304. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 28 to 31, inclusive, of 4 March 2021, if the DART expansion project will be announced in advance of the launch of phase two of the review of the national development plan. [18263/21]
303. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 28 to 31, inclusive, of 4 March 2021, the timeframe for the completion of the preliminary business case for the DART expansion project. [18262/21]
122. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the assessment he is making or he has made as to whether capacity across public service bodies is keeping pace with increased investment levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20401/21]
110. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the Public Service Innovation Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20402/21]
140. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if clarity will be provided on student work placement and practical requirements (details supplied) for post-leaving certificate courses. [16162/21]
1428. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to prioritise private sector special needs education workers in the vaccine roll-out given that they are providing an invaluable service to families and in view of the fact colleagues in the HSE have already been vaccinated. [14185/21]
1427. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health the provisions for the vaccine roll-out in relation to high risk persons with Down's syndrome that live at home with family members and are not accessing day services given concerns that they could possibly be overlooked it is important that they are vaccinated under the revised prioritisation. [14184/21]
1224. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Justice if a decision will issue on a leave to remain request in the case of a person (details supplied). [14403/21]
834. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Education her plans for vaccine roll-out in special education schools in which there are very vulnerable young children; and if there are plans to also prioritise staff in such settings given that colleagues in adult disabilities have already begun their vaccinations. [14183/21]
116. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Transport if local authorities have reported delays in the completion of their restoration improvement programmes; and his plans to assist local authorities in increasing their capacity to carry out roadworks in the coming months. [15653/21]
221. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if there is an opportunity for students to avail of the HPV vaccine when the forthcoming school vaccination programme resumes given they are now in older years (details supplied). [13699/21]
139. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of pensioners in receipt of the fuel allowance that are also paying the local property tax; and the value of local property tax collected in cases in which the payee is also in receipt of the fuel allowance. [13785/21]
52. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider waiving the local property tax for pensioners in receipt of the fuel allowance given that the benefit of the fuel allowance payment is null and voided by the local property tax payment. [13786/21]
1007. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if steps are being taken by his Department following the outbreak of a deadly strain of neurological equine herpes on mainland Europe (details supplied). [12664/21]
579. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps that have been taken to revise the age thresholds for the domiciliary care allowance (details supplied). [12782/21]
29. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Transport if the business case for the DART expansion has been put to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform; and if not, when he expects it will be put forward. [12377/21]
28. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Transport the current timeline for announcing the preferred bidder for the DART expansion programme. [12376/21]
781. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if provision will be made to allow children and others who missed the HPV vaccination to opt-in for vaccination when the scheme returns to schools given that large numbers of young children have missed out on the HPV vaccination over the past year. [11248/21]
780. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if those students who have not yet received their second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine due to school closures in March 2020 and were unable to attend the summer catch-up clinics will be prioritised when vaccinations resume. [11247/21]
779. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if the school vaccination teams now administering vaccines in nursing homes will cause a delay in the resuming of the school vaccinations once schools reopen. [11246/21]
778. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health when he plans to resume the school immunisation programme in particular the HPV vaccine which is best administered to persons before they are 15 years of age. [11245/21]
336. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider replacing a previous condition in the planning regulations which was removed to allow homeowners to rebuild fire-damaged homes to the same specification without recourse to planning permission (details supplied). [11452/21]
561. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost and the number of recipients who would be included, if those in year two of the back to work payment and due to finish the scheme from March to May 2021, received an additional year on the scheme as a one-off support, given level 5 restrictions and the impact of same on many recipients of the scheme. [9530/21]
990. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the trade assurance scheme for combinable crops scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8743/21]
953. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health the position of counsellors and psychotherapists in Covid-19 vaccine roll-out plans (details supplied). [8883/21]
812. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if there is a provision for general practitioners to prioritise Covid-19 vaccination for patients who are high risk but not over 85 years of age (details supplied). [8466/21]
747. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if he will consider putting in place a refund scheme for parents who have no option but to source eye testing for their children privately (details supplied). [8265/21]
638. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health when the vacant role of diabetic nurse at Mullingar hospital will be filled (details supplied). [7876/21]
603. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Justice if she will request the appointment of a court messenger to the Sheriff’s Court attached to Longford Courthouse (details supplied). [8277/21]
279. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the €15,000 reckonable income condition for the tenant purchase scheme (details supplied); and if not, if he will consider removing the reckonable income condition for a one-year period in the counties in which there was a significant concentration of ESB or Bord na Móna employees in order to facilitate them to access the scheme. [8276/21]
278. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it will be ensured that the 2020 funding process is factored into an increased allocation in 2021 for the disabled person grant funding scheme for the local authorities (details supplied). [8274/21]
273. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to long-term dialysis patients in terms of their ranking in the groups for Covid-19 vaccination (details supplied); and if the group will be prioritised in the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out. [7603/21]
214. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the review and evaluation of the AIM will explore an apprenticeship-style model of recruitment in the early years sector (details supplied). [7687/21]
213. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the review and evaluation of the AIM will reconsider the qualification levels of AIM workers and SNAs for early years education (details supplied); and if the SNA course will qualify them for these positions, making it easier for early years providers to recruit and retain staff. [7686/21]
212. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to invite service providers to provide their feedback and observations as part of the current review and evaluation of the AIM. [7685/21]
12. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if local stakeholders and local authorities will be given an opportunity to apply for possible sites for the proposed €10 million peatlands knowledge centre of excellence and visitor centre for the midlands region (details supplied). [7692/21]
857. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if there are provisions to facilitate parents who have to accompany a child on a flight to the UK in the context of Covid-19 restrictions and polymerase chain reaction, PCR, test requirements (details supplied). [6987/21]
805. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if first class pupils in County Longford who did not receive an appointment with the school dentist in 2020 due to Covid-19 will be facilitated in 2021 alongside 2020-21 first class pupils (details supplied). [6791/21]
342. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will insist on the suspension of the student placement component as part of the certificate in agriculture QQI level 5 and QQI level 6 courses in view of the Covid-19 pandemic (details supplied). [4874/21]
280. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that his Department monitors and tracks the development of the new drug omaveloxolone which presents the first real breakthrough treatment for Friedreich’s ataxia patients (details supplied). [4849/21]
279. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Health if all CHO8 staff involved in Covid-19 testing and swabbing and specifically at the Mullingar and Longford test centres have received the Covid-19 vaccination; and if not, when vaccination is planned for same. [4848/21]
23. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will engage with the ESB and request that the €6 million earmarked from the company for the just transition funding will be ring-fenced and allocated directly to the 30 plus projects struggling to meet the matching 50% funding requirements under the draw-down criteria for just transition approved projects. [4840/21]
22. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of approved just transition projects given recent confirmation that the stipulations for drawing down funding requires the project promoters to provide an unrealistic 50% in match funding for projected project costs. [4839/21]
150. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Transport his plans to address the growing numbers of persons who are awaiting their driver theory test (details supplied). [4096/21]
149. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Transport the waiting times for each county for the driver theory test from 31 December 2019 to end December 2020 by month. [4095/21]