Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Gender Equality

Réada Cronin

270. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has a complete list of all businesses required to report their gender pay gap to enable it to best track compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58530/22]

Gender Equality

Réada Cronin

271. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a register of employers that have not complied with the requirements to publish their gender pay gap will be available to the public on the centralised website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58531/22]

Banking Sector

Réada Cronin

73. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) in relation to a refusal to accept a direct debit from a bank. [56796/22]

Health Services Staff

Réada Cronin

171. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the systems that are in place for financial protection and assistance for frontline healthcare workers who, having contracted Covid-19 in the course of their hospital duties, subsequently developed long-Covid, and having exceeded their sick leave, are now to face their continued absence from work without any pay; his views on whether a particular duty on the part of the State pertains to those workers who developed long-Covid from infection contracted in the line of fulfilling their own work duties for the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56767/22]

Legislative Programme

Réada Cronin

179. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a date for the pending human tissue Bill (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56825/22]

International Protection

Réada Cronin

425. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of the decisions taken on the proposed refugee centre at the equestrian centre in Kill, County Kildare to include information on identification of site; the various bases for same, for example, suitability of site and facility services and amenities; and the dates of each and all stages of the process. [56151/22]

Tax Code

Réada Cronin

285. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance if homeowners subject to payment of both service charges to an owner's management company and liability for payment of LPT to a local authority could be allowed by his Department to off-set service charges against LPT until their estate is taken-in-charge by the local authority (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55026/22]

Tax Exemptions

Réada Cronin

178. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance if homeowners awaiting the 'taking-in-charge' of estates, the process of which is taking an inordinately long period of time, can be exempt from paying local property tax until it is completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54065/22]

Teaching Council of Ireland

Réada Cronin

218. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54003/22]

Renewable Energy Generation

Réada Cronin

181. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if a matter in relation to the installation of a photovoltaic system (details supplied) will be examined; if he will liaise with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52837/22]

Teaching Council of Ireland

Réada Cronin

107. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education her views on whether it is just or equitable, that there appears to be no mechanism for persons who made a complaint about the behaviour of a teacher towards a child (details supplied) to appeal a decision made by the Teaching Council in that regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52253/22]

Teaching Council of Ireland

Réada Cronin

108. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if her Department views the lack of an appeals process in the matter of a decision made by the Teaching Council regarding a complaint as contrary to the common-law principles of natural justice; if her Department is in favour of the introduction of such an appeals process for complaints and complainants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52254/22]

Teaching Council of Ireland

Réada Cronin

109. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she will identify the primary legislation within the Teaching Council Act 2001 or the Teaching Council (Amendments) Act 2015 that provides the legal grounds for the investigating committee of the Teaching Council to refuse an application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52255/22]

Teaching Council of Ireland

Réada Cronin

110. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she will identify the primary legislation within the Teaching Council Act 2001 and Teaching Council (Amendments) Act 2015 that provides for refusing a complaint, classifying it as frivolous; the officers of the Teaching Council who retain that power; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52256/22]

Teaching Council of Ireland

Réada Cronin

111. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the legislation that provides for a determination of the seriousness of a complaint during the investigating committee process of the Teaching Council under part V section 42; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52257/22]

Social Welfare Payments

Réada Cronin

685. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if his Department can provide clarity as to the outcome in the matter of the double welfare payment due where nursing homes have automatic access to and control of a resident’s regular payment; if in this case the resident will have independent control of, and access to, the second part of the payment, or if it will be treated in the way of the usual payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51218/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Réada Cronin

299. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme services that are of standard capitation given that his Department states that a standard capitation ECCE service will receive at least a 9.5% increase through core funding; the number that were higher capitation; the percentage increase awarded by core funding to higher capitation sessions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49245/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Réada Cronin

300. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made to date in establishing a definition for reasonable profit within the meaning of the Crowe Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49246/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Réada Cronin

301. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the attention of his Department has been drawn to a penalising effect of the core-funding allocation wherein smaller independent services face closure thereby reducing choice for parents who want part-time care or early childhood care and education scheme-only provision, something that is not catered for in many full day care creches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49247/22]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Réada Cronin

302. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department accepts that a 40-week preschool should be funded, wherever such provision is profitable, and that the Departmental policy extant could lead to the eradication of small, home from home services of which up to 1500 exist across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49248/22]

Further and Higher Education

Réada Cronin

308. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will undertake a thorough investigation of a matter at Maynooth University whereby a decision has been taken not to proceed with a long promised student centre and for which levies had been placed on students over several years; if so, if he will publish the findings of such investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49249/22]

Further and Higher Education

Réada Cronin

309. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if former students at Maynooth University who paid levies for the construction of a designated student centre will be refunded those monies paid and with interest due, now that the structure as envisioned is not to go ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49250/22]

Banking Sector

Réada Cronin

240. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any practice of banks operating in the Irish market of assigning debt or chose in action to vulture funds but of failing to give notice to the debtor of the amounts assigned. [48541/22]

Tax Code

Réada Cronin

241. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance his views on whether any instrument of assignment of a debt or chose-in-action in cases in which there has been a failure to pay duty on a chargeable instrument, is inadmissible to prove the assignment, subject to the provisions of section 127(4) of the Stamp Duty Consolidation Act 1999; if he is satisfied that all banks and vulture funds so called must and do produce certificates of proof that duty has been paid on certain instruments of assignment; if he is satisfied that any such failure to produce such certificates of proof would render those instruments inadmissible to prove the assignment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48542/22]

Tax Code

Réada Cronin

242. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the Revenue Commissioners are providing certificates for all payments of duty made on chargeable instruments; if he will publish copies of all such certificates issued by the Revenue Commissioners, together with details of same in tabular form; if deemed necessary if he will request an investigation into the issuing of certificates of proof of payment of duty on chargeable instruments of assignment or debt or choses-in-action; and if so if will inform Dáil Éireann of the outcome of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48543/22]

School Transport

Réada Cronin

383. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if the case of students (details supplied) will be examined; if further information will be provided in relation to same [48159/22]

Medical Qualifications

Réada Cronin

617. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if his Department will clarify a matter (details supplied). [48094/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Réada Cronin

312. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if Dublin Fire Brigade paramedics who worked on the front line during the worst phases of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic will receive the pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46421/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Réada Cronin

493. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the length of time that the review of funding for the Mater Hospital long-Covid clinic will take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45482/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Réada Cronin

494. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if certain charges apply in the case of patients with long-Covid requesting their files from a hospital (details supplied); if so, if in the circumstances of the pandemic, still ongoing, such charges could be waived; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45517/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Réada Cronin

495. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if long-Covid will be classified as a long-term illness given the number of persons with the condition who have been unable to work at all, or as usual, in the past two years, the cost of numerous general practitioner and consultant visits and various medications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45518/22]

Public Sector Staff

Réada Cronin

189. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that some sections of public-service staff who have been successfully and efficiently working from home are being recalled on-site to the office, while other sections of their Department can continue to work from home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44723/22]

Public Sector Staff

Réada Cronin

190. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if public service-staff who have efficiently and successfully worked from home will be allowed continue to do so, particularly in the context of the workplace energy costs incurred by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44724/22]

School Transport

Réada Cronin

268. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she will publish the full communications between her Department and Bus Éireann on the Government’s plans and announcement of the free school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44451/22]

School Transport

Réada Cronin

269. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the steps that her Department took to guarantee sufficient places on the school transport scheme before announcing the new free aspect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44452/22]

Disability Services

Réada Cronin

575. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health when the implementation plan for the Disability Capacity Review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44847/22]

Transport Policy

Réada Cronin

158. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport if he will introduce a ban on the sale of SUVs in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41964/22]

Public Transport

Réada Cronin

166. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport if he will be introducing a rail-ticket price initiative for customers similar to that offered in Germany; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41965/22]

Bus Services

Réada Cronin

240. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport the number of low-floor wheelchair accessible single decker and double decker buses that were sent for auction or were otherwise disposed of by Bus Éireann, Dublin Bus or the National Transport Authority from 2011 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43107/22]

Bus Services

Réada Cronin

241. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport the number of low-floor wheelchair accessible single decker and double decker buses that were transferred from Bus Éireann, Dublin Bus or the National Transport Authority to the School Transport Fleet from 2011 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43108/22]

Bus Services

Réada Cronin

242. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport the number of low-floor wheelchair accessible single decker and double decker buses owned by either Bus Éireann, Dublin Bus or the National Transport Authority that are currently in storage; if said fleet will be made available to the school transport fleet; if he will liaise with the Minister for Education on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43109/22]

Bus Services

Réada Cronin

243. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport the knowledge that he had, if any, of the disposal of fleet by Bus Éireann in the 2011 to 2021 period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43118/22]

Pension Provisions

Réada Cronin

317. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Finance if he will request the Pensions Authority to reconsider its approach to one-person pension arrangements and extend the deadline for compliance with EU IOPR II directive to January 2023; if his Department, the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Social Protection will work together to ensure the PRSA changes vis-à-vis the current one-member arrangements are made in the Finance Act 2023, given that without the necessary flexibility, providers and customers are facing a catastrophic situation, especially those with no other realistic alternative for their savings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41969/22]

Housing Schemes

Réada Cronin

511. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, given the high prices of regular family homes and the lack of such properties, the new first-time-buyers scheme will be extended in bands to address the high threshold prices and in scope to also include second-hand homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41955/22]

School Accommodation

Réada Cronin

805. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she is satisfied as to the quantum and quality of works undertaken to fulfil the accommodation needs of a school (details supplied). [41948/22]

School Accommodation

Réada Cronin

806. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if her Department is confident that the premises of a school (details supplied) on same will place it in a position to cater properly for the needs of current and prospective students from the beginning of the new academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41949/22]

School Transport

Réada Cronin

893. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she has had any engagement with the Minister for Transport and-or the National Transport Authority, Bus Éireann or Dublin Bus to seek the transfer of low-floor wheelchair accessible single-decker and double-decker public service obligation fleet to the school transport fleet; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43110/22]

School Transport

Réada Cronin

894. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if her Department will supply a list of the school transport fleet, broken down by depot, age, type of bus and accessibility; the training, if any, that has been provided to drivers, Bus Éireann or private contractors in the use of the wheelchair lifts where high-sided coaches have been cascaded down to the school transport fleet; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43111/22]

School Transport

Réada Cronin

895. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education when students at primary and second level can expect to have a fully accessible school transport fleet available to them to facilitate compliance with Articles 9 and 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43112/22]

School Transport

Réada Cronin

896. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education her views on whether it is in the best interests of a student who is mobility-impaired to travel with his or her siblings and friends in the same vehicle; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43113/22]