Parliamentary questions

Social Welfare Payments

Richard Boyd Barrett

384. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection how An Post will rectify deductions made in errors to the extra cost-of-living Department of Social Protection payment of €200 for some recipients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21083/23]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Richard Boyd Barrett

428. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health when a catering assistant who worked in a nursing home all through the pandemic for a company (details supplied) will receive their pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20467/23]

Residential Institutions

Richard Boyd Barrett

249. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education whether she has any plans to re-open the residential institutions redress in order to accommodate those people who, due to the nature of their personal trauma, were unable to apply before the deadline; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19975/23]

Housing Schemes

Richard Boyd Barrett

292. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the exact date on which the first-home affordable purchase shared equity scheme will be open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20003/23]

Child Poverty

Richard Boyd Barrett

9. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the proposed child poverty unit in his Department. [19371/23]

School Accommodation

Richard Boyd Barrett

92. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the legal basis on which she can refuse to answer Parliamentary Question No. 670 of 21 March 2023 in relation to the annual rental costs for the current temporary accommodation and site of a school (details supplied); if such a request for those costs is not disclosed, how oversight and transparency on the expenditure of these public funds are to be achieved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19732/23]

Forestry Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

134. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 282 and 292 of 23 February 2023, while noting his acknowledgement of the recommendations of the Comptroller and Auditor General Report for 2018 that the previous cost-benefit analysis for State Aid for forestry 2014-2021 failed to account for a number of factors, the reason he does not specifically address the recommendation to include the cost to the State of the final tax-free sales of forestry; if he can provide an assurance that this specific recommendation of the Comptroller and Auditor General has been accepted by his officials and forms part of the cost-benefit analyses of Irish forestry undertaken in the context of Ireland's current application for approval by the European Commission of State aid to Irish forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19660/23]

Forestry Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

135. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 23 February 2023, while noting his announcement that he is 'reassessing its policy with regard to future afforestation on organic soils and that this will be informed by the UN Global Peatlands Assessment', if he will re-examine his reply in the context of this report's recommendations to set a depth-defining peat (organic) soils at 10 centimetres to avoid GHG emissions, and as in his reply it was stated that 'applying a depth threshold that is based on the carbon stocks associated with tropical forests and wetlands is not appropriate' (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19661/23]

Forestry Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

139. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are concerns within his Department regarding health and safety issues regarding rotten ash trees breaking off and falling within plantations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19723/23]

Forestry Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

140. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will immediately and without further bureaucracy or prejudice grant permission to remove rotten ash trees resulting from chalara fraxinea, ash dieback disease affected this year, given the serious health and safety risks associated with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19724/23]

Forestry Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

141. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legal position regarding liability where dead or rotten ash plants within plantations fall causing injury; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19725/23]

Disabilities Assessments

Richard Boyd Barrett

150. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 368 of 8 February 2023, if he will provide an update on an assessment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19879/23]

Departmental Strategies

Richard Boyd Barrett

2. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will outline the current situation in regard to the development of a national security strategy. [18277/23]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

14. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will meet next. [18278/23]

European Council

Richard Boyd Barrett

24. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent meeting of the European Council. [18279/23]

Energy Policy

Richard Boyd Barrett

145. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 8 February 2023, if a solution has been found yet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19199/23]

State Examinations

Richard Boyd Barrett

245. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the plans in place to avoid delays in the Leaving Certificate results this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18910/23]

Health Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

357. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the treatment available in Ireland to a patient who is suffering from stage four oesophageal cancer which has spread; if no treatment is available, what options are available to the patient to have treatment outside of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18620/23]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

3. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of the United States. [15155/23]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

15. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach how often every Cabinet committee meets, with particular reference to the committees on health, housing and education. [15432/23]

Public Sector Reform Review

Richard Boyd Barrett

22. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the number of meetings that have taken place of the strategic foresight and strengthening policy development research project, jointly overseen by his Department. [15430/23]

Bus Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

248. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an update on when the BusConnects phase for the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown area will be rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16583/23]

Taxi Regulations

Richard Boyd Barrett

298. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport why taxi drivers legally have to offer card paying facilities, while this method of payment is optional for all other members of the business community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17321/23]

Gender Equality

Richard Boyd Barrett

12. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on his plans for improving gender equality. [12862/23]

Third Level Education

Richard Boyd Barrett

58. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has engaged with the Department of Justice regarding the national review of State supports for PhD researchers in relation to visa and immigration status of non-EEA PhD researchers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15747/23]

Third Level Education

Richard Boyd Barrett

64. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his views on departmental plans to address inequities that may emerge between State-funded PhD researchers and other PhD researchers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15748/23]

Third Level Fees

Richard Boyd Barrett

80. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will commit to the abolition of all third-level and postgraduate fees in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15749/23]

Third Level Education

Richard Boyd Barrett

81. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he intends to allocate the necessary funds in budget 2024 to meet the demands of an organisation (details supplied) for a living wage for all PhD researchers, regardless of funding source; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15751/23]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

2. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [11605/23]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

15. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he is planning to publish a Housing for All report with the final figures of housing delivered for the whole of 2022; and when he expects to do this. [15431/23]

Departmental Properties

Richard Boyd Barrett

19. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's resource-efficiency action plan. [15153/23]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

23. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. [15154/23]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

3. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet committee on health took place. [12864/23]

Departmental Offices

Richard Boyd Barrett

16. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach to report on the international division of his Department. [11604/23]

School Meals Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

152. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will extend the school meals programme to all schools by 2023; and if she will ensure that these meals are of a high standard and offer both hot and cold school meals. [14163/23]

Housing Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

316. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage with regards to those families and individuals who were removed from the council housing lists as a result of income limits but who found themselves back under the limits in January when the limits were increased; the exact dates that apply for applicants getting their time back when they are put back on the list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15306/23]

Housing Schemes

Richard Boyd Barrett

323. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline how the tenant-in-situ scheme will work when a tenant’s home is in a different local authority area to where they are on the housing list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15364/23]

Housing Schemes

Richard Boyd Barrett

324. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how the targets for tenant-in-situ purchases were assigned, and in particular to explain why there has only been a target of 50 homes assigned to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15365/23]

Housing Schemes

Richard Boyd Barrett

325. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a comprehensive list of any regulations or guidelines for the tenant-in-situ scheme, and also for the tenant in-situ-scheme where people are above the housing income limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15366/23]

State Bodies

Richard Boyd Barrett

577. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice the rationale for the setting up of the Firearms Expert Committee, FEC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15029/23]

Tobacco Control Measures

Richard Boyd Barrett

699. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the regulations that are in place for vaping products; if there is any intention of further regulating these products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15030/23]

Departmental Policies

Richard Boyd Barrett

105. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the measures she is intending to bring in to address the high cost of housing which is impacting on the ability of schools to recruit and retain teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14162/23]

School Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

125. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the measures she is taking to address the shortage of teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14160/23]

Education Policy

Richard Boyd Barrett

138. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a detailed roadmap with interim targets for achieving the Government's target of 400 multi-denominational primary schools by 2030; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14161/23]

Schools Building Projects

Richard Boyd Barrett

147. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if she is aware that the decision to put 58 school building projects on hold (details supplied) has the knock-on effect of further delaying the move of a school from its current temporary location in prefabs to its permanent location, meaning the school has now been waiting 27 years for a permanent home; her views on whether this delay is unacceptable; if she will take urgent and immediate action to prevent this further delay and ensure that the school will be in its permanent location not later than 2025 when it will celebrate its 30 year anniversary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14159/23]

Gorse Burning

Richard Boyd Barrett

377. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 7 March 2023, the area of land covered by gorse and heather and so on, that has been burned nationwide; how many tonnes of CO2 have been released into the atmosphere from the period, 1 September 2022 to 28 February 2023; if this CO2 is included in agricultural emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14455/23]

Church-State Relations

Richard Boyd Barrett

3. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on recent engagements with church leaders. [12857/23]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

14. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [12863/23]

Job Losses

Richard Boyd Barrett

51. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has made contact with a company (details supplied) following its recent announcement in relation to a 5% cut to its global workforce; what this may mean specifically for the company’s employees here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14262/23]

Northern Ireland

Richard Boyd Barrett

10. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [12855/23]

Departmental Meetings

Richard Boyd Barrett

16. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the climate action delivery board, co-chaired by his Department. [12856/23]

Health Strategies

Richard Boyd Barrett

21. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework. [11606/23]

Work Permits

Richard Boyd Barrett

154. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether a person who is in Ireland on a stamp 3 visa but has a qualification that would entitle them to a critical skills permit can apply for a job from Ireland and still qualify for this type of permit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13805/23]

Public Transport

Richard Boyd Barrett

268. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport the reason, unlike most other sections of the business society, taxi drivers are legally obligated to offer card paying facilities to their customers given that it can often be the case when a driver arrives at some destinations internet is not available which is problematic if the customer has no cash as an alternative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12982/23]

Housing Schemes

Richard Boyd Barrett

423. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of the new initiatives for which he has recently got approval from Cabinet (details supplied) that will assist those with eviction notices to buy their own homes or for their homes to transfer to cost-rental; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12919/23]

Housing Schemes

Richard Boyd Barrett

424. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a breakdown of data (details supplied) under several sub-headings for each the past ten years, in tabular form. [12920/23]

Housing Schemes

Richard Boyd Barrett

425. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will extend the shared equity scheme to any home that comes under the price threshold and not just designated affordable homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12952/23]

Housing Schemes

Richard Boyd Barrett

433. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to the announcement of the end to the eviction ban and his statement in Dáil Éireann (details supplied), if he will outline the new mechanism referred to; and when it will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12993/23]

Housing Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

450. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a report on the total number of private home completions in 2021 and 2022, broken down by local authority and with the corresponding Part V allocation, where applicable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13147/23]

Housing Schemes

Richard Boyd Barrett

451. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline any constraints, price or otherwise to the county council's acquisition programme and the tenant in situ programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13167/23]

Schools Building Projects

Richard Boyd Barrett

608. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the reason for the expected delay in going to tender to build a new permanent school (details supplied) to Q2 2024, adding a year to the potential opening date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12314/23]

School Facilities

Richard Boyd Barrett

670. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if a school (details supplied) is to remain on a site in the 2023-2024 school year; if her Department will provide additional prefab classrooms in order to accommodate the additional number of students who will be attending the school in September 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12964/23]

School Accommodation

Richard Boyd Barrett

671. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the accommodation plan for a school (details supplied) for the 2024-2025 school year; when An Bord Pleanála will make a final decision on the permanent school building in Blackrock; the annual rental cost for the school building in the present location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12965/23]

Employment Support Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

851. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if any funding for the local area employment services in Dún Laoghaire has changed in recent weeks or months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13808/23]

Employment Support Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

852. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if there have been any contract changes between the local area employment services in Dún Laoghaire and the Southside Partnership in recent weeks or months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13809/23]

Employment Support Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

853. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a copy of the original tender document to run the local area employment services in Dún Laoghaire; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13810/23]

Health Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

1313. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify the details of the HSE’s new service for the delivery of gender-affirming healthcare; if there is a timeline; if members of the trans community will be consulted about what they want and need; if international best practice will be applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12914/23]

Health Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

1314. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if members of the autism community are being turned away from the national gender service; if so, the rationale behind it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12915/23]

Rental Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

97. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to introduce any supports, such as HAP, for households who are facing eviction or seeking accommodation but cannot afford current market rents but are above the social housing income thresholds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11856/23]

Rental Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

110. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will extend the eviction ban at the end of March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11854/23]

Housing Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

123. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the final figure for local authority own build social housing completions in the four Dublin local authorities in 2022; his views that this represents success or failure in terms of addressing the chronic housing crisis in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11853/23]

Housing Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

153. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and other bodies to ensure the immediate servicing of the public housing lands in Old Conna and Rathmichael to accelerate the delivery of social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11857/23]

Departmental Priorities

Richard Boyd Barrett

8. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [11360/23]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

17. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on immigration will next meet. [11361/23]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

23. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the committee that deals with higher education and research will next meet. [10251/23]

Income Inequality

Richard Boyd Barrett

96. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he is aware of an organisation’s (details supplied) recent report on wealth inequality in Ireland, which found that the number of Irish persons with individual wealth of over €46.6 million has more than doubled between 2012 and 2022, rising from 655 to 1,435 people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11408/23]

Official Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

104. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the companies that attended the dinner he hosted in Davos recently; the matters that were discussed with these companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11406/23]

Tax Code

Richard Boyd Barrett

108. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline any role or involvement he has in the proposed Coillte/Gresham House deal in relation to the future of Irish forestry; his views on the tax treatment of such an investment plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11403/23]

Corporate Governance

Richard Boyd Barrett

151. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has received any report from the Corporate Enforcement Authority on the meeting in January 2023 between the Corporate Enforcement Authority, workers of a company (details supplied) and this Deputy, a meeting that was facilitated by the Secretary General of his Department following a parliamentary question raised by this Deputy with the Taoiseach on 13 December 2022 regarding the findings from a recently made film in relation to the liquidation of said company; if he has not received such a report, if he will seek it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11420/23]

Corporate Governance

Richard Boyd Barrett

152. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department was aware in the course of the liquidation of a company (details supplied); if so, when his Department became aware of the pre-pack administration package put together in April 2019 by several financial entities, involving a floating charge loan of £200 million to the company's UK entity, which was subsequently injected into it but for which the Irish and Danish stores were made co-guarantors, and the use of the 12-month rule in Irish law concerning the fixing of these charges on the company in Ireland, and the fact that the liquidation of the company's Irish operations was announced precisely 12 months later on the day such a liability became legally valid in Irish law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11421/23]

Corporate Governance

Richard Boyd Barrett

153. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department was aware that a company (details supplied) had not renewed its 36 trademarks in the Republic of Ireland in 2020 prior to the liquidation of the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11422/23]

Corporate Governance

Richard Boyd Barrett

154. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is aware that workers of a company (details supplied) were initially told the company debt was €22 million in May 2020, and in July that debt had risen to more than €300 million, and that the workers were also told that the revenues from the online sales of a website would be used in the liquidation, which subsequently turned out not to be the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11423/23]

Gorse Burning

Richard Boyd Barrett

183. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the area of land covered by gorse and heather and so on that has been burned nationwide; how many tonnes of CO2 have been released into the atmosphere from the period 1 September 2022 to 28 February 2023; if this CO2 is included in agriculture emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11399/23]

Gorse Burning

Richard Boyd Barrett

310. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how many call-outs of emergency services there were to deal with out-of-control gorse fires nationwide; the costs of same from 1 September 2022 to 28 March 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11409/23]

Special Educational Needs

Richard Boyd Barrett

385. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if a person (details supplied) who has very high level special needs and is in residential care and who has not received a full and specialised education based on their needs since 2020, will receive home tuition or admission to a special needs school which they have been repeatedly refused by application due to lack of capacity and lack of special needs facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11214/23]

Social Welfare Benefits

Richard Boyd Barrett

460. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the specific additional supports a mother of two children with disabilities, for which she is receiving DCA, might be entitled to including but not limited to a tax credits for a new car; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10841/23]

Taxi Licences

Richard Boyd Barrett

10. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport if he will ensure the National Transport Authority regulations regarding renewal of taxi licences incorporate some leeway on deadlines; if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4807/23]

Public Sector Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

103. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will outline how he intends to ensure the crucial posts across the public sector are filled, in particular in the cities, given the unaffordability of housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10594/23]

Public Sector Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

116. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will report on efforts being made to fill posts across the public sector, given the difficulties currently being experienced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10593/23]

Housing Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

123. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will report on the discussions he has had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the failure of Housing for All to deliver on its local authority build targets for 2022, particularly in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10595/23]

Housing Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

124. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will report on the role his Department has in ensuring the progress of the commitments in the national development plan in supporting the current public housing programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10592/23]

National Development Plan

Richard Boyd Barrett

130. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will report on the progress of NSO 8 in the national development plan - "Transition to Climate Neutral and Climate Resilient Society"; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10591/23]

Building Regulations

Richard Boyd Barrett

220. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 266 of 15 November 2022, if he will review and correct his previous response where he stated that the procedures were followed in relation to a complaint made to the Ombudsman's office concerning breach of a statutory requirement, under section 53(1) of the Building Control Act 2007, by the Society of Chartered Surveyors Registration Body Professional Conducts Committee, which it is believed were not followed in accordance with section 53(1) of the Building Control Act 2007 in that the right of appeal was denied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10798/23]

Departmental Functions

Richard Boyd Barrett

7. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [10249/23]

National Security Committee

Richard Boyd Barrett

17. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the national security committee chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [10250/23]

Assisted Human Reproduction

Richard Boyd Barrett

171. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will outline what the eligibility criteria will be for publicly funded fertility care, as outlined in the programme for Government, in terms of age, relationship status, sexuality and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10381/23]

European Council

Richard Boyd Barrett

8. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent special European Council meeting. [9958/23]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

19. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [9959/23]

Constitutional Amendments

Richard Boyd Barrett

27. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his plans for referendums, including the referendum on housing committed to in the programme for Government. [9960/23]

Energy Conservation

Richard Boyd Barrett

137. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a list of social welfare payments which qualify a person for the SEAI fully-funded energy upgrades; if he will provide a list of the social welfare payments that do not qualify a person; the rationale for same; if the scope will be broadened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9565/23]