130. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he believes the Boyne fish counters at Blackcastle, Navan, County Meath gives an accurate count of fish (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7025/23]
129. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will consider allowing a shorter draft net fishing season if fish stocks are lower than quotas allow for the regular draft net fishing season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7024/23]
128. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when his Department will contact draft net fishing licenceholders to allow draft net fishing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7023/23]
127. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there are details or a survey regarding the placement of the River Boyne fish counter; and if a better location in a narrower part of the river could have been selected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7022/23]
126. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will consider a compensation package for the next of kin of draft fishing licenceholders if the licenceholder has passed away since the last time draft fishing was permitted; if not, if he will consider allowing next of kin to inherit the draft fishing licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7021/23]
727. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Health the number of staff vacancies in mental health services and associated services in the HSE that are in the north east, broken down by grade and category in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4650/23]
454. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Education when construction will commence of the new school building for a school (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4654/23]
307. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide an update with regards to the €17 million scheme for developing outdoor dining capacity for 2020 and 2021, in tabular form, detailing the allocation per county and details of projects approved for grant-aid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4653/23]
306. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide an update with regards to the Covid-19 adaptation fund for 2020 and 2021, in tabular form, detailing the allocation per county and details of projects approved for grant-aid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4652/23]
305. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide an update with regards to the tourism business continuity scheme for 2021 and 2022, in tabular form, detailing the allocation per county and details of projects approved for grant-aid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4651/23]
1. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media further to Question No. 1 of 17 November 2022, if she will provide an update on whether the wide range of alternative options being explored by the Government will be made available in time for the reopening of hotels to tourists in summer 2023, and on the engagement carried out by her Department on the senior officials group, including a copy of or details of the concerns she communicated on behalf of the tourism sector to the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, and any response received; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3676/23]
438. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide a date for new applications for the sports capital grant 2023; and the amount that has been allocated. [63471/22]
302. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if local authorities have legal authority to raise rents specifically for the intention of ringfencing the rent increase to fund local property tax. [61975/22]
285. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide an update with regards to activity regarding the Fáilte Ireland Food and Drink Strategy 2018-2023; and if there will be a new strategy developed for the period 2024-2029. [61973/22]
13. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage His plans, if any, to introduce guidelines, on a statutory basis or otherwise, to protect local media outlets from undue pressure from local authorities in terms of influencing editorial decisions in return for advertising funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47591/22]
508. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the resources that are being made available by his Department to develop the centralised online reporting system announced in September under the Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021; his views on the way that compliance with the Act will be monitored; if this will be carried out by his Department or by another body; if his Department will keep a complete list of all businesses required to report on their gender pay gap under the Act; if his Department will maintain a register of employers that have not complied with their responsibilities and requirements under the Act; if such a register will be made available publicly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59271/22]
507. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the centralised online reporting system that he announced in September (details supplied) will include overall breakdowns and averages of the gender pay gap for all employers included in the scheme, as required by the Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021; if it will include breakdowns or averages of the GPG for employers who are not required to report under the scheme; if it will provide a summary list by employer of the size of the gender pay gap by each of the different measures on which businesses are required to report; if it will provide a summary in order to track of the size of the gender pay gap of each employer over time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59270/22]
245. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Social Protection if consideration has been given to granting the cost-of-living disability support payment to those in receipt of partial capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58491/22]
221. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Social Protection the plans to address the payscales and current pay rates of community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; if additional funding will be made to locally-based CE sponsoring authorities to provide pay increases to their staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57070/22]
48. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media her views on the prospect of the introduction of varying VAT rates for different parts of the tourism sector; if she intends to raise this with the Minister for Finance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56970/22]
32. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she would be in favour of the extension of Ireland's Ancient East marketing brand to include counties such as Antrim, Armagh and Down; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56969/22]
3. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has had any communications with RTÉ on the matter of pay discrepancies between workers in Raidió na Gaeltachta and those in English language RTÉ radio stations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56968/22]
1. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide details of any plans she has for the hotel and accommodation sector in 2023, with particular regard to the effect of the Ukrainian refugee crisis on the sustainability of the sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56967/22]
389. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the annual cost of the housing assistance payment in each of the years from its inception until 2022, by county in tabular form. [54826/22]
335. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide a breakdown of Vote 33 across programmes A to E, inclusive of programme A to E subheads, including both current and capital expenditure for each of the years 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022 and the proposed expenditure for 2023, in tabular form. [54656/22]
570. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the basis that Section 56 childcare organisations which were previously Section 38 organisations, identified as public sector workers by their inclusion in the HSE superannuation scheme, were excluded from public sector pay agreements and pay restoration when re-designated as Section 56 organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51808/22]
11. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the mechanism by which full-time residents in mobile home parks who pay for electricity calculated by individual non-ESBN meters through their mobile home park operator will receive the three lump sum electricity account credits announced in Budget 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50498/22]
35. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide an update on the progress of the establishment of Coimisiún na Meán; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47592/22]
2. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has considered the introduction of a leisure card for children and young people that would allow for State funding to be given directly to families for the purposes of paying for sport and or cultural activities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47809/22]
551. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Health the number of dentists that have left the dental treatment service scheme in counties Louth and Meath, respectively in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38553/22]
533. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Health the adult and paediatric waiting lists for each outpatient department in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38363/22]
532. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Health if he will provide information on the number of diabetes patients in Drogheda and south Louth who currently have to travel outside of their locality to attend diabetes clinics including the number of patients travelling and the clinics they are attending; if he has plans to establish a diabetes clinic in Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will provide details of same, or if not, if he will provide the rationale for that position.
[38362/22]
531. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Health the number of diabetes clinics in the State, including information regarding where they are located and whether they operate on a full-time or part-time basis.
[38361/22]
530. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Health the number of dentists that have left the dental treatment service scheme in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38360/22]
529. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on progress around addressing the significant issues facing the dental treatment service scheme; and his views on when the issue is expected to be resolved.
[38359/22]
217. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if the €2 million allocated to the sound and vision fund in the July stimulus was a once-off funding increase; if not, if it now forms part of annual core funding; if the funding will be allocated again in 2023; and the total amount of funding that has been provided by the Exchequer to the sound and vision fund to date in 2022. [38187/22]
216. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide a list of successful applicants under the Large-Scale Infrastructure Fund in each of the years that the programme was active. [38167/22]
215. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of applications to the Large-Scale Infrastructure Fund since it first opened; and the number of successful and unsuccessful applications, respectively. [38166/22]
214. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the capital and current Exchequer funding allocated to Screen Ireland in 2022 under B.12 of the revised estimates 2022. [38165/22]
213. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the total capital allocation made to Fáilte Ireland in 2022. [38164/22]
212. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide an exact breakdown of the funding allocated in 2022 to Tourism Ireland under the revised estimates 2022 under each of the headings A.4, A.5 and A.6. [38163/22]
105. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Transport the current status of plans for the port access northern cross route, including timelines, information on funding and any other relevant details; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38356/22]
1051. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Health if he will consider including Ozempic injection for the treatment of obesity under the general medical services medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37990/22]
146. Deputy Imelda Munster asked the Minister for Transport his proposals to ensure the percentage of rail services that are wheelchair accessible which require persons to provide notice in order that such accessibility be availed of; the number of new carriages purchased or which have come into service since March 2020; the number of those that have retractable ramps; if there are any Government targets; his proposals to ensure full accessibility for persons with disabilities on the rail network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36003/22]