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Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Assets Sale (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance the person responsible for an apartment block (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43258/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: 125. To ask the Minister for Defence the appeals process for persons (details supplied) who were not selected to join the Army but who passed all required tests. [43253/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding allowing correspondence from the Department of Social Protection as proof of address for applications to Student Universal Support Ireland. [43256/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Speeds (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: 272. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when Rathcaled and Ballynacarrigy, County Westmeath, will have access to broadband and high speed broadband. [43242/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Speeds (3 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: 273. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when Castletown and Finnea, County Westmeath, will have access to high speed broadband, given that at present there is extremely limited telephone and Internet coverage leaving persons in that area at a considerable disadvantage. [43243/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: The Minister has not confirmed whether 10,000 or 20,000 spaces are available. Perhaps he might do so. Even if the number is 20,000 which would be at the higher end of his expectations, he is talking about an additional 22,500 spaces in the free preschool year in 2016 and a further 13,000 under the community child care subvention scheme. That gives a total of 35,500 which represents a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: Restoring capitation rates is not good enough. The previous Government invested €500 million in the previous decade to ensure there would be sufficient spaces available in the sector. Will the Minister introduce capital funding to ensure we will have sufficient capacity in the sector? It is a welcome announcement, but I do not think it has been well thought out. Parents will face...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: Will the Minister confirm how many spaces are available?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: Some 35,000 spaces will be needed in September 2016.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: The Minister is not answering the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: The spaces will be needed next September.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: The Minister is fond of going to the newspapers.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: 4. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reviews he has taken of the capacity and sustainability of the preschool and early education sector to provide for the extension of the early childhood care and education scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42684/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: Given that those working in the sector unanimously agreed the sector was not ready for the expansion of the early childhood care and education, ECCE, programme until capacity and sustainability had improved, could the Minister outline what reviews of the capacity and sustainability of the sector his Department carried out before introducing the extension of this scheme in the most recent budget?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: Can the Minister clarify exactly how many spaces are available at present? In a reply to a parliamentary question I asked a few months ago, he said approximately 10,000 spaces were available. Assuming that, as Pobal found in a survey it carried out, approximately 6,245 of those places are available in rural areas, with 3,245 available in urban areas, and given that the expansion of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: Despite the ongoing duplication of inspection systems in early years settings, it is questionable whether the procedure is robust enough to identify services that pose a risk to the health and welfare of children. There are massive gaps in oversight across many regions. That is why the Minister's predecessor, supported by all sides of the House, acknowledged the need for the publication of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: Inspections are being carried out under the old regime. Is that not true? If a new service is to open, is must open under the old registration process, despite the fact that it is two and a half years after being promised the new registration process would be complete. That is worrying, to say the least. There is duplication of inspection systems. Does the Minister believe we would be...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: 1. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs why there has been a delay in the publication of inspection and quality regulations for preschools; when these will be published; and if all registrations of preschool providers will be completed within the statutory three-year timeframe. [42947/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: The Minister will remember that back in May 2013, the whole island was shocked at the revelations in the "Prime Time" programme, Breach of Trust, an exposé of awful practices which had been going on in some early year settings. In light of that, the then Minister for Children and Youth Affairs promised a comprehensive review and a speeding up of the publication of revised regulations...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse Reports (2 Dec 2015)

Robert Troy: 12. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs why a number of recommendations made in the Ryan report have yet to be implemented; if the increased budget for Tusla - Child and Family Agency in 2016 will be adequate to implement the recommendations in full. [42682/15]