1067. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Health in regard to patients who have suffered trauma as a result of psychiatric institutional sectioning and treatment, what supports exist in the health system to support them in terms of counselling, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44190/24]
1066. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Health to report on any professional understanding that exists around the treatment options of ‘multiple monitored ECT’, the use of sodium amytal in such treatments, and any likely adverse events in such use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44189/24]
1065. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Health the status of redress to patients of psychiatric hospitals who feel they have an historic claim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44188/24]
267. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Finance his views in relation to investment funds (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44253/24]
266. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Finance to outline the exit tax collected on ETFs, specifically related two taxpayers reporting under the self-assessment scheme over the past five years, in tabular form; the relative prevailing tax rate for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44252/24]
265. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Finance to outline the exit tax collected on ETFs in the past five years, in tabular form; the relative prevailing tax rate for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44251/24]
246. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Finance if his Department is aware of unplanned downtimes on the Revenue ‘ ROS system at this time of the year, with peak filings; if filing deadlines will be appropriately extended for agents and tax payers in the event of any downtimes on ROS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44026/24]
854. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for his and his Department’s assessment of the feasibility of the South East Technological University, Strategic Plan, Connecting for Impact 2023-2028, given that €350 million of capital funding is required between 2023 and 2028 to realise the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42804/24]
853. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the details of the public funding with respect to each of the universities, technological universities and colleges for the provision of new-build student accommodation; the number of units; the public contribution and the timeline for their completion, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42803/24]
852. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the details of the capital expenditure within each of the technological universities since their creation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42802/24]
851. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the details of the annual payments in respect of the loans provided to IT Tralee and Waterford IT since the loan was provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42799/24]
850. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science whether new lecturing and research contracts for faculty working in the technological university sector will be in place before March 2025. [42798/24]
849. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide details on the process that decides approval for the provision of new or additional pharmacy faculties and course development; and if new courses will be approved in the technological sector before March 2025. [42797/24]
848. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to outline his Department's planned allocations to capital developments at South East Technological University over the next 12 months and beyond. [42796/24]
847. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide an overall assessment of the likelihood of a borrowing framework for the technological sector to be in place before March 2025. [42795/24]
846. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the details of the provisional supply and demand analysis for purpose-built student accommodation and private rented accommodation with respect to the catchment of each technological university and College, in tabular form. [42794/24]
845. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if the public private partnership bundle 2 will be completed before the completion of the current National Development Plan 2018-2027. [42793/24]
420. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the definition and conceptualisation of balanced regional development currently used to interpret and deliver the Programme for Government. [42814/24]
406. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to detail the administrative processes under the current public spending code that would operate in respect of any potential acquisition of Rory Gallagher’s Fender Stratocaster. [42809/24]
405. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide a schedule of each swimming pool in that is open to the public in the State. [42790/24]
404. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide a schedule of each swimming pool in receipt of public funding since 2020. [42789/24]
273. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to detail the game-changing projects being envisaged, conceived, conceptualise and planned for the coming years to deliver economic growth in the south east of Ireland. [42815/24]
272. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to detail the NUTS3 regional economic evaluation and analysis his Department uses in its evaluations. [42813/24]
271. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if there are any plans or projects within his Department to improve the level of detail made public with respect to capital expenditure in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42812/24]
270. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 17 of 26 October 2023, to provide a detailed schedule, as complete as his Department has available to it, in tabular form, of capital projects at each stage of delivery from commencement to completion and evaluation in the south east of Ireland since the formation of the 33rd Dáil. [42811/24]
269. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the reason the balanced regional development agenda is mainly advanced in the National Development Plan through the highly concentrated and remote NUTS2 regional assemblies, rather than the more regionally engaged NUTS3 assemblies; the evaluations that have been undertaken of the 2015 streamlining; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42810/24]
243. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Finance with respect to the 42,454 jobs supported by ISIF investments in FY2022, to detail the basis for this calculation, the nature of the jobs and locations. [42806/24]
242. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Finance to detail any information on the role of the 213 FY2022 ISIF investments in advancing balanced regional development, and a broad commentary on whether the fund’s Irish investments have an over 30% concentration in Dublin and thus work against current policy aspirations towards balanced regional development. [42805/24]
196. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Transport to detail the long term planning in respect of the N25/M25 road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42808/24]
195. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 7 February 2024, if his Department makes a formal distinction between receipt of a digital document and a physical document. [42807/24]
130. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a schedule of public funding provided to each local authority in respect of each year since 2020. [42792/24]
270. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Justice in view of the fact that the Criminal Justice (Perjury and Related Offences) Act was passed in 2021, if the offence of perjury has yet been codified under the Courts Service’s criminal case tracking system; the number of offences have been prosecuted in the courts since enactment; whether this marks an increase in prosecutions for perjury before the courts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42262/24]
145. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Transport the cost-benefit analysis that has been done by his Department to identify economic benefit of passenger jet aviation into each region of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41977/24]
48. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Transport his position on the business plan now reported on by his Department on the funding application to develop the Waterford Airport runway extension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41978/24]
635. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Health his views on whether it is fair that an applicant for the long-term illness scheme diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (initially incorrectly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes through no fault of their own) was deemed ineligible for consideration under the scheme as they were not diagnosed with type 1 ‘from the outset’ (details supplied); if he will commit to having his Department thoroughly review the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41279/24]
402. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has any plans to extend the part-time job incentive beyond the current 12-month eligibility period (details supplied); if there is currently any discretion in the local offices to have the period extended; if she will acknowledge that where employers do not offer additional hours following the end of the part-time job incentive payments it can be difficult for people to manage on the reduced income; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41278/24]
301. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Health the training procedures that are in place for the use of dermoscopy as a clinical diagnostic within the model four hospital network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40799/24]
300. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Health to provide a report on the number of consultant dermatologists working within the model for hospital network, by each hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40798/24]
299. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Health to provide a report on the availability and specialist use of dermoscopy across the model 4 hospital network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40797/24]
298. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Health if he will itemise the budget resourcing provided through his Department to addiction detoxification; the average bed availability in Munster and Leinster, respectively over the past 12-months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40796/24]
297. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Health to provide the resourcing number of healthcare staff related to addiction detox bed units in Munster and Leinster, by each centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40795/24]
296. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Health the number of addiction detox beds allocated in Munster and Leinster, respectively; the location of each and any associated care providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40794/24]
151. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Finance if he will examine the maximum threshold of investment in prize bonds and apply some preferential rate of tax treatment in order that such a savings fund could be accessed in the future to provide nursing care support where needed as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40793/24]
635. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if a meeting request has been received by his Office from a group representative of south east Oireachtas members in relation to SETU; and the date and time appointed for such a meeting. [40252/24]
97. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 2 October 2024, if he will provide a response to the question in relation to whether a private consortium other than that in Waterford has sought co-funding from his Department for the aviation sector (details supplied); if so, the evaluation process undertaken to establish business case approval; if not, the expertise that exists in his Department to evaluate value for money where the applicant is looking only for part of the investment required but is also obliged to completely fund the project to a conclusion and then claim any Department funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40303/24]
79. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Transport to provide the names of other projects approved for capital support in excess of €1 million in the last ten years, where the private sector was contributing at a minimum 50% of the funding required; and in such cases if he will outline the exact timeframes by start and end date and the business plan review processes that were required to arrive at a formal Department decision; the number of those funding requests that were denied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39394/24]
78. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Transport with regard to the Waterford airport business case funding request, if he can confirm whether the full costs capital works schedule must be borne by the airport investors to a completed project on which the Government then agrees to refund an agreed grant amount as part of those incurred costs, or whether the process requested envisages grant drawdown as the project schedule rolls out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39393/24]
77. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Transport the reason for the technical financial analysis in full detail that has delayed a Department review of the Waterford airport business case, with the understanding that private equity commitment is provided for over half the project cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39392/24]
91. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Transport to examine the scheduled Bus Éireann service from Waterford to Rosslare Ferry, which is scheduled to arrive at Rosslare Port five minutes after the Ferry sails, without offering any opportunity for passengers to present 30 minutes prior to departure, as required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38789/24]
706. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1921 of 9 September 2024, if the response will be reviewed given the matters raised were not fully addressed (details supplied) in relation to stroke-service resourcing at University Hospital Waterford; his position in terms of proposed future additional clinical and capital funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36440/24]