Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Recycling Policy

Cathal Crowe

123. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the employees of a company (details supplied) that operates the deposit return scheme are public servants; and if so, the salary level of the management of that company. [18502/24]

Recycling Policy

Cathal Crowe

124. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount that a company (details supplied) which operates the deposit return scheme receives from the public purse. [18503/24]

Schools Building Projects

Cathal Crowe

177. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education for updates on emergency works and ASA applications submitted by a school (details supplied). [18499/24]

Educational Disadvantage

Cathal Crowe

55. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if her Department will give positive consideration to the application supplied by a school (details supplied) seeking DEIS status. [18142/24]

School Staff

Cathal Crowe

56. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if she will give consideration to the disbandment of Croke Park hours for teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18152/24]

Social Welfare Benefits

Cathal Crowe

96. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider increasing the household benefits package allowance for those in receipt of a pension; and if she will remove the means test for those over 66 years of age. [18133/24]

State Properties

Cathal Crowe

51. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform his plans for the State-owned unit 153 in Shannon Business Park, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15647/24]

State Properties

Cathal Crowe

65. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if his Department has plans to upgrade the State-owned motor taxation office in Shannon, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15646/24]

Departmental Schemes

Cathal Crowe

355. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of a scheme (details supplied); and when he expects it to be open for applicants with water ingress issues to be repaired. [17476/24]

Grant Payments

Cathal Crowe

363. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the rules surrounding the housing adaptation grant (details supplied) will be amended so that an invalidity pension is not included in the means test for adapting a home for disabled access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17585/24]

School Meals Programme

Cathal Crowe

403. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection when the schools (details supplied) announced for the hot school meals programme can expect the meals to be rolled out; and what options are available for those with allergies. [17536/24]

Health Promotion

Cathal Crowe

685. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the reason there is currently no funding plan for a Healthy Food Made Easy programme in County Clare; the reason no facilitator is in place for the delivery of this programme in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18029/24]

Health Promotion

Cathal Crowe

686. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if a social prescribers programme is operating in Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18030/24]

Dental Services

Cathal Crowe

688. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if he will outline plans his Department has to recruit dentists into the HSE dental service so that the huge backlog of children awaiting dental treatment in CHO3 can be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18032/24]

Tourism Policy

Cathal Crowe

12. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her Department has a strategy to ensure tourism in Ireland is more regionally balanced in terms of the entry and exit points of passengers arriving into Ireland, that is, airports and ferry ports. [16690/24]

Sports Funding

Cathal Crowe

39. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media when she expects the sports capital grants to be announced. [16691/24]

Regional Development

Cathal Crowe

62. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on his Department’s efforts, in conjunction with IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, to attract new commerce and industry to County Clare. [16695/24]

Business Supports

Cathal Crowe

117. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will give positive consideration to introducing supports to struggling small and medium-sized businesses to meet the increased costs they are facing. [16694/24]

Departmental Data

Cathal Crowe

303. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if he will outline which public hospitals in Ireland are considered to be teaching hospitals; and if he will outline figures as to the number of nurses placed in each hospital in an average year, in tabular form. [17214/24]

Tax Exemptions

Cathal Crowe

19. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to extending the VAT exemption to counsellors and psychotherapists in Ireland (details supplied). [16878/24]