Emer Higgins — Fine Gael
0 votes ·
5 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked5 total
Social2 questions
2022-07-26Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending the household benefits package to carers who do not live with the person they care for but for whom the carer’s allowance is their only income; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39596/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Social Protection if the income threshold for the carer’s allowance will be expanded in the context of budget 2023 negotiations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39597/22]
Transport1 question
2022-07-26Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Transport the reason for the decision to split the proposed W6 BusConnects route into the two sections of W61 and W62, which will no longer directly link Maynooth with Newcastle, County Dublin as planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41013/22]
Children1 question
2022-07-26Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the criteria by which food supply contracts are awarded for persons in temporary accommodation whether or not cooking facilities are included; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39624/22]
Health1 question
2022-07-26Deputy Emer Higgins asked the Minister for Health the cost of litigation involving the victims of thalidomide to date; the anticipated future costs; the expected completion of this litigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39868/22]
Eoin Ó Broin — Sinn Féin
0 votes ·
49 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked49 total
Housing28 questions
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has been notified by local authorities of potential defective blocks identified in advance of contracts being signed on social housing construction or turnkey projects; if so, the local authorities involved; the number of occasions on which such possible defective blocks were identified; and the action that was taken by his Department with respect to the potential defective blocks such as notification of the National Building Control and Market Surveillance Office or related inspection and enforcement action. [39749/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department received a report from Donegal County Council on foot of its inspection of 187 quarries in the County; if he will provide a summary of the information and recommendation contained in the report; and the action that his Department is taking in respect of same. [39750/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering requesting National Standards Authority of Ireland to conduct reviews of the masonry block industry standard and the aggregate industry standard. [39751/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing acquisition requests received to date from each local authority in tabular form, broken down by acquisition requests with a social housing support tenant in situ and acquisition requests whereby the property is vacant. [40173/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will commission specific guidelines for local authorities setting out the current thinking on the issue of defective blocks as an interim measure while the National Standards Authority of Ireland is undertaking its review of IS 464 (details supplied). [40174/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable housing fund affordable houses delivered in each local authority to date in 2022; the purchase price of each size of home in each development; the full cost of each size home when the local authority equity stake is taken into account; and the household income eligibility for each size house in each scheme in tabular form. [40175/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has had any engagement with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and-or the National Asset Management Agency on NAMA’s interest in a development (details supplied) with respect to the way that NAMA’s interest could be leveraged to secure genuinely affordable homes as required under the terms of the development; and if not, if he will initiate such engagements to ensure that there is no delay to the delivery of the affordable homes at this location. [40176/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his engagement with the National Asset Management Agency and the Minister for Finance on the issue of affordable home delivery at a site (details supplied). [40177/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has received the report from the Working Group on Building Defects; if so, when he intends to publish it; and if he has not yet received it, when he expects to receive same [40234/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on the funding allocated to the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027 in budget 2022. [40338/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the water abstraction legislation; when it will be introduced in the Houses of the Oireachtas; and when he expects it to be operational [41225/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the procedure in place for group water schemes to apply to become part of the public water network; the amount of funding that has been made available to this scheme in each of the past five years; the number of schemes that have been brought into the public system in each of the past five years; and the total number of homes involved in each scheme for each year by local authority. [41226/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the Government's position with respect to the detailed opinion from the European Commission on the Electoral Reform Bill 2022 as set out in notification 2022/0184/IRL; the reason that he failed to inform the Houses of the Oireachtas of this detailed opinion during the passage of the legislation; if any of the last-minute amendments introduced in Seanad Éireann were a response to the Commission's opinion. [41620/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if amending legislation to the Electoral Reform Bill 2022 will now be required in response to the European Commission's detailed opinion on the Bill as set out in Notification 2022/0184/IRL. [41621/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage understanding of the timeline for the review by National Standards Authority of Ireland of IS 465 in terms of commencement and completion of the review; the public consultation that will be involved in the process; and when he expects his Department to be in a position to consider amendments to the regulations underpinning the defective concrete block remediation scheme on foot of the review. [41622/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of European Commission enforcement against the State for breaches of the Urban Wastewater Directive; the number of agglomerations still in breach of the directive; the number of households affected in each agglomerations; and the timeline for bringing the wastewater treatment plans in each of these area into compliance. [41623/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the 90 vacant buildings intended for multi-family emergency accommodation for Ukrainian refugees; the timeline for bringing each of these properties into active use as emergency accommodation; and the counties in which these buildings are located [41624/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to review the housing need and demand assessment targets set for local authority development plans and the Government's Housing Plan given the new data on population contained in Census 2022; and if so, the timeline for this review and its impacts on development plans the Housing Plan targets [41626/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of council mortgage applications, approvals and drawdowns to date in 2022, broken down by local authority and with an average amount for the applications, approvals and drawdowns; and if he will provide the same information for 2021, in tabular form. [41627/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the social housing output across all delivery streams in 2022 up to Q2 [41628/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new staff approved for each local authority housing department since the announcement of up to 200 new posts at the end of 2021. [41629/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the legislation on the directly elected mayor for Limerick city; and the timeline for its introduction [41630/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the local authorities that now have vacant homes officers in place; if they are full-time vacant homes officers; and if not, if this work constitutes part of their overall responsibilities in tabular form. [41631/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the review of the social housing income eligibility thresholds. [41632/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will set out all legislation currently pending within his Department; the current status of the legislation and the timelines for the introduction of each piece of legislation in tabular form [41633/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will set out all the reviews currently underway or concluded but not yet enacted or published within his Department; and the timeline for the completion and publication of each review in tabular form [41634/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all detailed opinions issued by the European Commission to his Department in 2021 and to date in 2022 with respect to legislation or policy initiated by his Department; and if the opinion highlighted conflicts or compliance with relevant European Union law in tabular form. [41635/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will set out all of the live infringement actions that are being taken against his Department by the European Commission; the status of these infringement actions; and the cost to date for each action from the time that the action was taken in tabular form [41636/22]
Environment5 questions
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of heating systems upgrades installed broken down by heat source including but not limited to oil, gas, electric heat pump and so on for the warmer homes scheme for the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [41304/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of heating systems upgrades installed broken down by heat source including but not limited to oil, gas, electric heat pump and so on for the warmth and wellbeing scheme in each of the years 2019 to date in 2022, in tabular form. [41305/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of retrofits completed per month under the warmer homes scheme in 2022, in tabular form. [41306/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 113 of 11 May 2022, when the implementation report on the 2016-2019 Energy Poverty Strategy will be available; and the status of the new energy poverty strategy. [41307/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 90, 105, 106, 107 and 110 of 24 May and 77 of 31 May 2022, the status of the replies. [41319/22]
Education3 questions
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the lack of available primary school places in Newcastle, County Dublin; and if she will consider increasing resources for a school (details supplied) in order for it to cater for the growing population of the area. [40335/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education the plans that are in place to provide increased resources to schools in an area (details supplied) to ensure access to education for children and young people who live in direct provision [40457/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) is currently oversubscribed for the 2022-2023 school year; if her Department intends to supply emergency accommodation to the school in order to address the level of need; and the plans that her Department has to ensure increased capacity in schools across the Lucan area in order to cater for the growing population. [40971/22]
Children3 questions
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the use of modular accommodation to provide emergency accommodation for Ukrainian refuges; the number of sites that have been made available to date by local authorities for this purpose; the timeline for delivery of the modular units on these sites; and the number of families to be accommodated. [41625/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the poor conditions for Ukrainian refugees and asylum applicants in emergency accommodation provided by the Government; and if he will provide details of his engagements with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on the way that both Departments can work together to resolve these issues. [40178/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures that his Department is taking to improve the quality of emergency accommodation for Ukrainian refugees and asylum applicants in emergency accommodation; if he intends to pursue the proposal by an organisation (details supplied) with respect to the provision of licence agreements and modest administrative payments to owners of some of the 60,000 holiday homes across the State to provide appropriate emergency accommodation for Ukrainian refugees, and in turn, easing capacity on other forms of accommodation for those in the asylum system. [40179/22]
Health3 questions
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of staff employed by a section 38 organisation (details supplied) who were deemed eligible and received the pandemic recognition payment have now been advised they are not eligible and are liable for overpayments despite working in an environment that warranted their inclusion in sequence group 1 and 2 of the vaccination programme and being in direct contact with patients; if this is correct; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39600/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health if there are currently any plans to add play therapists to the professions regulated by CORU; and if not, if it will be considered. [39636/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health if there are exceptional circumstances through which the HSE might relax the qualifying criteria for a course at an institution (details supplied). [41805/22]
Agriculture3 questions
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the person or body that an animal owner makes representations to regarding the charges for upkeep of an animal seized under section 38A of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013; and the format in which such representations should be made. [40804/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the transfer of local authority veterinary services over to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40805/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if plans are in place for his Department to carry out inspections of dog breeding establishments when local authority veterinary services are transferred to his Department. [40806/22]
Rural2 questions
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department is considering reducing the number of breeding bitches down from six that would require a dog breeding establishment licence. [40807/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will publish the template used by local authorities for the collection of data at local authority dog pounds; and if she will provide a breakdown of the surrender fees, if any, at each local authority dog pound. [41504/22]
Transport1 question
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Transport the relevant legislation that is currently in place regarding the ownership and use of scrambler and quad bikes in public places including on public roads; if these vehicles are subject to road tax; and his plans to address the continued widespread misuse of these vehicles. [39866/22]
Foreign1 question
2022-07-26Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to an Irish citizen (details supplied) being wrongly detained in Sofia, Bulgaria; and if so, the measures that the Government is taking to secure their release. [41717/22]
Mark Ward — Sinn Féin
0 votes ·
19 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked19 total
Health13 questions
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the reason that only five of the 16 promised specialist nursing posts for adult neurology services have been funded in 2022 (details supplied). [39609/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the number of children who were referred to child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS; the number of referrals that were accepted; the reason that referrals were not accepted, per community healthcare organisation or CHO area, in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40111/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the status of the review and audit of CAMHS; when the review commenced; when the review will be published; the scope of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40112/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health , further to Parliamentary Question No. 956 of 12 July, the number of non-HSE inpatient services provided to persons who suffer from mental health difficulties that are not registered with the Mental Health Commission, by CHO area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40183/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the amount the HSE has spent on salaries and fees for trainee clinical psychologists in each year of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41046/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the number of adults and children in each CHO who are on waiting lists for primary care psychology; the length of time that they have been waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41526/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the number of children in each CHO who are on waiting lists for CAMHS; the length of time that they have been waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41527/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the number of children who have been admitted to adult psychiatric facilities to date in 2022 per CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41528/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the new national psychology placement office; the remit of the office; the amount of funding that has been allocated to the office to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41529/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the status of the national review into CAMHS; and when the review will be published. [41530/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health the number of persons employed in the HSE pest control service in Dublin in each of the years from 2010 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41531/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the number of beds in CAMHS; the number that are currently operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41532/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Health if he plans to appoint a national director for mental health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41533/22]
Justice3 questions
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 1201 of 19 January 2022, if she will provide a status update of the pilot project; the current and capital cost involved in the establishment of the pilot crisis intervention team in Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39805/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide details on the make-up of a crisis intervention team by funding and staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39807/22]
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Justice if a passport verification for the family reunification application by persons (details supplied) will be facilitated by the Irish embassy in Delhi, India given the growing political and economic uncertainty in Sri Lanka, where the applicants currently reside. [40870/22]
Education1 question
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Education if she will address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied). [40832/22]
Social1 question
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person who is on the benefit payment for 65-year-olds can leave the State for over two weeks without their payment being affected; and her views on the case of a person (details supplied) has been told that they need to reapply for same when they return. [41739/22]
Children1 question
2022-07-26Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the constitutional challenge by a ward of court as referred to by him during the pre-legislative scrutiny of the Assisted-Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41537/22]