Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Gender Equality

Réada Cronin

269. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if compliance with the Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021 will be monitored; if compliance will be monitored by his Department or by the establishment of a separate body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58529/22]

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]