Dáil Éireann

Written answers

Some recent written answers

Department of Health: Health Strategies (25 April 2024)

Mark Ward:

306. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to achieve an interagency approach to delivering dual-diagnosis services, as set out on page 24 of the model of care for dual diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18524/24]

Department of Health: Health Services (23 April 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn:

635. To ask the Minister for Health the process for a disabled person to apply for a personal assistant through the HSE; if it is the same process in all CHO areas; what is the process for allocating hours to a person once a decision is made that a person qualifies for a personal assistant; if he will provide, in tabular form, a guide to the number of hours that can be allocated to a person based on their needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17742/24]

Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 April 2024)

Gerald Nash:

70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a mechanism that would facilitate late applications for the PME/HDip allowance for post-primary teachers as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18372/24]

Department of Education and Skills: Maternity Leave (23 April 2024)

Paul Kehoe:

253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is considering changing the maternity leave policy to include surrogacy leave after the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022 is passed, following the unanimous passing of a motion at a congress meeting (details supplied); and if so, when is this likely to happen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17298/24]

Department of Justice and Equality: Control of Firearms (18 April 2024)

John Paul Phelan:

252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the Firearms Consultative Panel, which had been established by her predecessor in 2015, has been discontinued; and if she will re-establish the panel to provide a much-needed, inclusive forum for consultation and engagement with key stakeholders. [17171/24]

Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (23 April 2024)

Pearse Doherty:

598. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a HSE reimbursement application was refused for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17472/24]

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (18 April 2024)

John Paul Phelan:

133. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reasons the Government is willing to recognise the independence of Palestine but not the independence of Taiwan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17199/24]

Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (24 April 2024)

Carol Nolan:

200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has at any time engaged the services of a company (details supplied) or allocated the company funding or support in any capacity; if he or his officials have engaged with personnel from the company; if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18445/24]

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (23 April 2024)

Patrick Costello:

71. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the efforts his Department is making to liaise with An Garda Síochána regarding policing of road speed within the Phoenix Park. [17834/24]

Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (18 April 2024)

Colm Burke:

234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the living alone increase to elderly people who have their disabled child living with them but the children attend disability day services and they cannot work due to their severe needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17150/24]

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

Marian Harkin:

351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 42 of 11 April 2024, to provide a breakdown of the number of houses each local authority area has delivered through Project Tosaigh; to provide a breakdown of the number of homes each individual local authority area is contracted or recommended to proceed to procurement under this initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17424/24]

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (23 April 2024)

Peadar Tóibín:

485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the number of family farms acquired by international investment funds, with the quantity of land by hectares, and farming type when acquired, for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17631/24]

Department of Health: Law Reform Commission (23 April 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd:

649. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to the recommendations made in the recent report by the Law Reform Commission on the need for the Government to establish a regulatory framework for adult safeguarding and to introduce the recommended necessary legislation and other fundamental changes necessary to protect vulnerable adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17865/24]

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (24 April 2024)

Carol Nolan:

148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department engages with the Department of Justice with respect to the accommodation of unaccompanied minors; if so, the number of unaccompanied minors who have been assisted with accommodation needs by his Department for each year during the period 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18249/24]

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

Pádraig O'Sullivan:

549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application for long-term residential care for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17640/24]

Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Olympic Games (18 April 2024)

Brian Leddin:

48. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht what supports have been made available in relation to Irish participation in the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16692/24]

Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (23 April 2024)

Bernard Durkan:

281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if and when a school place in the local Gaelscoil can be accommodated in the case of a child (details supplied) whose parents wish to have them educated through Irish; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17433/24]

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

Paul Donnelly:

553. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department ever had a contract with a company (details supplied) in 2023 and to-date in 2024; if so, what services this company provided on behalf of the Department; and the amount paid by the Department for that service during the period in question. [17801/24]

Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (18 April 2024)

Jackie Cahill:

160. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to consider and support the recommencement of children’s swimming lessons in Templemore Garda College’s swimming pool on Friday evenings, organised and managed by the community for the community, on a not-for-profit basis, following results of a survey conducted locally of parents in Templemore (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17102/24]

Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 April 2024)

James Lawless:

266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a matter in relation to a school bus application (details supplied) [17380/24]