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Wed, 1 May 2024
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Heritage Sites
Brendan Griffin
130. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform when Ratoo Round Tower in Ballyduff, County Kerry, will be open to the public as no access is currently available to the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19893/24]
Wed, 1 May 2024
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Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Brendan Griffin
164. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has received copies of a review (details supplied) concerning bogus self-employment at RTÉ; if not, if she has sought it; if she understands the importance of this review for the future of the national broadcaster; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19829/24]
Wed, 1 May 2024
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Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Brendan Griffin
165. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will request a copy of the completed Government commissioned report into RTÉ; if she will publish each respective report as they each become available to publish, rather than waiting for both to be published together; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19830/24]
Wed, 1 May 2024
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Sports Funding
Brendan Griffin
166. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide details regarding the sports capital and equipment programme in Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19894/24]
Wed, 1 May 2024
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Oireachtas Committees
Brendan Griffin
188. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the evidence submitted to an Oireachtas Committee by a person (details supplied) concerning activities in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19856/24]
Wed, 1 May 2024
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Health Services
Brendan Griffin
245. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Health the up-to-date situation regarding physiotherapy services in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19552/24]
Wed, 1 May 2024
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Hospital Appointments Status
Brendan Griffin
256. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Health when a person in County Kerry (details supplied) will get a date for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19615/24]
Wed, 1 May 2024
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Departmental Schemes
Brendan Griffin
338. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to several Parliamentary Questions (details supplied), if she will identify the local authorities referred to in the replies provided; to list the amounts recouped from each local authority for each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19907/24]
Wed, 1 May 2024
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Rural Schemes
Brendan Griffin
339. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she is concerned with the vast difference in the average price of LIS roads being improved by local authorities (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19908/24]
Tue, 30 Apr 2024
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Commissioners of Irish Lights
Brendan Griffin
184. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Transport if there are plans to dismantle the keepers' quarters roof at Tiaracht lighthouse, County Kerry, effectively allowing it to fall into disrepair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19070/24]
Tue, 30 Apr 2024
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Commissioners of Irish Lights
Brendan Griffin
185. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Transport the current condition of the Bull Rock lighthouse; if it is in a bad state of repair, with gannets flying in and out of the building through broken windows and a damaged roof; if there are plans to repair the lighthouse’s roof and windows; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19071/24]
Tue, 30 Apr 2024
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Commissioners of Irish Lights
Brendan Griffin
186. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Transport the current condition of the offshore lighthouses; the most recent date of assessment of each and the findings; if there are plans to maintain, renovate or safeguard any of the lighthouses in 2024; the budget for any planned maintenance works in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19072/24]
Tue, 30 Apr 2024
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Road Projects
Brendan Griffin
207. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Transport if traffic-calming measures will be installed at a location in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19044/24]
Tue, 30 Apr 2024
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School Accommodation
Brendan Griffin
300. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Education if a school in County Kerry will be granted an additional room (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18996/24]
Tue, 30 Apr 2024
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Tourist Accommodation
Brendan Griffin
560. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to address concerns with regard to the future use of a hotel in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18804/24]
Tue, 30 Apr 2024
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Health Services Waiting Lists
Brendan Griffin
678. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Health when a person in County Kerry (details supplied) will be prioritised for an appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18994/24]
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
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Raidió Teilifís Éireann
Brendan Griffin
19. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff, including total WTE positions and grade breakdowns, working in the Department's scope section; if the section is adequately staffed to undertake the work required of it in relation to examining bogus self-employment in large organisations such as RTÉ; how long she expects the RTÉ scope investigation to take to conclude; if the scope section plans to examine cases of workers at RTÉ prior to the period currently under examination by the scope section; if the scope section is currently examining or has plans to examine other State or semi-State agencies; if so, which ones; the annual budget for the scope section for each of the past five years; how many prosecutions her Department has initiated as a result of bogus self-employment cases in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18380/24]
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
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Employment Rights
Brendan Griffin
28. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Social Protection what threshold needs to be cleared for an appeal to be granted by her Department’s appeals office in respect of challenges to decisions by her Department's scope section against employers in relation to findings on bogus self-employment; if applications for appeal are scrutinised, what percentage of appeal applications by employers in respect of scope decisions on bogus self-employment were granted in 2023; the average time such an appeal takes to be heard and decided upon; the number (and percentage) of appeal hearings in 2023 initiated by employers in respect of scope decisions on bogus self-employment, where the appellant subsequently did not present for the hearing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18381/24]
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
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Forestry Sector
Brendan Griffin
80. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is considering the suspension of log imports from Scotland until better safeguards are in place to prevent the spread of the spruce bark beetle to this country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18348/24]
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
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Forestry Sector
Brendan Griffin
95. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the regulatory factors constraining commercial forestry growth, with a view to establishing a more industry-friendly and financially incentivised sector; if such a review would examine the timelines for planting and felling licensing and plantation thresholds regarding broadleaf versus coniferous trees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18347/24]