Written answers

Tuesday, 4 December 2018

  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Staff Data
      11. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff in his Department who provide supports for Independent Ministers in Government. [47126/18]
    • British-Irish Council
      14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the British-Irish Council meeting held on 8 November 2018. [49138/18]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      16. To ask the Taoiseach the number of officials in his Department who speak Irish. [48374/18]
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Brexit Supports
      61. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if further initiatives are planned to assist small and medium enterprises to confront the threat of Brexit; and if she will make a...
    • Job Creation
      62. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions she is taking to ensure greater regional spread, in particular for the midlands region, in view of a recent report which...
    • IDA Ireland Site Visits
      67. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of IDA site visits in each county in the first, second and third quarters, respectively, of 2018 in tabular form; and if she...
    • Online Business Voucher Scheme
      68. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way in which she plans to encourage more businesses here to trade online; her plans to develop digital hubs in regional Ireland;...
    • IDA Ireland
      69. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has discussed with the IDA the reports that briefing documents within the IDA advised executives to underestimate rents here...
    • Ticket Touting
      70. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when she plans to bring forward legislation to tackle the problem of ticket touting; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Industrial Development
      71. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the degree to which innovation remains central to her plans to expand the manufacturing and the services sectors to the highest extent...
    • Competition and Consumer Protection Commission Reports
      72. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has finalised its report on the operation of the household waste collection...
    • Arms Trade
      73. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 211 of 24 October 2018, the number of licences that comprised the €120 million of...
    • Job Creation
      74. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she has taken in budget 2019 to encourage and promote job creation in County Sligo and across the Border region; and if she...
    • Brexit Supports
      75. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the role InterTradeIreland can play in supporting businesses in Border counties through the challenges of Brexit; and if...
    • Proposed Legislation
      76. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the proposed legislation to tackle the issue of expiration dates on gift vouchers; if the legislation will be published...
    • Export Controls
      77. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the rationale for Ireland opposing the EU export controls on surveillance software; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rural Regeneration and Development Fund
      78. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she had an input into the criteria for qualification for the rural regeneration and the urban regeneration funds; if so, the extent...
    • IDA Ireland Data
      79. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of IDA funding, job creation and employment gains in counties Galway and Roscommon from 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018, by...
    • Regional Development Initiatives
      80. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken to address the imbalance in regional development and job creation in view of recent CSO figures (details...
    • Arms Trade
      81. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the value of individual dual-use licences for exports to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates issued in 2017 and the first six...
    • Brexit Supports
      82. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the contingency measures and supports in place to safeguard County Cork SMEs from a hard Brexit situation; and if she will make a...
    • Work Permits Applications
      83. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the length of time to process work permits; the actions being taken to reduce the timeframe; and her views on whether the...
    • National Development Plan Data
      84. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the decision making process for applications for funding under the new disruptive technologies innovation fund under the National...
    • Brexit Supports
      85. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she is taking to assist companies in the Border counties to be prepared for Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Investigations
      86. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when she plans to publish an account of the investigative failures identified by a judge and the steps being taken to address them...
    • Aviation Industry
      87. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of progress on the development of a business cluster (details supplied) at Shannon Airport; and if she will make a statement...
    • Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement
      88. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the reform of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50483/18]
    • IDA Ireland Data
      89. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps her Department and the IDA are taking to increase job creation and attract companies to Fingal and north County Dublin; the...
    • Brexit Issues
      90. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will report on the way in which businesses here are Brexit ready; if she has particular concerns about certain sectors or...
    • International Bodies Membership
      91. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if funding will be provided for Ireland to join CERN in order that businesses, scientists, researchers and students here can benefit...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      92. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on whether the housing crisis here is having a detrimental impact on skills availability and foreign direct investment; and...
    • Research and Development Funding
      93. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the scoping of a future cycle of PRTLI that was undertaken by her Department working with the Department of Education and...
    • IDA Ireland Data
      94. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of regional IDA site visits in addition to vacant IDA properties nationwide in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Employment Data
      95. To ask the Taoiseach the additional jobs added in the 12 months to the third quarter of 2018 in County Donegal from the latest labour force survey. [50512/18]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      97. To ask the Taoiseach the amount that has been spent making videos each month since he became Taoiseach; and the campaigns, names and amount spent with regard to same. [50057/18]
    • Departmental Funding
      98. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of funding and-or grant aid his Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the purpose for which...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      99. To ask the Taoiseach the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the cost of same; the company involved; and...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Funding
      102. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount of funding and-or grant aid his Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to 2017 and to date in...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      103. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the cost of same;...
    • Defence Forces Properties
      104. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason he has withdrawn from a promised arrangement to allow persons (details supplied) to purchase their homes; the arrangements he plans...
    • Defence Forces Pensions
      105. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the position regarding affording retired soldiers a pay rise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50225/18]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      106. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the public events he attended by county since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50280/18]
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      107. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces has the same power as the Garda Commissioner in terms of the organisation of work and working times;...
    • Air Corps
      108. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a report on the use of Trikelone N in the Air Corps workshop compiled in 2014 by the formation safety office of the Air Corps was made...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      109. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that is, the amount...
    • Suicide Incidence
      110. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of suicides recorded among members of the Defence Forces in the past three years, respectively; if no number is recorded, his plans...
    • Defence Forces Medical Services
      111. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the efforts he and the Defence Forces have made to provide mental health supports for Defence Forces personnel. [50568/18]
    • National Security
      112. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if security services here have assessed the threat to State security Chinese firms (details supplied) pose; if he has sought the advice of...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Brexit Issues
      114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of the various forms of infrastructure to meet the challenges arising from...
    • Departmental Funding
      115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of funding and-or grant aid his Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to 2017 and to date...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the cost of...
    • Passport Applications Fees
      117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the estimated cost in a full year if the passport application fee was reduced to €60 for persons over 75 years of age based on 2017...
    • Passport Applications
      118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of passport applications for persons (details supplied). [50231/18]
    • International Agreements
      119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will be a signatory to the UN global compact for migration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50252/18]
    • Syrian Conflict
      120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assessment of the impact of sanctions on Syria that has been undertaken; the findings of such an assessment; and if he will make a...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the public events he attended by county since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50284/18]
    • Conflict Resolution
      122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to ensure Ireland increases its diplomatic efforts through the EU to ensure South Sudan’s fragile peace deals hold; the...
    • Birth Certificates
      123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied). [50309/18]
    • Foreign Conflicts
      124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the security situation that human rights defenders are facing in Guatemala (details supplied); and if he...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that is, the...
    • Middle East Issues
      127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed issues (details supplied) with his Israeli counterpart; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50630/18]
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      128. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an aircraft (details supplied) was given a permit to land at Shannon Airport; if so, the reason therefor; the investigation that took...
    • Brexit Issues
      131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the role his officials have in co-ordinating or partaking in Brexit preparedness according to the recent request by the EU Commission. [50473/18]
  • Department of Finance
    • Property Tax Exemptions
      132. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to provide relief for local property tax for older persons in areas in which land prices have increased significantly; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of funding and-or grant aid his Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the...
    • Vehicle Registration Data
      134. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cars registered for vehicle registration tax that are purchased for the purposes of car rental and qualified for the VAT rebate each month in...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      135. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of European Central Bank on-site inspections of financial institutions here in 2015, 2016 and 2017; the number carried out by ECB staff; the number...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      136. To ask the Minister for Finance the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the cost of same; the company...
    • VAT Yield
      137. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of VAT collected from forms of gambling that are subject to VAT in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      138. To ask the Minister for Finance the location of Ireland’s gold reserves; his plans to move these reserves onto the island of Ireland in the event of Brexit; and if he will make a...
    • Insurance Industry
      139. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are rules in place obliging life insurance providers to retain policy records for a certain number of years after the final transaction on the...
    • Home Building Finance Ireland Establishment
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the operation of the house building finance Ireland scheme; the way in which it is planned that apartment owners or management companies can...
    • Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is an independent complaints mechanism for persons or companies wishing to make complaints against the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland; and...
    • VAT Rate Increases
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the VAT increase and its expected negative impact on small businesses here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50224/18]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance the public events he attended by county since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50283/18]
    • Property Tax Review
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the review of the local property tax; and when homeowners can expect changes in their liability. [50301/18]
    • Insurance Industry Regulation
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance if the next payment to claimants of a company (details supplied) will be in February 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50307/18]
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      146. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications received for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers tax concession scheme in each of the past seven years; and the number of...
    • Tax Code
      148. To ask the Minister for Finance the specific professions that had their flat rate expenses regime reviewed recently; if the proposed changes are due to come into effect as of 1 January 2020;...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that is, the amount the company...
    • Tax Code
      150. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of indexing all tax thresholds and credits by each band or credit based on wage inflation of 3.8% for the next five years. [50550/18]
    • Mortgage Lending
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 27 November 2018, the number of principal dwelling home loans for FTBs and SSBs for each month since the...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      152. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of illegal moneylenders that have been prosecuted in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50637/18]
    • Illegal Moneylenders
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to tackle the problem of illegal moneylenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50638/18]
    • Credit Union Regulation
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has the power to increase the 1% per month interest limit for the credit union sector; if this power is vested in the Central Bank; his plans to...
    • Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland
      158. To ask the Minister for Finance the funding available for loans and credit insurance, respectively, by strategic banking Ireland; the number of applications received since its establishment...
    • Tax Code
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full year cost of the increases to the standard rate cut off point to €50,000 over the next five years (details supplied). [50692/18]
    • Prize Bonds
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance the prize fund available under the national prize bond scheme; his plans to increase the prize fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50755/18]
    • Tax Reliefs Data
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of HAP payments made to section 23 properties in each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50808/18]
    • Film Industry Tax Reliefs
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance when EU approval will be secured to implement the regional uplift aspect of the film tax relief provided for in the Finance Bill 2018; and if he will make a...
    • Irish Fiscal Advisory Council Reports
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has received the recent report from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. [50474/18]
    • Employment Investment Incentive Scheme
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 114 of 29 November 2017, the estimated cost of adapting the employment investment incentive scheme (details supplied) in...
    • Corporation Tax Regime
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to date of the decision to allow some companies continue to use the double Irish until 2020; the number of companies using the scheme; the estimated...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Superannuation Schemes
      166. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of injury warrants paid in the past five years; if there are conditions attached to these injury warrants; the range of...
    • State Properties Data
      167. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of State owned properties that are unoccupied; the cost associated with the maintenance and security of same; the number of...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      169. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of staff in the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer in each of the years 2013 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      171. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the cost of...
    • Heritage Sites
      172. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will liaise with the local authority to formulate a plan for the refurbishment and ongoing use of the historical building further...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      173. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the public events he attended by county since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50288/18]
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      174. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that is,...
    • Coastal Erosion
      175. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the report that has been prepared in respect of coastal erosion across all 19 local authorities in which...
    • Coastal Protection
      176. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of the recent erection of the new promenade and coastal protection and rock armour in Laytown, County Meath; and if he will...
    • Brexit Issues
      178. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding his Department, including the Office of Public Works, has allocated in each year and expended since June 2016 on upgrading...
    • Proposed Legislation
      179. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects to publish and introduce the Civil Service Regulation (Amendment) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • State Properties
      180. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount spent on the upkeep, staffing and event costs for a building (details supplied) in each of the past five years; and if he...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      181. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the north quay, Drogheda, will be included in scheduled flood relief works in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Departmental Funding
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding and-or grant aid his Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to 2017 and to date in...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the cost of same; the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for planned school building works at a school (details supplied); and if this project will be prioritised throughout each...
    • School Accommodation Provision
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of proposed developments at a school (details supplied); when works will commence in view of the circumstances; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Facilities
      186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the need for astro pitches on the grounds of a school (details supplied); if provision will be made in this...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an assessment of needs for a special needs assistant will be carried out on a person (details supplied). [50129/18]
    • School Transport Eligibility
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school transport option has not been put in place for a person (details supplied); and if he will address the matter without delay....
    • School Services Staff
      189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost in 2019 if the ancillary grant rate increased by €5.50 per pupil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50180/18]
    • Direct Provision System
      190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has had discussions with the Minister for Justice and Equality or the Reception and Integration Agency regarding the need for additional...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the progress being made on the planning and development of a new site for a school (details supplied) following his visit to...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if inequity with regard to a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50213/18]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be approved for an ASD unit in Clonmel (details supplied). [50227/18]
    • Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility
      194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when home tuition will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50228/18]
    • School Funding
      195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50253/18]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the public events he attended by county since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50281/18]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the stage 2 submission by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50295/18]
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he consulted the civil court records when he was establishing the redress scheme for victims of historical child sexual abuse; and if he will...
    • Third Level Staff Remuneration
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the decision to intervene in a Workplace Relations Committee ruling regarding staff at Waterford Institute of Technology who were...
    • Scrúduithe Stáit
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil athbhreithniú á dhéanamh maidir leis an easpa scrúdú béil ceart a bheith ann don Teastas Sóisearach...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school (details supplied); the stage the development is at; the remaining procedures still to be followed; when construction...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that is, the amount...
    • School Curriculum
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of history at junior cycle (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50373/18]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the income levels for eligibility for the SUSI grant in line with tax band and tax credit increases announced in budget...
    • School Admissions
      205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on using county boundaries to distinguish between pupils in a feeder school in a school admissions policy (details supplied); and if he...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes that have occurred with respect to the delivery of individual education plans at second level since the Croke Park agreement; if...
    • State Examinations Commission
      207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 144 of 3 October 2018, when a reply will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50436/18]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to cuts to the number of special needs assistant, SNA, positions at a school (details supplied); and his plans to...
    • DEIS Review
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent of the review of DEIS under way as mentioned by him in Dáil Éireann on 28 November 2018. [50491/18]
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for over age exemption for the early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme; and the reason a child with an autism diagnosis who...
    • School Services Staff
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the perceived unsatisfactory pay and employment conditions of school secretaries in the context of a review of such conditions; if...
    • DEIS Status
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) can upgrade its DEIS status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50645/18]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the lack of suitable educational placements at primary level for children with special educational needs; his...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase funding and capacity for apprenticeships in view of their importance in the workforce; the type of promotion his Department...
    • Special Educational Needs
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be provided for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50686/18]
    • School Accommodation
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered a report from a school (details supplied) in respect of the school building inspection report; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Facilities
      218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has made contact with a club (details supplied) in Dublin 15; if not, if the club has made contact with his Department with respect to...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50752/18]
    • School Accommodation
      220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for grant aid for additional school accommodation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the completion of construction of a school (details supplied); when it will be ready for occupation in full; and if he will...
    • School Management
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the governance manual for primary schools 2015 to 2019 and the Education Act 1998 are the only measures in place governing the removal of...
    • School Accommodation
      223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address matters raised about a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50881/18]
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision
      224. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the difficulty in identifying an agency to monitor community CCTV systems; and if he will make a...
    • Gender Equality
      226. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that have been taken or are planned to improve gender equality in the workplace, in particular steps covering more...
    • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
      227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the legislative barriers that remain in place arising from the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of...
    • Departmental Funding
      228. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding and-or grant aid his Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to 2017...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has examined the information provided to him regarding the pursuance of a person (details supplied); the action he has...
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Applications
      231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for cases to be decided by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal; and if he will make a...
    • Direct Provision System
      232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied that local communities in County Donegal in which direct provision facilities are being proposed have been...
    • Gambling Sector
      233. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is discretion for the granting of a gaming licence for a premises located in an area in which gaming is prohibited by...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      234. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the public events he attended by county since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Applications
      235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 133 of 15 November 2017, 172 of 28 March 2018 and 555 of 4 April 2018, if he will direct...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      236. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts,...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      237. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the waiting times for Garda vetting clearance; if an application (details supplied) which has exceeded the 12 week waiting time...
    • Citizenship Applications
      238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in which the person's application for citizenship...
    • Visa Applications
      239. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for a long stay visa in the case of a person (details supplied); when...
    • Refugee Resettlement Programme
      240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will suspend his plans to house asylum seekers in a facility (details supplied) until the legal proceedings draw to a...
    • Garda Complaints Procedures
      241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 175 of 9 October 2018, when a reply will issue; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda-PSNI Transfers
      242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who have transferred to the PSNI; and the number of PSNI officers who have transferred to An Garda...
    • Asylum Applications
      246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 93 of 15 November 2018 (details supplied), when a reply will issue; and if he will make a...
    • Direct Provision Data
      247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 295 of 27 November 2018, the number of single person households, that is, households...
    • Garda Data
      248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who are competent to do their business through the medium of Irish in...
    • Equality Issues
      249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a recent study (details supplied) by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights which shows a high level of...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department is accepting applications for repatriation of prisoners who are serving prison sentences abroad to Ireland;...
    • Criminal Prosecutions Data
      252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of illegal moneylenders who have been prosecuted in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Data
      253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date of each meeting of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal since 1 January 2016 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and...
    • Garda Station Opening Hours
      255. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 472 of 7 September 2018, when a reply will issue; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Community Alert Programme
      257. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a specific scheme (details supplied) will be reviewed with a view to providing the scheme free of charge to all communities,...
    • Garda Deployment
      258. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are still sworn gardaí and sergeants performing administrative tasks that could otherwise be carried out by a...
    • Closed-Circuit Television Systems
      259. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of CCTV schemes that have been approved for funding since the scheme commenced; if all local authorities are now...
    • Gambling Legislation
      260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Gambling Control Bill 2018 review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50882/18]
    • Bench Warrants
      261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of bench warrants issued in each of the years 2013 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the number of those which remain...
    • Garda Resources
      262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to the establishment of the Garda dog unit on a regional basis in view of the importance of this...
    • State Security
      263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if security services here have assessed the threat to State security Chinese firms (details supplied) pose; if he has sought...
    • Travel Documents
      265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 294 of 27 November 2018, if temporary travel documentation will be granted to allow the...
    • Court Orders
      266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 9 October 2018, the reason for discrepancies between the numbers of drivers...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Departmental Funding
      267. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of funding or grant aid her Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to 2017 and to...
    • Unified Patent Court
      268. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the timeframe for holding a referendum on the implementation of the unified patent court; the impact Brexit will have on the...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      269. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the external consultant reports commissioned by her Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the cost...
    • Proposed Legislation
      270. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the proposed legislation to tackle the issue of expiration dates on gift vouchers; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Public Sector Staff Data
      271. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the percentage of persons employed with verifying disabilities in the public sector by county in tabular form; if further...
    • IDA Ireland
      272. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the report regarding an agency (details supplied) under her remit. [50267/18]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      273. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the public events she attended by county since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50276/18]
    • Personal Injury Claims
      274. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount the Personal Injuries Assessment Board has held in reserve in each of the years 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      275. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that is,...
    • Departmental Funding
      276. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department provides supports in the form of grants or other incentives to companies producing military goods here for export....
    • Brexit Supports
      277. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the uptake in the various schemes her Department offers to allow businesses to prepare for Brexit; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Funding
      279. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the stage of the DTIF fund process; the number of expressions of interest that did not have success in the eligibility criterion; and...
    • Work Permits Applications
      280. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the permit status of a person (details supplied). [50566/18]
    • Brexit Issues
      281. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which the relevant sectors of her Department are on active footing in the run-up to and aftermath of Brexit in order to...
    • Job Creation
      282. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the degree to which she continues to maximise business and innovation opportunities to enhance job creation through innovation; and if...
    • Exports Growth
      288. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she remains satisfied that Irish products on world markets remain sufficiently attractive in view of the various international...
    • Gender Balance
      290. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the degree to which enterprise led by women continues to be supported by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Knowledge Development Box
      291. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which the knowledge development box continues to be an asset in securing investment in jobs here; and if she will make a...
    • Employment Data
      292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the additional jobs added in the 12 months to the third quarter of 2018 in counties Cavan, Monaghan and Meath from the latest labour...
  • Department of Health
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      293. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to relieve the financial burden which non-section 39 voluntary hospice groups are under (details supplied) in view of the difficulties they...
    • Departmental Funding
      294. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding and-or grant aid his Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the...
    • Health Services Funding
      295. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a service (details supplied); his views on the role this service can play; and if funding streams are available for same...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      296. To ask the Minister for Health the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the cost of same; the company...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      297. 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. [50107/18]
    • Hospital Staff Data
      298. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant endocrinologists operating in the health service by hospital in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form;...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Payments
      299. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a fair deal payment increase (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50117/18]
    • Disability Services Provision
      300. To ask the Minister for Health when speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and psychological services will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Provision
      301. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a place at a centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50124/18]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      302. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hearing aid for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50128/18]
    • Hospital Equipment
      303. To ask the Minister for Health the reason University Hospital Limerick has the only dual-console da Vinci Xi surgical robot here but is forbidden to use it for radical prostatectomies; and...
    • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
      304. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the consultant neurologist post at University Hospital Waterford which appears to be have been vacated recently with no replacement...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      305. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50141/18]
    • Health Services Provision
      306. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a centre (details supplied) is closing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50142/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      307. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be scheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50143/18]
    • Community Care Provision
      308. To ask the Minister for Health the reason public health nurse services in Drumkeeran, County Leitrim, have been reduced; if this decision will be reversed; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Home Care Packages Data
      309. To ask the Minister for Health the number of care packages and care hours provided under all home care tenders by county in September and October 2018; the comparative information for 2017;...
    • Hospital Equipment
      310. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a MRI scanner for St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny; and if he will expedite the funding required. [50151/18]
    • Health Services Access
      311. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for persons who are suffering from Huntington's disease to allow them to avail of publicly funded multidisciplinary clinics in...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      312. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) [50165/18]
    • Medicinal Products Expenditure
      313. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost of prescription diabetes medications as a percentage of the annual cost of prescription medications to the HSE in each of the past three years...
    • Health Services Data
      314. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost of diabetes care in each of the past three years and to date in 2018; the cost as a percentage of the annual health budget; and if he will make...
    • Disability Services Funding
      315. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase personal assistant hours for persons with disabilities in 2019; the specific budget increase that has been earmarked for this; the number...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      316. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding orthotics. [50174/18]
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      317. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be accepted for a home care package; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50176/18]
    • Home Care Packages Data
      318. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional home care packages that will be granted in County Kildare in 2018; and the number of places that will be available in 2019. [50177/18]
    • Disability Services Provision
      319. To ask the Minister for Health when clients of a hospital (details supplied) will be moved to a community setting; the long-term plans for the hospital; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      320. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50187/18]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      322. To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed changes in the fair deal scheme outlined in the media in February 2018 will be implemented as part of budget 2019; the full extent of these...
    • Hospitals Data
      323. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients at University Hospital Waterford who have been recalled for a medical test due to an issue with their original test by medical test in...
    • Health Services Provision
      324. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions he has had with the Minister for Justice and Equality or the Reception and Integration Agency regarding the need for healthcare resources and...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      325. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for pain management at University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      326. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not been provided with adequate home care in order to live independently at home; and when the person will be...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      327. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant doctor vacancies in hospitals nationally by hospital and speciality in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Data
      329. To ask the Minister for Health the number of developmental examinations carried out on babies in age ranges (details supplied) in 2016, 2017 and to date 2018, in tabular form. [50219/18]
    • Health Services Funding
      331. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to claims made by interviewees in a report (details supplied) that the HSE compelled organisations to sign service arrangements...
    • Health Services Reports
      332. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50222/18]
    • Health Services Data
      333. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) captures and records referral data on the children it assesses, including the source of report; and if so, the number of...
    • General Practitioner Services
      334. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to adequately resource general practice and to put in place a new contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50241/18]
    • Disability Services Provision
      335. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his officials will meet with representatives of a group (details supplied) to discuss its concerns about the resources available to meet its needs and...
    • Health Services Data
      336. To ask the Minister for Health the spend on agency staff in the health service in each of the years 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018, by occupation, hospital and community healthcare...
    • Disability Services Provision
      337. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be provided to a facility (details supplied) to protect the level of service. [50255/18]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      339. To ask the Minister for Health the public events he attended by county since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50285/18]
    • Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Recruitment
      340. To ask the Minister for Health the number of non-consultant hospital doctor, NCHD, vacancies in hospitals nationally in tabular form. [50292/18]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      341. To ask the Minister for Health the number of senior house officer, SHO, vacancies in hospitals nationally in tabular form. [50293/18]
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      342. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurse vacancies by community healthcare organisation, CHO, and local health office, LHO, in tabular form. [50294/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      343. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed and an urgent appointment expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50299/18]
    • Autism Support Services
      344. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not been provided with an autism diagnostic observation schedule assessment despite being referred for one. [50302/18]
    • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
      345. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment with an occupational therapist will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications Data
      346. To ask the Minister for Health if there have been recorded cases of anaplastic large cell lymphoma related to textured implants here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50313/18]
    • Hospital Admissions
      347. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons admitted to hospitals in 2017 for diabetes related illnesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50314/18]
    • Diabetes Strategy
      348. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of diabetes related illnesses to the health service each year; the amount the health service spends on diabetes prevention and management;...
    • Medicinal Products Data
      349. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE purchases drugs or medicines produced by Israeli pharmaceutical companies in occupied Palestinian territory; and if so, the medicines purchased....
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      350. To ask the Minister for Health the primary care teams in place in community healthcare organisation, CHO 1; and the number of staff employed in each by position and-or grade, that is,...
    • Medicinal Products
      359. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to problems with permanent contraceptives manufactured by a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      360. To ask the Minister for Health the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that is, the amount the company...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      361. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the income levels for eligibility for medical cards in line with tax band and tax credit increases announced in budget 2019; if his...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      362. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital bed will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50392/18]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      363. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances and rapid response vehicles, RRVs, that were deployed on each shift on each day for the past month; the number of ambulances and RRVs...
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      364. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in each grade on the waiting list for orthodontic treatment in a hospital (details supplied) in tabular form; the length of time they...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      365. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 163 of 14 February 2018, when Parts 2 and 3 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 will be commenced; the...
    • Hospital Consultant Recruitment
      366. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a new cardiologist who was due replace a retiring cardiologist will not now take up this position due to the...
    • Legislative Measures
      367. To ask the Minister for Health when legislation to regulate counselling services, including crisis pregnancy counselling, will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Occupational Therapy Waiting Lists
      368. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the occupational therapy waiting list in community healthcare organisation, CHO, 1 by length of time waiting and age (details...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      377. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for smear test results through the CervicalCheck screening programme. [50466/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      382. 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. [50492/18]
    • Home Care Packages Provision
      384. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a homecare package by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50543/18]
    • Hospital Transfers
      385. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be transferred from Galway University Hospital to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dublin; the reason for the delay;...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      386. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be issued a date for a urology appointment in Galway University Hospital; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      387. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be rescheduled for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50561/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      388. To ask the Minister for Health the dermatology waiting lists nationally by hospital. [50572/18]
    • Mental Health Services Data
      389. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the applicant for an involuntary admission under the Mental Health Act 2001 was a member of An Garda Síochána based on 2017...
    • Mental Health Services
      390. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding area mental health management teams and their meetings with a liaison from An Garda Síochána; the number of area mental health...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      391. To ask the Minister for Health if pulmonary fibrosis is covered by the long term illness scheme; if not, his plans to address the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50575/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      392. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; his views on the fact that this person has been informed that child ENT appointments are...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      393. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) who is seeking reimbursement under the medicine management programme; when a decision will issue in...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Provision
      394. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of persons (details supplied) will be examined in view of their need for CAMHS support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50581/18]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      395. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) will be scheduled. [50585/18]
    • General Practitioner Data
      396. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in GP GMS contracts nationally; and his views on whether only 306 new general practitioners with GMS contracts from 2008 to 2018 is...
    • Health Services Reports
      397. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the level of supports and services to persons with autism spectrum disorder, in respect of which he established a working group in August...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      398. To ask the Minister for Health if the specialist access team for homeless persons with severe mental health difficulties located at Conyngham Road, Dublin 8 is now closed to new referrals...
    • Health Strategies
      399. To ask the Minister for Health when he will introduce a plan to roll out a unique health identifier and a HSE-wide electronic medical record to assist in public health data collection,...
    • Abortion Services Provision
      400. To ask the Minister for Health if new abortion services will be rolled out in terms of operational access in view of the existing access issues in the health service; and if he will make a...
    • Oireachtas Joint Committee Recommendations
      401. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a new framework of free birth control and more effective sexual health relationship education; if this framework will be put in place as...
    • Health Services Funding
      402. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to correct the perceived insufficient funding for Sláintecare announced in budget 2019, most especially for transition; and if...
    • Risk Equalisation Scheme
      403. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether supporting the health insurance industry with community rating, risk equalisation and tax expenditure runs contrary to the medium and...
    • Emergency Departments Data
      404. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients in each acute hospital who have waited more than 48 hours in an emergency department prior to admission to a ward to date in 2018, in...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      405. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients in each relevant hospital who have been waiting more than two years for an outpatient appointment; and the number of patients in each...
    • Hospital Appointments Status
      406. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [50664/18]
    • Hospital Equipment
      407. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has funding to purchase an upright MRI machine for patients with Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, EDS, in view of the fact upright MRIs have proven to...
    • Hospital Staff
      408. To ask the Minister for Health if all radiologists here are receiving up to date training on identifying Ehlers–Danlos syndrome in patients; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Autism Support Services
      409. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting to access autism services (details supplied); the average time a person is waiting to access these services; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      410. To ask the Minister for Health if a stoma reversal surgery for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [50675/18]
    • Commencement of Legislation
      411. To ask the Minister for Health if all sections of the Health Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods Act 2013 have been commenced; if not, when remaining sections will be commenced; and if he...
    • Maternity Services
      412. To ask the Minister for Health the number of births in maternity hospitals nationally and in the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, respectively, in each of the years from 2000 to 2017...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      413. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a child (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50690/18]
    • Hospital Procedures
      414. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the concerns being raised on the use of MAGEC rods for patients who have undergone operations for scoliosis; if there is a formal tracking...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      415. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychiatrists employed by the HSE in County Tipperary in the provision of mental health services, by grade and qualifications; if all positions...
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Provision
      417. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment and follow-up service from the child and adolescent mental health services will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied);...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      418. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment and service from the network disability team will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      419. To ask the Minister for Health if home help assistance will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50749/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      420. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [50761/18]
    • Medical Card Applications
      421. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue on a medical card application made by a person (details supplied) on 19 September 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Home Care Packages Expenditure
      422. To ask the Minister for Health the methodology used to calculate block allocations of funding to each community healthcare organisation area for the provision of home care packages; if age...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      423. To ask the Minister for Health the number, location and speciality of all clinical directors in the health service; the number of vacant posts; the recruitment process for the filling of...
    • HIV Incidence
      424. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the rising rates of HIV transmission in 2018; if further investment in testing services will take place in response to this; and if he will make a...
    • HSE Planning
      425. To ask the Minister for Health the persons or bodies his Department and the HSE met to construct the winter plan for the health service; and the reason it has not been published despite it...
    • HSE Staff Recruitment
      426. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant positions being recruited for by the HSE across the health service; the details based on the discipline of the position; the length of...
    • Patient Transfers
      427. To ask the Minister for Health when appropriate treatment will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied); when this transfer will take place, with particular reference to the...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      428. To ask the Minister for Health the resources being committed to address the shortage of staff in the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin 1; and if his attention has been drawn to...
    • Medicinal Products Reimbursement
      429. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the frustration of patients such as persons with MS regarding approval of new medicines; if he will report on efforts to...
    • Primary Care Centres Data
      430. To ask the Minister for Health the status and breakdown of services offered at Summerhill primary health facility; and the projected opening date of same [50856/18]
    • Infectious Diseases
      431. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the concerns raised by persons with Lyme disease in terms of diagnosis, patient services and general care; and if he will make a statement...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      432. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the Farrelly commission of investigation; if staff giving evidence to the commission who are employed by section 38 and 39 organisations will...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      433. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in appointing a nurse to administer medication on a daily basis to a person (details supplied) at home; if the delay in making the...
    • Respite Care Services Data
      434. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residential places for persons with a disability being provided by CHO in tabular form. [50886/18]
    • Disability Services Data
      435. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new emergency places provided to persons with a disability to date in 2018, by CHO in tabular form. [50887/18]
    • Disabilities Assessments
      450. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting a first assessment from the HSE under the Disability Act 2005 at the end of November 2018 or the latest date available by LHO...
    • Speech and Language Therapy Waiting Lists
      451. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the speech and language therapy assessment waiting list; and the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months,...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      455. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds and wards in all public and voluntary acute hospitals that were closed on 28 November 2018 or the latest date on which data for validated...
    • Ambulance Service Data
      457. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of clinical status 1 ECHO incidents responded to by first responder in seven minutes and 59 seconds or less; and the percentage of clinical...
    • Emergency Departments Waiting Times
      458. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients aged 75 years of age or over who experienced an emergency department wait time of more than 24 hours to date in 2018; and the hospitals...
    • Home Help Service Data
      459. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home support hours being provided by each LHO area. [50913/18]
    • Ambulance Service Data
      461. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance attendances at each emergency department nationwide in October 2018; the number of such ambulances that waited more than 20, 40, 60,...
    • Hospitals Data
      462. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures that were cancelled and postponed in each public hospital to date in 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      463. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for spinal fusion and other spinal operations, respectively, waiting less than four, four to eight and more than eight months,...
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      466. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a podiatry appointment in primary care; and the number waiting up to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than 52...
    • Audiology Services Data
      468. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care; and the number waiting up to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than...
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      469. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each LHO area waiting for a dietetics appointment in primary care; and the number waiting up to 12, 12 to 26, 26 to 52 and more than...
    • Dental Services Waiting Lists
      470. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in each local health office, LHO, area waiting for an oral health appointment in primary care; and the number waiting up to 12, 12 to 26,...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
      471. To ask the Minister for Health the action that has been taken to implement each of the 32 recommendations in the review of the nursing homes support scheme 2015 on the administration of the...
    • Patient Safety
      475. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of serious reportable events being notified within 24 hours to a designated officer. [50929/18]
    • Orthodontic Services Data
      479. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents in Cork city and county on a waiting list for orthodontic assessment and orthodontic treatment, respectively; the length...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists Data
      480. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on public hospital waiting lists for surgery (details supplied). [50934/18]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      482. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been removed from the waiting list for spinal fusion surgery; and if the person will be reinstated on the list and...
    • Vaccination Programme
      483. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Information and Quality Authority completed the health technology assessment on extending the school immunisation programme to include HPV...
    • Vaccination Programme Data
      485. To ask the Minister for Health the uptake of the influenza vaccine to date in 2018 compared with the same period in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50948/18]
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      486. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the delivery of a primary health care centre (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50949/18]
    • Nursing Staff Remuneration
      489. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make funds available to meet the demands of nurses in view of the 94% vote to reject the pay offer in a union (details supplied) in order to...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      491. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allocate extra resources to aid in the retention and recruitment of nursing and other front-line staff in public facilities; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Staff Remuneration
      492. To ask the Minister for Health if future pay deals with nurses in the public sector health service have been costed; if he will meet with nursing union representatives to discuss such...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      493. To ask the Minister for Health if the specialist access team for homeless persons with severe mental health difficulties at Conyngham Road, Dublin 8, is now closed to new referrals due to...
    • Health Insurance
      494. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether supporting the health insurance industry with community rating, risk equalisation and tax expenditure runs contrary to the medium-term and...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      495. To ask the Minister for Health if he has been in contact with the HSE about the interview board involved in recruiting a person (details supplied); if the members of the board will no longer...
    • Hospital Services
      496. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to invest in Cavan & Monaghan Hospital; the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50605/18]
    • Health Services Provision
      497. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the implementation of the recommendations of the island healthcare review; the additional resources that will be provided for the...
    • Hospital Services
      498. To ask the Minister for Health the action the HSE will be taking to enable University Hospital Galway regain accreditation for carrying out colonoscopies; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Traveller Community
      499. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the national Traveller health advisory committee has not been convened since 2012; when the national Traveller health action plan will be published;...
    • Voluntary Sector Remuneration
      500. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to restore the pay of section 39 workers in accordance with an internal audit carried out by the HSE; the timeline for funding of pay restoration;...
    • Nursing Staff Remuneration
      501. To ask the Minister for Health the status of pay negotiations with nursing staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48994/18]
    • Voluntary Sector Remuneration
      502. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of pay restoration for section 39 workers; the timeline of funding for pay restoration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49532/18]
    • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data
      503. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time between the date of a CAMHS referral and the date of assessment, nationally and in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products
      504. To ask the Minister for Health if there are persons here affected by problems with permanent contraceptives manufactured by a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Horse and Greyhound Fund
      505. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount disbursed to the horse and greyhound industries in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; the amount of subvention to the...
    • Departmental Funding
      506. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding or grant aid his Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to 2017 and to...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      507. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the cost...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      508. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50113/18]
    • Coillte Teoranta
      509. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value of all EU grants received by Coillte since its establishment in 1988. [50126/18]
    • GLAS Payments
      511. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in issuing a GLAS payment to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50167/18]
    • GLAS Payments
      513. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in a payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50193/18]
    • TAMS Applications
      514. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps to be taken with regard to funding approved for works in TAMS II applications that has yet to be drawn down and which will...
    • Teagasc Administration
      515. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of an address for Teagasc if a farmer wishes to provide survey feedback without using a website; and if he will make a...
    • Horse Sport Ireland
      516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the grant supports available to assist the breeding of sport horses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50229/18]
    • Forestry Grants
      517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers who are participating in State funded forestry schemes can receive grant and premium aid supports when clear felling or...
    • GLAS Payments
      518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment for 2017 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive a payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50260/18]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the public events he attended by county since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50275/18]
    • Aquaculture Licences
      522. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address matters (details supplied) regarding aquaculture licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50354/18]
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that is,...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a farm payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50399/18]
    • Agriculture Schemes
      525. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the process required to apply for EU exceptional adjustment aid via CAP regulations for primary producers in agriculture at European...
    • Brexit Issues
      526. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding allocated each year and expended since June 2016 on upgrading infrastructure at Dublin and Rosslare ports to prepare for...
    • Brexit Staff
      527. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of SPS and fisheries control officials that will be operational on 29 March 2019 out of the planned recruitment of 116...
    • Horse Sport Ireland
      528. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for separate funding to be made available specifically for the sport horse industry in view of recent successes by those...
    • Greyhound Industry
      529. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the impact the recent ban on greyhound racing in Florida will have on the Irish greyhound industry; if he will carry out a formal...
    • Fish Farming
      530. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the name and site locations of salmon farm companies using wild wrasse as cleaner fish on salmon farms here; and if he will make a...
    • GLAS Appeals
      531. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in respect of GLAS. [50629/18]
    • Achomhairc Talmhaíochta
      532. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a dhéanfar cinneadh ar achomharc faoi scéim na híocaíochta bunúsaí agus faoi scéim...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
      533. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50663/18]
    • Agriculture Cashflow Support Loan Scheme
      534. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated amount in Exchequer funding required to counter guarantee a cash flow loan scheme to make available a similar loan fund...
    • Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Eligibility
      535. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a townland (details supplied) in the DED of Ballyvool, County Kilkenny, has been removed from the area of natural...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      536. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of the basic farm payment scheme will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in County Cork. [50764/18]
    • Greyhound Industry
      537. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has raised the issue of early morning greyhound racing with Bord na gCon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50883/18]
    • GLAS Payments
      538. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason GLAS plus payments are not issuing to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; if the application will be reviewed;...
  • Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
    • National Broadband Plan Administration
      539. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role the National Development Finance Agency has played in the procurement process for the national broadband plan;...
    • Departmental Funding
      540. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding and-or grant aid his Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      541. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when broadband will be supplied to an area (details supplied). [50077/18]
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      542. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in...
    • Waste Disposal Charges
      543. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for the regulation of pricing in the domestic bin collection sector to ensure that customers' rights are...
    • Fuel Prices
      544. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the drop in world oil prices is not being felt at the pump for Irish consumers; and if he will make a...
    • Energy Resources
      545. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the location of Ireland’s oil reserves; and his plans to move these reserves onto the island of Ireland in the...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      546. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason homes (details supplied) in County Kildare have been excluded from the fibre broadband roll-out; and when...
    • Metropolitan Area Networks Programme
      547. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the process by which he oversees the metropolitan area networks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50189/18]
    • Post Office Closures
      551. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of permanent, part-time and seasonal workers, respectively, who would be made redundant with regard to the...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      552. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the public events he attended by county since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      553. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      554. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when high speed broadband will be rolled out to homes and businesses in remote parts of Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      555. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the daily role of a person (details supplied); if the person was based in his Department on a full-time basis; the...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      556. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to extend high speed broadband to an area (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • National Broadband Plan Administration
      557. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the conflict of interest register regarding the bidding element of the national broadband plan will be provided; the...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      558. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to meet the chairperson and director general of RTÉ; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Commencement of Legislation
      559. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if all sections of the Broadcasting Act 2009 are signed into law; if not, when remaining sections will be signed into...
    • Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff Scheme Applications
      560. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a time limited grace period will be implemented in situations in which a renewable energy project may miss a REFIT 2...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      561. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether Chinese technology companies (details supplied) pose a threat to State security; if so, the work...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Ministerial Meetings
      563. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the nature of his meeting with persons (details supplied); if he has committed State support or funding to the European tour and Ryder...
    • Tourism Policy
      564. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a lease (details supplied) will not be renewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50353/18]
    • Departmental Funding
      565. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding and-or grant aid his Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to 2017 and to...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      566. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the cost of...
    • Sports Funding
      567. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual amount granted to underage and-or junior soccer clubs and-or teams in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; the annual amount...
    • Public Bike Schemes
      568. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a number of queries raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50136/18]
    • Road Projects Status
      569. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the progress being made on the planning and funding for an inner relief road in Edenderry, County Offaly, to alleviate...
    • National Transport Authority Funding
      571. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the allocation that will be made by the National Transport Authority to County Waterford in each of the years 2019 to 2022, inclusive, in...
    • Road Projects Expenditure
      572. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the full cost to date for the maintenance of the unopened private service station on the M11 at Ballyellin, Inch, Gorey, County Wexford;...
    • Tourism Ireland Funding
      573. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional funding has been extended to Tourism Ireland in the context of Brexit; the state of preparedness of the organisation...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      574. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the public events he attended by county since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50291/18]
    • Road Network
      575. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an application for funding to design and construct a bridge (details supplied) in County Mayo has been received. [50296/18]
    • Swimming Pool Programme
      576. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the new swimming pool project at Lough Lanagh, County Mayo; the reason for the delay in opening the facility; the amount...
    • Airport Policy
      577. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the long-term growth and development of Cork Airport; the details of investment plans for the airport; and if he will make...
    • Tourism Ireland
      578. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of the regional targets Tourism Ireland needs to achieve in respect of tourism visitors here; and if he will make a statement...
    • Airport Development Projects
      580. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce a connectivity funding programme in respect of airports here in order to secure strategic routes; and if he will...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      581. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that is, the...
    • Road Network
      582. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a funding application has been received to date for the Julianstown bypass; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50376/18]
    • Transport Policy
      584. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding has been allocated for the Castletownbere transportation plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50396/18]
    • Rail Services
      585. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will investigate with CIÉ and Irish Rail the reason there are not enough rail carriages in operation on the Sligo to Dublin...
    • Brexit Staff
      586. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 877 of 6 November 2018, when a reply will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Taxi Data
      587. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of wheelchair accessible taxis in the taxi fleet as an absolute number and as a percentage of the overall taxi fleet; the...
    • Taxi Regulations
      588. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will investigate the possibility of introducing a scheme in which taxi drivers based in a town can attend a course outlining the...
    • Noise Pollution
      589. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to install noise abatement measures on the M1 motorway between junctions 6 and 7; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      590. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application by an organisation (details supplied) for a sports capital grant; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Sports Capital Programme
      591. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the sports capital grants for 2018 will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50635/18]
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      592. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of all applications sent from County Kildare for the sports capital grant. [50636/18]
    • Brexit Issues
      593. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Brexit proofing measures he can take to assist Shannon Airport in securing an alternative connection in view of the fact that EU hub...
    • Tourism Policy
      594. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to achieve a more balanced distribution of visitor numbers to the mid-west and to County Clare (details supplied);...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      595. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans to privatise Bus Éireann route 133; the timeline for the commencement of the operation of such a route; and if...
    • Rail Network Expansion
      596. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when initial works will take place on the DART upgrade of the Maynooth M3 Parkway commuter line; when a planning application will be...
    • Noise Pollution
      597. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to seek current or capital budgetary allocations to support local authorities and Transport Infrastructure Ireland to implement...
    • Light Rail Projects
      598. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if individuals and groups will have the right to make observations and submissions when the second round of MetroLink public consultation...
    • Greenways Development
      600. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the agency responsible for the fencing along greenways; if this is carried out in consultation with landowners; if the process is...
    • Swimming Pool Programme Status
      601. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50952/18]
    • Road Traffic Offences Data
      602. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 9 October 2018, to which the Road Safety Authority replied on 23 November 2018, the reason...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Departmental Funding
      603. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding and-or grant aid her Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to 2017 and to date...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      604. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the external consultant reports commissioned by her Department in each of the years from March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the cost...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes
      605. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the entry points of the ECCE programme will be reviewed to reinstate a January entry point that many families had planned for; and if...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      606. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the public events she attended by county since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50277/18]
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      607. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that is, the...
    • Child and Family Agency Staff
      608. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn by Tusla to difficulties in 2017 in recruiting staff to work in special care units; and if she will make a...
    • Aftercare Services
      610. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if aftercare allowance can continue to be paid in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Early Childhood Care and Education Funding
      611. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason childcare providers receiving payment from the ECCE scheme were paid on 23 November 2018 and have been told there will be no...
    • Early Childhood Care and Education
      612. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 528 of 27 November 2018, the location of the two actions relating to the Irish language contained in...
    • Child Detention Centres
      613. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if all members of the board of Oberstown Children Detention Campus were given an opportunity to read the operational review of the centre...
  • Department of Rural and Community Development
    • Departmental Funding
      614. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding and-or grant aid his Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to 2017 and to...
    • Town and Village Renewal Scheme
      615. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount allocated to town centre health checks per annum; the number of checks undertaken by county; and the number planned. [50086/18]
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      616. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the cost...
    • Charities Regulation
      617. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of reports and-or complaints made to the Charities Regulatory Authority, CRA, regarding the repeal of the eighth amendment;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      618. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the capital spend by his Department to date in 2018 including the capital carry-over from 2017, by subhead; the provision under each...
    • LEADER Programmes
      619. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the progress made to date with the roll-out of the LEADER programme 2014 to 2020; the expenditure incurred to date on the programme by...
    • LEADER Programmes Data
      620. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of projects approved to date by each local action group under the 2014 to 2020 LEADER programme; the amount approved for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      622. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount allocated by current and capital expenditure in 2018 to schemes (details supplied); and the total expended in each such...
    • Rural Development Programme
      623. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount prepaid to local authorities at the end of 2017 for rural development purposes; the schemes under which it was allocated,...
    • Local Improvement Scheme Data
      624. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of expenditure that has been incurred to date under the moneys sanctioned by him by each local authority on the local...
    • CLÁR Programme
      625. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of projects approved under CLÁR measures 1, 2, 3 and 4 since the programme was re-established on an annual basis by...
    • Community Development Initiatives
      626. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if, in the context of the allocation of funding throughout 2019, he expects to further improve conditions in both urban and rural...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      627. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the public events he attended, by county, since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50289/18]
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      628. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that is,...
    • National Indemnity Scheme for Landowners
      629. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the timeframe for the publication of a national indemnity scheme to indemnify private landowners against recreational users of their...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      630. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the groups providing personal alarms through the seniors alert scheme in west County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
    • Pensions Legislation
      631. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the regulations in place to oblige trustees of pension funds to regularly update their members; and if she will make a...
    • School Meals Programme
      632. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the provision of jelly and ice cream was initially unapproved by her Department as part of a school meals...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      633. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to make provision for pension entitlements to community employment scheme supervisors. [50456/18]
    • Social Insurance Yield
      634. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated revenue that would be raised by each one percentage point increase in employers' PRSI; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      637. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funding and-or grant aid her Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an illness benefit payment will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      640. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the external consultant reports commissioned by her Department in each of the years from March 2011 to 2017 and to date in...
    • Occupational Injuries Benefit Payments
      641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an illness benefit for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50122/18]
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility
      642. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the correct monetary payment due to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50125/18]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      643. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Illness Benefit Eligibility
      644. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 625 of 10 November 2018, if the person (details supplied) qualifies for this payment...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      645. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if moneys received by a recipient of disability allowance in respect of the person's participation in a medical clinical...
    • Redundancy Payments
      646. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are scenarios in which jobs clubs have not been closed down but the staff have received redundancy packages. [50186/18]
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      647. 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. [50210/18]
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      648. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50211/18]
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      649. 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. [50226/18]
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pensions
      651. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of a State pension by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Jobseeker's Payments
      652. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of a jobseeker's payment by county in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Data
      653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons who have received an exceptional needs payment from 1 January 2018 to date in 2018 by county in tabular...
    • Social Welfare Schemes Data
      654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of carer's allowance, carer's benefit and the carer's support grant by county in tabular...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      655. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the public events she attended by county since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      656. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance claim in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [50300/18]
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      657. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts,...
    • Household Budget Facility
      658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for recent issues experienced by persons who use the household budget service in which deductions automatically...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for disability allowance by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Illness Benefit Reform
      660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if further consultation with general practitioners will take place in respect of the roll-out of the new illness benefit...
    • Community Employment Schemes Supervisors
      661. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when community employment supervisors will receive their pension entitlements in accordance with Labour Court recommendation...
    • Wage Subsidy Scheme
      662. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of employers in receipt of the wage subsidy scheme under strand 1, 2 and 3; the number of employers that have...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      666. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons with a disability who have engaged with the EmployAbility service since its introduction; the number of...
    • Disability Support Services
      670. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount spent on the ability programme since its introduction; the number of young persons that have engaged with the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      671. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision has been made on a review of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      672. 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. [50493/18]
    • Working Family Payment Applications
      673. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision made with respect to an application by a person (details supplied) for the working family payment will be...
    • Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Applications
      674. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for partial capacity benefit will be finalised in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      675. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a carer's allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Working Family Payment Data
      676. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) was awarded working family payment of €21...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      677. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [50588/18]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      678. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an illness benefit back payment will be issued to a person (details supplied) without further delay. [50666/18]
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      680. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50668/18]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      681. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if arrears due to a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [50758/18]
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      682. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) will be processed; if it will be expedited; and if...
    • Employment Support Services
      683. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if training and upskilling opportunities will be offered to mothers that wish to return to work after maternity leave and to...
  • Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
    • Departmental Funding
      684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding and-or grant aid his Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the external consultant reports commissioned by his Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018;...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of female Secretaries General and assistant secretaries employed across Departments. [50105/18]
    • Expert Panel on Concrete Blocks
      687. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the planned mica redress scheme for property owners in counties Donegal and Mayo whose homes have been found to...
    • Home Loan Scheme
      688. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to delays in processing and granting loans by Kildare County Council and other local...
    • Regeneration Projects
      691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason projects that do not have the benefit of planning permission are being grant aided under the urban regeneration and...
    • Water Supply
      692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if grant assistance is available to persons with their own private well to have their water tested in view of recent concerns...
    • Regeneration Projects Funding
      693. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount that will be allocated to County Waterford by the national urban regeneration fund for the purposes of the...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      696. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the public events he attended by county since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Home Loan Scheme
      697. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the rights of appeal that exist to Rebuilding Ireland home loan decisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Local Authority Members' Remuneration
      699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Moorhead review on local authority terms and conditions will be published; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      700. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts,...
    • Regeneration Projects Funding
      701. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the next steps for projects (details supplied); when funding will be made available to the promoters; the estimated completion...
    • Housing Assistance Payment Data
      702. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount that has been paid on the housing assistance payment and homeless housing assistance payments for 2017 and to date...
    • Water Charges
      703. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans in place for charging persons on group water schemes. [50412/18]
    • Building Regulations
      704. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 630 of 27 November 2018, if the specification set out in the request for tenders for...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      705. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP transfers to local authority and AHB housing by local authority for each year the scheme has been in...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Data
      706. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes purchased under the tenant scheme by local authority area; the number of homes sold at each discount...
    • Approved Housing Bodies
      707. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 632 of 27 November 2018, if a specific proposal to amend the rules of the CALF funding...
    • Rental Sector
      708. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered increasing the 90-day limit concerning a company (details supplied) for primary residences in keeping...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      710. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the actions in pillar one of Rebuilding Ireland will be updated in order to reflect the additional identified needs of...
    • Homeless Accommodation Provision
      712. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider ending the practice of self-accommodation for homeless families with children. [50623/18]
    • Planning Issues
      718. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding planning permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing for People with Disabilities Provision
      719. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure that a sufficient percentage of housing is fully accessible for wheelchair users and not...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      720. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the delivery of the 550 affordable homes at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 2. [50745/18]
    • Planning Data
      721. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local area plans, strategic development zones and county development plans in operation by local authority in...
    • Election Management System
      722. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has researched the amount it would cost to end the use of schools as polling stations and use other venues...
    • Irish Water Administration
      724. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied) forwarded to Irish Water; the reason for the delay in same;...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      725. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a proposal to build ten social and affordable housing units in Mountcollins, County Limerick, was not approved; if...
  • Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Funding
      726. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding and-or grant aid her Department has made to an association (details supplied) from 1 January 2008 to 2017...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      727. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the external consultant reports commissioned by her Department in each of the years March 2011 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the...
    • Hen Harriers Threat Response Plan
      728. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the threat response plan for hen harrier areas will be completed; and her views on permitting afforestation in hen harrier...
    • EU Conventions
      729. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of implementing landscape based primary legislation as committed to under Article 5(a) of the European Landscape...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      731. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the public events she attended by county since 1 May 2018 and to date in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hedge Cutting Season
      732. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a person can invoke the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000 during the closed season on the grounds of health and safety in cases in...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      733. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that...
    • Plean Infheistíochta
      734. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén fáth nár glacadh leis an éileamh ó 80 grúpa Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta, le tacaíocht ó...
    • Irish Language
      735. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50688/18]

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