Parliamentary questions

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

194. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by his Department and bodies under his aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if he will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if he will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement. [9909/23]

Business Supports

Catherine Murphy

218. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the way in which a business can receive temporary business energy support scheme support in instances where they share an electricity supply that is one metre from the premises, subdivided into separate business dwellings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9689/23]

Mortgage Interest Rates

Catherine Murphy

225. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the progress he has made to date with banks in Ireland in relation to a significant reduction of interest rates on residential mortgages in view of the fact that they are some of the highest in the Eurozone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9772/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

226. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by his Department and bodies under his aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if he will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if he will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement [9898/23]

Public Sector Staff

Catherine Murphy

241. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will outline the way in which the employment status of a civil servant can be reclassified to a public servant; if transfer of undertakings (protection of employment) regulations are applicable; and if he has to sanction the reclassification [9628/23]

Public Sector Staff

Catherine Murphy

242. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if his attention and or that of his officials has been drawn to an industrial relations issue (details supplied); and the steps that have taken in respect of same. [9629/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

244. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by his Department and bodies under his aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if he will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if he will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement [9904/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

258. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by her Department and bodies under her aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if she will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if she will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement. [9908/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

287. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by his Department and bodies under his aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if he will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if he will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement [9902/23]

Ministerial Staff

Catherine Murphy

314. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide details of all special advisers employed in his Department; their roles; and their annual salaries. [9710/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

317. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by his Department and bodies under his aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if he will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if he will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement. [9899/23]

Ministerial Staff

Catherine Murphy

324. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide details of all special advisers employed in his Department; their roles; and their annual salaries. [9711/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

325. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and-or radio personalities engaged by his Department and bodies under his aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if he will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if he will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement [9894/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

356. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by her Department and bodies under her aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if she will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if she will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement [9895/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

409. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by her Department and bodies under her aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if she will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if she will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement. [9906/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

442. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update in respect of the work of a person (details supplied) in respect of historical matters. [9686/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

443. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he and or Tusla has received any interim or final reports in respect of an organisation’s inquiry (details supplied) undertaken by a person; and if he will make a written request to the organisation to publish the report. [9687/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

449. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by his Department and bodies under his aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if he will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if he will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement [9893/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

460. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by his Department and bodies under his aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if he will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if he will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement. [9900/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

466. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of disqualified drivers that failed to surrender their licence in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and were summoned to court for the offence; the number of drivers that were convicted of this offence; the value of the fines imposed by the court. [9465/23]

Citizenship Applications

Catherine Murphy

486. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of projects which IIP applicants proposed to invest in that were deemed not to meet IIP criteria by the independent evaluation committee since the scheme opened and closed. [9747/23]

Citizenship Applications

Catherine Murphy

487. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the totality of IIP permits that were granted since the scheme opened; if he will provide a breakdown of applications by country of origin; and if he will provide a schedule of all investments made under the IIP scheme. [9749/23]

Immigration Policy

Catherine Murphy

488. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide a schedule of engagements he and or his predecessor have had with the Central Bank and the Revenue Commissioners in respect of closing the IIP scheme; if he gave both organisations advance notice of the cessation of the IIP scheme; and if he took advice from either organisation in respect of the cessation of the IIP scheme. [9750/23]

Immigration Policy

Catherine Murphy

509. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide an outline in respect of the IIP scheme of the due diligence that the independent Evaluation Committee conducted on applicants. [9863/23]

Immigration Policy

Catherine Murphy

510. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if he will confirm whether he was directed by either the EU Commission, Council of Europe and or OECD to close the IIP scheme on border security, money laundering, tax evasion and or circumvention of EU law. [9864/23]

Immigration Policy

Catherine Murphy

511. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if the independent Evaluation Committee and or the Department of Finance and or the Revenue Commissioners and or Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage drew his attention to broader public policy concern in respect of the IIP scheme. [9865/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

512. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by his Department and bodies under his aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if he will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if he will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement [9903/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

611. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by his Department and bodies under his aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if he will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if he will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement [9901/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

702. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by his Department and bodies under his aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if he will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if he will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement [9892/23]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

715. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by her Department and bodies under her aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if she will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if she will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement [9905/23]

Tax Rebates

Catherine Murphy

184. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will expedite the issuing of a motor tax refund to a person (details supplied). [9412/23]

Tax Rebates

Catherine Murphy

185. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide a schedule indicating the number of requests for a refund of motor tax that are outstanding by county; and the amount of motor tax refunded in the past ten years to date by county. [9413/23]

Public Sector Pensions

Catherine Murphy

187. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will confirm that he will not sign any amending Statutory Instrument changing the benefits of members of the CIÉ ‘1951 Scheme’ because the ‘1951’ Committee of Trustees’ independent actuary has confirmed that the ‘1951 Scheme’ now meets the minimum funding standard provisions of the Pensions Act 1990 and is solvent. [9456/23]

Public Sector Pensions

Catherine Murphy

188. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will direct CIÉ to provide a detailed explanation, including all of the outstanding information sought by the statutory ‘1951 Scheme’ Committee of Trustees, in respect of the failure of the CIÉ Board to act in a timely manner in relation to investment decisions from the end of March 2020 to 13 May 2020, and which lead to an as yet unspecified financial loss to the pension scheme it was responsible for; and if he will provide answers to the preliminary questions outlined in the Elected Trustee Bulletin, dated 20 February 2023. [9457/23]

Public Sector Pensions

Catherine Murphy

189. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will request specific details from CIÉ (details supplied). [9458/23]

Public Sector Pensions

Catherine Murphy

190. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will direct CIÉ to respond to the queries posed by this Deputy’s Elected Trustees in relation to Agreed Actuarial Protocols, as outlined in its Elected Trustee Bulletin, dated 20 February 2023. [9459/23]

Departmental Reviews

Catherine Murphy

209. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a full update in respect of his review of local property tax baselines and if he has finalised baselines for 2024 and 2025. [9358/23]

School Accommodation

Catherine Murphy

231. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide schedules by school planning areas of current and future capital investment projects that will provide for the projected future need and to enrolment pressures in the Naas, Clane, Leixlip, Maynooth and the Celbridge areas in County Kildare; and if she will provide the same information in respect of Lucan, County Dublin, the Dublin 15 area, Dunboyne and Laytown, County Meath and Bray and Greystones areas of north County Wicklow. [9428/23]

Road Traffic Offences

Catherine Murphy

99. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of drivers disqualified in each year since 2016; the number who surrendered their licence to the RSA each year from 2016 following disqualification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9224/23]

Sports Facilities

Catherine Murphy

116. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if his Department has negotiated terms for the repayment of the €7.6 million loan given to an organisation under the 2020 memorandum of understanding; if not, if consideration is being given to converting the loan into a non-repayable grant; if he will provide a repayments schedule; the interest rate applied to the loan; and the date on which it is due for full settlement. [8914/23]

Departmental Reports

Catherine Murphy

201. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide this Deputy with a report by an organisation (details supplied). [9026/23]

Voluntary Sector

Catherine Murphy

268. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will outline the way in which a centralised funding platform can be built in the absence of the fundamental data infrastructure of a trusted database of all Irish community and voluntary organisations (details supplied), in the context of the Pobal scoping exercise regarding a national funding platform. [9208/23]

Voluntary Sector

Catherine Murphy

269. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated cost of developing the proposed national funding platform (details supplied). [9209/23]

Central Statistics Office

Catherine Murphy

270. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which she will provide data required by the CSO for the preparation of the national accounts (details supplied). [9210/23]

Semi-State Bodies

Catherine Murphy

123. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if, over that period, his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over its percentage shareholding; and the number of occasions that it waived the dividend. [7913/23]

Enterprise Support Services

Catherine Murphy

139. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of senior principal scientific officers and senior executive in global procurement working for Enterprise Ireland in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [8360/23]

Departmental Funding

Catherine Murphy

168. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a schedule of NGOs that he and bodies under the aegis of his Department suspended funding and or grant aid to due to their failure to file accounts and/or concerns that arose in respect of their governance in the years 2019 to 2022 and to date in 2023; and the amount of funding per NGO that was suspended. [8660/23]

Parking Provision

Catherine Murphy

190. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the campaign of an organisation (details supplied); if gardaí have any powers of enforcement in respect of disabled parking bays in private car parks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8299/23]

National Transport Authority

Catherine Murphy

191. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if the National Transport Authority was involved in relation to the establishment of setting standards for maintenance and enforcement of disabled parking bays, both public and private and if so, if he will provide details of same. [8300/23]

National Transport Authority

Catherine Murphy

194. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if the National Transport Authority will provide for the installation of a bus shelter at Dublin Bus Stop Nos. 495 and 4132. [8342/23]

Transport Infrastructure Ireland

Catherine Murphy

195. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the amount that was retained in overpaid tolls by Transport Infrastructure Ireland in respect of the M50 in 2022; and if Transport Infrastructure Ireland will develop a scheme through which it can refund and-or redistribute the excess funds. [8343/23]

State Bodies

Catherine Murphy

226. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the full-time vacancies, by job title, in the office of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman as of 14 February 2023; the estimated full-year cost of filling each of these vacancies; and when each of these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [8362/23]

Office of Public Works

Catherine Murphy

245. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if the refurbishment works on the new Garda office in O’Connell Street, Dublin, have been completed; if so, when the OPW will transfer this building over to An Garda Síochána. [8351/23]

National Cultural Institutions

Catherine Murphy

264. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has met directly with the director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art to date in 2023. [8359/23]

Sports Funding

Catherine Murphy

266. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the date on which the next Local Authority Swimming Pool Grant Programme application process will commence; the amount granted to County Kildare in respect of the scheme in the last round by location. [8415/23]

Sports Funding

Catherine Murphy

267. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he will provide an update on the large-scale sport infrastructure fund grant in respect of the delivery of a swimming pool to the north County Kildare. [8419/23]

Grant Payments

Catherine Murphy

272. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide a schedule of NGOs that he and bodies under the aegis of her Department suspended funding and or grant aid to due to their failure to file accounts and or concerns arose in respect of their governance in the years 2019 to 2022 and to date in 2023; and the amount of funding per NGO that was suspended. [8657/23]

Local Authorities

Catherine Murphy

304. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline whether there is a funding stream available to local authorities to enable them to fund additional staff resources; and the amount of funding on a local authority-basis of the funds allocated in 2022. [8435/23]

Community Development Projects

Catherine Murphy

305. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will expand the way in which the urban regeneration and development fund can be utilised for use on public realm and community developments. [8439/23]

Departmental Funding

Catherine Murphy

314. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a schedule of NGOs that he and bodies under the aegis of his Department suspended funding and or grant aid to due to their failure to file accounts and or concerns arose in respect of their governance in the years 2019 to 2022 and to date in 2023; and the amount of funding per NGO that was suspended. [8661/23]

Diplomatic Representation

Catherine Murphy

340. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Irish ambassador to Australia has visited any military barracks in Australia on official business in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023; and if so, the name of the military barracks, in tabular form. [8352/23]

Official Travel

Catherine Murphy

341. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he plans to visit the United Arab Emirates within the first half of 2023. [8353/23]

Departmental Funding

Catherine Murphy

346. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a schedule of NGOs that he and bodies under the aegis of his Department suspended funding and-or grant aid to due to their failure to file accounts and-or concerns that arose in respect of their governance in the years 2019 to 2022 and to date in 2023; and the amount of funding per NGO that was suspended. [8656/23]

State Claims Agency

Catherine Murphy

353. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the amount the State Claims Agency has paid out in compensation in mass action, relating to contamination and-or poisoning, life-changing injury and death of personnel in the Defence Forces claims in the past ten years to date; and the number of claims the payments concern over that same timeframe, in tabular form. [8309/23]

State Claims Agency

Catherine Murphy

354. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the amount paid out in third party legal costs relating to contamination and-or poisoning, life-changing injury and death to personnel in the Defence Forces claims in the past ten years to date; the number of cases that the third-party costs relate to; and the amount that each of the top five named legal firms received in over that same time period, in tabular form. [8310/23]

State Claims Agency

Catherine Murphy

355. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the amount paid out in first party legal costs relating to relating to contamination and-or poisoning, life-changing injury and death to personnel in the Defence Forces claims in the past ten years to date; the number of cases that the third-party costs relate to; and the amount that each of the top five named legal firms received in over that same time period, in tabular form. [8311/23]

Departmental Communications

Catherine Murphy

356. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence his counterparts he has spoken to since his appointment as Minister for Defence, in tabular form. [8357/23]

Special Educational Needs

Catherine Murphy

403. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the estimated full-year cost of recruiting two additional WTE behaviour practitioners for the National Council for Special Education. [8363/23]

Social Welfare Payments

Catherine Murphy

474. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of domiciliary care allowance applications received by her Department in 2022 and to date in 2023; and the number of these applications that were refused during this period in tabular form. [8358/23]

Departmental Policies

Catherine Murphy

496. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail any work that is ongoing in his Department in relation to non-disclosure agreement reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8367/23]

Juvenile Offenders

Catherine Murphy

504. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of young persons that are currently on remand at Oberstown children's detention campus for more than three months as of 13 February 2023. [8350/23]

Departmental Staff

Catherine Murphy

505. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff seconded to his Department by grade in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023. [8436/23]

Departmental Staff

Catherine Murphy

506. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff seconded to his Department by grade in 2022 and to date in 2023. [8437/23]

Departmental Funding

Catherine Murphy

512. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of NGOs that he and bodies under the aegis of his Department suspended funding and or grant aid to due to their failure to file accounts and or concerns in respect of their governance in the years 2019 to 2022 and to date in 2023; and the amount of funding per NGO that was suspended. [8659/23]

Third Level Admissions

Catherine Murphy

531. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if it is proposed to increase the number of places on first-year veterinary medicine for Irish students in 2023. [8349/23]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

562. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of gardaí, by rank, attached to each divisional drugs unit as of 14 February 2023, in tabular form. [8344/23]

Prison Service

Catherine Murphy

563. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of persons currently in prison for the offence of careless driving and due for release in 2025 or 2026, in tabular form. [8345/23]

Travel Documents

Catherine Murphy

564. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of persons who have been detained when arriving into Ireland and charged with travelling on a fake Canadian passport in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [8346/23]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

565. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of cases that the Garda national drugs and organised crime bureau have dealt with in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [8347/23]

Official Engagements

Catherine Murphy

566. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if he has spoken with the UK Home Secretary to date in 2023. [8348/23]

EU Directives

Catherine Murphy

567. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if his Department has been engaging with the European Parliament in relation to the proposed directive on Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation; and to detail what anti-SLAPP mechanisms his Department is considering for domestic legislation. [8366/23]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

569. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice his plans to change Garda recruitment rules in respect of the upper threshold for recruits, in view of the fact that the policy has now been determined to be ageist (details supplied). [8386/23]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

570. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if the recruitment plans for gardaí this year will be delayed as a result of outcome of a case that he was party to (details supplied). [8387/23]

Departmental Funding

Catherine Murphy

579. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide a schedule of NGOs that he and bodies under the aegis of his Department suspended funding and or grant aid to due to their failure to file accounts and or concerns in respect of their governance in the years 2019 to 2022, and to date in 2023; and the amount of funding per NGO that was suspended. [8658/23]

Hospital Staff

Catherine Murphy

630. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant cardiothoracic surgeons working in the Mater Hospital in the years of 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [8354/23]

Hospital Staff

Catherine Murphy

631. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant maxillofacial surgeons working in St James's Hospital in the years of 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [8355/23]

Health Services Staff

Catherine Murphy

632. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist with a special interest in psychiatry of learning disability based in County Kildare in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [8356/23]

Departmental Funding

Catherine Murphy

660. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of NGOs to which he and the HSE suspended funding and-or grant aid due to their failure to file accounts and-or concerns arose in respect of their governance in the years 2019 to 2022 and to date in 2023; and the amount of funding per NGO that was suspended. [8654/23]

Departmental Staff

Catherine Murphy

727. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a new recruitment campaign for technical agricultural officers will be launched before Easter 2023. [8361/23]

Departmental Funding

Catherine Murphy

749. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of NGOs to which she and bodies under the aegis of her Department suspended funding and or grant aid due to their failure to file accounts and-or because concerns arose in respect of their governance in the years 2019 to 2022 and to date in 2023; and the amount of funding per NGO that was suspended. [8655/23]

State Bodies

Catherine Murphy

180. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide the name of all external legal companies engaged by Inland isheries Ireland in the past three years to date; and the cost associated with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7875/23]

Semi-State Bodies

Catherine Murphy

181. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7903/23]

Semi-State Bodies

Catherine Murphy

188. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7915/23]

Semi-State Bodies

Catherine Murphy

201. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over its percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7904/23]

Semi-State Bodies

Catherine Murphy

210. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7910/23]

Semi-State Bodies

Catherine Murphy

215. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under her aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if her Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period her Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7914/23]

Housing Policy

Catherine Murphy

239. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7908/23]

Rental Sector

Catherine Murphy

244. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the engagements he and or his officials have had with the RTB in respect of resolving an issue regarding the RTB register in which inactive accounts on the RTB register are not issued with automatically generated reminders to register a property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8008/23]

Semi-State Bodies

Catherine Murphy

250. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7905/23]

Semi-State Bodies

Catherine Murphy

252. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7900/23]