241. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for an operation; and if the procedure will be carried out in 2022; if so, in which quarter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10332/22]
239. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the total number of staff working in podiatry services for persons with diabetes in each CHO area in each of the years 2010 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10327/22]
238. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the number of staff vacancies in podiatry services for local people with diabetes in the CHO1 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10326/22]
237. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the number of staff that work in podiatry services for local persons with diabetes in the CHO1 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10325/22]
236. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health his plans for improving podiatry services for local people with diabetes in the CHO1 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10324/22]
235. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the actions that have been taken by his Department to achieve the recommendation to deliver a significant increase in the number of podiatrists dedicated to diabetic foot care as outlined in the HSE document entitled Model of Care for the Diabetic Foot; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10323/22]
195. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the estimated annual cost of extending medical card provision for child and adolescent cancers from five years to ten years after diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10328/22]
156. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated annual cost of extending the domiciliary carer's allowance to 16 and 17 year olds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10329/22]
149. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education if she will establish an expert review group to examine the minimum essential qualification for special needs assistants and issue recommendations; if a commitment will be given to implement the expert review group recommendations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10330/22]
87. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Transport the reason that a person (details supplied) has been waiting over ten months to receive an appointment to undertake their motorcycle driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10310/22]
58. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the grant aid schemes available for SMEs with a significant energy use that are not clients of Enterprise Ireland or the IDA to allow them to pursue cogeneration and district heating projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10347/22]
57. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if SMEs with a significant energy use that are not clients of Enterprise Ireland or the IDA are eligible to apply for the environmental aid scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10346/22]
56. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the environmental aid scheme is funded exclusively by the Exchequer or the European Union funding programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10345/22]
863. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health when he will bring forward the replacement of the mobility allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9713/22]
655. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice the reason an applicant (details supplied) for a stamp 5 was charged €300 when the application was signed at the immigration section at Ballyshannon Garda station; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9984/22]
86. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice if she will initiate an independent public inquiry into the activities and methods used by the so-called "Heavy Gang" of An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8936/22]
48. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the actions that her Department has taken to implement recommendation number 4 contained in the 2020 report entitled Focused Policy Assessment: Local Improvement Scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8659/22]
28. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total allocation of funding provided, the total number of projects submitted to her Department and the total number of projects completed under the local improvement scheme in 2021, by local authority area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8658/22]
243. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Crown Estate legislates for any activity on the seabed of which the Government of Ireland or any Department thereof claims ownership over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8519/22]
242. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department can legislate for any activity on the seabed that belongs to the Crown Estate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8518/22]
107. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the defective block scheme will include the replacement of foundations if needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8535/22]
54. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the plans that are in place to ensure persons with more than one property will not receive multiple payments under the electricity costs emergency benefit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8568/22]
53. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if persons with more than one property will receive multiple payments under the electricity costs emergency benefit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8567/22]
992. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way her Department ensures that the buildings her Department has responsibility for are built using blocks that are free from MICA and deleterious materials in construction projects in County Donegal; if her Department has checked existing buildings for the presence of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7654/22]
948. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can legislate for any activity on the seabed that belongs to a body (details supplied) particularly in Lough Foyle and Carlingford Lough; if the body can regulate activity that is within Irish territorial waters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7755/22]
848. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health if Covid-19 vaccines donated to developing countries either directly or through the COVAX Initiative are mRNA vaccines; if measures have been put in place to ensure that donated vaccines are not out of date by the time they reach vaccinators in such countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8204/22]
577. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Justice if she is considering a scheme similar to Operation Encompass being rolled out in Northern Ireland for children that are victims of domestic violence incidents to inform their schools in order that a holistic approach can be taken to their support and recovery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7676/22]
548. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the way his Department ensures that the buildings his Department has responsibility for are built using blocks that are free from MICA and deleterious materials in construction projects in County Donegal; if his Department has checked existing buildings for the presence of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7655/22]
495. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of fuel allowance in 2021 that were recipients of the State pension; the number that were 60 years of age or older; the number of additional recipients of fuel allowance in each case following the expansion of eligibility in Budget 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7649/22]
439. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education if plans are in place for the development of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7757/22]
429. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education the way her Department ensures that the buildings for which her Department has responsibility are built using blocks that are free from mica and deleterious materials in construction projects in County Donegal; if her Department has checked existing buildings for the presence of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7652/22]
388. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if persons with MICA and pyrite defective homes will be able to avail of grants from the new retrofitting scheme to increase the energy efficiency of their home in tandem with defective concrete block scheme grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8338/22]
387. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the rationale that his Department is relying on (details supplied) to bolster the suggestion that the costs calculations of the defective concrete blocks grant scheme should be based on typical speculatively built homes to a standard quality specification in compliance with building regulations and standards in place prior to the introduction of SI. No. 854/2007 building regulations (amendment) regulations 2007; given that all other homes in Ireland can avail of grants to upgrade to B2 BER; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8337/22]
384. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 69 of 9 February 2022, the definitive timeline for the bringing forward of amendments to the dwellings damaged by the use of defective concrete blocks in construction (remediation) (financial assistance) regulations 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8326/22]
306. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way the OPW ensures that buildings it has responsibility for are built using blocks that are free from MICA and deleterious materials in construction projects in County Donegal; if the OPW has checked existing buildings for the presence of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7651/22]
299. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Finance if his Department has instituted any mechanisms for determining the environmental impact of certain categories of digital financial transactions, such as the sale and purchase of cryptocurrencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8202/22]
200. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the application process for the district heating and co-generation elements of the environmental aid scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8368/22]
199. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the environmental aid scheme has been renewed since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8366/22]
110. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the status of negotiations with the Chief Executive Officer of the HSE for the urgent reinstatement of a national director for mental health reporting directly to the CEO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5494/22]
79. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the number of reviews that have been commissioned by the HSE for each of the three categories identified in its Incident Management Framework since the inception of the framework in 2018, by year of referral, the CHO area in which the incident took place and if the service was a HSE service or a HSE funded service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5195/22]
74. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the number of referrals that have made to National Incident Review Panel since publication of its last annual report in 2018, by year of referral, the CHO area in which the incident took place and if the service was a HSE service or a HSE funded service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5194/22]
414. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health when the former health centre in Doohery, County Donegal will be handed over to the community (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7201/22]
407. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the actions he is taking to reduce the delays in appointments for the BreastCheck programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7187/22]
406. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that appointments for the BreastCheck programme are currently up to a year behind schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7186/22]
263. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Thomas Pringle den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán cad iad na pleananna atá ar bun ag a Roinn chun toghchán a eagrú do Bhord Údarás na Gaeltachta, cén uair a bheidh sé ar siúl agus cá mhéad Comhalta i ngach réigiún a bheidh le toghadh ar an mBord nua; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [7115/22]
70. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the definitive timeline for the development of the implementation plan for the enhanced scheme further to the changes announced to the defective concrete block scheme on 30 November 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6899/22]
69. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the definitive timeline for the appointment of a project manager to oversee the implementation of the enhanced scheme further to the changes announced to the defective concrete block scheme on 30 November 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6898/22]
738. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the details of the way the two consultations per annum with general practitioners and other doctors to discuss forms of contraception suitable for individual patients and to enable prescription of same will be administered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6517/22]
737. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the maximum allowable prescription validity period for contraception medications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6516/22]
734. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the avenues that are open to Irish citizens who received their initial two vaccinations in a different European Union member state and seek to have their booster in Ireland in cases in which the original country has not furnished full details of the initial doses given; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6503/22]