805. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland will jointly place a resolution before the UN General Assembly in advance of the COP26 Summit calling for a global ban on fracking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39097/21]
611. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider establishing a financial support system for citizen resident in buildings (details supplied). [39278/21]
227. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Transport the specific guidance he has given the operators of the Luas tram service to limit capacity in line with public health advice given the fact that entry and exit to the Luas system is generally unmanned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40263/21]
185. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the actions his Department will take to alleviate the inhumane conditions exposed by a recent publication (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38722/21]
439. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Health the status of the availability of the drug zolgensma in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31596/21]
192. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Education if she will give accreditation to the certificate in inclusive school support the national training programme for SNAs which is currently being delivered by UCD and was established following a review by the NCSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38131/21]
247. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider taking into account vehicle width as an assessment point for car and or road tax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37795/21]
248. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Social Protection her Department’s understanding of which social care benefits Irish citizens who move to Northern Ireland are entitled to under the Common Travel Area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36933/21]
207. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the actions the Government will take to ensure that justice is secured for the families of the Bloody Sunday victims by making Soldier F and Soldier B stand trial in view of the announcement that the British public prosecution service will no longer prosecute Soldier F and Soldier B in respect to alleged murders they carried out on Bloody Sunday 1972; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36952/21]
109. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice if she will examine the situation in cases of shared custody arrangements that permission is needed from the other parent if one wishes to bring their children to Northern Ireland recognising the freedoms granted by the Good Friday Agreement in respect to an open Border and the unnecessary difficulties this presents for families living in Border communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36657/21]
539. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Health his plans to offer gene cell therapy for patients with certain conditions via the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29908/21]
527. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Health if a CAMHS Cherry Orchard appointment will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29791/21]
502. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Health when an inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of sodium valproate also known as epilim will take place given the commitment made to hold such an inquiry in October 2020 of which no progress has been made in the interim. [29696/21]
501. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Health when the six epilepsy nurse specialists will be recruited as committed to in 2018 as part of the Pregnancy Prevention Programme in relation to the risk associated with sodium valproate. [29695/21]
392. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider changes in relation the use of policy or procedures in view of the recent study by UCC regarding the issues relating the use of voluntary care agreements (details supplied). [36393/21]
430. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Health the status of the planned primary care centre based in Drimnagh, Dublin 12 which was committed to, planning permission granted but never completed under his predecessor Minister James Reilly. [29012/21]
133. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Social Protection the action she will take to account for the ruling from McDonagh versus the Chief Appeals Officer and the Minister for Social Protection. [34754/21]
428. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice the reason there are two types of stamp 1G visas, both with different entitlements; and if she will rename one of the visas to avoid confusion in this regard. [34908/21]
163. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of meetings that have been scheduled by a union (details supplied) with his Department since January 2020 in relation to secretarial assistant pay; and the number of meetings that have taken place. [34463/21]
94. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Transport if he has met with taxi driver unions to hear the difficulties faced by the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34275/21]
13. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Defence the operational usage of the LÉ Orla and LÉ Eithne since they were docked in 2019. [34691/21]
265. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of the legislation to make provision for the independent commission on information retrieval which is committed to under the Stormont House Agreement, New Decade New Approach and the Programme for Government; and the timeline for its implementation. [30980/21]
126. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the legislative timeline for the implementation of the independent commission on information retrieval contained in the Stormont House Agreement and subsequently recommitted to in New Decade, New Approach. [33874/21]
110. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he is taking to ensure the Gaza reconstruction mechanism will support the rebuilding of Gaza following the recent conflict instead of acting as a block to rebuilding as has been the case to date according to local NGOs. [33873/21]
77. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the fact that apartments, like traditional houses, are homes for many persons and thus include them in the provisions relating to the land development authority Bill. [33866/21]
38. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if an additional €50,000 departmental subsidy per unit to the cost-rental programme at St. Michael’s Estate, Inchicore will be committed to. [33865/21]
164. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will make the enterprise support grant available to taxi drivers who have maintenance bills accruing while still in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment and earning the €960 over two months as allowed. [33740/21]
88. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Transport if he will open the Khyber Pass pedestrian bridge to the public (details supplied). [33940/21]
69. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Transport if he will request the National Transport Authority to establish a policy whereby taxi drivers can sell back their plates to the authority if they wish to leave the industry. [33739/21]
498. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice when the issuing of type C visas will recommence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33107/21]
95. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the status of the oversight group which is assessing the pilot for the artist basic income guarantee scheme. [33103/21]
64. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the status of the €50 million awarded in Budget 2021 to support the live entertainment sector. [33102/21]
237. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine the matter of pay for public defender barristers who currently due to cuts from 2008 to 2011, are paid in line with rates set in 2002 whilst State solicitors who work on the same cases are paid at rate fixed as a result of pay restoration in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32878/21]
79. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Transport if he will consider implementing a moratorium on the issuing of new taxi licences for 2022 recognising the need for existing taxi drivers to resume full-time work after the pandemic. [32438/21]
46. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Transport if he will expand the nine-year rule requiring taxis to be younger than nine years and consider a temporary extension of this (details supplied). [32437/21]
658. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will make provisions for parents to apply for passports for their children who are unregistered and without a birth certificate deeming them unable to apply for a passport due to the ongoing HSE hacking issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30952/21]
588. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the upcoming fourth anniversary of the authorship of the report A Review Into Certain Planning Matters in Respect of Donegal County Council by a person (details supplied) will be published. [30824/21]
440. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will extend the opening of the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin 8 from 6:30pm for the summer season. [31130/21]
435. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if secretarial assistants are currently employed by the Houses of the Oireachtas; the number that have applied for incremental credit; the number of total years of past experience that have been disregarded under the policy of disregarding three years per application; the estimated cost to add the disregarded years to credit for the pay scale both in arrears to the start of the current Oireachtas term; and the increase in the weekly wage bill. [30979/21]
331. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Finance the number of claims for a benefit under the Israel-Ireland double taxation agreement in each of the past five years; the number that required further investigation; the number that were rejected; the number that were rejected in particular due to the fact that the company, person or income to be taxed was based in illegally occupied territories to which the treaty does not apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30658/21]
315. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Finance if he will extend the parameters for the criteria that qualify a business as a start up for the purposes of receiving the employment wage subsidy scheme which is currently capped at 37 weeks trading in 2019 for eligibility in 2020 recognising that a business takes at least one year to establish itself such as a business (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30497/21]
211. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if it will be ensured that section 15(6)(c) of the Digital Hub Development Agency Act 2003 will be observed and that a representative of the local community be appointed by him with immediate effect to replace the previous representative whose term expired on 2 June 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31563/21]
141. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice if consideration will be given to an independent review of the processes of the Data Protection Commission as called for by an organisation (details supplied). [27843/21]
128. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will use Ireland’s position on the United Nations Security Council to ensure that a United Nations database of companies operating in occupied Western Sahara is established similar to that which currently exists for occupied Palestine. [29907/21]
358. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the US Senate is considering a draft Bill that targets jurisdictions with inadequate enforcement of data protection law (details supplied); and if he will furnish details of any enquires his Department has made to the US Senate or any other relevant body regarding the potential impact this could have on Ireland. [29156/21]
202. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Transport the number of successful prosecutions of drivers who have struck the Luas in each of the years 2018, 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, including the offence which was prosecuted and the sentences that were handed down in tabular form. [29649/21]
100. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the total annual budget of the SEAI on an annual basis; the number of applicants for various grants; and the average grant award and number of rejected applications for the past five years, in tabular form. [28939/21]
142. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the amount of the recently announced €1.5 million funding which will be made available to ensure access to education in occupied Palestine in view of the challenges of access to education for Palestinian children, as demonstrated by UNICEF 2018 State of Palestine- Country report on out-of-school children report. [28409/21]
119. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media when children’s swimming lessons will resume in line with public health advice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28548/21]
476. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice when the processing of long stay visa applications will be resumed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27472/21]