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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications (27 May 2014)

Robert Troy: 763. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure an application for fair deal is approved without further delay in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath [22435/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (27 May 2014)

Robert Troy: 779. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford [22551/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (27 May 2014)

Robert Troy: 823. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a full medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) [22735/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (27 May 2014)

Robert Troy: 991. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will not make further cuts to the school completion programme funding this year, 2014-2015; if he will restore funding to 2008 levels over an agreed timeframe; and if he will declare all DEIS initiatives exempts from cuts to funding. [22810/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (15 May 2014)

Robert Troy: 263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the commercial vehicle testing of vintage trucks; the reasons these vehicles are subject to a CVT similar to those in commercial use in view of the fact that they are generally used at charity events and for recreational use; the reason there is not a lesser test for vehicles registered as vintage or for show...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2014)

Robert Troy: Fine Gael might have it in Punchestown. Is the Punchestown tent still open?

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2014)

Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. When this House debated the housing crisis a number of weeks ago, we highlighted some of the major issues that public representatives are trying to address and solve. Much of what is in this Bill is very positive, but some of it will not solve the issues in question. There are over 90,000 people on the housing list. The high cost of rent is...

Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)

Robert Troy: The Minister of State can dress it up anyway he wants. It confirms to me that many Dublin-based Deputies must not have clinics because the hard facts and evidence coming to every clinic the length and breadth of the country, which any Deputy of any political party or none will cite, is that these discretionary medical cards are being culled at an alarming rate. I spoke recently to a woman...

Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)

Robert Troy: 9. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his views on the automatic granting of a medical card to children with Down's Syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21272/14]

Other Questions: Medical Card Eligibility (14 May 2014)

Robert Troy: 45. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the number of discretionary medical cards the Health Service Executive expects to issue in 2014; if the downward trend of the past three years is likely to be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21273/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (14 May 2014)

Robert Troy: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be made available in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [21701/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Services Provision (14 May 2014)

Robert Troy: 115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will include Cullion, Mullingar, County Westmeat in the list of areas to receive the major fibre build-up - currently there is a box servicing Brookfield, Mullingar and the wider area. This box is only 2.5 miles from Cullion and would be ideally placed to be extended; if fibre power broadband was extended to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (14 May 2014)

Robert Troy: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a bed in a Dun Laoghaire hospital in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [21722/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Garda Operations (14 May 2014)

Robert Troy: 229. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the contact his Department has had with the Department of Justice and Equality with regard to ensuring juvenile liaison officer support for young persons from families who have come to live here in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21759/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (13 May 2014)

Robert Troy: I raised the matter when the scheme was announced. At the time I highlighted the unfair and inequitable criteria set out in the scheme, as a result of which 70% of child care providers are ineligible to apply for the scheme. Regardless of whether we like it, 70% of child care providers are private and for profit. Some of the schemes are small and do not make large-scale profits but provide...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (13 May 2014)

Robert Troy: The tack has changed because in the past two years the Minister enabled all service providers to avail of the capital grants scheme, which he confirmed himself a few moments ago. One could ask why there has been a big change. Why is the Minister leaving 70% of child care providers out in the cold? That is what is happening. Given that there are more than 4,000 child care providers...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (13 May 2014)

Robert Troy: 101. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will review the criteria for the capital grant programme 2014 to enable a wider range of child care service providers to access the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21154/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Services Provision (13 May 2014)

Robert Troy: The Minister's predecessor introduced a new scheme in regard to the capital grant programme 2014 earlier in the year. The scheme was quite restrictive in that it was only possible for community child care providers and community play schools to avail of the capital grant scheme. In light of the fact the scheme closed last Wednesday, would the Minister be favourably disposed to expanding the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: After-School Support Services (13 May 2014)

Robert Troy: While it is unfair to have a go at the Minister on his first day taking ministerial questions, the scheme has been a disaster.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: After-School Support Services (13 May 2014)

Robert Troy: It was part of the Government's solution to tackling the affordability issue and the Minister has alluded to the abysmal uptake. I have seen figures that showed only 32 of the 6,000 earmarked places were taken up. In his reply the Minister said he is refocusing the €14 million allocated to the scheme towards other schemes. How much of the €14 million has been spent on the...