Joe Cooney

485. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline details of new affordable housing schemes being supported by his Department; to provide details of submissions received from Clare County Council for the development of such schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15590/25]

486. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding provided by the Exchequer to Uisce Éireann for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; the budget allocation for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15591/25]

487. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline details of the location, by town name, of all social housing schemes completed for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 in County Clare, as well as those currently in planning and under construction, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15592/25]

488. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps his Department has taken to identify zoned, serviced lands owned by local authorities that could be utilised for delivery of social and affordable housing in that local authority; the area of such lands and numbers of housing, by local authority area; and whether those lands are the subject of applications for funding to his Department. [15594/25]

569. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Justice for a breakdown for 2024 of the number of Gardaí, by rank, for each functional area, by county, in the Clare/Tipperary division, in tabular form. [15611/25]

617. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the increase in the cost of production of milk products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15566/25]

618. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide figures relating to overall Irish agri-food exports to the USA and the EU, broken down by food type, during 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [15581/25]

619. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is committed to undertaking a review of the Forestry Standards Manual given the impact of recent storms on public roads, utilities and powerlines, especially the setback distances from overhead powerlines; and if his Department will consider the introduction of a separate felling licence application system to facilitate urgent management of the setback distances from powerlines. [15582/25]

665. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of funding provided to each city and county childcare committee in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15609/25]

784. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the services presently being provided at the Ennis primary healthcare centre at Station Road, Ennis, County Clare; and the additional staffing and services planned for the facility. [15616/25]

785. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the services presently being provided at the Kilrush primary healthcare centre in County Clare; and the additional staffing and services planned for the facility. [15617/25]

786. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a breakdown of whole-time equivalent positions at University Hospital Limerick and within the UL Hospitals Group on 1 March 2024 and on 1 March 2025, by profession, in tabular form (details supplied); if he will provide the number of said personnel employed via agencies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15618/25]

787. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health to outline plans to extend opening hours of the local injuries unit at Ennis Hospital; to provide details of progress being made on the expansion of the medical assessment unit at Ennis Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15619/25]

788. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the proposed provision and operation of a contracted satellite haemodialysis unit at Ennis Hospital, County Clare; and the reason for the delay in progressing the proposal. [15620/25]

789. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the number of individuals reimbursed for their insulin pump training and-or its consumables through the EU Treatment Abroad or Cross Border Healthcare Scheme since 2019. [15621/25]

790. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the number of people in Ireland that access the Omnipod tubeless insulin pump and consumables through the HSE's exceptional hardship scheme or have done so since 2018. [15622/25]

791. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health to provide data for the Model 4 hospitals (Beaumont, St. James's, St. Vincent's, University Hospital Galway, Cork University Hospital and University Hospital Limerick) for the 2024 calendar year, in tabular form; the number of patients presenting at the emergency department (ED); the number of those patients presenting at EDs that were admitted for the year; the number of those leaving before treatment complete (LBTC) for 2024; the number of LBTCs that returned within 30 days; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15623/25]

797. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 19 February 2025, to provide details of the retail impact assessment and SME test carried out as part of her Department’s consideration of the measures being introduced via the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023; to provide the research undertaken showing how a reduction in the number of retail outlets selling tobacco products will eliminate the illicit trade in tobacco products; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15635/25]

208. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Transport the reason there is no obligation on the providers of electric vehicle charging points to advertise the cost per unit of electricity in the same way as fossil fuels are required to advertise the price per litre to customers in advance of their purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10300/25]

249. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will review the recommendations contained within Circular 05/2015 regarding the day subsistence allowance, and, in light of the nature of the work involved, consider exempting emergency personnel of the National Ambulance Service from the requirement to be further than eight km away from their base over the course of their work to avail of the ten-hour rate of subsistence.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10298/25]

270. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education the number of pupils enrolled in junior infants in existing primary schools in County Clare in tabular form for the school years 2022/2023, 2023/2024 and 2024/2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10296/25]

271. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education if she will consider the introduction of a basic cookery skills program at national school level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10297/25]

397. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the number of x-ray, CT and MRI scanners in situ at University Hospital Limerick; the number of scanners not currently in working order, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10291/25]

398. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health for an employment report, to include the following categories: medical and dental, nursing and midwifery, health and social care professionals, management and administrative, general support, and patient and client care for the National Ambulance Service Mid-West, for the years 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [10292/25]

399. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the current status and any progress on the development of a new ambulance base in Kilrush, County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10293/25]