Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Departmental Strategies

Violet-Anne Wynne

1560. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when the national student accommodation strategy will be published; its current status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12995/24]

Departmental Funding

Violet-Anne Wynne

1561. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will comment on his decision to provide zero capital funding for technological universities, preventing them from building and borrowing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12996/24]

Departmental Inquiries

Violet-Anne Wynne

1562. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he is aware of the situation that students often find themselves in when renting digs, such as curfews being imposed, no privacy and issues with accessing communal areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13002/24]

Student Accommodation

Violet-Anne Wynne

1567. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reasons for the delays in publishing progress reports on the National Student Accommodation Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13307/24]

Student Accommodation

Violet-Anne Wynne

1568. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he is aware of the rising cost of student campus accommodation in a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13309/24]

Departmental Funding

Violet-Anne Wynne

1598. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide emergency funding to Clare County Council under CIS and LIS following a very rough winter period which made significant damage to the more rural roads in the County; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13328/24]

Departmental Funding

Violet-Anne Wynne

1599. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development what steps she will take to ensure that all 30 applications made under CIS and 146 applications made under LIS to Clare County Council will be funded by her Department in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13329/24]

Bus Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

195. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport if he will expand the capacity of the 350 bus service to Galway due to the increased demands at peak times for those travelling to and from university; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11434/24]

Road Projects

Violet-Anne Wynne

196. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide details on any applications received by a local authority to fund a project in the past ten years (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11437/24]

Road Projects

Violet-Anne Wynne

197. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport the funding streams that a local authority can avail of for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11438/24]

Rental Sector

Violet-Anne Wynne

270. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Social Protection if there are any supports beyond HAP to assist struggling families pay their rent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11436/24]

Departmental Funding

Violet-Anne Wynne

416. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that his Department has cut funding for the Understanding and Managing Adult ADHD Programme course and monthly support to attendees upon completion; of the need to reinstate it urgently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11432/24]

Health Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

417. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the payments that were made in healthcare under the client indemnity scheme; the number of those that were from cases in UHL, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11433/24]

Healthcare Policy

Violet-Anne Wynne

418. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if a product approved under the MCAP as listed on S.I. No. 5 of 2023 can be prescribed to the holder of a valid Ministerial licence and if the licence holder can purchase their prescribed products at a pharmacy in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11435/24]

Departmental Data

Violet-Anne Wynne

419. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the current status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11439/24]

Departmental Data

Violet-Anne Wynne

420. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the current status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11440/24]

Health Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

421. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 586 of 13 February 2024, if he is satisfied that there is no private surge capacity available to the UL Hospitals Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11441/24]

Departmental Data

Violet-Anne Wynne

422. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the number of private beds, by unit, in tabular form, at University Hospital Limerick; if those private beds can be used by public patients as a surge capacity measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11442/24]

Departmental Data

Violet-Anne Wynne

423. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the full list of defined roles under the patient and client care heading of the HSE health service personnel census; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11443/24]

Rail Network

Violet-Anne Wynne

180. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport the new rail stations to be opened under a strategy (details supplied); when works will commence on each; when each will be opened and operational, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10438/24]

Bus Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

181. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport the current status of the PSO funding required for the procurement of a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10446/24]

Bus Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

182. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport the number of bus shelters currently in County Clare; his plans for future shelters, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10447/24]

Bus Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

183. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport his views on the shortfall of bus shelters in County Clare; his plans to address that shortfall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10448/24]

Bus Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

184. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport his views on the number of bus shelters in County Clare with no up-to-date timetables displayed; his plans to replace them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10449/24]

Bus Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

185. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport what plans his Department has in respect of signs or plaques to denote bus stops on buildings and in areas where buses stop but there is no bus shelter present in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10450/24]

Bus Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

186. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Transport if an online timetable will be updated to adequately reflect arrival and departure times (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10451/24]

Banking Sector

Violet-Anne Wynne

223. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Finance his views on what work he is undertaking with respect to banks and financial institutions accepting disability allowance and carers allowance as income when an individual applies for a mortgage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10442/24]

Social Welfare Payments

Violet-Anne Wynne

450. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Social Protection her views on the number of applications received for exceptional needs payments from County Clare in the past 12 months; how many were granted; how many were rejected, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10440/24]

Work Permits

Violet-Anne Wynne

526. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the number of farming work permits taken up in Clare over the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10439/24]

Hospital Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

722. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he will consider expanding maternity pre-natal services to Ennis Hospital; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10441/24]

General Practitioner Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

723. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the number of locum GPs that have been in place in a practice since a vacancy arose (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10443/24]

General Practitioner Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

724. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the number of GMS patients attached to a practice (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10444/24]

General Practitioner Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

725. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the hours of service for each GP practice in County Clare, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10445/24]

Health Services

Violet-Anne Wynne

10. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he will grant funding for a satellite haemodialysis unit at Ennis hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9592/24]

Health Service Executive

Violet-Anne Wynne

129. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will discuss the issues faced by service users with respect to agencies who contracted to deliver their PA hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9593/24]

Rights of People with Disabilities

Violet-Anne Wynne

132. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide on update on Ireland's progress in ratifying the Optional Protocol of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9594/24]

Customs and Excise

Violet-Anne Wynne

165. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Finance if he will reconsider his decision to introduce an increase in fuel excise on 1 April 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9884/24]

Special Educational Needs

Violet-Anne Wynne

206. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Education if she will reevaluate and redraft the allocation model for special education in view of the fact that the proposed new allocation model streamlined to three pillars instead of five may exclude children with complex needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9876/24]

Special Educational Needs

Violet-Anne Wynne

207. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Education her views on the proposed plans to reduce the support teaching hours, and the impact that this will have on children with additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9877/24]

Electoral Process

Violet-Anne Wynne

217. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 165 of 22 February 2024, if any of the inaccessible polling stations referred to are in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9872/24]

Housing Provision

Violet-Anne Wynne

222. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 22 February 2024, his views on two further applications for affordable purchase schemes in Ennis that were received by his Department in December 2023 and January 2024 and are currently under assessment; if that assessment has now been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9875/24]

Wastewater Treatment

Violet-Anne Wynne

223. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on his plans in respect of each of the 51 individual settlements in County Clare without wastewater treatment, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9879/24]

Water Quality

Violet-Anne Wynne

224. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the works to improve water quality in west Clare with respect to remedying the continued issues with drinking water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9883/24]

Law Reform Commission

Violet-Anne Wynne

245. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Justice about the publication of a report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9873/24]

Animal Feedstuffs

Violet-Anne Wynne

252. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine about the recent meeting of the Agriculture Water Quality Group and his commitment to immediately implement the flexibilities on concentrate feed and the calf N allocation, which was previously committed to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9878/24]

Forestry Sector

Violet-Anne Wynne

253. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason forestation licence issuances are still not matching the rate of application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9885/24]

Legislative Measures

Violet-Anne Wynne

275. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will revisit the Adult Safeguarding Bill 2017 and progress it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9874/24]

Statutory Instruments

Violet-Anne Wynne

299. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health if he will bring forward a statutory instrument (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6425/24]

Healthcare Infrastructure Provision

Violet-Anne Wynne

318. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Health the reason that a site in Limerick as opposed to a site in Clare was selected for a surgical hub; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9881/24]

Further and Higher Education

Violet-Anne Wynne

31. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will comment on his future plans for the expansion of further and higher education in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9115/24]