Questions asked 45 total

• Finance 14 questions

  • 2021-03-31 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance if the tax debt warehousing scheme will remain available for businesses until the full lifting of all restrictions. [17264/21]
  • 2021-03-31 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the amount of debt that has been warehoused under the tax debt warehousing scheme; the amount of this debt from microbusinesses; the amount from SMEs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17406/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of extending the sugar sweetened drinks tax to beverages containing milk fats with more than 119 milligrams of calcium per 100 millilitres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17690/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the yield from the sugar sweetened drinks tax since its inception in 2018 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17691/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the annual increases in the retail price of the most popular price category for a 20-pack of cigarettes since 2011; the portion of the increase related to taxes; the portion of the increase due to price rises by the tobacco industry in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17692/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be raised annually if tobacco taxation were to be increased annually on a pro-rata basis in order that all packs of 20 cigarettes cost at least €20 by 2025; the estimated revenue that would be raised annually if an equivalent annual tobacco tax on roll-your-own cigarettes was introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17693/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the funding provided to the Revenue Commissioners for 2020 and 2021 to combat tobacco smuggling; if the Revenue Commissioners are developing a dedicated anti-smuggling strategy; if the Covid-19 pandemic has had any impact on the Revenue Commissioners combatting smuggling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17694/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated amount of revenue that would be raised annually if an excise tax of €0.06 per ml of electronic cigarette liquid was applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17697/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the number of applications under the cycle to work scheme in 2020 and to date in 2021; the cost of the scheme in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17703/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance his views on expanding the reach of the bike-to-work scheme beyond PAYE workers to all persons, that is, employers, sole traders, students, jobseekers, disabled, unpaid home work and the retired; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17704/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the number of category A vehicles that were charged with the nitrogen dioxide emissions levy in 2020 and to date in 2021; the revenue raised each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17710/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be raised if the current nitrogen dioxide levy was doubled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17712/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be raised annually if the current nitrogen dioxide levy was applied to both category A and B vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17714/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be raised annually if the current nitrogen dioxide levy was doubled and extended to both category A and B vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17716/21]
• Health 14 questions

  • 2021-03-31 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the status of a competition (details supplied) which was due to go out to public tender in 2017; the progress in relation to the tender; when it will be published or retendered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16440/21]
  • 2021-03-31 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the reason a tender (details supplied) which was due to go out to public tender in 2017 has been extended each year since, with a further extension until May 2021; the way this was allowed to occur in the years before Covid-19; when the competition will go back out to public tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16441/21]
  • 2021-03-31 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the way that the successful company (details supplied) won a tender competition by providing a product without a specific feature on it given that other companies with products without the same feature in question were eliminated from the tender process for that very reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16442/21]
  • 2021-03-31 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the amount paid to a company (details supplied) since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis by services provided in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17265/21]
  • 2021-03-31 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if a copy of a HSE report will be made available (details supplied). [17266/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if HSE occupational health policy will be amended to allow the occupational health team to accept recommendations from medical consultant doctors regarding the ability of staff within the service to be fit or unfit to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17682/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1363 and 1451 of 24 March 2021, if the questions can be addressed with regard to the position of approved driving instructors and driver testers on the current vaccination priority list; his plans to ensure that workers who are most exposed are prioritised in view of the fact that the nature of their work puts them in regular contact with members of the public in a confined space for at least one hour at a time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17683/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the preparatory work under way in his Department on a public health (obesity) Bill as per the programme for Government; the stakeholders that have been and are being consulted in relation to same to date; the timeline for the development of the Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17684/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the funding for Healthy Ireland in each year since its establishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17685/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the number of retail outlets registered to sell tobacco on the national register of tobacco retailers in 2020 to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17695/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the estimated amount of revenue that would be raised annually if an annual €500 tobacco retailer licence fee per retail outlet was introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17696/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if retail outlets in Ireland are required to register with a State body if they seek to sell electronic cigarettes; if so, the number of outlets in Ireland that are licensed to sell electronic cigarettes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17698/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health the estimated amount of revenue that would be raised annually if an annual €50 electronic cigarette retailer licence fee per retail outlet was introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17699/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Health if urgent consideration will be given to opening a mobile test centre in north County Dublin given the high levels of Covid-19 in the Skerries and Balbriggan local electoral area. [18051/21]
• Enterprise 3 questions

  • 2021-03-31 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the agreement reached by the Spanish Government to trial a four-day working week under a small pilot project; if his Department is examining the matter and the possibility of introducing a similar pilot project here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16443/21]
  • 2021-03-31 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will re-establish the cooperative development unit as a worker co-operative development unit in order to coordinate the existing worker cooperative network and to provide capital and technical assistance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16444/21]
  • 2021-03-31 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 170 of 24 March 2021, the number of breaches to be relayed in relation to the NACE sector in which the breach took place by year in tabular form. [17466/21]
• Justice 3 questions

  • 2021-03-31 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice the number of crimes (details supplied) that have been recorded during the pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17267/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice if she will engage with the Private Security Authority in relation to educating and training for licensed security professionals; and her views on the creation of a singular training and education course for a security licence which incorporates static guarding, door security, CCTV monitoring, conflict resolution and self-defence given that there is no current course offering a licence which covers all these skillsets. [17768/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice if security companies will be made to provide their employees with stab vests and body CCTV cameras while working in the interest of safety and security. [17769/21]
• Agriculture 3 questions

  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding available for Food Dudes and Incredible Edibles; the funding that has been available for these schemes in each year since they started; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17686/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of schools and students participating in the school milk scheme in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17688/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of products provided here under the EU school milk scheme in each of the past five years in respect of the five heat-treated milk products under category 1 and category 2 of the scheme; the value of products that are provided here under the scheme for each of the past five years in respect of category 1 products that are heat-treated milk with chocolate, fruit juice or flavoured; if the value of products provided under category 1 are broken down in terms of the quantity and value provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17689/21]
• Environment 2 questions

  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount of dedicated funding that will be provided to each local authority to monitor and enforce the smoky coal ban and any future solid fuel regulations as part of the forthcoming clean air strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17700/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of the forthcoming clean air strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17701/21]
• Social 2 questions

  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the fuel allowance; the number of applications for the fuel allowance; the number of refusals for the fuel allowance over the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17707/21]
  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the price substitute between bituminous smoky coal and smokeless coal; if the fuel allowance will be increased to take into account any prohibition of the sale of bituminous smoky coal, wet wood and sod turf; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17708/21]
• Transport 1 question

  • 2021-03-31 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Transport the FETAC qualification level currently required for driving testers at national driving test centres; the timescale required to reach the necessary level; if all current testers have the required qualification including all of the 40 new testers recruited recently to clear the driving test backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17407/21]
• Housing 1 question

  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost for retrofitting a social housing unit as part of the national retrofitting scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17705/21]
• Foreign 1 question

  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the current situation in Bahrain; and if he plans to use Ireland’s position to work with the international community to push for the human rights violations there to be addressed. [18052/21]
• Education 1 question

  • 2021-04-01 Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Education the funding available for food dudes and incredible edibles; the funding that has been available for these schemes in each year since they commenced; the number of schools and students that have availed of the schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17687/21]