Questions asked 24 total

• Education 5 questions

  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education the estimated full-year cost to recruit 42 additional WTE guidance posts in schools for the 2024-2025 school year. [53230/23]
  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education the estimated full-year cost to recruit 250 additional SNAs. [53231/23]
  • 2023-12-07 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education how many children in County Meath are on the waiting lists to get into primary schools between 1st class and 6th class, i.e., children transferring during the school year due to a change in circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54301/23]
  • 2023-12-07 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education the steps that can be taken to facilitate a move for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54302/23]
  • 2023-12-07 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education the pupil/teacher ratio in primary schools in County Meath; the ten schools with the highest ratios in County Meath; her plans to reduce this ratio; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54303/23]
• Foreign 3 questions

  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of WTE staff by grade at the Irish embassies based in Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Jakarta; and if he will provide same figures as of 1 April 2022, in tabular form. [53217/23]
  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of persons that applied for the post of driver at the Irish Embassy based in Seoul. [53218/23]
  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to what extent the commitment of €225 million in climate financing by 2030 overlaps with overseas development assistance; if climate financing will be a separate fund of money to overseas development assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53273/23]
• Health 3 questions

  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE registrars in paediatric anaesthesiology at CHI Temple Street in 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [53226/23]
  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health to outline full breakdown of how the €15.7 million was spent by the HSE on cessation services in 2022. [53227/23]
  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health the number of older persons day care centres funded by HSE that are currently based within primary care centres in CHO8 to date in 2023, in tabular form. [53228/23]
• Tourism 2 questions

  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide a progress update in language area planning in the Gaeltacht in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53474/23]
  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of vacant WTE posts by job title that have yet to be filled at Coimisiún Na Meán, it tabular form. [53229/23]
• Environment 2 questions

  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications what subsidies the Government has provided to develop carbon capture and storage technologies in each of the years 2015 to 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53260/23]
  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications in relation to discounted rates on hardship meters, if he aware that discount rates are not available on hardship meters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53339/23]
• Finance 2 questions

  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year yield that would be generated if the electricity tax on large energy users increased to €3 per MW hour, in tabular form. [53222/23]
  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Finance about Ireland's special drawing rights and their reallocation; how have they been reallocated; if they can be used as a means of debt cancellation and funding for loss and damage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53268/23]
• Enterprise 2 questions

  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacancies by job title at the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission as of 27 November 2023; the estimated full-year cost to fill each of these vacancies; and when each of those vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [53219/23]
  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if IDA Ireland put out a tender for a full-time Mexico based business development consultant in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [53220/23]
• Social 2 questions

  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost to recruit 50 additional WTE community welfare officers, in tabular form. [53221/23]
  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Social Protection if she is aware of the report from the committee on social protection (details supplied) which recommended that the pension investment funds be prohibited from investing in fossil fuels or the arms industry; to outline the Government’s position on this recommendation; if her Department has carried out any feasibility studies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53243/23]
• Justice 2 questions

  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Justice if the posts of director of licensing and director of technology for the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland have been filled. [53223/23]
  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Justice the number of new marked vans attached to the Garda Technical Bureau in 2022 and to-date in 2023; the number of marked vans withdrawn from the Garda Technical Bureau during the same period. [53225/23]
• Public Expenditure 1 question

  • 2023-12-05 Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of full-time heating and ventilating engineers employed by the OPW in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if this number will be further increased during 2024. [53232/23]