Parliamentary questions

Sports Funding

Michael Creed

327. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the progress being made regarding evaluation of grant applications under the sports capital programme; if it is her intention to deal with applications for sporting equipment first; if so, the timeline for this and when the remaining applications will be dealt with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7487/24]

Health Services Staff

Michael Creed

567. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have their CORU registration completed. [7713/24]

Education and Training Boards

Michael Creed

649. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the progress that has been made with regard to a cohort of workers (details supplied) in connection with contracts of employment, in particular the progress made on foot of union responses to the published proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8005/24]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

489. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the agri-climate rural environment scheme, ACRES, payment will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in Cork. [6271/24]

Tax Rebates

Michael Creed

165. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Finance when a person in County Cork (details supplied) will receive their VAT refund. [5934/24]

Social Welfare Payments

Michael Creed

238. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a decision on a carers allowance application (details supplied). [5925/24]

Social Welfare Payments

Michael Creed

239. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a decision on a domiciliary care allowance application (details supplied). [5926/24]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

273. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a young farmer payment will issue to persons (details supplied). [5908/24]

Social Welfare Code

Michael Creed

313. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite arrangements for the delivery of PPS numbers to EU applicants wishing to work here in the construction sector; if she is aware that the construction industry has indicated that its international recruitment efforts are being hampered by this delay of up to 12 weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5561/24]

Public Procurement Contracts

Michael Creed

241. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the level of oversight by the Office of Government Procurement regarding contracts awarded; the oversight of a particular contract in the Dublin area (details supplied); the level of complaints received with regard to service delivery under this contract; if this contractor has other contracts; if details of same can be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4763/24]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Michael Creed

305. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection the outcome of a review of a disability allowance payment (details supplied). [4773/24]

Citizenship Applications

Michael Creed

315. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Justice when an applicant for citizenship naturalisation (details supplied) can expect progress on their application. [4656/24]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Michael Creed

349. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in light of the financial pressure on the childcare sector, if consideration is being given to increasing the core funding provided to pre-school childcare facilities to cover the increased costs of operating in the sector, including the costs associated with the additional financial governance and accountability obligations on partner services under the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Circular 13/2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4762/24]

Driver Licences

Michael Creed

193. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Transport the efforts being made by his Department or the RSA for additional driving licence exchange arrangements with other jurisdictions; the impact that this could have on driving test waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3909/24]

Office of Government Procurement

Michael Creed

232. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform why the Office of Government Procurement has not granted a contract (details supplied) to the most economically competitive price submitted; if he will identify the sourcing team involved in the adjudication in this case; if he will explain why having decided to divide the country into 16 distinct lots for the purpose of this contract it subsequently decided to allocate the contract to a UK company for the entire country; if he will review this specific decision in light of the above and review the oversight of sourcing teams and their considerable powers; and if he will further clarify who is obliged to purchase from the preferred tenderer in circumstances where the public purse would be better served financially by allowing the entities obliged to purchase from cheaper providers who are Irish SME businesses. [3936/24]

Housing Schemes

Michael Creed

329. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will expedite the regulations and instructions to local authorities to give effect to the announcement last October of extending the local authority home loan scheme to renovations; if he will ensure that maximum discretion is allowed to local authorities to deal with the many and varied circumstances that they encounter in this regard; and if he will give a timeline for the introduction of these regulations. [3926/24]

Social Welfare Benefits

Michael Creed

382. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive child benefit. [4151/24]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

438. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive their young farmer top-up payment. [3818/24]

Agriculture Schemes

Michael Creed

442. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive their ACRES payment. [3902/24]

Postal Services

Michael Creed

66. Deputy Michael Creed asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will clarify the legal obligation on post and parcel delivery services to certify parcel delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3174/24]