Parliamentary questions

Social Welfare Payments

Joan Collins

159. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of introducing a cost of disability payment to the Exchequer, in line with the recommendations set out in the recent report (details supplied) published in December 2021; and if she is producing an implementation plan in relation to same. [34986/22]

Social Welfare Payments

Joan Collins

520. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer of introducing a cost of disability payment in line with the recommendations set out in the recent Cost of Disability Report published in December 2021 (details supplied). [34022/22]

Office of Director of Public Prosecutions

Joan Collins

52. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Taoiseach the assurances that his Department would seek to make sure that a person’s activities abroad would not impact negatively on a person’s duties as State Solicitor in Ireland; the reason that they were not asked to stand down while court cases abroad in relation to their activities were ongoing. [35752/22]

Office of Director of Public Prosecutions

Joan Collins

56. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Taoiseach the assurances that his Department would seek to make sure that a person’s activities abroad would not impact negatively on a person’s duties as State Solicitor in Ireland; the reason that they were not asked to stand down while court cases abroad in relation to their activities were ongoing.

School Management

Joan Collins

120. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education when she received a notice from a school (details supplied) indicating that a board of management was yet to be established; if the notice was received; the reason given by the school for not establishing the board of management; if she has been advised on the nomination and designation for the chairperson of the school; if steps will be taken to ensure that a parents association will be established as soon as possible to ensure good governance in the school. [36318/22]

Hospital Services

Joan Collins

286. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1742 of 14 June 2022, if an organisation (details supplied) closed its offices and transferred its equipment to St James’s Hospital in January 2022; if transcranial magnetic stimulation is accessible to private patients who have mental health, epilepsy and addiction issues; and if there are other public hospitals that are offering this treatment privately. [36462/22]

Driver Licences

Joan Collins

151. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Transport the reason a person (details supplied) needs a public service card to renew their driving licence; and the reason they cannot use another form of identification. [36143/22]

An Garda Síochána

Joan Collins

526. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice if a response will issue to a family (details supplied); and if an independent inquiry will be conducted on the decision by An Garda Síochána to not carry out a forensic examination and an investigation of the matter. [35930/22]

Healthcare Infrastructure Provision

Joan Collins

762. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the plans the HSE has for the site on Davitt Road (details supplied); if is intended for the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35760/22]

Special Educational Needs

Joan Collins

19. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education if she has considered utilising workers in small creches who are let go during the summer months to give them an option to work and provide the July provision. [34863/22]

Special Educational Needs

Joan Collins

43. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education the projected needs for school placements for special needs and autistic children in secondary schools, either by CHO area or by county, from September 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [34858/22]

Special Educational Needs

Joan Collins

54. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update in relation to schools (details supplied) that need to open autism classes in Dublin 12. [34864/22]

Special Educational Needs

Joan Collins

64. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education the number of special needs children in Dublin 12, Dublin 6, Dublin 6W and Dublin 8 who are waiting for school placements in primary or secondary schools for September 2022. [34857/22]

Departmental Offices

Joan Collins

123. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection if there is a process taking place in her Department that will change the appeals officer job specification in relation to appeals decisions; and if there are, if she will provide the changes. [34974/22]

Driver Licences

Joan Collins

182. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Transport the reason that a person (details supplied) cannot pay for the renewal of their driver licence in cash; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33959/22]

Hare Coursing

Joan Collins

252. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will refuse the 2022-2023 coursing licences (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33640/22]

Dental Services

Joan Collins

859. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if there has been a decision made to refer dental services provided in health clinics to private dentists who take medical card patients (details supplied). [34145/22]

Social Welfare Payments

Joan Collins

1185. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will increase the foster carer’s payment (details supplied) as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29725/22]

Hospital Services

Joan Collins

1742. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the HSE is providing transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of cocaine addiction and or for mental health care; and if so, the locations in which the treatment is provided. [30153/22]

Health Services

Joan Collins

661. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the issues raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) concerning the health clinic on Curlew Road, Drimnagh, Dublin 12, will be investigated; if an urgent meeting will take place with the HSE, the residents' committee and Deputies from the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27372/22]

Departmental Funding

Joan Collins

317. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will further advise on a SUSI-grant matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied). [27043/22]

Social Welfare Payments

Joan Collins

129. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will advise on a social welfare payment matter raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26820/22]

Parental Leave

Joan Collins

148. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the extension of parents leave from five to seven weeks announced in Budget 2022 will come into effect (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26824/22]

Greyhound Industry

Joan Collins

738. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds that were injured at racetracks from 1 January 2022 to date; the nature and date of the injuries at the tracks at which they occurred; the number euthanised by track vets; the number and the causes of additional racing fatalities; and if post-mortems were carried out. [26484/22]

Social Welfare Benefits

Joan Collins

92. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will set up a cost of living hardship fund to be distributed by community welfare officers in the community and accessible by families and persons who are deeply affected by the cost of living increases in food, medical bills, essential clothing and so on. [24502/22]

Public Sector Staff

Joan Collins

112. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will resolve the issue in which 400 plus supervisors working in TÚS and the rural social scheme have had no pay increases, access to occupational pension scheme, maternity leave or a travel budget. [24518/22]

Social Welfare Benefits

Joan Collins

132. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have made applications to in the form of rent supplement or supplementary welfare allowance or exceptional needs payments from 1 May 2021 to 30 April 2022 from the Intreo Offices in Cork Street and Bishop Square, Dublin 8. [24503/22]

Employment Schemes

Joan Collins

135. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Social Protection if a representative of the rural social scheme supervisors will be included in the imminent review of the rural social scheme. [24508/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Joan Collins

628. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if section 39 workers who worked in the homeless front-line healthcare workers are to be included in the Covid recognition scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24103/22]

Hospital Appointments Status

Joan Collins

694. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 19 October 2021, when a date will be set for the operation which is urgently required by this person. [24464/22]

Special Educational Needs

Joan Collins

65. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the setting up of autism classes in schools (details supplied). [23584/22]

Special Educational Needs

Joan Collins

87. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on an autism class in a school (details supplied). [23575/22]

Special Educational Needs

Joan Collins

94. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education the reason for the delay in finding a builder to build the autism class in a school (details supplied). [23586/22]

Disability Services

Joan Collins

132. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education the average waiting time for accessing an autism behaviour therapist (details supplied); and if she will take steps to resolve the long waiting times for the new school year in September 2022.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23585/22]

Special Educational Needs

Joan Collins

152. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education if she will introduce a long-term plan for the provision of the July provision in each school. [23588/22]

Grant Payments

Joan Collins

292. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his views on the interpretation by SUSI of the qualifying grounds for the non-adjacent rate in the case of a person (details supplied). [23930/22]

Defective Building Materials

Joan Collins

359. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the working group on safety remediation costing for apartment complexes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22832/22]

Human Trafficking

Joan Collins

1266. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Justice if the membership of her Department’s stakeholders group on human trafficking includes any academics; and if so, the names of the academic members of the group. [19889/22]

Health Services

Joan Collins

1412. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 415 of 12 July 2018, the status of his plans to roll out electricity subsidies nationally to all COPD patients that are available in certain CHO areas for patients that are using oxygen machines at home for more than 16 hours a day. [19468/22]

State Bodies

Joan Collins

414. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the reason that a tender application (details supplied) has been declined for a private facility. [19074/22]

Disability Services

Joan Collins

401. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 162 of 3 December 2021, if 91 children's disability network teams have been established by the end of 2021; if all 91 children's disability network teams have been established, operational and fully staffed; the staffing levels in the children's disability network team in Armagh Road, Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17242/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Joan Collins

444. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the six sites at which the HSE will establish specialist acute hospital clinics for long Covid; and the services that will be provided in them. [17308/22]

Hospital Staff

Joan Collins

445. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health if the senior occupational therapist position in St. James’s Hospital will be maintained into the future for long Covid patients; if occupational therapists will be an essential service under the model of care for long Covid clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17309/22]

Traveller Community

Joan Collins

138. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the electricity rebate will be passed on to members of the Traveller community who pay electricity bills directly to local authorities; and if so, the way that this will be processed. [14437/22]

Sports Funding

Joan Collins

299. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the status of the review of the Large-Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14893/22]

School Admissions

Joan Collins

471. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education if a person (details supplied) will be offered a school placement in September 2022. [13942/22]

Special Educational Needs

Joan Collins

515. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education if an autism class has been proposed for a school (details supplied). [14486/22]

Disability Services

Joan Collins

1032. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Health the level of staffing of the Armagh Road children’s disability network team; and the breakdown of staffing (details supplied). [14777/22]

Special Educational Needs

Joan Collins

66. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Education the opening date for autism classes in schools (details supplied) in Dublin 12; the reason for the delay in opening the classes; and if they will be open for September 2022. [13665/22]

Housing Schemes

Joan Collins

127. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to upgrade or amend the HAP scheme (details supplied); his further plans to increase the HAP rent caps to a level that reflects current rents; and his views on whether families in accommodation that no longer suits their needs should be allowed to move to another tenancy and at the same time hold onto the HAP given that many of these tenancies are now years in existence [12104/22]