Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Social Welfare Benefits

Seán Sherlock

442. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a domiciliary care allowance claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [11351/23]

Disability Services

Seán Sherlock

549. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the caseload and headcount of staff and children awaiting intervention in the west Cork children's disability network team, in tabular form. [10944/23]

Health Services Waiting Lists

Seán Sherlock

573. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Health when an ophthalmology appointment will be allocated to a person (details supplied) in County Cork where a referral has been made. [11025/23]

Rental Sector

Seán Sherlock

215. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of private rented accommodation inspections carried out by local authorities in each of the years 2018 to 2022, and to date in 2023; the number of inspections in which further enforcement action was taken, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10736/23]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Seán Sherlock

259. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection the current status of social welfare claims in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [10799/23]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Seán Sherlock

260. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a status update on a carer’s allowance claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [10800/23]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Seán Sherlock

261. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a status update on a carer’s allowance claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [10801/23]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Seán Sherlock

262. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a status update on a carer’s allowance claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [10803/23]

Sports Organisations

Seán Sherlock

67. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she or persons within any statutory agencies under her remit have met with an organisation (details supplied). [10467/23]

Rail Network

Seán Sherlock

184. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Transport the status of the all-island rail review; and when he will publish same. [9668/23]

Departmental Data

Seán Sherlock

201. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Transport the numbers of users, bike rides, membership revenue and each station usage in the each of the years 2018 to 2022, and to date in 2023, for each of the public bike schemes in Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford and Dublin, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10055/23]

School Transport

Seán Sherlock

225. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Education if a person (details supplied) can apply for a refund for monies paid for transport for her child when approval was granted but services had not commenced. [9350/23]

Health Services Staff

Seán Sherlock

622. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the individual CDNT teams in each CHO area that has a dietitian on its team; and the case load per dietitian, per CDNT team, in tabular form. [8278/23]

Coillte Teoranta

Seán Sherlock

721. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of payments received by the State forestry company, Coillte, from the European Union for each of the years since it drew down an initial European Investment Bank loan of £27.8 million in the year of its establishment, 1988. [8195/23]

Coillte Teoranta

Seán Sherlock

722. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of loans drawn down by the State forestry company, Coillte, from the European Investment Bank for each of the years since it drew down an initial EIB loan of £27.8 million in the year of its establishment, 1988. [8196/23]

Forestry Sector

Seán Sherlock

723. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of dividends paid by Coillte to the Exchequer from the year of its establishment, 1988, until the end of the last calendar year, 31 December 2022. [8197/23]

Office of Public Works

Seán Sherlock

211. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the status of a project (details supplied). [7920/23]

Housing Provision

Seán Sherlock

236. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has been informed by a local authority (details supplied) of the number of applications, successful, and unsuccessful carried out in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, on the tenant in situ scheme; and if he will publish that data and the number of tenants it impacts. [7857/23]

Housing Provision

Seán Sherlock

74. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the estimated number of modular houses that will be built in 2023 and 2024. [5974/23]

Housing Provision

Seán Sherlock

75. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the average timeline for a site investigation report to be completed where modular housing is being constructed. [5972/23]

Cybersecurity Policy

Seán Sherlock

132. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his attention has been drawn to the attack on IT systems at Munster Technological University; if he has received a briefing on the matter; and whether any request has been received by higher education institutions for funding to buttress IT systems to ensure security of delivery of IT systems. [7468/23]

Disability Services

Seán Sherlock

156. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Health if he will fund a community neuro-rehabilitation team to be set up in CHO4. [7466/23]

Health Services

Seán Sherlock

157. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Health his views on the over 8s referral protocol to community opticians; and whether the €22.51 paid to opticians per consultation reflects the real cost of administering the scheme for community opticians. [7467/23]

Vehicle Clamping

Seán Sherlock

153. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Transport the number of cars clamped at each Irish Rail station for the years 2018 to 2022 and to date in 2023; the amount collected by such clamping; the purposes for which the money collected is used; and the number of appeals, successful and unsuccessful, in each station, in tabular form. [6842/23]

Rail Network

Seán Sherlock

154. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 247 of 28 September 2021, if Ministerial approval has been given to the project to proceed to a business case. [6879/23]

Driver Test

Seán Sherlock

168. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Transport if he will request the Road Safety Authority to expedite a driving test date for a person. (details supplied). [7156/23]

Dublin Airport Authority

Seán Sherlock

177. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Transport the plans that are being advanced by Dublin Airport Authority for the use of the old Cork Airport terminal and the cost to the DAA to maintain the building for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. [7357/23]

Vacant Properties

Seán Sherlock

194. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update under Housing for All to collection of data on vacancy levels with a view to introducing a new vacant property tax to ensure empty properties are used. [7131/23]

Tourist Accommodation

Seán Sherlock

215. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide an update under Housing for All for a new short-term lettings regulation through a Fáilte Ireland registration system. [7114/23]

Arts Centres

Seán Sherlock

242. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has been notified of a construction start date for the Event Centre in Cork; and the date that was notified to his Department. [7015/23]

Housing Provision

Seán Sherlock

245. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All for supporting an unprecedented 4,000 affordable purchase homes on average every year. [7106/23]

Housing Provision

Seán Sherlock

246. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All for a new local authority-led affordable purchase scheme, targeting average prices of €250,000. [7107/23]

Housing Schemes

Seán Sherlock

247. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All for a new first home shared equity scheme for private developments. [7108/23]

Housing Schemes

Seán Sherlock

248. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All for a reformed local authority home loan. [7109/23]

Housing Policy

Seán Sherlock

249. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All for an owner-occupier guarantee in housing developments to secure homes exclusively for first-time buyers and other owner-occupiers. [7110/23]

Housing Policy

Seán Sherlock

250. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All for 20% of all developments to be set aside for affordable and social housing. [7111/23]

Housing Policy

Seán Sherlock

251. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All for an average of 2,000 new cost rental homes every year with rents targeted at least 25% below market level. [7112/23]

Rental Sector

Seán Sherlock

252. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All for extended rent pressure zones to 2024 and rents linked to the harmonised index of consumer prices. [7113/23]

Rental Sector

Seán Sherlock

253. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All for an indefinite tenancy to strengthen security for renters. [7115/23]

Rental Sector

Seán Sherlock

254. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All for an upfront deposit and rent payments capped at two months value. [7116/23]

Housing Provision

Seán Sherlock

255. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All to provide over 90,000 social homes by 2030, including an average annual new-build component of over 9,500 social housing homes to 2026, the highest number in the history of the State. [7117/23]

Housing Policy

Seán Sherlock

256. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All to end long-term leasing by local authorities and approved housing bodies through phasing out new entrants and focus on new-build to provide social housing homes. [7118/23]

Housing Policy

Seán Sherlock

257. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All to strengthen the mortgage to rent scheme to ensure it meets the needs of those in long-term mortgage arrears. [7119/23]

Housing Policy

Seán Sherlock

258. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All to reform the tenant purchase scheme. [7120/23]

Housing Policy

Seán Sherlock

259. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All to revise and reform income eligibility for social housing. [7121/23]

Housing Policy

Seán Sherlock

260. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All to work towards eradicating homelessness by 2030. [7122/23]

Homeless Accommodation

Seán Sherlock

261. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All to increase Housing First targets to 1,200 tenancies over five years for homeless people. [7123/23]

Homeless Persons Supports

Seán Sherlock

262. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All to establish a new national homeless action committee. [7124/23]

Homeless Persons Supports

Seán Sherlock

263. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All to expand street outreach teams for rough sleepers nationwide. [7125/23]

Housing Policy

Seán Sherlock

264. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update under Housing for All to a new national policy on right-sizing to highlight the potential of right-sizing for households that no longer fully occupy their current privately owned accommodation and an exploration of options to support and incentivise right-sizing on a voluntary basis. [7126/23]