Questions asked 15 total

• Children 3 questions

  • 2023-02-08 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Ukrainian refugees or asylum seekers who are being accommodated at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5548/23]
  • 2023-02-09 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details on the costs incurred in transporting asylum applicants and beneficiaries of temporary protection to reception centres, accommodation units and emergency accommodation centres located throughout the State from 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6255/23]
  • 2023-02-09 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department collects data on PPS numbers assigned to international protection applicants; if so, if he will provide the number of PPS numbers assigned from 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6308/23]
• Health 3 questions

  • 2023-02-08 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if a summary report of the public submissions to the abortion legislative review has been compiled and provided to the chairperson of the review; if so, if such a report will be made available to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5533/23]
  • 2023-02-08 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the number of submissions from the total 6,968 public submissions to the abortion legislative review that advocated the retention of the three-day waiting period; the number that advocated for the reduction of the three-day waiting period; the number that advocated for the extension of the three-day waiting period; the number that advocated for the abolition of the three-day waiting period; the number that expressed no view on the three-day waiting period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5534/23]
  • 2023-02-08 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health the number of submissions from the total 6,968 public submissions to the abortion legislative review that mentioned the issue of foetal pain relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5535/23]
• Transport 2 questions

  • 2023-02-08 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Transport if he will engage with Transport Infrastructure Ireland to bring the decades-long delay regarding the N80 Mountmellick relief road to a final resolution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5920/23]
  • 2023-02-08 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Transport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland has indicated to his Department any intention to prevent the development of the N80 Mountmellick relief road project because it does not align with the Government’s climate action ambition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5921/23]
• Tourism 2 questions

  • 2023-02-08 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide details of the funding and supports being provided by her Department to the St. Patrick’s Festival (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5708/23]
  • 2023-02-08 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide an update on the recommendations of the Report of the Future of Media Commission to establish six new support schemes, including the establishment of a local democracy reporting scheme and a Courts reporting scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5714/23]
• Finance 1 question

  • 2023-02-08 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Finance the estimated savings that have accrued to print and digital newspapers following the decision to apply a zero-rate of VAT to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5716/23]
• Housing 1 question

  • 2023-02-08 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the attention of his Department has been drawn to the deteriorating status of the ruins of Tyone Abbey, Tyone, Nenagh, County Tipperary; if his Department has had any engagement with local landowners, the Office of Public Works, or Tipperary County Council in relation to the surveying or preservation of the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5545/23]
• Justice 1 question

  • 2023-02-08 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice if his attention has been drawn to reports that over 5,000 persons arrived at Dublin Airport in 2022 without valid documentation or with no documentation at all (details supplied); if he agrees that this constitutes an egregious abuse of the immigration process; the steps he will take to combat this phenomenon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5949/23]
• Agriculture 1 question

  • 2023-02-08 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to confirm the directors appointed by his office to the board of Coillte; if he has had engagements with these directors from December 2022 to date; if he has communicated the Government's dissatisfaction with a company's (details supplied) deal to these directors; if he considers the positions of the directors appointed by his office to be tenable following the deal between Coillte and the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6089/23]
• Education 1 question

  • 2023-02-09 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education if she will address concerns relating to the lack of home economics teachers and the lack of provision for upskilling available to home economics teachers (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6328/23]