Questions asked 20 total

• Justice 5 questions

  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of new Garda cars and vans that have been added to each Garda district within the DMR division to date in 2023, in tabular form. [29429/23]
  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of serious and fatal road-traffic collisions that gardaí attended between Junction 6 and Junction 15, in both directions on the M50, in the years of 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [29430/23]
  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of gardaí, by rank, attached to the Dublin crime response team. [29431/23]
  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 512 of 30 May 2023, if the necessary information from the Garda authorities has been supplied in order to have this PQ answered. [29432/23]
  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of WTE staff, by grade, working in her Department's Registration Office in Burgh Quay as of 13 June 2023, in tabular form. [29433/23]
• Transport 3 questions

  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Transport the frequency with which the help and emergency push-button system on train stations' platforms are tested to ensure that the help or emergency buttons are in full working order. [29427/23]
  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Transport if the new DART and commuter rail carriages coming on board in the next few years will have automatic retractable ramps covering fully the gap between station platform and train carriages at all stations where these new carriages will be in use; and if not, if Iarnród Éireann will carry out the necessary improvements needed at the stations to ensure that the retractable ramps covers the whole gap between the platform and train carriages. [29428/23]
  • 2023-06-22 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Transport if provision will be made for the cost of resitting a driving test; and the efforts being made to reduce the waiting times for repeat tests. [30324/23]
• Education 3 questions

  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Education her views on class sizes increasing by approximately 35% to 40% due to a reduction in the staff allocation at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29067/23]
  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Education the estimated full-year cost of recruiting 35 additional WTE psychologists for the National Educational Psychological Service. [29424/23]
  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Education the number of places in each teacher training college for initial teacher training for primary school teachers for the past three years, including 2023. [29425/23]
• Health 3 questions

  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE emergency nurses working in each of the three children's emergency departments within Dublin in the years of 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [29434/23]
  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE staff, by job title, working in the eating disorder teams based in CHO7 and CHO9; the number of WTE vacancies, by job title, in each of these teams; and when each of these vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [29435/23]
  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of laparoscopic gastric bypass surgeries performed at St. Vincent's University Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [29436/23]
• Foreign 1 question

  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number and percentage of staff based at either the Irish Embassy in New Delhi or Consulate General Office in Mumbai, who are fluent in speaking and or writing in Hindi. [29437/23]
• Finance 1 question

  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer of increasing the incapacitated child credit from €3,300 to €3,500 per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29066/23]
• Public Expenditure 1 question

  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if the OPW intends to put out a tender for the provision of restaurant/café service at Dublin Castle during the remainder of 2023. [29426/23]
• Tourism 1 question

  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media when she last met the CEO of Screen Ireland; the issues that were discussed; and when she is next scheduled to meet the CEO. [29423/23]
• Social 1 question

  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost to the Exchequer of introducing a cost-of-disability payment of €20, €25, €30, €40 and €50 per week to support the additional costs as a disabled person living in Irish society, as set out in a report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29065/23]
• Children 1 question

  • 2023-06-20 Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will examine the case of a child (details supplied). [29613/23]