Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

School Transport

Pauline Tully

349. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education her plans to increase school bus capacity levels to respond to the increased demand resulting from the lowering of school transport scheme fees for primary and post-primary. [40298/23]

Social Welfare Schemes

Pauline Tully

635. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection if the workplace equipment adaptation grant can be obtained to hire an interpreter for a deaf employee; and if not, what supports, if any, are available. [40185/23]

Social Insurance

Pauline Tully

642. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Social Protection what campaigns are being undertaken to inform people of their ability to purchase voluntary social insurance contributions to help maintain their social insurance record and help them to qualify for social insurance payments in the future. [40297/23]

Family Reunification

Pauline Tully

702. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Justice the timeframe from application to issue of a long-stay (join family) visa under the International Protection Act 2015 for international protection beneficiaries. [40299/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

837. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding that has been allocated to each CHO area for the supply of assistive technology in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; if the HSE in each CHO area carries out its own assessments of those applying for assistive technology or if applicants are referred to other organisations for these assessments. [40108/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

838. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications in each CHO for assistive technology in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the number of applications in each CHO in each of these years that were unsuccessful, in tabular form. [40109/23]

Disability Services

Pauline Tully

839. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is standard practice for the HSE to supply a person who is unsuccessful in their application for assistive technology with the reasons they were unsuccessful. [40110/23]

Health Services Staff

Pauline Tully

865. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people with a declared physical, intellectual and learning disabilities and people with psychological or emotional conditions who are currently employed by HSE, in tabular form. [40557/23]

Health Service Executive

Pauline Tully

986. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health if there is a grant for HSE-supplied powered mobility equipment (PME); what the current maximum grant amount for PME is; what the maximum grant amount for PME was in each of the past five years; and how much funding was allocated in the budget in each of the past five years to the HSE for PME. [40300/23]

Consular Services

Pauline Tully

13. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 790 of 26 April 2022, for an update on what actions he has taken with the Togolese government to press for the release of an Irish citizen (details supplied), who has been held in detention without trial for almost five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37223/23]

Consular Services

Pauline Tully

43. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if there are plans to open a new Irish Consulate General Office in Gothenburg, Sweden. [38248/23]

Bus Éireann

Pauline Tully

326. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Transport the top six Bus Éireann routes by passenger numbers in 2022 and the first seven months of 2023, in tabular form. [38239/23]

Driver Test

Pauline Tully

327. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Transport the waiting times for category C1 vehicle driving tests at testing centres in counties Cavan and Monaghan, in tabular form. [38240/23]

Bus Services

Pauline Tully

371. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Transport the average installation cost of a sheltered bus stop. [38602/23]

Tax Code

Pauline Tully

426. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Finance if a company that purchases pre-cast ready-mix cement for the manufacture of its pre-cast concrete products is exempt from the concrete levy; if so, the process by which the company it buys pre-cast cement from can remove this levy from the purchase price; if a rebate will be payable if a process is not in place where the levy is removed from the purchase price; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37373/23]

Tax Code

Pauline Tully

427. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Finance if a response will issue to a person (details supplied) in relation to whether they are exempt from the cement levy and how they can ensure they do not pay this levy if they are exempt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37374/23]

Tax Data

Pauline Tully

456. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Finance the amount it would yield if the late registration fee of 0.1% was increased to 0.5% for each day over 30 days for which a vehicle remain unregistered for vehicle registration tax based on 2022 figures. [38243/23]

Public Appointments Service

Pauline Tully

534. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if the Public Appointments Service will run a general civil service competition for person’s with fluency in Irish at Clerical Officer and Principal Officer level during Quarter 4, this year. [38238/23]

Workplace Relations Commission

Pauline Tully

577. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost in 2024 if the budget for the Workplace Relations Commission is increased by 10%. [38603/23]

Official Engagements

Pauline Tully

687. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education if she has spoken formally with the United States Secretary for Education (details supplied) in the past 12 months. [38600/23]