447. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will clarify the role local authorities have in respect of persons presenting as homeless who have an income above the housing list threshold. [55250/23]
415. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has engaged with his Ministerial colleague and or officials in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in respect of the Bray Harbour improvement project; the amount of funding he has committed to providing for the project; and if he has released funds to the local authority to date for the project. [54919/23]
414. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount provided to Wicklow County Council in Urban Regeneration Development Funding in 2022 and 2023 in respect of the Bray Harbour improvement project; the amount of this funding that has been drawn down to date; the amount unspent; and the amount allocated for 2024 and 2025. [54918/23]
386. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost to recruit two additional senior archaeologists and seven additional WTE archaeologists for his Department. [54484/23]
360. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the amount of teacher absences that went uncovered between 1 September and 6 December 2023; and the unspent allocation of funds in respect of same. [55354/23]
359. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of school days in both primary and secondary level that were paid at the unqualified rate between 1 September to 6 December 2023; and the total amount of same. [55353/23]
353. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of children that have special educational needs that were not offered a school place in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023. [55271/23]
352. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of children that were not offered a school place in north Wicklow and north Kildare in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023. [55270/23]
351. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of section 29 appeals that have been filed with her in 2022 and to date in 2023, by county; the number of those that were successful; and the number that were not; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55269/23]
350. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the number of primary and second level pupils that are being home schooled, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55268/23]
348. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if her Department can assist to bridge the cost of placing a child in a boarding school in instances in which home schooling is not available and the appeals process in respect of a school place has been exhausted to the point where the child has no school to enrol in. [55248/23]
341. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the date on which and/or if she will provide additional Portakabin arrangements to be installed in schools in Prosperous and Clane where necessary to ensure that all children currently on a waiting list will receive a school place in 2024 and 2025. [55179/23]
340. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the timeline for the delivery of previously sanctioned expansions in a school (details supplied). [55178/23]
339. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education her plans to engage with a school (details supplied) to request that several public spaces are made available to children currently on waiting lists in Clane and Prosperous. [55177/23]
336. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide the projected year for the delivery of a new post-primary school in Prosperous. [55174/23]
335. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide details of the future planning undertaken by her Department to ensure the capacity of school places in Kildare are in line with current population and projected population growth in Kildare for the next three, five and ten years. [55173/23]
334. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an assurance to all families that every child currently on a waiting list for secondary school in Prosperous and Clane will be offered a full-time place in September 2024. [55172/23]
299. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost in 2024 to recruit 30 additional WTE educational welfare officers. [54481/23]
286. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the posts of director general and adjudication officer (at assistant principal officer-level) have been filled in the Workplace Relations Commission; and if not, when he expects both posts to be filled. [54474/23]
277. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of 5 December 2023, if he has engaged with the local authority in respect of the future use of the building and or the transfer of same to the local authority in the past five years to date (details supplied); the date on which OPW last made a site visit to the building and or conducted a review of the structural integrity of the building; and if he will clarify if the building has a protected and or preservation status attached to it. [54957/23]
270. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he has engaged with the Minister for Social Protection in respect of the way in which post-1995 retired gardaí are processed in the context payments issued to them; and if he will clarify the determination applied retired gardaí that they are considered to be a jobseeker for their entitlement. [54716/23]
267. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the names of taxi companies currently on the Office of Government Procurement multi-supplier framework to provide taxi services to public bodies. [54480/23]
241. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the timeframe for motor insurers to be granted access to information on his Department’s driver file database on disqualified drivers and verify the driver number of a driver on the entry, under the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023; if motor insurance brokers will also be granted access to this information under the Act; if the information will be provided in real time to motor insurers directly from his Department; if so, if there will be a cost to access this information incurred by the insurer concerned; the reason for the delay in commencing this piece of legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55382/23]
199. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the amount spent by the NTA on the installation of bus shelters for public transport operators and location of same in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023; and the budget allocation for same in 2024, in tabular form. [54477/23]
184. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if the contract for the provision of a new Army Ranger Wing HQ at the Defence Forces training centre has been signed; and, if so, the number of companies that applied for this contract but were unsuccessful. [54479/23]
183. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if the procurement process for a muti-beam sonar system for the P60 class of vessels has been completed. [54478/23]
114. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the estimated cost of doubling the funding available for heating control grants. [54464/23]
87. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide assistance to persons (details supplied). [54593/23]
133. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to establish on a permanent basis a procedure in place for accessing the Land Commission records for academics. [53956/23]
132. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which an academic may make a request to access the Land Commission records; if he will set out the criteria that is required to determine that a research project is in the public interest in the context of gaining access to the Land Commission records; if he will clarify whether he and or his officials consulted with academic experts in the field of Irish social history with a specialism in land-related issues in the development of the trial access; and the way in which requests to access the records is considered. [53955/23]
131. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the date on which a trial commenced giving academics access to the Land Commission records on a case-by-case basis; the number of academics that have requested access; and the number that have been granted access on a monthly basis since the trial began. [53954/23]
632. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will set out the supports and grant aid her Department can provide in respect of establishing and-or reinstating market spaces in counties that do not have a town with city status. [53192/23]
465. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update in respect of commencing the Work Life and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 in full. [53391/23]
389. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will set out her rationale for the withdrawal of proposals in respect of consent in the context of her plans to reform of existing legislation (details supplied). [53400/23]
312. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to make changes to the requirement for election candidates to declare their full home address on ballot papers. [53444/23]
267. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a schedule of all properties and lands in her estates portfolio in Wicklow; and if she will indicate the status of the building and lands in that it is in use, vacant and leased by a third party. [53831/23]
235. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education further to past Parliamentary Questions of 26 November 2013, 3 December 2019 and 17 December 2019, if she will outline her plans to conduct a review in her Department to establish if information sought on Bus Éireann’s surplus and or profits in respect of the school transport scheme was withheld as determined by the auditors and credited to the profit and loss accounts of Bus Éireann. [53337/23]
221. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide the rationale for the exclusion of a special needs assistant representative on boards of management (BOMs) at primary school level; her views on whether SNAs are not adequately represented by the role of the teacher representative; and if she will seek to include a specifically allocated space on BOMs for an SNA representative by amending section 14 of the Education Act 1998. [53185/23]
208. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will provide a schedule of all OPW-owned properties and lands in Wicklow; if he will indicate the status of the building and lands in that it is in use, vacant and leased by a third party. [53830/23]
184. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide an update in respect of his and the NTA's plans to establish a transport transfer and parking up at Castletown House grounds. [53821/23]
175. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of learner drivers per week to date in 2023 that failed to turn up for their scheduled driving test appointment; the number of driving tests lost through these no-shows; his plans to introduce measures to ensure that learner permit holders sit a driving test before they can obtain a subsequent learner permit from the RSA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53684/23]
167. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of fleet and motor trader vehicles registered on the national fleet database, by county, under the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023; the number of motor insurance policy details provided to An Garda Síochána by the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland on a daily basis in real time since the signing of the new data sharing agreement between the two organisations; if this data includes the driver number of each person insured on the policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53242/23]
166. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of motor Insurance companies/brokers, by county, that have communicated with their policyholders informing of the requirement for all policy holders to provide the driver number(s) of everyone covered by their insurance policy, before the upcoming change to road traffic law that will affect the renewal of their insurance policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53241/23]
165. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of private motor insurance policy details that have been forwarded by each motor insurance company or broker to the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland by county, to date; if the driver number has been included in the information provided by each motor insurance company or broker; the number of insurance companies or brokers that have yet to provide private motor insurance policy details to MIBI; the deadline to provide this information; the penalties for failure to provide this information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53240/23]
164. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of fleet owners or managers and motor traders who have uploaded their vehicle details to the national fleet database by county, as required under the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023, as the deadline to provide this information is 30 November 2023; the number that have included the driver number in their upload of information; the number by county that have failed to upload vehicle details by 30 November 2023 and the penalties for those who fail to submit details after the 30 November deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53239/23]
383. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will clarify her position in respect of short-term lettings of properties (details supplied). [52924/23]
346. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 231 of 17 December 2013, if the governing authority was established under the Education and Training Board Act 2013 (details supplied); and if this board was and/or is on a statutory footing. [52947/23]
345. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 231 of 17 December 2013, if she will provide the make-up and-or membership and structure of the governing authority on the date on which it was established, and as of 24 November 2023.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52946/23]