Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Insurance Coverage

Michael Creed

383. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will outline the engagement she has had with an organisation (details supplied) in connection with prohibitive insurance costs, and how this might be addressed to enable the organisation to proceed with its calendar of events for the current year; the support available from her Department in this specific regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13031/23]

School Accommodation

Michael Creed

669. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education if she will review arrangements for additional classroom delivery in County Cork (details supplied) in order to ensure optimum financial efficiency; if the November 2022 approval for a mainstream class and a SEN classroom still stands; if, in view of recent site visits by both her Department’s design team and subsequently by the building contractors she will take steps to ensure that the classroom is delivered in conjunction with the SEN classroom; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12950/23]

School Transport

Michael Creed

673. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education if she will take urgent steps to restore a school taxi service to a pupil (details supplied) in County Cork. [12985/23]

Ukraine War

Michael Creed

689. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education if she will commit to her Department to engaging with all post-primary schools that are accommodating Ukrainian students with regard to the specification required in respect of Ukrainian as a non-curricular language being developed as an option by the State Examinations Commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13071/23]

Pension Provisions

Michael Creed

828. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an application for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied). [13137/23]

Social Welfare Benefits

Michael Creed

834. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has received a request for a review of a domiciliary care allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if her Department will look favourably on this application given the provision of the additional supporting documentation. [13411/23]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Michael Creed

942. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the supports that are available from his Department to assist a small rural primary school board of management with the provision of pre-school and after school care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13075/23]

Solar Energy Guidelines

Michael Creed

1553. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views generally on the availability and restrictions on grant aid for solar panels under TAMS; his views specifically on the scoring system on TAMS applications as they relate to farmers who are not qualifying as young farmers and farmers who are not farming on designated lands; if he is satisfied that all applications can be approved and funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12870/23]

Solar Energy Guidelines

Michael Creed

1554. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify the situation regarding surplus electricity produced from solar panels under a TAMS grant and how customers will be credited and paid for surplus electricity to the national grid where such a surplus is exported to the grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12871/23]

Solar Energy Guidelines

Michael Creed

1555. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify the situation regarding TAMS grant aid available for solar panels and his views on whether such panels can be erected on a farm dwellinghouse as well as farm sheds; if battery storage and inverter can be put where the current fuse box is; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12872/23]

Departmental Expenditure

Michael Creed

1562. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the current situation regarding a basic payment to a farmer (details supplied) in County Cork. [13076/23]

Animal Culls

Michael Creed

1564. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will give an up-date on the closure of mink farms in the country; if he can confirm that all mink have been euthanised; the date by which this was achieved; the reason for the delay in paying compensation arising from this; and if he will make a comprehensive statement on the matter including the overall cost envisaged to the State. [13223/23]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

1565. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the eligibility for the new TB compensation rates; if owners of all herds undergoing a breakdown for which compensation rates have not yet been paid are entitled to the revised scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13315/23]

Social Welfare Payments

Michael Creed

272. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will review an application for carers allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if she can confirm that her Department is not including unpaid lunch time hours in the calculation of hours worked in respect of this claim for carers benefit. [12089/23]

National Development Plan

Michael Creed

95. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform his views on the use of bundled construction projects for delivery of the National Development Plan; if he accepts that in the event of such a strategy being deployed that all component parts of the bundle should be at the same stage of readiness to proceed to construction; if he is satisfied that this is the case; if, in circumstances where it is apparent that there is a significant gap in the readiness of projects that are bundled, he will indicate the steps, if any, his Department has taken to disentangle the bundle and proceed with the ready component parts of the bundle; the contractual consequences, if any, of this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11654/23]

Social Welfare Benefits

Michael Creed

148. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has had their free travel pass withdrawn. [11655/23]

Ukraine War

Michael Creed

383. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education the steps being taken by her Department in conjunction with the NCCA to actively assist and accommodate Ukrainian post primary pupils in schools; if consideration has been given to develop Ukrainian as a non-curricular language for those students moving into senior cycle next September; if the advice of the NCCA have been canvassed on this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11179/23]

Social Welfare Benefits

Michael Creed

443. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to the living alone allowance. [11373/23]

Visa Applications

Michael Creed

520. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Justice if he will reconsider a visa appeal application in the name of a person (details supplied) in light of the individual circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11235/23]

An Garda Síochána

Michael Creed

524. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Justice if he has received representations from an organisation (details supplied) regarding the pensions for members of An Garda Síochána, and in particular, regarding the implications which revised pension arrangements post-2013 are having on recruitment and retention on the force. [11484/23]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

698. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify the situation regarding grant aid for dairy equipment under TAMS as it relates to young farmers who are over five years established but are still under 40-years and involved in a farm partnership; if the 160 cow threshold applies in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11236/23]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

699. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify the situation with regard to aid under TAMS for dairy equipment; if he will outline the methodology being used by his Department when counting cow numbers on an individual herd; if he accepts that ICBF milk recording data is acceptable evidence and a reliable methodology, as reliance on herd number data could include culled cows; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11249/23]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Michael Creed

247. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to a companion pass. [10604/23]

Pension Provisions

Michael Creed

174. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Transport the correspondence or communication, if any, which he has had with the board of CIE regarding the solvency or otherwise of the pension fund; if he has received a request from the board of CIE, or trustees of the pension fund, to sign or vary any statutory instrument governing disbursements from the fund; if he is satisfied that the fund now meets the minimum funding standard provisions of the Pensions Act 1990; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9572/23]

Pension Provisions

Michael Creed

175. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Transport if he has sought a detailed explanation from the board of CIE in respect of investment decisions regarding the pension scheme (details supplied); if he has sought details regarding CIE’s pension investment advisors' contact with the board in respect of these investments; if he is satisfied that the board acted appropriately with regard to its fiduciary duties in this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9575/23]

Ukraine War

Michael Creed

323. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will elaborate and provide details regarding European Commission proposals for pre-finance purchase of weapons and ammunition for Ukraine; if Ireland’s approval for this EU initiative has been approved by Cabinet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9690/23]

Grant Payments

Michael Creed

331. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education if she will extend eligibility for the Gaeltacht grant to students studying to qualify as primary teachers at a college (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10014/23]

School Staff

Michael Creed

348. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education given that the Teaching Council has now invited teachers who qualified outside of Ireland to register with them with a view to teaching in Ireland, and given that most of these teachers will not have the required H4 in Leaving Certificate Irish, if she will intervene to direct the Teaching Council to allow mature students who have high grades in ordinary level Irish to complete a PME (Professional Masters in Education) while at the same time upskilling their Irish to the required level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9771/23]

Teacher Training

Michael Creed

349. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education if she will outline how the subjects of mathematics, physics and Spanish were chosen for giving upskilling to registered post-primary teachers to teach these subjects; if she will indicate the other subjects that are under consideration in respect of this initiative for future funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9773/23]

School Staff

Michael Creed

376. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education if she will sanction the retention of a teacher at a school (details supplied) in view of the projected enrolment for September 2023 which is in excess of both the retention and appointment figure in the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10207/23]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Michael Creed

398. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been refused carers allowance; the reason her Department considers the applicant not to be providing full-time care for her mother; and if she will also clarify the situation with regard to the means test applied and if means had been reduced just below the threshold level of carers allowance payment that could be received; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9576/23]

Citizenship Applications

Michael Creed

467. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Justice if his Department can arrange for the issuance of confirmation regarding non-citizenship to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [9466/23]

Work Permits

Michael Creed

485. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Justice if, in conjunction with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, he will reconsider the business/work permit arrangements as they apply to holders of Critical Skills Employment Permits (CSEP) where such persons are joined by dependent children on Stamp 3 arrangements, whereupon such adult children upon completing second-level education are not entitled to work part-time or progress to third- level on the same basis as their peers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9706/23]

Special Educational Needs

Michael Creed

159. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education if, her Department will immediately sanction funding for a second ASD classroom in a school (details supplied) given the current ASD accommodation will be required to facilitate the additional mainstream classroom; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8957/23]

Insurance Industry

Michael Creed

211. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had in recent times with an organisation (details supplied) in connection with affordable insurance for the sector to facilitate its calendar of events in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8794/23]

Sports Funding

Michael Creed

273. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media when she intends to open the sports capital programme for new applications; if she will clarify the situation where potential applicants under the sports capital scheme who wish to proceed with works in 2023 if permissible after they have submitted their application without jeopardising their application from consideration for grant aid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8675/23]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Michael Creed

476. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will have their application for their disability allowance approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8463/23]

Social Welfare Payments

Michael Creed

488. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 385 of 14 February 2023, if she will calculate the rate of payment due to a person (details supplied) should the calculation be on the basis of contributions from 1989 rather than the basis of the year they commenced making contributions as an employee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8821/23]

Health Services

Michael Creed

665. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Health the status of a funding request received from HSE south for community ophthalmology services at a location (details supplied); if funding will be provided for this initiative in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8677/23]

Medicinal Products

Michael Creed

680. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Health if the medication cariban will be made available to pregnant women for extreme nausea and vomiting; if he will outline the reason for the restricted prescription regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8767/23]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

729. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a GLAS payment for a person (details supplied); if he will review his Department’s initial decision on this payment in view of the medical evidence furnished on appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8461/23]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

740. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the eligible number to participate in the sheep improvement scheme 2023 for a person in County Cork (details supplied) in view of the fact that their reference numbers for the 2022 sheep welfare scheme were significantly greater. [8822/23]

Departmental Funding

Michael Creed

228. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline the current situation regarding a project (details supplied) in County Cork; and if funding has been secured for the project in 2023. [7810/23]

State Pensions

Michael Creed

384. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will arrange to issue a decision on an application by a person (details supplied) for the State pension (non-contributory). [6506/23]

State Pensions

Michael Creed

385. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been deemed not entitled to the maximum old age pension (contributory) given they have been making full-time social welfare contributions since inheriting the family farm in the late 1980’s; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6507/23]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Michael Creed

386. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline in detail the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been deemed ineligible for fuel allowance. [6508/23]

School Accommodation

Michael Creed

157. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Education in view of successive years of increasing enrolment at a school (details supplied) and additional classroom requirement which for the school year commencing September 2023 will see a requirement for four additional classrooms, three mainstream classrooms and an SEN classroom, if her Department is considering sanctioning a permanent extension to the school to accommodate this increased enrolment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6216/23]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Michael Creed

179. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is entitled to the free fuel allowance. [6237/23]

Revenue Commissioners

Michael Creed

106. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Finance if he can arrange for the Revenue Commissioners to issue confirmation of property tax affairs being in order to a home proprietor (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5823/23]

Pension Provisions

Michael Creed

267. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will arrange to issue a pension statement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5822/23]