191. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if the National Transport Authority was involved in relation to the establishment of setting standards for maintenance and enforcement of disabled parking bays, both public and private and if so, if he will provide details of same. [8300/23]
190. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the campaign of an organisation (details supplied); if gardaí have any powers of enforcement in respect of disabled parking bays in private car parks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8299/23]
168. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a schedule of NGOs that he and bodies under the aegis of his Department suspended funding and or grant aid to due to their failure to file accounts and/or concerns that arose in respect of their governance in the years 2019 to 2022 and to date in 2023; and the amount of funding per NGO that was suspended. [8660/23]
139. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of senior principal scientific officers and senior executive in global procurement working for Enterprise Ireland in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [8360/23]
123. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if, over that period, his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over its percentage shareholding; and the number of occasions that it waived the dividend. [7913/23]
428. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under her aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if her Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period her Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7911/23]
422. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7898/23]
387. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7907/23]
341. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over its percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7909/23]
322. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7906/23]
316. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards them to the central fund or whether they go directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over its percentage shareholding; the number of occasions it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7899/23]
299. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under her aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if her Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period her Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7912/23]
288. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to a shortfall in primary school places in the Kilcock area, Kildare; her plans to address this; and if she will outline the steps a parent or guardian may take if a school cannot enrol a child at their school due to it being at capacity. [7983/23]
284. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under her aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if her Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period her Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7901/23]
252. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7900/23]
250. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7905/23]
244. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the engagements he and or his officials have had with the RTB in respect of resolving an issue regarding the RTB register in which inactive accounts on the RTB register are not issued with automatically generated reminders to register a property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8008/23]
239. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7908/23]
215. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under her aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if her Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period her Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7914/23]
210. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7910/23]
201. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over its percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7904/23]
188. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7915/23]
181. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide a schedule of the non-commercial and semi-State commercial companies under his aegis; if an explanatory memorandum will be provided in respect of the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the dividend paid by each company to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2022; if his Department collects the funds and forwards it to the central fund or whether it goes directly; if over that period his Department has requested an increase in respect of the dividend due over it’s percentage shareholding; the number of occasions that it waived the dividend; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7903/23]
180. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide the name of all external legal companies engaged by Inland isheries Ireland in the past three years to date; and the cost associated with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7875/23]
220. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding and the heading under which it was granted to organisations (details supplied) in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [7538/23]
161. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will correct the record of Dáil Éireann in respect of the Parliamentary responses that issued from his Department on 8 May 2018 (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to comments made by his Secretary General and the Comptroller and Auditor General in relation to contingent liabilities and recognition of same at an Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee meeting on 9 February 2023.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7479/23]
160. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the amount of funds set aside on an annual basis for contingent liability for the past ten years to date in 2023; the way in which it is determined the amount that is forecast to be needed for contingent liability; if he carries out an actuary analysis for budgeting current and future contingent liability; if he conducts a risk assessment in the context of contingent liability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7478/23]
159. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health the funding set aside on an annual basis for contingent liability for the past ten years to date by the HSE; the way in which the amount is determined by the HSE; if the HSE carries out an actuary analysis for budgeting current and future contingent liability; and if the HSE conducts a risk assessment in the context of contingent liability. [7477/23]
151. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Health if he will set out the rationale for the State Claims Agency to not routinely evaluate the adequacy of measures adopted by a data sharing agreement to counter identified risks in clinical settings in the context of the clinical indemnity scheme. [7480/23]
141. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the amount of funding and the heading under which it was granted to organisations (details supplied) in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [7540/23]
140. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the status of plans for the Office of the Ombudsman to receive and deal with complaint appeals from people in prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7460/23]
139. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of category A complaints received in 2021 and 2022 that were upheld, not upheld, not proven, terminated or incomplete, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7459/23]
138. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the status of the establishment and roll-out of a new prison complaints system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7458/23]
137. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the steps he is taking to review prisoner gratuity levels, given the increase in the cost-of-living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7457/23]
136. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice his plans for the Office of the Inspector of Prisons to reassess operational maximum capacity levels and safe custody levels in all prisons based on applicable human rights frameworks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7456/23]
126. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding and the heading under which it was granted to organisations (details supplied) in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [7539/23]
80. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the amount of funding and the heading under which it was granted to organisations (details supplied) by Sport Ireland in 2021, 2022 and to date 2023, in tabular form. [7542/23]
79. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the amount of funding and the heading under which it was granted to organisations (details supplied) in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [7541/23]
47. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount of funding provided to Inland Ireland in the past three years to date; if he will clarify the status of work underway at a state asset in Galway (details supplied); if sanction was granted to expend funds on the works; and if IFI obtained planning permission for the works and the felling of trees on the site. [7585/23]
898. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons his Department has successfully and unsuccessfully prosecuted for the possession and administration of controlled substances given to animals in the past 20 years to date. [6749/23]
897. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which the Prosecutorial Committee will become a working section of his Department; if he will clarify whether the deliberations of this committee would be available under FOI; and if he will provide the number of cases this section is processing and the number it has decided to prosecute on. [6717/23]
373. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she has circulated a memo and-or advice to school boards of management or principals requesting them not to make demands for voluntary school contributions in the context of high domestic energy bills and the current high cost of living and period of high inflation. [7369/23]
372. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will establish a fund for schools that cannot meet their running costs in order to end the practice of demanding voluntary school contributions. [7368/23]
178. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance if he will clarify, in the context of voluntary school contributions that are of €250 or more, whether it is the patron or school board of management that is the designated charity organisation that benefited from tax relief as a result of the submission of the CHY4 form. [7367/23]
142. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Transport the number of learner drivers per year in each of the years 2019 to 2022 that failed to turn up for their scheduled driving test appointment; the number of driving tests lost per year through 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; the number of learner permits renewed by the RSA each year to drivers who did not show up for their scheduled driving test appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6622/23]
177. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide a rationale for the changes to the EPV summer courses for primary teachers, particularly the abolition of asynchronous courses and the reduction of offline hours; if she consulted with educational stakeholders on this change; if she considered the caregiving commitments of teachers in this process; if she is committed to providing leadership to the education sector in terms of fostering a culture of continuous learning; and if she plans to reverse and or amend the decision to eradicate asynchronous courses in the interest of caregivers and accessibility. [6332/23]
161. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will review the changes to the criteria for teachers partaking in online summer courses in view of the fact that it will negatively impact those wishing to participate; and if she will set out the rationale for the proposed change. [6238/23]
142. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will clarify the body that is responsible as a designated entity in the Planning and Development Act 2000 that can make a determination in respect of a proposed development that would and-or could be contrary to Ireland’s climate action plan. [6329/23]
497. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of each bonus payment to employees of Coillte and Greyhound Racing Ireland in 2020, 2021 and 2022. [6094/23]