Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Cabinet Committees

Mary Lou McDonald

6. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [53575/23]

National Economic and Social Council

Mary Lou McDonald

15. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [52330/23]

Public Expenditure Policy

Mary Lou McDonald

60. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the progress his Department as co-chair has made in implementing the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. [49686/23]

Cabinet Committees

Mary Lou McDonald

2. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach to report on the work of the climate action unit of his Department. [49685/23]

Renewable Energy Generation

Mary Lou McDonald

16. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will report on the delivery of renewable energy in Ireland; if he is aware of publicly expressed concerns about the renewable energy support scheme following the result of the latest auction; what efforts he is taking to address this; and if the Government has plans to update auction design in order to achieve 2030 targets and energy independence. [48407/23]

Northern Ireland

Mary Lou McDonald

6. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [49687/23]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

307. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the level of additional core expenditure for new developments, excluding funding for carryover and otherwise maintaining existing levels of service, which has been allocated to the Rotunda Hospital for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49110/23]

Departmental Expenditure

Mary Lou McDonald

308. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the level of additional core expenditure for new developments, excluding funding for carryover and otherwise maintaining existing levels of service, which has been allocated to the national maternity strategy for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49111/23]

Northern Ireland

Mary Lou McDonald

6. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach if he will report on any recent discussions he has had with the British Prime Minister. [48408/23]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Mary Lou McDonald

711. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Social Protection if the Government has any plans to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational disease for frontline health care workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47434/23]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Mary Lou McDonald

12. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the recent European Political Community meeting in Granada, Spain. [46425/23]

Energy Conservation

Mary Lou McDonald

107. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to confirm how many persons in the Dublin Central constituency have been assisted under the better energy homes programme for the years 2020 to 2023 respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45154/23]

Energy Conservation

Mary Lou McDonald

108. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to confirm how many persons in the Dublin Central constituency have been assisted under the warmer homes scheme for the years 2020 to 2023 respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45155/23]

Energy Conservation

Mary Lou McDonald

109. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of persons in the Dublin Central Constituency currently on waiting lists for each SEAI grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45156/23]

Social Welfare Payments

Mary Lou McDonald

369. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Social Protection to confirm the current total number of recipients of fuel allowance payments living in the constituency of Dublin central. [45149/23]

Childcare Services

Mary Lou McDonald

470. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the number of childcare places currently available in the constituency of Dublin central. [45161/23]

Childcare Services

Mary Lou McDonald

471. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the number of new childcare places that have been opened in the constituency of Dublin Central for the years 2020 to 2023 respectively. [45162/23]

Childcare Services

Mary Lou McDonald

472. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the number of childcare providers that have closed, and the childcare places that have been lost as a result of these closures in the constituency of Dublin central in each of the years 2020 to 2023 respectively. [45163/23]

Healthcare Policy

Mary Lou McDonald

586. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to provide access to the long-term illness scheme for persons affected by hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45146/23]

Tax Reliefs

Mary Lou McDonald

106. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance how many requests for appeal hearings with the DDMBA (Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal) are currently in hand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43738/23]

Tax Reliefs

Mary Lou McDonald

107. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance when appeal hearings with the DDMBA (Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal) will recommence for persons who have had a primary medical certificate application deemed ineligible. [43739/23]

Tax Reliefs

Mary Lou McDonald

108. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance to provide an update on his Department’s engagement with NRH (National Rehabilitation Hospital) regarding the DDMBA (Disabled Drivers Medical Board Of Appeal); have financial arrangements been agreed with NRH (National Rehabilitation Hospital); have the NRH (National Rehabilitation Hospital) agreed to host the DDMBA (Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal (DDMBA); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43740/23]

Tax Reliefs

Mary Lou McDonald

109. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance the progress made to date by his Department regarding the replacement of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43741/23]

Tax Reliefs

Mary Lou McDonald

110. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Finance whether a review of regulations underpinning the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme and primary medical certificate scheme has taken place arising from the Supreme Court challenge to the conflict between the regulations and primary legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43742/23]

Office of Public Works

Mary Lou McDonald

150. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform whether the Office of Public Works is responsible for land in County Dublin (details supplied). [43800/23]

School Accommodation

Mary Lou McDonald

193. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education when a response will be issued to correspondence from this Deputy (details supplied). [43684/23]

School Accommodation

Mary Lou McDonald

194. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education if she will facilitate a meeting requested by a school (details supplied) in Dublin. [43685/23]

Primary Medical Certificates

Mary Lou McDonald

516. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the number of primary medical certificate applications received in each CHO in each of the years 2020 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43714/23]

Primary Medical Certificates

Mary Lou McDonald

517. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the number of primary medical certificates approved and awarded in each CHO in each of the years 2020 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43715/23]

Primary Medical Certificates

Mary Lou McDonald

518. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the number of primary medical certificate applications that have been deemed ineligible and subsequently refused in each CHO in each of the years 2020 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43716/23]

Primary Medical Certificates

Mary Lou McDonald

519. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the number of primary medical certificate applications that are currently in hand awaiting processing in each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43717/23]

Primary Medical Certificates

Mary Lou McDonald

520. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health the number of primary medical certificate applications that are currently in hand which have been deemed ineligible and cannot access an appeal process in each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43718/23]

Primary Medical Certificates

Mary Lou McDonald

521. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on appointments to the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; and when appeal hearings will recommence for persons who have had a primary medical certificate deemed ineligible. [43719/23]

General Practitioner Services

Mary Lou McDonald

576. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health to outline the rationale behind the decision to restrict or cap the number of assigned patients each GP has to take on; the current cap for each GP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44079/23]

General Practitioner Services

Mary Lou McDonald

577. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health to outline the reason for removing the obligation on GPs to take patients assigned by the HSE; the consultation, if any, that was undertaken with community-based organisations who provide support and care to vulnerable persons seeking access to healthcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44080/23]

General Practitioner Services

Mary Lou McDonald

578. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health to confirm what is meant by "limited ability to assign a GP providing GP visit card/medical card services", further to correspondence received at my office (details supplied). [44092/23]

General Practitioner Services

Mary Lou McDonald

579. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health to confirm the arrangements that are currently in place to assign a GP to persons holding a GMS or GP only card who have tried unsuccessfully to access three GPs in their area and cannot find a GP to accept them. [44093/23]

General Practitioner Services

Mary Lou McDonald

580. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health how many new GP visit and GMS cards were issued in 2022; how many of the persons to whom these cards were issued in 2022 were unable to find a GP; how many of these persons were assigned a GP by the HSE in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44094/23]

Departmental Programmes

Mary Lou McDonald

282. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health what funding is available to older persons seeking support to adapt their homes via the health-age-friendly-homes programme; what steps older persons seeking support should take to access this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42011/23]

Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell

Mary Lou McDonald

787. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice further to the final terms of reference for the scoping exercise into the death of a person (details supplied), the reason she and her officials refused to provide a judge with the independent review mechanism report. [35723/23]

Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell

Mary Lou McDonald

788. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if, further to the final terms of reference of the scoping exercise into the death of a person (details supplied), a judge requested the independent review mechanism report as required to fulfil the obligations of their appointment. [35724/23]

Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell

Mary Lou McDonald

789. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if, further to the final terms of reference for the scoping exercise into the death of a person (details supplied), a judge was provided with the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission statutory section 101 report. [35725/23]

Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell

Mary Lou McDonald

790. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if, further to the final terms of reference of the scoping exercise into the death of a person (details supplied), a judge requested the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission statutory section 101 report as required to fulfil the obligations of their appointment. [35726/23]

Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell

Mary Lou McDonald

791. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide the terms of reference for the independent review mechanism's review into the death of a person (details supplied); and if the terms of reference were provided to a person to enable them to fulfil the obligations of their appointment to conduct a scoping exercise. [35730/23]

Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell

Mary Lou McDonald

792. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if, further to the many failures of An Garda Síochána, the judiciary, the Coroner's Office, the Courts Service and her own Department identified by a judge (details supplied) throughout the report of their scoping exercise into the death of a person, she will now establish an independent inquiry into the person's death as previously directed by the Members of Dáil and Seanad Éireann. [35731/23]

Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell

Mary Lou McDonald

793. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice to provide the dates on which a person (details supplied) met, exchanged emails or telephone calls with her officials from the date of appointment to conduct the scoping exercise into the death of a person to publication of the final report on the 3 July 2023. [35733/23]

Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell

Mary Lou McDonald

794. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice to provide the dates on which a person (details supplied) met, exchanged emails or telephone calls with her or former Ministers from the date of appointment to conduct the scoping exercise into the death of a person to publication of the final report on the 3 July 2023. [35734/23]

Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell

Mary Lou McDonald

796. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice the reason she or her officials did not inform a family (details supplied) that a judge was formerly a member of the Courts Service Board on their appointment to undertake the scoping exercise; and the dates on which the judge was a member of the Courts Service Board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35743/23]

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence

Mary Lou McDonald

806. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice to provide, in tabular form, domestic, sexual and gender-based violence offences data for 2022, broken down by Garda district or station, to include, but not limited to, rape, sexual assault, domestic violence and coercive control. [35840/23]

An Garda Síochána

Mary Lou McDonald

807. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice to provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of crime data for each of the Dublin metropolitan region divisions for the period of 2020-2023 to date. [35841/23]