Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

School Accommodation

Michael Creed

41. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education if she has received an application for additional classroom accommodation from a school in County Cork (details supplied), and in light of significant planned increased enrolment and existing classroom inadequacies, if she will expedite approval in this case. [16874/24]

Social Welfare Appeals

Michael Creed

466. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the current situation regarding a carer’s allowance appeal for a person (details supplied). [16335/24]

Pension Provisions

Michael Creed

475. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the social welfare credits available for persons about to apply for the State contributory pension in circumstances where they have had to retire from their own work to care for their spouse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16508/24]

Agriculture Industry

Michael Creed

555. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when proposals to address a longstanding issue for a group of farmers (details supplied) which he has committed to address will be brought forward; the funding required to address this issue; the details regarding eligibility under a proposed scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16502/24]

Tax Collection

Michael Creed

309. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Finance if he can clarify the situation regarding liability for stamp duty by approved affordable housing purchasers and, if liable, whether the liability is on the discounted affordable house price or the full market value; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14948/24]

School Accommodation

Michael Creed

392. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education the reason a school which applied for additional accommodation for two SET rooms in 2019 and additional classroom accommodation in 2020 is still awaiting sanction from her Department to proceed with this construction project (details supplied). [13596/24]

School Discipline

Michael Creed

465. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 521 of 20 March 2024, if the reason boards of management cannot act on cases of confirmed assault are to do with GDPR (details supplied); if she will specifically address these issues in new guidelines to schools Cinnealtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14362/24]

Schools Building Projects

Michael Creed

545. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education given the space constraints at a school in County Cork (details supplied), how she proposes to facilitate the provision of three ASD classes which have been sanctioned; if she is familiar with defects identified by the school in part of the school building; if, in the context of the urgent requirement for additional ASD units in the Ballincollig area and the fact that there are twenty-one students in the school who have been diagnosed with autism but do not have access to an ASD classroom, she will reconsider the decision regarding a proposal to demolish and rebuild part of the school, particularly in the context of sanctioned modular classrooms which could also be accommodated within the demolished and rebuild proposal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15240/24]

Social Welfare Appeals

Michael Creed

742. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the current situation regarding a social welfare appeal in respect of disability allowance for a person in County Cork (details supplied). [13986/24]

Social Welfare Benefits

Michael Creed

750. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if a decision will issue on a carer’s allowance application (details supplied). [14139/24]

Social Welfare Benefits

Michael Creed

751. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if a decision will issue on a disability allowance application (details supplied). [14151/24]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Michael Creed

764. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details provided) is entitled to a six-week payment after the death of their father. [14366/24]

Social Welfare Benefits

Michael Creed

769. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm receipt of the necessary details in respect of an invalidity pension review (details supplied); and when a decision can be expected in this case. [14410/24]

Social Welfare Appeals

Michael Creed

775. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the current situation regarding an application for domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied). [14485/24]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

935. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in payment of a grant details provided to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [13757/24]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

1024. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all outstanding issues regarding the IT system supporting the ACRES scheme have been resolved; if so, when all outstanding payments will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14933/24]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

1025. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the first payments under the ECO scheme issued; the number of payments still outstanding; the reason for the delay in issuing these payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14934/24]

Hospital Services

Michael Creed

1207. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Health the current situation regarding an issue (details supplied). [13595/24]

Banking Sector

Michael Creed

227. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 5 March 2024, if he will recontact An Post on the matter, given there has been no contact with the beneficiary since 15 December 2023 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12026/24]

Tax Code

Michael Creed

271. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) is paying high levels of income tax. [13008/24]

School Discipline

Michael Creed

521. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education the current status of Cineáltas as an effort to address bullying in schools; if the initiative will address any shortcomings with regard to school disciplinary processes where the Garda juvenile justice system is also involved in investigating such incidences; if she is aware that for alleged GDPR reasons the outcome of such juvenile justice enquiries cannot be shared with schools' boards of management who are subsequently left in the invidious position of not being able to act on proven assaults as per Garda enquiries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12917/24]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Michael Creed

756. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the designation of long-Covid as an occupational illness. [12533/24]

Social Welfare Payments

Michael Creed

777. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the current situation regarding an invalidity pension payment to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [13009/24]

Social Welfare Payments

Michael Creed

784. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) whose sole means is their State pension (contributory) is entitled to an increase in same due to the reduced level of payment. [13104/24]

Social Welfare Schemes

Michael Creed

791. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the circumstances under which a pension payment may continue posthumously to next of kin; the family members entitled to such continued payments and the duration of these payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13222/24]

Health Services Staff

Michael Creed

1328. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Health if he can assist in expediting a registration with CORU (details supplied). [12057/24]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Michael Creed

1403. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Health the current situation regarding negotiations for public health service employees diagnosed with long Covid; if he has considered best international practice with regard to dealing with this matter both from a medical and a financial point of view for the employees diagnosed; the state of negotiations with an organisation (details supplied) regarding healthcare workers in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12481/24]

Banking Sector

Michael Creed

224. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Finance if the appropriate interest rate should be paid on the delayed issue of matured saving instruments and if he will investigate a case (details provided) which has not been paid almost five months after maturity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10466/24]

Social Welfare Benefits

Michael Creed

447. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person in County Cork (details supplied) has been refused illness benefit. [10396/24]

Social Welfare Benefits

Michael Creed

453. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) has had their disability allowance withdrawn. [10525/24]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

524. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department's sanction is required with regard to sale of entitlements (details supplied); and if required, when this sanction will be issued. [10397/24]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

532. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a young farmer payment will issue to persons (details supplied). [10830/24]

Agriculture Supports

Michael Creed

397. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person in County Cork (details supplied) will receive their 2023 young farmers payment. [9208/24]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Michael Creed

111. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details provided) who has been denied a benefit payment recently has sufficient contributions to be eligible for a contributory pension when they reach 66 years in January of next year; if she will review the decision to refuse the benefit payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8343/24]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Michael Creed

113. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a decision on a carer's allowance application (details supplied). [8390/24]

Road Projects

Michael Creed

192. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Transport if he will outline the proposals by his Department for a property (details supplied). [8040/24]

Tax Rebates

Michael Creed

225. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Finance when a person in County Cork (details provided) will receive their VAT refund. [8030/24]

School Curriculum

Michael Creed

311. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education if her Department will continue with the curricular adjustment put in place during the Covid-19 pandemic of the reduction in the number of sraith pictiúr for Leaving Certificate students of Irish in 2025 and future years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7963/24]

Special Educational Needs

Michael Creed

316. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education the status of an application for special classes by a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [8041/24]

Sports Funding

Michael Creed

327. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the progress being made regarding evaluation of grant applications under the sports capital programme; if it is her intention to deal with applications for sporting equipment first; if so, the timeline for this and when the remaining applications will be dealt with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7487/24]

Health Services Staff

Michael Creed

567. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have their CORU registration completed. [7713/24]

Education and Training Boards

Michael Creed

649. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the progress that has been made with regard to a cohort of workers (details supplied) in connection with contracts of employment, in particular the progress made on foot of union responses to the published proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8005/24]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

489. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, payment will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in Cork. [6271/24]

Tax Rebates

Michael Creed

165. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Finance when a person in County Cork (details supplied) will receive their VAT refund. [5934/24]

Social Welfare Payments

Michael Creed

238. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a decision on a carers allowance application (details supplied). [5925/24]

Social Welfare Payments

Michael Creed

239. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a decision on a domiciliary care allowance application (details supplied). [5926/24]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

273. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a young farmer payment will issue to persons (details supplied). [5908/24]

Social Welfare Code

Michael Creed

313. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite arrangements for the delivery of PPS numbers to EU applicants wishing to work here in the construction sector; if she is aware that the construction industry has indicated that its international recruitment efforts are being hampered by this delay of up to 12 weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5561/24]

Public Procurement Contracts

Michael Creed

241. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the level of oversight by the Office of Government Procurement regarding contracts awarded; the oversight of a particular contract in the Dublin area (details supplied); the level of complaints received with regard to service delivery under this contract; if this contractor has other contracts; if details of same can be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4763/24]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Michael Creed

305. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the outcome of a review of a disability allowance payment (details supplied). [4773/24]