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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (1 May 2018)

Robert Troy: 358. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of applications for sports capital funding in 2018; and when the scheme will open for applications. [18653/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (1 May 2018)

Robert Troy: 409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if issues exist in terms of spousal inheritance for wives who previously had their personal public service number changed upon marriage should they be pre-deceased by their husbands. [18548/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Recruitment (1 May 2018)

Robert Troy: 424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason persons are being recruited to her Department while at the same time employees in the carer's allowance section are being let go; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18936/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Recruitment (1 May 2018)

Robert Troy: 425. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the employment contract of a person (details supplied) will be extended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18937/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Measures (1 May 2018)

Robert Troy: 435. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the timeline for the changes which will enable persons on JobPath to participate on Tús and community employment schemes. [19071/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Apr 2018)

Robert Troy: 84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a date has been set for a meeting of the high level forum on community employment supervisor pensions; if his attention has been drawn to the anger and frustration of community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; his views on the fact that their contribution to improving the life chances of scheme participants and to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (26 Apr 2018)

Robert Troy: 113. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the entitlements to parental leave will be reviewed with a view to providing a uniform platform for persons employed in the public service and those employed in the private sector; his views on whether the present system whereby public service workers are entitled to 12 weeks leave compared to a minimum of eight weeks in...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Robert Troy: I move amendment No. 4:In page 3, to delete line 10 and substitute the following: “1.(1) The Road Traffic Act 2010 is amended in section 4 by the substitution of the following for subsection (5):“(5) A person who contravenes this section commits an offence and is liable on indictable conviction to a fine not exceeding €10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Robert Troy: For the purpose of clarity, what we are doing now is referring to the new amendment to the Bill. Is that correct?

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Robert Troy: Deputy Catherine Murphy has eloquently explained the rationale for the amendment and there is no need to rehearse that. I may be getting ahead of myself. The Minister proposes to repeal section 39 of the Road Traffic Act 2016, which states:(1) It shall be an offence for the owner of a vehicle to allow their vehicle to be driven by a learner driver driving unaccompanied. (2) Where a person...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Robert Troy: What was the vote for last night?

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2018)

Robert Troy: What was the vote on?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services Provision (25 Apr 2018)

Robert Troy: 198. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if research has been carried out by his Department into the possibility of supplying a panic alarm system through the mobile telephone network or as part of the national broadband network (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18216/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Security of the Elderly (25 Apr 2018)

Robert Troy: 229. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will liaise with the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to resolve reliability issues which exist in the national landline telephone network (details supplied) across rural areas in view of the fact that issues are causing difficulties for older rural residents who are reliant on this service to...

Community Employment Pension Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2018)

Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to speak, although briefly, on this motion. I welcome the community employment scheme supervisors to the Gallery and thank them for the invaluable work they are doing in our communities. Community employment scheme participants provide an invaluable service in our communities, whether its through GAA clubs, Tidy Towns, childcare and so forth. The schemes face...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (24 Apr 2018)

Robert Troy: We had a vote.

Other Questions: Road Network (24 Apr 2018)

Robert Troy: In A Programme for a Partnership Government, the Minister committed to increasing funding for roads by 50% to €447 million. That has not yet happened. That figure is still below what is required to achieve steady-state levels. The Minister gave a commitment, in the debate on a substantive Private Member's motion that was brought before the Dáil earlier this year, to the effect...

Other Questions: Road Network (24 Apr 2018)

Robert Troy: That is news to me.

Other Questions: Road Network (24 Apr 2018)

Robert Troy: Deputies Moran and Canney seem uncertain about how long it is going to last.

Other Questions: Airport Development Projects (24 Apr 2018)

Robert Troy: I do not want the Minister to meet them every day of every week. What I want to see happening is progress on this critical legislation. The Minister comes in here and expects us to be satisfied that he has appointed Fingal County Council. He appointed the IAA 18 months ago and for 18 months he came in here and repeatedly told us that work was progressing and legislation was imminent. That...