DÁIL ÉIREANN Dé Céadaoin, 7 Iúil, 2021 Wednesday, 7th July, 2021 CEISTEANNA QUESTIONS 52 DÁIL ÉIREANN 3093 Dé Céadaoin, 7 Iúil, 2021 Wednesday, 7th July, 2021 CEISTEANNA I gCOMHAIR FREAGRA Ó BHÉAL QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWER Chun an Taoisigh: To the Taoiseach. 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee dealing with housing will next meet. — Alan Kelly. [33500/21] 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee dealing with housing will next meet. — Mick Barry. [34652/21] 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Housing last met. — Peadar Tóibín. [34693/21] 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee dealing with housing will next meet. — Mary Lou McDonald. [34760/21] 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee dealing with housing will next meet. — Richard Boyd Barrett. [34840/21] 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee dealing with housing will next meet. — Paul Murphy. [34843/21] 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee dealing with housing will next meet. — Bríd Smith. [34845/21] 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Housing is next due to meet. — Paul McAuliffe. [34994/21] 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Housing will meet next. — Jennifer Murnane O’Connor. [36392/21] 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee dealing with housing will next meet. — Mick Barry. [36567/21] 11. To ask the Taoiseach the outcome of discussions at the recent European Council concerning EU relations with Russia. — Brendan Smith. [34647/21] 12. To ask the Taoiseach the outcome of discussions at the recent European Council in relation to the Northern Ireland Protocol. — Brendan Smith. [34648/21] 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the most recent European Council meeting. — Neale Richmond. [34658/21] P.T.O 3094 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Council meeting of 24 and 25 June 2021. — Mary Lou McDonald. [34761/21] 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent European Council meeting. — Alan Kelly. [36197/21] 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent European Council. — Seán Haughey. [36369/21] 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on progress towards implementing the Citizens’ Assemblies committed to in the Programme for Government. — Alan Kelly. [34836/21] 18. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline and order of citizens’ assemblies committed to in the Programme for Government. — Mary Lou McDonald. [36219/21] 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department on preparing a formal commemorative event for all those who lost their lives during the struggle for independence as recommended by the expert advisory group. — Alan Kelly. [34838/21] 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit. — Alan Kelly. [36198/21] 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit of his Department. — Mary Lou McDonald. [36336/21] 22. To ask the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the Covid-19 Oversight Group chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. — Mary Lou McDonald. [36222/21] 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Covid-19 will next meet. — Mick Barry. [36303/21] 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee dealing with justice issues will next meet. — Mick Barry. [36304/21] 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council an independent statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. — Mary Lou McDonald. [36335/21] CEISTEANNA LE hAGHAIDH FREAGRAÍ SCRÍOFA QUESTIONS FOR WRITTEN ANSWER Chun an Aire Comhshaoil, Aeráide agus Cumarsáide: To the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications. *26. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if there are plans to introduce a disability waste waiver to support those living with long-term incontinence for example; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Darren O’Rourke. [36569/21] *27. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the reason only 30% of the strand 2 projects with respect to the delivery of the 47 projects of the National Just 3095 Transition Fund of €27.8 million have received their final offer from his Department despite it being almost 12 months since applications were made and six months since the announcement of successful projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Carol Nolan. [36603/21] *28. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the reason 70% of strand 2 projects as part of the National Just Transition Fund projects are not yet finalised and are not at contract stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Carol Nolan. [36604/21] *29. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if concerns that a number of Just Transition projects in County Offaly have encountered difficulties in accessing match funding raising questions of the viability of these projects; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that without the secured match funding in place these projects cannot commence and that this is creating frustrations among the communities involved who were enthusiastic at the beginning of the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Carol Nolan. [36605/21] *30. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if Ireland’s Territorial Plan due to be submitted to Europe in September 2021 as a requirement for access to the EU Just Transition Fund for the period 2021-2027 will be submitted by that date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Carol Nolan. [36606/21] *31. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if concerns will be addressed that Offaly County Council is not in a position to provide direct funding to any Just Transition Fund project for match funding; the measures he will take to address these concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Carol Nolan. [36607/21] *32. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of a survey and a connection to broadband for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Peter Burke. [36639/21] *33. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if a property (details supplied) can connect to fibre broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Pearse Doherty. [36734/21] *34. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the survey for fibre broadband will be undertaken for the townland of Gleneely, County Donegal; if it is planned to expedite this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Pearse Doherty. [36735/21] *35. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when surveys will be completed and fibre broadband rolled out across County Donegal by townland and yearly quarter in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Pearse Doherty. [36736/21] *36. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the details of all projects, associated funding and environmental assessments since 2016 to date in 2021 in connection with the SEAI subsea observatory offshore at An Spidéal, Contae na Gaillimhe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Catherine Connolly. [36744/21] *37. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if any of the four cardinal markers installed at the SEAI Marine Institute’s 1/4 scale renewable energy offshore electricity generating station situated in Galway Bay have been altered and or replaced in the past P.T.O 3096 seven months; the reason for the alteration to the south-east cardinal marker visible at the shoreline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Catherine Connolly. [36745/21] *38. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 8 December 2020, the action taken further to the malfunction of the mooring system of an installation at the quarter scale test site located off the coast of An Spidéal on Galway Bay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Catherine Connolly. [36746/21] *39. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the amount, source and purpose of all funding received by the SEAI since March 2016 to date in 2021 which relates to any part of the 1/4 scale offshore energy test site located on the nearshore of An Spidéal, Contae na Gaillimhe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Catherine Connolly. [36747/21] *40. To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the details of the operator, type, generation capacity, location and status of each power station or wind farm in Ireland with the potential to produce more than 10MW in tabular form; his plans to ensure that there is sufficient generation capacity for winter 2021 and beyond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Cormac Devlin. [36858/21] Chun an Aire Iompair: To the Minister for Transport. *41. To ask the Minister for Transport the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting so long for a driver theory test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. — Niamh Smyth. [36615/21] *42. To ask the Minister for Transport the position regarding funding applications by Wicklow County Council in 2021 with respect to electric vehicle charging points; and if the number of applications and level of funding applied for in both successful and unsuccessful applications will be provided in tabular form.