Questions asked 23 total

• Education 8 questions

  • 2022-03-22 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education the status of a school building project (details supplied). [14395/22]
  • 2022-03-22 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if she, in consultation with Bus Éireann, will remove the nearest school requirement for the school transport scheme given the difficulty for pupils attaining places in their nearest schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14707/22]
  • 2022-03-22 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if she will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) who is seeking assistance with a postgraduate certificate in education issue. [14900/22]
  • 2022-03-23 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if she will consider providing additional funding to schools to deal with their significantly increased energy bills which are putting a strain on their finances. [15276/22]
  • 2022-03-23 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education the status of plans to construct a new ASD unit for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15277/22]
  • 2022-03-24 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education the steps that her Department is taking to ensure that schools across the country are adequately equipped with teachers, accommodation, furniture, schoolbooks, special needs assistants and so on, to cater for the influx of Ukrainian children that will be entering their schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15569/22]
  • 2022-03-24 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if she will consider allocating Departmental staff as coordinators to oversee the even distribution of Ukrainian children to primary and secondary schools across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15570/22]
  • 2022-03-24 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if her Department will in conjunction with the Teaching Council of Ireland fast-track the registration of Ukrainian-trained teachers to help assimilate the Ukrainian children who will be taking up positions in schools. [15573/22]
• Health 4 questions

  • 2022-03-22 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the reason general nurses cross over to work in the different disciplines such as mental health and intellectual disability but the opposite does not happen (details supplied). [14107/22]
  • 2022-03-22 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health his views that it is fair for the HSE to have a policy of only hiring general nurses for clinical nurse specialist roles; the reason highly trained intellectual disability nurses are being overlooked for these roles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14108/22]
  • 2022-03-23 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if national community care network carers will be entitled to the healthcare workers bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15510/22]
  • 2022-03-23 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if he will provide the full list of the categories of eligible workers who are entitled to the healthcare bonus payment. [15511/22]
• Agriculture 3 questions

  • 2022-03-22 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a GLAS payment in respect of 2021 owed to persons (details supplied) has not yet been paid; if he will expedite the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14109/22]
  • 2022-03-23 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine the issuing of animal passports by a society (details supplied). [15274/22]
  • 2022-03-23 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will liaise with a society (details supplied) and ensure that it allows DNA investigations into their ponies; if their ponies have been microchips checked and share DNA profiles of their ponies. [15275/22]
• Children 3 questions

  • 2022-03-24 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is satisfied that non-sporting youth organisations, such as scouting, have adequate grant funding options available to them comparable to sporting organisations. [15032/22]
  • 2022-03-24 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects that baby boxes will be rolled out to new parents across the country; if there will be a pilot; if so, if the location of same has been decided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15318/22]
  • 2022-03-24 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way that Tusla will help with the arrival of unaccompanied minor refugees from Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15319/22]
• Social 2 questions

  • 2022-03-22 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications, grants and refusals under new measures to assist victims of domestic violence to access rent supplement; the average processing time for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14833/22]
  • 2022-03-22 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the pensions auto-enrolment system including plans to consult with the general public; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14834/22]
• Transport 1 question

  • 2022-03-22 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Transport if his Department will consider a monthly cap on toll charges for daily commuters who pass through a toll twice a day every day in view of the increased fuel costs that they are also experiencing. [14708/22]
• Finance 1 question

  • 2022-03-22 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Finance if his Department will address the current VAT regime that charities are subject to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14128/22]
• Foreign 1 question

  • 2022-03-24 Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will deploy consular staff from his Department along the Ukrainian borders with Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Moldova and Romania to support refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine. [15036/22]