Written answers
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
15. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to or met the Polish Prime Minister Ms Beata Szydlo; and if EU reform was discussed. [49073/17]
- Cabinet Committees
23. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee in which housing is discussed. [49077/17]
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Child and Family Agency Services
48. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress in relation to providing 24 hour access to social work services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50184/17]
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
49. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the report of the expert technical group dealing with the site of the former mother and baby home at Tuam, County Galway will be...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
50. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the necessary capacity exists within the preschool sector in 2018 to provide a space for all those that want a place in County Cork in...
- Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation
52. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the legislative and ICT infrastructure that will be required to deliver the single affordable childcare scheme; the date by...
- Direct Provision System
53. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether the lives of children in direct provision have improved since April 2017 when the children's Ombudsman began accepting...
- Child Detention Centres
54. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to ensure that mental health needs at Oberstown children detention campus are being met in view of data collected by the centre...
- Youth Services Provision
55. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which her Department continues to liaise with youth organisations with a view to identifying their concerns and putting in...
- Child Detention Centres
56. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce a legal framework governing the use of single separation at Oberstown children detention campus. [50169/17]
- Youth Work Projects Funding
57. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to increase the funding for youth work projects in County Laois in view of the growing young population. [50223/17]
- Affordable Childcare Scheme
58. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the issue of Tusla registered child care services not taking part in the affordable childcare scheme has been addressed; if so, the...
- Mental Health Services
59. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the working group involving the HSE, the Department of Health and Tusla co-ordinating a focus for the State's provision of...
- Family Resource Centres
61. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to review the funding structure of existing family resource centres as part of the Tusla business plan for 2018 in order to...
- School Completion Programme
63. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding allocated for the school completion programme; if the funding is sufficient to meet demand; and if she will make a statement on...
- Cyber Security Policy
64. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps being taken to ensure young persons' cyber safety and her plans to publish a national strategy on children’s cyber safety....
- Child Detention Centres
65. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied that the difficulties in Oberstown house are being resolved satisfactorily; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Completion Programme
66. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the schools taking part in the school completion programme have been asked to cut the...
- Departmental Reports
67. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her role and involvement in the work leading from the Mulvey report on Dublin's north inner city in the area of child care; and if she will...
- Child Detention Centres
68. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the findings of the HIQA inspection of Oberstown children detention campus in regard to the concerns raised regarding periods...
- Cyberbullying Issues
69. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her role in protecting children from online bullying, abuse and grooming; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50217/17]
- Child Protection
70. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress made to address the issues raised in the special rapporteur on child protection's report on child protection processes and...
- Child Care Services Staff
71. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 17 October 2017, if a child care facility (details supplied) will be supported. [50193/17]
- Foster Care Supports
72. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the complaints and appeals mechanisms that are in place for foster care parents that feel that they or their foster child have been treated...
- Child and Family Agency
73. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which reports of children at risk of mental, physical or sexual abuse have been brought to the attention of her Department by...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
74. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to address the considerable shortages in ECCE places that exist in certain parts of the country; and if she will...
- Adoption Records Provision
75. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps being taken to address access to adoption records for persons that spent time in mother and baby homes; and if she will make a...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Small and Medium Enterprises Data
76. To ask the Taoiseach the percentage and number of Irish SMEs active in manufacturing, by micro-sized enterprises, medium-sized enterprises and SMEs; and the equivalent figures for the EU from...
- Enterprise Data
77. To ask the Taoiseach the number of active enterprises, by size (details supplied) according to the latest Business In Ireland 2015 CSO data; and the corresponding number of persons engaged in...
- Unemployment Data
78. To ask the Taoiseach the number of young persons aged 15 to 29 years of age classified as NEETs; the percentage of NEETs as a proportion of the unemployed here; and the corresponding EU...
- State Bodies Data
79. To ask the Taoiseach the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form. [49943/17]
- Quarterly National Household Survey
80. To ask the Taoiseach when the quarter three 2017 figures for the Quarterly National Household Survey will be published. [49826/17]
- Brexit Expenditure
81. To ask the Taoiseach the spend on social media campaigns by his Department and the agencies under its aegis on issues related to Brexit; the spend by campaign, platform and State agency....
- Rugby World Cup 2023
82. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent promoting and advertising the video Ireland At Its Best in respect of the Rugby World Cup bid on social media; and if promotion on social media of this...
- Appointments to State Boards Data
83. To ask the Taoiseach the names of persons he has appointed to each State board under the aegis of his Department who have not come from the Public Appointments Service list of suitable...
- Departmental Bodies Data
84. To ask the Taoiseach the bodies under the aegis of his Department to which his Department provides in excess of €1 million funding per annum; the public funding received by these...
- Departmental Staff Data
85. To ask the Taoiseach the number of women appointed at senior level (details supplied) within his Department; the number of men employed in each of these roles; and the total number of...
- Departmental Contracts Data
87. To ask the Taoiseach the public contracts between his Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; and the value of each contract. [50408/17]
- Departmental Communications
88. To ask the Taoiseach the person who sent him or presented him with the email from the Department of Justice and Equality he referred to on Leaders' Questions on 21 November 2017; the time it...
- Foireann Roinne
89. To ask the Taoiseach cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá daingnithe nó aitheanta ag an Roinn (i...
- State Bodies Data
91. To ask the Taoiseach the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form. [49929/17]
- IDA Ireland
92. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the advance IDA facility in County Carlow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49974/17]
- Appointments to State Boards Data
93. To ask the Taoiseach the names of persons she has appointed to each State board under the aegis of her department that have not come from the Public Appointments Service list of suitable...
- IDA Ireland
94. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the IDA search for a replacement industry for a plant (details supplied); his views on whether the issue is a lost cause; and if he will make a statement on...
- Ministerial Communications
95. To ask the Taoiseach if he has used a private email account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and if so, the details of this correspondence. [50052/17]
- IDA Ireland Data
96. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of financial assistance aid and grants that have been provided to a company (details supplied) over the past seven years; the amount of financial assistance,...
- Departmental Bodies Data
97. To ask the Taoiseach the bodies under the aegis his Department to which his Department provides in excess of €1 million funding per annum; the public funding received by these bodies;...
- Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
98. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to introduce the necessary measures being sought by the chairperson of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to provide for greater powers of...
- Departmental Contracts Data
99. To ask the Taoiseach the public contracts between his Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the value of each contract; and if she will make a...
- Foreign Direct Investment
100. To ask the Taoiseach the reason counties Roscommon, Leitrim and Meath were not allocated funds from of the €93 million in funding for grant aid that was distributed by the Industrial...
- Foireann Roinne
101. To ask the Taoiseach cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá daingnithe nó aitheanta ag an Roinn (i...
- Department of Finance
- Corporation Tax
103. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of double taxation relief granted against corporation tax in each of the years 2010 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make...
- Appointments to State Boards Data
105. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form. [49936/17]
- Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
106. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined a special assignee relief programme that is focused on SMEs in order to attract highly skilled talent to work in sectors that have skills...
- Stamp Duty
107. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of applying a 1% stamp duty for first time buyers, maintaining the 2% for those who are purchasing a home having sold their home and...
- Data Protection
108. To ask the Minister for Finance how the central credit register is compliant with data protection here in the context of financial companies and or institutions sending personal data to the...
- Appointments to State Boards Data
109. To ask the Minister for Finance the names of persons he has appointed to each State board under the aegis of his Department who have not come from the Public Appointments Service list of...
- Tax Collection
110. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the capital acquisitions tax provisions whereby siblings not living in the family home but who inherit this home from a deceased sibling...
- Tracker Mortgages
111. To ask the Minister for Finance if an analysis has been conducted by his Department of the net financial position of each bank involved in the tracker mortgage scandal,...
- Ministerial Communications
115. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has used a private email account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and if so, the details of this correspondence. [50059/17]
- Property Tax Collection
116. To ask the Minister for Finance the procedure to be followed to facilitate the payment of property tax by the relatives of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Philanthropy Initiatives
117. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax advantages in place for a person or business which engages in philanthropy, including income tax, estate taxes and so on; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Bodies Data
118. To ask the Minister for Finance the bodies under the aegis his Department to which his Department provides in excess of €1 million funding per annum; the public funding received by...
- Paradise Papers.
119. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to companies and persons mentioned in papers (details supplied); if so, the actions he has taken towards these companies....
- Corporation Tax
120. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of profit reported and the amount of corporation tax paid by the top 50 Irish builders over the past 25 to 30 years; and the way in which that...
- Construction Industry
121. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of new houses that were built and sold by the top 50 Irish builders over the past 25 to 30 years. [50236/17]
- Public Private Partnerships
122. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether public money should be provided to tax-avoiding builders under PPP schemes. [50238/17]
- Nursing Home Fees
123. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax relief available for persons paying nursing home fees either for themselves or for a family member; and if such relief is available in cases in which...
- Local Government Fund
124. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated payment to the Exchequer from the local government fund in 2018. [50362/17]
- Departmental Contracts Data
125. To ask the Minister for Finance the public contracts between his Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the value of each contract; and if he will...
- Pension Provisions
126. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of an application for approval from the Revenue Commissioners for a legacy pension for a person (details supplied) in County Cork to be transferred...
- Financial Services Regulation
127. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is an obligation on the financial service provider to inform persons it plans to unveil a new product or enhance an existing product, both of which...
- NAMA Property Sales
128. To ask the Minister for Finance if the sale of the entire National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, development at a location (details supplied) is being conducted in an open market basis with...
- Tax Reliefs Data
129. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons that avail each year of the tax relief in respect of third level fees. [50647/17]
- Knowledge Development Box
130. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question Nos 126 and 127 of 14 November 2017, his views on the reason for the uptake of the knowledge development box; his plans to...
- Corporation Tax Regime
131. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has given consideration to introducing legislation which would prohibit the use of legacy losses against profits beyond 31 December 2017 in view of the...
- Financial Services Regulation
132. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that certain banks in recent years forced loan guarantors (details supplied) to take out life insurance policies in respect of a...
- Foireann Roinne
133. To ask the Minister for Finance cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá daingnithe nó aitheanta ag an...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Coastal Protection
135. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the progress of funding for coastal defence works for Arklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50044/17]
- Office of Public Works Properties
136. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the acquisition and selection of a site for the Garda regional headquarters in Sligo; if a site has been acquired or...
- Garda Station Refurbishment
137. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to provide the necessary funding in order to ensure that Mountjoy Garda station, Dublin 7, is fully wheelchair accessible for...
- Garda Stations
138. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the plan to build a new Garda station in County Sligo; if a suitable greenfield site has been identified; the stage at...
- Pension Provisions
140. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the financial emergency measures in the public...
- Appointments to State Boards Data
141. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form. [49941/17]
- Ministerial Communications
143. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has used a private email account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and if so, the details of this...
- Departmental Staff Retirements
144. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on progress implementing the recommendation in the interdepartmental report on fuller working lives (details...
- Departmental Bodies Data
145. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the bodies under the aegis his Department in which his Department provides in excess of €1 million funding per annum to these...
- Office of Public Works Properties
146. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Office of Public Works plans for use of the site of the Central Mental Hospital, Dundrum, Dublin 14, when the facility is moved to...
- Departmental Contracts Data
147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the public contracts between his Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the value of each...
- Departmental Expenditure
148. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of rent paid to date for the Department of Health's new headquarters (details supplied). [50637/17]
- Departmental Properties
149. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the person or company to which rent is being paid for the Department of Health's new headquarters (details supplied). [50638/17]
- Office of Public Works Expenditure
150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the properties which are currently vacant and being rented by the Office of Public works; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Public Sector Pay
151. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to examine issues related to the salary scale of new entrants; the number of meetings that have taken place in relation to...
- Foireann Roinne
152. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá daingnithe...
- Department of Education and Skills
- First-Aid Training
154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when Government funded, compulsory occupational first-aid training will be introduced for all physically able teachers and SNAs (details...
- Third Level Fees
155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grounds on which a waiver for non-EU fees for a course of study can be provided to an Irish resident returning after five years working in...
- Compulsory Purchase Orders
156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a compulsory purchase order is not available for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49860/17]
- Student Support Schemes
157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the funding supports available to assist a person (details supplied) with third level education, apart from SUSI supports; and...
- Further Education and Training Colleges
158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a college (details supplied) is due to be completed; the stage in the planning process the project is at; if there are issues that need to...
- Minor Works Scheme
159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the minor works grant will be granted for a school (details supplied). [49923/17]
- Legal Costs
161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to date of a sex discrimination action taken by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49927/17]
- Appointments to State Boards Data
162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form. [49934/17]
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a secondary school (details supplied) in County Cork with an ASD unit will be enrolling new children into first year for the 2018-2019 school...
- School Transport Appeals
164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue to a person (details supplied) on their appeal for school transport. [49956/17]
- Protected Disclosures
165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of protected disclosures he has received since protected disclosures legislation entered into force; and the dates of the protected...
- Minor Works Scheme
166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a minor works allocation to national schools in 2017; if so, when the allocations will be made; and if he will make a statement...
- Ministerial Communications
168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has used a private email account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and if so, the details of this...
- Minor Works Scheme
169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a minor works grant for a school (details supplied) which was announced on 16 November 2016 will be granted; and if so, when; and if he will...
- School Accommodation
170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied). [50082/17]
- Schools Establishment
171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50095/17]
- Departmental Bodies Data
172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the bodies under the aegis of his Department in which his Department provides in excess of €1 million funding per annum to these bodies;...
- Schools Facilities
173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a review of educational needs and facilities in view of the projected population increase; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Schools Inspections
174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools; the number of secondary schools; the number of full-time physical education inspectors for both primary and second...
- Physical Education
175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools and second level schools that have been visited by a physical education inspector in each of the years 2013 to 2016...
- School Funding
176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding made available to all primary and second level schools for the purchase of physical education related equipment in each of the years...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the 77 apprenticeships proposed to the Apprenticeship Council in its second call for new apprenticeships, in tabular form; the names of the...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools in the Dublin 8, 10 and 12 areas that have an autism spectrum disorder, ASD unit (details supplied). [50178/17]
- Youthreach Programme
179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to relocate a Youthreach project in Coolock, Dublin 17 and Dublin 5; and the steps he is taking to ensure that all children throughout...
- School Enrolments Data
180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools enrolled for the 2016-2017 academic year here; the number of secondary schools enrolled for the 2016-2017 academic...
- Home Tuition Scheme
181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondary students in receipt of home tuition as a result of being expelled from a second level school and no other school being...
- School Accommodation Provision
182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date in providing a school (details supplied) in Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50266/17]
- Broadband Service Provision
184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the broadband speeds provided to a school (details supplied); if his Department is investigating options to improve...
- School Accommodation
185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of funding of additional accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50283/17]
- Pupil Data Collection
186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of 12 to 18 year old children, by town; the number of those children in the first year of secondary school; and the number of...
- Schools Site Acquisitions
187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a permanent location for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50285/17]
- School Accommodation Provision
188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision of a school building for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50287/17]
- Teacher Data
189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the absence of sufficient substitute teachers in the west Waterford area at both primary and secondary level;...
- School Staff
191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the staffing appeal submitted by a school (details supplied) in County Cork will be reviewed; his views on whether the appeal criteria do not...
- DEIS Data
192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teaching principals in DEIS schools by local authority area; the cost of providing an administrative principal in these schools;...
- Departmental Contracts Data
193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the public contracts between his Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the value of each contract [50399/17]
- School Textbooks Code of Practice
194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 152 and 153 of 14 November 2017, the rationale for his inaction in view of the fact that an organisation...
- Schools Site Acquisitions
195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding construction of a new Educate Together national school in Wexford town; if his Department has visited sites for possible...
- Schools Building Projects
196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has satisfied himself the interests of the State are being protected in relation to the defective works carried out at a building project...
- Youthreach Programme
198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the relocation of the Youthreach programme formerly located in Whitehall, Artane, Dublin, to the Finglas area; if this is a...
- Third Level Fees
199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an Irish resident who has been working as a physiotherapist abroad for more than five years is required to pay non-EU fees to study medicine...
- Summer Works Scheme Administration
200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) can use funding under the summer works scheme for repairs to his roof. [50483/17]
- School Enrolments
201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who has not been able to secure a place in a second level school for the past two...
- Minor Works Scheme
202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date by which the minor works grant will be made available to primary schools; if this grant will be a guaranteed yearly payment in order to...
- Institutes of Technology
203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 21 November 2017, the date for the publication of the GMIT working group's final report; and if he...
- Student Grant Scheme
204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50498/17]
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration he has given to amendment of the student support scheme to resolve issues which continue to arise (details supplied) in...
- Student Grant Scheme Administration
206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider returning to the pre 2010 non adjacent distance rate with regard to SUSI grants; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a decision was made to remove the special needs assistant support for a person (details supplied); if this decision will be reviewed;...
- Schools Building Projects Status
208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of a school (details supplied); if all conveyancing issues that have been ongoing since June 2016 have been...
- Education and Training Provision
212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of a further education training centre in Mervue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50605/17]
- Education and Training Boards Staff
213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ETB's that have a public base of over 500, 750, 1000 and 1200, respectively; the number of ancillary staff designated to each...
- School Accommodation
214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of prefabricated buildings in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017 for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Ministerial Meetings
217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he last met the chief executive officer of SOLAS; if he will report on the issues discussed; when he will meet him next; and if he will make...
- Physical Education
218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to concerns raised on behalf of an association (details supplied); the way in which he plans to address these...
- Foireann Roinne
219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá daingnithe nó...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Brexit Negotiations
221. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the discussion on human rights in the context of the Brexit negotiations. [50667/17]
- Brexit Issues
222. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out the 142 areas of North-South co-operation that his Department is working on in the context of Brexit; and if he will make a...
- Appointments to State Boards Data
223. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out in tabular form the number of vacancies in each state board under the aegis of his Department. [49937/17]
- Foreign Conflicts
224. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will liaise with the Turkish Embassy in Dublin and with the Turkish Government in Ankara with a view to using all possible diplomatic...
- European Banking Authority
226. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on Ireland's bid to host the European Banking Authority. [50045/17]
- Ministerial Meetings
227. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his meeting with the UK Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, on 17 November 2017; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Ministerial Communications
228. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has used a private e-mail account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and if so, the details of this...
- Foreign Conflicts
229. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the president of an association in Turkey (details supplied) has been arrested and...
- Departmental Bodies Data
230. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the bodies under the aegis of his Department in which his Department provides in excess of €1 million funding per annum; the public...
- Ministerial Staff
231. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out the number of special advisers employed, including the new special adviser recently recruited from a company (details supplied),...
- Citizenship Status
232. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of entries on the foreign births register in each of the years 2014 to 2016, and to date in 2017. [50293/17]
- Passport Applications Data
233. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out the number of passports issued to persons resident outside the State in each of the years 2007 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [50294/17]
- Citizenship Status
235. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out the number of persons registered with his Department's citizens' registration service as being resident abroad. [50296/17]
- Passport Services
236. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether the Passport Office in Dublin can no longer take the credit card details that are on passport application forms in view of the fact...
- Undocumented Irish in the USA
237. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the status of progress with regard to the Irish undocumented in the United States of America. [49852/17]
- EU Issues
239. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the status of efforts being made by the EU to ensure that the rule of law and European principles and ideals are being adhered to...
- Foreign Policy
241. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on Chile's recent general election; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50374/17]
- Israeli Settlements
243. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the steps that have been taken by the State with regard to the ongoing expansion of illegal Israeli settlements; and if he will...
- Northern Ireland
244. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the situation in Northern Ireland; the efforts being made to restore the Executive; and if he will make a statement on...
- Departmental Contracts Data
245. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the public contracts between his Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the value of each contract;...
- Election Monitoring Missions
246. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade travelled to Azerbaijan in October 2013 to observe the elections...
- Foireann Roinne
247. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá daingnithe nó...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Departmental Communications
249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date and time in May 2015 the then Minister received the email referred to in Leaders' Questions on 21 November 2017. [50414/17]
- Garda Station Refurbishment
255. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the provisions that will be made in view of the refusal of gardaí at Sligo Garda station to operate from the station; and...
- Garda Stations
256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reallocate resources to Ballymore Eustace Garda station in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Garda Strength
257. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of Garda numbers by station in County Kildare. [49919/17]
- Departmental Bodies Data
260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form. [49940/17]
- Cabinet Committees
261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process by which a chairperson and members of the group that will examine the scope of the updated research on sexual abuse...
- Departmental Bodies Data
262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the names of persons he has appointed to each State board under the aegis of his Department that have not come from the Public...
- Direct Provision System
263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of the McMahon report recommendations that have been fully implemented, partially implemented and that have yet to...
- Fire Service
265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether many fire service Halloween callouts are prompted by anti-social behaviour and that attacks on fire...
- Family Reunification Policy
266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce measures to allow family members join refugees and asylum seekers here; the public policy implications...
- Ministerial Communications
267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has used a private email account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and if so, the details of...
- Commercial Rates Valuation Process
268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of appeals made regarding rateable valuations to the Valuation tribunal for each local authority area under the...
- Departmental Bodies Data
270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the bodies under the aegis of his Department in which provide in excess of €1 million funding per annum to these bodies;...
- Crime Data
271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the crime statistics for the Garda R and J districts for the first ten months of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Garda Strength
272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to the Tipperary, Waterford and Carlow Kilkenny Garda divisions in the past four years; and...
- Garda Expenditure
273. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda mountain bikes purchased in 2016 and to date in 2017; if further funding has been made available to...
- Ministerial Meetings
274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to meet the US Secretary for Homeland Security. [50230/17]
- Garda Equipment
275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to provide funding to purchase high powered unmarked motorcycles for the Garda traffic corps. [50231/17]
- Deportation Orders Data
276. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders which have been signed in each of the years 2000 to 2016, inclusive, and to date in 2017, on a...
- Departmental Contracts Data
279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the public contracts between his Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016, inclusive; the...
- Departmental Communications
280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the meaning of the Taoiseach’s comment during Leaders' Questions on 21 November 2017 regarding the search for an email...
- Ministerial Communications
281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the times and formats of all communications between the Secretary General of his Department and the then Minister on 15 May...
- Garda Recruitment
282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the next round of recruitment from the Garda panels that have been created will take place; the number of persons that...
- Court Accommodation Provision
283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the securing of a new courthouse for Tralee, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Drugs Seizures
285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the amount and value of each type of drug seized by gardaí in the R district in each of the years...
- Garda Remuneration
286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Attorney General has reported back to him with advice regarding the status of the living allowance for trainee...
- Garda Operations
287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 28 of 12 July 2017, the position regarding the promised liaison between his Department,...
- Migrant Integration
288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 22 November 2017, the names of the ten local authorities which have a migrant...
- Garda Operations
289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if further consideration will be given to the request of the local community to have a policing service restored (details...
- Foireann Roinne
290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá...
- Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Housing Policy
292. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there are grants for housing relocation for persons from Gaeltacht areas living away and returning home to build a family home....
- Vacancies on State Boards
293. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of her Department, in tabular form. [49932/17]
- Appointments to State Boards Data
294. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the names of persons she has appointed to each State board under the aegis of her Department that have not come from the Public...
- Brexit Documents
295. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has used a private email account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and if so, the details of...
- Departmental Bodies Data
296. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the bodies under the aegis of her Department to which her Department provides in excess of €1 million funding per annum;...
- Wildlife Protection
297. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the assistance her Department can provide for the development of a wildlife rehabilitation hospital and visitor centre in Fingal...
- Departmental Funding
298. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of grant funding that was made available to a company (details supplied); when this was provided; and if she will make...
- Commemorative Events
299. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the location of the international dimension of the national famine commemoration in 2017; the proposed location for the...
- Departmental Contracts Data
300. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the public contracts between her Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the value of each...
- Legal Advice
301. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the advice that she received from the Attorney General regarding the Heritage Bill 2016. [50513/17]
- Foireann Roinne
302. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair nach bhfuil lonnaithe sa Ghaeltacht; cé...
- Broadcasting Sector
305. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a reply will issue to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in relation to the retention of both the RTÉ National...
- Department of Health
- Hospice Services Provision
306. To ask the Minister for Health if the section 39 hospices will receive funding to enable them to refund the cuts that were made following the application of FEMPI; if his attention has been...
- Hospital Appointments Status
307. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49857/17]
- Hospital Appointments Administration
308. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 670 of 7 November 2017, if an early hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [49864/17]
- Dental Services Provision
309. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be approved for new dentures under the medical card dental scheme as an exception due to their medical needs and age; and...
- Home Care Packages Provision
310. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on all care companies providing home care in CH06; the number of persons in receipt of care packages; the number of these that are...
- Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
312. To ask the Minister for Health the reason medicated plasters (details supplied) have been removed from the medical card list of items that can be prescribed; and if he will make a statement...
- Health Products Regulatory Authority
313. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he and the Health Service Executive are taking regarding the issue of children affected by foetal anticonvulsant syndrome in circumstances in which...
- Mental Health Services Provision
315. To ask the Minister for Health the planned schedule for implementation of the mental health helpline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49893/17]
- Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Data
321. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have been sent to the UK for specialist neuro rehabilitation due to a lack of services here since the neuro rehabilitation strategy...
- Community Care
322. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the latest proposals being recommended in respect of the redevelopment of a facility (details supplied) in County Donegal; the changes being...
- Medicinal Products Reimbursement
323. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome of the meeting between a company (details supplied) and the HSE in recent days regarding the drug Vimizim for the treatment of Morquio disease; and...
- Health Services Funding
324. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which rates paid by the HSE to private addiction clinics are decided upon; the details of the decision process; and if he will make a statement on...
- Medicinal Products Reimbursement
325. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome of the meeting between the HSE and a company (details supplied) in relation to Respreeza; the ongoing difficulties which has seen deterioration in...
- National Children's Hospital
327. To ask the Minister for Health if the application by the Children's hospital group for paediatric interventional radiology service to be developed in existing hospitals prior to the move to...
- Health Services Staff Recruitment
328. To ask the Minister for Health when a permanent child psychologist post will be filled for County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49911/17]
- Occupational Therapy Staff
330. To ask the Minister for Health when a number of HSE occupational therapist posts in County Donegal will be filled in view of the fact that there is only one occupational therapist for the...
- Dental Services
331. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the terms of the medical card dental scheme in order that older persons over 70 years of age can be allowed discretion to have dentures...
- Hospital Admissions
332. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures for both voluntary and involuntary admission to a psychiatric hospital including those with a dual diagnosis of alcoholism and a psychiatric...
- Vacancies on State Boards
333. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form. [49938/17]
- Hospital Facilities
334. To ask the Minister for Health the process of tendering for the shop in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin ; and when it went out for tender and so on (details supplied). [49950/17]
- Services for People with Disabilities
336. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been on the waiting list for an assessment of need; when they will have an assessment of...
- Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
337. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure specialist shoes are supplied to a person (details supplied) as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49980/17]
- Services for People with Disabilities
338. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has yet to receive a care plan since August 2016 under the local early years intervention team. [49957/17]
- Hospital Appointments Status
339. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49958/17]
- Community Care
340. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the pilot scheme later known as COSMTS continued for ophthalmologists at four sites and, later, at six sites in view of the fact that it was to be...
- Cross-Border Health Initiatives
341. To ask the Minister for Health if the funding for the cross-border healthcare directive comes from the HSE budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49960/17]
- Hospital Facilities
342. To ask the Minister for Health the date the new theatre will be open for surgery in Merlin Park hospital in view of the fact that follow-up meetings in respect of it did not occur; and if he...
- Hospital Appointments Status
344. To ask the Minister for Health if an angiogram can be facilitated for a person (details supplied) who is on a long-term waiting list for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Appointments to State Boards Data
345. To ask the Minister for Health the names of persons he has appointed to each State board under the aegis of his Department who have not come from the Public Appointments Service list of...
- Health Services Provision
346. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure suitable treatment is put in place for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50012/17]
- Drug Rehabilitation Clinics
347. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for closing the Cabra drug treatment clinic at Broombridge Close; the clinical management plan for the patients during this period; the date on...
- Health Services Reports
348. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a report on trauma care; his plans for a reconfiguration of such services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50021/17]
- Hospital Services
349. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the levels of services to be provided at a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50022/17]
- Cancer Services Provision
351. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure the initially agreed treatment is provided for a person (details supplied) undergoing breast cancer treatment at Midland Regional Hospital,...
- Health Care Policy
352. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding Irish citizens accessing health care in Northern Ireland, including for minor and major procedures; and if he will make a statement on...
- European Medicines Agency
353. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on Ireland's bid to host the European Medicines Agency. [50046/17]
- Brexit Documents
354. To ask the Minister for Health if he has used a private email account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and, if so, the details of this correspondence. [50061/17]
- Health Services Data
355. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland has a trauma director for the trauma services provided; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50068/17]
- Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision
360. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to build a neuro-rehabilitation unit in the midlands; if progress has been made in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Appointments Status
361. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [50077/17]
- Hospitals Funding
363. To ask the Minister for Health if the balance of the capital funding due to the Mercy University Hospital, Cork, will be released in 2018; when this money will be allocated; and if he will...
- Home Help Service Eligibility
364. To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment for home help in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be arranged. [50086/17]
- Primary Care Centres
365. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to dangerous parking practices ongoing opposite a primary care centre (details supplied) in County Meath; if his attention has...
- Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists
366. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the speech and language therapy assessment waiting list; the number waiting less than four months, the number waiting four to 12...
- Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
368. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the occupational therapy first-time assessment waiting list; the number waiting less than four months, the number waiting four to 12...
- Services for People with Disabilities
370. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a first assessment from the HSE under the Disability Act 2005 as of 17 November 2017 or the latest date available in each LHO,...
- Treatment Abroad Scheme
371. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to facilitate a person's (details supplied) need to travel to the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50100/17]
- Medical Card Drugs Availability
372. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Constella 290 mgs OD is covered under the medical card scheme here; and when this drug was removed from distribution in pharmacies here (details...
- Respite Care Services Availability
373. To ask the Minister for Health the number of weeks in the year respite centres (details supplied) are contracted to be open for; and the number of weekends they provided service in each of...
- Services for People with Disabilities
374. To ask the Minister for Health the process by which a person will be accepted and receive full-time residential care in a centre (details supplied). [50104/17]
- Departmental Bodies Data
376. To ask the Minister for Health the bodies under the aegis of his Department to which his Department provides in excess of €1 million funding per annum; the public funding received by...
- Ambulance Service Staff
377. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance and associated personnel serving in each of the Sligo, Manorhamilton, Carrick-on-Shannon and Boyle stations; the number of...
- Ambulance Service
378. To ask the Minister for Health when discussions on the provision of first responder schemes between the national ambulance service and the national directorate for fire and emergency...
- Departmental Funding
379. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an application for additional funding by a charity (details supplied) was denied despite the need for two additional full-time positions along with...
- Hospital Charges
381. To ask the Minister for Health the amount collected in accident and emergency charges from Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 for 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will...
- Hospital Services
382. To ask the Minister for Health if he will restore funding to carry out gynecomastia surgery with immediate effect and ensure there is an adequate budget in place for the year 2018 and...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
383. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50161/17]
- Infectious Diseases
384. To ask the Minister for Health when a clinical review of Lyme disease was last carried out by his Department; if a clinical review is planned; if not, if he will conduct a review; and if he...
- Hospital Appointments Status
385. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50165/17]
- Departmental Funding
386. To ask the Minister for Health the funding or grant schemes available through his Department for active retirement groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50166/17]
- Medical Card Applications
387. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for a medical card can be expedited for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50182/17]
- Disability Support Services Provision
388. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that additional funding is provided to an organisation (details supplied) to assist it to provide necessary support services for children...
- Counselling Services Provision
389. To ask the Minister for Health the reason children under six years of age in County Kerry do not receive counselling in view of the fact that children under six years of age in County Cork...
- Hospital Services
390. To ask the Minister for Health when the report on the centralisation of trauma care will be brought before Dáil Éireann; if this report will be published in full; and if he will...
- Medicinal Products Availability
393. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the needs of persons with PKU, in view of the HSE’s recent refusal of kuvan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50259/17]
- Mental Health Services Data
394. To ask the Minister for Health the number of young persons in each CHO awaiting CAMHS mental health treatment for more than three months, by month, to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if...
- Medical Card Eligibility
395. To ask the Minister for Health if in the income assessment for medical cards for over and under 70 years of age the actual interest earned on savings can be assessed as an option rather than...
- Rare Diseases Strategy Implementation
396. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the recommendations from the national rare disease plan that have been implemented; the number that will be implemented before the end of 2018;...
- Nursing Home Accommodation Provision
399. To ask the Minister for Health if a suitable high dependency nursing home placement will be allocated to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50277/17]
- Hospital Appointments Status
400. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a cataract operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50278/17]
- Hospital Services
401. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the projections (details supplied) which mean that an additional 500 acute beds will be required in the midlands region covering...
- Disabilities Data
402. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with dyspraxia development co-ordination disorder that are under 12 years of age, 12 to 18 years of age, and over 18 years of age,...
- Hospital Services
404. To ask the Minister for Health if a solution has been found to resume a group (details supplied) in Our Lady’s Hospital, Manorhamilton, County Leitrim; if the relevant persons have...
- National Maternity Strategy
405. To ask the Minister for Health the reason midwife-led care options, including homebirth, midwife-led hospital units and birthing centres were not included as part of the national maternity...
- Disability Services Funding
406. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the cuts made to organisations providing services and advocacy for those that suffer from dyspraxia-DCD; his plans to consider increasing the...
- Occupational Therapy Staff
407. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts filled for HSE occupational therapists in each primary care setting in County Donegal; the number of vacant occupational therapist posts in...
- Home Help Service
408. To ask the Minister for Health if home help services will be awarded to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50325/17]
- Disability Support Services Provision
409. To ask the Minister for Health when the dyspraxia assessment which has been ongoing since 2015 for a person (details supplied) in County Louth will be completed and available to the family;...
- Emergency Departments Closures
410. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the centralisation of trauma units; his plans to close St Luke's Hospital Kilkenny accident and emergency unit; and if he will make a statement...
- Mental Health Services Data
411. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have accessed psychiatric day care services in both Drogheda day care centre and Ladywell day care in County Louth in each of the...
- Mental Health Services
414. To ask the Minister for Health the catchment area served, services offered and resources allocated to the Louth based mental health rehabilitation team; when the team was established; and...
- Mental Health Services Staff
415. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the introduction of health care assistants to the staff complement at the department of psychiatry in Drogheda; and the number of these...
- Mental Health Services
416. To ask the Minister for Health the status of two adult mental health intellectual disability teams which have been approved; when these teams will be established; the location of these...
- Patient Data
417. To ask the Minister for Health the number of homeless persons residing in the department of psychiatry in Drogheda; and the number of homeless persons that have used the services each month...
- Disability Services Funding
418. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to a group (details supplied) for 2015, 2016 and 2017; if all of these funds have been drawn down; if additional funding was requested;...
- Disability Support Services Provision
419. To ask the Minister for Health the supports the HSE has in place for persons with developmental co-ordination disorder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50351/17]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
420. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for cataract surgery by county, in tabular form; the length of time persons have been waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Appointments Status
421. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment at the ENT clinic at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if he will make a...
- Air Ambulance Service Operations
422. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to concerns raised by a group (details supplied) regarding the regular landing of air ambulance helicopters on a sports pitch...
- Departmental Contracts Data
423. To ask the Minister for Health the public contracts between his Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the value of each contract; and if he will make...
- Hospitals Building Programme
424. To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated to the construction of the new Central Mental Hospital in this year’s mental health budget; the sum allocated to the said hospital...
- Primary Care Strategy Roll-out
425. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the development of primary care centres in County Wexford towns, including Gorey, Enniscorthy and New Ross respectively; and if he will make a...
- Health Services Provision
426. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of cardiac care services here, specifically at University Hospital Waterford will be conducted; when the terms of reference for this review...
- Emergency Departments Closures
427. To ask the Minister for Health if his review of potential trauma care centre closures is reviewing operations at Wexford General Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny and South Tipperary...
- Mental Health Commission Reports
428. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request that the Mental Health Commission undertake a catchment area report for County Louth. [50437/17]
- Mental Health Services Expenditure
429. To ask the Minister for Health the closing budget 2016 allocated to each CHO area in respect of mental health services; and the spend per capita in each of these CHO areas. [50438/17]
- Mental Health Services
430. To ask the Minister for Health the reason counties Louth and Meath mental health services are still not integrated into CHO area 8 services; the reason for counties Louth and Meath services...
- Mental Health Services Data
431. To ask the Minister for Health the mental health services in County Louth; the population each of these serve; and the funding that has been allocated to each of these services for 2016 and...
- Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
432. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding that was made available to a charity (details supplied) in 2016 and 2017; his plans to increase funding in 2018; and if he will make a...
- Ombudsman's Remit
433. To ask the Minister for Health the status of legislation promised by the former Minister for Health to extend the powers of the Ombudsman to deal with complaints by hospital patients that...
- Autism Support Services
434. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE are pursuing a policy of providing an appropriate day service for school leavers with autism; and if he will make a statement on...
- Nursing Staff Recruitment
435. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to expedite the appointment of two clinical nurses for a service (details supplied) through the community alcohol response and...
- Charitable and Voluntary Organisations
436. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the funding for a charity (details supplied) after its recent application to the HSE for funding for an education officer and information...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
437. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 162 on 8 November 2017, when a person will be facilitated (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Health Services
438. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will undergo an assessment. [50477/17]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
439. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied); and if it will be referred to the HSE to offer an appointment. [50479/17]
- Cross-Border Health Initiatives
440. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that availed of treatment under the cross-border directive scheme in the past three years and to date in 2017, in Northern Ireland; the...
- Hospital Procedures
444. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for procedures (details supplied) by county, in tabular form; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50508/17]
- Home Care Packages
445. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a decision in respect of an application for a home care package; and if he will make a...
- National Maternity Hospital Status
446. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposed national maternity hospital at St. Vincent’s hospital site in Dublin; the arrangement entered into concerning ownership of...
- Medicinal Products Availability
447. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for further dialogue with industry on finding solutions for access for persons to new medicines; if speed of access and funding growth for new...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
448. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting for an appointment for surgery for over six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Mental Health Services Provision
449. To ask the Minister for Health if the new mental health facility for Sligo will open before the end of 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50570/17]
- Mental Health Services Funding
450. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding for mental health services in CHO1 in 2017; the amount of underspend on mental health services in CHO1 in 2017; the amount of funding...
- Hospital Appointments Status
451. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50610/17]
- Dental Services Waiting Lists
452. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting dental surgery in County Cork under the medical card scheme; the expected waiting time for persons on this list; and if he will...
- Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
453. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting orthodontic treatment in County Cork to date; the expected waiting time for these children; and if he will make a statement on...
- Dental Services Data
454. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card holders referred to the UCC dental school for treatment by a HSE principal dental surgeon in HSE south to date in 2017; the number...
- Hospital Staff Data
455. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the number of full-time epidermolysis bullosa outreach nurses in Beaumont hospital, Dublin 9 in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date...
- Health Services
456. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for the refurbishment of a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50630/17]
- Health Services Staff Remuneration
457. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is entitled to a pension for their service in the health service; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
458. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been a change to the reimbursement status of a drug (details supplied) in respect of the medical card scheme; the reasons for same; and if he will...
- Hospital Services
459. To ask the Minister for Health if a response will issue to correspondence from a person (details supplied) regarding the need for a cath lab in Lourdes hospital, Drogheda; and if he will...
- Health Services Staff Data
460. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinical directors employed by the health service; the details of their location and number of consultants which they are required to oversee in...
- Hospital Waiting Lists Data
461. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all hospitals which do not comply with the common waiting list which public hospitals are required to operate under the terms of...
- Hospital Services
462. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria for the provision of cath labs in acute hospitals; the number of dedicated staff needed; the costs of staff and equipment; if this facility will...
- Hospital Overcrowding
463. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for Letterkenny University Hospital under the winter initiative 2017; if his attention has been drawn to the critical needs of the hospital at...
- Community Care
464. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that Fermoy community hospital remains open and is resourced adequately to meet the needs of the area [50661/17]
- Medical Card Eligibility
465. To ask the Minister for Health if he will revisit the eligibility rules for medical cards for persons over 70 years of age who suffer from chronic illness and are over the income limit...
- Mental Health Services Data
466. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents waiting zero to three months, three to six months, six to nine months, nine to 12 months, 12 to 18 months, 18 to 24...
- Hospital Consultant Contracts
467. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to carry out a full review of the operation of consultants' contracts by hospital and ensure that all consultants work their full allocation of hours...
- Foireann Roinne
468. To ask the Minister for Health cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá daingnithe nó aitheanta ag an Roinn...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Harbours and Piers Maintenance
470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the resources his Department has to ensure the removal of old boats from the coastline; the powers local authorities have to force...
- Agriculture Scheme Payments
471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will be granted ANC and BPS payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49878/17]
- Flood Relief Schemes Applications
472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the applications which were made to his Department for financial support as a result of the flooding in August 2017 will be...
- Coillte Teoranta Activities
473. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a response to persons (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49884/17]
- Aquaculture Licence Applications
474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a licence for a hatchery; if a decision has been made on the...
- Vacancies on State Boards
475. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form. [49928/17]
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
476. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application by a person (details supplied) for AEOS payments will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Funding
477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which the €25 million extra ANC funding that was allocated in budget 2018 will be distributed; and if he will make...
- Animal Identification Schemes
478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce an EID tagging system for sheep in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49977/17]
- Appointments to State Boards Data
479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the names of persons he has appointed to each State board under the aegis of his Department who have not come from the Public...
- Animal Welfare
480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take in respect of coursing similar to his Department's policy to ban the use of animals for entertainment purposes...
- Food Harvest 2020 Strategy
481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether achieving the objectives of Food 2020 Harvest is impossible, particularly in the dairy sector in view of EU...
- Pesticide Use
482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to ban the use of glyphosate; the rationale for the reversal of the ban on pre-harvest spraying of crops in 2016; and if he...
- Brexit Issues
483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Northern Ireland-based food companies seeking to develop new facilities here in order to mitigate against the threats posed by...
- Brexit Documents
484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has used a private email account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and if so, the details of this...
- Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Data
485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons that received funds under the ANC scheme for fulfilling the mountain-type land criterion in 2015, 2016 and to...
- Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme
486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the number of persons receiving ANC payments for mountain-type lands is an indication of the percentage of persons farming on hill...
- Departmental Bodies Data
487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the bodies under the aegis his Department to which his Department provides in excess of €1 million funding per annum; the...
- Stocking Densities
488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the statistics on the average stocking rate of farms located on mountain land here, including those that have qualified for ANC...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Data
489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers enrolled in AEOS whose contracts will end in 2018, by county, in tabular form; if these persons were eligible...
- Crop Losses
490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons that applied to the crop loss compensation scheme by county, in tabular form; the number of approved...
- Recreational Angling Sector
491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the potential impact the proposed ban on recreational angling for bass fishing for the first six months of 2018 and only...
- Basic Payment Scheme Payments
492. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the basic farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [50331/17]
- Harbours and Piers Maintenance
493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the resources his Department has devoted to the removal of abandoned boats around the coast; the powers local authorities have to...
- Agriculture Scheme Payments
494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of remote sensing eligibility satellite inspections that were carried out in counties Roscommon and Galway to date in...
- Departmental Contracts Data
495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the public contracts between his Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016, inclusive; the value...
- Fisheries Protection
496. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 361 of 14 November 2017, his Department's protocol for advising the SFPA of reports of illegal...
- European Maritime and Fisheries Fund
497. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the financial supports available for those who lost fishing equipment due to recent storm damage; the way in which a person can apply...
- Agrifood Sector
498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria used for selection of Fermoy, Cork, as the centre for the new National Food Innovation Hub as opposed to other...
- Agriculture Scheme Payments
499. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when ANC and BPS payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50443/17]
- Departmental Websites
500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to update his Department's website to include certified objects that qualify for grant aid under TAMS (details supplied);...
- Fishery Harbour Centres
501. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a folio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50480/17]
- TAMS Applications
502. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the next tranche of TAMS applications will be released to the local offices; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Departmental Contracts Data
503. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the fee paid by his Department to contract companies to carry out remote sensing eligibility satellite inspections, by county, in...
- Felling Licences Applications
504. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a forestry application and appeal by a person (details supplied). [50572/17]
- Flood Relief Schemes Data
505. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers impacted by severe flooding in County Donegal in August 2017 that applied to his Department for direct...
- Foireann Roinne
506. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá daingnithe...
- Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Broadband Service Provision
508. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expected roll-out of broadband under the national broadband plan to homes at a location (details supplied) in...
- Internet Safety
509. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the establishment of a digital safety commissioner, as recommended by the Law Reform Commission; and if he...
- Vacancies on State Boards
510. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form. [49931/17]
- Appointments to State Boards Data
511. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the names of persons he has appointed to each State board under the aegis of his Department who have not come from the...
- Inland Fisheries Ireland Staff
512. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of staff employed by Inland Fisheries Ireland to work in County Mayo; the number of staff working in each...
- Media Mergers
513. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress that has been made to establish a commission on the future of the media; and if he will make a...
- Ministerial Communications
514. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has used a private e-mail account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and, if so, the...
- Broadband Service Provision
515. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will request a company (details supplied) to provide broadband as per the initial agreement in County Westmeath;...
- Departmental Bodies Data
516. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the bodies under the aegis of his Department to which the Department provides in excess of €1 million funding...
- Post Office Network
517. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the recent approval to provide €30 million of funding to protect the future of the post office...
- Energy Resources
518. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the policy regarding Ireland's dependency on oil; the contingency plans in place in the event of energy supply...
- Broadband Service Provision
519. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when broadband will go live in an area (details supplied) in view of the fact that the physical infrastructure has now...
- Better Energy Homes Scheme Eligibility
521. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the options open to a person (details supplied) that has been refused an SEAI grant despite their home having been...
- Departmental Contracts Data
522. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the public contracts between his Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the...
- Broadcasting Sector
524. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a reply will issue to concerns raised by a person (details supplied) in relation to the retention of both the...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Foireann Roinne
525. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Sports Capital Programme Administration
527. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for the announcement of sports capital grants. [49859/17]
- Railway Stations
528. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement he has with Irish Rail regarding the construction of the new railway station at Pelletstown on the Maynooth railway line;...
- Road Tolls
529. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the NRA instructing repossession of property to recoup unpaid toll fees. [49867/17]
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects
533. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request that TII engage with a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49871/17]
- Sports Funding
534. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding his Department's progress in meeting the requirements of an organisation (details supplied) in view of the recent...
- Rail Network Expansion
535. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the DART extension to Balbriggan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49889/17]
- Appointments to State Boards Data
536. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form. [49944/17]
- Ministerial Meetings
537. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a meeting with this Deputy will be scheduled (details supplied). [49981/17]
- Road Improvement Schemes
538. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be considered for Coughlanstown Road, Ballymore Eustace in view of the fact that it has been closed for 15 months due to...
- Appointments to State Boards Data
539. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the names of persons he has appointed to each State board under the aegis of his Department that have not come from the Public...
- Driver Test Waiting Lists
540. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an earlier date can be offered for a driving test for a person (details supplied) in order to allow them to take up an offer of...
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects
541. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the site near Newmarket-on-Fergus chosen by Transport Infrastructure Ireland for a new M18 motorway service area is...
- Greenways Funding
543. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date for the announcement of the next tranche of greenways funding. [50043/17]
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects
544. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on his plans to upgrade the N11. [50049/17]
- Ministerial Communications
545. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has used a private email account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and if so, the details of this...
- Vehicle Clamping
546. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the regulation of clamping vehicles which is provided for in the Vehicle Clamping Act 2015 in view of the fact...
- Departmental Bodies Data
547. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the bodies under the aegis of his Department in which his Department provides in excess of €1 million funding per annum to these...
- Dublin Bus Services
548. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans Dublin Bus has to improve the 17A and 29A bus routes in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50155/17]
- Dublin Airport Authority
549. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will next meet the CEO of the Dublin Airport Authority; if he will raise the timeframe for works on the main runway and for the...
- Public Transport
550. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the rolling out of disability access bus stops particularly in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Transport Infrastructure Ireland Funding
551. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided in 2018 towards the planning and design of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
- Rail Services Data
552. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Iarnród Éireann has reported to him in relation to annual passenger growth or otherwise on its railway network for 2016 and...
- Rail Network Safety
553. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is examining changes to section 89 of the Railway Safety Act 2005; the rationale for these changes; and if he will make...
- Sports Capital Programme Applications Data
555. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications for the sports capital grant that were made from clubs and organisations in County Louth; and if he will make...
- Bus Services
556. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address issues regarding the disjointed nature of the bus lane along the N3, where at almost all junctions the bus must move...
- Road Traffic Legislation
557. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to bring in legislation to amend section 41 of the Road Traffic Act 1994; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50347/17]
- Local Government Fund
559. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount received by his Department from the local government fund in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and the...
- Noise Pollution Legislation
560. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the introduction of primary legislation to give effect to EU Regulation 598/2014 on aircraft noise management; if...
- Departmental Contracts Data
561. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the public contracts between his Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the value of each...
- Sports Capital Programme
562. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the sources of finance a rowing club can apply for aside from the sports capital grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Road Projects Status
563. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the upgrade for the N4 from Mullingar to Rooskey. [50507/17]
- Driver Licences
564. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if motorcyclists renewing their full licences are required to provide an initial basic training certificate; and if he will make a...
- Driver Test Data
566. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons awaiting an appointment for a driving test, by county; the average waiting time for receiving an appointment...
- Railway Stations
567. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the re opening of Dunleer railway station, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50617/17]
- Road Projects Status
568. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the proposed bypass of Ardee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50618/17]
- Rail Network
569. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether there is overcrowding on rail lines; his further views on the need for greater capacity on rail lines, particularly...
- Regional Road Network
570. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to the funding of pedestrian crossing facilities at a location in Dublin 11 (details supplied) in view of...
- Sports Capital Programme
571. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to announce the sports capital grants for 2017: the reason for the delay in announcing these grants; and if he will make a...
- Foireann Roinne
573. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá daingnithe nó...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Domestic Violence Refuges Provision
575. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for the provision of a 24-7 refuge for victims of domestic violence in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown; if so, the timeframe for the...
- Vacancies on State Boards
576. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of her Department, in tabular form. [49930/17]
- Appointments to State Boards Data
577. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the names of persons she has appointed to each State board under the aegis of her Department that have not come from the Public...
- Ministerial Communications
578. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has used a private email account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and if so, the details of this...
- Departmental Bodies Data
579. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the bodies under the aegis her Department in which her Department provides in excess of €1 million funding per annum to these...
- After-School Support Services
580. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is an existing subsidy or tax relief for persons that send their children to Educate Together homework clubs; the details of these...
- Child Care Costs
581. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that large numbers of child care providers are continuing to increase fees following the...
- Internet Safety
582. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the term within the video gaming industry of loot crates which is in effect is a system whereby in game...
- Youth Services Funding
583. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of funding for youth affairs in County Meath; and the way this compares with other counties. [50333/17]
- Child and Family Agency Reports
584. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 371 of 24 October 2017, the status of Tusla’s draft policy regarding adult disclosures of...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
585. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the review her Department has commissioned into the cost of providing early childhood care and education; and the date by...
- Services for People with Disabilities
586. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding that has been allocated for the administration of and application process for level 5 of the access and inclusion model in 2016...
- Departmental Contracts Data
590. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the public contracts between her Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the value of each contract;...
- Domestic Violence Services Funding
591. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if capital investment will be made available to an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50428/17]
- Early Childhood Care and Education
592. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she is taking to address the considerable shortages in ECCE places that exist in certain parts of the country; and if she will...
- Combatting Cyberbullying
593. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her role in protecting children from online bullying, abuse and grooming; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50455/17]
- Foster Care
594. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she will take to address the evaluations by HIQA that have found that numerous foster care services have consistent and serious...
- Affordable Childcare Scheme
595. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the legislative and ICT infrastructure that will be needed to deliver the single affordable childcare scheme; the...
- Foster Care
596. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the complaints and appeals mechanisms that are in place for foster care parents who feel that they or their foster child have been treated...
- Child Care Services Staff
599. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of child care providers who have been trained as link workers on the new AIMS model launched in June 2016, by county, in tabular...
- Domestic Violence
600. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to grants that are available to domestic abuse victims who are being housed in temporary supported housing...
- Early Childhood Care and Education Data
601. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has examined the data protection issues which could potentially arise from requiring ECCE providers to administer aspects of the...
- Early Childhood Care and Education
602. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the introduction of a 7% increase in ECCE capitation with effect from September 2017, which represents...
- Affordable Childcare Scheme
604. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the administration and management of the affordable childcare scheme is being devolved into ECCE providers that are already...
- Departmental Funding
605. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she and bodies or groups under her aegis have received or are scheduled to receive supportive funding from her...
- Departmental Budgets
606. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of resources available to her Department to meet all contingencies in the...
- Departmental Staff
607. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied regarding the adequacy of the staffing levels available to and through her Department to meet all anticipated...
- Children in Care
608. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in residential care; the extent to which such numbers have fluctuated in the past five years; the age profile of...
- Child Abuse
610. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which instances of child abuse of a physical, mental or sexual nature have been brought to her Department's attention since...
- Children in Care
611. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which her Department monitors the well-being of children in residential or foster care on an ongoing basis; and if she will...
- Child and Family Agency
612. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which a rapid response exists in cases of incidents of children at risk brought to the attention of her Department; and if...
- Child and Family Agency Funding
613. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she and her Department continues to grant aid to organisations involved in caring for children at risk; and if she will...
- Child Care Legislation
614. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which her Department offers support to undocumented families, with particular reference to children that might be at risk;...
- Child and Family Agency Services
615. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which her Department continues to monitor children and families at risk with a view to averting incidents of self harm; and...
- Counselling Services Provision
616. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which she remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of the counselling services available through her Department to children...
- Preschool Services
617. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding that has been allocated to levels 4 to 7 of the access and inclusion model between September 2016 and September 2017....
- Foireann Roinne
619. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá daingnithe nó...
- Department of Rural and Community Development
- Departmental Funding
621. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the funding from his Department in conjunction with Dublin City Council, for the Dublin City Community Co-operative Society will be...
- Vacancies on State Boards
622. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form. [49942/17]
- Appointments to State Boards Data
623. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the names of persons he has appointed to each State board under the aegis of his Department that have not come from the Public...
- Departmental Funding
624. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a grant will be awarded to an organisation (details supplied) in order to enable it continue to participate in tidy district...
- Ministerial Communications
625. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he has used a private email account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and if so, the details of this...
- Departmental Bodies Data
626. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the bodies under the aegis his Department to which it provides in excess of €1 million funding per annum; the public funding...
- Departmental Contracts Data
627. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the public contracts between his Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the value of each...
- Foireann Roinne
628. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá daingnithe...
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service Administration
630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the restructuring of MABS; and if she will make a statement on the...
- EU Agreements
631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the European Pillar of Social Rights is binding. [49849/17]
- Invalidity Pension Appeals
632. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal for an invalidity pension for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
- Social Welfare Payments Administration
633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have had sanctions imposed on their social protection payments in the past five years to date in...
- Fuel Allowance Eligibility
634. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons (details supplied) are entitled to the fuel allowance scheme. [49886/17]
- JobPath Programme
635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is compulsory to return to JobPath in the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that they completed a...
- Appointments to State Boards Data
636. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of her Department, in tabular form. [49935/17]
- Disability Allowance Payments
637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter regarding deductions from a social protection payment for a person (details supplied); and if...
- Community Employment Schemes Administration
638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedures by which organisations, companies and projects which take on persons on the community employment scheme can...
- Appointments to State Boards Data
641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the names of persons she has appointed to each State board under the aegis of her Department who have not come from the...
- JobPath Programme
642. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount an organisation (details supplied) receives for each job seeker who is placed with the agency. [50010/17]
- Pension Provisions
643. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the information in her possession in terms of the Pensions Authority investigation of a company's (details supplied) second...
- Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
644. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the welfare payment in place for a person (details supplied); the steps that can be taken to ensure the availability of at...
- Personal Public Service Numbers
645. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason it is necessary for widows to obtain new PPS numbers on the passing of their husbands; if her attention has been...
- Ministerial Communications
646. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has used a private email account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and if so, the details...
- Social Welfare Payments Administration
647. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the Christmas bonus to those in receipt of illness benefit; the estimated cost of same; and if she will...
- Maternity Benefit Administration
648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the recently implemented maternity benefit scheme for mothers of premature babies to include mothers of...
- Departmental Bodies Data
649. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the bodies under the aegis her Department to which her Department provides in excess of €1 million funding per annum;...
- Disability Allowance Payments
650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the additional child dependency rate will be applied to a claim for a disability allowance in respect of a person...
- Job Initiatives
652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address concerns that long ETB training courses limit the earning potential of the long-term unemployed; and if...
- Exceptional Needs Payment Data
653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of requests for exceptional needs payments in each of the years 2012 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the number of...
- JobPath Implementation
655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints received against the two companies tasked with delivering JobPath since it commenced; and if she...
- Fuel Allowance Applications
658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a fuel allowance application by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [50292/17]
- Carer's Allowance Payments
659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to review the situation regarding carer's allowance whereby a person who is providing full time care for two...
- Citizen Information Services Provision
660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeframe for the closure of a centre (details supplied). [50319/17]
- State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
661. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which the total contributions approach to the calculation of the State pension, contributory, from 2020 will be...
- JobPath Implementation
662. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the cost benefit analysis regarding the outsourcing of the JobPath programme will be published; if she has given...
- State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carers who are signing on for credits and who pay voluntary contributions will be guaranteed a full contributory pension...
- Departmental Contracts Data
664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the public contracts between her Department and companies, details supplied, in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the value of...
- Education and Training Boards
665. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the link between social welfare and ETB courses encouraging course participants to turn down employment in view...
- State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to alter the State pension qualification criteria to ensure that all persons that have had periods outside of the...
- Disability Allowance Applications
667. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a disability allowance payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Data Protection
668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether her Department should not only acknowledge but offer an apology to a person (details supplied) after the...
- Public Services Card Data
669. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the overall cost to date of the public services card, including production, activation and all other associated costs; the...
- Carer's Allowance Applications
670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of a carer's allowance application submitted by a person (details supplied) in County...
- Departmental Communications
671. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if transmissions and or communications between her Department's servers to local office computers are transmitted over HTTP...
- Public Services Card
672. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have had their social welfare allowances or services withdrawn due to the fact they did not have or...
- JobPath Implementation
673. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have been sanctioned for refusing to sign a personal progression plan with companies (details...
- Public Services Card
675. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the obtaining of data through SAFE 2 and the public services card is fully compliant with the general data protection...
- State Pension (Non-Contributory) Appeals
677. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50652/17]
- Foireann Roinne
679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá...
- Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Mortgage Lending
681. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount that was loaned in mortgages for newly built homes over the past 25 to 30 years. [50237/17]
- Wind Energy Guidelines
682. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the regulations that pertain to industrial style wind farm developments will be implemented; if these regulations will...
- Traveller Accommodation
683. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in 2016 and 2017 Cork County Council drew down none of the money allocated...
- Local Authority Funding
684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will allocate more funding to Mountmellick following the recent flash flooding which has caused damage to...
- Local Authority Boundaries
686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he has had with the implementation group of the boundary between Cork city and county councils; and the...
- Appointments to State Boards Data
687. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form. [49939/17]
- Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports he has put in place to enable the development of residentially zoned lands in the Dublin 15 area of Fingal County...
- Water Services Funding
689. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the ongoing review of funding supports for group water schemes; the length of time the review will take; the...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the capital investment by his Department in individual group water schemes in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in...
- Voluntary Housing Sector
692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the registered voluntary housing associations; the amount spent on administration of these associations in each...
- Homelessness Strategy
695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on issues identified in the reporting of homelessness statistics by local authorities, by local authority;...
- Ministerial Communications
697. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has used a private email account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and if so, the details of...
- Departmental Bodies Data
698. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the bodies under the aegis his Department in which his Department provides in excess of €1 million funding per annum to...
- Emergency Accommodation Provision
699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the practice of some local authorities of providing families that are homeless but have not...
- Housing Assistance Payment Data
700. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless HAP tenancies created in the first six months of 2017; the number of these used to prevent...
- Homeless Persons Data
701. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of adult persons who have exited section 10-funded homeless accommodation in the first six months of 2017; and the...
- Rural Resettlement Scheme
702. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the schemes available to assist households in relocating from urban to rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Rental Accommodation Scheme Data
703. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of RAS tenancies active at the end of each year from 2005 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and the annual cost of RAS...
- Social and Affordable Housing Data
704. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of part V units delivered in 2016; and the number delivered to date in 2017. [50159/17]
- Wind Energy Guidelines
711. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he has taken and the outcome in each individual case (details supplied) in which planning authorities altered...
- County Development Plans
712. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the planning section within his Department had sight of and considered a report endorsed by the planning authority of...
- Local Authority Housing Mortgages
716. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Question No. 497 of 14 November 2017, the definition of a satisfactory credit record; and if he will make a...
- Planning Issues
718. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to include quarries under the critical infrastructure legislation thus allowing such developments apply directly to...
- Social and Affordable Housing Data
719. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of SHCEP-funded leases in categories (details supplied) for each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the...
- Local Authority Housing Data
720. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approved housing applicants; the number of these applicants accessing and using the choice-based letting system...
- Vacant Properties
721. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made to date on action 5.3 of Rebuilding Ireland on work with local authorities to speed up the refurbishment and...
- Motor Tax Yield
722. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the motor taxation receipts received in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, by county, in tabular form. [50359/17]
- Local Government Fund
723. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the income components and the anticipated income to the Local Government Fund in 2018; the expected expenditure items and...
- Departmental Contracts Data
724. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the public contracts between his Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the value of...
- Ministerial Advisers Data
725. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the names of the special advisers employed in his Department; the names of special advisers to junior ministers or Ministers...
- Social and Affordable Housing
726. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to include a summary at the start of all future social housing construction status reports from quarter 3, Q3, 2017...
- Social and Affordable Housing Funding
727. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department or local authorities have discretion to offer private developers more than a 10% deposit in advance of the...
- School Services Staff
728. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the delay in appointing a traffic warden for a school (details supplied) despite the...
- Commencement of Legislation
729. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all sections of the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 have been commenced; if not when remaining sections will be...
- Foireann Roinne
730. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Remuneration
732. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department is reviewing the pay structure of members of the Permanent Defence Force (details supplied); if he will address the matter in...
- Commemorative Medals
733. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the first and second infantry group that completed overseas service in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be awarded medals for their...
- Air Corps Equipment
734. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of the aircraft fleet replacement programme for the Air Corps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49904/17]
- Appointments to State Boards Data
735. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of vacancies in each State board under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form. [49933/17]
- Ministerial Communications
737. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has used a private email account to send or receive official documents or positions on Brexit; and if so, the details of this...
- Departmental Bodies Data
738. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the bodies under the aegis his Department in which his Department provides in excess of €1 million funding per annum to these bodies; the...
- Ministerial Meetings
739. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to meet the UK Defence Secretary and US Secretary for Defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50318/17]
- Emergency Planning
740. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Army is satisfied that it has the resources to offer meaningful support to individual families and communities in the event of dangerous...
- Defence Forces Remuneration
741. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress that has been made on ameliorating low pay and conditions experienced by Defence Forces personnel (details supplied) outlined in a...
- Defence Forces Personnel Data
742. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of civilian positions which have become vacant in the year 2017 to date at Custume Barracks, Athlone; if these positions will be...
- Departmental Contracts Data
743. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the public contracts between his Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the value of each contract; and...
- Foireann Roinne
744. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence cén líon iomlán foirne atá fostaithe ina Roinn faoi láthair; cé mhéid post atá daingnithe nó...