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Questions on Proposed Legislation (13 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: It is in the programme for Government.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (13 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of issuing a bus ticket to a person (details supplied). [21406/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility (13 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: 173. To ask the Minister for Health to pursue a cap on the maximum charge that can be applied to non-residential assets and productive assets to ensure that farmers can avail of the fair deal scheme. [21469/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Training (13 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: 176. To ask the Minister for Health why a person (details supplied) with 12 years' experience working as a care assistant has to take a significant pay cut if selected for the student paramedic programme with the Health Service Executive. [21399/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: 182. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a person (detail supplied). [21437/16]

Regulation of Charities: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this timely debate in the Dáil and compliment my colleagues in the Social Democrats for tabling this motion. As my colleagues stated, we will be supporting it. The general public has been outraged at the revelations over the past number of weeks of thousands of euros being spent on credit cards, luxury cars, a pony and rugby tickets....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Home Help Service (12 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: 11. To ask the Minister for Health his proposals to increase the number of hours under the home help scheme and the number of home care packages in counties Longford and Westmeath. [20977/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Home Help Service (12 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: I think we will all agree that the best place for our elderly and people with a disability is in their homes. I have a grave concern about the provision and availability of home help hours. Will the Minister outline in detail the number of home help hours that are available in counties Longford and Westmeath?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Home Help Service (12 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: I do not know how the Minister of State can be happy to say she has responded to this issue. The hours in Longford-Westmeath have been cut. If someone who had ten hours passes away today, only 25% of those hours are reallocated. I can give the House three examples in my constituency. The first is of a gentleman who is wheelchair bound and whose wife, his primary carer, died of cancer...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Home Help Service (12 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: Things are not getting better, they are getting worse. If additional hours are being made available and additional money is available, why is it that only 25% of existing hours which have been in place for the past six, 12 and 18 months are being reallocated? How is it fair that only 25% of existing hours are being reallocated? How is that equitable? How will it keep as many people in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Palliative Care Services Provision (12 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: 47. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive plans in place to support North Westmeath Hospice and palliative care in the county generally. [20995/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Expenditure (12 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: 127. To ask the Taoiseach the total photography costs per annum for his Department since coming to office, inclusive of costs incurred from the use of the ministerial allowance in tabular form; the list of occasions for which photographers were booked; the photographer used; the breakdown of costs associated with each occasion that a photographer was used; if there is a policy regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Public Relations Contracts Data (12 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: 128. To ask the Taoiseach to provide, broken down per annum, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming into office in tabular form; the external public relations firm used; and to outline the internal departmental policy with regard to employing external groups. [20314/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Consultancy Contracts Data (12 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: 129. To ask the Taoiseach to provide per annum all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011 in tabular form; the costs per report; the company involved; and the title of the report and the publication date. [20315/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (12 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the current situation surrounding the tax status of tutors, whereby many of them may now be faced with large tax bills; and his plans to deal with this. [20772/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (12 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) has fallen off his Department's list for funding and when funding will be made available to bring this project to the final stage. [20559/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (12 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: 345. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the masters degree courses covered under the back to education allowance scheme; and if the rules on this scheme changed in the past year. [21037/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (12 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: 346. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why the back to education allowance scheme will only cover a masters degree in education; and if he will investigate the possibility of allowing it to cover additional masters degrees. [21040/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Natural Heritage Areas Designation (12 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: 466. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the bogs she has recently designated as natural heritage areas. [21023/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (12 Jul 2016)

Robert Troy: 494. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment with a paediatrician for a person (details supplied) who has been suffering illness for some time [20543/16]