious road safety concerns raised by locals for many years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6658/23]

Visa Applications

Jackie Cahill

502. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide an update on the family reunification visas, currently being considered by the Embassy of Ireland in Abu Dhabi, given that it is over six months since these applications were lodged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6783/23]

Ambulance Service

Jackie Cahill

549. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of purchasing an ambulance and staffing it with an appropriate team of paramedics in order to provide transport services from Nenagh General Hospital to local nursing homes, to transport patients who are leaving Nenagh Hospital and are being moved to local nursing homes in north Tipperary; the estimated cost for this one-off capital expenditure; the estimated running costs of this on an annual basis thereafter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6502/23]

Medicinal Products

Jackie Cahill

626. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the process by which pregnant people with Hyperemesis Gravidarum may obtain the drug cariban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6684/23]

Medicinal Products

Jackie Cahill

627. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the reason cariban cannot be prescribed by GPs on the DPS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6685/23]

Medicinal Products

Jackie Cahill

628. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the other options that are available to pregnant people who experience Hyperemesis Gravidarum in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy given the current inability to obtain a prescription for cariban without first being seen by a consultant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6686/23]

Medicinal Products

Jackie Cahill

629. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the current standard of practice in other EU countries for the prescription of cariban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6687/23]

Medicinal Products

Jackie Cahill

630. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the number of cariban prescriptions processed through DPS to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6688/23]

Medicinal Products

Jackie Cahill

631. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health when he expects an outcome of the review he requested from the HSE and his Department on the current approach to the reimbursement of cariban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6689/23]

Medicinal Products

Jackie Cahill

641. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that pregnant people affected by hyperemesis gravidarum are currently forced to present at emergency departments in order to obtain consultant prescriptions for Cariban; if his Department has identified the unnecessary delays and additional cost burden this has caused in emergency departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6722/23]

Medicinal Products

Jackie Cahill

642. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the engagement the Department has made with Hyperemesis Ireland, the ICGP, and other expert bodies, regarding the implementation of reimbursement of cariban for hyperemesis gravidarum sufferers; his future plans to engage with relevant bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6723/23]

Animal Diseases

Jackie Cahill

891. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of herds that are currently restricted with TB, per county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6636/23]

Animal Diseases

Jackie Cahill

892. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of TB reactors, per county, in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6637/23]

Animal Diseases

Jackie Cahill

893. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the RPT per county in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6638/23]

Parking Provision

Jackie Cahill

913. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the Community Centres Investment Fund provided funding for improvements to car parking facilities around community centres and parish halls in the 2022 allocation; if so, which category of funding was this awarded under; when the fund will be open for applications in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7088/23]

Business Supports

Jackie Cahill

123. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Finance the reason a centre (details supplied) does not qualify for the TBESS; if other supports are available to a premises like this to assist with rising energy costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6282/23]

Tax Code

Jackie Cahill

124. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Finance if, in the case of a car being imported into Northern Ireland from England and then being converted into a hearse in Northern Ireland before import into Ireland, VAT is chargeable on the vehicle upon registration in Ireland; if so, if the VAT is chargeable on the price of the vehicle when it enters Northern Ireland from England or when it enters Ireland from Northern Ireland; if so, when this charge came into place; the number of hearses that have been charged for VAT under these conditions since the UK left the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6299/23]

Constitutional Amendments

Jackie Cahill

131. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the Government has set a date for a referendum on establishing full public ownership of Irish Water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6205/23]

An Garda Síochána

Jackie Cahill

328. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Justice the status of the transfer of public sector staff who will be placed under the remit of An Garda Síochána and the Garda Commissioner; if relevant unions are being consulted as part of this process; if all staff will have to agree to this transfer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5986/23]

Medicinal Products

Jackie Cahill

367. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health if the drug romosozumab will shortly be regulated by the Health Products Regulatory Authority in Ireland and be made available on the drug payment scheme and to medical card holders, given that this drug is used to treat osteoporosis in many countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5689/23]

Departmental Funding

Jackie Cahill

500. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason that the €800,000 funding support for men’s sheds was not announced earlier in 2022; the reason that it was only open for applications for a short number of weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5585/23]

Departmental Funding

Jackie Cahill

501. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason that the period of qualified utility and operating expenses differs between the community support fund and the funding supports allocated to support Irish men’s sheds, both announced in November 2022, given that they are similar grants in nature; if any consideration was given to the IMSA allocation having the same expenses timeframe of April 2022 to March 2023, given that this would have alleviated issues that have arisen whereby a number of sheds have been left ineligible for the full allocation following funding allocations from other streams in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5586/23]

Departmental Funding

Jackie Cahill

502. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the further efforts that are to be made on a Government level to assist in the sustainability of stand-alone men’s sheds in Ireland; if the Government has consulted with IMSA in this regard, especially following issues that arose in relation to the €800,000 grant that was allocated late last year by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5587/23]

Departmental Funding

Jackie Cahill

503. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason the €800,000 funding support for men’s sheds did not allow further discretion for sheds in greater need of financial assistance, sheds that may have forgone items deemed as eligible expenditure due to their uncertain financial futures in 2022, sheds that have received support from their local communities through non-monetary means, ensuring their survival but leaving the shed ineligible for this financial support as they have not incurred the costs listed as eligible expenditure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5588/23]

Departmental Funding

Jackie Cahill

504. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason that the €800,000 funding support for men’s sheds cannot be used for part payments on the total cost of capital expenditure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5589/23]

Passport Services

Jackie Cahill

84. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of passport applications from County Tipperary that are currently outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4398/23]

Emigrant Support Services

Jackie Cahill

99. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his Department’s emigrant support programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4399/23]

State Bodies

Jackie Cahill

259. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Finance the current status of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of appeal; if they are operational; the current processing time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4163/23]

State Bodies

Jackie Cahill

260. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Finance how an individual undertakes the appeals process, with regard to a primary medical certificate refusal, to the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4164/23]

Primary Medical Certificates

Jackie Cahill

261. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Finance the criteria that one must meet to qualify for a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4165/23]

Primary Medical Certificates

Jackie Cahill

262. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Finance if an appeal must be made within a specific timeframe following a primary medical certificate refusal, to the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4167/23]

Social Welfare Appeals

Jackie Cahill

498. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of appeals received by the social welfare appeals office per month since 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4573/23]

Social Welfare Appeals

Jackie Cahill

499. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection the current average processing time for an appeal with the social welfare appeals office; the average processing time for appeals by month from 2021 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4574/23]

Social Welfare Appeals

Jackie Cahill

500. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the delays in the provision of documentation to the appeals office by social welfare sections; the impact this is having on appeal processing times; the efforts being made to reduce these delays; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4575/23]

Social Welfare Appeals

Jackie Cahill

501. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection the efforts that are being made to reduce appeal processing times in the social welfare appeals office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4576/23]

Social Welfare Appeals

Jackie Cahill

502. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of appeals officers currently employed in the social welfare appeals office; if her Department has plans to increase this figure in the coming months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4577/23]

Primary Medical Certificates

Jackie Cahill

657. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the circumstances under which an individual may reapply for a primary medical certificate following a past refusal; if a certain time period must lapse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4166/23]

Housing Schemes

Jackie Cahill

124. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if any changes are likely to be made in relation to the price ceiling under the first home scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3674/23]

Defective Building Materials

Jackie Cahill

138. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of financial support that will be available under the scheme for the remediation of defects in apartments and duplexes; if homeowners who have done remediation works will be entitled to retrospective financial support under the scheme for the remediation of defects in apartments and duplexes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3675/23]

Health Service Executive

Jackie Cahill

317. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health the criteria one must meet in order to qualify for free orthodontic treatment from the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3892/23]

Health Service Executive

Jackie Cahill

318. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Health what options are available to children who have been refused free orthodontic treatment from the HSE; if there is an appeals process or an option to seek a second opinion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3893/23]

Forestry Sector

Jackie Cahill

325. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the 7,343 hectares referred to by his Department as ready for planting is based on a 100% conversion rate, with the assumption that every licence issued gets planted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3854/23]