Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

School Staff

Cathal Crowe

85. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if the primary payroll division of her Department can register the teaching work being undertaken by an individual (details supplied) on the MyAccount portal (operated by the Revenue Commissioners); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24208/24]

Tourism Policy

Cathal Crowe

104. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has concerns relating to photo-stop tourism, as promoted by certain coach tour companies; how she proposes to cultivate slower and more sustainable tourism; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24284/24]

Sports Funding

Cathal Crowe

105. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media when she expects an announcement in respect of sports capital grants to be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24285/24]

Wastewater Treatment

Cathal Crowe

122. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to launch a multi-annual scheme for providing sewage schemes in unsewered small villages and towns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24286/24]

Home Care Packages

Cathal Crowe

188. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if he will undertake a comprehensive review of how home care services are provided in Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24217/24]

National Car Test

Cathal Crowe

157. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Transport if there is a legal requirement for car tyres to be of a certain size, quality and minimum load bearing capacity; if so, if these requirements are clearly communicated to all NCT test centres and those who work in the tyre and puncture repair sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23975/24]

Flood Relief Schemes

Cathal Crowe

174. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if the Office of Public Works can prioritise works adjacent to Kildysart graveyard, County Clare, to stop the burial ground being flooded by the Shannon river tidal waters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23786/24]

School Staff

Cathal Crowe

215. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if she will urgently review the situation whereby teachers who were initially on the pre-2013 pension (legacy scheme) and were forced to temporarily leave service are now being left on the post-2013 pension, despite joining their profession prior to this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23724/24]

Agriculture Schemes

Cathal Crowe

368. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2023 organics payment will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24014/24]

International Protection

Cathal Crowe

395. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of plans in relation to an accommodation centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23630/24]

Hospital Staff

Cathal Crowe

441. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that an immediate recruitment process will be put in place in spite of the HSE recruitment freeze, to fill an essential post in Ennis General Hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23701/24]

Third Level Education

Cathal Crowe

28. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the status of the progression of plans for a new veterinary school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23041/24]

Technological Universities

Cathal Crowe

30. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the status of plans to open new campus facilities for the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest at Coonagh, Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23042/24]

Industrial Development

Cathal Crowe

67. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide details on the efforts his Department, in conjunction with the IDA and Enterprise Ireland, are making to attract new commerce and industry to Ennis, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23047/24]

Employment Rights

Cathal Crowe

111. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the implementation of the ERO for security officers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23046/24]

Animal Welfare

Cathal Crowe

133. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can clarify whether all animal organisations are treated equally in terms of information being sought from them (details supplied). [23034/24]

Tidy Towns

Cathal Crowe

218. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department will consider delaying adjudication of the Tidy Towns competition until after the removal of election posters, that is one week after the local and European elections, to be held on 7 June 2024. [23148/24]

Cabinet Committees

Cathal Crowe

21. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [21830/24]

Tax Yield

Cathal Crowe

110. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Finance for a report on corporation tax receipts in the first four months of 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22566/24]

Inflation Rate

Cathal Crowe

115. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Finance his expectations for living standards for households in the remainder of 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22567/24]

Defective Building Materials

Cathal Crowe

359. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if foundations will be included in the IS 465 review with respect to the defective concrete blocks scheme. [22818/24]

Social Welfare Benefits

Cathal Crowe

389. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection if a travel allowance for international protection applicants to attend medical appointments remote from their accommodation centre has been cut; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22572/24]

Nursing Homes

Cathal Crowe

547. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if he will give consideration to a number of measures to stabilise and sustain the nursing home sector [22336/24]

Immigration Status

Cathal Crowe

76. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Justice the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused temporary protection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21989/24]

Departmental Schemes

Cathal Crowe

383. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will clarify the rules regarding the building defects scheme as they pertain to rental properties (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21733/24]

Medical Aids and Appliances

Cathal Crowe

608. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has any plans for reducing bureaucracy and paperwork in the oxygen provision reimbursement system (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21635/24]

Rural Schemes

Cathal Crowe

7. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will significantly increase the allocation from her Department to the local improvement scheme. [20838/24]

Northern Ireland

Cathal Crowe

104. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for a report on his recent meeting with the Northern Ireland Secretary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20768/24]

Northern Ireland

Cathal Crowe

108. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his response to the ruling earlier this year by the High Court in Belfast in relation to the UK government’s legacy legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20769/24]

Departmental Licences

Cathal Crowe

208. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will clarify when a licence (details supplied) will transfer over to a fully online application process; and if he will address GDPR concerns surrounding the photograph associated with the same licence. [21040/24]

School Meals Programme

Cathal Crowe

223. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection if a school (details supplied) can reassess how funding allocated by her Department through the hot school meals programme can be spent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21064/24]

Departmental Contracts

Cathal Crowe

270. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a contract renewal (details supplied) has been signed off on. [21156/24]

Children in Care

Cathal Crowe

301. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health the number of ‘children in case’ social worker posts in County Clare; the number currently in post; and the length of time any posts have been vacant. [21055/24]

Health Service Executive

Cathal Crowe

304. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health when he, in consultation with the HSE, will lift the recruitment embargo currently in place within the HSE (details supplied). [21074/24]

Housing Provision

Cathal Crowe

298. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a copy of a report (details supplied). [20847/24]

Citizenship Ceremonies

Cathal Crowe

338. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Justice when the next citizenship ceremony is planned to take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21239/24]

Nursing Homes

Cathal Crowe

6. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if a new capital funding stream to support the voluntary nursing home sector in meeting HIQA requirements and upgrading facilities can be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19781/24]

Hospital Staff

Cathal Crowe

27. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an overview of what teaching roles, in terms of nurse and doctor training, the hospitals in the University Hospital Limerick Group currently have; if he will consider a broadened role in this regard for Ennis General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19780/24]

Heritage Sites

Cathal Crowe

74. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if his Department will consider purchasing or long-term leasing a building adjacent to the OPW-managed Ennis Friary site, so that a visitor and interpretative centre could be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19784/24]

State Properties

Cathal Crowe

106. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will provide details of unused State-owned buildings in County Clare at this time; what the intended future use for each is; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19785/24]

Driver Licences

Cathal Crowe

127. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Transport why it is compulsory to have a Public Service Card in order to renew your driving licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20076/24]

Special Educational Needs

Cathal Crowe

161. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if she will help the family of a person (details supplied) in their quest to have them enrolled in a special school in Ennis for their second-level education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19965/24]

Departmental Funding

Cathal Crowe

324. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of funding provided in each county under the community centre investment fund, launched in March 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20082/24]

Public Sector Pensions

Cathal Crowe

113. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Transport with regard to the recent High Court judgement concerning the CIÉ superannuation scheme 1951 (amendment) scheme 2000, if he will respect the High Court judgment, and outline how he will take steps to ensure that the benefits of 1951 scheme active members will be protected and maintained, and that 1951 scheme pensioners will be awarded their long-awaited pension increase without delay; if he will insist that CIÉ immediately complies with its legal obligations to appoint CIÉ board-nominated members to the statutory CIÉ 1951 scheme pensions committee, pursuant to Rule 12 of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19748/24]

Hospital Staff

Cathal Crowe

246. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if all clinical staff in the emergency department of UHL have received training in the National Clinical Guidelines No. 6 (Sepsis Management); and if not, the reason therefor. [19562/24]

Disease Management

Cathal Crowe

298. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if he will outline any updates on the possibility of consultation, with the relevant Departments, to introduce a scheme to partially reimburse those with a formal coeliac disease diagnosis for the purchase of gluten-free foods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19700/24]

Health Strategies

Cathal Crowe

315. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health to confirm whether an action plan to implement the recommendations arising from a report (details supplied) was developed; and if it was, if he will provide the family with a copy of the plan. [19832/24]

Health Strategies

Cathal Crowe

316. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if he will provide confirmation, together with evidence, that the relevant recommendations in a report (details supplied) were communicated nationally. [19833/24]

Health Strategies

Cathal Crowe

317. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm if all clinical staff in the emergency department of UHL have received training in the National Clinical Guidelines No 6 Sepsis Management; and if not, the reason therefor. [19834/24]

Parental Leave

Cathal Crowe

90. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures he has taken since the Government came to office to ensure family leave entitlements have been expanded, to ensure new parents have been supported and to build new entitlements to work-life balance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19136/24]