Parliamentary questions

Banking Sector

Dara Calleary

167. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the considerable difficulties being encountered by customers across the country who are seeking to change their bank accounts from banks (details supplied) to other banks; if he will engage with the Central Bank to ensure all maximum assistance and information is been provided to the public; if he will engage with the remaining banks to ensure sufficient staff resources are being put in place at branches to assist those who cannot access online banking in this process; his views on the current position in relation to the number of persons who have switched accounts to date and the number remaining to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21551/22]

Social Dialogue

Dara Calleary

18. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [15025/22]

School Accommodation

Dara Calleary

818. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Education if modular-built classrooms can be funded under capital funding. [19266/22]

Digital Hubs

Dara Calleary

1960. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding streams and the application process for a community organisation to construct and host a work hub in a rural area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20573/22]

Company Closures

Dara Calleary

51. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports that his Department is putting in place for suppliers affected by the collapse of a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18479/22]

Defective Building Materials

Dara Calleary

264. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of defective concrete blocks scheme applications received by Donegal and Mayo County Councils to the end of March 2022; the number approved in each county at stage 1 and at stage 2, respectively; if further information will be provided on the time taken with regard to point 3 in each county in tabular form; the length of time that is taken to process stage 2 eligibility applications in each county; and if he will take steps to ensure that the process for the approval of stage 2 applications is considerably speeded up in County Mayo in particular. [18924/22]

Passport Services

Dara Calleary

414. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if advice will be provided in relation to the case of a person (details supplied). [18084/22]

School Patronage

Dara Calleary

449. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Education if she will clarify the ownership of a school property (details supplied); if it is not in the ownership of her Department, if she will provide details of the owners and all monies paid by her Department to the owners since the lease commenced; if her Department has plans for this property; if she will provide details of discussions it has had regarding its future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17420/22]

Hospital Facilities

Dara Calleary

8. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to further develop services in Ballina District Hospital. [16770/22]

Hospital Services

Dara Calleary

89. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to further develop services in Belmullet Community Hospital. [16771/22]

Inshore Fisheries

Dara Calleary

159. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he and his Department are taking and implementing to support inshore fishing. [16957/22]

An Garda Síochána

Dara Calleary

80. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Justice the way in which policing in rural areas is being strengthened; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16201/22]

Joint Policing Committees

Dara Calleary

115. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Justice if she plans to review the current plans for joint policing committees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16202/22]

Transport Infrastructure Ireland

Dara Calleary

239. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Transport the checks and balances that are in place to ensure the financial health of a company before Government road contracts are awarded by Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII; and if all such checks were undertaken in the awarding of a contract (details supplied) in July 2021. [16115/22]

Transport Infrastructure Ireland

Dara Calleary

240. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Transport the plans Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, has to ensure the progress of the N5 Ballaghdereen-Scramogue road, in view of the recent developments relating to the main contractor. [16116/22]

Foreign Birth Registration

Dara Calleary

378. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of a foreign births' registration application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16355/22]

Health Services

Dara Calleary

686. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Health the strategy his Department has in place for the management of epilepsy in Ireland; the extra investment he has provided for in epilepsy care since taking office; if there is any research under way into sudden death syndrome as a consequence of epilepsy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16113/22]

Health Services Staff

Dara Calleary

687. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Health if he will commit to appointing extra epilepsy nurse specialists to cater specifically for epilepsy and epilepsy management in the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16114/22]

Departmental Schemes

Dara Calleary

51. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the key supports his Department provides to the Traveller and Roma community in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15308/22]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Dara Calleary

64. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will detail progress to date in meeting the commitments set out in the Action Plan for Survivors and Former Residents of Mother and Baby and County Home Institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15309/22]

Passport Services

Dara Calleary

94. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of passport applications from County Mayo that are currently outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15155/22]

Ukraine War

Dara Calleary

119. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland has offered or been approached to offer additional resources to the Council of Europe as a consequence of the likely exclusion of Russia from the organization. [15154/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Dara Calleary

362. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Health if cancer care facility employees (details supplied) will receive the €1,000 bonus agreed by Government to be paid to healthcare workers. [15551/22]

Pensions Reform

Dara Calleary

13. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Social Protection her strategy to address any decrease in income arising from a removal of an exemption to pay PRSI on supplementary pension income, occupational and personal pensions, and public sector pensions as contained in the Commission on Pensions report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14818/22]

Employment Support Services

Dara Calleary

28. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the tender process for all public employment services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14819/22]

Energy Policy

Dara Calleary

127. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will report on a test site (details supplied) off the coast of Belmullet, County Mayo; the progress that has been made since the site was first designated and announced in 2010; the investment that has been made to date; the current status of the test site; the programme for bringing the site into service as the national test centre for full scale ocean energy converters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14095/22]

Road Safety

Dara Calleary

205. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider the introduction of a reduced speed zone outside all schools and childcare facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14754/22]

Tax Reliefs

Dara Calleary

347. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there is anything in the defective blocks scheme or in the proposed legislation to underpin same that will preclude homeowners from availing of the rent-a-room relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14719/22]

Foreign Birth Registration

Dara Calleary

391. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of a foreign birth registration application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14313/22]

Naval Service

Dara Calleary

28. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Defence the number of personnel in the Naval Service on 31 December 2017, 31 December 2018, 31 December 2019, 31 December 2020 and 28 February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13198/22]

Naval Service

Dara Calleary

36. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Defence the capital investment that is being made in the Naval Service in 2022; and the plans that are in place to strengthen the naval fleet. [13199/22]

Education Policy

Dara Calleary

97. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Education the progress that has been made by her Department under its commitments within the 20 Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010-2030; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13495/22]

School Staff

Dara Calleary

141. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Education the status of the enhanced employment conditions for school secretaries and caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13496/22]

Foreign Birth Registration

Dara Calleary

228. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of a foreign birth registration application by a person (details supplied); the steps his Department has taken to alleviate the long delays being experienced by applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13603/22]

Further and Higher Education

Dara Calleary

57. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the progress that has been made under the national development plan for an increase in investment in further education and training infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12763/22]

Disadvantaged Status

Dara Calleary

75. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the details of the measures that have been taken to support students of DEIS schools to access further and higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12762/22]

Cycling Facilities

Dara Calleary

182. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Transport the specific funding that is being made available by his Department to local authorities along the EuroVelo Atlantic coast cycling route; the funding that has been drawn down by Mayo County Council under such schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12652/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Dara Calleary

493. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Health if there is a plan in place to allow unvaccinated HSE paramedics to return to work. [12413/22]

Dental Services

Dara Calleary

664. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Health the steps that he has taken in the context of the 2022 HSE service plan to support medical card holders to access dental care; if his attention has been drawn to the virtual collapse of the service nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12929/22]

Agriculture Schemes

Dara Calleary

768. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give consideration to a scheme involving the Departments of Rural and Community Development and Housing, Heritage and Local Government that would give financial support to famers and landowners to maintain and cut hedges that are part of or border their land along public roads and amenities ensuring that hedges are sustainably managed and that road safety and visibility issues are also managed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12665/22]

School Accommodation

Dara Calleary

300. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Education if she will review an instruction issued to a school (details supplied) that its playing pitches be used for temporary prefabs during a large rebuild given other space is available on or adjacent to the school site. [12220/22]

Energy Policy

Dara Calleary

45. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the eligibility criteria for the energy credit by those paying a flat rate electricity fee in caravan parks. [11900/22]

Electricity Grid

Dara Calleary

46. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if qualification for the energy credit requires the possession of a meter point reference number. [11901/22]

Health Services Staff

Dara Calleary

169. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Health the criteria for health and social care professionals registration for physiotherapists who achieve their qualification within the European Union but outside Ireland; the options that are available for such qualified persons in the event that CORU insist upon further Irish hospital placements being carried out before registration is approved specifically when such placements are not available within the Irish hospital system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11856/22]

Judicial Reviews

Dara Calleary

84. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public infrastructure projects that have been delayed by the legal action take over the River Bride project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11392/22]

Departmental Funding

Dara Calleary

573. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Justice if her Department will resume funding for an organisation (details suppled); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10910/22]

Immigration Policy

Dara Calleary

582. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Justice the status of new immigration laws (details supplied). [11103/22]

Departmental Funding

Dara Calleary

876. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is a contingency fund within the overall allocation for CLÁR funding given the rise in construction
costs, quotations given in 2020 and beginning of 2021 have increased up to 40%. [11488/22]

Departmental Schemes

Dara Calleary

37. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the status of the basic income guarantee pilot scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10424/22]

Legislative Process

Dara Calleary

69. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the status of the commencement of provisions of the Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10425/22]