Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Electric Vehicles

Michael McNamara

215. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Transport when fast electric chargers at taxi ranks will be rolled out at the taxi rank in Parnell Street Car Park, Ennis County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21268/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Michael McNamara

330. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if the Gaeltacht colleges will reopen in summer 2021 for second year secondary students who are booked in from 7 June 2021 for a period of three weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22094/21]

School Transport

Michael McNamara

537. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Education if she will address the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21159/21]

Maternity Services

Michael McNamara

895. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health when the restrictions will be eased at Limerick Maternity Hospital given that the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin has lifted the restrictions on partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21318/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Michael McNamara

919. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health the position regarding children travelling with applicable travellers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21401/21]

Child Protection

Michael McNamara

921. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health the training regarding child protection provided to staff supervising the hotels in which mandatory hotel quarantine is carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21403/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Michael McNamara

922. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health the number of those reported to Deputies as having died with Covid-19 at a HSE mid-west briefing on 26 March 2021, that had Covid-19 recorded as the disease or condition directly leading cause of death; and, in the said number of cases in which Covid-19 was recorded as the disease or condition directly leading to death, the number that had other significant conditions contributing to the death recorded. [21405/21]

Road Tolls

Michael McNamara

330. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Transport when an issue will be addressed for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18783/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Michael McNamara

342. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Transport if initial basic training motorcycle lessons can go ahead as normal given that IBT can provide two metres social distance in classrooms while wearing masks, gloves, hand sanitiser and while out in the compound would be wearing full PPE gear as in helmet with visor, gloves, boots and so on and all communication can be done through bluetooth headphones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19002/21]

Passport Applications

Michael McNamara

887. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of an application by a person (details supplied); if the application will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20516/21]

Passport Applications

Michael McNamara

888. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs when both the Cork and Dublin passport offices will reopen to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20517/21]

Vaccination Programme

Michael McNamara

983. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Education if teachers are going to be prioritised for the vaccination programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18916/21]

School Staff

Michael McNamara

991. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Education if she will sanction the retention of a fourth teacher at a school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19011/21]

Language Schools

Michael McNamara

1271. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if supports will remain in place for language schools to allow the industry to protect itself until it can return to business with the resumption of international travel for the next 12 to 18 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18365/21]

Third Level Fees

Michael McNamara

1273. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason a person (details supplied) has to pay further fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18412/21]

Apprenticeship Programmes

Michael McNamara

1293. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when a person (details supplied) will be facilitated with their next phase of the Solas apprenticeship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18807/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Michael McNamara

2465. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has assessed the impact on agri-food exports and live exports and the transportation thereof, of placing Italy, France and Germany on the quarantine category list; and if he will publish that assessment. [18623/21]

School Staff

Michael McNamara

210. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Education if she will sanction the retention of a second teacher in a school (details supplied) in County Clare given that this school is just one pupil short of the required quota and assuming common sense would prevail here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17759/21]

School Meals Programme

Michael McNamara

237. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a school (details supplied) has not been selected for the school meals scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17780/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Michael McNamara

339. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health the list of states from which arrivals at ports and airports in the State are required to quarantine clarifying in each case whether the quarantine is required due to the prevalence Covid-19, the prevalence of variants of the disease or both, respectively; and the rate of Covid-19 prevalence or variants’ prevalence, respectively that resulted in each state’s designation. [17846/21]

DEIS Scheme

Michael McNamara

620. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Education if a school (details supplied) in County Clare will be considered for a DEIS band status following a recommendation from a DEIS inspector who visited the school in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17288/21]

School Staff

Michael McNamara

643. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Education if she will sanction the retention of a third teacher in a school (details supplied) in County Clare, given that this school is just two pupils short of the required quota and assuming common sense would prevail here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17540/21]

Childcare Services

Michael McNamara

730. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if additional funding will be provided to a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17389/21]

Garda Disciplinary Proceedings

Michael McNamara

820. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Justice when the report of the inquiry into the adequacy of the Garda Síochána investigations and disciplinary inquiries following the death of Mr. Patrick Nugent, which she received on 3 November 2020, will be shared with the family; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17089/21]

Hospital Appointments Status

Michael McNamara

1070. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with an urgent appointment at the gastro clinic at Ennis Hospital following several previously cancelled appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17035/21]

Departmental Staff

Michael McNamara

1196. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health the person or body that carried out the independent review into the whistleblower allegations made by a person (details supplied). [17520/21]

Departmental Legal Cases

Michael McNamara

1197. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if he will publish the advice received from a senior counsel on the practice of obtaining information from treating clinicians of children for the purpose of compiling dossiers on said children with special educational needs in respect of whom litigation was taken against his Department. [17521/21]

Departmental Legal Cases

Michael McNamara

1198. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if he will send any information obtained from clinicians treating children with special educational needs as part of the compilation of dossiers for the purpose of defending litigation in respect of the said children’s special needs to those children’s parents, identifying the clinicians who provided the information. [17522/21]

Departmental Legal Cases

Michael McNamara

1199. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if he will identify all clinicians who provided information to his Department on children with special educational needs under their care as part of the compilation of dossiers for the purpose of defending litigation. [17523/21]

Nitrates Usage

Michael McNamara

1258. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers by county that are farming under a nitrates derogation; the type of farming enterprise they are engaged in such as dairy, suckler, dry stock and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16635/21]

Nitrates Usage

Michael McNamara

1259. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of slurry farmyard manure that is produced on all farms by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16636/21]

Nitrates Usage

Michael McNamara

1260. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of slurry farmyard manure that is produced in excess of the derogation threshold by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16637/21]

Irish Aviation Authority

Michael McNamara

316. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Transport the reason, after the long and detailed negotiations with the IAA employee staff panel on the rescue of the deficit in the IAA staff superannuation scheme which resulted in LCR19713 (2010), this major industrial relations agreement was misleadingly represented by the IAA to his Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform during 2011 and 2012 as an agreement to amend terms and benefits of the IAA staff superannuation scheme without notifying IAA staff either individually or through their unions until late in 2018, just before LCR19713 was due to end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14797/21]

Pension Provisions

Michael McNamara

317. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Transport if the Limerick pilotage authority unestablished employees superannuation scheme was ever submitted by the employer to his Department; if so, if this scheme was ever approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14816/21]

Insurance Costs

Michael McNamara

484. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Finance if he will intervene as a matter of urgency regarding the increasing insurance costs on small businesses and reduce damages for minor injuries by 80% given that the Law Reform Commission has made it clear that direct intervention by the legislature to cap damages will be entirely constitutional subject to certain safeguards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15193/21]

School Transport

Michael McNamara

951. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Education if a decision has been made on issuing refunds to parents who have paid in advance for transport to schools which were shut; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15849/21]

Vaccination Programme

Michael McNamara

1325. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if there will be a change in the vaccination programme regarding vaccination of persons who have been infected with and recovered from Covid-19 in view of the report by the Health Information and Quality Authority on post-Covid-19 infection immunity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13939/21]

Health Information and Quality Authority

Michael McNamara

1333. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if the recent report of the Health Information and Quality Authority which found that that the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic started on 22 November 2020 during the second lockdown, which lasted until 1 December 2020, undermines his confidence in the efficacy of lockdowns as a means of combatting Covid-19. [13958/21]

Vaccination Programme

Michael McNamara

1713. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health when cardiac patients will receive the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15196/21]

Hospital Staff

Michael McNamara

245. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if the additional intern jobs created in 2020 which allowed every graduating doctor the chance to stay and work in Ireland are being discontinued in respect of the 2021 cohort of interns as a result of which the vast majority of international graduating doctors will be forced to leave Ireland to work as doctors. [13827/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Michael McNamara

344. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if supports are available or will be provided for businesses (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12844/21]

Primary Medical Certificates

Michael McNamara

880. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health the status of a primary medical certificate application by persons (details supplied) in County Clare; when an assessment on this application will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13037/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Michael McNamara

992. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if there is an explanation for the extraordinarily high incidence of Covid placentitis of which there were eleven cases reported worldwide up to November 2020 and four suspected cases in Ireland announced on 4 March 2021; and if he will provide any such explanation. [13514/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Michael McNamara

993. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Health if the four stillbirths in Ireland suspected to be linked to Covid placentitis were recorded as Covid-19 related deaths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13515/21]

Animal Diseases

Michael McNamara

1023. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will prioritise making equine herpes a notifiable disease in light of an outbreak of EHV-1 in Valencia, the most serious outbreak in Europe for decades and the imminent possibility of the virus arriving in the State with horses being transported from Spain; and if so, when. [13134/21]

Work Permits

Michael McNamara

19. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the monthly figures for employment permits provided in respect of persons from Brazil in the agri-food sector and overall for the period of March 2020 to January 2021; if he will provide monthly figures for the same period from March 2019 to January 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11072/21]

Work Permits

Michael McNamara

39. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the monthly figures for employment permits provided for persons to work in various sectors by sector including the agri-food sector and by country of nationality of the permit holder for the period March 2020 to January 2021 and from March 2019 to January 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11712/21]

Taxi Licences

Michael McNamara

135. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Transport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the inactive status of a taxi licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11511/21]

World Heritage Sites

Michael McNamara

335. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if Ireland has recently submitted a tentative list to UNESCO of world heritage sites; the progress in re-examining the tentative list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11438/21]

Domestic Violence

Michael McNamara

660. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Justice the number of persons who reported being victims of domestic violence in the period from June to December 2020; the corresponding figures for the same periods in 2018 and 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11074/21]