271. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Finance if there is any provision for an increase in the tax exemption limit for people over 65 years of age in budget 2023 given the increase in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49830/22]
267. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Finance the timescale for the introduction of a levy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49656/22]
134. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Education the measures that are being taken to provide candidates, parents and schools with certainty regarding the arrangements for issuing the Junior Certificate results; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49693/22]
96. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Education if incentives have been put in place to encourage teachers to sign up for correction work on the delayed Junior Certificate results; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49710/22]
411. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 588 of 20 September 2022, if his Department will clear all ash dieback reconstitution and underplanting scheme files by year end to aid stricken forest owners (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49365/22]
410. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 588 of 20 September 2022, if he will detail the forestry service estimate of the available volume that justifies stating that there is a very large supply of timber available to be felled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49364/22]
409. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 588 of 20 September 2022, stating that there was an average 78 licences per week in 2021, and 92 licences per week to date in 2022 in tabular form the number of ecologists working on said files per week for both 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49357/22]
408. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 588 of 20 September 2022, the average output in terms of number of files per ecologist per week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49356/22]
407. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 588 of 20 September 2022, if he will detail the minimum and the most time that an ecologist worked on the files referred to in 2021 (details supplied); the minimum and maximum cost in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49355/22]
310. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his attention has been drawn to the decision by Maynooth University to halt construction of the student centre which has been funded in part by a student levy; the action that he is taking on the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49117/22]
271. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans to recognise Covid-19 or long-Covid as an occupational illness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49228/22]
250. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Education the criteria for establishing a reading class unit in a primary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49268/22]
164. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Finance if a response will issue to guidance sought by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49275/22]
126. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the reason that a Communities Energy Grant application by a company (details supplied) has not been processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49143/22]
125. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there are plans for a new scheme to replace the Communities Energy Grant in the case that the grant ceases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49142/22]
124. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if all applications currently submitted for the Communities Energy Grants will be evaluated and granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49141/22]
123. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the Communities Energy Grant ends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49140/22]
243. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Social Protection when an invalidity pension claim awarded on appeal for a person (details supplied) will go into payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48968/22]
242. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Social Protection the current status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48965/22]
215. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) who has been on a community employment scheme for four years should be eligible for fuel allowance, given that if they had remained on jobseeker’s allowance for that duration they would now qualify; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48753/22]
199. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Education when the information supplied by a person (details supplied) will be processed;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49054/22]
605. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Health the grants or rebate schemes that are available to help persons diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with the cost of running oxygen machines and other electrical appliances required as part of their treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48053/22]
601. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Health if he will consider the introduction of courses (details supplied) being covered by the medical card taking into account the benefits that they offer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48044/22]
384. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Education to provide a breakdown of the way in which the €100 million allocated in budget 2023 will be distributed between primary and secondary schools to mitigate against rising energy costs and the cost of school transport providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48168/22]
272. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current staffing levels assigned to the foreshore unit in his Department; if he has plans to increase the resources of the unit to prioritise the assessment of foreshore licence applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48033/22]
271. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of secondary legislation to give effect to the maritime area regulatory authority; if the establishment of the authority in quarter 1 of 2023 is still expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48032/22]
211. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if Ukrainian childcare qualifications are recognised in Ireland for those seeking to work in the childcare sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47706/22]
126. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the opportunities available to public sector employees to transfer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47734/22]
238. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Health if his Department has considered the administration of the front-line pandemic payment for private nursing home staff who either no longer work in that nursing home or in cases in which the nursing home has closed down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47376/22]
539. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Health if his Department will consider adding desmopressin nasal spray to the general medical services scheme given that the tablet version of the same medication is already covered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47098/22]
329. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Social Protection the current status of a carer’s allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47090/22]
148. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the plans of the OPW for remedial works (details supplied) following the recommendations made in a report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46872/22]
263. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Education if her Department is considering using a former school building (details supplied) for a purpose other than education; if so, when she expects the decision to be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46389/22]
262. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Education the reason that a child was refused a school bus ticket (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46388/22]
60. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Transport the status of the Oylegate to Rosslare bypass in Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45549/22]
58. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the consultation that has taken place or is planned with fishermen and fishing organisations regarding the construction of offshore wind farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46232/22]
48. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that the Office of Government Procurement has not established a cloud services procurement framework, despite the Government’s long-held cloud ambitions, as recently re-stated in the Harnessing Digital and Connecting Ireland Plan 2030, and the stated goal in those strategies of taking a cloud-first approach in order to deliver better public services, leveraging the well-documented cybersecurity and sustainability benefits that the cloud provides; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46144/22]
589. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if brash harvesting is permitted under the standards for felling and reforestation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45557/22]
588. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost for the ecological input into each file processed through the ecology unit of the Forest Service of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45556/22]
587. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Forest Service of his Department is on track to deliver on the commitment in the Forestry Licencing Plan 2022 to approve 350 applications for reconstitution of woodland scheme – frost damage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45555/22]
570. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Health when frontline workers employed by private nursing homes will receive their pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45914/22]
204. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to plans to change the method of communication used in motorbike driving tests between the applicant and tester; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46050/22]
247. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given to the provision of the fuel allowance for a person (details supplied) taking into account the time already spent on the community employment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45231/22]
234. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Education when a form will be returned to an applicant (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45249/22]
599. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Health if children who require high index lenses in their glasses can avail of funding under the children's optical voucher scheme to cover the additional cost of purchasing these lenses as a standard throughout every region of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44950/22]
379. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the introduction of illness benefit for self-employed persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44643/22]
308. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Education the measures that she will be putting in place to assist schools in meeting the rising costs of energy and heating that are threatening to use up all of their capitation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44694/22]
303. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Education the reason that her Department is not giving up the lease on a former school building (details supplied) which has been lying idle for the past five years and is starting to fall into disrepair; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44684/22]
273. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Education if there is any plan to expand the DEIS programme further; if not, if there is a process for a school that believes that it was wrongly excluded from the programme to appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44484/22]
191. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects the 2% increase to the pensions of retired An Post workers to be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44849/22]