357. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current status of the proposed development of affordable housing by the Land Development Agency, Sandy Road, Galway; if the land is owned by the Land Development Agency; the level of funding that has been committed to the Land Development Agency to enable the project to proceed; when the planning permission will be sought for the project; the projected completion date for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51914/22]
340. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide 50% flexibility to homeless HAP in Galway city, as is provided for in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51476/22]
334. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and their respective salaries, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51259/22]
326. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of current Screen Ireland board members who are directors or shareholders in companies that have received finance, grants or other financial supports from the state agency. [52000/22]
325. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she will provide a list of all individuals and entities who obtained funding from Screen Ireland under the Covid-19 production fund; and the monetary amount which they received and the date of payment in tabular form. [51999/22]
317. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the names of all special advisors working in her Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and their respective salaries, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51265/22]
309. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and their respective salaries, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51261/22]
270. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Finance the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and their respective salaries, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51255/22]
236. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the anomaly whereby 18-year-old students in some instances cannot qualify for the 50% fare reduction due to their being too young to apply for the young adult card for those aged 19 to 23 years, meaning that they have to purchase a full adult ticket; if his Department has made contact with the private bus operators that are awaiting action by his Department to resolve this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51400/22]
225. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and their respective salaries, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51266/22]
214. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport if he was informed that the proposed cycle path from Whitestrand to the Barna Road, Galway, would remove a section of public road space from the Salthill diving board to the Barna Road before approving funding of the engineering design works. [51916/22]
177. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and their respective salaries, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51254/22]
166. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and their respective salaries, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51253/22]
155. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Taoiseach the names of all special advisors working in his Department; the Minister and Junior Minister who each advisor is associated with and their respective salaries, in tabular form. [51264/22]
190. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider providing additional buses on the 424 route into Galway city in the morning in order to meet demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50791/22]
41. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has given consideration to allowing increased mortgage costs as part of the means test for carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49482/22]
84. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Mairéad Farrell den Aire Oideachais cén uair a thabharfar cead do scoil (sonraí curtha ar fáil) chun conraitheoir a fhostú faoin Scéim um Chóiríocht Bhreise; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [50435/22]
502. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider adjusting the means test for the carer's allowance in order that reasonable mortgage repayments for the primary residence would be subtracted from the applicant's overall means; if she will consider taking the number of dependants in a household into account as part of the means test for carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49754/22]
317. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on his views expressed in July 2022 regarding additional funding for Galway County Council (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49686/22]
90. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Education the criteria set out for the Irish and bilingual grant; the reason that some schools in the same geographic area are included and others are not; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49478/22]
80. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Education the reason that ETBs no longer have the authority to grant cover for workforce leave as they did prior to the moratorium; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49479/22]
303. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has considered amending the policy regarding parent’s leave and benefit to allow lone parents to take leave equal to the time two parent families can avail of in an effort to give children of lone parents a more equitable start in life; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49276/22]
287. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has considered a small tax credit for qualifying families who may have children with complex special needs in relation to the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49362/22]
286. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans, if any, to allow increased mortgage repayments, due to higher interest rates, to be factored into the means test in relation to carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49361/22]
262. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has given any consideration to allowing members of the Prison Service recruited post-1995 to work a certain number of hours each week whilst retaining certain social welfare benefits, as other welfare recipients can do (details supplied). [49384/22]
169. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 29 May 2013, if he will provide a copy of a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49389/22]
60. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the date that the first electricity credit will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48825/22]
767. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a projected timeline for the delivery of the development of the deepwater quay at Ros an Mhíl following the commencement of a revised tendering process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48614/22]
454. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Social Protection the specific weeks in which the additional payments from her Department outlined in the cost-of-living package (details supplied) will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48610/22]
78. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the national development plan; the impact of cost inflation; if he will provide a list of any projects which may now need to go back out for tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48646/22]
184. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the school bus route between Maigh Cuilinn and Galway city, and the school bus from Cashel to Carna; if additional students will be allowed to avail of these bus services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47677/22]
154. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the date the Croí Cónaithe scheme will become available for persons in rural areas with a population of under 400; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47618/22]
469. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health if CAMHS is currently accepting new patients in Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46772/22]
431. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the number of fourth-class children who will receive dental screening services under the Health (Amendment) Act 1994 during the current academic year by CHO area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46596/22]
191. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will introduce a ban on evictions into homelessness to address rising homelessness levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47261/22]
504. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the considerations that have been given to create a long-Covid clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45544/22]
503. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the reason that the enhanced illness benefit has not been extended for those suffering from long-Covid given the fact that the European Commission has recognised long-Covid as an occupational disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45546/22]
502. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the neuro-rehabilitations supports which are being made available for long-Covid patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45542/22]
501. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the way in which general practitioners will be upskilled to support long-Covid patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45541/22]
500. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the infectious disease experts who were consulted in the development of the model of care in relation to long-Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45540/22]
268. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated number of applications anticipated for the Mica redress scheme in 2023; the cost associated with this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45596/22]
195. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of bringing all public service workers up to the living wage of €12.17 per hour (details supplied); the estimated cost of bringing the wage to €12.90 per hour as set by the Living Wage Technical Group under the terms of the current Public Service Stability Agreement Building Momentum; and estimated cost under the proposed new pay deal in tabular form. [45203/22]
69. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will support a trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights waiver to end global Covid-19 vaccine inequity given that the majority of the Irish public, Seanad Éireann, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the World Health Organisation have called for a TRIPS waiver for Covid-19 vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics; and if the Government will advocate today at the World Trade Organisation Ministerial conference for the European Union to support the TRIPS waiver. [30787/22]
581. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the caravan loan scheme for Traveller families will commence in local authorities across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43025/22]
457. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will identify the relevant statutory instruments and the relevant sections that deal with procurement (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43292/22]
456. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date on which retired public sector workers received their pension increases in line with the pay increases received by their peers in employment (details supplied) and the increased pension-related expenditure paid out on that date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43227/22]
347. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Finance if the offices of the Revenue Commissioners will reopen to the public for in-person consultations; if so, when they will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42573/22]