Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Medical Cards

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

512. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who is over 70 years of age was refused a full medical card and was awarded a general practitioner only card [8297/20]

Air Services Provision

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

850. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagements he has had with the airline industry to ensure refunds of cancelled flight fees to customers will be made as quickly as possible and in line with the recommendation of the European Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8299/20]

Special Educational Needs

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

221. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there has been progress in relation to delivering an ASD-specific unit or school for the Dublin 12 area capable of addressing the shortfall in the places available to parents who are trying to find local schools with places for their children with special educational needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7750/20]

Schools Facilities

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

222. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department or the NCSC have had contact with the owners of a school (details supplied) in relation to its future educational use; and if his Department has considered purchasing, asking for it to be donated to the State or leasing it. [7751/20]

Special Educational Needs

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

223. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has received a communication from the City of Dublin ETB in relation to having an interest in running an ASD-specific school in the Dublin 12 area; and if so, his views on such a proposal. [7752/20]

Overseas Missions

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

23. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when he will announce a date that Defence Forces personnel serving on a UNIFIL mission will rotate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6965/20]

Overseas Missions

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

24. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when he will announce a date when Defence Forces personnel serving on a UNIFIL mission will rotate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7031/20]

Road Toll Data

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1089. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of toll payments made on a daily and weekly basis at toll bridges during the months of February, March, April and the first week of May 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6967/20]

Rent Supplement Scheme Administration

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1385. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if it is compulsory for rent supplement recipients to transfer to the housing assistance payment. [6963/20]

Rent Supplement Scheme Administration

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1386. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a rent supplement recipient is told that they must transfer to housing assistance payment but the landlord refuses to move to this system, if the tenant can remain on rent allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6964/20]

Building Control Management System

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1387. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will implement the recommendations contained in the July 2013 report titled Report on the Title of the Architect; his views on calls for the introduction of a grandfather clause for architects practising their profession here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6966/20]

Scéimeanna Tacaíochta

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1403. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén dáta ar a gcuirfear sonraí ar fáil maidir leis na scéimeanna tacaíochta a d’fhógair Aire Stáit na Gaeltachta an 22 Aibreán 2020 chun teacht i gcabhair ar na coláistí samhraidh Gaeltachta agus ar na mná tí a chuireann lóistín ar fáil; an n-aontaíonn sí go bhfuil práinn faoi leith ag baint le cinnteacht a chur ar fáil do na coláistí samhraidh agus do na mná tí nuair a chuirtear san áireamh go bhfuil todhchaí na gcoláistí céanna i mbaol maidir le samhradh 2021, go háirithe agus na coláistí samhraidh ag aisíoc na n-éarlaisí faoi láthair a fuair siad ó thuismitheoirí le haghaidh na bliana 2020; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [5747/20]

Tax Code

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

70. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Finance his views on the introduction of an 80% windfall tax on land rezoned from industrial to residential use; the estimated impact of such a tax on land value capture, land hoarding, land development and residential house prices; his further views on the best way to capture the increased land values from such rezoning from both land sales and from property sales; and if measures such as windfall taxes can be geographically specific, that is, parcels of land rezoned from industrial to residential as proposed by Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council. [4451/20]

Disability Services Funding

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

450. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health if the €60,000 cut in funding for an association (details supplied) will be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3913/20]

Hospital Appointments Status

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

688. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to get an appointment with the Eye and Ear Hospital. [4814/20]

Hospital Appointments Status

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

689. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have their cataract operation carried out in the Eye and Ear Hospital. [4815/20]

Local Employment Service

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1140. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to privatise local employment services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3911/20]

Local Employment Service

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1141. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the developed tenders that would allow private companies to apply for local employment services contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3912/20]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

20. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the attention of his Department or the Defence Forces medical authorities were advised when deciding to allow melfoquine as the anti-malaria drug of first choice for Defence Forces personnel on overseas missions in sub-Saharan Africa that it could cause severe mental disturbances and psychiatric or neurological side effects in view of the World Health Organisation warning in 1989. [3713/20]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

21. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the attention of his Department or the Defence Forces medical authorities were advised when deciding to allow melfoquine as the anti-malaria drug of first choice for Defence Forces personnel on overseas missions in sub-Saharan Africa in particular in view of an article (details supplied) highlighting the World Health Organisation warning in 1989 that it could cause severe mental disturbances and psychiatric or neurological side effects. [3714/20]

Defence Forces Reports

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

22. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the findings and recommendations of the Malaria Chemoprophylaxis Working Groups 2011-2013 and 2015-2017; if they have been published; the actions the implementation group has taken to give effect to those recommendations; and the frequency with which the group met. [3715/20]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

23. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason doxycycline is not the anti-malaria drug of first choice for Defence Forces personnel on overseas missions in sub-Saharan Africa. [3716/20]

Defence Forces Personnel Data

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

24. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of members of the Defence Forces that left their posts in 2019, by rank in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3720/20]

Defence Forces Personnel Data

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

25. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of members of the Defence Forces that served overseas on missions during 2019; the number currently serving overseas; the locations in which they are serving; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3722/20]

Air Corps

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

26. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the additional investment made in both personnel and equipment for the Air Corps in 2019; his plans to make further investment in personnel for the Air Corps in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3723/20]

Defence Forces Funding

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

27. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to make funding available for the refurbishment of the equestrian stables at the Defence Forces Equitation School in McKee Barracks; if a request has been submitted by Defence Forces management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3724/20]

Army Barracks

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

28. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount spent on maintenance and refurbishment to Cathal Brugha Barracks and McKee Barracks in each of the years 2017 to 2019; if the barracks are due for refurbishment in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3725/20]

Defence Forces Recruitment

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

29. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when the 2020 recruitment campaigns for the Naval Service and Air Corps will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3726/20]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

30. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason malarone is not the anti-malaria drug of first choice for Defence Forces personnel on overseas missions in sub-Saharan Africa. [3727/20]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

31. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the Defence Forces as of 12 January 2020 took the belated decision to in future offer an alternative to the anti-malaria drug lariam to members of the Defence Forces operating overseas; and if he plans to act on the unopposed decision of the Dáil Éireann motion of 28 June 2017 to draw up a plan of action to help alleviate and address ongoing concerns. [3728/20]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

32. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will order a full health screening of all serving and former members of the Defence Forces to assess the effects on their health by the compulsory ingestion of lariam in view of the decision to offer an alternative anti-malaria drug to Defence Forces personnel operating overseas (details supplied). [3729/20]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

33. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the attention of the malaria chemoprophylaxis working group was drawn to the World Health Organisation report of 30 September 1989 that the drug lariam may cause severe mental disturbances and other psychiatric or neurological side effects; if the report and other subsequent reports or inquiries were taken into account in preparation of their reports; and when the reports of the group will be published. [3730/20]

Vehicle Registration

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

98. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Finance the details of guidelines on NOx payments introduced since 1 January 2020 on imported vehicles; if a transition period was put in place for cars imported over 30 days before 1 January 2020 in cases in which persons were unable to book an assessment for VRT until after 1 January 2020 due to a backlog in the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3721/20]

National Council for Special Education

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

252. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the recent consultation carried out by the NCSE will not lead to closure of schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3172/20]

Drug and Alcohol Task Forces

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

662. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that funding for drug taskforces in Dublin was almost 9% lower in 2019 than in 2010; if a commitment will be made to increase annually over a 10-year period, the funding for local drug and alcohol taskforces until it is back to 2008 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3173/20]

Hospital Appointments Status

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

861. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a new appointment date for a hip operation. [3719/20]

Animal Welfare Expenditure

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

971. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to address the ill treatment and bad husbandry of horses in the Dublin region (details supplied). [3731/20]

Animal Welfare Expenditure

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

972. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding available in urban areas for horse welfare organisations to help them educate the owners of horses in the way in which to look after them and carry out veterinary inspections in order to address the ill health and malnourishment of many animals in the areas. [3732/20]

Animal Welfare Expenditure

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

973. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding available to local authorities to build and maintain stables for horses being keep in urban areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3733/20]

Proposed Legislation

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1075. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to update the Dublin Carriage Act 1853 in order to introduce a modern licensing system for the hire of horses and cabs in the Dublin area (details supplied). [3734/20]

Local Authority Housing Funding

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1205. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the discussions he has had on the redevelopment and insulation of Glovers Court flats, York Street, Dublin 2; and if funds will be allocated to Dublin City Council which will allow it to make the flats habitable for tenants. [3003/20]

Homeless Accommodation Funding

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

1215. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the funding allocated for homeless day services in 2019; and the regional breakdown of same. [3199/20]