Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

International Protection

Richard Bruton

1107. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether accommodation previously assigned for those seeking temporary protection from Ukraine is becoming available for use for international protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11787/24]

Childcare Services

Richard Bruton

1164. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in view of the delay in opening the portal for the submission of financial data for the core funding support of childcare, if he will he consider extending the deadline of 23 March 2024. [12521/24]

Emergency Departments

Richard Bruton

1211. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health when it is scheduled for Beaumont Hospital to open a new accident and emergency department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11536/24]

Health Services Staff

Richard Bruton

1266. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that many US trained nurses are failing to get permits to practice in Ireland; whether he has received any report on this pattern; and if he plans initiatives that could facilitate such well trained nurses to find a pathway into practice. [11796/24]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Richard Bruton

1361. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that people who have become ill and debilitated with long-Covid, contracted while delivering essential services during the pandemic, face the cut-off of their pay continuation scheme at the end of March; and if he can make arrangements to extend this cover. [12288/24]

Healthcare Policy

Richard Bruton

1444. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he has monitored the progress made under the actions specified in the National Positive Ageing Strategy 2013 and published annual progress reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12648/24]

Mental Health Services

Richard Bruton

1476. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he will consider removing mental health services from the present health recruitment embargo; and if a manpower plan for 2024 is close to agreement. [12850/24]

Health Services Staff

Richard Bruton

1504. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health whether his Department, where it mistakenly placed an employee on too high a PRSI deduction for a lengthy period, will repay the over-deduction over the full period; if not if the refund will only apply to the four year period for which the Department of Social Protection will make repayments. [13036/24]

Departmental Schemes

Richard Bruton

1558. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if there is a shortage of training places in Dublin for those wishing to do apprenticeships, which is requiring people to train far away from home; and if he plans to roll out more facilities in Dublin to meet the need. [12918/24]

European Union

Richard Bruton

40. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will outline the discussions within Europe on the level of hostile online activity by foreign states, and the effectiveness of defences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11130/24]

Departmental Strategies

Richard Bruton

105. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will indicate the sectors for which a circular economy strategy is being prepared; if the values on key targets specified in the Circular Economy Act have been decided; and if he will indicate when each is likely to be published. [11129/24]

Energy Production

Richard Bruton

121. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will outline the prospective generation capacity needs under each category of generation and storage over the next two years to achieve 2025 targets; if he has identified the critical barriers to be overcome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11128/24]

Care of the Elderly

Richard Bruton

5. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health whether his Department is evolving strategies to divert the flow of older patients from accident and emergency departments into more suitable pathways; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9730/24]

Health Strategies

Richard Bruton

12. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health whether his Department has mapped out a pathway for the role technology can play in keeping patients healthy and in the planned statutory homecare scheme; and the status of the roll-out of the planned actions. [9731/24]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Richard Bruton

100. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he report on the remit and progress of the new Childcare Development Agency; how it will integrate the work of county childcare committees; and the new planned capital budgets for Childcare Development. [9732/24]

International Protection

Richard Bruton

144. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the methods in place for ensuring that new international protection centres are supported with necessary services and activities so that integration into the community is facilitated. [9733/24]

Sports Facilities

Richard Bruton

210. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will review the funding allocated to the sports lottery fund and allocate extra investment in sports facilities across Ireland, where there is a growing population, and where the annual house building target is expected to increase by 100%, to 60,000 per annum. [9771/24]

Education and Training Provision

Richard Bruton

8. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he plans to develop Skillnet Ireland in its capacity to accelerate adaptation to the challenges of sustainability and digital transformation of business models. [9082/24]

Further and Higher Education

Richard Bruton

15. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he has considered the role that further and higher education could play in the future in supporting the contribution of people after they retire from full-time work both from their past experience and empowering them for a third age; and if he will consider evolving a new strategy in this sphere. [9081/24]

Revenue Commissioners

Richard Bruton

156. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance the process through which the Revenue Commissioners estimate tax that may have been overpaid by PAYE workers (details supplied); and, in particular, whether this is based on an assumption about tax allowable expenses claimed by these individuals, or by applying some inference about these taxpayers from the claims made by others. [9280/24]

Special Educational Needs

Richard Bruton

219. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education if there are changes being made in how resource teachers are being allocated or deployed, if she is aware of concerns expressed by Down's Syndrome Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9033/24]

Special Educational Needs

Richard Bruton

220. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education whether the NCSE has reported on the adequacy of capacity of special schools and special units on the northside of Dublin to meet the needs of pupils presenting for placement this year; if increases in capacity have been identified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9034/24]

Special Educational Needs

Richard Bruton

232. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education if she is aware of a shortage of special school places to serve Dublin's northside; if she has received a report from the NCSE on capacity constraints and how they might be filled; if new places are coming on stream for this coming September or beyond; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9271/24]

Assisted Decision-Making

Richard Bruton

402. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that many lawyers are refusing to sign papers creating an enduring power of attorney, where citizens have drawn up their own documentation, which is leaving these documents with no valid application; and if he has any plans which might overcome this problem. [8783/24]

Control of Dogs

Richard Bruton

666. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she is undertaking a review of the controls on dangerous dogs; the terms of reference, and the date on which consultations close; and whether she will examine regimes for control and enforcement in other countries so that best practice models can be considered. [9284/24]

An Garda Síochána

Richard Bruton

8. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice the provision made for leadership development at all levels of the Garda force and how leadership development is benchmarked and reported; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8348/24]

Departmental Policies

Richard Bruton

32. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice how it is intended to phase in the new community safety plans; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8347/24]

Climate Action Plan

Richard Bruton

82. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current rate of take-up of new farm methods which he regards as key to the Government climate ambitions and the step up needed by 2030 to meet the targets. [8346/24]

Climate Action Plan

Richard Bruton

91. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has considered new measures in the likely context that the sectors for which he has responsibility cannot meet the targets in the climate plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8345/24]

Electric Vehicles

Richard Bruton

36. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there is legislative provision in place to require management companies to take reasonable steps to provide EV charging networks for occupiers. [8234/24]

Electric Vehicles

Richard Bruton

41. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Transport if the support schemes for EV charging networks developed by local authorities can cover the installation of chargers in multi-unit developments developed by local authorities or by approved housing bodies. [8232/24]

Electric Vehicles

Richard Bruton

42. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Transport the number of local authorities that have installed EV charging networks with his Department's support; the number of locations in each case; and the planned and approved locations scheduled to be installed. [8235/24]

Primary Medical Certificates

Richard Bruton

63. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Finance if he has completed the review of the financial supports for mobility for those with a disability and, in particular, the criteria for a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8237/24]

Electric Vehicles

Richard Bruton

115. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Justice if there is legislative provision in place to require management companies to take reasonable steps to provide EV charging networks for occupiers. [8233/24]

Mental Health Services

Richard Bruton

141. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he has reviewed the submission from an organisation (details supplied); if he plans to publish a roadmap for service improvement, as has been done for disability services; and if he has considered the proposal for the regulation of CAMHS under the Mental Health Act 2001. [8122/24]

Healthcare Policy

Richard Bruton

142. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if a scoliosis unit, or task force in relation to same, has been set up within the Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8123/24]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Richard Bruton

82. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider undertaking a pilot to inviting people to check if they are getting their full entitlements and targeting categories of persons who may be more likely to be missing out, perhaps in co-operation with other public bodies that may experience underpayment of benefits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7860/24]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Richard Bruton

90. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered initiatives to identify the extent of underclaiming of entitlements from her Department by categories such the low paid at work, by carers, and by pensioners, for whom rules of entitlement may be poorly understood; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7859/24]

Schools Building Projects

Richard Bruton

285. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education the number of schools in the Santry, Whitehall and Dublin 9 catchment area who have applied for upgrades to their school buildings, including the amount spent since 2019, in tabular form. [7708/24]

Schools Building Projects

Richard Bruton

286. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education the number of new schools built in the Santry, Whitehall and Dublin 9 catchment area and the amount spent on each school building since 2019, in tabular form. [7709/24]

Housing Policy

Richard Bruton

345. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware that the rule that a cost rental should not exceed 35% of net income is rendering some persons in Dublin ineligible for both cost rental and ineligible for social housing; and whether this necessitates some changes in the terms of access for support in order that no one is excluded. [7582/24]

Mental Health Services

Richard Bruton

296. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the trend in referrals to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service over the past five years; how the level of staffing and service has grown in those years; if he will outline the efforts to fill new post created and indicate how the level of unfilled positions have evolved; and if he will outline the approach to reform of services delivery which she is undertaking. [6688/24]

School Facilities

Richard Bruton

98. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Education if her Department has carried out an assessment of the potential of remote delivery in education; and if new initiatives are planned in this arena. [50444/23]

Central Statistics Office

Richard Bruton

131. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Taoiseach the data held by the CSO on the average weekly spending on out-of-pocket medical expenses per week, and as a percentage of total weekly spending. [5784/24]

Central Statistics Office

Richard Bruton

132. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Taoiseach the data held by the CSO on the number of persons aged 70 or over who are a head of a household. [5785/24]

Third Level Fees

Richard Bruton

612. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 57 of 31 January 2024, the reason SUSI is refusing to accept child benefit as proof of residence for a home-schooled Irish born child of a resident Irish citizen, despite the fact that under statute such payments can only be made on Irish residency. [6057/24]

Enterprise Support Services

Richard Bruton

14. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans for strengthening the capacity of the LEO network to give specialist support to enterprises, with varying needs and regional specialisms, within their remit and to the development of regional centres of excellence. [5741/24]

Business Supports

Richard Bruton

62. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has analysed to the main sources of pressure on business costs at present, and how he believes these might best be addressed. [5742/24]

Public Expenditure Policy

Richard Bruton

96. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform what programmes of public expenditure will be subject to evaluation in the coming year and whether this process needs to be reformed. [5739/24]

Public Expenditure Policy

Richard Bruton

119. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform whether the budgeting process operated by his Department promotes innovation to a sufficient extent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5740/24]