Aisling Dempsey — Fianna Fáil
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Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.
Johnny Guirke — Sinn Féin
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Questions asked1 total
Health1 question
2024-07-23Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Health the reason the additional further scale point and long-service increment applied to the clinical nurse manager 2 grade was not applied to the clinical nurse-midwife specialist grade, even though the two grades were salary linked since 1999; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30971/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of beds currently contracted by his Department to accommodate IPAS applicants; the number that have been contracted for each of the past five years; the number of beds that are currently contracted by his Department to accommodate IPAS applicants but are empty; the number that are currently available to his Department to accommodate IPAS applicants but are empty; and if he is satisfied that he has up to date real time information on accommodation availability. [31138/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will list the direct provision centres currently operating in the State; the number of persons residing in each; and the number residing in each centre in each of the past five years in tabular form. [31141/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of special emergency accommodation companies that have been set up, or contracted, by Tusla in Ireland in each of the past ten years, for the purposes of accommodating children in State care; the names of such companies; and the amount paid to each company, per child per year, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [31142/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied minors or separated children currently seeking asylum in the State; and the types of care settings they are in, i.e., foster care, residential care, emergency accommodation, and so on. [31143/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a differential in mortality rates between infants in direct provision and infants in the general population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31144/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applications received to date under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; the number of applications processed to date; the number of applications approved to date; the number of applications rejected to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31157/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 570 of 1 February 2022, the number of children referred to Tusla in 2023; the source of the referrals, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31158/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children referred to Tusla to date in 2024; the source of the referrals as was provided in response to Parliamentary Question No. 570 of 1 February 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31159/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will reassess the closure of a facility (details supplied) in Navan; if this will put significant pressure on the remaining staff; if the quality of care to the children will be reduced; and if life will be made more difficult for parents. [31186/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times staff from his Department, or any other Government Department, have consulted in person with community groups regarding the location of IPAS applicants in each of the past five years. [32345/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times staff from his Department, or any other Government Department, have consulted in writing with community groups regarding the location of IPAS applicants in each of the past five years. [32346/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times staff from his Department, or any other Government Department, have consulted on any teleconferencing systems (details supplied), with community groups regarding the location of IPAS applicants in each of the past five years. [32347/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times he has consulted in person with community groups regarding the location of IPAS applicants in each of the past five years. [32348/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times has he personally consulted in writing with community groups regarding the location of IPAS applicants in each of the past five years. [32349/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of times has he personally consulted on any teleconferencing system (details supplied) with community groups regarding the location of IPAS applicants in each of the past five years. [32350/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the form of any consultations he had with community groups regarding the locating of IPAS applicants in each of the past five years. [32351/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of IPAS centres located in higher socio-economic areas in each of the past five years. [32352/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of IPAS centres located in middle socio-economic areas in each of the past five years. [32353/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of IPAS centres located in lower socio-economic areas in each of the past five years. [32354/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if research has been conducted on the effect of Government immigration policy on the increase in racism nationwide (details supplied). [32433/24]
Justice15 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of staff who have been employed by IPAS to process asylum applicants this year and for each of the past five years. [31139/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of speeding fines or penalty points issued as a result of evidence obtained by speed camera vans nationwide in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, by county, in tabular form. [31233/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of Gardaí who have entered the force and the number of Gardaí who have left the force in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31234/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of Gardaí who have been assaulted while on duty in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31235/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of Gardaí working in road policing currently, and the number in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [31236/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of road traffic offences recorded by Gardaí in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, by type of offence, in tabular form. [31237/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of road traffic offences recorded by Gardaí in each of the past ten years, in each county, in tabular form. [31238/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of persons arrested for drug offences in each county in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [31239/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of persons arrested for knife crime in each of the past ten years, in each county, in tabular form. [31240/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of times Gardaí were called to the scene of domestic violence in each of the past ten years in each county, in tabular form. [31241/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice amount seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), and the monetary value of assets seized by the CAB, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31245/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the amount returned to the Exchequer by the Criminal Assets Bureau, including money made from the sale or auction of assets, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [31246/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of weapons seized by Gardaí in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024; and the number of weapons destroyed or disposed of by Gardaí in each year, in tabular form. [31247/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if a feasibility study has been carried out in relation to the possibility that asylum applicants who fail in their initial application could make their appeal from the safe third country that they arrived from, through the Irish Embassy in that country. [32423/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if the fundamental review of the November Dublin riots is complete; and if she will publish the results of that review. [32424/24]
Transport4 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport the number of persons that have died on the roads in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024. [31242/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport the number of drivers who have died on the roads in each of the past ten years; and the number of whom were not wearing their seatbelts at the time of collision, in tabular form. [31243/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport the amount spent by his Department on road safety advertising in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024. [31244/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport the number of section 15 nomination forms for taxi licences that have been lodged with the National Transport Authority for each of the past five years; and if he aware that section 15 nomination forms are being sold for up to €60,000 and are being openly advertised for sale on websites (details supplied). [31798/24]
Agriculture4 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine an application for the fodder support scheme (details supplied). [31080/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has analysed the increased cost of food production in Ireland over the past five years; and, if so, the details of these cost increases over the past five years. [31155/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons who attained a green certificate qualification in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024. [31156/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the areas of natural constraints payment will be released to farmers prior to September due to the impact of flooding on agricultural production; the supports currently available to farmers impacted by flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31284/24]
Environment2 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount of funding allocated to Ireland under the EU just transition fund; the amount of that funding drawn down or spent in each of the past five years and to date in 2024; the entities that drew down funding; and the proposed projects the money was to be spent on. [31147/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his attention has been drawn to the dangers associated with lithium-ion batteries (details supplied); and if he intends to develop an appropriate safety standard for battery energy storage systems in the State. [31148/24]
Social2 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for aid that have been received by the State for aid in east Cork since the flooding on 18 October 2023; and the amount of money paid out to date in aid to the residents of east Cork since the flooding. [31150/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who applied for jobseeker’s allowance or jobseeker’s benefit, and who identified themselves as former farmers, in each of the past ten years. [31151/24]
Health2 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of maternal deaths for each of the past ten years; and the level of investment made to reduce the number of maternal deaths, for each of the past ten years. [32439/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the total number of GPs contracted to provide termination of pregnancy services in the community as of May 2024. [32620/24]
Public Expenditure1 question
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the private companies operating within the grounds of Leinster House; the number which are contracted by his Department, the OPW or the Houses of the Oireachtas; the number which are not publicly contracted; the annual value of the contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31110/24]
Housing1 question
2024-07-23Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the duration for which the emergency suspension of planning law for the location of asylum applicant accommodation will continue; if he will continue this suspension of planning law in this sector indefinitely; and if proper planning will be achieved if there is no planning process in this sector. [32431/24]