Parliamentary questions

Road Traffic Accidents

Catherine Murphy

416. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of fatal road traffic collisions each year in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023 in which the surviving driver was injured in the crash; the number of injured drivers involved, by year; the number taken to hospital; the number of these drivers that were not tested for intoxicants each year in hospital; the reason these drivers were not tested for intoxicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41246/23]

Health Strategies

Catherine Murphy

556. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he and or the HSE have developed guidance for end users in respect of blue light from computer screens and digital devices in the context of eye health; and the number of persons in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 with eye complaints as a result of prolonged exposure to blue light. [41244/23]

Further and Higher Education

Catherine Murphy

611. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide an update in respect of the case of a person (details supplied). [41104/23]

Animal Breeding

Catherine Murphy

622. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the date on which the schedule of the restricted and specifically banned dog breeds was updated; if she has added the Presa Canario; if not, if she will outline the reason for same; if she has given consideration to adding and/or evaluating the need to add the American bully XL as a prescribed ban-dog to the schedule or restricted and or banned breeds; and if she will provide a schedule of the number of dogs that are exempt of The Control of Dogs Regulations, by breed and organisation that is responsible for the dogs. [41122/23]

Cross-Border Co-operation

Catherine Murphy

623. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the date on which her officials last engaged with their counterparts in Northern Ireland in respect of developing an all-island schedule of the restricted dog breeds. [41123/23]

Defective Building Materials

Catherine Murphy

141. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will devise some form of insurance support for people who own defective apartment blocks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40874/23]

Office of Public Works

Catherine Murphy

151. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if his Department obstructed the OPW from purchasing lands at Castletown House in 2021; if so, if he will outline the rationale for same; if the OPW presented a business case to his Department in respect of its ambition and/or intention to purchase the lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40873/23]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Catherine Murphy

24. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for Foreign Affairs if he has spoken with the Turkish Ambassador to Ireland to date in 2023. [40121/23]

Diplomatic Representation

Catherine Murphy

25. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if there are plans to appoint a cultural officer to the Embassy in Canberra, Australia. [40122/23]

Coast Guard Service

Catherine Murphy

103. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the current up-to-date position regarding a new coastguard building in Howth; and the amount that has been spent on this project to date. [40114/23]

Bus Services

Catherine Murphy

104. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of new bus drivers recruited by Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [40115/23]

Customs and Excise

Catherine Murphy

143. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the value of counterfeit prescription drugs and narcotics seized by customs officials at privately owned and State airports and ports of entry and exit that were passed to the HPRA for examination; and if he will provide the information in tabular form, by location, item and value, for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023. [40692/23]

Tax Data

Catherine Murphy

156. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost in 2024 of reducing the 2% USC rate to persons earning between €12,012.01 and €22,920 to 1%, and for persons earning between €22,920.01 to €70,044, to reduce that 4.5% USC rate to 4%; and the number of persons who would benefit in both bands. [40116/23]

Compulsory Purchase Orders

Catherine Murphy

202. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform his plans to use a compulsory purchase order in respect of lands at Castletown House in Celbridge County Kildare; if he has engaged with landowners regarding maintaining access from the M4 side of the grounds for public access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39854/23]

Tax Code

Catherine Murphy

413. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will publish the methodology used by the working group in respect of the review of the allocation of baseline funding in the context of LPT; if he will clarify whether the census of population data were used; the census year the data derived from; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39598/23]

Social Welfare Schemes

Catherine Murphy

633. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of disability allowance and State pension (contributory) as of August 2023; and the total spend on each payment in August 2023. [40127/23]

Departmental Contracts

Catherine Murphy

671. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide details of the total amount paid by the State to a company (details supplied) each year since the start of its most recent contract for its services in monitoring and enforcing speed limits on State roads. [39581/23]

Departmental Contracts

Catherine Murphy

672. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if there are minimum quotas or targets that operators of a company (details supplied) must meet in terms of recording speeding vehicles; if so, what these quotas are; and the way in which are they determined. [39583/23]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

695. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if there are plans to have 1400cc motorcycles in use in the Garda fleet; and the number of moped bikes in the fleet. [40118/23]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

696. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of stables currently in use in the Garda mounted unit; and if there are any stables not being used but are available to be used in the Garda mounted unit. [40119/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

710. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of Garda members in each roads policing unit, by Garda division, in 2022 and to date in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40463/23]

Departmental Staff

Catherine Murphy

769. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated full-year cost to recruit one additional whole-time equivalent, WTE, deputy chief analyst and one additional WTE chief analyst for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40120/23]

Customs and Excise

Catherine Murphy

791. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of counterfeit veterinary prescription drugs and animal growth hormones seized by customs officials at privately owned and State airports and ports of entry and exit that were passed to his Department for examination; and if he will provide the information in tabular form, by location, item and value, for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023. [40693/23]

Health Services Staff

Catherine Murphy

963. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of full-time multiple sclerosis, MS, nurse specialists employed by the HSE in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the locations in which these MS nurses are located, in tabular form. [40123/23]

Hospital Staff

Catherine Murphy

964. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE optometrists and orthoptists based in CHI Crumlin in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [40124/23]

Hospital Staff

Catherine Murphy

965. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant vascular surgeons at St. Vincent's University Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [40125/23]

Hospital Procedures

Catherine Murphy

966. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of brain scans carried out at Beaumont Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [40126/23]

Legislative Reviews

Catherine Murphy

1039. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health his plans to reform the Dental Act 1985; if he will provide a timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40695/23]

Legislative Reviews

Catherine Murphy

1040. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health his plans to empower the Dental Council to inspect dental practices, to be given authority to regulate dental practices which are not owned by dentists, and to investigate allegations of dental care being provided by persons who are not registered dental practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40696/23]

Legislative Reviews

Catherine Murphy

1041. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will set out a schedule of engagements that his Department has with the Dental Council on the matter outlined in the RTÉ Primetime investigates programme of 7 September 2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40697/23]

Library Projects

Catherine Murphy

1097. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of applications received by municipal districts in Wicklow County Council’s local authorities under the 2023 allocation; if she will provide a breakdown, by the library branch that was allocated funding and amount, in the local authority under the libraries capital programme in 2023; if she will provide a schedule of the proposals received for a small-scale capital works programme in public libraries to date in 2023 under the new libraries capital programme by each municipal district in County Wicklow and/or by Wicklow County Council, by amount; and to provide an outline of the proposed project. [40102/23]

Departmental Budgets

Catherine Murphy

1098. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development how much of the budget allocated towards the community centres investment fund has been spent to date. [40117/23]

Information and Communications Technology

Catherine Murphy

11. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within his Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of A.I., and if he will outline the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if he has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of A.I. [38575/23]

Consular Services

Catherine Murphy

31. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of persons who applied for the recent post of housekeeper at the Irish Consulate General in New York; and if he will provide a breakdown on the gender ratio of the applications. [37934/23]

Information and Communications Technology

Catherine Murphy

48. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within his Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of A.I., and if he will outline the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if he has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of A.I. [38567/23]

Diplomatic Representation

Catherine Murphy

58. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if construction works have commenced on new Ireland Houses in Singapore, Chicago and Shanghai. [38956/23]

Information and Communications Technology

Catherine Murphy

145. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within his Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of A.I., and if he will outline the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if he has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of A.I. [38565/23]

Departmental Budgets

Catherine Murphy

173. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount carried over by his Department's allocation in each of the years 2020 to 2022, inclusive, in tabular form. [38950/23]

Air Corps

Catherine Murphy

222. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he plans to put out a new tender before the end of the year to replace Learjet 45 aircraft within the Air Corps. [38556/23]

Information and Communications Technology

Catherine Murphy

223. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence, AI, within his Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of AI, and if he will outline the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if he has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of AI. [38562/23]

Air Corps

Catherine Murphy

225. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence when the second C-295 maritime patrol aircraft will come into the Air Corps fleet. [38941/23]

Air Corps

Catherine Murphy

226. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of cadet pilots in training and military avionics technicians currently in the Air Corps. [38942/23]

Greenways Provision

Catherine Murphy

277. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an updated timeline in respect of the date on which the construction of the greenway section of the Royal Canal between Clonsilla and Castleknock commences. [37728/23]

Rail Network

Catherine Murphy

278. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the date on which the renovation of the forecourt area of Bray rail station will commence; the budget allocated for the delivery of same; and the date on which it will be completed. [37729/23]

Departmental Funding

Catherine Murphy

281. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the balance that will be funded by his Department for the non-national road element of the R407 Sallins Bypass and Osberstown Interchange in 2023 and 2024 (details supplied). [37794/23]

Departmental Budgets

Catherine Murphy

296. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the 2022 capital budget allocation to his Department; and the amount and percentage of that funding that was spent and surrendered and-or unused. [37928/23]

Public Transport

Catherine Murphy

297. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the estimated cost of extending the 20% reduction in public transport fares until 31 December 2024. [37929/23]

Departmental Staff

Catherine Murphy

298. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of WTE ship surveyors employed by his Department in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [37930/23]

Information and Communications Technology

Catherine Murphy

367. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within his Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of A.I., and if he will outline the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if he has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of A.I. [38577/23]

Public Transport

Catherine Murphy

369. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport his plans to bring together stakeholders in the context of establishing a forum for the purpose of establishing a standardised multi-agency approach to combating anti-social behaviour on the public transport network. [38580/23]