Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Civil Service

Marc MacSharry

432. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm the statements by Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and Taoiseach on 2 June 2021 that there is no head of the civil service; if there is a person in charge of the civil service; if so, the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30940/21]

Office of Public Works

Brendan Griffin

433. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details and costs of the structural repairs carried out on the banks of the River Maine in County Kerry in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30943/21]

Office of Public Works

Chris Andrews

434. Deputy Chris Andrews asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if consideration will be given in conjunction with the OPW to allowing a park (details supplied) to be kept open 24-hours a day during the summer months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30951/21]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission

Patrick Costello

435. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if secretarial assistants are currently employed by the Houses of the Oireachtas; the number that have applied for incremental credit; the number of total years of past experience that have been disregarded under the policy of disregarding three years per application; the estimated cost to add the disregarded years to credit for the pay scale both in arrears to the start of the current Oireachtas term; and the increase in the weekly wage bill. [30979/21]

Mental Health Services

Alan Dillon

436. Deputy Alan Dillon asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the work his Department has undertaken to implement the youth mental health pathfinder project in terms of administrative, budgetary, governance and legal arrangements with the Department of Health to ensure a robust and workable model for the pathfinder unit is developed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30999/21]

Freedom of Information

Thomas Gould

437. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if TDs are exempt from Freedom of Information charges. [31001/21]

EU Funding

Louise O'Reilly

438. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if Ireland has requested under article 25(3) of the regulation establishing the Recovery and Resilience Facility to redact information relating to the National Recovery Plan; if so, the nature of such redactions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31020/21]

Office of Public Works

Neasa Hourigan

439. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the final report as part of the Phoenix Park transport and mobility options study; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31129/21]

Museum Projects

Patrick Costello

440. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will extend the opening of the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin 8 from 6:30pm for the summer season. [31130/21]

Office of Public Works

Paul Kehoe

441. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the general operatives will be appointed to Kennedy Park, New Ross, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31200/21]

Departmental Websites

Holly Cairns

442. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting the requirement to have a statement on the compliance of their websites and mobile applications with the regulations under the directive 2016/2102 (EU), as articulated in SI No. 358/2020 - European Union (Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications of Public Sector Bodies) Regulations 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31288/21]

Departmental Websites

Holly Cairns

443. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit are meeting the requirement to subject to Regulation 6, public sector bodies shall, in accordance with Regulation 3, take necessary measures to make their websites and mobile applications more accessible by making them perceivable, operable, understandable and robust under the directive 2016/2102 (EU), as articulated in SI No. 358/2020 - European Union (Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications of Public Sector Bodies) Regulations 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31306/21]

Office of Public Works

Catherine Murphy

444. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full schedule of works to be undertaken at Navan Garda station; the overall budget for the project; the estimated completion date; and the business case and the schedule of meetings in which the project was discussed by the OPW with the Garda estates management team. [31366/21]

Office of Public Works

Catherine Murphy

445. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full schedule of works to be undertaken at Slane Garda station; the overall budget for this project; the estimated completion date; the business case and the schedule of meetings in which the project was discussed by the OPW with the Garda estates management team; and if Garda officers that could be housed at Navan Garda station operate from Sallins, County Kildare. [31367/21]

Departmental Staff

Róisín Shortall

446. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of employees in his Department and the bodies under the aegis of his Department who have been in receipt of a higher duty acting allowance for over two years. [31423/21]

Litter Pollution

Bríd Smith

447. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if bins located in St. Stephen’s Green and Iveagh Gardens are solar compactors; his views on reports that they are currently full in advance of a busy bank holiday weekend; if there are plans to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31426/21]

Public Sector Staff

Kathleen Funchion

448. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost to employ an additional 50 social workers. [31656/21]

Public Sector Staff

Kathleen Funchion

449. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost to recruit an additional ten administrative support staff for social workers. [31657/21]

National Development Plan

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

450. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if provision has been made in the National Development Plan for the full cost of making homes in counties Donegal and Mayo safe under the defective concrete blocks grant scheme; and if he will ensure that these costs are covered in the review of the National Development Plan. [31685/21]

Vaccination Programme

Alan Farrell

451. Deputy Alan Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the policy his Department will adopt for employees who opt out of the Covid-19 vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31945/21]