Parliamentary questions

Research and Development

Louise O'Reilly

7. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the funding and grants available for companies developing disruptive technologies. [12372/21]

Fáilte Ireland

Louise O'Reilly

65. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if the outdoor dining grant will be inclusive of all businesses impacted by Covid-19. [12370/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Louise O'Reilly

157. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason workers in the aviation industry on casual contracts due to Covid-19 are not entitled to the pandemic unemployment payment. [12368/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Louise O'Reilly

168. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if funding and grants are available for mature students to purchase electronic devices to aid with their studies given courses have moved online due to Covid-19. [12371/21]

Health Services Provision

Louise O'Reilly

228. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the status of the development and delivery of the world leading newborn screening program promised by the Minister and his predecessor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12373/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Louise O'Reilly

3. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Taoiseach the costs associated with researching, drawing up and publishing the Resilience and Recovery 2020-2021 Plan for Living with COVID-19. [11257/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Louise O'Reilly

193. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance if employees resident in Northern Ireland but working and paying tax here are eligible employees under the employment wage subsidy scheme in cases in which their employers are resident in Northern Ireland. [11280/21]

Office of Government Procurement

Louise O'Reilly

240. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the original business case for the setting up of the Office of Government Procurement. [11441/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Louise O'Reilly

556. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection if the Covid-19 rent supplement will be extended beyond 31 March 2021. [11762/21]

Direct Provision System

Louise O'Reilly

198. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a protest in direct provision centre (details supplied); if he will ensure the person engaged in the protest receives the necessary health supports, physical and mental; the steps he is taking to address the failures with the direct provision system and move towards a humane, fair and human rights based system of accommodation for those seeking asylum and here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10719/21]

Court Orders

Louise O'Reilly

230. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice if a court order for the sale of a home arising from divorce proceedings can be executed during level 5 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10869/21]

Hospital Equipment

Louise O'Reilly

243. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the volume of faulty equipment purchased by the HSE in each of the years 2011 to 2019; the details of the type of equipment; the quantity that was faulty; the value of the faulty equipment; the person or body that supplied the faulty equipment; if they were the manufacturer or an intermediary; if any of the costs were recovered; and the locations that the equipment was destined for, for example, hospital, primary care centre, nursing home or other in tabular form. [10597/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Louise O'Reilly

28. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the supports announced in Scotland (details supplied) for the wedding industry; and his views on including businesses in the wedding industry without a fixed premises in the Covid-19 business aid scheme. [9999/21]

Employment Rights

Louise O'Reilly

29. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to ensure compliance with the construction sector sectoral employment orders by all companies working here. [10008/21]

Employment Rights

Louise O'Reilly

30. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he and his officials will meet with an organisation (details supplied) regarding non-compliance with the construction sector sectoral employment orders and bogus self-employment in the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10009/21]

Further and Higher Education

Louise O'Reilly

31. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if any of the skill sets on the critical skills occupation list have been removed from the list since it was established; and if his Department will work with the Departments of Education and Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to ensure that Ireland is training and skilling students for these areas. [10010/21]

Wind Energy Guidelines

Louise O'Reilly

76. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the upcoming marine planning Bill will include agreed minimum distances for offshore wind turbines based on international and European best practice and informed by ecological and marine biology experts. [10553/21]

Tax Compliance

Louise O'Reilly

197. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to allegations of abuses of the travel and subsistence payments that is country money within the construction sector; and if his Department is engaging with the Revenue Commissioners to ensure such abuse is brought to an end. [10007/21]

Construction Contracts

Louise O'Reilly

246. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of complaints that have been made to his Department with regard to the fact that State agencies such as county and city councils have not ensured that projects managed by them are only using construction companies that are legally compliant with the construction sector sectoral employment orders, SEO. [10005/21]

Construction Contracts

Louise O'Reilly

247. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the oversight being carried out by his Department to ensure that State agencies such as county and city councils are only using construction companies that are legally compliant with the construction sector sectoral employment orders, SEO. [10006/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Louise O'Reilly

270. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if wedding bands will receive funding from the moneys allocated to her Department in Budget 2021, given that wedding bands have been out of work since March 2020, are excluded from the Covid restrictions support scheme and the Covid-19 business aid scheme due to the fact that they have no fixed premises, and were excluded from the previous musician grants. [10000/21]

Sick Pay Scheme

Louise O'Reilly

456. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Education if she has received correspondence in relation to person (details supplied); and if her officials will be requested to engage with the person to resolve the matter. [10002/21]

Third Level Fees

Louise O'Reilly

680. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if funding is available under the funding allocated for third level courses through the July stimulus package for a course (details supplied). [10001/21]

Addiction Treatment Services

Louise O'Reilly

920. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if a copy of the review into a health facility (details supplied) will be provided. [9996/21]

Medicinal Products

Louise O'Reilly

921. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if he or the HSE have considered alternative drugs and treatment plans for patients in the absence of the approval of a drug (details supplied). [9998/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Louise O'Reilly

922. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if book shops will be added to the list of essential services. [10003/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Louise O'Reilly

923. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the breakdown by location for the transmission of the Covid-19 virus listed as community transmission; if a more detailed breakdown of the locations in which the virus is spreading in the community will be provided; and if the spread of the virus is too rapid, the areas transmission is occurring. [10004/21]

Hospital Equipment

Louise O'Reilly

1042. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 969 of 10 February 2021, the breakdown of the hospitals that these ventilators were destined for in tabular form. [10554/21]

Library Services

Louise O'Reilly

1122. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if libraries can operate an online click and collect system for book borrowing during the level 5 public health restrictions. [10003/21]

Ministerial Correspondence

Louise O'Reilly

7. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 1 December 2020, if the correspondence received by him on 20 November 2020 has received the necessary attention; and if so, if his Department will be replying to the correspondence. [9303/21]

EU Funding

Louise O'Reilly

101. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance if Ireland plans to apply for loans under the EU Recovery and Resilience Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9304/21]

Special Educational Needs

Louise O'Reilly

359. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Education the status of the ASD unit for a school (details supplied); the date the first child will take up their place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7900/21]

Medicinal Products

Louise O'Reilly

753. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if a drug (details supplied) has been approved by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8278/21]

Primary Care Services

Louise O'Reilly

754. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the number of staff employed directly and currently in post, excluding any persons on maternity or other leave, in the primary care service for north County Dublin by grade and area covered; the number who work directly with individuals under 18 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8279/21]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Louise O'Reilly

755. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the growing waiting list to access CAMHS from the north county and city of Dublin CAMHS service based in Swords; the number employed by grade and whole-time equivalent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8280/21]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Louise O'Reilly

756. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the urgent need for additional staffing for the CAMHS service based in Swords, County Dublin; the details of the planned recruitment by grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8281/21]

Obesity Strategy

Louise O'Reilly

757. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the details of the members of the Obesity Policy Implementation Oversight Group; the members of the two subgroups of the Obesity Policy Implementation Oversight Group on reformulation and healthy eating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8282/21]

Road Safety Authority

Louise O'Reilly

20. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 134 of 27 January 2021, the number of tenders submitted for both contracts (details supplied). [7718/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Louise O'Reilly

11. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the supports announced in Scotland (details supplied) for the wedding industry; and his views on the establishment of a bespoke scheme for the industry here. [6341/21]

Health and Safety Authority

Louise O'Reilly

16. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 19 of 27 January 2021, the exact number of unannounced Health and Safety Authority inspections. [6744/21]

Brexit Issues

Louise O'Reilly

105. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Transport if his Department has reviewed the situation regarding travel and connectivity with Europe in view of Brexit realities given that there is demand for the direct services to Europe and limited capacity despite the quiet period due to Covid-19 and associated restrictions; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that if capacity is not increased the situation will deteriorate and the supply chain into Ireland will struggle. [6342/21]

Ports Development

Louise O'Reilly

106. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Transport if facilities at Dublin Port will be improved given that TII does not have adequate facilities for drivers, particularly for the volume of drivers who now have to stay with loads for a long period of time; and if new fit-for-purpose facilities will be constructed at the port. [6343/21]

Consular Services

Louise O'Reilly

358. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the case of person (details supplied) and the family’s request for him to intervene in the matter by requesting a response to a letter from his counterpart in the country. [7353/21]

Special Educational Needs

Louise O'Reilly

419. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Education if a dedicated national helpline can be set up to answer queries from parents of children with special educational needs as pupils begin the return to school. [6656/21]

Health Services

Louise O'Reilly

829. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of a unique patient identifier; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6863/21]

Health Services

Louise O'Reilly

830. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of the electronic health record; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6864/21]

Carer's Allowance

Louise O'Reilly

902. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to instances in which carer's allowance application forms, CR1 forms, are not being completed by general practitioners; the advice for persons who need forms filled out to have applications processed; if consideration has been given to waiving the need for such forms to be completed for the duration of Covid-19 restrictions to free up general practitioner time; the way in which applications can be processed in the absence of general practitioners filling out these forms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7186/21]

Vaccination Programme

Louise O'Reilly

903. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 14 January 2021, the number of healthcare professionals vaccinated by grade, group and category in percentage terms and in tabular form. [7187/21]

Vaccination Programme

Louise O'Reilly

904. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health when firefighters can expect to receive the vaccine; if they will be prioritised given that they are front-line workers and first responders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7188/21]

Vaccination Programme

Louise O'Reilly

905. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if patients that require life-saving treatment or operations will be prioritised for vaccination before they receive the treatment; if there has been discussion on prioritising this group of persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7189/21]