Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Emergency Accommodation

Christopher O'Sullivan

861. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what measures are being taken to increase emergency accommodation in the Cork South-West constituency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18312/23]

Health Service Executive

Christopher O'Sullivan

1793. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health if he can report on the amount of revenue the HSE spent on the cross-Border directive for the year ending 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18313/23]

Health Service Executive

Christopher O'Sullivan

1794. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health if he can report on the amount of revenue the HSE spent on the cross-Border directive for the CHO4 region for the year ending 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18314/23]

Control of Dogs

Christopher O'Sullivan

1851. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide the resources necessary to secure extra dog wardens for Cork county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17928/23]

School Facilities

Christopher O'Sullivan

58. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Education if she will report on the retrofitting of schools under the national retrofit programme; the number that have been refitted to date; the target building energy rating for schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14093/23]

School Transport

Christopher O'Sullivan

134. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the review of the school transport scheme; if consideration is being given to concessionary students in rural areas who have no safe pedestrian routes to school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13987/23]

Departmental Meetings

Christopher O'Sullivan

15. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the climate action delivery board, co-chaired by his Department, that have taken place to date in 2023. [12657/23]

Solar Energy Guidelines

Christopher O'Sullivan

1535. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, under the new Tams 3, solar capital investment scheme, farmers can export back to the grid for an agreed price; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12333/23]

Food Waste

Christopher O'Sullivan

34. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department is taking to tackle food waste. [11709/23]

Official Engagements

Christopher O'Sullivan

62. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the agenda for the upcoming Agriculture and Fisheries Council to be held in Brussels on 20 March 2023. [11710/23]

Departmental Priorities

Christopher O'Sullivan

7. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [11358/23]

Tax Credits

Christopher O'Sullivan

103. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Finance if he has any plans to amend the parameters of the regional uplift scheme to encourage film production as part of the film tax credit, section 481; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11157/23]

Work Permits

Christopher O'Sullivan

150. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department can confirm delays in the granting of work visas to internationally qualified clinical measurement physiologists who wish to work in Ireland and apply for recognition of their qualifications to the Irish Institute of Clinical Measurement Science; if his Department is taking any steps to alleviate such delays to ensure the availability of such a critical workforce to the healthcare sector here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11336/23]

Coast Guard Service

Christopher O'Sullivan

215. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Transport if he will confirm that the transfer of patients by the coastguard contractor (details supplied) falls outside its contract; if the contractor is charging separately for these transfers; if so, the cost per transfer and or the cost per hour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11428/23]

Medical Qualifications

Christopher O'Sullivan

638. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health if further to Parliamentary Question No. 250 of 23 February 2023, if his Department is aware of undue delays currently in accreditation of international cardiac physiologists by the Irish Institute of Clinical Measurement Science; if his Department has taken or proposes to take any steps to assist with the current challenges being experienced by the IICMP to ensure that internationally qualified clinical measurement physiologists who wish to work in the healthcare sector here can obtain visas to do so in a timely manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11335/23]

National Broadband Plan

Christopher O'Sullivan

99. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan is on track to reach the forecast of 95% of premises having access to high-speed broadband by 2025. [9861/23]

Food Waste

Christopher O'Sullivan

116. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his Department has begun implementing the measures relating to food donation and distribution laid out in the Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9862/23]

Health Services Staff

Christopher O'Sullivan

589. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health if he will arrange for the provision of the movement in the staff numbers employed in the public health service, including voluntary hospitals for grades of staff (details supplied) in each of the years 2018 to 2022, and to date in 2023, in view of the on-going public commentary on staffing levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9739/23]

Agriculture Schemes

Christopher O'Sullivan

685. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the 'breaking and schooling scheme' for the equine sector will be available for application in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9477/23]

Medical Qualifications

Christopher O'Sullivan

250. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the delays with the accreditation of cardio physiologists who require certification of their training to be approved by the Irish Institute of Clinical Measurement Physiology; the knock-on effects this is having on recruitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9280/23]

Departmental Strategies

Christopher O'Sullivan

13. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department's strategy statement 2021-2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8143/23]

Departmental Bodies

Christopher O'Sullivan

24. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit in his Department. [8113/23]

Tourism Promotion

Christopher O'Sullivan

89. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the steps her Department is taking to promote eco-tourism, particularly in coastal areas. [8433/23]

Sport and Recreational Development

Christopher O'Sullivan

109. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the steps her Department is taking to encourage the participation of females in sport. [8432/23]

An Garda Síochána

Christopher O'Sullivan

12. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice the number of gardaí assigned to the Bandon, Bantry and Clonakilty districts. [7512/23]

An Garda Síochána

Christopher O'Sullivan

53. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice to provide an update on the rollout of the youth diversion programmes in Cork South West. [7511/23]

Local Authorities

Christopher O'Sullivan

92. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Transport the amount of funding that has been applied for under the NTA active travel programme from the western division of Cork County Council.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5923/23]

Local Authorities

Christopher O'Sullivan

93. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Transport the number of applications that have been submitted by the west Cork municipal district of Cork County Council for funding under the National Transport Authority’s active travel programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5924/23]

School Admissions

Christopher O'Sullivan

90. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Education the steps that can be taken to increase the admissions at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4642/23]

Education Policy

Christopher O'Sullivan

142. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Education the status of the development of a new literacy, numeracy and digital strategy; the revised timeframe for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4943/23]

Social Welfare Benefits

Christopher O'Sullivan

155. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider allowing widows and widowers to claim jobseeker’s benefit for periods of unemployment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4896/23]

Health Services

Christopher O'Sullivan

216. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure affordable access to cariban treatment for women who are pregnant and suffering with hyperemisis gravidarum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4899/23]

Health Services

Christopher O'Sullivan

217. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health the progress on the community neuro-rehabilitation team set up for in CHO4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4905/23]

Health Services Staff

Christopher O'Sullivan

242. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health the number of lactation consultants that will be appointed in CHO4 in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4977/23]

Health Services Staff

Christopher O'Sullivan

243. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health the number of lactation consultants that will be appointed in Bandon, Kinsale, and Carrigaline networks of network 13 in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4978/23]

Health Services Staff

Christopher O'Sullivan

244. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health if the HSE will separate out the public health nurse role in order that public health nurses can have a choice between working with children and babies (child welfare clinics) or the elderly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4980/23]

Health Services Staff

Christopher O'Sullivan

245. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Health if there will be any specialist posts created in community healthcare under the field of maternity care, including anti-natal education, anti-natal clinics, post-natal care and mother and babies, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4981/23]

Middle East

Christopher O'Sullivan

116. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the further sanctions that are being put in place on Iran in view of ongoing human rights violations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4366/23]

Ukraine War

Christopher O'Sullivan

139. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs how Ireland is pursuing accountability for violations of international law and war crimes committed in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4365/23]

Arts Policy

Christopher O'Sullivan

19. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of artists in Cork south-west who are in receipt of the basic income for the arts scheme. [3555/23]

Tourism Promotion

Christopher O'Sullivan

41. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media her plans to promote eco-tourism in Cork south-west; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3556/23]

Climate Action Plan

Christopher O'Sullivan

15. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the climate action delivery board co-chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [60184/22]

Climate Action Plan

Christopher O'Sullivan

16. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Taoiseach the details of the climate action plan progress report published by his Department on 22 November 2022. [60185/22]

Tax Code

Christopher O'Sullivan

105. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to reducing the excise duty on hydrotreated vegetable oil, in recognition of its use as a very low-emission fuel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3025/23]

Tax Code

Christopher O'Sullivan

137. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Finance if consideration can be given to the extension of the VAT rate of 9% for the tourism and hospitality sector beyond February 2023 due to the challenges this sector is currently facing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3024/23]

Driver Test

Christopher O'Sullivan

65. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Transport the measures being taken to address the wait time for driving tests at Skibbereen driving test centre, as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2057/23]

International Protection

Christopher O'Sullivan

271. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures that are in place to clear the backlog of IPAS payments to accommodation providers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2516/23]

Wind Energy Generation

Christopher O'Sullivan

69. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if Ireland has a policy on tulip flower wind turbines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63335/22]

Social Isolation

Christopher O'Sullivan

9. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps that her Department is taking to address poverty and social exclusion across Ireland. [62730/22]

Energy Prices

Christopher O'Sullivan

59. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps that her Department is taking to assist community groups with the high energy bills that they are facing. [62731/22]