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Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: The Minister has not answered the question. What about the guidelines?

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: In the past week global leaders have attended the Paris summit on climate change. President Obama spoke about the need for this generation to act on climate change policy because if it does not it will be too late for future generations. It is a challenge and an opportunity for all of us to do what is right. It involves everyone in urban and rural areas taking up this challenge. Wind...

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: As the scale of the turbines increases communities are justifiably concerned about the noise, the shadow flicker, the distance from the turbines-----

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: -----and the impact this will have on the quality of their lives and communities. New draft revisions to the noise setbacks and the shadow flicker in the 2006 wind energy guidelines were published two years ago this month. These required turbines to have a noise limit of 40 decibels and a setback of 500 m and a complete elimination of shadow flicker. The Minister for the Environment,...

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: Since then various Ministers have said the new guidelines would be published in 2014. We are now in the last month of 2015 and we have no new guidelines. County development plans are being amended and overturned for taking a proactive stance and introducing local policy on wind energy in the absence of national policy.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy White, has changed the Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff, REFIT 2 scheme to enable-----

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: -----existing applicants who are experiencing difficulty in the planning process.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has said------

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: If the Deputies would listen to what I am saying they would not need circulation of anything.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has said he favours a distance of 600 m to 1.5 km for dwellings.

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: The Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coffey, seems very frustrated with the Government’s position because it is a huge issue in the south east. The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy White, is on record as disagreeing about long distances from dwellings because he said it would wipe out onshore...

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: Is the Government still committed to onshore wind energy as a source of alternative energy? If so can communities across the country expect the publication of the new guidelines about the size of the turbines, the required distance from dwellings as well as the decibel limits?

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: Will these guidelines be put on a statutory footing? Have talks between the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government broken down?

Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: Can the Minister indicate whether the new distance will be 600 m or will it be up to 1.5 km as the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government recommends?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 40 - Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: I thank the Minister and his officials for appearing before the committee. No one would dare to argue with an increase in funding to Tusla as it is very much-needed. Members across the political divide would acknowledge that the agency has struggled to keep up with everything we would like to see it address. Last year alone, Mr. Gordon Jeyes, the CEO of Tusla, called for €18 million...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 40 - Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: I concur with what the Minister has said and I am conscious that next week we have another opportunity at the quarterly meeting to go into the general scheme of things for next year. I acknowledge it is a new agency but many of the schemes run by the agency are not new. For example, the school completion programme, family resource centres, domestic services and the counselling services have...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 40 - Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: Most people advertising-----

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services
Vote 40 - Department of Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: I understand that the Minister will revert to me on the specific question I asked about how much has been expended on legal fees in the past four and a half years.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Professionals (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: 53. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to protect the public by protecting the titles of physiotherapist and physical therapist in one register for exclusive use by physiotherapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43000/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Service Provision (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: 58. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of orthodontic services in the midlands region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43001/15]