Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Disease Management

Colm Burke

145. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the number of patients with Huntington’s disease presenting at memory clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21360/22]

Disease Management

Colm Burke

146. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the location that his Department provides information on Huntington’s disease including the care and services that persons may need or be entitled to following diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21361/22]

Disease Management

Colm Burke

147. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the way that the National Rehabilitation Strategy addresses the needs of young persons with paediatric Huntington’s disease and juvenile onset Huntington’s disease; the way that it addresses the needs of young carers of a family member with Huntington’s disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21362/22]

Disease Management

Colm Burke

148. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health his plans to increase access to long-term care for patients with Huntington’s disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21363/22]

Disease Management

Colm Burke

149. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of facilities with the capacity to provide multidisciplinary care for people with Huntington’s disease, considering that Bloomfield Hospital is the only facility in Ireland that does so and it is not accessible to persons living in many parts of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21365/22]

Disease Management

Colm Burke

150. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health the actions his Department or the HSE are taking to improve access to Bloomfield Hospital’s Huntington’s disease service for patients considering that it only has the capacity to care for 2% of the persons with Huntington’s disease in Ireland at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21366/22]

Disease Management

Colm Burke

151. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Health his plans to improve engagement with persons with Huntington’s disease, their families and the staff who support them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21367/22]

Energy Prices

Colm Burke

224. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the engagement he has had with electricity and gas companies in relation to proposed increase in prices; if he has argued that standing charges should not increase in line with these increases as they are not linked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19227/22]

National Broadband Plan

Colm Burke

297. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of premises on a county basis in tabular form still at survey pending stage under the rollout of the National Broadband Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20583/22]

National Broadband Plan

Colm Burke

298. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of the 227 deployment areas under the rollout of the National Broadband Plan are currently at the survey pending stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20584/22]

National Broadband Plan

Colm Burke

299. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of the 227 deployment areas under the rollout of the National Broadband Plan are currently at the available for order, pre-order stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20585/22]

National Broadband Plan

Colm Burke

300. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of premises connected to the network under the National Broadband Plan rollout to date; if these figures are on target with the number of premises to be passed by 31 March 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20586/22]

National Broadband Plan

Colm Burke

301. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of premises that are envisaged to be passed by year end 2022 under the network build of the National Broadband Plan; if these figures are on target as of 31 March 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20587/22]

National Broadband Plan

Colm Burke

302. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of premises that have been passed under the network build of the National Broadband Plan from 1 January 2022 to 31 March 2022; if these figures are on target for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20588/22]

Fuel Poverty

Colm Burke

303. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if consideration will be given to the implementation of an energy guarantee under which all older persons over the age of 65 years will receive a minimum quantity of energy per month to assist them with the cost of home heating, with the amount determined by their income level, their housing type, their fuel type, and the building energy rating of their home funded through carbon tax revenue set aside for fuel poverty alleviation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20594/22]

Fuel Prices

Colm Burke

308. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if consideration will be given to the ring fencing of a supply of 200 million litres of agricultural green diesel and marked gas oil for the farm and forestry contractor sector up to the end of September 2022 to include the grass silage and tillage crop harvest in view of recent supply and cost inflation issues in Ireland with marked gas oil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20659/22]

Fuel Prices

Colm Burke

522. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to the removal of carbon tax from marked oil gas used in agriculture and forestry by farm and forestry contractors for a period of five years in order to reduce costs and to allow adequate time for the international machine development and supply sector to provide alternatives to internal combustion engines in the form of market ready zero carbon systems that will meet the lower carbon climate objectives as set out in the National Climate Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20660/22]

Fuel Prices

Colm Burke

529. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to giving relief on green diesel particularly with forage harvesting crops in May, June, July and August; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20964/22]

Wind Energy Generation

Colm Burke

607. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department is considering increasing minimum setback distance for wind turbines from homes and residential areas; when the outcome of the review his Department agreed to carry out on this matter is to be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19234/22]

Ukraine War

Colm Burke

665. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the procedures for those who wish to sell property to the State, the HSE or local authorities in order to house Ukrainians fleeing the war with Russia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20510/22]