Parliamentary questions

Departmental Correspondence

Mary Lou McDonald

496. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether any groups or individuals contacted his Department to express concerns in relation to the timeframe for making submissions to the consultation on the referendums on family, care and equality and/or in relation to the process for finalising the wordings to be put to referendum more generally; if so, how many individuals or groups expressed such concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32212/23]

Equality Issues

Mary Lou McDonald

497. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 421 of 21 January 2023, when he will publish findings of the consultation to examine the functioning and effectiveness of the Equality Acts, which was expected early this year. [32216/23]

Pharmacy Services

Mary Lou McDonald

561. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health if he intends to establish a review of pharmacy dispensing fees and the extent of service provision by community pharmacists; and if he will engage directly with an organisation (details supplied) on the matter. [32054/23]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Mary Lou McDonald

3. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the Prime Minister of Luxembourg. [30733/23]

Child Poverty

Mary Lou McDonald

4. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the proposed child poverty unit in his Department. [30731/23]

Energy Conservation

Mary Lou McDonald

83. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount funding that is available to Dublin City Council for the energy efficiency retrofit programme; and if he has any plans to increase this funding to meet climate action plans. [31399/23]

Health Services Staff

Mary Lou McDonald

137. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the number of cognitive behavioural therapists in CHO9; the average waiting time for a patient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31398/23]

Departmental Functions

Mary Lou McDonald

1. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the non-statutory public service modernisation, development and reform functions for which his Department is responsible. [29334/23]

Programme for Government

Mary Lou McDonald

6. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach his intention to establish additional units-divisions in his Department to those outlined in the programme for Government. [29336/23]

British-Irish Co-operation

Mary Lou McDonald

16. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on any recent discussions he has had with the British Prime Minister. [30732/23]

Equality Issues

Mary Lou McDonald

290. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will publish the study commissioned by his Department to evaluate the processes for implementation of three equality strategies, namely, the National Strategy for Women and Girls as well as the Migrant Integration Strategy and the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy, due to be completed early in 2023. [30317/23]

Climate Action Plan

Mary Lou McDonald

2. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the first progress report for the first quarter of 2023 of the climate action plan. [29328/23]

Cabinet Committees

Mary Lou McDonald

11. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [29329/23]

Official Engagements

Mary Lou McDonald

23. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent meeting of the European Political Community, held in Moldova. [28323/23]

Cabinet Committees

Mary Lou McDonald

1. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [25560/23]

Departmental Data

Mary Lou McDonald

9. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland, overseen by his Department. [25561/23]

Equality Issues

Mary Lou McDonald

21. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's public sector duty equality and human rights assessment. [25562/23]

Equality Issues

Mary Lou McDonald

22. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach the measures he has taken to improve gender equality in his Department. [29330/23]

Air Services

Mary Lou McDonald

233. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Transport if he has concluded his consideration of the Derry City Airport’s economic assessment and supporting materials for a Dublin/Derry air route submitted to his Department in December 2022; and the progress he has made in delivering on the air connectivity review commitment under the New Decade, New Approach agreement since taking up office in 2020. [29788/23]

Referendum Campaigns

Mary Lou McDonald

522. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the work undertaken by the Inter-Departmental Committee concerning the Referendums on Family, Care and Equality; if that committee has engaged in any external stakeholder or targeted consultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29411/23]

Health Services

Mary Lou McDonald

636. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the current eye care services available to children aged eight years and over in CHO9. [29240/23]

Health Services

Mary Lou McDonald

637. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health how many children in the CHO9 area that have been referred to HSE eye clinics, having failed the school screening services for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively. [29241/23]

Health Services Waiting Lists

Mary Lou McDonald

638. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the current average wait time for an appointment with HSE eye clinics for children in the CHO9 area. [29242/23]

Health Services Waiting Lists

Mary Lou McDonald

639. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the current average wait time for an eye examination for children in the CHO9 area. [29243/23]

Health Services

Mary Lou McDonald

640. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide a standardised eye-care programme for children aged eight years and over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29244/23]

Economic Policy

Mary Lou McDonald

1. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the Government's response to Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2022. [22488/23]

Cabinet Committees

Mary Lou McDonald

17. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health will next meet. [28322/23]

Emergency Accommodation

Mary Lou McDonald

99. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the capital expenditure cost of providing one staffed additional family refuge space; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28773/23]

Referendum Campaigns

Mary Lou McDonald

139. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will set out the period of time during which the Inter-Departmental Committee concerning the Referendums on Family, Care and Equality will consider the submissions made to that committee before producing its findings and/or making recommendations to Government. [28862/23]

Council of Europe

Mary Lou McDonald

4. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the Council of Europe summit in Reykjavík, Iceland. [24233/23]

Departmental Strategies

Mary Lou McDonald

9. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the rational reform programme for the European semester recently published by his Department. [22486/23]

Cross-Border Co-operation

Mary Lou McDonald

20. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the shared island dialogue all-island women's forum civic initiative. [22487/23]

Crime Prevention

Mary Lou McDonald

882. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice the actions she will take following publication of the Study on Familicide and Domestic and Family Violence Death Reviews. [27502/23]

Referendum Campaigns

Mary Lou McDonald

1036. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the terms of reference for the interdepartmental committee concerning the referendums on family, care and equality will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27503/23]

Constitutional Amendments

Mary Lou McDonald

1070. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the Inter-Departmental Committee concerning the Referendums on Family, Care and Equality will produce their findings and/or make recommendations to Government. [27896/23]

Departmental Communications

Mary Lou McDonald

320. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of submissions that have been received to his Department's consultation on the Referendums on Family, Care and Equality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26895/23]

Social Welfare Code

Mary Lou McDonald

322. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he will publish the domestic violence leave regulations provided for in the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 to prescribe the daily rate of domestic violence leave pay; and if he will clarify that the prescribed rate of pay will not involve a reduction in the rate of pay for victims of domestic violence as previously committed to. [27007/23]

Childcare Services

Mary Lou McDonald

145. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has recently engaged with the Dublin city childcare committee to identify vacant places for early learning and childcare in their catchment area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26578/23]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Mary Lou McDonald

146. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will confirm the current number of early childhood education and care places currently available in Dublin Central; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26579/23]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Mary Lou McDonald

147. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline any plans his Department is currently engaged in to address any issue of under supply of early childhood education and care places in Dublin Central; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26580/23]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Mary Lou McDonald

148. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports available for early childhood education and care services who are experiencing sustainability issues; and the steps a service can take to access these supports. [26581/23]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Mary Lou McDonald

149. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will set out the early childhood education and care vacant places, the enrolled places, and the overall capacity for places in Dublin Central for the years 2020 to 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26582/23]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Mary Lou McDonald

150. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will confirm the number of new early childhood care and education scheme classes that have opened in Dublin Central for the years 2020 to 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26583/23]

Childcare Services

Mary Lou McDonald

151. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department is considering any plans to provide new childcare places in light of the pressure on childcare places and the closure of some services in Dublin Central; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26584/23]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Mary Lou McDonald

152. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early childhood education and care services that have raised viability concerns with the Dublin city childcare committee in the years 2020 to 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26585/23]

Departmental Offices

Mary Lou McDonald

4. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the senior officials group on digital issues, chaired by his Department, will next meet. [25578/23]

Climate Action Plan

Mary Lou McDonald

12. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach the number of meetings that have taken place to date in 2023 of the climate action delivery board, co-chaired by his Department. [25579/23]

Legal Aid

Mary Lou McDonald

235. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform his position on the reinstatement of criminal legal aid fees to pre-2008 levels. [25673/23]

Domestic Violence

Mary Lou McDonald

349. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated capital expenditure cost of providing one staffed additional family refuge space; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26060/23]

Employment Schemes

Mary Lou McDonald

449. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Social Protection the reasons for the delay in completing the reasonable accommodation fund review and consultation, due to be completed by the end of 2019 under commitments within the comprehensive employment strategy; when the review report will be published; if the report will include recommendations to address the concerns of deaf people who are often marginalised in the workplace due to a lack of communication support; and when recommendations in the report will be implemented. [25653/23]