Parliamentary questions

Departmental Bodies Data

Mairéad Farrell

242. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the bodies under the aegis of his Department; and the composition of their respective board memberships, disaggregated by appointments through the Public Appointments Service or ministerial appointments in tabular form. [42481/20]

Departmental Bodies Data

Mairéad Farrell

249. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the bodies under the aegis of his Department; and the composition of their respective board memberships disaggregated by appointments through the Public Appointments Service or ministerial appointments in tabular form. [42472/20]

Departmental Bodies Data

Mairéad Farrell

251. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the bodies under the aegis of her Department; and the composition of their respective board memberships, disaggregated by appointments through the Public Appointments Service or ministerial appointments in tabular form. [42485/20]

Renewable Energy Generation

Mairéad Farrell

264. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to progress legislation in order to amend Statutory Instrument SI No. 83 of 2007 in order that schools and community buildings can be exempted from having to apply for planning permission to install solar photovoltaic panels on rooftops; his plans to introduce further legislative amendments to lift the limits that currently exist on solar installation for houses and businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42502/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Mairéad Farrell

70. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether applications for the pandemic unemployment payment should be extended to April 2021 in line with employment wage subsidy scheme and the reduced bands restored to their earlier rates in view of the new localised lockdowns and in view of the fact the State is just entering the final quarter of the year. [26635/20]

Third Level Staff

Mairéad Farrell

299. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of staff members of UCD, TCD and DCU who availed of fee waivers remissions for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in their respective institutions in each of the years 2016 to 2019, in tabular form. [40975/20]

Rail Network

Mairéad Farrell

165. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport if a second feasibility study into the western rail corridor has been commissioned; if so, the purpose of commissioning a second study; when he plans to publish the findings of the initial report and the independent review; when he expects to make a decision on the future of the western rail corridor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39573/20]

Bus Éireann

Mairéad Farrell

166. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the 40 new VB buses received by Bus Éireann from the National Transport Authority earlier in 2020 cannot carry bicycles on board; if he plans to address the situation, given that many of these buses service popular cycleway routes nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39574/20]

Financial Services Sector

Mairéad Farrell

197. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Finance if a group (details supplied) is still chaired by the Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach; and the reason it no longer publishes the minutes of its meetings. [28276/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Mairéad Farrell

198. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Finance the reason he did not apply for the extension of Covid-19 payment breaks for borrowers by the deadline of 23 September 2020. [28277/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

26. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of his Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39046/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

33. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of his Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39047/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

43. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport if his Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of his Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39058/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

53. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Finance if his Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of his Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39048/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

61. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of his Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39054/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

68. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of her Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39057/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

76. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of his Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39052/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

90. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of his Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39049/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

94. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Defence if his Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of his Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39044/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

116. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Education if her Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of her Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39045/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

139. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of her Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39056/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

159. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of his Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39043/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

164. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of his Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39050/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

178. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Justice if her Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of her Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39053/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

232. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health if his Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of his Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39051/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

277. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of his Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39042/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

287. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department and any commercial or non-commercial State bodies and private entities subsidised by 50% or more of public funding under the aegis of her Department have implemented social clauses in their public procurement contracts in the past three years (details supplied); and if so, the nature of these social clauses. [39055/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

298. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the full list of public procurement contracts will be provided for capital works that have exceeded €10 million, disaggregated by number of tender bids, value of each bid, name of each bidder, name of successful contract winner and final cost of the project, in tabular form. [38566/20]

Toghcháin d'Údarás na Gaeltachta

Mairéad Farrell

307. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Mairéad Farrell den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán cén amlíne atá leagtha amach le go mbunófar an coiste comhairleach ar thoghcháin Údarás na Gaeltachta agus cén amlíne a bheidh ag an gcoiste sin lena chuid oibre a dhéanamh; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [37973/20]

European Court of Justice Rulings

Mairéad Farrell

333. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the Supreme Court ruling in An Taisce v. An Bord Pleanála on 1 July 2020 which found substitute consent to be inconsistent with the environmental impact assessment directive; if the ruling affects the way in which his Department plans to proceed with respect to resolution of the 2008 Court of Justice of the European Union ruling in a case (details supplied) requiring an environmental impact assessment be carried out at a windfarm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37769/20]

Tenant Purchase Scheme

Mairéad Farrell

399. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the review will be published for the 2016 tenant (incremental) purchase scheme. [38748/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Mairéad Farrell

860. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the number of deaths that occurred as a result of Covid-19 for September and October 2020, by county, in nursing homes, direct provision and meat factories, in tabular form; if he will provide additional information such as age groups and nationality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38382/20]

Renewable Energy Generation

Mairéad Farrell

88. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No.236 of 10 November 2020, if Ros an Mhíl harbour is amongst those considered as a regional harbour in the response; if it is being included in any discussions or planning in relation to the marine renewable energy industry in view of the fact it is ideally positioned to service marine renewables on the western seaboard; the role he envisages for the harbour in regards to the marine renewable industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37526/20]

Public Sector Pay

Mairéad Farrell

85. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the negotiations for a new public service stability agreement, PSSA; the date formal negotiations took place; and the expected date for their completion. [36717/20]

National Development Plan

Mairéad Farrell

87. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures that will be taken by the review to renew the national development plan, which will look to incorporate an independent peer review at two key points in the life of a contact worth over €10 million in order to ensure that successful tender bids are coming in on cost. [36712/20]

Lobbying Regulation

Mairéad Farrell

89. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the further measures being planned in terms of amendments to the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 in view of his recent statement that he was planning fines and criminal sanctions for Deputies and Ministers that breach the cooling off period and become lobbyists shortly after leaving political life. [36719/20]

Flood Prevention Measures

Mairéad Farrell

100. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for a flood defence programme in Clifden, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36714/20]

Flood Prevention Measures

Mairéad Farrell

102. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW plans to install river gauges on the Owenglin River, County Galway in locations in which none currently exist. [36716/20]

Flood Prevention Measures

Mairéad Farrell

115. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the trial for the new simulation system for advance warnings will be put in place on the Owenglin River, County Galway. [36715/20]

Data Centres

Mairéad Farrell

165. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of data centres by county; and the average monthly and yearly power usage in tabular form. [36680/20]

National Development Plan

Mairéad Farrell

248. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport if the review and renew of the national development plan relating to the way in which consideration will be given to a high speed rail network for Belfast, Dublin, Cork and Limerick in the national development plan will be extended to other counties such as Galway. [36713/20]

Public Procurement Contracts

Mairéad Farrell

300. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a list of Departments, commercial and non-commercial State bodies and private entities that are subsidised by 50% or more with public funding, and which have implemented social clauses in public procurement contracts, will be provided in tabular form. [36525/20]

Office of Public Works

Mairéad Farrell

304. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the properties which are vacant and are either owned or being rented by the Office of Public Works by county; the amount of rent paid to date on those vacant rented properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36777/20]

National Broadband Plan

Mairéad Farrell

40. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications the percentage of homes and businesses in each county and city that currently have access to high-speed fibre broadband in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35530/20]

Departmental Funding

Mairéad Farrell

78. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the funding allocation for his Department for 2021, by project. [35517/20]

Renewable Energy Generation

Mairéad Farrell

235. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications the steps being taken to assess and develop the capacity to construct and support marine based renewable energy projects here with regard to the required harbour and associated facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35338/20]

Renewable Energy Generation

Mairéad Farrell

236. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications the harbours that are considered suitable or relevant to the development of marine resources along the west coast of Ireland in view of the fact that the area is being viewed as an area that may be suitable for the development of marine renewables; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35339/20]

Mortgage Data

Mairéad Farrell

305. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Finance the estimated number of mortgage arrears by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34608/20]

Harbours and Piers

Mairéad Farrell

6. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to progress phase 3 of the development of Caladh Mór pier on Inis Meáin. [34022/20]

Harbours and Piers

Mairéad Farrell

57. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the development of Inis Oírr pier will commence soon; and the timeline for same. [34023/20]