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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times (1 Apr 2014)

Dara Calleary: 296. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she is taking to address the current average waiting time of eight to 12 months for processing social welfare appeals; if she has any plans to increase the number of appeals officers within the Social Welfare Appeals Office; her views on whether the current waiting period is leaving many persons with uncertainty surrounding their own...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Generation (1 Apr 2014)

Dara Calleary: 334. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of semi-State bodies under his control that are involved in wind farm development; his plans to direct any other State agencies under his control to engage in wind farm development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15175/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Generation (1 Apr 2014)

Dara Calleary: 338. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of agencies or companies within his Department involved in wind energy development; the element of co-ordination between them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15233/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Activities (1 Apr 2014)

Dara Calleary: 457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way Coillte is empowered under legislation to develop and build wind farms; the way this activity can be reconciled to its other responsibilities as set out in applicable legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15175/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Activities (1 Apr 2014)

Dara Calleary: 458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the provisions in legislation that allow Coillte Teoranta to engage in activities other than forestry; the investments made to date by Coillte in wind energy; the amounts paid out by it, outlined in a tabular form on a project-by-project basis, to consultants and contractors regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (1 Apr 2014)

Dara Calleary: 489. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that nursing positions in special needs schools have not yet been formally recognised by his Department or the Department of Children and Youth Affairs; if he agrees that this situation is utterly unsatisfactory and poses numerous issues and problems for the management, staff and, in particular, pupils of such...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (1 Apr 2014)

Dara Calleary: 559. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that nursing positions in special needs schools have not yet been formally recognised by the Department of Education and Skills or the Department of Health; if he agrees that this situation is utterly unsatisfactory and poses numerous issues and problems for the management, staff and, in particular, pupils of such...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (1 Apr 2014)

Dara Calleary: 528. To ask the Minister for Health his proposed changes to the contracts of home helps; if he agrees that it is both unfair and unworkable to enforce changes that require full-time home helpers to be available five out of seven days from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; if he agrees that such an arrangement will result in working hours being banked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14886/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (1 Apr 2014)

Dara Calleary: 564. To ask the Minister for Health when places on an adaption course will be provided for nurses wishing to work in a nursing home (details supplied) in County Mayo; the steps being taken to address the current lack of adaption courses for overseas nurses coming to work here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15199/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Physiotherapists Registration Board (1 Apr 2014)

Dara Calleary: 580. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he has not appointed the Physiotherapy Registration Board to date despite calling for expressions of interest in April 2013; if he will confirm that this is a statutory board; the number of expressions of interest he has received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15284/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Services (1 Apr 2014)

Dara Calleary: 647. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the investments made in extending broadband to all Irish Coast Guard bases; if he will confirm, on a base-by-base basis, if each base is currently connected to a broadband network and the speed of the connection in each base; and the investment in broadband made at Waterford Coast Guard base. [15290/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Road Network (1 Apr 2014)

Dara Calleary: 648. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline all grants paid in 2013 and to date in 2014 in respect of a road development (details supplied) in County Kildare; the purposes of this investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15291/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (27 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons a student (details supplied) in County Mayo is not receiving a higher education grant; the reason the student received conflicting information from Student Universal Support Ireland in the duration of the application process; if he will give his view on whether the student has been financially paralysed as a result of this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (27 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 224. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that Mayo Carer's Association is to lose its only full-time carer's outreach training and development officer; the way carer's within the county are to cope in the absence of a full-time outreach training and development officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14648/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Issues (27 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: 229. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed changes to the contracts of full-time carers; his views on whether it is both unfair and unworkable to enforce changes that require full-time carers to be available for five out of seven days from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; his views on whether such an arrangement will result in working hours being banked; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Minister stated he hoped the insights gained at the road safety conference last week would assist in identifying new appropriate action. I congratulate him - his luck is in. Were it not for that conference, and the remarks of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, who called the Minister for what he is, we would not be here and would not have heard the apology...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: The speech is also an attempt to rewrite recent history. One would imagine from listening to it that the Minister is the most enthusiastic reformer of An Garda Síochána who ever walked the earth and that he is the best Minister since Ministers were invented, according to the Taoiseach and all those who defend him. He stated repeatedly, “if I ignored the allegations”....

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: Nobody told the Minister.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: He is not liked by his own colleagues,

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2014)

Dara Calleary: The Taoiseach has done a lot of that himself.