Parliamentary questions

Pension Provisions

Marian Harkin

26. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will take action to strengthen the rights of retired workers in relation to their occupational pension schemes and issues arising from any proposed changes to these schemes after a worker has retired, in particular, to ensure the ability of these workers to take cases to the Workplace Relations Commission. [63591/22]

Mining Industry

Marian Harkin

88. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding details of an incident when applying for a prospecting licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63911/22]

Bus Services

Marian Harkin

144. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Transport if there are plans to extend the use of the TFI Go App or Leap card to a named bus route (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63192/22]

Public Transport

Marian Harkin

145. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Transport if he will investigate an accessibility issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63193/22]

Departmental Schemes

Marian Harkin

288. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Transport his views on a matter (details supplied). [2202/23]

Vacant Properties

Marian Harkin

567. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the eligibility criteria for the Croí Cónaithe scheme could be extended to cover houses built after the year 1993 (details supplied); and if not, the other supports that are available for homeowners who wish to bring derelict housing into regular use. [1834/23]

School Staff

Marian Harkin

696. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Education if she will consider a proposal on teacher redeployment by an organisation (details supplied). [63588/22]

Rights of People with Disabilities

Marian Harkin

959. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the rationale for Ireland including a specific reservation to the provisions of the UNCRPD (details supplied). [63600/22]

International Protection

Marian Harkin

997. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for the provision of accommodation for Ukrainians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1627/23]

Health Services

Marian Harkin

1242. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 640 of 13 December 2022, if there is a timeline for a resolution from the engagement between his Department, the HSE and the NTPF and an organisation (details supplied) on allowing public system patients awaiting cancer surgeries to be treated at private hospitals. [63538/22]

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Marian Harkin

33. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if a limited company that is not part of the European Emissions Trading Scheme can offset carbon emissions' through green energy generation such as solar and wind privately owned and generated by the company and or from planting forestry on company property. [62574/22]

Health Services

Marian Harkin

263. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the services that are currently available to those diagnosed with foetal valproate spectrum disorder; the way that families can access these services within their communities following a diagnosis; if he will provide an update on discussions between the HSE and his Department to improve access to services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62449/22]

Health Services

Marian Harkin

268. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the day centres in a specific area (details supplied) of the 315-day centres nationwide that are expected to be re-opened before Christmas 2022; if he will provide a timeline for the eventual re-opening of the remaining day centres which will not be re-opened before the end of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62521/22]

Medical Cards

Marian Harkin

573. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if he will consider issuing medical cards to those suffering with the genetic medical condition congenital adrenal hyperplasia (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61835/22]

Medical Cards

Marian Harkin

575. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if he will consider including the condition congenital adrenal hyperplasia in the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61849/22]

Health Services

Marian Harkin

640. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if, in light of waiting times for cancer surgery patients, he will negotiate with private hospitals to deliver these urgent surgeries for public patients; and if he has any plans to do so. [62231/22]

Disability Services

Marian Harkin

115. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if he will set up a community neuro-rehabilitation team in every CHO; and if such teams already exist, the details of the specific location of each. [61054/22]

Grant Payments

Marian Harkin

450. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 801 of 8 November 2022, when funding will be phased in for graduate entry medicine and if a reduction of student contribution fees is expected by September 2023. [60930/22]

Grant Payments

Marian Harkin

451. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 801 of 8 November 2022, if extra Government funding for universities, such as University College Dublin, will be ringfenced to ensure lower student contribution fees going forward. [60931/22]

Departmental Schemes

Marian Harkin

505. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 808 of 29 November 2022, if further details of the schemes (details supplied) referred to in the response will be provided. [60992/22]

Hospital Admissions

Marian Harkin

538. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if he will re-open the Mater Private Hospital to HSE patients given the backlog of critical cancer surgeries (details supplied). [60242/22]

Vehicle Registration Tax

Marian Harkin

72. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 17 November 2022, the specific data points from the Revenue Commissioners' data holdings, data analytics and risk assessment that system-prompted the decision by the Revenue Commissioners to implement seize and release VRT enforcement performance targets for 2017 to 2019, which prompted the decision to cease the setting of seize and release performance targets; the date of such decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59715/22]

Vehicle Registration Tax

Marian Harkin

73. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Finance further Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 17 November 2022, if seize and release VRT enforcement performance targets have been set for any other years since the introduction of the seize and release procedure; if so, the performance targets set for each such year; if seize and release performance targets were set by region, unit or other; if seize and release performance awards were paid to persons or units for meeting such targets; if so, the amounts by year; if sanctions were applied individually or units for not meeting seize and release performance targets; if so, the nature of those sanctions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59716/22]

Ukraine War

Marian Harkin

133. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify an issue in relation to accommodation for Ukrainian refugees (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59586/22]

Visa Applications

Marian Harkin

161. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Justice the status of a decision on a visa application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59614/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Marian Harkin

176. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will qualify for the temporary scheme of paid leave for public health service employees unfit for work following Covid infection; if the situation for such HSE employees will be clarified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59639/22]

Business Supports

Marian Harkin

235. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Finance if an organisation (details supplied) will qualify for the temporary business energy support scheme; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59329/22]

Social Welfare Benefits

Marian Harkin

462. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the most recent figure for the number of carers in receipt of the carer's allowance excluding those on a half-rate carer's allowance; the number of carers who receive a reduced rate of carer's allowance due to means, categorised by recipients aged under 66 years caring for one person aged under 66 years caring for two or more persons, aged over 66 years caring for one person and aged over 66 years caring for two or more people; the breakdown of these rates by the number of person's receiving a reduced rate carer's allowance payment under €100, between €100 and €150, €151 and €200, €201 and €251, €252 and €302, €303 and €353, €354 and €392, in tabular form. [59510/22]

Social Welfare Benefits

Marian Harkin

463. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the most recent figure on the number of carers receiving a half-rate carer's allowance; the number of carers who receive a reduced rate of the half-rate carer's allowance due to means, categorised by recipients aged under 66 years caring for one person, aged under 66 years caring for two or more people, aged over 66 years caring for one person and aged over 66 years caring for two or more people; the breakdown of these rates by the number of person's receiving a carer's allowance payment under €100, between €100 and €120, €121 and €141, €142 and €162, €163 and €183, €184 and €196, in tabular form. [59511/22]

Adult Education Provision

Marian Harkin

530. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 19 May 2022, if she will provide an update on a joint proposal (details supplied) aimed at resolving these outstanding issues for adult education tutors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59162/22]

Home Help Service

Marian Harkin

689. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if urgent home care will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59163/22]

Rural Schemes

Marian Harkin

804. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if funding will be made available to an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59077/22]

Departmental Schemes

Marian Harkin

808. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an organisation (details supplied) will qualify for the community and voluntary energy support scheme; if not, the reason therefor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59328/22]

Electricity Grid

Marian Harkin

194. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when a person (details supplied) will receive the electricity credit payment; the way that persons using coin operated meters will receive the electricity credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57912/22]

Bus Services

Marian Harkin

222. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Transport the reason a bus stop at Maugheraboy, County Sligo, was excluded from the new 981 bus route from Coolaney to Sligo, even though it was included in all media releases in regard to the new, long-awaited route; if this stop will be included as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57913/22]

Mental Health Services

Marian Harkin

586. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the number on the waiting lists to access CAMHS by CHO area in each of the years 2015 to 2021; and the waiting times involved to access these appointments. [57377/22]

Mental Health Services

Marian Harkin

587. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the number on the waiting lists to access CAMHS in counties Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal and Roscommon in each of the years 2015 to 2021, in tabular form; and the waiting times involved to access these appointments. [57378/22]

Health Services Staff

Marian Harkin

588. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the speech and language therapy, social work, physiotherapy and occupational therapy positions allocated and filled in counties Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal and Roscommon in each of the years 2015 to 2021, in tabular form. [57379/22]

Health Services Staff

Marian Harkin

589. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the speech and language therapy, social work, physiotherapy and occupational therapy positions allocated and filled on a national basis by hospital group and CHO area, in each of the years 2015 to 2021, in tabular form. [57380/22]

Departmental Funding

Marian Harkin

642. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57618/22]

Hospital Services

Marian Harkin

645. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health when the pain clinic at Sligo University Hospital will return to full capacity; the plans that are in place to deal with the extremely long waiting lists for pain management, with patients waiting up to three years for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57678/22]

Departmental Circulars

Marian Harkin

773. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Government has issued any guidelines to local authorities to cease using weed killers containing glyphosate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57705/22]

Vehicle Registration Tax

Marian Harkin

154. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Finance the number of appeals that were heard in relation to the 'Seize and Release' VRT enforcement procedure for each of the years 2015 to 2021; the number of such appeals that were successful (details supplied); the corresponding data in respect to the 'Seize and Release' procedure for October 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57074/22]

Vehicle Registration Tax

Marian Harkin

155. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Finance the VRT enforcement targets for each of the years 2015 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57075/22]

Animal Diseases

Marian Harkin

315. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of badgers that were infected with TB of those that have been culled or vaccinated in 2019, 2020 and 2021. [57042/22]

Healthcare Policy

Marian Harkin

172. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the basis for a recent decision in regard to home births (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56798/22]

Animal Culls

Marian Harkin

202. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of badgers that were culled or vaccinated in each of the years 2019 to 2021. [56870/22]

Tax Code

Marian Harkin

213. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Finance the plans that he has explored in order to introduce a new taxation policy on biofuels; if carbon tax will be applied to biofuels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56635/22]

Social Welfare Payments

Marian Harkin

388. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the most recent figure on the number of carers in receipt of carer's allowance, including half-rate carer's allowance; the number of carers who receive a reduced rate of carer's allowance due to means; and the breakdown of these rates by the number of person's receiving a carer's allowance payment under €100, between €100 and €150; between €150 and €200 and between €200 and €220, in tabular form. [56425/22]

Social Welfare Payments

Marian Harkin

389. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the most recent figure on the total number of carers in receipt of carer's benefit and half-rate carer's allowance. [56426/22]

Social Welfare Payments

Marian Harkin

390. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection the breakdown of the total number of carers who received the carer's support grant to date in 2022; of these, the number of carers who receive the carer's support grant as a stand-alone payment, that is they do not receive carer's allowance, carer's benefit or DCA; and the number of carers who receive the carer's support grant annually, through applications made throughout 2022, in tabular form. [56427/22]

Tax Reliefs

Marian Harkin

93. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Finance if he will increase the percentage payment for the temporary business energy support scheme, TBESS, to SMEs that are highly energy-dependent and where their energy bills are a significant portion of their outgoings. [53732/22]

Special Educational Needs

Marian Harkin

72. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Education , further to Parliamentary Question No. 461 of 15 February 2022, if she will include the CHO 1 area in the extension of the pilot of the school inclusion model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55681/22]

Departmental Reports

Marian Harkin

92. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection the date for the publication of the Child Maintenance Review Group Report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55754/22]

Road Network

Marian Harkin

199. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Transport when the preferred option will be selected for approval on the section of road on the N17 between Castleoye and Temple House Crossroads, County Sligo; when the junctions on this section of road will be improved and made safer for local residents as was promised in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54834/22]

Tax Code

Marian Harkin

271. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the VAT turnover threshold from the current €37,500 to at least €50,000, given the increase in the cost of services and the increased cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54640/22]

School Transport

Marian Harkin

507. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Education the measures that will be taken to alleviate the issue of overcrowding on school buses from Kinlough and Bundoran to Ballyshannon, given that there is insufficient space due to an intake of new students from Ukraine, with insufficient space on existing transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54145/22]

School Transport

Marian Harkin

508. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Education if a new school bus route can be established between Grange and Ballyshannon to cater for the demand for school transport in that area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54146/22]

School Facilities

Marian Harkin

509. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Education the progress on the repair of the wheelchair lift at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54147/22]

Schools Building Projects

Marian Harkin

510. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Education the supports that are available for a school (details supplied) to install solar panels on the roof of its building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54148/22]

Social Welfare Payments

Marian Harkin

653. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending illness benefit to those workers who are also in receipt of another social welfare payment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54659/22]

Mortgage Resolution Processes

Marian Harkin

667. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection when funding will be put in place to continue the abhaile scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54868/22]

Child Poverty

Marian Harkin

742. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to develop a new National Child Poverty Plan to address high levels of poverty in households headed by one parent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55755/22]

Assisted Decision-Making

Marian Harkin

767. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated timeline for publication of the codes of practice under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. [54865/22]

Assisted Decision-Making

Marian Harkin

768. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated timeline for the publication of the court rules under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015. [54866/22]

Grant Payments

Marian Harkin

801. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will consider adding graduate-entry medicine students to the SUSI grant scheme to help alleviate the costs of that programme for low-income students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54150/22]

Third Level Fees

Marian Harkin

802. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason for the omission of graduate-entry medicine students from lowered contribution fees for higher education students announced in budget 2023, during a time of a shortage of doctors and medical staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54151/22]

Third Level Fees

Marian Harkin

803. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the supports available to students to alleviate the high cost of the graduate-entry medicine programme at University College Dublin (details supplied); the plans in place to bring the fees down in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54152/22]

Hospital Staff

Marian Harkin

952. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the number of staff who have been recruited in Sligo University Hospital and Letterkenny University Hospital as of 24 October 2022 to implement the winter plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54344/22]

Health Services

Marian Harkin

966. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health when named day centres (details supplied) will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54410/22]

Freedom of Information

Marian Harkin

968. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the actions that his Department will take to supply information requested under a freedom of information request to a named person (details supplied). [54416/22]

Vaccination Programme

Marian Harkin

1015. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health the number of house-bound persons still awaiting a second Covid-19 vaccine; the plans in place to administer the second and third booster vaccinations to this cohort (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54573/22]

Vaccination Programme

Marian Harkin

1018. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a second booster vaccine; the reason that this has not happened to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54607/22]

Medical Cards

Marian Harkin

1043. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if an emergency medical card will be extended for a person (details supplied). [54661/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Marian Harkin

1087. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health following an agreement of the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work on the need to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease, if he plans to make Covid-19 an occupational injury in Ireland; the plans that are in place to support those suffering long term effects of Covid which was contracted in the course of their work during the height of the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54861/22]

Forestry Sector

Marian Harkin

1262. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request that the forestry appeals committee provides him with an explanation as to the reason the committee will not receive appeals against forestry licences through electronic means, given the very narrow window for making an appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54553/22]

Forestry Sector

Marian Harkin

312. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that the Forest Service does not routinely require the licensee to provide his Department with notification of when felling works are to be commenced and concluded, even where felling licences are issued for a period of ten years, given his role in monitoring and enforcing forestry licences (details supplied). [53914/22]

Forestry Sector

Marian Harkin

313. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he, as a shareholder in Coillte Teoranta, will clarify information regarding the estimated volume of timber to be felled under felling licences dated 2021, granted by his Department (details supplied). [53915/22]

Forestry Sector

Marian Harkin

314. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he, as a shareholder in Coillte Teoranta, will provide a detailed explanation as to the reason that the area of forest classed as 'High Conservation Value Forest' managed by Coillte has decreased by 11,016 hectares (approximately 10%) from 107,083 hectares to 96,097 hectares over the past 12 months, according to reports (details supplied). [53916/22]

Daylight Savings Time

Marian Harkin

52. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans in relation to daylight savings time; his views on the merits of forgoing the winter daylight saving time change given the current energy crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53664/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Marian Harkin

135. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to any early years' services that have closed recently; the circumstances of those closures; and his views on the closures. [53702/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Marian Harkin

136. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the financial supports that are available to community and private early years' services which find themselves in financial difficulty. [53703/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Marian Harkin

137. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any early years' services have engaged with their local childcare committee to get financial supports in 2022. [53704/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Marian Harkin

138. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the types of funding available to ECCE, sessional early years' services; the current financial viability of those services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53705/22]

Forestry Sector

Marian Harkin

205. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2116 of 8 September 2022, when he will be informing the Director-General of the Environment of the European Commission of the error in his Department's letter dated 24 November 2021, and specifically informing the Director-General of the Environment of the European Commission that 232,000 hectares, and not 136,000 hectares as previously advised by his Department to DG ENV, of the Coillte estate is on peatland soils, that is, 53% of the Coillte estate. [53891/22]

Forestry Sector

Marian Harkin

206. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of the 232,000 hectares of the Coillte estate on peatland soils that are planted with trees, and to apportion the total figure between lands on peatland soils planted with trees managed by Coillte primarily for commercial timber production and lands on peatland soils planted with trees managed by Coillte, primarily for biodiversity protection. [53892/22]

Agriculture Schemes

Marian Harkin

81. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for the ramping-up of energy production on Irish farms and in particular, the use of anaerobic digesters. [53252/22]

Education and Training Boards

Marian Harkin

273. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science's reply to Parliamentary Question 140 of 18 October 2022, if he will provide an update on the progress of the joint proposal from officials in the Department for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and officials in the Department of Education, aimed at resolving outstanding issues in regard to employment contracts and conditions for adult education tutors employed by ETBs and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52909/22]

State Pensions

Marian Harkin

447. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will review an issue (details supplied) in relation to D stamp pensioners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52955/22]

Budget 2023

Marian Harkin

606. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm the amount of the €4 million funding in Budget 2023 requested by an organisation (details supplied) that was allocated to it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52910/22]

Budget 2023

Marian Harkin

607. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm the amount of the €941,000 funding in Budget 2023 requested by an organisation (details supplied) that was allocated to it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52911/22]

Housing Schemes

Marian Harkin

219. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider an increase to the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability and housing aid for older people scheme grant, given the increased construction costs and increased costs of building materials; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52484/22]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Marian Harkin

258. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider making the fuel allowance available to those person aged over 66 years with a disability (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52475/22]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Marian Harkin

259. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she plans to extend the fuel allowance to those in receipt of the working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52476/22]

Social Welfare Payments

Marian Harkin

260. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending the €500 payment for people with disabilities to those who have moved to the State contributory pension due to their age (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52477/22]

Social Welfare Payments

Marian Harkin

261. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider increasing the recent RSS and Tús top-up of €5 in Budget 2023 to at least €12 to keep pace with other social welfare payments. [52480/22]

Family Resource Centres

Marian Harkin

284. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will commit to an increase in funding to all Family Resource Centres, so that all FRCs receive a minimum of €166,400 annually through core funding under the National FRC programme with an adequate percentage increase annually thereafter in view of the recent increase in Tusla funding in Budget 2023 to €37 million. [52478/22]

DNA Database

Marian Harkin

285. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will reconsider his position to set up a database to hold DNA samples of family members of those who were resident at St. Mary's Mother and Baby home in Tuam. [52479/22]

Vehicle Registration Tax

Marian Harkin

76. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide statistics relating to the use of the seize and release VRT enforcement procedure to obtain roadside cash payment of compromise penalties for September 2022, in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52452/22]

Assisted Decision-Making

Marian Harkin

141. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection the total number of agents acting on behalf of a person who cannot manage their own financial affairs within the Department; and if she will provide a breakdown of the number of agents categorised across social protection schemes in tabular form. [52386/22]