Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Education Policy

Joe Flaherty

154. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the way his Department is acting to support the workforce and talent development of Irish SMEs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45530/23]

Greyhound Industry

Joe Flaherty

417. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the necessary legislation has not been introduced to allow Rásaíocht Con Éireann to set up its own dedicated stud book, as promised in its Strategic Plan 2018-22, given that Rásaíocht Con Éireann incurs a loss of revenue estimated to be €1 million a year to the Irish Coursing Club, and given that this is not a question about the merits or otherwise of their new traceability system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44738/23]

Greyhound Industry

Joe Flaherty

418. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, he agrees with claims frequently made by representatives of Rásaíocht Con Éireann that greyhound racing is an important part of Irish culture (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44739/23]

Vaccination Programme

Joe Flaherty

520. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to introduce the shingles vaccine to the national immunisation programme similar to what is in place for people over 65 years of age, with no charge, in Northern Ireland. [44802/23]

Small and Medium Enterprises

Joe Flaherty

35. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how Budget 2024 will help the SME sector. [44196/23]

Industrial Development

Joe Flaherty

60. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on progress being made to acquire an IDA Ireland purpose-built facility in Longford town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44195/23]

Business Supports

Joe Flaherty

85. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has plans for any further supports to help businesses coping with increased costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43191/23]

Housing Schemes

Joe Flaherty

282. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a tenant-in-situ application, whereby a couple qualifies for the scheme, but it is not the landlord’s intention to sell the house but rather to take up occupancy themselves, can still be processed; and if an applicant can access the help-to-buy scheme and the first-home scheme in respect of the same property. [43761/23]

Tax Reliefs

Joe Flaherty

137. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will be reviewing the tax reliefs available for the SME sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43190/23]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Joe Flaherty

652. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if he will add age-related macular degeneration to the eligible illnesses on the long-term illness scheme (details supplied). [42523/23]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Joe Flaherty

500. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the request from a person (details supplied) to have their two children included in the ECCE scheme this year. [41603/23]

Housing Schemes

Joe Flaherty

182. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the housing adaptation grant for older people can be used to rehabilitate a sewage system in a single house as there is no other option to remedy the issue. [40793/23]

Citizenship Applications

Joe Flaherty

697. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Justice the status of a citizenship application (details supplied). [40132/23]

Housing Schemes

Joe Flaherty

949. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the numbers who accessed the mortgage allowance scheme in each of the years 2012 to 2022, by local authority, in tabular form. [38930/23]

Visa Applications

Joe Flaherty

1206. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Justice the status of a visa application by a person (details supplied). [38762/23]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joe Flaherty

1967. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting, as of 1 September 2023 or the nearest available date, for an MRI scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group for the following waiting periods, in tabular form: less than three months; three months to six months; six months to nine months; nine months to twelve months; and more than twelve months. [39362/23]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joe Flaherty

1968. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting, as of 1 September 2023 or the nearest available date, for a CT scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group for the following waiting periods, in tabular form: less than three months; three months to six months; six months to nine months; nine months to twelve months; and more than twelve months. [39363/23]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joe Flaherty

1969. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting, as of 1 September 2023 or the nearest available date, for a bone scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group for the following waiting periods, in tabular form: less than three months; three months to six months; six months to nine months; nine months to twelve months; and more than twelve months. [39364/23]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joe Flaherty

1970. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting, as of 1 September 2023 or the nearest available date, for an angiogram in the Ireland East Hospital Group for the following waiting periods, in tabular form: less than three months; three months to six months; six months to nine months; nine months to twelve months; and more than twelve months. [39365/23]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joe Flaherty

1971. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting, as of 1 September 2023 or the nearest available date, for an electroencephalogram in the Ireland East Hospital Group for the following waiting periods, in tabular form: less than three months; three months to six months; six months to nine months; nine months to twelve months; and more than twelve months. [39366/23]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joe Flaherty

1972. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting, as of 1 September 2023 or the nearest available date, for cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in the Ireland East Hospital Group for the following waiting periods, in tabular form: less than three months; three months to six months; six months to nine months; nine months to twelve months; and more than twelve months. [39367/23]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joe Flaherty

1973. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting, as of 1 September 2023 or the nearest available date, for an ultrasound scan in the Ireland East Hospital Group for the following waiting periods, in tabular form: less than three months; three months to six months; six months to nine months; nine months to twelve months; and more than twelve months. [39368/23]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Joe Flaherty

1974. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting, as of 1 September 2023 or the nearest available date, for an electrocardiogram (ECG) in the Ireland East Hospital Group for the following waiting periods, in tabular form: less than three months; three months to six months; six months to nine months; nine months to twelve months; and more than twelve months. [39369/23]

School Textbooks

Joe Flaherty

435. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Education the estimated number of children who will benefit from the free schoolbooks scheme in primary schools in counties Longford, Westmeath, Laois and Offaly, respectively for 2023-2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35895/23]

Citizenship Applications

Joe Flaherty

179. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Justice for an update on an application for citizenship for a person (details supplied). [34563/23]

Immigration Status

Joe Flaherty

479. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Justice if an update will be provided on the outcome of a review request of application for the regularisation of undocumented persons scheme by a person (details supplied). [33595/23]

Housing Provision

Joe Flaherty

33. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on social housing provision in Longford from 2020 to 2022; the target in place for same in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33147/23]

Housing Provision

Joe Flaherty

57. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how the current social housing waiting list in Longford compares with that in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33148/23]

Healthcare Infrastructure Provision

Joe Flaherty

186. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if he will detail in tabular form the health infrastructure projects currently underway in CHO8; the projects completed since June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32889/23]

Building Energy Rating

Joe Flaherty

360. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the BER which rating that is acceptable in the terms of the new croí cónaithe scheme to refurbish derelict and vacant rural houses, given that a number of local authorities are insisting on a BER 1 certification on completion but others are satisfied with a BER 2 rating. [32340/23]

Energy Prices

Joe Flaherty

33. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the development and implementation of a scheme to assist businesses which have been impacted by significant increases in the cost of kerosene heating oil. [31389/23]

Regional Development

Joe Flaherty

46. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a report on progress being made to acquire an IDA Ireland purpose built facility in Longford town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31388/23]

Departmental Schemes

Joe Flaherty

462. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if an extension can be given to an organisation (details supplied) to draw down is Clár funding for a new bus as the bus supplier has informed the organisation that the bus will not be ready in time for its end-of-June deadline, and the organisation is hoping that it can be given an extension for drawdown to 30 September 2023. [31783/23]

Further and Higher Education

Joe Flaherty

176. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if tutors currently working in the further education sector will retain the right to receive social welfare payments during holiday breaks if they decide to stay as they are and not accept the adult educator contracts recently offered to them by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31575/23]

National Development Plan

Joe Flaherty

62. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform for an overview of the progress made to date under national strategic outcome No. 5 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30884/23]

National Development Plan

Joe Flaherty

79. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the estimated cumulative value of the investments to be made in counties Longford, Westmeath, Laois and Offaly, respectively, under the timeframe of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; the estimated funding drawdown to date in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30883/23]

Diaspora Issues

Joe Flaherty

9. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for a report on the implementation of the Diaspora Strategy 2020-2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28096/23]

Departmental Strategies

Joe Flaherty

41. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the measures he will be taking to support peace and reconciliation at home under his Department's new Statement of Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28095/23]

Economic Policy

Joe Flaherty

6. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the Government's response to Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2022. [28109/23]

Cabinet Committees

Joe Flaherty

13. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health is next due to meet. [28111/23]

Departmental Strategies

Joe Flaherty

18. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the national reform programme for the European semester recently published by his Department. [28110/23]

Clár Forbartha Tuaithe

Joe Flaherty

84. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she will announce the successful projects for the new round of CLÁR funding. [28217/23]

Rural Schemes

Joe Flaherty

112. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if additional funding could be allocated to the local improvement scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28216/23]

Local Authorities

Joe Flaherty

771. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he expects a biodiversity officer to be appointed in County Longford. [28255/23]

Local Authorities

Joe Flaherty

772. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the role the new biodiversity officers will play in the policing of turf cutting. [28256/23]

Visa Applications

Joe Flaherty

912. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Justice to provide an update on the Stamp 4 application for an individual (details supplied). [27956/23]

Family Reunification

Joe Flaherty

915. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide an update on the family reunification application of persons (details supplied). [28032/23]

Health Services

Joe Flaherty

175. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health the additional community health services being provided in each county in CHO8 since 2020, in tabular form. [26497/23]

Naturalisation Applications

Joe Flaherty

496. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide an update on a naturalisation application by a person (details supplied), where further information was requested in March 2023. [25711/23]

Community Development Projects

Joe Flaherty

813. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she intends to announce details of the recipients of funding under the CLÁR Measure 1 - funding for community facilities and amenities, given that the closing date for applications was 12 May 2023. [26214/23]