Dáil Éireann

Written answers

Some recent written answers

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (23 April 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn:

551. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has finalised his policy and legislative proposals for a tenth equality ground of socioeconomic status; when he will make public these proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17743/24]

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (30 April 2024)

Seán Canney:

445. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the anomaly whereby people who are wheelchair users and who are receiving a civil service pension and who are not in receipt of a disability allowance cannot access free travel while under 66 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18965/24]

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 April 2024)

Pauline Tully:

512. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the proportion of disabled people in residential care in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024 who were categorised as having low to medium support needs; and the proportion of disabled people in residential care in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024 who were categorised as having high to intensive support needs, in tabular form. [17451/24]

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 April 2024)

Kathleen Funchion:

127. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what actions he is taking in the short term to deal with the significant shortfall in places for infants under the age of two; if he is aware that some early years and childcare services have very high wait lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19202/24]

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (23 April 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd:

345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of applications received for the community monument fund 2024, by county, in tabular form; if there is an appeals process a local authority can enact whereby a project that is of an urgent nature can be reassessed or placed on stand-by if any other funding is returned to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17309/24]

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (30 April 2024)

Paul Murphy:

537. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 458 of 20 February 2024, if the supplied GRI statistics for greyhound injuries at tracks relate only to injured greyhounds that were treated/euthanised by track vets; and how many additional greyhounds sustained injuries of any type at tracks and were taken away to be treated elsewhere throughout 2023 and to-date in 2024. [18756/24]

Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (30 April 2024)

Louise O'Reilly:

669. To ask the Minister for Health what budget has been set aside to work with key stakeholders to improve public knowledge on stroke and risk factors for stroke; is this recurrent funding; what stakeholders are being worked with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18947/24]

Department of Health: Departmental Funding (25 April 2024)

Mark Ward:

309. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on funding for the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18554/24]

Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Appointments (23 April 2024)

Carol Nolan:

94. To ask the Taoiseach the reasons for his decision to appoint two joint chiefs of staff to his office; the reason one chief of staff was not sufficient; and how decisions will be made on a day-to-day basis. [17234/24]

Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 April 2024)

Alan Farrell:

324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a planning application by a school (details supplied) with Fingal County Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18034/24]

Department of Health: Health Services (30 April 2024)

James Lawless:

699. To ask the Minister for Health to examine an issue (details supplied). [19116/24]

Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (23 April 2024)

Ivana Bacik:

700. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to allocate increased funding across all career stages for researchers; and his views on the importance of basic or frontier research and the need for parity of esteem across disciplines. [17530/24]

Department of Health: Health Services (23 April 2024)

Sorca Clarke:

584. To ask the Minister for Health how the €1.4 million new development funding in 2024 for the expansion of the newborn bloodspot screening will be spent. [17411/24]

Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (24 April 2024)

Robert Troy:

33. To ask the Minister for Finance if a favourable response will be given to extending the VAT exemption to counsellors and psychotherapists. [18160/24]

Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 April 2024)

Pearse Doherty:

154. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated first-year and full-year cost of removing residential stamp duty with respect to the purchase of residential property by first time buyers for property purchase values of €500,000 or less. [18668/24]

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (23 April 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor:

410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost to the Exchequer to increase child benefit by €10 per child in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17627/24]

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (25 April 2024)

Gary Gannon:

36. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how the green paper on disability reform will impact students in higher education receiving disability payments. [9087/24]

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (23 April 2024)

Matt Carthy:

104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the humanitarian assistance Ireland has provided to Algeria to support and assist refugees from Western Sahara; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17773/24]

Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (30 April 2024)

Darren O'Rourke:

172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the National Broadband Plan and its roll-out; if there will be further works in the Ashbourne LEA areas of Kentstown and Skryne; what plans there are to improve broadband access to those households who have not yet been covered by the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19278/24]

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 April 2024)

Pauline Tully:

536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will detail, with regard to the findings of the Disability Capacity Review to 2032, the number of residential disability respite centres his Department is targeting to deliver by 2032. [17572/24]