Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

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]