What they're asking about 9,967 questions asked · 28 departments

• Justice 1,298 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide a schedule in respect of the number of instances in which the An Garda Síochána has placed tracking devices on vehicles as part of investigations into smuggling; whether these trackers left the jurisdiction, and on how many occasions per tracker, in the past ten years to date; the jurisdictions in which the tracker visited; whether it returned to the State; and the value of items intercepted and or seized as a result of these surveillance engagements, in tabular form. [44270/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if a new recruitment campaign for persons to apply to join An Garda Síochána will be launched before the end of this year. [44840/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of van/personnel carrier courses that were held for Gardaí within the Kildare division in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024; and the number of Gardaí that participated in each of those courses, in tabular form. [44841/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the amount still due to An Garda Síochána as of 29 October 2024 in respect of non-public duty events that occurred in 2023 and where policed by An Garda Síochána. [44842/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by her Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44865/24]
  • 2024-10-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she and-or her officials and the leadership of An Garda Síochána have had engagements with any of their equivalents in Northern Ireland in respect of a centralised intelligence sharing online platform; if any third party has been consulted on delivering same; the cost of same and the third party engaged on the project; and if the Department of an Taoiseach has been consulted in the context of the shared island project. [43467/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the dates on which it is expected to admit the next three batches of Garda trainee recruits to stage one of the training; and the number of Garda trainees attested to date in 2024. [43132/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of Garda trainee applicants from the 2024 recruitment campaign that have commenced stage one of their training; and the number from the same recruitment campaign that are currently at vetting stage. [43133/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of staff that worked in her Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41166/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by her Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41184/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she has conducted a capacity review of her Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under her Department’s aegis; if she published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under her aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40842/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of residency permit cards that were issued in each of the first nine months of 2024, in tabular form. [39710/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of oral fluids tests conducted at mandatory intoxication testing checkpoints that were set up in each Garda division to date in 2024, in tabular form. [39711/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by her Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on her Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40218/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she, her special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39137/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to her, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38367/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide an update in respect of the review of Garda recruitment and retention; if this review is being conducted internally; if not, if it has been put to consultation; if so, the persons and or company engaged to conduct the review; and the date on which it is expected to conclude. [36353/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of motorcycles attached to the Wicklow Garda roads policing unit as of 11 September 2024; and if she will provide the same figures as of 11 September 2021, in tabular form. [36821/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of marked and unmarked Garda vans attached to the Kildare division as of 31 December 2021 and 27 August 2024, in tabular form. [35174/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of WTE civilian staff, by grade, employed by her Department who work at immigration service delivery at Burgh Quay as of 27 August 2024, in tabular form. [35175/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice for an update in respect of her review of the family reunification policy; the date on which she intends to publish same; and the steps she may take post-review. [31187/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the amount An Garda Síochána spent on purchasing Garda mountain bikes in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31591/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the 2023 and 2024 budget allocations for the Data Protection Commission, in tabular form. [31592/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if her attention has been drawn to and if she has been appraised of the provisions and sections of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Act 2022 as commenced in 2023. [31753/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of protected disclosures she has received in the past three years to date; and the status of each as of 12 July 2024. [31754/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if a new An Garda Síochána recruitment campaign will be launched before the end of 2024; and the number of applicants from the past three recruitment campaigns waiting to commence phase 1 training in Templemore. [31990/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice when the manual for Garda members was last updated in respect of dealing with ebikes, scooters, mopeds, scramblers, motorcycles and so on that have been travelling at speeds that breach legal thresholds and are a high risk to other road users on a public road. [30047/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by her Department from EU sources in respect of Covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30227/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the taxi drivers who have been disqualified and or had their SPSV driver licence revoked by An Garda Síochána in the past ten years to date. [30258/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of taxi drivers who have been charged with offences that have been notified to An Garda Síochána and are awaiting trial in 2022, 2023 and 2024. [30260/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if any taxi driver has ever been prosecuted or sanctioned for failing to inform An Garda Síochána about a criminal conviction that should have been notified to An Garda Síochána. [30263/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of cases that the Kildare divisional protective services unit dealt with in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [28081/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 420 of 21 May 2024, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda authorities in order to have this question answered. [28082/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of new unmarked Garda cars and vans that were allocated to the Garda National Immigration Bureau in 2023 and to-date in 2024; and the number of unmarked Garda cars and vans withdrawn from GNIB during same period, in tabular form. [28083/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 462 on 21 May 2024, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda authorities in order to have this question answered. [28084/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of cases dealt with by Wicklow divisional protective services unit in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [28085/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the date on which two outstanding inspector of prisons' reports on the Dóchas Centre will be published (details supplied). [28277/24]
  • 2024-06-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of gardaí assigned to roads policing units; if she will update her Department’s website with publication of figures for the month of May 2024, by Garda division; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27763/24]
  • 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of incidents where cars were damaged by objects thrown from motorway overpass bridges in 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26845/24]
  • 2024-06-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice her plans to establish an independent inquiry into the alleged accessing of certain phone records by An Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. [26602/24]
  • 2024-06-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the date on which her attention was drawn to alleged accessing of certain phone records by An Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. [26603/24]
  • 2024-06-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of gardaí assigned to roads policing units; if she will update her Department’s website with publication of figures for the month of April 2024, by Garda division; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25956/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the estimated cost of providing the additional 140 domestic abuse refuge spaces to double the number of refuge spaces in Ireland, as committed to by end-2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24625/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide an update on the work of the youth diversion programme in County Kildare. [25097/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 483 of 30 April 2024, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda authorities to answer this PQ. [25098/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of applications for citizenship currently being processed; and the countries of origin of the applicants and the number of applicants from each country, in tabular form. [25099/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25479/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of thefts of domestic dogs and/or pets reported to An Garda Síochána in the past three years to date. [24231/24]
  • 2024-05-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of e-bikes and e-scooters seized by gardaí within the Wicklow division in 2022 and 2023 and to date in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23578/24]
  • 2024-05-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the timeframe for the Irish motor insurance database application to be rolled out to all Garda members on their mobility devices to include access to information on fleet and motor trader vehicles with real time information on the vehicles to Gardaí; the reason for the delay to include information on fleet and motor trader vehicles to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23048/24]
  • …and 1248 more questions on Justice
• Health 1,149 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of palliative care teams and staff members in CHO7 at present. [44830/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE staff, by job title, currently within the accident and emergency department of Beaumont Hospital; and the estimated timeframe in which each of those vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [44831/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the current number of epilepsy nurse specialists, neurologists and associated team members currently attached to epilepsy adult and paediatric services nationwide; the hospitals to which they are attached; and the number of vacancies currently within these services, in tabular form. [44832/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the last dates each external in-person fire safety audit was carried out on behalf of the HSE in each hospital part of Dublin Midlands Hospital Group; the frequency with which these audits are carried out; and if the reports from these audits are published online. [44833/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the locations of WTE psychiatrists that are based in primary care centres within CHO9 in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [44834/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the rate of theatre utilisation for St James's Hospital to date in 2024. [44835/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of patients that presented at Smithfield minor injuries unit at the weekends to date in 2024. [44836/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of ambulances, motorcycles and rapid response vehicles that came into the National Ambulance Service fleet in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024; and the number of those vehicles that were withdrawn from the fleet during same period, in tabular form. [44837/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44863/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE sonographers working in St Vincent's University Hospital, by grade, in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [43122/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE occupational therapists and speech and language therapists working in Naas General Hospital, by grade, in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased before the end of the year. [43123/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of staff that worked in his Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41164/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by his Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41182/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the mechanisms available in the public system for children and/or adults to be assessed by a psychiatrist for ADHD in CHO7. [40849/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he has conducted a capacity review of his Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under his Department’s aegis; if he published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under his aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40840/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of people who were assessed, by addiction rehabilitation, detox and stabilisation facilities in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [39695/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of persons with spina bifida waiting for surgery on 30 September 2022 and 30 September 2024, in tabular form. [39696/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE staff, by job title, working in each of the regional fertility hubs, in tabular form. [39697/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the schools in the CHO7 area that have received and completed, or not received and completed, the public eye care school screening service, in tabular form. [39698/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by his Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on his Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40216/24]
  • 2024-10-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the amount expended by the HSE and the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board on external communications advice or training for its senior leadership team in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the external companies engaged; and the topics or issues that the training or advices related to, in tabular form. [39327/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he, his special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39135/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to him, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38365/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of providing two additional critical care ambulances to the HSE on a 24/7 basis. [36819/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of persons that presented to the accident and emergency department of Naas General Hospital for each day of August 2024, in tabular form. [36820/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health for an update in respect of the development of a new national maternity hospital; the amount expended on the project to date; if he has engaged consultancy firms on the development of the project; and, if so, the amount expended to date on same. [34385/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant orthodontists and specialist orthodontists working within HSE dental services in County Kildare for both adults and children, by location from 2020 to date in 2024, in tabular form. [35168/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of resuscitation bays in the accident and emergency department in the Mater Hospital. [35169/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of menopause services; the number of clinics available throughout the public health service; the contact details for each menopause clinic; and the waiting times for a first appointment at each menopause clinic, in tabular form. [35170/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant paediatric urologist and paediatric urologist registrars based at CHI Temple Street in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [35171/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of resuscitation bays in the accident and emergency department in St. James's Hospital. [35172/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychologists, per grade, employed by the HSE based in County Wicklow in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31580/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the capital works projects that were carried out at Naas General Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024; the estimated cost for each capital works project; and if each capital works projects is still ongoing or completed, in tabular form. [31581/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the progress made in improving access to urgent and emergency care, including critical care and trauma services, since 1 January 2022; the additional funding provided in successive budgets; and his plans for the remainder of 2024. [31582/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the amount the HSE paid each external company that provided home help services to clients on behalf of the HSE within CHO 9 in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31583/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant dermatologists attached to St. Vincent's University Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31584/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of persons from Kildare who have availed of the cross-border directive scheme refund for cardiology procedures in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31585/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of persons that have attended the urgent care centre at Connolly Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31986/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the future plans in place to increase bed capacity and resources for respite services in Wicklow. [31987/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of current services provided by each primary care centre within Kildare, in tabular form. [30048/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE physiotherapists based in each primary care centre within CHO9 in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [30049/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to delays to payments for clinical placement coordinators, and his plans to address this matter. [30141/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by his Department from EU sources in respect of covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30225/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the services purchased by Naas General Hospital under the National Treatment Purchase Plan for the years 2022 to 2024; and the breakdown of services provided, in tabular form [29387/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to establish a postnatal hub in Wicklow. [29388/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the WTE staffing composition of the National Ambulance Service as of 1 June 2022, 1 June 2023 and 1 June 2024, in tabular form. [29389/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant respiratory medicine and WTE respiratory medicine registrars attached to the Mater Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [28071/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the current waiting times for first-time appointments for ADHD assessments in CHO9. [28072/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of orthopaedic procedures, by type that were carried out at Naas General Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [28073/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of knee replacement surgeries carried out at Beaumont Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [28074/24]
  • …and 1099 more questions on Health
• Transport 1,044 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport when the remaining sections of the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 will come into effect. [44854/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44871/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of staff that worked in his Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41172/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by his Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41190/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he has conducted a capacity review of his Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under his Department’s aegis; if he published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under his aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40847/24]
  • 2024-10-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the up-to-date position regarding the provision of a new Coastguard building at Howth; and the amount that has been spent on this project to date.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40350/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of signalling faults recorded at Connolly Station in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [39699/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of EV charger points at each Irish Rail car park as of 30 September 2024. [39700/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the amount spent by Irish Rail in respect of signalling and associated supporting IT systems at Connolly Station in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [39701/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by his Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on his Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40224/24]
  • 2024-10-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the amount expended by the Road Safety Authority and the National Transport Authority on external communications advice or training for its senior leadership team in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the external companies engaged; and the topics or the issues that the training or advices related to, in tabular form. [39311/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he, his special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39143/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to him, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38373/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the progress that has been achieved by the National Transport Authority in the past three months on works (details supplied); and if this work is likely to commence before the end of the year. [36830/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he plans to conduct a review and or analysis of spending by his Department for Road Safety Strategy 2021-2024; to provide the key performance indicators of the strategy; if he will also provide the success and failure metrics associated with the Road Safety Strategy 2021-2024. [34074/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of taxi drivers with convictions for sexual offences who have been disqualified and-or had their SPSV driver licence revoked by the National Transport Authority in the past ten years. [31333/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if SPSV driver licences can be suspended by the National Transport Authority while a taxi driver is charged with a serious offence and awaiting trial. [31335/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if all taxi drivers are vetted annually; and if not, if it is only for their first SPSV driver licence application. [31336/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport for an update and-or the progress made in the preparatory work to bring the DART services as far as Sallins and Newbridge. [31434/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he, the National Transport Authority or Transport Infrastructure Ireland has engaged with Kildare Innovation Hub in respect of proposals for a new active travel bridge and-or pathways finder project (details supplied). [31435/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the percentage of the 2023 capital budget allocation for the Irish Coast Guard that was actually spent; and if any of the unspent capital funding was automatically transferred to be included in the 2024 capital budget allocation. [31598/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of new bus drivers recruited by Dublin Bus to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31988/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by his Department from EU sources in respect of covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30233/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of buses in the Bus Éireann PSO fleet as of 25 June 2024; and if he will provide the figures as of 30 June 2022, in tabular form. [29393/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of contracts (details supplied) that have been awarded to carry out services on behalf of his Department in 2023 and to-date in 2024; the nature of services that were provided to his Department; and the amount paid by his Department to this company for such works, in tabular form. [28078/24]
  • 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of incidents where cars were damaged by objects thrown from motorway overpass bridges in 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26846/24]
  • 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the mechanism for toll plaza responses to emergencies and the number of staff assigned to emergency response on motorways during weekdays and at weekends, per shift, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26847/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an update on expenditure on active travel programmes in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24619/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the expected cost of upgrading the public bus fleet to an electric fleet as part of the Pathfinder programme; the proposed timeline for town bus fleets and for regional bus fleets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24624/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of Revenue protection officers employed by Iarnród Éireann in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased this year. [25105/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if contracts have been signed by both parties in respect of a new coast guard building in Howth; and if not, when his Department expects construction work on this project to commence. [25106/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the refurbishment works that Iarnród Éireann carried out at a location (details supplied) in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024; and the future refurbishment works Iarnród Éireann has scheduled for this station between Q3 2024 and end of 2025, in tabular form. [25107/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25485/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport when he last met formally with the CEO of a company (details supplied); and when he is next scheduled to meet the CEO. [25536/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the frequency with which Iarnród Éireann carries out a mass evacuation training plan among its staff from trains and stations in the event of a major accident happening either within stations and-or onboard trains; and the number of these mass evacuation training plans carried out in 2023 and to date in 2024 in tabular form. [22370/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport for a breakdown of the amount of his Department's pre-committed capital expenditure under the national development plan that will be dedicated to purchase buses for the PSO fleet in each of the years 2024 to 2026, in tabular form. [22371/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the funding provided by his Department on a local authority basis in 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024 in respect of national secondary roads and local primary and secondary roads, by amount and road type, in tabular form. [22607/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if Iarnród Éireann plans to increase the number of carriages on the 8.35 a.m. DART between Bray and Dublin Connolly. [22891/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport when each remaining section of the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 will be signed into law. [22892/24]
  • 2024-05-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to instances of flights being impacted by GPS spoofing and-or jamming in Irish-controlled airspace in 2022, 2023 or to date in 2024; and if he and or his officials have engaged with the Irish Aviation Authority, the Department Of Defence and-or An Garda Síochána in respect of same over that time period. [22269/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he and/or the RSA have undertaken a data impact assessment in respect of plans to use speed cameras and or other types of camera to detect motorists who are using their phones while in control of a vehicle on a public roads. [21511/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will point to the legislative provision that permits the use of fixed cameras to detect and penalise motoring offences that are not defined as exceeding existing speed limits. [21513/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the timeframe for the Irish motor insurance database application to be rolled out to all Garda members on their mobility devices to include access to information on fleet and motor trader vehicles, with real time information on the vehicles; the reason for the delay in including information on fleet and motor trader vehicles to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21892/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 241 of 12 December 2023 and 112 of 22 February 2024, if data sharing agreements and the relevant contracts have been agreed yet to enable his Department to provide motor insurers access to information on his driver file database on disqualified drivers and verify the driver number of a driver on the entry, under the Road Traffic Act 2023; the current timeframe for the industry to be ready for driver number capture and verification; the work his Department need to undertake to enable additional access to NVDF; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21895/24]
  • 2024-05-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the steps he will take to ensure that the benefits of CIÉ 1951 scheme active members will be protected and maintained, and that 1951 scheme pensioners will be awarded their long-awaited pension increase without delay. [19950/24]
  • 2024-05-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the steps he will take to ensure that CIÉ immediately complies with its obligations to appoint CIÉ board-nominated members to the statutory CIÉ 1951 scheme pensions committee, pursuant to rule 12 of the scheme. [19951/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to his Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19371/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide a schedule of locations at which 23 noise measuring systems will be located by the DAA as directed by the Airport Noise Competent Authority; the projected annual cost of each installation per location; and if he and or his officials engaged with or consulted with either the DAA and or the ANCA in respect of the measures. [18009/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of drivers disqualified in 2022 and 2023 and to date in 2024, by county; the number who surrendered their licence to the Road Safety Authority in 2022 and 2023 and to date in 2024, following disqualification, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18115/24]
  • 2024-04-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide local authorities capital active travel budgets in order to provide certainty in the context of planning and delivering active travel projects; and if he will develop an active travel maintenance budget for implemented active travel infrastructures. [16313/24]
  • …and 994 more questions on Transport
• Education 731 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the average number of buses in the Bus Éireann school transport fleet for Wicklow in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [44851/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the average number of buses in the Bus Éireann school transport fleet for Kildare in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [44853/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by her Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44857/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of applications currently with the emergency works grant scheme as of 15 October; and the value of those works within the applications, in tabular form. [43129/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of staff that worked in her Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41158/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by her Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41176/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she has conducted a capacity review of her Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under her Department’s aegis; if she published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under her aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40834/24]
  • 2024-10-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the estimated full year costs of increasing the Bringing Live Arts to Students and Teachers Programme to include an extra 75 schools. [40351/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by her Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on her Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40210/24]
  • 2024-10-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update in respect of the provision of permanent school buildings for a school in Kildare north (details supplied). [39236/24]
  • 2024-10-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will set out the items that are outstanding in order to progress a school building project to the next stage (details supplied). [39383/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she, her special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39129/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to her, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38359/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if there is a review due to take place to update the Primary School Assessment Kit, in view of the fact that there is an increasingly diverse range of languages in schools since its last update in 2006. [36324/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide the schools scheduled for divestment, as of 2024, 2025 and 2026, in tabular form. [36325/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a list of schools within Kildare that received funding to carry out works under the summer works scheme 2024, in tabular form. [31586/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if Bus Éireann supplies a list of all contracted external bus drivers to her Department that provide buses and-or coaches under the school transport scheme; and, if so, the frequency in which her Department receives that list. [31587/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education when the next EU Council of Education Ministers is scheduled to occur. [29394/24]
  • 2024-07-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education for an update on school building projects in the Maynooth area (details supplied). [28925/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the schedule of the projects contained within ‘Project Boyne’; the corresponding stage they are at to date; the estimated year in which they will be delivered; and the budget allocated to each project. [28037/24]
  • 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the steps she will take to ensure sufficient primary school places for the growing population of Sallins. [26851/24]
  • 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education her plans to review the 1973 determination by her Department in respect of administrative time for teaching principals [27085/24]
  • 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education her plans to enhance the ancillary grant for primary schools [27086/24]
  • 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the rationale for not providing capitation parity for primary schools and her plans to amend that policy. [27087/24]
  • 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education her plans to align primary education funding with the OECD average [27088/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education her plans to address financial support and SEN support shortfalls for primary schools ahead of the 2024/2025 school year; and the steps she has taken to date to enhance funding and grant aid to schools in 2024. [25311/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25471/24]
  • 2024-05-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide specific updates in respect of each in the bundle Project Boyne; and the funding allocation made in respect of each project. [24473/24]
  • 2024-05-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if the national list of SNAs can be released in a more efficient and transparent manner in view of the fact that persons are left wondering if they will have a job for the new school term; and if she will engage with the NCSE on this matter urgently. [23845/24]
  • 2024-05-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if she will address the contents of same. [23438/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of post-primary teachers qualified per subject in each of the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22377/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of WTE educational welfare officers based in County Wicklow in each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22378/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the changes she has made to the school transport scheme this year for the Straffan bus for pupils attending schools in Maynooth in the 2024-2025 academic year; and the way in which more concessionary passengers will be accommodated on this service. [21286/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will outline, for those who are struggling to find a school place and do not get one until after the date for school transport has closed, the way in which they will be accommodated on the school transport scheme, including concessionary passengers who cannot apply because they do not know where they will be offered a place. [21287/24]
  • 2024-05-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will clarify the extent to which July provision will be available (details supplied); if she will ensure that persons that require it will have access to it. [21112/24]
  • 2024-05-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide the date on which a Gaelscoil building project tender (details supplied) will be approved and published; the date on which it is expected that the buildings will be completed and ready for use; if she will outline the reason for the delay in progressing this project; if her attention is drawn to difficulties now present in the context of accommodating pupils in the 2024/2025 school year; and her plan to remedy same. [20049/24]
  • 2024-05-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if her Department provides grants for e-reader pens in respect of learning support aides to support adult learners (details supplied). [19887/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the annual cost to date in 2024 for prefab accommodation at a school (details supplied) in Naas, County Kildare; and the estimated cost of retaining the accommodation for 2025 and 2026, in tabular form. [19289/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the date on which she signed, or will sign, the letter of intent for a school project to reach completion stage (details supplied). [19290/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the annual cost to date in 2024 for security on an accommodation facility (details supplied) in Naas, County Kildare; and the estimated cost of retaining the security for 2025 and 2026, in tabular form. [19291/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the budget available for completion works at a school (details supplied) in Naas, County Kildare; and the timeline for the completion and opening of the building. [19292/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to her Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19357/24]
  • 2024-04-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will sign a letter of intent in respect of a gaelscoil building project (details supplied) in Clondalkin, County Dublin; the reason for the delay in delivering this build; if her attention has been drawn to the duration of time that the school has operated in prefabs; the budget allocated to the delivery of the project and estimated time for delivery (details supplied). [18184/24]
  • 2024-04-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the date on which a building (details supplied) in Naas, County Kildare will be ready for pupils to use. [18185/24]
  • 2024-03-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide the capacity for intake of first year students at second level schools in Maynooth, Celbridge, Leixlip, Clane, Naas and Prosperous for the year 2023/2024, in tabular form; and the number on each respective waiting list of same, in tabular form. [13368/24]
  • 2024-03-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the date on which a letter of intent to start work at a school will issue; and the reason for the delay in issuing same. [13431/24]
  • 2024-03-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education when she expects the letter of intent to be signed for the last phase of a school (details supplied); when the contractor will be on site; when the school will be available for use; if there are any impediments to signing the letter of intent; if so, if she will outline these; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13475/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if existing primary teachers will be required to teach modern foreign languages as part of the new primary language curriculum. [12253/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the way in which the selection process for these teachers will work; the professional development they will receive; the allowances they will receive, given the extra workload (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12254/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by her Department, and bodies under her aegis and of bodies she funds in full or in part, of €100,000 and above but less that €200,000, by the amount and by each body in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [12346/24]
  • …and 681 more questions on Education
• Housing 717 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he last met the CEO of Waterways Ireland; and the issues discussed. [44847/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44864/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of staff that worked in his Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41165/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by his Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41183/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has conducted a capacity review of his Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under his Department’s aegis; if he published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under his aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40841/24]
  • 2024-10-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will clarify the rationale for Met Éireann not providing flood forecasts or warnings for floods to the public via their website or broadcast media; and to outline plans to make provision for the dissemination of this information to the public. [40552/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by his Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on his Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40217/24]
  • 2024-10-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount expended by An Bord Pleanála on external communications advice or training for its senior leadership team in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the external companies engaged; and the topics or issues that the training or advices related to, in tabular form. [39326/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he, his special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39136/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to him, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38366/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the percentage of the funding currently remaining under the fire services 2021-2025 capital programme. [36822/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the capital works scheduled to be carried out in national parks under the remit of his Department between now and the end of 2025, in tabular form. [36823/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated yield from an increase in derelict site levy to 33% in a full year. [36824/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by his Department from EU sources in respect of covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30226/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the capital works projects under the remit of his Department that received EU funding in 2023 and to date in 2024; and the amount of EU funding that was received for each of those capital works projects in the years in question, in tabular form. [29395/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of WTE quantity surveyors grade 1 employed by his Department in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [25104/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will expedite the publication of the Mulcahy Report, in view of the fact that to not do so gives rise to a perception that the integrity of the planning process is compromised further; if he has received any external advice on the contents of the report; and the number of requests that his Department has received to date to publish the report. [25317/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25478/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to develop a website that offers the same benefits as a website (details supplied) for persons to report issues in the public realm. [22813/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the local government staff embargo is still in place; if workforce planning has been carried out; and if so, where there are staff shortages, by local authority, and the disciplines and grades. [21288/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new staff positions have been sanctioned by local authorities since 2018; and if he will detail the specialised grades provided for in each local authority over that time period. [21289/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a schedule of grants he can award directly to local authorities for distribution to community groups, by heading and amount available; and if his Department provides funding to community groups for use in reducing vacant properties and dereliction in towns. [21653/24]
  • 2024-05-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will use a statutory instrument to give effect to empower a returning officer of a local election the authority to witness and retain a candidate's home address in lieu of displaying it on a ballot paper on request by a candidate. [20804/24]
  • 2024-05-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a note on the outcome of his Department's consideration of a project (details supplied); and if he has communicated same to the local authority; if he will confirm whether the plan has passed with approval Decision Gate 1 of the Public Spending Code. [20029/24]
  • 2024-05-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has engaged with Tailte Éireann in respect of valuation reforms for start-ups and established small to medium independent traders in the context of rate setting in the early years of their enterprises when they utilise physical shop spaces in the context of reducing commercial space dereliction in towns and villages across the State. [19888/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to his Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19364/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a breakdown of the total amount requested by each local authority in Ireland in respect of reimbursement, following the introduction of the development levy waiver in May 2023, in tabular form. [17356/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a parallel breakdown of the total amount paid to each local authority in Ireland following request for reimbursement since the introduction of the development levy waiver in May 2023. [17357/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update in respect of research his Department is funding regarding activities by Met Éireann; if he will detail the recommendations Met Éireann has made to him in respect of pluvial flooding (details supplied); and the amount he has funded to Met Éireann for this research from 2020 to date in 2024. [17555/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide this Deputy with a note on the outcome of his Department's consideration of a project (details supplied); and if he has communicated same to the local authority. [13721/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there is any provision for a requirement for retrospective installations of electric vehicle or EV charging points in developments that have been granted planning permission; and if regulations are only applicable to new planning applications (details supplied). [13979/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €100,000 and above but less that €200,000, by the amount and by each body in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [12353/24]
  • 2024-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €200,000 and above in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will provide the amount of same, body, name and year. [11018/24]
  • 2024-02-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if sanction is required by the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive for the purpose of signing contracts for homeless accommodation; if so, how many contracts have been entered into and for what duration since 2020; the costs involved; how many bed spaces are subject to such contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9217/24]
  • 2024-02-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of persons on housing waiting lists, by local authority, as of month end January 2024. [6492/24]
  • 2024-02-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of persons in receipt of housing assistance payment, by local authority, as of month end January 2024. [6493/24]
  • 2024-02-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what plans he has to sign the Additional Protocol to the European Charter of Local Self-Government on the right to participate in the affairs of a local authority (CETS No 207) and the Additional Protocol to the European Outline Convention on Transfrontier Co-operation between Territorial Communities or Authorities (ETS No 159); the reason the protocol has not been signed to date; what timeframe for signing the protocol is envisaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6501/24]
  • 2024-02-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the current staffing level of local authorities and the grades they are employed at, in tabular form, by local authority; if additional staffing has been provided beyond those included in workforce plans in 2023 and 2024; if so, if he will outline the number and purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6502/24]
  • 2024-02-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current balances for development contributions, by local authority, in tabular form; what restrictions apply to their use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6503/24]
  • 2024-02-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the names and organisation for those who participated in the review of local property tax baselines; who nominated them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6504/24]
  • 2024-02-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 414 and 415 of 12 December 2023, for an update in respect of his consideration of the business case; if it has passed decision gate 1; and the amount that has been drawn down to date in respect of the progression of the project. [5272/24]
  • 2024-02-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will include the lands at Castletown House in the biodiversity plan. [4730/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has availed of services and or consultancy from a list of related companies (details supplied) in the past five years to date; if so, if he will provide a schedule of costs and the purpose for which the company was engaged; and if he continued to use services provided by it. [3784/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of WTE staff with biodiversity expertise employed by his Department as of 23 January 2024. [4083/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a schedule of the number of civilian drivers and Garda drivers attached to him and to Ministers of State of his Department; to provide the official work pattern for each driver and the total annual hours worked by each driver; and to indicate the number of drivers assigned to each Minister and Minister of State. [4223/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he will take to ensure the State fulfils its obligations under Article 4 of the safe Drinking Water Directive; and the total amount of fines incurred for failing to comply with the directive. [4241/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of all projects that required capital funding in progression through the emergency refurbishment (Ukraine) programme; and the amount provided in respect of the programme to date. [2570/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels he stayed in in 2023, including hotel name and cost per night while on official State business; and if the same information will be provided in respect of all accompanying staff and advisors. [2647/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments, State bodies and local authorities is in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records are provided. [3085/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or shared with other Departments and/or Ministers and/or State bodies and/or agencies and/or local authorities in the past 20 years to date; if he will clarify if the transfer of data and/or records was in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records were provided. [57214/23]
  • …and 667 more questions on Housing
• Finance 682 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44860/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the number of WTE tax specialists employed by the Revenue Commissioners, at the grade of HEO, in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [43124/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule in respect of the number of instances in which the Revenue Commissioners placed tracking devices on vehicles as part of investigations into smuggling; whether these trackers left the jurisdiction, and on how many occasions per tracker, in the past ten years to date; the jurisdictions in which the tracker visited, and whether it returned to this State; and the value of items intercepted and or seized as a result of these surveillance engagements, in tabular form. [43234/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he has received permission from the director of the National Archives to destroy records relating to the liquidation of IBRC; if he has sought or is in receipt of a certificate for the disposal of departmental records; if his consenting officer has been consulted by officials or the Minister in the Department of Finance in respect of these records. [41517/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the number of staff that worked in his Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41161/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by his Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41179/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will clarify and set out the rationale in respect of records relating to IBRC and NAMA not being sent to the National Archives, but instead being destroyed (details supplied). [41260/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will clarify a statement made by an official in respect of the destruction of records and files regarding the liquidation of IBRC in the context of the National Archives Act 1986 (details supplied). [41515/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he has received permission from the director of the National Archives to destroy records relating to the liquidation of IBRC; and if he has sought or is in receipt of a certificate for the disposal of departmental records. [41516/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will clarify a statement made by an official in respect of the destruction of NAMA records and files in the context of the National Archives Act 1986 (details supplied); and if he will further clarify that records and files will transfer in respect of NAMA from the NTMA resolution unit when they are no longer required. [41564/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he has received permission from the director of the National Archives to destroy records relating to NAMA; and if he has sought or is in receipt of a certificate for the disposal of departmental records. [41565/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he has received permission from the director of the National Archives to destroy records relating to NAMA; if he has sought or is in receipt of a certificate for the disposal of departmental records; and if his consenting officer has been consulted by officials and or the NTMA in respect of these records. [41566/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he has conducted a capacity review of his Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under his Department’s aegis; if he published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under his aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40837/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he plans to invite the president of the International Monetary Fund to Ireland before the end of the year. [39708/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by his Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on his Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40213/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider amending the VAT liability on mobility aides (details supplied). [38552/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he, his special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39132/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to him, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38362/24]
  • 2024-09-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if dog handlers attached to the Revenue Commissioners, customs and or detection sections can avail of the installation of kennels at their private residence; and the arrangements in place at present for the housing of dogs when they are not on duty with their handlers. [37618/24]
  • 2024-09-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if there are arrangements in place with the Revenue Commissioners and airlines in respect of the exchange of information (details supplied). [37822/24]
  • 2024-07-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the date on which the Revenue Commissioners customs team conducted an audit of private aerodromes and or airports, for the purpose of ensuring adequate mitigation measures were in place to counter smuggling and storage of illicit substances and items. [30540/24]
  • 2024-07-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the weight, value and type of illicit substances detected by officials from the Revenue Commissioners and public and private airports and ports of entry in this State by location in the years 2019 to date in 2024; the amount of cash and high value items seized at same, over the same timeframe; and the amount of cash and high value items returned to persons on appeal over the same timeframe, in tabular form. [30541/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by his Department from EU sources in respect of covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details). [30222/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the new equipment received by the Revenue Commissioners that were funded by The European Anti-Fraud Office under the Hercule III Programme in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [28086/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the expected net effect of carryover measures carried over for 2025 as a result of Budget 2024 measures; the way in which it is accounted for in the budgetary stance projections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24614/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the estimated total cost of introducing a financial transactions tax in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24615/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the expected revenue yield from 15% minimum effective corporate tax rate for large firms if successfully implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24616/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the number of contracts awarded by his Department to a company (details supplied) to carry out work on behalf of his Department in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [25109/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25474/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the amount of income received from the betting levy in 2023 and for the first five months of 2024, in tabular form. [25530/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the full-year cost if the single person child carer credit increased by €200. [25531/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance when he last spoke formally to the CEO of the European Investment Bank. [22374/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the number and value of claims made under the charities VAT compensation scheme in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19350/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the cost of supporting philanthropic giving under the new philanthropy strategy through the implementation of a direct tax incentive for major gifts of a minimum of €5,000 and maximum of €5 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19351/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to his Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19360/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken in respect of the provision of premiums by insurance companies to persons in homes that are not designated as a flood risk; and if his attention has been drawn to instances in which insurance companies are refusing to provide cover in instances in which OPW flood maps clearly identify areas as not being in a flood area. [17554/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he has engaged with insurance providers in respect of their lack of consistency regarding the way in which and the grounds on which they refuse to provide insurance cover in areas that are not identified as flood risk by the OPW in the context of their mapping and modelling of flood risk areas. [17556/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the steps a person can take in instances where home insurance providers will not take into consideration remedial flood works as a mitigation when quoting and-or providing persons with premiums for their home and-or business. [17560/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will clarify whether the ISIF holds Israeli government bonds; if so, if he will provide details of same, including their value; and if the ISIF no longer holds such bonds, whether he will provide the date on which they were divested from and the rationale for same.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18093/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank, as part of its investment strategies, has any interests directly in or with Israel; and if so, the details of same. [18094/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the number of times each of the customs cutter boats of the Revenue Commissioners have been deployed since the start of 2022 to date in 2024, in tabular form; the plans the Revenue Commissioners have to expand the fleet of interceptor craft; if the Revenue Commissioners have experienced difficulty in recruiting officers for marine operations; and if he will provide a schedule of the items seized at sea in 2023 and to date in 2024. [13978/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 1 February 2024, if he will provide an update in respect of the commitment made by him in his initial response (details supplied). [15011/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €100,000 and above but less that €200,000, by the amount and by each body in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [12349/24]
  • 2024-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €200,000 and above in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will provide the amount of same, body, name and year. [11014/24]
  • 2024-02-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the number of controlled drug operations carried out by the Revenue Commissioners at Weston Airport in 2004; the names of the operations; and the start and end date of each operation, in tabular form. [9853/24]
  • 2024-02-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he has engaged with the Central Bank and-or the Revenue Commissioners in respect of online tax agents acting on behalf of PAYE customers; if he will clarify the regulations tax agents must comply with; and if his attention has been drawn to tax agents taking excessive fees in respect of their acting role. [9348/24]
  • 2024-02-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of NAMA owned and or controlled assets that are currently being used by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. [7494/24]
  • 2024-02-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the estimated full year cost if the blind person tax credit increased to €1,950 for a single person and €3,900 for married couples or civil partners. [7835/24]
  • 2024-02-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the estimated yield if the local property tax on houses valued between €1.05 million and €1.75 million increased to 0.60% of that portion; and for houses valued at in excess of €1.75 million, were it to be increased to 1% of that portion, based on 2023 figures. [7836/24]
  • 2024-02-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he plans to review the help-to-buy scheme from a socioeconomic impact perspective; and his plans to review the scheme in the context of economic impact. [6128/24]
  • …and 632 more questions on Finance
• Children 455 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44855/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current percentage vacancy rate among staff in each CDNT based in County Kildare. [43125/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current percentage vacancy rate among staff in each CDNT based in County Wicklow. [43126/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff that worked in his Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41156/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by his Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41174/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has conducted a capacity review of his Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under his Department’s aegis; if he published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under his aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40832/24]
  • 2024-10-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the projected costs of increasing the number of in-school therapy pilot scheme to include an additional ten schools. [40349/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated number of additional respite hours that would be delivered by opening three extra full time nine bed respite centres. [39709/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by his Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on his Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40208/24]
  • 2024-10-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount expended by TUSLA on external communications advice or training for its senior leadership team in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the external companies engaged; and the topics or issues that the training or advices related to, in tabular form. [39324/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update in respect of the work to ensure that the supply of early learning childcare and school-aged childcare meets demand in Kildare north. [38777/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding and resources his Department has provided to Kildare County Childcare Committee in 2023 and to date in 2024. [38778/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the supply management unit in his Department, and if this unit provides resourcing and funding in respect of the delivery and fit out of premises that are used for early learning childcare and afterschool care. [38779/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he, his special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39127/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated annual cost of paying the salaries of all early years educators - with a Department-recognised early years qualifications degree at NFQ Level 7 and above - currently working within the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38286/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a summary of the training currently in place throughout the civil service and public sector to ensure compliance with Acts (details supplied); and the monitoring in place to ensure compliance throughout the civil service and public sector with same. [38287/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a summary of the rules/guidelines/best practices in place throughout the civil service and public sector to ensure disabled persons are recruited and promoted throughout the civil and public sectors equally and fairly. [38288/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to him, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38357/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 231, 232, 233 and 234 of 1 May 2024, the date on which he will respond to the questions submitted (details supplied). [36469/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown of the staff numbers and grade in each of the CDNTs in County Wicklow in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [35176/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current funding allocation provided by TUSLA for therapeutic mental health interventions and support for individuals aged under 18 and aged over 18 years in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [35177/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he retains a contract with the operators of a hotel (details supplied); and the date on which the contract is due to expire. [31436/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made in respite services since 1 January 2022; the additional funding provided in successive budgets; and his plans for the remainder of 2024. [31590/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of new ASD diagnostic teams that have been developed within the State; the details of those teams; and the referral path. [31989/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by his Department from EU sources in respect of covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30217/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE accountants employed by his Department in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if this number will be increased. [29396/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of grants and or funding, by heading and by county, for youth services for 2023. [24790/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to provide an occupational therapist service for those with mild intellectual disability in County Kildare. [25103/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25469/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding currently available to afterschool service providers and creches for the provision of services to children with additional needs; if additional funding and/or resources are provided on a once off and/or by way of application to the department as these settings require additional adult to child ratio and his plans to develop a funding scheme in this regard. [25585/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 243 of 16 May 2024, if, in view of the fact that compliance with planning law is a standard requirement for all such tenders, he will clarify his statement purporting to demonstrate such compliance could be regarded as being 'of a commercially sensitive nature'. [24232/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a list of all new childcare services including the name of the service, location and number of childcare places for 2023 in tabular form. [22372/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE staff grade psychologists, dieticians and child and family support workers employed in the north Kildare Children's Disability Network Team in the years of 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024 in tabular form. [22373/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding his Department has provided for the child and youth participation network, by county, in tabular form. [22614/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged with the Private Security Authority and-or the Minister for Justice in respect of the enforcement guard sector in the context of IPAS accommodation contractors engaged by his Department and the requirement for employees in those accommodations to hold an enforcement guard licence. [22775/24]
  • 2024-05-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide this Deputy with a soft copy of an opinion paper (details supplied) in respect of a property in Leixlip, County Kildare. [22272/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount expended on taxis and private bus hire in respect of international protection applicants in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [21247/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports he can provide to service providers (details supplied) in order to assist them with capacity and service provision in the after-school care environment; and how parents who have provided all details to the NCS of their child, and a place is secured, but subsequently withdrawn, can be facilitated. [21904/24]
  • 2024-05-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify the rationale for his Department relying on the advice of a planning consultant engaged by the service provider that a proposed change of use of a property (details supplied) to IPAS accommodation was compliant with planning requirements in view of the fact that his officials had their attention drawn prior to entering into the related contract, that the statutory planning authority, Kildare County Council, had already determined to the contrary and had initiated enforcement proceedings against the provider under the Planning and Development Acts. [19857/24]
  • 2024-05-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify his Department's description that as a fundamental requirement for all providers of IPA accommodation to demonstrate that such accommodation is fully compliant with fire safety requirements, the Department entered into a contract in relation to a premises (details supplied) at a time when proceedings under the Fire Services Act, that ultimately led to the issue of a Closure Notice, that had already been initiated against the provider by the Kildare County Council's Chief Fire Officer. [19858/24]
  • 2024-05-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 345 of 1 February 2024, if he will clarify the current status of this contract since publication in the meantime of his Department's 'rate card' for such accommodation now means that there are no longer any commercially sensitive aspects to the contract that may need to be withheld in the public interest [19859/24]
  • 2024-05-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify his Department's description that as a fundamental requirement for all providers of IPA accommodation to demonstrate that such accommodation is fully compliant with fire safety requirements, the Department entered into a contract in relation to a premises (details supplied) at a time when proceedings under the Fire Services Act, that ultimately led to the issue of a Closure Notice, that had already been initiated against the provider by the Kildare County Council's Chief Fire Officer. [19884/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the obligations on disability service providers for adults to operate family committees and forums for families to share their views on aspects of service provision. [18914/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of the properties which his Department currently has lease arrangements for the provision of direct provision and other accommodation for those seeking international protections; if he will provide a corresponding list of the service providers in each of these properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19245/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the annual cost of the suspended Vulnerability Assessment Pilot Programme for 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19352/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to his Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19355/24]
  • 2024-04-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an exception can be made in respect of a child (details supplied) who has missed the cut off point by one day in terms of eligibility for ECCE year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18370/24]
  • 2024-04-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of high-support disability residential placements available in County Wicklow in 2022 and 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [15561/24]
  • 2024-04-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding streams and training options available to assist parents in caring for children with disabilities who require tube feeding. [15562/24]
  • 2024-04-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the WTE vacancies, by job title, currently within the community neuro-rehabilitation team within CHO7; and when each of those vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [15563/24]
  • …and 405 more questions on Children
• Public 403 questions

  • 2023-01-31 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of full-time qualified tree surgeons employed by the OPW as of 24 January 2023. [4196/23]
  • 2023-01-31 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update in respect of the bandstand in Stephen's Green, Dublin 2; the estimated reopening of same; and a schedule of costs attached to the works. [4266/23]
  • 2023-01-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reform and or upgrade enforcement sanctions and actions that SIPO may take in respect of non-disclosure and or non-compliance of the Ethics in Public Office Act 1995. [3677/23]
  • 2023-01-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date on which the first tranche of rapid-delivery homes will be delivered; the total estimated cost per rapid delivery home, including the cost of connecting them to services such as water and electricity; if he will provide a schedule of meetings that the OPW has had with an organisation (details supplied); if he will include the identities of stakeholders and service providers that have been consulted and or engaged on the delivery of rapid-delivery homes; and if he will clarify with whom responsibility lies in the context of repairs and long term upkeep of the rapid-delivery homes over their 60-year lifespan of use. [3678/23]
  • 2023-01-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reinstate funding in order for a database (details supplied) to resume its work. [2849/23]
  • 2023-01-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update in respect of his plans to reform and-or amend the various allowances payable to Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he has consulted with any other State body in respect of same. [63621/22]
  • 2023-01-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of requests that his Department received from the Comptroller and Auditor General seeking approval for the recruitment of additional staff during 2022; and of the number of requests received, the number that were approved. [1212/23]
  • 2022-12-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of vacancies there are currently at clerical officer and executive officer grade; and the number of appointments at each of these grades scheduled in 2023. [61882/22]
  • 2022-12-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated amount of money that the OPW will spend on the refurbishment and fit out costs to the new Garda premises at 13 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin 1. [61883/22]
  • 2022-11-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the attendance record of his Department at all joint policing committee and city and county development board meetings since 2015 to date, in tabular form. [59688/22]
  • 2022-11-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of the employment status in the civil service of each civilian driver who has been replaced by an official Garda driver in his Ministerial driver corps; if VER payments have issued; and if any cases have been presented to the WRC to date on foot of the changes. [59364/22]
  • 2022-11-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department and all bodies under his Department’s aegis have reviewed their estates' portfolio in the context of identifying unoccupied buildings that may be suitable for use in the context of meeting the accommodation needs of persons arriving in Ireland from Ukraine. [54222/22]
  • 2022-11-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and type of unused and or unoccupied buildings in his Department’s estates’ portfolio and all bodies under his Department’s aegis. [54240/22]
  • 2022-11-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will apply a fix to a website that is hosted by his Department (details supplied). [54994/22]
  • 2022-11-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of officials in his Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management programme in the past ten years to date; the grade of each official; and the cost for each attendee in tabular form. [55487/22]
  • 2022-11-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the refurbishment works that the OPW plans to carry out at Garda stations within the DMR over the next six months; the nature of these works; and when these projects will commence in tabular form. [55514/22]
  • 2022-11-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date on which the OPW completed its hand-over of the new Garda security and operations centre building on Military Road to An Garda Síochána. [55607/22]
  • 2022-11-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has conducted works and or engaged contractors to carry-out works at a site (details supplied). [55615/22]
  • 2022-10-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of the total expenditure by his Department on pension payments to former civil servants in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; if he will also provide in tabular form the total payments made to former civil servants including a breakdown of the grade they held upon retirement and the number of persons in each grade; and if he will provide separate schedules for payments to former civil servants appointed before and after 6 April 6 1995. [52620/22]
  • 2022-10-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW will fund the purchase of defibrillator and cover the costs of the training of the usage of defibrillator by OPW staff based in Maynooth Castle. [51857/22]
  • 2022-10-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of judicial reviews taken against his Department in the past ten years to date in 2022, in tabular form; if he will indicate in the reply the body and or person that initiated judicial review proceedings; the number of judicial reviews that remain open and or active; and the totality of costs incurred by his Department as a result of judicial reviews over that time period. [50762/22]
  • 2022-10-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of the number of staff by grade who are assigned on a full-time basis to liaise and provide support to the Department for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in order for that Department to fulfil its areas of responsibility in respect of providing for the needs of those seeking international protection and persons categorised by virtue of the temporary protection directive by the European Union; and if he will provide a schedule of the services that his Department provides to the Department for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in that regard. [50455/22]
  • 2022-09-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which a pension entitlement is calculated for a person who becomes a PRSI worker in the private sector following 35 years of pensionable State service in the Department of Defence, and subsequently An Garda Síochána, and who chooses to retire at 55 years; and if the matter will be clarified in cases in which that person becomes self-employed, following an example provided (details supplied). [47807/22]
  • 2022-09-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by him; and the details of the person or body that is conducting each study, review and research project in tabular form. [47050/22]
  • 2022-09-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current number of live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department in tabular form; and the date by which each study, review and research is scheduled to be completed. [45960/22]
  • 2022-09-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons employed in his Department that have a formal agreement to work from home one day per week, two days per week and five days per week; his Department’s policy in respect of facilitating requests by persons to work from home; and the number of persons that have made requests to work from home in 2021 and to date in 2022, that have been declined. [44585/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 33 of 25 May 2022, if he will provide a reply including the acreage of lands maintained by the OPW that are designated as biodiverse areas. [42052/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of Bunadober Mill, County Mayo; and his plans for further works with a view to opening a public amenity at the site. [42193/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the totality of grant aid and-or subsidy provided to each local authority in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022 (details supplied). [42833/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of companies that applied for the contract to provide restaurant services at Dublin Castle at the last tender process; and when the next tender process for this service is scheduled. [43195/22]
  • 2022-09-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount collected by way of dividend from commercial semi-State companies in each of the past five years to date, by amount and company, in tabular form; the policy in respect of dividend payments to the Exchequer from commercial semi-State bodies; the way in which dividends are redistributed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44044/22]
  • 2022-07-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW plans to extend the opening hours of the car park to the National Botanic Gardens during the summer and autumn months of 2022. [40965/22]
  • 2022-07-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to develop a remuneration compensation scheme for post-2013 entrants to An Garda Síochána that will bridge the gap between their work pension and social protection-issued pension; and if he will provide an update on his work and that of his officials on policy formulation in respect of public sector pensions for the decades ahead. [41538/22]
  • 2022-07-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the sale of lands in proximity to Castletown house in Celbridge (details supplied); if the OPW intends to inspect the lands with a view to expanding on and protecting its own holdings in the area; and if he will provide a schedule of planned upgrades and additions to the existing Castletown house and lands. [38978/22]
  • 2022-07-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW plans to refurbish the backyard area of a garda station (details supplied). [39273/22]
  • 2022-07-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which he represented that there is a constitutional impediment to extending the retrospective benefit of the reversal of the burden of proof with respect to causation to whistle-blowers who have cases before the courts (details supplied). [38316/22]
  • 2022-07-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the rationale for the insertion section 2B, a new subsection into section 13 of the principal Protected Disclosures Act 2014. [38317/22]
  • 2022-07-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he and or his officials consulted with and or received requests from the Minister for Justice or her officials in respect of the protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022 and or amendments to the Bill. [38318/22]
  • 2022-07-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the move-in date of An Garda Síochána personnel to the command and control facility at Heuston Station; the status of works at Phoenix House; the costs expended on same to date; the status of the works on Block-J; the costs expended on same to date; and the schedule of locations to include costs that are part of the contingency planning in respect of the anticipated need for additional demand for garda accommodation. [37535/22]
  • 2022-07-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of planned cell refurbishment works for 2022 and 2023; and if he will provide a schedule of completed cell refurbishment works by location and final completion costs. [37537/22]
  • 2022-07-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a schedule of all OPW and joint-OPW projects that are in arbitration and or conciliation; and the costs associated with same. [37538/22]
  • 2022-07-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 548 of 21 April 2021, if he will provide an update in respect of the schedule of the 40 former Garda stations that were flagged for disposal and or alternative use; the company that will be used to conduct the planned auctions; and if he will provide a further schedule of the stations that will be included in the auction; and the outcome and amounts realised by those auctions that have taken place. [37936/22]
  • 2022-07-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to assist with the reconstitution of the building of an organisation (details supplied). [36776/22]
  • 2022-07-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of revenue generated from car parking charges, by location, in each OPW site in which parking charges apply in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [35769/22]
  • 2022-05-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the acreage of lands maintained by the OPW that are designated as bio-diverse areas. [26764/22]
  • 2022-05-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of OPW controlled sites and visitor attractions have been handed over to local authorities in the context of management and maintenance in the past ten years to date; the number of sites and attractions that the OPW have devolved responsibility to private companies and or persons over that same time period. [25884/22]
  • 2022-05-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Garda stations within the Dublin region that are scheduled to be refurbished by the Office of Public Works in Q3 and 4 of 2022; and the nature of works that will be carried out by station in tabular form. [26139/22]
  • 2022-05-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update in respect of a premises at (details supplied). [26157/22]
  • 2022-05-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual costs incurred by the OPW in respect of cleaning built heritage and statues and or monuments in the past five years to date in 2022. [25572/22]
  • 2022-05-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the annual cost of cleaning and sanitising roofs of buildings under his Department’s control for the past five years to date in 2022. [25593/22]
  • …and 353 more questions on Public
• Agriculture 369 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE qualified veterinary inspectors, by grade employed by his Department in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [44843/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44852/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of food products seized by his officials at both Dublin Airport and Dublin Port, to date in 2024. [43130/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of staff who worked in his Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41155/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by his Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41173/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has conducted a capacity review of his Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under his Department’s aegis; if he published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under his aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40831/24]
  • 2024-10-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the capital works projects that are currently ongoing under the Fisheries Harbour Centre and Coastal Infrastructure Development; the estimated cost of each of those projects; The expected timeframe for which those capital works projects will be completed, in tabular form. [40352/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the last time he met formally with the CEO of Horse Racing Ireland; and the issues discussed; when he is next scheduled to meet the CEO. [39706/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the last time he met formally with the CEO of Greyhound Racing Ireland; the issues discussed; and when is next scheduled to meet the CEO. [39707/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by his Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on his Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40207/24]
  • 2024-10-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount expended by Horse Racing Ireland, the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board and Rásaíocht Con Éireann on external communications advice and or training for its senior leadership team in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the external companies engaged; and the topics or issues that the training or advices related to, in tabular form. [39323/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he, his special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39126/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to him, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38356/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update in respect of his Department's actions following an abnormal loss of farmed salmon stock into Killary Harbour; and the number of fish reported as lost in this instance, in tabular form. [36354/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE staff, by job title currently working in the Office of Agri-Food Regulator; the WTE vacancies, by job title that have yet to be filled at the Regulator; and the estimated timeframe in which those vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [35179/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by his Department from EU sources in respect of covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30216/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to establish and or licence a new equine abattoir in the State; and if he will clarify the status of horses that were due to enter the now closed abattoir in Kildare. [29539/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of contracts (details supplied) that have been awarded to carry out services on behalf of his Department in 2023 and to-date in 2024; the nature of services that were provided to his Department; and the amount paid by his Department to this company for such works, in tabular form. [28080/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the capital works funded by his Department that are currently ongoing within Howth fisheries harbour centre; when each of these capital works projects will be completed, in tabular form; and if any of those capital works projects have increased in prices since construction works commenced. [25110/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25468/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and total value of contracts his Department has had with a company (details supplied) over the past 18 months. [25535/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the CEO of Horse Sport Ireland is accountable to his Department. [22375/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated full year current costs that would be needed if Departmental officials were present at Dublin Airport between the hours of 7.30 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week. [18906/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to his Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19354/24]
  • 2024-04-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a grant scheme that volunteer lead animal rescue organisations can utilise. [16561/24]
  • 2024-04-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a food-related trade mission to Vietnam will occur in Quarter 2 of 2024. [15558/24]
  • 2024-04-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding his Department received under the EU Adjustment Reserve in 2023; and how that funding was spent, in tabular form. [15559/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make the Land Commission records public; the progress made to date in digitising these records; and his rationale for the delay in providing the public with access to these records. [15155/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of requests made to view Land Commission records by academics in 2022 to date in 2024; and the number of requests that were declined and rationale for same. [15156/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €100,000 and above but less that €200,000, by the amount and by each body in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [12343/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of each bonus payment to employees of Horse Racing Ireland in 2023. [12801/24]
  • 2024-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €200,000 and above in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will provide the amount of same, body, name and year. [11008/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has availed of services and-or consultancy from a list of related companies (details supplied) in the past five years to date; if so, if he will provide a schedule of costs and the purpose for which the company was engaged; and if he continued to use services provided by it. [3774/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who attended each race night event throughout December 2023 at Shelbourne Park Greyhound Stadium; and if he will provide same figures for December 2022, in tabular form. [4082/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a schedule of the number of civilian drivers and Garda drivers attached to him and to Ministers of State of his Department; to provide the official work pattern for each driver and the total annual hours worked by each driver; and to indicate the number of drivers assigned to each Minister and Minister of State. [4213/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels he stayed in in 2023, including hotel name and cost per night while on official State business; and if the same information will be provided in respect of all accompanying staff and advisors. [2637/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments, State bodies and local authorities is in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records are provided. [3075/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or shared with other Departments and/or Ministers and/or State bodies and/or agencies and/or local authorities in the past 20 years to date; if he will clarify if the transfer of data and/or records was in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records were provided. [57204/23]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on recent progress with the Food Vision Strategy. [1080/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which he and or his officials are next due to meet the CEO of Bord Bia. [1359/24]
  • 2023-12-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE vacancies currently within his Department and that are normally filled by staff at the grade of administrative officer and above, as of 7 December 2023, in tabular form. [55603/23]
  • 2023-12-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will run a recruitment campaign early in the new year seeking to employ additional directly employed ecologists for his Department. [54482/23]
  • 2023-12-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the capital works projects valued at over €100,000 that are still ongoing in each of the Fisheries Harbour Centres under the remit of his Department; and when each of those works will be completed, in tabular form. [54483/23]
  • 2023-12-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the date on which a trial commenced giving academics access to the Land Commission records on a case-by-case basis; the number of academics that have requested access; and the number that have been granted access on a monthly basis since the trial began. [53954/23]
  • 2023-12-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which an academic may make a request to access the Land Commission records; if he will set out the criteria that is required to determine that a research project is in the public interest in the context of gaining access to the Land Commission records; if he will clarify whether he and or his officials consulted with academic experts in the field of Irish social history with a specialism in land-related issues in the development of the trial access; and the way in which requests to access the records is considered. [53955/23]
  • 2023-12-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to establish on a permanent basis a procedure in place for accessing the Land Commission records for academics. [53956/23]
  • 2023-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of WTE earth observation specialists employed by his Department in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [50934/23]
  • 2023-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has plans to appoint additional WTE fisheries attaché to the Irish Permanent Representation to the EU. [50935/23]
  • 2023-11-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding that his Department can provide for the development and up-keep of public allotment spaces, and the way in which that funding can be accessed; if he plays any role in assisting groups in obtaining suitable plots for allotments and, if not, if he can indicate persons or public bodies that can provide assistance; and if his Department has a grow-your-own-food strategy to assist people in the context of food security and sustainability. [50460/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will provide a schedule of same. [47640/23]
  • …and 319 more questions on Agriculture
• Social 350 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the funding provided to MABS in 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [44845/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of contracts (details supplied) a company had with her Department in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the nature of services this company provided to her Department; and the amount her Department paid this company for such services in each of the years in question. [44846/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by her Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44868/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff that worked in her Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41169/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by her Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41187/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has conducted a capacity review of her Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under her Department’s aegis; if she published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under her aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40845/24]
  • 2024-10-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the rights and entitlements a person made in respect of pension contributions (details supplied). [40580/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department still issues letters to all free travel pass holders a minimum of 21 days prior to the expiration of the free travel pass to remind holders to ensure that they get their card renewed before expiry date. [39712/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider including persons born in December 2024 in the cohorts that will be in receipt of additional supports as announced in Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40095/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by her Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on her Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40221/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she, her special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39140/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to her, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38370/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost if child benefit allowance increased by €10 per month. [36826/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person is entitled to State pension (contributory) payments (details supplied). [33994/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department’s plans to make all paper formed social welfare forms available in public libraries for persons who do not have access to broadband. [31594/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost in 2025 if the domiciliary care allowance increased to €360 per month. [31595/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost in 2025 if the living alone allowance increased to €26.50 per week. [31596/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated yield in 2025 of a new employer’s PRSI rate of 17% on any salaries in excess of €165,000. [31984/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of appeals currently on hand in respect of means tested social welfare payments, in tabular form. [31985/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost to increase the fuel allowance to €38 per week for the 2024-2025 period; and the average time to process a new application for fuel allowance. [30054/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of WTE actuaries at assistant principal officer level employed by in her Department in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [30055/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by her Department from EU sources in respect of Covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30230/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount her Department has paid each external security company to provide security personnel at Intreo offices to date in 2024; and the contract with each security company due to expire, in tabular form. [29390/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of a €1 increase in payments to international protection applicants living in direct provision accommodation, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24627/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of contracts awarded by her Department to a company (details supplied) to carry out works on behalf of her Department in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [25085/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25482/24]
  • 2024-05-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the provisions she has put in place to reduce food waste in the context of the school hot meals initiative; if she engaged with specialists in the area of nutritional value ahead of rolling out the initiative; and her views on whether the initiative is targeted appropriately. [22002/24]
  • 2024-05-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will re-examine an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person based on the new information provided (details supplied). [20740/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for State pension (contributory) that were refused by her Department in each month of 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [18899/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to her Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19368/24]
  • 2024-04-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending parental leave and benefit by four weeks for mothers and by six weeks for fathers. [15566/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by her Department, and bodies under her aegis and of bodies she funds in full or in part, of €100,000 and above but less that €200,000, by the amount and by each body in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [12357/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she plans to change the treatment of persons who are in receipt of supplementary pension payment in the context of customer service and general treatment by her Department (details supplied). [12839/24]
  • 2024-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by her Department, and bodies under her aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €200,000 and above in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if she will provide the amount of same, body, name and year. [11022/24]
  • 2024-02-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the 2023 and 2024 current budget funding allocated towards the humanitarian support scheme, in tabular form. [7844/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has availed of services and-or consultancy from a list of related companies (details supplied) in the past five years to date; if so, if she will provide a schedule of costs and the purpose for which the company was engaged; and if she continued to use services provided by it. [3788/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the last time the back to school clothing and footwear allowance was increased; and the estimated full year cost if this allowance increased by 15%. [4080/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of appeals officers assigned to assessing both applications and appeals, respectively, for disability allowance. [4081/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide a schedule of the number of civilian drivers and Garda drivers attached to him and to Ministers of State of his Department; to provide the official work pattern for each driver and the total annual hours worked by each driver; and to indicate the number of drivers assigned to each Minister and Minister of State. [4227/24]
  • 2024-01-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if there is any social protection support that provides for a door-to-door taxi service in respect of hospital appointments for persons that cannot use other forms of public transport due to ill health (details supplied). [3426/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by her in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels she stayed in in 2023, including hotel name and cost per night while on official State business; and if the same information will be provided in respect of all accompanying staff and advisors. [2651/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from her Department that is transferred to other departments, State bodies and local authorities is in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records are provided. [3089/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of the data sets she provides to the forward planning unit of the Department of Education on an annual basis; and if she will clarify if the data she provides is aggregated or whether it is individual records. [56730/23]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets her Department holds that have been provided and/or shared with other Departments and/or Ministers and/or State bodies and/or agencies and/or local authorities in the past 20 years to date; if she will clarify if the transfer of data and/or records was in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records were provided. [57218/23]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she spoke formally with her United States counterpart in 2023. [1092/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount expended on hearing aid grants under the treatment benefit scheme in 2023. [1357/24]
  • 2023-12-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of transfers and or access requests received by her Department from the Department of Education; and the headings under which the data was requested. [55479/23]
  • 2023-12-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of WTE vacancies currently within her Department and that are normally filled by staff at the grade of administrative officer and above, as of 7 December 2023, in tabular form. [55605/23]
  • 2023-12-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will set out the basis for the requirement of post-1995 gardaí that have retired to sign a declaration that they are available for work in order to draw down a social protection payment. [54717/23]
  • 2023-11-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to her Department in each of the years from 2016 to date in 2023; and separately, the top five highest late interest payments made in each of those years, and the service and goods supplier that received the payments, in tabular form. [52654/23]
  • …and 300 more questions on Social
• Foreign 339 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44861/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on relations between Ireland and Kuwait. [43127/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of staff that worked in his Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41162/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by his Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41180/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has conducted a capacity review of his Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the name of State bodies and agencies under his Department’s aegis; if he published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under his aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40838/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of companies that applied for the contract to construct the new Ireland House in Chicago but were unsuccessful, in tabular form. [39702/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by his Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on his Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40214/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he, his special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39133/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are and or were attached to him, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38363/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if there are plans to refurbish the embassy of Ireland based in Singapore; and if not, the last time this embassy was refurbished. [36818/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the most recent date he or his officials spoke directly with the Irish Consul General based in Sydney. [35178/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by his Department from EU sources in respect of covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30223/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of WTE civilian drivers attached to each embassy of Ireland as of 25 June 2024, in tabular form. [29392/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he had a bilateral meeting with his Croatian counterpart at the most recent EU Foreign Affairs Council Meeting. [28076/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on recent activities of the Irish Consulate General based in Hong Kong, including staffing numbers. [28077/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is scheduled to visit the United States before the end of this year. [25100/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his engagements with the government of the Philippines in the past 12 months. [25101/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of Irish passports notified to his Department as stolen and lost in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [25102/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25475/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of passport applicants that had to resubmit photographs in the years 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22898/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if the current situation in Georgia was discussed at the most recent EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. [22899/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has spoken with the First Minister of Wales since his appointment. [22900/24]
  • 2024-05-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention or that of his Passport Office officials has been drawn to the profile verification used by a company (details supplied) for accounts in that it requires an account holder to upload their passport details and also scans the e-chip of a passport; if official have engaged with the business in respect of this practice; if he and or his officials have conducted their own data protection risk analysis of this and other social media companies' requirement to upload passport details; and if he will set out his concerns in relation to these requirements. [19860/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he plans to open an Irish Embassy in Qatar. [18907/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he plans to invite his Finnish counterpart to Dublin for a bilateral meeting. [18908/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to his Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19361/24]
  • 2024-04-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department will consider a public information campaign to advise passport applicants that consent forms downloaded and completed on mobile phone devices will not be accepted, as security features may not be present on the form; if advice as to how best to download, complete, submit and manage consent forms can be provided as part of this campaign; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15792/24]
  • 2024-04-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has met formally with the Malaysian Ambassador to Ireland to date in 2024. [15565/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to reinstate the secure email verification system trialled following a proposal in June 2022 in respect of that proposal for Passport Office officials to verify Garda log entries by a designated email process (details supplied) before rolling out the procedure nationwide. [14741/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department and bodies under his aegis and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €100,000 and above but less that €200,00, by the amount and by each body in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [12350/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of times in 2023 and to-date in 2024 where the Irish consulate general or deputy consulate general based in Los Angeles has met with the governor of the state of Nevada, in tabular form. [12787/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if the current situation in Haiti was discussed at the last EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. [12788/24]
  • 2024-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €200,000 and above in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will provide the amount of same, body, name and year. [11015/24]
  • 2024-02-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if there are plans to appoint a cultural officer to the Embassy of Ireland based in Rome. [7849/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if his Department has availed of services and or consultancy from a list of related companies (details supplied) in the past five years to date; if so, if he will provide a schedule of costs and the purpose for which the company was engaged; and if he continued to use services provided by it. [3781/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a schedule of costs incurred by his Department in respect of a visit by An Taoiseach to the formal opening of the consulate general in Miami in 2023, in an itemised manner; if he will also provide a schedule of same in respect of his officials and advisors, in an itemised manner that travelled to the event (details supplied). [4060/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on Irish-Norway relations. [4077/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to provide a schedule of the number of civilian drivers and Garda drivers attached to him and to Ministers of State of his Department; to provide the official work pattern for each driver and the total annual hours worked by each driver; and to indicate the number of drivers assigned to each Minister and Minister of State. [4220/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a schedule of official flights, and costs of same, taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels he stayed in in 2023, including hotel name and cost per night while on official State business; and if the same information will be provided in respect of all accompanying staff and advisors. [2644/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments, State bodies and local authorities is in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records are provided. [3082/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or shared with other Departments and/or Ministers and/or State bodies and/or agencies and/or local authorities in the past 20 years to date; if he will clarify if the transfer of data and/or records was in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records were provided. [57211/23]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he plans to visit Poland in the first quarter of 2024. [1075/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he spoke with the UK Opposition Foreign Secretary during his visit to London before Christmas. [1076/24]
  • 2023-12-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide assistance to persons (details supplied). [54593/23]
  • 2023-11-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to date in 2023; and separately, the top five highest late interest payments made in each of those years, and the service and goods supplier that received the payments, in tabular form. [52647/23]
  • 2023-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he plans to seek EU consensus to apply tough sanctions on the leadership of Hamas. [50950/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will provide a schedule of same. [47647/23]
  • 2023-10-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on whether the additional allocation of €60 million to official development assistance in budget 2024 is sufficient to meet Ireland's goals in this area in 2024; how this allocation factors into meeting Ireland's commitments to spending 0.7% of GNI on ODA by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46886/23]
  • 2023-10-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the fact that money spent on resettling Ukrainian refugees is being counted towards Ireland's official development assistance spending figures in 2023 and 2024; his views on whether this is appropriate; his further views on whether this will lead to the ODA to be spent overseas being squeezed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46887/23]
  • 2023-10-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has spoken formally with the United States Secretary of State in the past five months. [46479/23]
  • …and 289 more questions on Foreign
• Defence 311 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule in respect of the number of instances in which the military intelligence branch has placed tracking devices on vehicles as part of investigations; whether these trackers left the jurisdiction, and on how many occasions per tracker, in the past ten years to date; the jurisdictions in which the tracker visited; whether it returned to the State; and the value of items intercepted and or seized as a result of these surveillance engagements, in tabular form. [44271/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the capital works carried going at Defence Forces headquarters; when each of those capital works projects will be completed; and the capital works projects at Defence Forces headquarters that will commence in 2025, in tabular form. [44848/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of vacancies, by rank, currently in the Defence Forces School of Music; and the estimated timeframe in which each of those vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [44849/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44856/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of staff that worked in his Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41157/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by his Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41175/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he has conducted a capacity review of his Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under his Department’s aegis; if he published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under his aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40833/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of Naval Service personnel, by rank that are needed to fully crew both LÉ Aoibhinn and LÉ Gobnait. [39692/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the up-to-date position regarding the replacement of the Government jet. [39693/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by his Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on his Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40209/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he, his special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39128/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to him, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38358/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the capital works projects currently ongoing at Casement Aerodrome; the estimated cost for each of these capital works projects; and when each of these capital works projects will be completed, in tabular form. [31593/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the musical instruments purchased for the Defence Forces School of Music in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form; and if those musical instruments are insured in the case of loss or damaged. [30050/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the flights flown by the Air Corps Pilatus PC-12 in May and June 2024; and the downtime or maintenance periods, if any, arising from such flights or otherwise. [30051/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by his Department from EU sources in respect of Covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30218/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if Haulbowline naval base has the capability to dock a military naval ship of 210 metres in length; and if not, the funding that would be required in order to be able to securely dock a military naval ship of this size. [25086/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25470/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if Casement Aerodrome has the necessary capability to secure-park a Hercules C-17 military aircraft; and, if not, the funding required in order to be able to secure-park a military aircraft of that size. [22364/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence If Haulbowline Naval Base has the capability to dock a military naval ship of 609 m in length; and, if not, the funding required in order to be able to securely dock a military naval ship of that size. [22365/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the breakdown of personnel, by rank, for the Naval Service and Air Corps in the years 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22895/24]
  • 2024-05-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence in view of the Government’s recent endorsement of the Joint Statement on Efforts to Counter the Proliferation and Misuse of Commercial Spyware, if she will now clarify whether our military intelligence services make use of commercial spyware and, if so, what oversight, transparency and redress processes are in place. [21110/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to his Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19356/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of unpublished military air accident investigation reports that exist covering the years 1990 to date in 2024. [17604/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 20 March 2024, if he will provide the contact details on file with the Air Corps for a club (details supplied) that hosted a civilian aircraft at Casement Aerodrome in September 2004 to include the officers of the club and the registered address of the club. [14290/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €100,000 and above but less that €200,000, by the amount and by each body in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [12345/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 148 of 20 February 2024, if he will provide the name of the charity event run by the Air Corps in conjunction with an aircraft (details supplied) in September 2004; the name registered charity number of the actual charity that ran the event or benefited from the event; the amount that was raised; the name of the individual organisers of the event and the liaison officer; and the reason the civilian aircraft was allowed to visit secure military aviation facilities in view of the fact that the Air Corps kept no record of the pilots or crew. [12653/24]
  • 2024-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €200,000 and above in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will provide the amount of same, body, name and year. [11010/24]
  • 2024-02-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide the reasons a civilian plane visited the Irish Air Corps headquarters at Casement Aerodrome in 2004 (details supplied); if he will also provide the origin departure airport and any stops of this aeroplane as well as the original intended destination airport in Ireland; and if he will also provide the passenger and crew list. [7714/24]
  • 2024-02-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the refurbishment works that will be carried out at both Casement Aerodrome and Haulbowline Navy Base during 2024; and the nature of these works that will be carried out at both locations, in tabular form. [7842/24]
  • 2024-02-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the plans that are in place for capital investment in defence capability in 2024. [7843/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if his Department has availed of services and or consultancy from a list of related companies (details supplied) in the past five years to date; if so, if he will provide a schedule of costs and the purpose for which the company was engaged; and if he continued to use services provided by it.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3776/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the percentage of the 2023 budget allocation for purchasing new horses for the Defence Forces equitation school that was actually spent; and if any of underspend from the 2023 budget is automatically forwarded to the 2024 budget for same. [3880/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he has considered amending the upper age limits for persons that have an ambition to become a member of the Defence Forces (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3908/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of females currently in recruit training for both Army and Naval Service as of 23 January 2024. [4084/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence to provide a schedule of the number of civilian drivers and Garda drivers attached to him and to Ministers of State of his Department; to provide the official work pattern for each driver and the total annual hours worked by each driver; and to indicate the number of drivers assigned to each Minister and Minister of State. [4215/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels he stayed in in 2023, including hotel name and cost per night while on official State business; and if the same information will be provided in respect of all accompanying staff and advisors. [2639/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments, State bodies and local authorities is in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records are provided. [3077/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or shared with other Departments and/or Ministers and/or State bodies and/or agencies and/or local authorities in the past 20 years to date; if he will clarify if the transfer of data and/or records was in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records were provided. [57206/23]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the date on which the Defence Forces updated their vehicle details in 2021, 2022 and 2023 on the National Fleet Database. [1073/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the name of external marine advisors that have been appointed to support the procurement of a muti-role vessel to replace the decommissioned LE Eithne. [1090/24]
  • 2023-12-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if the procurement process for a muti-beam sonar system for the P60 class of vessels has been completed. [54478/23]
  • 2023-12-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if the contract for the provision of a new Army Ranger Wing HQ at the Defence Forces training centre has been signed; and, if so, the number of companies that applied for this contract but were unsuccessful. [54479/23]
  • 2023-11-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to date in 2023; and separately, the top five highest late interest payments made in each of those years, and the service and goods supplier that received the payments, in tabular form. [52642/23]
  • 2023-11-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence what plans for procurement of new equipment and capabilities are in place for 2024; and if he will outline the plan for the purchase of new ships between 2024 and 2028. [50087/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will provide a schedule of same. [47642/23]
  • 2023-10-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of dentists, pharmacist, nurses and doctors in the Defence Forces medical corps; the number of those posts that are vacant; and when these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [46863/23]
  • 2023-10-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence to detail his EU counterparts he has spoken with formally to date in 2023, in tabular form. [46465/23]
  • 2023-10-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of vacancies, by rank currently in the Defence Forces School of Music; and when will each of the vacancies be filled, in tabular form. [46466/23]
  • 2023-10-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the amount spent on purchasing replacement specialist fire appliances for the Defence Forces Fire Services in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form [44841/23]
  • …and 261 more questions on Defence
• Environment 259 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44859/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of staff who worked in his Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41160/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by his Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41178/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has conducted a capacity review of his Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under his Department’s aegis; if he published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under his aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40836/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by his Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on his Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40212/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he, his special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39131/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to him, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38361/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update in respect of the investigation by Inland Fisheries Ireland regarding a loss of farmed salmon stock into Killary Harbour; and if he has been updated in respect of the damage that may have been caused to wild stock. [36355/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of WTE geologists and principal geologists for his Department in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [30046/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by his Department from EU sources in respect of covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details). [30221/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the capital works projects under the remit of his Department that received EU funding in 2023 and to date in 2024; and the amount of EU funding that was received for each of the capital work projects in the years in question, in tabular form. [29386/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when he is next scheduled to meet formally with the CEO of An Post. [28087/24]
  • 2024-06-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the loans charged by investors to National Broadband Ireland and their associated companies were obliged under the contract to go to market for services and procure services are in line with best practices competitive bids for products and services; if his Department allowed or facilitated the investors taking above market interest rates for loans to NBI/its associated companies; and if this is allowed under the contract. [27765/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the proposed investment for the national grid to support delivery on our renewable energy targets by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24618/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25473/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of take-back exemptions, by category type, that have been granted in the context of the deposit return scheme. [22715/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the 2023 and 2024 budget allocation for his Department's anti-litter and anti-graffiti awareness grant scheme; and the percentage of the 2023 funding that was actually spent. [22890/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to his Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19359/24]
  • 2024-04-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount granted to each local authority in respect of anti-littering, clean-up and recycling initiatives in the past five years to date, in tabular form. [18501/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the date on which IFI undertook a study of sea trout and salmon stocks that use the river systems of the Dargle, Vartry and Avoca; the plans that IFI has to replenish stocks and or provide conservation for stocks; and if he will outline any concerns IFI has in respect of stocks of those species in the named river systems. [12146/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €100,000 and above but less that €200,000, by the amount and by each body in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [12348/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has been consulted by and or if he has engaged with the CRU in respect of the establishment of a second annual application window for renewable energy projects to connect to the electricity grid; if his attention has been drawn to a petition in respect of same and his views on same. [12840/24]
  • 2024-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €200,000 and above in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will provide the amount of same, body, name and year. [11013/24]
  • 2024-02-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his attention has been drawn to instances of lithium exploration in County Wicklow; the way in which permission is obtained to prospect in this jurisdiction; if he will provide a schedule of the number of licences, to include the location for which he has granted permission to companies and-or individuals to prospect drill here and to include substances being searched for, in each of the years 2020 to date in 2024. [9299/24]
  • 2024-02-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications for an update on the legislative programme within his Department. [7845/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his Department has availed of services and or consultancy from a list of related companies (details supplied) in the past five years to date; if so, if he will provide a schedule of costs and the purpose for which the company was engaged; and if he continued to use services provided by it. [3779/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a schedule of the number of civilian drivers and Garda drivers attached to him and to Ministers of State of his Department; to provide the official work pattern for each driver and the total annual hours worked by each driver; and to indicate the number of drivers assigned to each Minister and Minister of State. [4218/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels he stayed in in 2023, including hotel name and cost per night while on official State business; and if the same information will be provided in respect of all accompanying staff and advisors. [2642/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments, State bodies and local authorities is in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records are provided. [3080/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and-or shared with other Departments and-or Ministers and-or State bodies and-or agencies and-or local authorities in the past 20 years to date; if he will clarify if the transfer of data and-or records was in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and-or records were provided. [57209/23]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if all sections of all Acts under the remit of his Department in the past three years have been commenced; and the number of sections that are outstanding. [1077/24]
  • 2023-12-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the estimated cost of doubling the funding available for heating control grants. [54464/23]
  • 2023-11-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to date in 2023; and separately, the top five highest late interest payments made in each of those years, and the service and goods supplier that received the payments, in tabular form. [52645/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of statements of interests for the purposes of Section 19 that have been filed by his special advisors in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will provide a schedule of same. [47645/23]
  • 2023-10-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications in the context of the Local Government Reform Act 2014, if he will provide a schedule of functions of his Department that have been devolved in full or in part, or are in the process of being devolved in full or in part; the date on which the devolutions commenced; and if he will indicate whether any function was returned to the Department subsequently. [46581/23]
  • 2023-10-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a schedule of lands and buildings his Department and bodies under his aegis acquired by using a compulsory purchase order in the past 20 years to date; and the amount expended on same. [44549/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the National Cyber Security Centre has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within the NCSC; if any section of the NCSC currently makes use of A.I.; if he can outline the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if NCSC has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of A.I. [41116/23]
  • 2023-09-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within his Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of A.I., and if he will outline the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if he has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of A.I. [38565/23]
  • 2023-09-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount carried over by his Department's allocation in each of the years 2020 to 2022, inclusive, in tabular form. [38950/23]
  • 2023-07-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for his Department’s websites expired for a period of time; if so, the reason this occurred; and the duration they remained expired. [33271/23]
  • 2023-07-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of instances in which his Department used unlicensed software and/or lapsed licenced software in the past ten years to date; the associated expenditure on same to remedy the situation; and the software that was being used. [33154/23]
  • 2023-07-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that his Department can provide to an association (details supplied), heading under which the grants, grant-aid, low cost borrowing and funding is provided; the maximum amount that can be accessed ; and the dates on which the schemes operate. [32276/23]
  • 2023-07-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the whole-time equivalent staff, by job title, working in the geological survey division of his Department as of 28 June 2023, in tabular form. [32685/23]
  • 2023-06-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will clarify the position in respect of NewEra’s role in pension increases for An Post staff; if NewEra has advised that the increase be granted; and if he has been contacted by An Post management regarding this issue (details supplied). [31373/23]
  • 2023-06-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will clarify his role in respect of pension increases for An Post staff; if he has received advise that the increase be granted; and if he has been contacted by An Post management regarding this issue (details supplied). [31374/23]
  • 2023-06-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of staff seconded to his Department from a company (details supplied) in the past ten years to date; the title and/or role they filled; and the duration of same. [28176/23]
  • 2023-06-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of instances in which his Department availed of services and or consultancy and or advices from a company (details supplied) in the past ten years to date; the costs of same; the number of contracts between the company and his Department; and the duration and costs of same. [28195/23]
  • 2023-05-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the names of external cleaning companies that have provided cleaning services to his Department in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the amount paid to each company for such works, in tabular form. [23405/23]
  • 2023-05-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a schedule of the amount of funds, beneficiary of funds and use of funds released by his Department under the per cent for art scheme in each of the past five years to date in 2023, in tabular form. [23575/23]
  • 2023-05-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will clarify the way in which persons outside of the NBP intervention areas can access broadband provided by NBI and-or others in instances in which a service provider was built into their new development resulting in a monopoly-type situation; and if ComReg can investigate this situation. [21866/23]
  • …and 209 more questions on Environment
• Enterprise 251 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of contracts (details supplied) had with his Department in 2023 and to-date in 2024; the nature of services this company provided to his Department; and the amount his Department paid this company for same in each of the years in question. [44844/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44858/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether his Department conceived the proposal to commission the delivery of a children’s museum/interactive science centre; and whether the now dissolved Forfás advised his Department on the ambition to deliver a children’s museum/interactive science centre (details supplied). [42694/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff that worked in his Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41159/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by his Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41177/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has conducted a capacity review of his Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under his Department’s aegis; if he published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under his aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40835/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a breakdown of listed IDA client companies and IDA backed companies with operations in County Kildare in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [39704/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a breakdown of listed IDA client companies and IDA backed companies with operations in County Wicklow in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [39705/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount expended by IDA Ireland on external legal fees associated with freedom of information cases in each of 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and to date in 2024, in tabular form, to include service provider name (details supplied). [39967/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will clarify whether travel expenses are provided for in the Payment Of Wages Act 1991. [40162/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by his Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on his Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40211/24]
  • 2024-10-03 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of full and partial periodic reviews of the memorandum of understanding, MOU, between An Garda Síochána and the Corporate Enforcement Authority that have take place since it was signed; the number of issues that have emerged, and the nature of same; if he has engaged with the leadership teams of both State bodies in respect of the MOU since it was signed; and if either party has requested and-or suggested amendments to the MOU. [39476/24]
  • 2024-10-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount expended by the IDA and Enterprise Ireland on external communications advice or training for its senior leadership team in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the external companies engaged; and the topics or issues that the training or advices related to, in tabular form. [39325/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he, his special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39130/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to him, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38360/24]
  • 2024-09-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he or Enterprise Ireland have taken to safeguard the future of a State entity (details supplied); the amount expended to date on resolving issues that have arisen, including problems with non-compliance, and the expected overall cost to rectify; and the actions that have been undertaken to establish who bears responsibility for the problems that have occurred. [37212/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated cost of increasing funding for the digital start initiative to deliver funding to the value of five days of consultancy for firms instead of four days. [36827/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has used an agency (details supplied) to carry out any works on behalf of his Department in 2023 and to date in 2024; if so, the nature of works carried out; and the amount his Department paid this company for the works. [36828/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated full-year cost if the budget for the digital start initiative increased by 50%. [36829/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the capital and current funding allocated to the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [31597/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacant WTE staff by job title at the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission as of 3 July 2024; the estimated full year cost of filling each of the vacancies; and the timeframe for which these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [30053/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by his Department from EU sources in respect of covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30220/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, given the skills shortage in areas such as construction, healthcare, teaching, farming, and caring, there are plans to progress a skills audit of people in the international protection system, with a view to harmonising skills and qualifications here; how much this would cost in the first year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24626/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25472/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Turkish companies IDA Ireland has engaged with in relation to setting up within the State in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [25534/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the date on which the ERO for the security industry will commence. [22742/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way in which the €15 million allocated to his Department under the 2023 EU Brexit Adjustment Fund was spent; and if he will provide headings and sub-headings and amounts associated with same. [18898/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to his Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19358/24]
  • 2024-04-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of site visits hosted by the IDA in County Kildare in 2023 and for the first two months of 2024. [15560/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 6 March 2024, whether the beneficiary of the end of service payment has been engaged by Enterprise Ireland or any other State body on a consultancy basis. [12326/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €100,000 and above but less that €200,000, by the amount and by each body in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [12347/24]
  • 2024-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €200,000 and above in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will provide the amount of same, body, name and year. [11012/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has availed of services and or consultancy from a list of related companies (details supplied) in the past five years to date; if so, if he will provide a schedule of costs and the purpose for which the company was engaged; and if he continued to use services provided by it. [3778/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a schedule of the number of civilian drivers and Garda drivers attached to him and to Ministers of State of his Department; to provide the official work pattern for each driver and the total annual hours worked by each driver; and to indicate the number of drivers assigned to each Minister and Minister of State. [4217/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels he stayed in in 2023, including hotel name and cost per night while on official State business; and if the same information will be provided in respect of all accompanying staff and advisers. [2641/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments, State bodies and local authorities is in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records are provided. [3079/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or shared with other Departments and/or Ministers and/or State bodies and/or agencies and/or local authorities in the past 20 years to date; if he will clarify if the transfer of data and/or records was in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records were provided. [57208/23]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the estimated full-year cost to recruit one additional WTE overseas manager and one extra WTE senior market adviser for Enterprise Ireland; and the Civil Service grades these posts are normally filled by. [1085/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the next EU Council of Trade Ministers meeting is scheduled to take place. [1358/24]
  • 2023-12-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the posts of director general and adjudication officer (at assistant principal officer-level) have been filled in the Workplace Relations Commission; and if not, when he expects both posts to be filled. [54474/23]
  • 2023-11-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to date in 2023; and separately, the top five highest late interest payments made in each of those years, and the service and goods supplier that received the payments, in tabular form. [52644/23]
  • 2023-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if IDA Ireland plans to open an office in Italy. [50941/23]
  • 2023-11-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacant full-time staff, by grade, currently in the Workplace Relations Commission and the Labour Court; the estimated full-year cost of filling each of these vacancies; and when each of these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [50077/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020, 2021 and 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will provide a schedule of same. [47644/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of complaints he has filed to the Corporate Enforcement Agency, CEA, since the establishment of the CEA and-or An Garda Síochána in the past ten years to date in respect of grants and-or funds his Department provided that in his view were misappropriated. [48073/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he and-or the IDA has engaged with a company (details supplied) in respect of reports that the company will file for bankruptcy in the United States and the impact of that in Ireland in respect of its operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48541/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he met with the CEO of a company (details supplied) during his recent visit to South Korea. [48759/23]
  • 2023-10-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the up-to-date position regarding the free trade agreement between the EU and Australia. [46481/23]
  • 2023-10-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if IDA Ireland has a presence in South Korea. [46482/23]
  • 2023-10-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the up-to-date position regarding the free trade agreement between the EU and India. [46483/23]
  • …and 201 more questions on Enterprise
• Communications 235 questions

  • 2020-07-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in his Department appointed and or recruited and or in an acting capacity; the roles and responsibilities attributed to each; and the salary scale for the role in tabular form. [20614/20]
  • 2020-07-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated full-year cost of providing 785 extra electric car charging points nationally. [18456/20]
  • 2020-07-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of advisers and special advisers appointed by him since becoming Minister; the starting annual salary of each person appointed by him; if an open interview process was conducted for each appointee; the duration and terms of each contract issued to each adviser and special adviser; and if an advisory role has been split to facilitate job sharing, in tabular form. [16558/20]
  • 2020-06-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown of the distribution by local enterprise office, LEO, of the way in which the additional online trading voucher funding was distributed: if his attention has been drawn to the fact the additional funding does not meet the demand in some LEOs; his plans to bolster the fund for 2021 and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11711/20]
  • 2020-06-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by his Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was introduced to date by year and cost in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9978/20]
  • 2020-06-03 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to local authorities that are oversubscribed and-or have exhausted grants regarding the €2,500 trading online voucher (details supplied); if he will release further funding to local enterprise offices; if local enterprise offices have requested further funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9010/20]
  • 2020-06-03 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will issue local enterprise offices with an additional and increased allocation of trading online vouchers in view of the fact that there is a significant demand for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9043/20]
  • 2020-05-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount expended on access to online and hard copy media publications in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the breakdown of online and hard copy subscriptions including the publications that his Department subscribes to; if consideration has been given to using a banded set of IP addresses for online subscriptions rather than individual accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4002/20]
  • 2020-05-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the top ten websites visited by officials and political staff annually in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020 via hardware provided to them by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4018/20]
  • 2020-05-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of protected disclosures his Department has received since the legislation was introduced; the number of protected disclosures examined to conclusion by year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5300/20]
  • 2020-03-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which persons and-or not for profit organisations can sell solar energy into the national grid that is surplus to their own requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2962/20]
  • 2020-03-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the budget allocation for the national cyber security centre in each of the years 2018 to 2020; and the number of staff in the centre as of 28 February 2020. [3192/20]
  • 2019-12-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the provision of technical advisory services in support of the national broadband plan was not part of the original tender process and a condition of contract award to have technical advisory services in place (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52816/19]
  • 2019-12-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 506 of 10 December 2019, the breakdown of the value of each contract awarded to a company to include the projects and tasks undertaken in the lifetime of the awarded contracts; if a year by year approach will be taken; the measures the company delivered under the contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53057/19]
  • 2019-12-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 485 of 3 December 2019, if he will provide a full and detailed breakdown of fees paid to a company (details supplied); the number of projects and or assignments the company was engaged on during the entire NBP process; if he will also provide a detailed schedule of the achievements by the company in respect of the €4 million fee in the table provided in the reply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51379/19]
  • 2019-12-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a company (details supplied) underwent a process of due diligence for its inclusion in the NBP consortium; the date on which the due diligence commenced; when it was concluded; the areas of concern regarding the company that arose; the way in which they were addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50459/19]
  • 2019-12-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a service level agreement exists between his Department and the NBP contract winner; if so, the details of the agreement; if he can apply financial sanctions if the agreement is breached; the way in which progress in relation to the NBP will be tracked; if milestones and or targets have been set in the contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50460/19]
  • 2019-12-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date on which a company (details supplied) was inserted into the consortium that was awarded the contract in respect of the NBP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50504/19]
  • 2019-12-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a company (details supplied) was subject to the pre-qualifying process and other rigours in order to join in the consortium of the preferred bidder for the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50533/19]
  • 2019-12-03 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he and or his officials attended a function at a location in the past ten days (details supplied); if so, if he will provide a schedule of costs regarding this function; the reason for the function to be held; the persons that attended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49805/19]
  • 2019-12-03 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a full historical schedule of fees paid to a company (details supplied) will be provided by the number of projects and or assignments the company was engaged on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49947/19]
  • 2019-11-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of agency staff hired and-or engaged by his Department in the past five years to date; the cost per year of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49292/19]
  • 2019-11-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding his Department is providing in respect of the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48596/19]
  • 2019-11-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a marked signed copy of the contract and associated documents he signed with the preferred bidder of the national broadband plan will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48806/19]
  • 2019-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide time for a special debate in Dáil Éireann in advance of signing contracts in respect of the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48313/19]
  • 2019-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to contact and or follow-up the groups that made submissions to the mapping consultation that closed on 30 September 2019 in the context of the NBP and intervention areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48428/19]
  • 2019-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will address a matter regarding state aid (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48436/19]
  • 2019-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the material changes to the intervention area since the mapping exercise commenced; the number of premises added to the intervention area; the number of premises removed from the intervention area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48437/19]
  • 2019-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the breakdown of premises removed from the intervention area by operator type, that is, fixed line, cable, mobile, fixed wireless and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48438/19]
  • 2019-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there has been a minimum number of premises for the project discussed and or set between his Department and a company (details supplied); if so, the figure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48439/19]
  • 2019-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to sign-off on the national broadband contract plan ahead of the current mapping exercise being completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48440/19]
  • 2019-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the NBP will be set as a fixed-cost project; if it is future-proofed to account for inflation, overruns and or unforeseen obstacles and or costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48441/19]
  • 2019-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the price differential regarding the national broadband plan price per household here versus a project (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to a company bidding for the project; if the involvement of the company will impede the delivery of broadband here in view of it being the preferred bidder here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45902/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount required in each of the years 2019 to 2028, and from 2029 to 2043, under the headings of projected subsidy, conditional subsidy and contingent subsidy encroachment in the context of the level of funding required for the National Development Plan 2018-2027 and the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44239/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied that he and-or his officials provided the Oireachtas Committee of Public Accounts and the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment with the most up-to-date information and mapping information in respect of recent committee hearings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44245/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the rationale for the approach taken in the context of the market survey update consultation regarding the national broadband plan mapping exercise; if his attention was drawn to the difficulties obtaining mapping and future plans by smaller Internet service providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44246/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has undertaken the process of due diligence in respect of a person (details supplied) and their former businesses and-or enterprises in the context of the national broadband plan; if concerns were raised during this process; if so, the way in which he and-or his officials dealt with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44247/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to reconsider, including the Shannon liquid natural gas terminal on the EU project of common interest list; the analysis made in the context of the proposed inclusion; if he sought external advice on the matter; if so, if he will provide the advice; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44329/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has funded or if funds relating to national broadband plan funding have been directed towards a company (details supplied) in 2019; his plans for same in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44413/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has funded or if funds relating to the national broadband plan have been directed towards a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44431/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to award an initial percentage of national broadband plan funds to a company (details supplied) via another company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44453/19]
  • 2019-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has recruited by grade in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of full-time and part-time civil servants his Department has lost due to retirement by grade in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41813/19]
  • 2019-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of responses received to the NBP mapping consultation; the number of responses that were brought to the attention and-or notified to the European Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41913/19]
  • 2019-09-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of civil servants who have left and or retired from his Department in the past ten years who were bound by a cooling-off period in respect of taking up new employment in the private sector by grade, year and sector the staff moved on to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38147/19]
  • 2019-09-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of civil servants who have left and or retired from his Department in the past ten years who were not bound by a cooling-off period in respect of taking up new employment in the private sector by grade, year, and sector the staff moved on to; the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38163/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the historical application costs per application for the now closed deep retrofit scheme; the sum collected in application costs for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35563/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications received for the deep retrofit scheme since the pilot commenced to the date on which the scheme closed; the number approved; the number refused; the number pending on the closing date for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35564/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount expended on hosting meetings, entertainment and related services associated with the national broadband plan in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019, by amount, service provider and services engaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35116/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 2280 of 23 July 2019, if he will provide a schedule of the more than 300 meetings to date between the national broadband plan procurement team and representatives of the preferred bidder since the competitive dialogue commenced in July 2016 that were attended by and-or representatives of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35122/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount expended on the renewal of licences (details supplied) by his Department since 2009 to date in 2019; the amount projected to be spent on the renewal of such licences by his Department over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35336/19]
  • …and 185 more questions on Communications
• Employment 233 questions

  • 2020-07-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in her Department appointed and or recruited and or in an acting capacity; the roles and responsibilities attributed to each; and the salary scale for the role in tabular form. [20618/20]
  • 2020-07-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of officials by grade from her Department that are located at entry and or exit ports and airports here; the number and value of sanctions imposed by her Department on persons in receipt of a social protection payment for leaving the State without informing her Department; the number of these that were upheld and the value of same on appeal; if she will provide a schedule of the types of payments that are subject to sanctions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20906/20]
  • 2020-07-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which, and-or the method that will be used, to calculate earnings in order to apply the pandemic unemployment payment to persons in view of the change in rates and tiers to the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19338/20]
  • 2020-07-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of redundancies her Department has been notified of in each month to date in 2020; the number notified in each month of 2019; the number of companies involved; the sectors impacted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18131/20]
  • 2020-07-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she was notified of redundancies at a company (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the company is making fifteen of its sixteen employees redundant due to manufacturing being moved to Latvia; the obligations required to be satisfied by the company in advance of redundancy payments to the staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16538/20]
  • 2020-07-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of advisers and special advisers appointed by her since becoming Minister; the starting annual salary of each person appointed by her; if an open interview process was conducted for each appointee; the duration and terms of each contract issued to each adviser and special adviser; and if an advisory role has been split to facilitate job sharing in tabular form. [16562/20]
  • 2020-07-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of companies that have notified her Department of redundancies since March 2020; the number of redundancies arising from those notifications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16750/20]
  • 2020-07-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of her appeal in the Circuit Court regarding directions issued to her by the Data Protection Commissioner; the costs incurred to date in the case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16330/20]
  • 2020-07-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the SAFE scheme and public services card and the invitation of tenders (details supplied); if she plans to develop use of the card throughout the public sector by multiple agencies; the names of the agencies and public sector bodies that she will give utilisation of the card to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16331/20]
  • 2020-07-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has engaged with the Data Protection Commissioner regarding her investigation of the biometric element of the public services card; if she is disputing and-or contesting aspects of the investigation; if she has engaged legal and-or consultancy firms to assist her in this regard; if so, the costs of same and names of the firms engaged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16332/20]
  • 2020-07-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has engaged with and-or notified the Data Protection Commissioner regarding the invitation for tenders (details supplied) relating to the public services card; if the Commissioner has requested that she defer a tender invitation relating to the public services card and-or SAFE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16333/20]
  • 2020-07-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a respite payment will be made to a person (details supplied); if the amount will be paid in full; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14949/20]
  • 2020-06-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has been notified of the possible loss of jobs at an airline (details supplied); the engagement she has had with the airline; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13173/20]
  • 2020-06-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the electricity or gas allowance from €35 per month to €42 per month under the household benefits package. [13142/20]
  • 2020-06-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by her Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was introduced to date by year and cost in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9982/20]
  • 2020-05-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the changes she plans to make to the Covid-19 payment; if she is considering changes for those returning to work following maternity leave; if she is considering changes for those that have underlying health conditions in which their workplace is open; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7396/20]
  • 2020-05-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of flexibility regarding the Covid-19 payment of €350; if small business owners, sole traders or both who are in receipt of the payment can still avail of some sort of financial assistance as they return to work or attempt to gain work on a phase by phase basis in harmony with the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6503/20]
  • 2020-05-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount expended on access to online and hard copy media publications in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the breakdown of online and hard copy subscriptions including the publications that her Department subscribes to; if consideration has been given to using a banded set of IP addresses for online subscriptions rather than individual accounts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4006/20]
  • 2020-05-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the top ten websites visited by officials and political staff annually in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020 via hardware provided to them by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4022/20]
  • 2020-05-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of protected disclosures her Department has received since the legislation was introduced; the number of protected disclosures examined to conclusion by year in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5304/20]
  • 2020-03-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans in respect of the stillbirth register and stillbirth certification to be replaced with a birth certificate and death certificate in order that stillborn babies can receive State records of their existence in the same way as others; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2743/20]
  • 2020-03-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actions she has taken to comply with the Data Protection Commissioner regarding public services cards in view of the fact that the commissioner has lodged an enforcement notice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2701/20]
  • 2020-03-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 681 of 17 December 2019, if any of the 31 suspect cases that have been concluded with no issues with regard to identity have led to litigation and or legal proceedings in view of the fact no fraud was detected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2703/20]
  • 2020-03-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2746/20]
  • 2020-03-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to establish a stakeholder forum on the State pension age and reform of same in the coming months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2961/20]
  • 2019-12-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown by location of the 220 suspected cases of fraud that were detected by use of facial matching technology since 2013; the sanctions imposed on persons suspected of fraud during this period; the number of cases of suspected fraud referred to An Garda Síochána during the period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52712/19]
  • 2019-12-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the specification of the facial matching technology her Department uses to detect potential fraud; the make and or brand and model of the camera used; the name of the software used in conjunction with the cameras; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52736/19]
  • 2019-12-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the basis on which her Department allows a company (details supplied) to make a demand for a passport and-or a driver licence issued here as a method of verifying the identity of a person; if she has consulted with the company in respect of the way in which and-or the location it stores customer identification; if she has consulted with the company on the way in which it shares the information it collects from persons with third parties; if she has met with the owners and directors of the company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50840/19]
  • 2019-11-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of agency staff hired and-or engaged by her Department in the past five years to date; the cost per year of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49296/19]
  • 2019-11-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which private sector companies that provide CVRT tests for commercial vehicles are compliant with schedule 5 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 in respect of the public services card (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49306/19]
  • 2019-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if parents of a child must be engaged in civil partnership and-or married to avail of parent benefit (details supplied); if couples that cohabit are also entitled to parent benefit in respect of children they may have following the introduction of the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48396/19]
  • 2019-11-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the overall cost, including implementation costs, for each aspect of the public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47655/19]
  • 2019-11-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total amount, including implementation costs, to her Department and bodies under her aegis in respect of the public services card to date in 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47664/19]
  • 2019-11-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department communicated to a JobPath provider to cease using an online CV builder system that was hosted on a server unencrypted outside of the State; if the Data Protection Commission is investigating this matter; if she imposed a sanction on the service provider; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46693/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of the development and implementation of the MyGovID online system; the annual maintenance cost of same; the number of MyGov accounts created to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44494/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of offences recorded and-or investigated regarding breaches of Schedule 5 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 regarding unspecified bodies requesting a person to produce a public services card since its introduction; the number of complaints by persons to her regarding same since the card has been introduced; if she will provide a schedule of the offending bodies and or organisations that breached Schedule 5 of the Act; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44657/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons issued with a public services card before they were 18 years of age since the card was introduced; the process of issuing a card to a minor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44811/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of a process that results in a person being posted a public services card on his or her 18th birthday; the extent and geography of the way in which this occurs; the way in which it complies with consent and dealing with a minor; the way in which such persons are identified by her Department; the way in which this conforms to SAFE 2 and GDPR; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44826/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is policy to issue persons with a public services card when they reach 18 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44871/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 653 of 17 September 2019, the reason data regarding decisions made on employment and self-employment cannot be provided; the reason it is unavailable; her plans to improve record keeping in view of the fact a significant amount of important data is not being quantified; if she will consider tracking such cases by sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45027/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of personal information sharing and-or exchange between her Department and the National Screening Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45274/19]
  • 2019-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if private companies can demand and or request a public services card in order to undertake customer authentication or identification; if private companies have access to databases to verify persons to their card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43158/19]
  • 2019-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of full-time and part-time civil servants her Department has recruited by grade in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of full-time and part-time civil servants her Department has lost due to retirement by grade in the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41817/19]
  • 2019-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the review for domiciliary care for a person (details supplied) will be decided; the timeframe for deciding such reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41453/19]
  • 2019-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of medical officers dedicated to assessing medical evidence in 2017, 2018 and 2019 by scheme in tabular form; the vacancies that exist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41455/19]
  • 2019-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rate of refusal for first-time domiciliary care applicants in 2018 and to date in 2019; the level of refusals following applications for reviews in 2018 and to date in 2019; if appealed, the number of appeals upheld for the period; if there have been recent changes in approach; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41456/19]
  • 2019-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the contingency in place in the event of a crash out and-or no-deal Brexit in respect of contracts in place with a service provider engaged by her Department (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40805/19]
  • 2019-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the monthly number of public services cards issued since the programme was launched; the body which administered and-or initiated the process on behalf of the person being registered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39313/19]
  • 2019-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the progress made to implement a fully functioning homeless persons unit in counties Kildare, Wicklow and Meath; the strategic planning that has been undertaken to deal with the identified demand for such a unit; the way in which the data is being collated; the other stakeholders involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39658/19]
  • 2019-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to implement a homeless persons support unit in counties Kildare, Meath and Wicklow to cope with the increasing number of homeless persons presenting; the way in which the service will accommodate the interim support needs of this cohort; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39659/19]
  • …and 183 more questions on Employment
• Tourism 218 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of times her Department hired out an external forensic accountant to carry out works on behalf of her Department in 2023 and to-date in 2024; the company that provided the forensic accountancy service; and the amount her Department paid for this service in each of the years in question, in tabular form. [44850/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by her Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44870/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of staff that worked in her Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41171/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by her Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41189/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has conducted a capacity review of her Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under her Department’s aegis; if she published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under her aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40846/24]
  • 2024-10-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the estimated full year costs of increasing the number of schools on the Creative Schools Programme to include 50 extra schools. [40353/24]
  • 2024-10-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will implement all of the recommendations and or provide an update on her work on same (details supplied). [40475/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by her Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on her Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40223/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she, her special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39142/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to her, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38372/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media when she is next scheduled to meet the CEO of the National Concert Hall. [36825/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the estimated cost in 2025 if the budget for Culture Ireland increased by 20%. [35173/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by her Department from EU sources in respect of Covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30232/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25484/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will seek details on any strategic plans to increase tennis participation in Kildare. [22376/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the way in which the €7.75 million allocated to her Department under the 2023 EU Brexit Adjustment Fund was spent; and if she will provide headings and sub-headings and amounts associated with same. [18915/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to her Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19370/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of exit and-or severance and-or redundancy packages granted by her Department, bodies under her aegis and bodies she funds in full or in part, of €100,000 and above but less that €200,000, by the amount and by each body, in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [12359/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the percentage of her Department's capital budget allocation that has been spent in the first two months of 2024; and if she will provide the same figures for the corresponding period in 2023, in tabular form. [12792/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the costs incurred to date in respect of two external reviews into HR and governance/culture at RTÉ. [13130/24]
  • 2024-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by her Department, and bodies under her aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €200,000 and above in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if she will provide the amount of same, body, name and year. [11024/24]
  • 2024-02-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the status of her Department’s survey in respect of playing pitches and sports facilities. [6474/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her Department has availed of services and or consultancy from a list of related companies (details supplied) in the past five years to date; if so, if she will provide a schedule of costs and the purpose for which the company was engaged; and if she continued to use services provided by it. [3790/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the dates in 2023 and to date in 2024 where she or her officials met directly with persons (details supplied) , in tabular form. [3876/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the contracts that have been granted without having to go to public tender; the companies that were granted those contracts and nature of the work involved; and the qualifying criteria that was awarded to any company awarded such a contract in 2023. [4089/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide a schedule of the number of civilian drivers and Garda drivers attached to her and to Ministers of State of her Department; to provide the official work pattern for each driver and the total annual hours worked by each driver; and to indicate the number of drivers assigned to each Minister and Minister of State. [4229/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by her in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels she stayed in in 2023, including hotel name and cost per night while on official State business; and if the same information will be provided in respect of all accompanying staff and advisors. [2653/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide a schedule of the personal and/or person-specific data sets her Department holds that have been provided and/or shared with other Departments and/or Ministers and/or State bodies and/or agencies and/or local authorities in the past 20 years to date; if she will clarify if the transfer of data and/or records was in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records were provided. [57220/23]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if each of the night time economy advisors are fully accountable to her Department. [1078/24]
  • 2023-12-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of WTE vacancies currently within her Department that are normally filled by staff at the grade of administrative officer and above, as of 7 December 2023, in tabular form. [55606/23]
  • 2023-11-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will clarify her position in respect of short-term lettings of properties (details supplied). [52924/23]
  • 2023-11-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to her Department in each of the years from 2016 to date in 2023; and separately, the top five highest late interest payments made in each of those years, and the service and goods supplier that received the payments, in tabular form. [52656/23]
  • 2023-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of contracts her Department has had with a company (details supplied) in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; the services this company has provided to her Department in the years in question; and the amount her Department has paid for such services in each of those years, in tabular form. [50925/23]
  • 2023-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the funding allocated to Culture Ireland for the promotion of Irish Arts Globally in 2022 and 2023; and the budget allocated for same in 2024, in tabular form. [50926/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the date on which she was notified by her special advisor (details supplied) that she had applied for a position at the Media Commission; and her views on whether the role change represents a conflict of interest, or a perceived conflict of interest. [47625/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will clarify whether a declaration of interest and or a statement of interests for the purposes of Section 19 was filed by a special advisor (details supplied) during their recruitment to her Department and their new role in the Media Commission [47639/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of statements of interests for the purposes of Section 19 that have been filed by her special advisors in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if she will provide a schedule of same. [47656/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of complaints she has filed to the Corporate Enforcement Agency (CEA) since the establishment of the CEA and/or An Garda Síochána in the past ten years to date in respect of grants and or funds her Department provided that in her view were misappropriated. [48075/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the steps being taken by Tourism Ireland to promote tourism here during winter months. [48762/23]
  • 2023-10-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her officials conduct due diligence in advance of awarding a sports capital grant. [46836/23]
  • 2023-10-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will clarify whether the granting and use of a sports capital grant to a body (details supplied) has been reviewed by her Department. [46837/23]
  • 2023-10-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of current Fáilte Ireland board members who are directors or shareholders in companies that have received finance, grants and other supports from the State agency. [46478/23]
  • 2023-10-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in the context of the Local Government Reform Act 2014, if she will provide a schedule of functions of her Department that have been devolved in full or in part, or are in the process of being devolved in full or in part; the date on which the devolutions commenced; and if she will indicate whether any function was returned to the Department subsequently. [46589/23]
  • 2023-10-03 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if Fáilte Ireland plans to re-open a tourism information office at Dublin Airport; and the estimated costs to restore such a service. [42391/23]
  • 2023-09-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if her Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence, AI, within her Department; if any section of her Department currently makes use of AI, and if she will outline the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if she has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of AI. [38576/23]
  • 2023-09-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the amount carried over by her Department's allocation in each of the years 2020 to 2022 inclusive, in tabular form. [38949/23]
  • 2023-07-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has engaged with either the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment and/or his officials and/or with the Corporate Enforcement Agency in respect of RTÉ and/or its contractors and/or persons acting on behalf of contractors. [33238/23]
  • 2023-07-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for her Department’s websites expired for a period of time; if so, the reason this occurred; and the duration they remained expired. [33281/23]
  • 2023-07-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of instances in which her Department used unlicensed software and/or lapsed licenced software in the past ten years to date; the associated expenditure on same to remedy the situation; and the software that was used. [33165/23]
  • 2023-07-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that her Department can provide to an association (details supplied), heading under which the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding is provided; the maximum amount that can be accessed; and the dates on which the schemes operate. [32287/23]
  • …and 168 more questions on Tourism
• Rural 184 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the projects that were funded under the town and village renewal scheme in County Kildare in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [44838/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by her Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44867/24]
  • 2024-10-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update in respect of the development of a national funding platform; if she has engaged external consultants in respect of same and the amount expended to date; if she will clarify the role of the Department in the project; if she will provide a schedule of the stakeholders she has engaged with on the project to date; and the date on which the project will go live. [43477/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the budget allocation for the senior alert scheme in 2023 and 2024; the budget allocation for same in 2025, in tabular form. [43128/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of staff that worked in her Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41168/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by her Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41186/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has conducted a capacity review of her Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under her Department’s aegis; if she published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under her aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40844/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the cumulative funding provided under the connected hubs scheme for County Wicklow in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [39703/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by her Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on her Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40220/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she, her special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39139/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to her, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38369/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number and details of funding drawn down for projects awarded under the outdoor recreation and infrastructure scheme for the past three years in County Kildare, in tabular form. [31588/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by her Department from EU sources in respect of covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30229/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she last met formally with the Charities Regulator; and when they are next scheduled to meet. [25108/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25481/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of grants she can award directly to community groups, by heading and amount available. [21651/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of grants she can award directly to local authorities for distribution to community groups, by heading and amount available. [21652/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to her Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19367/24]
  • 2024-04-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is an education and or advice scheme that focuses on good corporate governance that volunteer organisations can avail of. [16562/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by her Department, and bodies under her aegis and of bodies she funds in full or in part, of €100,000 and above but less that €200,000, by the amount and by each body in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [12356/24]
  • 2024-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by her Department, and bodies under her aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €200,000 and above in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if she will provide the amount of same, body, name and year. [11021/24]
  • 2024-02-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will outline any plans to develop a successor strategy for the community and voluntary sector, given the expiration of the sustainable, inclusive and empowered communities strategy this year; if she will outline plans in respect of consultation with the sector in the development of the next iteration of this strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8391/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has availed of services and-or consultancy from a list of related companies (details supplied) in the past five years to date; if so, if she will provide a schedule of costs and the purpose for which the company was engaged; and if she continued to use services provided by it. [3787/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide a schedule of the number of civilian drivers and Garda drivers attached to her and to Ministers of State of her Department; to provide the official work pattern for each driver and the total annual hours worked by each driver; and to indicate the number of drivers assigned to each Minister and Minister of State. [4226/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by her in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels she stayed in in 2023, including hotel name and cost per night while on official State business; and if the same information will be provided in respect of all accompanying staff and advisors. [2650/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from her Department that is transferred to other departments, State bodies and local authorities is in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records are provided. [3088/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets her Department holds that have been provided and/or shared with other Departments and/or Ministers and/or State bodies and/or agencies and/or local authorities in the past 20 years to date; if she will clarify if the transfer of data and/or records was in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records were provided. [57217/23]
  • 2023-12-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the percentage of her Department's capital budget allocation that was spent in the first 11 months of 2023; and the figures for the corresponding period in 2022, in tabular form. [54485/23]
  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will set out the supports and grant aid her Department can provide in respect of establishing and-or reinstating market spaces in counties that do not have a town with city status. [53192/23]
  • 2023-11-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to her Department in each of the years from 2016 to date in 2023; and separately, the top five highest late interest payments made in each of those years, and the service and goods supplier that received the payments, in tabular form. [52653/23]
  • 2023-11-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding that her Department can provide for the development and up-keep of public allotment spaces, and the way in which that funding can be accessed; if she plays any role in assisting groups in obtaining suitable plots for allotments and, if not, if she can indicate persons or public bodies that can provide assistance. [50459/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of statements of interests for the purposes of Section 19 that have been filed by her special advisors in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if she will provide a schedule of same. [47653/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of complaints she has filed to the Corporate Enforcement Agency (CEA) since the establishment of the CEA and or An Garda Síochána in the past ten years to date in respect of grants and or funds her Department provided that in her view were misappropriated. [48074/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the percentage of her 2023 capital budget allocation that has been spent in the first nine months of the year. [48760/23]
  • 2023-10-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development in the context of the Local Government Reform Act 2014, if she will provide a schedule of functions of her Department that have been devolved in full or in part, or are in the process of being devolved in full or in part; the date on which the devolutions commenced; and if she will indicate whether any function was returned to the Department subsequently. [46587/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the date on which the schedule of the restricted and specifically banned dog breeds was updated; if she has added the Presa Canario; if not, if she will outline the reason for same; if she has given consideration to adding and/or evaluating the need to add the American bully XL as a prescribed ban-dog to the schedule or restricted and or banned breeds; and if she will provide a schedule of the number of dogs that are exempt of The Control of Dogs Regulations, by breed and organisation that is responsible for the dogs. [41122/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the date on which her officials last engaged with their counterparts in Northern Ireland in respect of developing an all-island schedule of the restricted dog breeds. [41123/23]
  • 2023-09-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of applications received by municipal districts in Wicklow County Council’s local authorities under the 2023 allocation; if she will provide a breakdown, by the library branch that was allocated funding and amount, in the local authority under the libraries capital programme in 2023; if she will provide a schedule of the proposals received for a small-scale capital works programme in public libraries to date in 2023 under the new libraries capital programme by each municipal district in County Wicklow and/or by Wicklow County Council, by amount; and to provide an outline of the proposed project. [40102/23]
  • 2023-09-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development how much of the budget allocated towards the community centres investment fund has been spent to date. [40117/23]
  • 2023-09-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence, AI, within her Department; if any section of her Department currently makes use of AI, and if she will outline the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if she has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of AI. [38573/23]
  • 2023-07-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of WTE senior case managers at the grade of higher executive officer employed in the Charities Regulator in 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [33779/23]
  • 2023-07-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for her Department’s websites expired for a period of time; if so, the reason this occurred; and the duration they remained expired. [33279/23]
  • 2023-07-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of instances in which her Department used unlicensed software and/or lapsed licenced software in the past ten years to date; the associated expenditure on same to remedy the situation; and the software that was used. [33162/23]
  • 2023-07-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that her Department can provide to an association (details supplied); heading under which the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding is provided; the maximum amount that can be accessed; and the dates on which the schemes operate. [32284/23]
  • 2023-07-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will introduce an annual men’s shed sustainability grant system. [32602/23]
  • 2023-07-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will provide resources and or a grant in order for an organisation (details supplied) to develop a role for a national organiser. [32603/23]
  • 2023-06-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of staff seconded to her Department from a company (details supplied) in the past ten years to date; the title and/or role they filled; and the duration of same. [28184/23]
  • 2023-06-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of instances in which her Department availed of services and or consultancy and or advices from a company (details supplied) in the past ten years to date; the costs of same; the number of contracts between the company and her Department; and the duration and costs of same. [28203/23]
  • 2023-05-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the names of external cleaning companies that have provided cleaning services to her Department in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the amount paid to each company for such works, in tabular form. [23413/23]
  • 2023-05-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of the amount of funds, beneficiary of funds and use of funds released by her Department under the per cent for art scheme in each of the past five years to date in 2023, in tabular form. [23588/23]
  • …and 134 more questions on Rural
• Taoiseach 176 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44869/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he has conducted a capacity review of his Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under his Department’s aegis; if he published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews, and same for State bodies and agencies under his aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40848/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the number of staff that worked in his Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41170/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by his Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41188/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by his Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on his Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40222/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to him, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38519/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he, his special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39141/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by his Department from EU sources in respect of covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30231/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25483/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to his Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19369/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department and bodies under his aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €100,000 and above but less that €200,000, by the amount and by each body in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [12358/24]
  • 2024-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €200,000 and above in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will provide the amount of same, body, name and year. [11023/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if his Department has availed of services and or consultancy from a list of related companies (details supplied) in the past five years to date; if so, if he will provide a schedule of costs and the purpose for which the company was engaged; and if he continued to use services provided by it. [3789/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of costs incurred by his Department in respect of his travel episode to Miami in September 2023 in an itemised manner; if he will also provide a schedule of same in respect of his accompanying officials and advisors in an itemised manner (details supplied). [4059/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach to provide a schedule of the number of civilian drivers and Garda drivers attached to him and to Ministers of State of his Department; to provide the official work pattern for each driver and the total annual hours worked by each driver; and to indicate the number of drivers assigned to each Minister and Minister of State. [4228/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels he stayed in in 2023, including hotel name and cost per night while on official State business; and if the same information will be provided in respect of all accompanying staff and advisors. [2652/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or shared with other Departments and/or Ministers and/or State bodies and/or agencies and/or local authorities in the past 20 years to date; if he will clarify if the transfer of data and/or records was in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records were provided. [57219/23]
  • 2023-11-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to date in 2023; and separately, the top five highest late interest payments made in each of those years, and the service and goods supplier that received the payments, in tabular form. [52655/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the number of statements of interests for the purposes of section 19 filed by his special advisers in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will provide a schedule of same. [47655/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will clarify a matter (details supplied). [40957/23]
  • 2023-09-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) within his Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of A.I., and if he will outline the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if he has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of A.I. [38575/23]
  • 2023-07-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach to clarify whether at any point over the past ten years the SSL certificates for his Department’s websites expired for a period of time; if so, the reason this occurred; and the duration they remained expired. [33283/23]
  • 2023-07-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the number of instances in which his Department used unlicensed software and/or lapsed licenced software in the past ten years to date; the associated expenditure on same to remedy the situation; and the software that was used. [33164/23]
  • 2023-07-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding that his Department can provide to an association (details supplied), heading under which the grants, grant-aid, low-cost borrowing and funding is provided; the maximum amount that can be accessed; and the dates on which the schemes operate. [32286/23]
  • 2023-06-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the number of staff seconded to his Department from a company (details supplied) in the past ten years to date; the title and/or role they filled; and the duration of same. [28186/23]
  • 2023-06-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the number of instances in which his Department availed of services and or consultancy and or advices from a company (details supplied) in the past ten years to date; the costs of same; the number of contracts between the company and his Department; and the duration and costs of same. [28205/23]
  • 2023-05-31 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the amounts paid to independent experts by a commission (details supplied) from since it was formed to date, including the amount by year and expert name. [26617/23]
  • 2023-05-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the work of the policing reform implementation programme office in his Department. [22919/23]
  • 2023-05-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the names of external cleaning companies that have provided cleaning services to his Department in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and the amount paid to each company for such works, in tabular form. [23415/23]
  • 2023-05-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the amount of funds, beneficiary of funds and use of funds released by his Department under the per cent for art scheme in each of the past five years to date in 2023, in tabular form. [23590/23]
  • 2023-05-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the amounts paid to three independent experts by a commission (details supplied) since it was formed, to date, including the amount by year and expert name. [22795/23]
  • 2023-05-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the publication of the fifteenth interim report of the IBRC Commission of Investigation. [21537/23]
  • 2023-03-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the protocols and or guidelines he has issued in respect of the use of personal social media accounts by officials in his Department; the number of sanctions imposed by his Department on its own officials in the past ten years to date in respect of social media output by its officials, verbal, written or otherwise; if social media platforms are restricted on his Department’s network; if an application (details supplied) is available to use and or download onto Departmental-issued mobile phones; and if not, if it is barred from use. [14589/23]
  • 2023-02-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide details of all special advisers employed in the office of a person (details supplied); their roles; and their annual salaries. [9707/23]
  • 2023-02-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide details of all special advisers employed in his own office in his Department; their roles; and their annual salaries. [9708/23]
  • 2023-02-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide details of all special advisers employed in the Tánaiste's office in his Department; their roles; and their annual salaries. [9709/23]
  • 2023-02-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of social media influencers and online personalities, television and or radio personalities engaged by his Department and bodies under his aegis in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if he will include the fees expended, name of personality and campaign they were engaged on; and if he will also provide the key performance indicators in respect of their engagement [9907/23]
  • 2023-02-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if, over that period, his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over its percentage shareholding; and the number of occasions that it waived the dividend. [7913/23]
  • 2022-11-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of payments made to barristers by the Chief State Solicitors Office in each of the years 2012 to 2021 and to date in 2022. [58994/22]
  • 2022-11-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if his Department and all bodies under his Department’s aegis have reviewed their estates' portfolio in the context of identifying unoccupied buildings that may be suitable for use in the context of meeting the accommodation needs of persons arriving in Ireland from Ukraine. [54225/22]
  • 2022-11-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the number and type of unused and or unoccupied buildings in his Department’s estates’ portfolio and all bodies under his Department’s aegis. [54243/22]
  • 2022-11-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the number of officials in his Department who have undertaken the Harvard Business School advanced management programme in the past ten years to date; the grade of each official; and the cost for each attendee in tabular form. [55490/22]
  • 2022-10-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the number of judicial reviews taken against his Department in the past ten years to date in 2022, in tabular form; the body and or person that initiated judicial review proceedings; the number of judicial reviews that remain open and or active; and the totality of costs incurred by his Department as a result of judicial reviews over that time period. [50767/22]
  • 2022-10-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the actions that he will take following the publication of the report of the IBRC Commission of Investigation. [49725/22]
  • 2022-10-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the number of staff by grade who are assigned on a full-time basis to liaise and provide support to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in order for that Department to fulfil its areas of responsibility in respect of providing for the needs of those seeking international protection and persons categorised by virtue of the temporary protection directive of the European Union; and if he will provide a schedule of the services that his Department provides to the Department for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in that regard. [50458/22]
  • 2022-09-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the costs for all live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by him; and the details of the person or body that is conducting each study, review and research project in tabular form. [47055/22]
  • 2022-09-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the current number of live studies, reviews and research projects undertaken or commissioned by his Department in tabular form; and the date by which each study, review and research is scheduled to be completed. [45963/22]
  • 2022-09-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the totality of grant-aid and or subsidy provided to each local authority in 2019, 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022 (details supplied). [42836/22]
  • 2022-09-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the number of persons employed in his Department that have a formal agreement to work from home one day per week, two days per week and five days per week; his Department’s policy in respect of facilitating requests by persons to work from home; and the number of persons that have made requests to work from home in 2021 and to date in 2022, that have been declined. [44588/22]
  • 2022-05-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach the annual cost of cleaning and sanitising the roofs of buildings under his Department’s control for the past five years to date in 2022. [25570/22]
  • …and 126 more questions on Taoiseach
• Further and Higher Education 171 questions

  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has engaged with the OPW in respect of the delivery of a children’s science museum in view of the fact that his Department is the record holder of files associated with the project; if he will provide copies of the files and records referenced (details supplied); and if he has or will be funding the delivery of this project. [44420/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of students enrolled in level 5 pre-nursing courses in the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 academic years, in tabular form. [44839/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44862/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of instructors employed by the City of Dublin Education and Training Board to conduct cybersecurity associate level 6 apprenticeship training, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [43131/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of staff that worked in his Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41163/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by his Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41181/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has conducted a capacity review of his Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under his Department’s aegis; if he published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under his aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40839/24]
  • 2024-10-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide a full breakdown of the way the Brexit Adjustment Fund funding allocation to his Department was spent, by project, in tabular form. [40354/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by his Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on his Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40215/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he, his special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39134/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to him, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38364/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the universities he has visited since his appointment; and the purpose of each visit, in tabular form. [31589/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by his Department from EU sources in respect of covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30219/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by his Department from EU sources in respect of covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30224/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide a full list of capital works projects currently ongoing at present valued in excess of €1 million that were funded by Higher Education Authority at each university; the nature of each of these capital works projects; and when each of these works projects will be completed, in tabular form. [28079/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the cost of increasing the student maintenance grant by €1,000 for full-time students at third level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24609/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of increasing the non-adjacent maintenance grant by €1,000 for full-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24610/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of extending a non-adjacent maintenance grant by €1,000 to part-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24611/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of increasing the adjacent maintenance grant by €1,000 for full-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24612/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost of extending an adjacent maintenance grant by €1,000 to part-time students at undergraduate and postgraduate level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24613/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number and total value of contracts his Department has had over the past 12 months with a company (details supplied). [25094/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has visited Maynooth University since his appointment as Minister; and if so, the purpose of the visit. [25095/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of apprentice plasters, bricklayers and plumbers recorded within the State in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [25096/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25476/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for an update on appointments (details supplied). [25529/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the amount provided to each education and training board, ETB, for Youthreach programmes in 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024. [22615/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of WTE staff employed by Kildare-Wicklow Education and Training Board for the teaching of the English language to persons with little or no speaking English in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [18913/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to his Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19362/24]
  • 2024-04-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science when he is next scheduled to meet the CEO of the Higher Education Authority. [15545/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €100,000 and above but less that €200,000, by the amount and by each body in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [12351/24]
  • 2024-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €200,000 and above in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will provide the amount of same, body, name and year. [11016/24]
  • 2024-02-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of hours driven by each of the civilian drivers assigned to the Minister and Ministers of State in the Department in 2023. [7489/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his Department has availed of services and-or consultancy from a list of related companies (details supplied) in the past five years to date; if so, if he will provide a schedule of costs and the purpose for which the company was engaged; and if he continued to use services provided by it. [3782/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide the total allocation under the Student Assistance Fund provided to each higher education institution for the past three academic years including 2023-2024, in tabular form. [3879/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of students enrolled in level 5 pre-nursing courses in the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic years. [4074/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the percentage of alternative education settings, including Youthreach and related schemes, that have a canteen. [4075/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide a schedule of the number of civilian drivers and Garda drivers attached to him and to Ministers of State of his Department; to provide the official work pattern for each driver and the total annual hours worked by each driver; and to indicate the number of drivers assigned to each Minister and Minister of State. [4221/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science he will provide a schedule of official flights and costs of same taken by him in 2023; if a schedule will be provided of all hotels he stayed in in 2023, including hotel name and cost per night while on official State business; and if the same information will be provided in respect of all accompanying staff and advisors. [2645/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will clarify whether the transfer of data and/or records from his Department that is transferred to other departments, State bodies and local authorities is in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records are provided. [3083/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide a schedule of the personal and or person-specific data sets his Department holds that have been provided and/or shared with other Departments and/or Ministers and/or State bodies and/or agencies and/or local authorities in the past 20 years to date; if he will clarify if the transfer of data and/or records was in aggregated form or on an individual basis; and the reason the data and/or records were provided. [57212/23]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will engage with an institute on behalf of a person (details supplied); and if he will clarify whether he and or his Department have authority in respect of persons that provide tuition in a private capacity in delivering courses and or tuition in this State on behalf of an institute that is registered in another jurisdiction. [1479/24]
  • 2023-12-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of WTE vacancies within his Department and are normally filled by staff at the grade of administrative officer and above, as of 7 December 2023, in tabular form. [55604/23]
  • 2023-11-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the amount paid in late payment interest payments for goods and services provided to his Department in each of the years from 2016 to date in 2023; and separately, the top five highest late interest payments made in each of those years, and the service and goods supplier that received the payments, in tabular form. [52648/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of statements of interests for the purposes of Section 19 that have been filed by his special advisors in 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will provide a schedule of same. [47648/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he visited Seoul National University during his recent visit to South Korea. [48755/23]
  • 2023-10-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of approved PLC places in Co Kildare in the years of 2022 and to-date in 2023 in tabular form. [46477/23]
  • 2023-10-24 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in the context of the Local Government Reform Act 2014, if he will provide a schedule of functions of his Department that have been devolved in full or in part, or are in the process of being devolved in full or in part; the date on which the devolutions commenced; and if he will indicate whether any function was returned to the Department subsequently. [46583/23]
  • 2023-10-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the current status of the Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023. [44840/23]
  • 2023-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide an update on the funding of on-campus student accommodation that was announced for Maynooth University in November 2022 (details supplied). [43713/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide an update in respect of the case of a person (details supplied). [41104/23]
  • …and 121 more questions on Further and Higher Education
• Public Expenditure 119 questions

  • 2024-11-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 219 of 18 September 2024, if he will provide a further update on the same query; and the rationale in respect of the delay in the OPW responding in full to Parliamentary Questions and freedom of information requests. [45343/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the status of the National Flood Forecasting and Warning Service; the amount expended on the development of the service to date; the schedule of the persons and entities that have contributed to its development; and the date on which it is targeted to go live for the general public to access the service. [44927/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of mobile phones issued to staff in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total costs expended by his Department on handsets and phones bills over the same timeframe. [44866/24]
  • 2024-10-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if his attention has been drawn to instances in which Departments failed to notify staff coming to the end of a career break of appropriate vacancies, extending their career breaks unnecessarily beyond five years and six years; and if he will clarify whether Departments can extend career breaks of staff beyond six years without offering supernumerary positions (details supplied). [43326/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of staff that worked in his Department’s communications and press office in each of the years 2019 to 2024; and the grade of each staff member. [41167/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the frequency and duration of the publicity, marketing or advertising campaigns conducted by his Department to date in 2024; the purpose of these campaigns; the cost of these campaigns; and the agencies that conducted these campaigns, in tabular form. [41185/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he has conducted a capacity review of his Department’s ability to deliver services that they are responsible for in the past ten years to date; the same of State bodies and agencies under his Department’s aegis; if he published those reviews; the number of recommendations implemented arising from the reviews and same for State bodies and agencies under his aegis; if the capacity review was outsourced; and if so, to whom and at what cost. [40843/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of candidates that are currently on a panel for principal officer grade within the Civil Service from the most recent principal officer recruitment campaign. [39694/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide a breakdown of the amount expended by his Department on consultancies in 2023 and to date in 2024; the company engaged; and the nature of the work conducted by the consultancy on his Department’s behalf, in tabular form. [40219/24]
  • 2024-10-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the amount expended by the OPW on external communications advice or training for its senior leadership team in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the external companies engaged; and the topics or issues that the training or advices related to, in tabular form. [39310/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the duration, timings and cost per annum of all leases at Bishop's Square; the timings and duration of all fit outs; the reasons for any exceptional delays in fit-out; and when and by whom the various floors were occupied. [38754/24]
  • 2024-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he, his special advisory teams, or senior officials have consulted with, received briefings or sought advice from an external communications expert or communications consultancy company, or a public relations or public affairs company, in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; the costs associated with those interactions; the names of those that have been engaged with; the subject matter or topics the engagements related to, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39138/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will provide a schedule of all special advisors that are, or were, attached to him, to include Ministers of State special advisors, by grade, duration of role held and point on the pay scale. [38368/24]
  • 2024-09-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will clarify the identity of the main contractor on installation of a project overseen by the OPW (details supplied). [37154/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide a schedule of the number of FOI requests the Office of Public Works has received since 1 January 2023 and to date in 2024 in respect of Castletown House; the number of these FOIs that have been refused; the basis for same; the number of requests that remain open; the average time from receipt to decision; and the number of requests that have been appealed and refused, in tabular form. [36300/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the date on which the next meeting of stakeholders and the public in respect of Castletown House will take place. [36301/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the results of a survey conducted by a company (details supplied) in respect of Castletown House; the cost of the engagement of this company; and if the company provided the OPW with a report following its engagement. [36302/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will provide the results of the OPW's spring survey conducted in respect of Castletown House. [31868/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of requests the OPW have received seeking approval for promotional filming to be carried out at OPW heritage sites in 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024; and of the requests received the number that were granted or refused per year, in tabular form. [30052/24]
  • 2024-07-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the totality of the funds requested and drawn down by his Department from EU sources in respect of covid-19 in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form (details supplied). [30228/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of visitors at each visitor attraction operated by the OPW for the first five months of 2024; and if he will provide the figures for the same period in 2023, in tabular form. [29391/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the status of State indemnity for public liability insurance in an instance where a lease would be signed by the OPW with a landowner (details supplied); how the State insurance would indemnify the area covered by the lease or licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24640/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if the OPW intends to put a tender out for a café/restaurant service in Dublin Castle before the end of the year. [25093/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will provide a schedule of all contracts they have and/or had with a company in the past 25 years to date (details supplied); the agreed contract cost; the ultimate contract cost including extras, design changes, conciliation, claims etc; project name/title; and the name of the body responsible for the delivery of projects where responsibility has been devolved. [25480/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the amount the OPW has spent to date on the construction of a new public sector data centre; and when this centre will open. [22379/24]
  • 2024-05-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of 5 December 2023, if he has engaged with the local authority in respect of the future use of the building and/or the transfer of same to the local authority (details supplied); the date on which the OPW last made a site visit to the building and/or conducted a review of the structural integrity of the building; and if the OPW has been consulted in respect of plans for amenity development in the general surrounds of the structure. [20114/24]
  • 2024-05-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if the OPW has been consulted on or has plans to assist with the reopening of the Bray-Greystones cliff walk; and if he and/or the OPW have the mechanisms in place to provide funding for consultation, works and or project management in order to assist the local authority reopen the route. [20115/24]
  • 2024-05-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide a schedule of Garda stations in Kildare and Wicklow that are subject of capital works, by location; the budget associated with same and nature of works; the stage the projects are at currently; and the expected completion date. [20084/24]
  • 2024-05-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide a schedule of Garda stations in Kildare and Wicklow that are subject of internal renovation and or retrofitting works by locations; the budget associated with same and nature of works; the stage the projects are at currently; and the expected completion date. [20085/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the first and full-year cost of applying a 10% increase to the amount spent under service level agreements and grant aid agreements with the community, voluntary, charity and social enterprise sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19349/24]
  • 2024-04-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to his Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19366/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the plans, if any, that the OPW has to de-risk pluvial flooding in the Celbridge area of Kildare. [17557/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the plans, if any, that the OPW has to de-risk natural flooding events in the Celbridge area of Kildare. [17558/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if home insurance companies can utilise OPW flooding maps in the context of underwriting insurance for homes. [17559/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if the OPW has engaged with insurance providers regarding OPW maps and flood risk and its mapping of same in respect of the use of their models in the context of assessing risk associated with insurance products; his plans to make it obligatory for insurers to consider the maps compiled by the OPW when a dispute arises between an insurance company and a customer in respect of the refusal by the insurance company to provide flood cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17561/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the amount raised in revenue from third parties taking a leased fixing on a Garda communications mast in 2023 and to date in 2024; if he will provide this breakdown by revenue raised and by station and or location of the mast; and if he will indicate the way in which this revenue is accounted for. [17869/24]
  • 2024-04-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if the OPW is in a position to engage with volunteer-led organisations to provide use of some of their landholdings in the context of rehoming rescued native species where appropriate to do so. [16560/24]
  • 2024-04-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the names of external security/steward companies currently on the Office of Government Procurement Muti-Supplier Framework for the provision of Security/Steward Services for Public Bodies. [15564/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform his plans to expand on the schedule of prescribed bodies in the Freedom of Information Act 2014 (details supplied); and if he has consulted the Data Protection Commissioner in this regard and-or his ministerial and departmental colleagues. [11937/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if his Department has received communication from the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth requesting additional funding for the provision of accommodation for beneficiaries of temporary protection and international protection in 2023 and-or in 2024. [11943/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if his Department has undertaken a review and or assessment of spending and the financial controls of same by the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in respect of the provision of accommodation for beneficiaries of temporary protection and international protection in 2023 and-or in 2024. [11944/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of exit and-or severance and-or redundancy packages granted by his Department, bodies under his aegis and bodies he funds in full or in part, of €100,000 and above but less that €200,000, by the amount and by each body, in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024. [12355/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the amount of his Department's capital budget allocation that has been spent in the first two months of 2024; and if he will provide the corresponding figures for 2023. [12800/24]
  • 2024-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of exit and or severance and or redundancy packages granted by his Department, and bodies under his aegis, and of bodies he funds in full or in part, of €200,000 and above in the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will provide the amount of same, body, name and year. [11020/24]
  • 2024-02-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of full-time senior arts collection registrars and arts collection registrars employed by the OPW in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [7846/24]
  • 2024-02-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if consideration has been given to the M4 access to Castletown House under the Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 which provides for access to ensure the integrity of a heritage site; if so, the reason it has not been pursued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6091/24]
  • 2024-02-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if the OPW has made efforts to secure the right to use the M4 entrance to access Castletown House in the context of utilising the provisions of the Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023; and if not, the reason. [6116/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if his Department has availed of services and or consultancy from a list of related companies (details supplied) in the past five years to date; if so, if he will provide a schedule of costs and the purpose for which the company was engaged; and if he continued to use services provided by it. [3786/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the amount of revenue generated through parking charges at National Botanic Gardens in 2023. [4076/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to provide a schedule of the number of civilian drivers and Garda drivers attached to him and to Ministers of State of his Department; to provide the official work pattern for each driver and the total annual hours worked by each driver; and to indicate the number of drivers assigned to each Minister and Minister of State. [4225/24]
  • …and 69 more questions on Public Expenditure
• Culture 73 questions

  • 2020-07-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in her Department appointed and or recruited and or in an acting capacity; the roles and responsibilities attributed to each; and the salary scale for the role in tabular form. [20615/20]
  • 2020-07-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details of the 22 conditions attached to the licensing of a club (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18323/20]
  • 2020-07-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of breaches of the licensing agreement she has with a club (details supplied) in the past ten years to date; and the sanctions imposed on the club as a result of those breaches. [18324/20]
  • 2020-07-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of registered owners who failed to give 14-days' notice in writing to a club (details supplied) of the date of death of their greyhound in the past five years to date; the sanctions imposed on these breeders for failure to comply; the number of greyhounds notified as deceased over the same time period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18325/20]
  • 2020-07-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of advisers and special advisers appointed by her since becoming Minister; the starting annual salary of each person appointed by her; if an open interview process was conducted for each appointee; the duration and terms of each contract issued to each adviser and special adviser; and if an advisory role has been split to facilitate job sharing in tabular form. [16559/20]
  • 2020-06-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by her Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was introduced to date by year and cost in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9979/20]
  • 2020-06-03 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding allocated to the Royal and Grand canal greenway projects; the progress made to date on works; and the expected completion date of works of each stage and or section of these projects. [9055/20]
  • 2020-05-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a location for the An Gorta Mór Ulster NFMD Commemoration 2020 has been selected; her plans and or vision for the commemoration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3917/20]
  • 2020-05-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount expended on access to online and hardcopy media publications in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the breakdown of online and hard copy subscriptions including the publications that her Department subscribes to; if consideration has been given to using a banded set of IP addresses for online subscriptions rather than individual accounts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4003/20]
  • 2020-05-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the top ten websites visited by officials and political staff annually in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020 via hardware provided to them by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4019/20]
  • 2020-05-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of protected disclosures her Department has received since the legislation was introduced; the number of protected disclosures examined to conclusion by year in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5301/20]
  • 2019-12-03 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of consultations between the National Parks and Wildlife Service and a private members club (details supplied) regarding the protection of legally protected plants and habitat at a special area of conservation; if the National Parks and Wildlife Service has raised concerns in this regard; if she has been provided with a report on the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49792/19]
  • 2019-11-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of agency staff hired and-or engaged by her Department in the past five years to date; the cost per year of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49293/19]
  • 2019-11-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the date on which her officials last inspected each area of the Malahide Estuary SAC (details supplied); her plans to conduct surveys in the SAC in the immediate future; if it is her Department or the local authority that holds the title to the lands in the area; if lands in the area are leased by groups and or clubs; if so, the terms and or duration of the lease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48353/19]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the budget allocation for the Creative Ireland programme in each of the years 2017, 2018 and 2019; and the budget allocation for same in 2020. [45001/19]
  • 2019-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the redevelopment of the Maynooth Harbour project and related works; the amount of funding committed to this project for 2019 and 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41714/19]
  • 2019-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of full-time and part-time civil servants her Department has recruited by grade in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of full-time and part-time civil servants her Department has lost due to retirement by grade in the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41814/19]
  • 2019-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is allocation in the budgets of the capital projects funded by her Department for the commissioning of artwork and other peripheral additions (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42062/19]
  • 2019-10-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of progress of the Grand Canal greenway project between Sallins and Hazelhatch (details supplied); the timeline for completion of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41504/19]
  • 2019-09-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of civil servants who have left and or retired from her Department in the past ten years who were bound by a cooling-off period in respect of taking up new employment in the private sector by grade, year and sector the staff moved on to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38148/19]
  • 2019-09-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of civil servants who have left and or retired from her Department in the past ten years who were not bound by a cooling-off period in respect of taking up new employment in the private sector by grade, year, and sector the staff moved on to; the reason for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38164/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount expended on the renewal of licences (details supplied) by her Department since 2009 to date in 2019; the amount projected to be spent on the renewal of such licences by her Department over the next five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35337/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the names of external consultancies that delivered and continue to deliver advice and training on all aspects of GDPR in the context of preparedness and ongoing upskilling of staff regarding the regulation; the cost expended on the external advice and training of same to date in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35572/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of complaints her Department received under the customer service charter in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; if her attention has been drawn to issues and or problems in having complaints registered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35640/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of unpaid internships issued and-or granted to persons to work in her Department over the past five years to 28 August 2019; the number of persons that took up unpaid internship roles in that timeframe; if her Department continues to offer unpaid internships; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36144/19]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status on a phased basis of the greenway project between Castleknock, Dublin 15 and Maynooth, County Kildare; the progress made to date on each phase; the estimated completion dates for each phase; the funding made available for each phase of the project in 2019; if further funding will issue in 2020 and 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31549/19]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of protected disclosures for which she has engaged an external consultancy and or legal firm since 2014 to date; the name of the firms engaged; the year and the costs associated with engaging the consultancy and or legal firms in respect of protected disclosures; the way in which persons are protected in cases in which an external consultancy firm is engaged in respect of protected disclosures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32395/19]
  • 2019-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the costs paid to companies (details supplied) for projects each was engaged by her Department in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; the reason each was engaged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29439/19]
  • 2019-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the costs paid to a company (details supplied) for projects each was engaged by her Department in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; the reason it was engaged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29548/19]
  • 2019-06-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding directed to the conservation and management of heritage, both natural and built, nationally in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; the levels of engagement she has had with State tourism bodies regarding same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24865/19]
  • 2019-06-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the lease and amount expended per year in cases in which land is leased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25381/19]
  • 2019-06-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of buildings and property purchased and leased and the amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the lease and the amount expended per year in cases in which properties are leased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25398/19]
  • 2019-05-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a definitive map will be provided showing the boundaries of the Wicklow Mountains National Park (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20277/19]
  • 2019-05-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the publication date for the last management plan for the Wicklow Mountains National Park; her plans to update same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20278/19]
  • 2019-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount spent on social media advertising and online promoted content (details supplied) in 2018 and to date in 2019, by campaign and social media platform used; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11117/19]
  • 2019-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has engaged and-or consulted with a public relations online advertising agency regarding social media advertising and online promoted content in 2018 and to date in 2019; the amount spent by company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11134/19]
  • 2019-02-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding made available to date for the decade of centenaries programme; the amount that will be allocated and-or provided for in the remaining years; and if supplementary funds will be made available to the National Archive in the context of the large number of records it received on 1 February 2019 and in view of the fact this body is under-resourced to deal with this body of work. [9794/19]
  • 2019-02-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will initiate a dialogue with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in order to make available or release, or both, Land Commission records in the context of the decade of centenaries events and themes for the period 2019 to 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8923/19]
  • 2019-02-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress made on implementing all aspects of the 20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010 - 2030 that are relevant to her Department and bodies under her remit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8616/19]
  • 2019-02-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the salary budget allocated by her Department and all agencies under her aegis in each of the years January 2015 to December 2018; the drawdown of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8446/19]
  • 2019-02-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount spent on public relations services in each of the years 1 January 2015 to 1 January 2018 and to date in 2019 in her Department and agencies under her remit by amount, service provider and reason for incurring cost in tabular form. [7142/19]
  • 2019-02-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to reverse cuts in local heritage plan funding used to implement local heritage plans; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5201/19]
  • 2019-02-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to provide the Heritage Council with additional funding in order to fulfil its role in providing a community grant scheme in 2019 and 2020; if a similar funding stream can be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5239/19]
  • 2019-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of regular grade civil servants her Department has hired in advance of a no-deal Brexit; the number of specialist grade civil servants hired in advance of same; the budget made available in advance of Brexit for hiring of staff in advance of the UK withdrawal from the EU; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3317/19]
  • 2018-12-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of parliamentary questions his Department has processed in the past three years to date; the number of questions answered directly; the number of questions referred to bodies or agencies under the aegis of his Department for direct reply; the number of staff who are assigned to his parliamentary questions section; and if non-departmental staff, advisers and-or public affairs and relations companies have composed parliamentary question replies or had an act or hand in forming parliamentary question replies in the timeframe specified. [52237/18]
  • 2018-12-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding and-or grant aid her Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the purpose for which the funding and-or grant aid was released to the association; if the way in which the funding and-or grant aid used is audited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50062/18]
  • 2018-11-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department is part of the public sector energy reporting programme; if so, the percentage of improvement in energy efficiency to date that has been achieved; the way in which this was achieved; if her Department noted a decrease in energy efficiency in view of the National Energy Efficiency Action Plan for energy efficiency targets; if targets will be met by the 2020 deadline; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47587/18]
  • 2018-11-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she, her departmental officials and or her ministerial predecessors have met companies and an organisation (details supplied) and or representatives of same in the past three years to date; if so, if a schedule of those meetings and the associated minutes will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44772/18]
  • 2018-10-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she and-or her departmental officials have met a person (details supplied) and-or representatives of companies in the past two years to date; if so, if she will publish a schedule of those meetings and the associated minutes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42817/18]
  • 2018-10-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount spent by her Department on third party public relations advice, communications advice, online advertising and public awareness campaigns to date in 2018, by month and company engaged in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39635/18]
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• Business 70 questions

  • 2020-07-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants currently working in his Department appointed and-or recruited and-or in an acting capacity; the roles and responsibilities attributed to each; and the salary scale for the role in tabular form. [20612/20]
  • 2020-07-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the supports and or financial assistance business owners (details supplied) that have been forced to cease trading as a result of Covid-19 can avail of; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19340/20]
  • 2020-07-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a schedule of all special advisers working in his Department; and the roles and responsibilities and salary scale of each. [18844/20]
  • 2020-07-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of advisers and special advisers appointed by him since becoming Minister; the starting annual salary of each person appointed by him; if an open interview process was conducted for each appointee; the duration and terms of each contract issued to each adviser and special adviser; and if an advisory role has been split to facilitate job sharing, in tabular form. [16556/20]
  • 2020-07-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the modelling that has been undertaken to quantify the impact of Covid-19 on the sectors he plans to provide assistance to in the context of the proposed July stimulus; the persons that conducted the modelling and analysis; if it will be factored into the stimulus measures; if he has consulted with his Ministerial colleagues in the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to the stimulus; and if aspects will require an early budget. [16040/20]
  • 2020-07-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if business support policies can be reviewed to provide greater help to microbusinesses that contribute to the national economy on a smaller scale but to the local community on a bigger scale than many other businesses; if he will give consideration to reviewing wage subsidies for casual staff in view of the fact that longer operating hours are now required and wage subsidies should be proportionate to new working hours as opposed to looking at pre-Covid-19 payments; if he will give consideration to offering more direct grants for businesses stay afloat until the end of the Covid-19 emergency as opposed to grants for hiring business consultants; if he will give consideration to offering restart grants to cover the additional costs for trading during the Covid-19 emergency, such as PPE, sanitiser and screens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15646/20]
  • 2020-07-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the business supports available that are specific to the taxi and small private bus hire sector in the context of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13849/20]
  • 2020-06-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if a health and safety liability to employers arises in instances in which it has instructed staff to work from home only during Covid-19 restrictions [13208/20]
  • 2020-06-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if business support policies will be reviewed to provide greater help to microbusinesses that contribute to the national economy on a smaller scale but to the local community on a bigger scale than many other businesses; if she will give further consideration to offering more direct grants for businesses to stay afloat until the end of the Covid-19 emergency as opposed to grants for hiring business consultants; if she will give consideration to offering restart grants to cover the additional costs for trading during the Covid-19 emergency, such as PPE, sanitiser and screens; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10589/20]
  • 2020-06-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if the Health and Safety Authority has inspected and reported on an incident (details supplied) that occurred in a Dublin Airport detention room in November 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11162/20]
  • 2020-06-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons that availed of and the costs incurred by her Department regarding the cycle to work scheme since it was introduced to date by year and cost in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9976/20]
  • 2020-06-03 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the estimated full-year cost of recruiting four additional full-time senior analyst investigators at the higher executive officer grade for the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. [8779/20]
  • 2020-05-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the amount expended on access to online and hardcopy media publications in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the breakdown of online and hard copy subscriptions including the publications that her Department subscribes to; if consideration has been given to using a banded set of IP addresses for online subscriptions rather than individual accounts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4000/20]
  • 2020-05-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of protected disclosures her Department has received since the legislation was introduced; the number of protected disclosures examined to conclusion by year in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5298/20]
  • 2020-03-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the grade of the official from her Department who delivered and-or sanctioned the delivery of a letter (details supplied) to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; if additional correspondence was composed by her, her officials and-or advisers to accompany the letter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2858/20]
  • 2020-03-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the budget allocation for the Health and Safety Authority in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in tabular form. [3191/20]
  • 2019-12-10 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to update the Casual Trading Act 1995. [51695/19]
  • 2019-11-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of agency staff hired and-or engaged by her Department in the past five years to date; the cost per year of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49290/19]
  • 2019-10-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of fatalities at State ports in the past five years to date due to workplace accidents; if one single health and safety charter exists for the sector; if she has met with port managers on this issue; her plans to engage will stakeholders in respect of health and safety issues at ports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42982/19]
  • 2019-10-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of full-time and part-time civil servants her Department has recruited by grade in each of the years 2014 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the number of full-time and part-time civil servants her Department has lost due to retirement by grade in the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41811/19]
  • 2019-09-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of civil servants who have left and or retired from her Department in the past ten years who were bound by a cooling-off period in respect of taking up new employment in the private sector by grade, year and sector the staff moved on to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38145/19]
  • 2019-09-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of civil servants who have left and or retired from her Department in the past ten years who were not bound by a cooling-off period in respect of taking up new employment in the private sector by grade, year, and sector the staff moved on to; the reason for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38161/19]
  • 2019-09-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which a person that meets the criteria of the critical skills list may gain a permission to become self-employed here in the context of work permits and self-employment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37219/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the amount expended on the renewal of licences (details supplied) by her Department since 2009 to date in 2019; the amount projected to be spent on the renewal of such licences by her Department over the next five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35334/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the names of external consultancies that delivered and continue to deliver advice and training on all aspects of GDPR in the context of preparedness and ongoing upskilling of staff regarding the regulation; the cost expended on the external advice and training of same to date in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35569/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of complaints her Department received under the customer service charter in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; if her attention has been drawn to issues and-or problems in having complaints registered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35637/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of unpaid internships issued and or granted to persons to work in her Department over the past five years to 28 August 2019; the number of persons who took up unpaid internship roles in that timeframe; if her Department continues to offer unpaid internships; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36141/19]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of protected disclosures for which she has engaged an external consultancy and or legal firm since 2014 to date; the name of the firms engaged; the year and the costs associated with engaging the consultancy and or legal firms in respect of protected disclosures; the way in which persons are protected in cases in which an external consultancy firm is engaged in respect of protected disclosures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32392/19]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if the full schedule of meetings that she and her officials and advisers have had with persons directly involved with a company (details supplied) to date in 2019 will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33813/19]
  • 2019-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she has consulted with the Department of Finance regarding aspects of e-commerce and its potential impact on high street retailers; her plans to establish a working group on e-commerce and high street retail in the context of impacts of one on the other; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29271/19]
  • 2019-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the costs paid to companies (details supplied) for projects each was engaged by her Department in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; the reason each was engaged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29436/19]
  • 2019-07-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the costs paid to a company (details supplied) for projects each was engaged by her Department in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; the reason it was engaged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29545/19]
  • 2019-07-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the funding her Department granted the Dublin Port Company in the past ten years to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27488/19]
  • 2019-06-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of land purchased and leased by size and amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the lease and amount expended per year in cases in which land is leased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25378/19]
  • 2019-06-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of buildings and property purchased and leased and the amount expended in the past five years to date; the location of same; the term of the lease and the amount expended per year in cases in which properties are leased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25395/19]
  • 2019-06-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the budget allocation to the Health and Safety Authority in each of the years 2017 to 2019, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23247/19]
  • 2019-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the amount spent on social media advertising and online promoted content (details supplied) in 2018 and to date in 2019 by campaign and social media platform used; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11114/19]
  • 2019-03-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she has engaged and or consulted with a public relations online advertising agency regarding social media advertising and online promoted content in 2018 and to date in 2019; and the amount spent by company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11131/19]
  • 2019-02-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the progress made on implementing all aspects of the 20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010 to 2030 that are relevant to her Department and bodies under her remit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8613/19]
  • 2019-01-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of regular grade civil servants her Department has hired in advance of a no-deal Brexit; the number of specialist grade civil servants hired in advance of same; the budget made available in advance of Brexit for hiring of staff in advance of the UK withdrawal from the EU; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3314/19]
  • 2018-12-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of parliamentary questions his Department has processed in the past three years to date; the number of questions answered directly; the number of questions referred to bodies or agencies under the aegis of his Department for direct reply; the number of staff who are assigned to his parliamentary questions section; and if non-departmental staff, advisers and-or public affairs and relations companies have composed parliamentary question replies or had an act or hand in forming parliamentary question replies in the timeframe specified. [52234/18]
  • 2018-12-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when the legislation on gift vouchers will be finalised; when legislation will be introduced in Dáil Éireann; the target date for enacting the legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51522/18]
  • 2018-12-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of funding or grant aid her Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the purpose for which the funding or grant aid was released to the association; if the way in which the funding or grant aid is used is audited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50059/18]
  • 2018-11-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department is part of the public sector energy reporting programme; if so, the percentage of improvement in energy efficiency to date that has been achieved; the way in which this was achieved; if her Department noted a decrease in energy efficiency in view of the National Energy Efficiency Action Plan for energy efficiency targets; if targets will be met by the 2020 deadline; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47584/18]
  • 2018-11-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 176 and 177 of 18 October 2018, if he will provide minutes and briefings associated with his meeting of 30 January 2018 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44720/18]
  • 2018-11-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she, her departmental officials and or her ministerial predecessors have met companies and an organisation (details supplied) or representatives of same in the past three years to date; if so, if a schedule of those meetings and the associated minutes will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44769/18]
  • 2018-11-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 176 and 177 of 18 October 2018, if further information will be supplied in respect of her meeting with a representative of a company (details supplied) in December 2016 in her previous role as Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs; if she will supply the briefing notes and minutes of this meeting; the number of meetings she had with the company since 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44788/18]
  • 2018-11-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if the Minster of State, Deputy Pat Breen, has met with broadband providers and/or telecoms providers in the past three years, to date; if she will provide a schedule of the meetings he has had, including company names, location of meetings and persons present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45000/18]
  • 2018-10-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if the Minister of State, Deputy Breen, will publish minutes and a schedule of meetings he has had with a person (details supplied) and a company or representatives of that person and company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42808/18]
  • 2018-10-18 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she and-or her departmental officials have met a person (details supplied) and-or representatives of companies in the past two years to date; if so, if she will publish a schedule of those meetings and the associated minutes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42814/18]
  • …and 20 more questions on Business
• Arts 62 questions

  • 2017-07-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount spent by her Department on taxi and or limousine fares in the past two years to date by year and amount; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35482/17]
  • 2017-07-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost of rebranding and or renaming her Department, in particular the costs of acquiring new stationary, signage and public awareness campaign and so on, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33171/17]
  • 2017-07-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the consideration which is given to the details of the census of population within her Department; the sections of her Department involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31406/17]
  • 2017-06-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount spent by her Department and State agencies under her aegis on outside contract or third-party public relations advice and training in past three years to date in 2017, by year and company engaged, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29225/17]
  • 2017-04-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the status regarding implementing the numerous components of the 20-year strategy for Irish language report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17600/17]
  • 2017-04-11 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of investigations that have taken place in the past ten years into illegal gorse fires and the illegal burning of uplands; the number of these investigations that have resulted in prosecutions with the relevant fines imposed on the offender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18101/17]
  • 2017-04-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of private investigation firms hired by statutory agencies and-or semi-States under the aegis of her Department in the past five years to date in 2017; the names of the firms; the amount they were paid; if they supplied her Department with a report on completion of their work; if she will provide copies of reports submitted to her from these firms as a result of his engagement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16978/17]
  • 2017-03-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of private investigation firms hired by her Department in the past five years and to date in 2017; the names of the firms; the amount they were paid; if they supplied her Department with a report on completion of their work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15731/17]
  • 2017-03-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans for buildings on Moore Street, Dublin 1; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14641/17]
  • 2017-03-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of freedom of information requests received by her Department that the Chief State Solicitor's office has incurred expenses on dealing with for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred respectively, for each of the past three years and to date in 2017. [12769/17]
  • 2017-03-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to provide more performance spaces and exhibition spaces using properties held by NAMA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11719/17]
  • 2017-03-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the details of the system used in determining approvals during the assessment process of the creative arts and culture capital scheme 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11717/17]
  • 2017-03-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to reconvene the all-party consultation group for the decade of centenaries programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11771/17]
  • 2017-02-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the methodology she used in the determination of grant allocations under a new capital funding scheme for cultural centres under which €9 million was available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9637/17]
  • 2017-02-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the legal fees incurred on FOI requests received by her Department; the staff hours involved in the processing of FOI requests for the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9672/17]
  • 2017-02-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost per year for the past three years for the retrieval and return of hard copy files stored at off site locations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9301/17]
  • 2017-02-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost per year for the past three years for the storage of data and or files on cloud storage or third party servers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9399/17]
  • 2017-02-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost of upgrading information technology systems and databases to incorporate the use of Eircode postcodes; if the use of Eircode postcodes is mandatory in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8626/17]
  • 2017-01-31 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the status of the capital spending programme for the National Archives and the National Library; the timeframe for when the two projects will be completed and both institutions will be fully functioning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3784/17]
  • 2017-01-31 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of funding her Department has awarded to an Irish arts centre in New York (details supplied) in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3987/17]
  • 2017-01-31 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost of moving artwork and paintings from location to location outside the State by her Department in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4040/17]
  • 2017-01-31 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost of moving artwork and paintings from location to location in the State by her Department in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4041/17]
  • 2017-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the cost per year for the past three years for the storage and archiving of her Department's files and records at off-site locations by third party companies and at State-owned storage facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1126/17]
  • 2016-12-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to extend the work of the decade of centenaries Oireachtas all-party consultation group on commemorations to encompass the State's history from the years 1913 to 1923; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39907/16]
  • 2016-12-13 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs her plans to establish a new Oireachtas all-party consultation group on commemorations (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39910/16]
  • 2016-11-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she will publish the cost-benefit analysis undertaken regarding the allocation of €2.175 million for the building of a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33017/16]
  • 2016-07-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of 23 June 2016, the membership of the expert committee; its terms of service; how she made these appointments; when the committee will complete its report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19838/16]
  • 2016-07-07 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to request information from the chief executive of each local authority on whether it currently employs an arts officer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19899/16]
  • 2016-07-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to set out the status of the two sets of regulations referred to in sections 8(1) and 8(2) of the Heritage Bill 2016 relating to burning and hedgerows; whether these regulations are complete given the Government has now re-initiated this Bill; if they are completed, to identify the persons who have been consulted; when they will be available for review to the Oireachtas and consultation with the public concerned; if they are not ready, when they will be ready, who will be consulted on them and when; when the next stage of the Bill will be and when it will come before Seanad Éireann; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19303/16]
  • 2016-07-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to detail all occasions since the introduction of the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000 when section 40(3) of the Wildlife Act 1976, as amended, has been invoked and to what effect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19667/16]
  • 2016-06-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to request the Arts Council, An Chomhairle Ealaíon, to provide details of the number of local authorities which have published an arts plan or a cultural strategy within the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18404/16]
  • 2016-06-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the vacant posts on the board of the National Museum will be filled; the reason for the delay in appointing members to this board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17848/16]
  • 2016-06-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she will publish the promised plan for the arts; her plans to publish the plan as a draft and seek further consultation; the areas the plan will cover; if estimated costings for implementation will be included; if there will be a commitment by the Government to fund the various elements of the plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17895/16]
  • 2016-06-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she can provide a list of all spending on the arts sector on both the current and capital side in each of the years 2011 to 2016, to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17350/16]
  • 2016-06-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the significant public demand for the reinstatement of a Department with responsibility for arts, heritage and the Gaeltacht; if she has engaged with senior members of the arts community regarding their demands for such a Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13257/16]
  • 2016-06-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding awarded to the arts, excluding commemoration specific pieces of work, since 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13256/16]
  • 2016-04-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of each statutory instrument signed; each contract entered into; each tender issued; each tender awarded; each State board appointment made by her or by an agency of her Department from 1 January 2016 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6685/16]
  • 2016-02-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of appointments to State boards, by name of appointee, date of appointment and appointment through a public application process or otherwise, from 7 March 2011 to date; the number of vacancies on State boards under her remit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4611/16]
  • 2016-01-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a final decision will be taken regarding the vacancy on the Irish Film Board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2188/16]
  • 2015-12-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the proposals in the capital plan for the National Archives; the proposals that will be funded in the first phase; how this funding is intended to address the deficiencies in storage capacity, digital archiving and public accessibility at the National Archives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43689/15]
  • 2015-12-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to what extent an all-Island approach is being adopted to the ongoing digitisation of records at the National Archives, in collaboration with the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland; to what extent the National Archives is co-operating with the United Kingdom National Archives in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43690/15]
  • 2015-12-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will introduce urgent measures to conserve the Golden Eagle population which has fallen to a critically low level; if she has discussed eliminating the threats to the Golden Eagle population in and around the Glenveagh National Park in County Donegal with the management of the National Parks and Wildlife Service or with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43490/15]
  • 2015-12-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht why a 3,000 year old Bronze Age timber roadway at Mayne Bog in Coole in County Westmeath was completely destroyed in June 2015; why the recommendation of the National Monuments Service, which examined this site in 2006 and advised further archaeological work, was not acted upon; why no attempt was made to legally protect this site, despite her Department being aware of its significance for the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43488/15]
  • 2015-12-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent of Waterways Ireland's role in developing and using canal ways and canal banks to incorporate recreational cycle and walking routes; the sections of the canals which have been developed to incorporate such routes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43487/15]
  • 2015-12-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht why no national heritage plan has been in place since 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43491/15]
  • 2015-12-03 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht why she has not advertised the vacant position on the board of the Irish Film Board; when she intends to do it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43333/15]
  • 2015-12-03 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if women producers are adequately represented in the Irish film industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43334/15]
  • 2015-11-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for details, in tabular form, of all instances from 1 January 2000 to 2015 to date where legislation introduced by her or on her behalf which is enacted and still in force contains a provision amending the Data Protection Acts to allow for the transfer of personal or other data collected, retained and processed by the State for a particular purpose for another specific purpose; the financial cost of creating and administering such databases, by case; the projected financial cost for databases not yet complete; the specific legislative provision which enabled such data transfers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41131/15]
  • 2015-11-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of the serious challenges which exist to the proper digital preservation of records at the National Archives; her views that the urgent onus should be on the prompt preservation of such records to best international standards to eliminate the risk of degradation over time and counter inevitable technological obsolescence; if she is further aware that the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland applies its digital preservation models to the records management standard; if there is a comparable standard in operation in the State; the cross-Border co-operation that exists in this regard; if she is considering increasing the financial allocation to the National Archives to aid it to overcome these specific challenges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39542/15]
  • 2015-11-12 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware that the present funding situation at the National Library of Ireland is having a direct, detrimental effect upon the ability of management and staff to ensure the safety of the national collection against water and fire damage; that only 1% of the collection is preserved and secured to international best practice standards; the additional measures that she is considering to alleviate this situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39543/15]
  • …and 12 more questions on Arts
• Jobs 52 questions

  • 2017-07-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount spent by her Department on taxi and-or limousine fares in the past two years to date by year and amount; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35491/17]
  • 2017-07-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of actuaries working in the Civil Service under the aegis of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36856/17]
  • 2017-07-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will address matters in relation to the CETA agreement (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30917/17]
  • 2017-07-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the date on which the terms of reference for the review of the Succeed in Ireland initiative were finalised; the status of the review to date; the financial obligations in regard to the Succeed in Ireland initiative that have arose as the termination of the contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31070/17]
  • 2017-07-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to the publication of the census of population, the consideration which is given to the detail contained in the census in terms of policy response by her Department; the way in which it is used; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31403/17]
  • 2017-06-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has received the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement report on the reason a case collapsed (details supplied); if she will publish the report immediately; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30594/17]
  • 2017-06-27 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits the Health and Safety Authority has made to licensed and unlicensed commercial premises in the past three years; the number of visits to construction sites; the number of actions or cease work directions it has issued in that time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29635/17]
  • 2017-06-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA sites that are vacant, not occupied or not in use; the length of time that they have not been in use; if some of the sites not in use have been rented to local authorities for uses other than their original purpose; if so, the location of each, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29178/17]
  • 2017-06-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount spent by her Department and State agencies under her aegis on outside contract or third-party public relations advice and training in past three years to date in 2017, by year and company engaged, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29234/17]
  • 2017-06-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount paid by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement to companies (details supplied) regarding a court case involving the ODCE and a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27993/17]
  • 2017-06-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of work permits granted for non-EU nationals to work in the hotel industry and as chefs here in 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28286/17]
  • 2017-05-31 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the engagement her Department had with the ODCE in advance of a case (details supplied); if resources were discussed in the context of that case; the decisions made; if the attention of her Department was drawn to the shredding of documents; if so when; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26199/17]
  • 2017-05-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding a site (details supplied) in County Kildare; the progress made to date by the IDA in attracting new business to the area; her plans for the site if the buildings formerly occupied by a company cannot be filled by a suitable employer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23034/17]
  • 2017-05-16 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the review of the Connect Ireland initiative; the provisions she has made for financial liability the State may face; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23027/17]
  • 2017-05-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the specific incentives in place or extra measures available to the IDA to attract foreign direct investment into regional locations other than Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19764/17]
  • 2017-04-05 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of private investigation firms hired by statutory agencies and or semi-State bodies under the aegis of her Department in the past five years to date in 2017; the names of the firms; the amount they were paid; if they supplied her Department with a report on completion of their work; if she will provide copies of reports submitted to her from these firms as a result of this engagement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16987/17]
  • 2017-04-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 29 March 2017, if she will provide a copy of all the reports submitted to her by private investigation firms engaged by her Department in 2016; the reason reports were not produced by firms engaged in each of the years 2012 to 2015; if public procurement and-or spending rules were complied with in engaging these firms; the reason all of these firms were hired; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16684/17]
  • 2017-03-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of private investigation firms hired by her Department in the past five years and to date in 2017; the names of the firms; the amount they were paid; if they supplied her Department with a report on completion of their work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15740/17]
  • 2017-03-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of freedom of information requests received by her Department on which the Office of the Chief State Solicitor has incurred expenses for each of the past three years and to date in 2017; and the amount of fees for counsel and other legal costs incurred, respectively, for each of the past three years and to date in 2017. [12778/17]
  • 2017-02-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if Directives 51/2003 and Directive 34/2013 cannot be used to interpret Article 3(2) of Regulation 2002/1606 in view of the fact that this is contrary to the EU view laid out in a European Parliament reply (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10248/17]
  • 2017-02-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the legal fees incurred for freedom of information requests received by her Department; the staff hours involved in the processing of such requests for the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9681/17]
  • 2017-02-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the method IDA Ireland used to determine the way in which 527 jobs were created under the Connect Ireland scheme; the detail of the six-figure marketing sum connected to the marketing budget for the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9691/17]
  • 2017-02-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if Article 1(9) of Directive 51/2003 only permits the delayed recognition of potential losses as opposed to actual losses in view of the fact this would lead to excessive provisioning; if Article 1(9) still retains the requirement to make a provision for liabilities in order that net assets, that is to say, assets net of liabilities, are not overestimated which would be contrary to the concept of prudence and the true and fair view as outlined in a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9698/17]
  • 2017-02-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost per year for the past three years for the retrieval and return of hard copy files stored at off-site locations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9310/17]
  • 2017-02-23 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost per year for the past three years for the storage of data and-or files on cloud storage or third party servers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9408/17]
  • 2017-02-21 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost of upgrading information technology systems and or databases to incorporate the use of Eircode postcodes; if the use of Eircode postcodes is mandatory in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8635/17]
  • 2017-02-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation ,further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 7 February 2017, if she will provide the date that Article 3(2) of Regulation 1606 of 2002 was first amended to allow for the adoption of international accounting standards that delay the recognition of loan losses in view of the fact that the concept of prudence, as defined in Article 31 (c) of Directive 78/660 requires the immediate recognition of losses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7465/17]
  • 2017-02-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on a discrepancy between the European Economic and Social Committee approved wording of the EU Company Law Directive of 2003 and the detail which was finally placed into legislation (details supplied); the impact of this discrepancy on those Irish banks which have shares quoted on the Irish stock market; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6801/17]
  • 2017-02-09 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs the Succeed in Ireland initiative has created since inception; the amount of moneys IDA Ireland or other State bodies have paid over to ConnectIreland; the amount of IDA Ireland's potential outstanding liability to ConnectIreland; her views on whether the Succeed in Ireland initiative failed to meet its target of 5,000 jobs; the reason a temporary extension of the contract with ConnectIreland was agreed in September 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6646/17]
  • 2017-02-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to outline her views on whether the accounting standard known as IAS 39 is fit for purpose with regard to rules adopted by banks when valuing assets. including loans; her plans to amend its instructions (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6140/17]
  • 2017-01-17 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost per year for the past three years of the storing and archiving of her Department's files and records at off-site locations by third party companies and at State-owned storage facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1120/17]
  • 2016-11-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on a marked differential that goes beyond a currency conversion and its impact on consumer shopping habits; the steps she will take to ensure that consumers can be protected from paying more for the same items sold by the same retailers operating here and in Britain (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35857/16]
  • 2016-11-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has raised concerns regarding Ireland's competitiveness with the National Competitiveness Council due to currency fluctuations and or collapse (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33465/16]
  • 2016-11-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the National Competitiveness Council has undertaken an analysis of the potential impact a full Brexit will have on Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33498/16]
  • 2016-11-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has requested the National Competitiveness Council to prepare an analysis of the potential impact of a full Brexit on Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33499/16]
  • 2016-10-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of workplace inspections by sector in 2015 and in the latest period in 2016 for which figures are available; the total amount of wages recovered by sector in these periods; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31743/16]
  • 2016-10-25 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the penalties applying to employers for the non-payment of wages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31744/16]
  • 2016-10-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of staff by grade in her Department allocated to process applications for employment permits for those on the critical skills list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29023/16]
  • 2016-09-28 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there has been any analysis carried out on the potential impacts of CETA on public procurement here, including impacts on regularity and policy scope and also on the share of public procurement contracts being held by SMEs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27718/16]
  • 2016-06-15 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to create 135,000 jobs outside County Dublin by 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15834/16]
  • 2016-04-20 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, details of each tender awarded by him or by an agency of his Department; the bids received; the firms or companies to which the tenders were awarded, from 1 January 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7652/16]
  • 2016-04-14 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the details of each statutory instrument signed; each contract entered into; each tender issued; each tender awarded; each State board appointment made by him or by an agency of his Department from 1 January 2016 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6694/16]
  • 2016-04-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason local enterprise office mentoring sessions for new and expanding business are limited to only two mentoring sessions, given the potential return on investment and growth that is secured when additional supports are offered; the European Union norms and funding available for investment and the provision of supports for new and emerging companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5576/16]
  • 2016-02-02 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to set out the details of appointments to State boards, by name of appointee, date of appointment and appointment through a public application process or otherwise, from 7 March 2011 to date; the number of vacancies on State boards under his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4620/16]
  • 2015-12-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding situation at Enterprise Ireland; its cash reserves; the commitments that have been entered into in terms of its routine support of business ventures to the end of 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42867/15]
  • 2015-11-26 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the development of new copyright legislation; if he is taking on board the key recommendations or legislative suggestions published by the Copyright Review Committee in 2013 in the development of new legislation; when the draft legislation will be ready; if he is conscious of continuing rapid developments in European copyright regulations and likely technological developments in designing his proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41419/15]
  • 2015-11-19 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for details of all instances from 1 January 2000 to 2015 to date where legislation introduced by him or on his behalf, which is enacted and still in force, contains a provision amending the Data Protection Acts to allow for the transfer of personal or other data collected, retained and processed by the State for a particular purpose towards another specific purpose, in tabular form; the financial cost of creating and administering such databases, by case; the projected financial cost for databases not yet complete; the specific legislative provision which enabled such data transfers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41140/15]
  • 2015-11-04 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has expressed any concerns to the Department of Social Protection or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, in so far as it relates to labour and employment policy under his remit, regarding the use of compromise agreements at State agencies for staff who wish to avail of voluntary redundancy; if he is aware that the content of these compromise agreements can often contain terms not usually contained in a typical voluntary redundancy arrangement; if he has sought information regarding the extent and nature of such agreements across the public service; if so, if he will share this information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37946/15]
  • 2015-11-03 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will indicate, in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the name of each appointee from 7 March 2011 to date in 2015; the date of appointment; whether or not each appointee came through an advertised public application process; the number of vacancies which currently exist on State boards under his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37365/15]
  • 2015-11-03 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the impact of increasingly high rental prices in urban areas, specifically in the commuter belt areas of Kildare North, Meath and Wicklow, on employees' accessibility and availability to take up new employment roles in Dublin city centre; the control measures he plans to implement with regard to the cost of living in these areas; the studies that have been carried out on the increased operating and salary costs to new and existing employers; the impact assessments that have been completed on the effect on innovation and start-ups commencing in these areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37903/15]
  • …and 2 more questions on Jobs
• Media 10 questions

  • 2020-10-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the breakdown of salaries, expenses and so on paid to Board members of RTÉ in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020. [28719/20]
  • 2020-10-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht if she has engaged a third-party company in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020 to conduct online and or social media monitoring and or provide reports on social media coverage of her Department; if so, the cost of same; and if the name of the social media platforms being monitored will be provided. [28922/20]
  • 2020-10-06 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the number of staff in her Department on sick leave between March and September by month in 2019 and to date 2020; the pay arrangements that exist for staff on sick leave for an extended period of time; the number of sick days accounted for by her Department over the period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28940/20]
  • 2020-10-01 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the status of the involvement and-or engagement of a person (details supplied) with Sport Ireland and an organisation; the amount expended on their behalf from public funds on legal representation and advice from 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27976/20]
  • 2020-09-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the amount expended on access to online and hard-copy media publications since May 2020 to date; and the breakdown of online and hard-copy subscriptions, including the publications to which her Department subscribes. [27647/20]
  • 2020-09-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht if she has engaged a third-party company in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020 to conduct media monitoring and-or provide reports on media coverage of her Department; and if so, the costs of same and the companies engaged. [27665/20]
  • 2020-09-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the sector-specific supports in place and-or the plans to introduce support services for the hospitality sector. [26312/20]
  • 2020-09-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and-or recruited by her since her appointment will be provided; the roles and responsibilities attributed to each; and the salary of each appointee in tabular form. [27058/20]
  • 2020-09-22 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the status of the July stimulus; the way in which she has assisted the recovery of the arts and entertainment sector; her plans to expand the recovery taskforce to include more industry representation from the sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25375/20]
  • 2020-09-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants working in her Department appointed and-or recruited and-or in an acting capacity; the roles and responsibilities attributed to each; and the salary scale for each role in tabular form. [22534/20]
• Community 5 questions

  • 2020-09-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Community and Rural Development and the Islands the amount expended on access to online and hardcopy media publications since May 2020 to date; and the breakdown of online and hard copy subscriptions including the publications that her Department subscribes to. [27637/20]
  • 2020-09-30 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Community and Rural Development and the Islands if she has engaged a third-party company in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020 to conduct media monitoring and or provide reports on media coverage of her Department; if so, the costs of same; and the companies engaged. [27655/20]
  • 2020-09-29 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Community and Rural Development and the Islands if a schedule of advisers and special advisers appointed and or recruited by him since his appointment will be provided; the roles and responsibilities attributed to each; and the salary for each appointee in tabular form. [27063/20]
  • 2020-09-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Community and Rural Development and the Islands the status of the rural housing renovation grant which was first proposed in 2017 (details supplied); the amount of funding granted by geographical location to date; the number of applications made; the number approved and declined, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21126/20]
  • 2020-09-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Community and Rural Development and the Islands if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants working in her Department appointed and or recruited and or in an acting capacity; the roles and responsibilities attributed to each; and the salary scale for each role in tabular form. [22524/20]
• Climate 1 question

  • 2020-09-08 Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Climate Action and Communication Networks if he will provide a schedule of advisers, special advisers and seconded civil servants working in his Department appointed and or recruited and or in an acting capacity; the roles and responsibilities attributed to each; and the salary scale for each role in tabular form. [22523/20]