Parliamentary questions

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

118. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the timeframe for the Irish motor insurance database application to be rolled out to all Garda members on their mobility devices to include access to information on fleet and motor trader vehicles with real time information on the vehicles to Gardaí; the reason for the delay to include information on fleet and motor trader vehicles to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23048/24]

Passport Services

Catherine Murphy

140. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of passport applicants that had to resubmit photographs in the years 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22898/24]

European Council

Catherine Murphy

141. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if the current situation in Georgia was discussed at the most recent EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. [22899/24]

Departmental Meetings

Catherine Murphy

142. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has spoken with the First Minister of Wales since his appointment. [22900/24]

Recycling Policy

Catherine Murphy

164. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of take-back exemptions, by category type, that have been granted in the context of the deposit return scheme. [22715/24]

Departmental Budgets

Catherine Murphy

168. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the 2023 and 2024 budget allocation for his Department's anti-litter and anti-graffiti awareness grant scheme; and the percentage of the 2023 funding that was actually spent. [22890/24]

Military Aircraft

Catherine Murphy

172. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if Casement Aerodrome has the necessary capability to secure-park a Hercules C-17 military aircraft; and, if not, the funding required in order to be able to secure-park a military aircraft of that size. [22364/24]

Naval Service

Catherine Murphy

173. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence If Haulbowline Naval Base has the capability to dock a military naval ship of 609 m in length; and, if not, the funding required in order to be able to securely dock a military naval ship of that size. [22365/24]

Defence Forces

Catherine Murphy

174. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the breakdown of personnel, by rank, for the Naval Service and Air Corps in the years 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22895/24]

Rail Accidents

Catherine Murphy

176. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the frequency with which Iarnród Éireann carries out a mass evacuation training plan among its staff from trains and stations in the event of a major accident happening either within stations and-or onboard trains; and the number of these mass evacuation training plans carried out in 2023 and to date in 2024 in tabular form. [22370/24]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Catherine Murphy

177. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport for a breakdown of the amount of his Department's pre-committed capital expenditure under the national development plan that will be dedicated to purchase buses for the PSO fleet in each of the years 2024 to 2026, in tabular form. [22371/24]

Road Projects

Catherine Murphy

194. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the funding provided by his Department on a local authority basis in 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024 in respect of national secondary roads and local primary and secondary roads, by amount and road type, in tabular form. [22607/24]

Rail Network

Catherine Murphy

203. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if Iarnród Éireann plans to increase the number of carriages on the 8.35 a.m. DART between Bray and Dublin Connolly. [22891/24]

Legislative Process

Catherine Murphy

204. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport when each remaining section of the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 will be signed into law. [22892/24]

Departmental Meetings

Catherine Murphy

208. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance when he last spoke formally to the CEO of the European Investment Bank. [22374/24]

Data Centres

Catherine Murphy

241. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the amount the OPW has spent to date on the construction of a new public sector data centre; and when this centre will open. [22379/24]

Employment Rights

Catherine Murphy

265. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the date on which the ERO for the security industry will commence. [22742/24]

Teaching Qualifications

Catherine Murphy

277. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of post-primary teachers qualified per subject in each of the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22377/24]

Education Welfare Service

Catherine Murphy

278. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of WTE educational welfare officers based in County Wicklow in each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22378/24]

Sport and Recreational Development

Catherine Murphy

331. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will seek details on any strategic plans to increase tennis participation in Kildare. [22376/24]

Departmental Websites

Catherine Murphy

358. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to develop a website that offers the same benefits as a website (details supplied) for persons to report issues in the public realm. [22813/24]

Departmental Data

Catherine Murphy

417. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of mobile phones reported stolen to Gardaí within DMR Region to-date in 2024; and the number and percentage of those reported stolen phones that have been returned to its original owner. [22366/24]

Private Security Authority

Catherine Murphy

418. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she has met formally with the CEO of the Private Security Authority to date in 2024. [22367/24]

Capital Expenditure Programme

Catherine Murphy

419. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice to provide a breakdown of the amount of her Department's pre-committed capital expenditure under the National Development Plan that will be dedicated to An Garda Síochána capital building programme in each of the years 2024 to 2026, in tabular form. [22368/24]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

420. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the ages currently of each of the Garda prisoner transport carriers currently in the Garda fleet. [22369/24]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

438. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 530 of 30 April 2024, the number of Gardaí on sick leave who are included in the figure of 627 assigned to roads policing on 29 February 2024; the number of Gardaí suspended who are included in the 627 figure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22630/24]

Private Security Authority

Catherine Murphy

447. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of inspections in 2023 and to date in 2024 by the Private Security Authority of accommodations contracted to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in the context of enforcement of personal working at those locations to hold an enforcement guard licence. [22776/24]

Residency Permits

Catherine Murphy

448. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the length of the waiting list in Limerick, Dublin, Cork and Galway for appointments to apply for Irish residency permits; and if she will clarify whether language schools can submit group applications for visiting students to expedite the process due to the delays in issuing permits versus the duration they are valid for. [22811/24]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

461. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the Garda districts within the DMR that received additional Garda vehicles to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22893/24]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

462. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of e-bikes seized by gardaí within the Kildare division in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22894/24]

Immigration Status

Catherine Murphy

464. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice when a person (details supplied) will be provided with a determination and or update in respect of a renewal application. [22915/24]

State Bodies

Catherine Murphy

473. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the CEO of Horse Sport Ireland is accountable to his Department. [22375/24]

Childcare Services

Catherine Murphy

496. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a list of all new childcare services including the name of the service, location and number of childcare places for 2023 in tabular form. [22372/24]

Disability Services

Catherine Murphy

497. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE staff grade psychologists, dieticians and child and family support workers employed in the north Kildare Children's Disability Network Team in the years of 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024 in tabular form. [22373/24]

Departmental Funding

Catherine Murphy

517. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding his Department has provided for the child and youth participation network, by county, in tabular form. [22614/24]

International Protection

Catherine Murphy

527. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has engaged with the Private Security Authority and-or the Minister for Justice in respect of the enforcement guard sector in the context of IPAS accommodation contractors engaged by his Department and the requirement for employees in those accommodations to hold an enforcement guard licence. [22775/24]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Catherine Murphy

550. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to see a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Tallaght University Hospital. [22357/24]

Hospital Staff

Catherine Murphy

551. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE secretaries, who are part of the ophthalmology department responsible for making appointments for patients for eye injections, within the outpatients' eye clinic in the Mater hospital in each of the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the hours and days of week each secretary is based at the hospital, in tabular form. [22358/24]

Hospital Facilities

Catherine Murphy

552. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of theatres currently in use at St. James's Hospital; and the hours and days of the week each theatre is available for procedures, in tabular form. [22359/24]

Hospital Facilities

Catherine Murphy

553. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year costs needed to increase the number of neonatal high-dependency unit beds from six to 14 in both CHI Temple Street and CHI Crumlin. [22360/24]

Health Strategies

Catherine Murphy

554. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health when the last national ophthalmology strategy was delivered; If the recommendations of the strategy were achieved; and when a new strategy will be produced. [22361/24]

Hospital Staff

Catherine Murphy

555. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health If the post of chief cardiac physiologist and senior cardiac physiologist within cardiac catheterisation laboratory at Beaumont Hospital have been filled on a full-time basis. [22362/24]

Hospital Staff

Catherine Murphy

556. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant general and hepato-pancreato-biliary and liver transplant surgeons at St. Vincent's University Hospital in each of the years of 2022, 2023 and to-date in 2024 in tabular form. [22363/24]

Hospital Staff

Catherine Murphy

632. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant ENT surgeons and WTE ENT registrars at the Mater hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22896/24]

Hospital Procedures

Catherine Murphy

633. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the number of paediatric ophthalmology procedures, by type, ]carried out in either CHI Temple Street or CHI Crumlin in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22897/24]

Education and Training Boards

Catherine Murphy

661. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the amount provided to each education and training board, ETB, for Youthreach programmes in 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024. [22615/24]

Air Services

Catherine Murphy

130. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to instances of flights being impacted by GPS spoofing and-or jamming in Irish-controlled airspace in 2022, 2023 or to date in 2024; and if he and or his officials have engaged with the Irish Aviation Authority, the Department Of Defence and-or An Garda Síochána in respect of same over that time period. [22269/24]

International Protection

Catherine Murphy

243. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide this Deputy with a soft copy of an opinion paper (details supplied) in respect of a property in Leixlip, County Kildare. [22272/24]

School Meals Programme

Catherine Murphy

68. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the provisions she has put in place to reduce food waste in the context of the school hot meals initiative; if she engaged with specialists in the area of nutritional value ahead of rolling out the initiative; and her views on whether the initiative is targeted appropriately. [22002/24]

Road Traffic Offences

Catherine Murphy

183. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he and/or the RSA have undertaken a data impact assessment in respect of plans to use speed cameras and or other types of camera to detect motorists who are using their phones while in control of a vehicle on a public roads. [21511/24]