Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Homelessness Strategy

Alan Kelly

406. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will set up a new homeless task force; if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15138/20]

Rental Sector

Alan Kelly

417. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a progress report will be provided on the cost rental project at Enniskerry Road, County Wicklow; the estimated rental cost of each on-site unit; the status of the roll out of further cost rental projects nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15531/20]

Northern Ireland

Alan Kelly

449. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans for a border poll in the lifetime of this Government. [15140/20]

Ministerial Responsibilities

Alan Kelly

457. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by him and each Minister of State in his Department upon taking up each individual role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14804/20]

Defence Forces Personnel

Alan Kelly

481. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Defence the way in which the aide de camp (details supplied) for the Tánaiste can be justified; and the amount this will cost. [14985/20]

Ministerial Responsibilities

Alan Kelly

484. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Defence if he will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by him and each Minister of State in his Department upon taking up each individual role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14800/20]

Ministerial Responsibilities

Alan Kelly

542. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a copy of the Departmental briefings received by her and each Minister of State in her Department upon taking up each individual role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14801/20]

School Transport

Alan Kelly

551. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the extra funding which will be provided to school bus operators due to the extra costs that will exist in providing school services from September 2020. [14884/20]

School Curriculum

Alan Kelly

552. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to improve sex education in secondary schools. [14894/20]

School Funding

Alan Kelly

553. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for capital investment in secondary schools in the next three years. [14895/20]

Third Level Institutions

Alan Kelly

554. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if all the recommendations of the Oireachtas Standing Committee of Public Accounts in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020 regarding the funding and administration of third level institutions have been implemented; and the status of each action as per the various reports, in tabular form. [14896/20]

Special Educational Needs

Alan Kelly

572. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is such a delay with payments for the July provision (details supplied); if there is an option available to be paid earlier; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15087/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Alan Kelly

617. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education and Skills when guidelines regarding social distancing and so on will be published for bus companies that transport children from their homes to their schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15337/20]

Ministerial Responsibilities

Alan Kelly

709. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by her and each Minister of State in her Department upon their taking up each individual role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14802/20]

Ministerial Responsibilities

Alan Kelly

800. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by her and each Minister of State in her Department upon taking up each individual role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14809/20]

Charitable and Voluntary Organisations

Alan Kelly

801. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to address the drop of funding and consequent service delivery by critical charities due to Covid-19. [14911/20]

Ministerial Responsibilities

Alan Kelly

814. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by him and each Minister of State in his Department upon taking up each individual role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14795/20]

Ministerial Responsibilities

Alan Kelly

862. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by him and each Minister of State at his Department on taking up their roles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14797/20]

Ministerial Transport

Alan Kelly

893. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when the former Tánaiste ceded his State car and Garda driver; the reason this was not done automatically when he ceased to be Tánaiste; the cost per annum of such services for the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality; and the figures for each of the years 2018, 2019 and 2020. [15157/20]

Ministerial Responsibilities

Alan Kelly

908. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a copy of the departmental briefings received by her and each Minister of State in her Department upon taking up each individual role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14807/20]

Health Services Funding

Alan Kelly

975. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health his plans to ensure better funding of section 38 and 39 organisations. [14910/20]

Disability Services Funding

Alan Kelly

980. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health if disability funding being administered by the HSE will be reassigned to the new Department of children and disability for distribution in view of the reassignment of the disability portfolio from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15671/20]

Disability Services Provision

Alan Kelly

981. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health when a service (details supplied) will recommence day services and respite care; his views on the fact that no dates have been provided to users to date in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15673/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Alan Kelly

982. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health when guidelines will be finalised and issued for the reopening of day services for adults with intellectual disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15674/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Alan Kelly

983. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health when guidelines will be finalised and issued for respite services for adults with intellectual disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15675/20]

HSE Waiting Lists

Alan Kelly

1029. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health if he will guarantee that no patient will have to wait more than six months for health treatments here; and if so, the date he expects to be able to deliver this. [14860/20]

HSE Waiting Lists

Alan Kelly

1030. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the amount he plans to spend on the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, in 2020. [14861/20]

Health Services Provision

Alan Kelly

1031. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of extra hospital public beds he expects to deliver in each of the years 2020 to 2024. [14862/20]

Hospital Staff

Alan Kelly

1032. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of extra hospital consultants that will be hired in 2020. [14863/20]

Nursing Staff

Alan Kelly

1033. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of extra nurses that will be hired in 2020. [14864/20]

Disability Services Provision

Alan Kelly

1034. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the service providers here for adults with intellectual disabilities; the date each service provider will reopen; and the percentage of services that each provider will open in tabular form. [14865/20]

Disability Services Provision

Alan Kelly

1035. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the service providers here for children with intellectual disabilities; the date each service provider will reopen; and the percentage of services that each provider will open in tabular form. [14866/20]

Emergency Departments

Alan Kelly

1036. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the date on which a four-hour target will be applied to all emergency department waits. [14867/20]

Primary Care Centres

Alan Kelly

1037. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the percentage of overall health spending being devoted to the provision of primary care services under the current departmental spending Estimates. [14868/20]

HSE Regional Service Plans

Alan Kelly

1038. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health when he will announce the construction locations and timelines for new elective hospitals that he plans to build. [14869/20]

Health Services Reports

Alan Kelly

1039. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health if he accepts the findings of the de Buitléir report into private activity in public hospitals; and the timeline for its implementation. [14870/20]

Home Help Service

Alan Kelly

1040. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the number of extra hours of home help he expects to fund in 2020; and the number of hours he is planning to deliver in 2021. [14871/20]

Emergency Departments

Alan Kelly

1041. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health if there is an emergency medicine consultant present on a 24-hour basis in each emergency department across all acute hospitals; and if not, when there will be. [14872/20]

Hospital Consultant Contracts

Alan Kelly

1042. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the date on which he plans to end pay inequality for hospital consultants. [14873/20]

General Practitioner Services

Alan Kelly

1043. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the extra funding he plans to provide for general practitioner services in 2020 and 2021. [14874/20]

General Practitioner Services

Alan Kelly

1044. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health when he plans to put in a place a new general practitioner contract. [14875/20]

Health Screening Programmes

Alan Kelly

1045. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the way in which he will bring forward the reintroduction of all health screening programmes; and the changes he has made since he took up office in order to speed up the launch of such services that were announced under his predecessor. [14876/20]

Health Screening Programmes

Alan Kelly

1046. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the details of the catch-up programme he is introducing in relation to health screening. [14877/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Alan Kelly

1047. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health when the HSE roadmap for reopening health services will be published. [14878/20]

Health Services Provision

Alan Kelly

1048. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the amount of extra diagnostics he plans to put into acute and non-acute settings in 2020. [14879/20]

Departmental Functions

Alan Kelly

1049. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health if he has established an office for budgetary responsibility in his Department; if not, when he will establish it; and the resources that will be in the office [14880/20]

National Children's Hospital

Alan Kelly

1050. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the full status of the new national children's hospital; the amount spent on the project to date; the revised timelines for the completion of the project; and if he is dedicating new resources to monitoring the construction and spend on the hospital [14881/20]

Disability Services Funding

Alan Kelly

1051. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health the extra funding resources that will be put into the disability sector in 2020. [14882/20]

Health Services Funding

Alan Kelly

1052. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health his immediate plans to properly fund section 38 and 39 organisations that provide vital health and disability services; and if extra funding will be provided to them in 2020 [14883/20]

Covid-19 Tests

Alan Kelly

1053. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Health his plans to increase antibody testing for Covid-19; and the timelines there are for doing so. [14885/20]