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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1640. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the fact that responsibility for delivering objective 1.1.1 of the National Positive Ageing Strategy, relating to age friendly workplaces, is assigned to her Department; the progress made by her Department in delivering this objective; the work completed to date; and the contact there has been...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1641. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the fact that responsibility for delivering objective 1.1.2 of the National Positive Ageing Strategy, relating to contracts of employment for older workers, is assigned to her Department; the progress made by her Department in delivering this objective; the work completed to date; and the contact...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1642. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the fact that responsibility for delivering objective 1.1.3 of the National Positive Ageing Strategy, relating to flexible workplace practices for older workers, is assigned to her Department; the progress made by her Department in delivering this objective; the work completed to date; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1643. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the fact that responsibility for delivering objective 1.1.4 of the National Positive Ageing Strategy, relating to supporting gradual retirement for older workers, is assigned to her Department; the progress made by her Department in delivering this objective; the work completed to date; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1644. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the fact that responsibility for delivering objective 1.1.5 of the National Positive Ageing Strategy, relating to supporting retirement planning older workers, is assigned to her department; the progress made by her department in delivering this objective; the work completed to date; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1645. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the fact that responsibility for delivering objective 1.2.2 of the National Positive Ageing Strategy, relating to retraining and upskilling for employment for older workers, is assigned to her department; the progress made by her department in delivering this objective; the work completed to date;...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Provision (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1680. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of new foster carers recruited by the Child and Family Agency for 2015 and 2016, broken down by social work office and by year. [41470/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1681. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the conditions under which private foster placements are used by the Child and Family Agency; the number of private placements used by the Child and Family Agency in 2015 and 2016 broken down by local social work office, in tabular form; and the additional cost of these placements over the cost of a Child and Family Agency foster carer....

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1682. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of specialist interviews relating to child sexual abuse completed jointly by social workers and Gardaí for 2015 and 2016, broken down by area and year. [41472/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1687. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers in the Child and Family Agency that have completed training to conduct joint Garda specialist child sexual abuse interviews since 2010; the number of those that are still employed at social worker grade in the Child and Family Agency; and the total number of joint social work and Garda specialist child...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1690. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children leaving care in 2015 and 2016 broken down by area, in tabular form; the number that had a completed after-care plan; the number that had an allocated after-care worker in the Child and Family Agency; and the number with an allocated after-care worker from outside the Child and Family Agency. [41838/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1691. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of young persons aged between 18 and 21 years of age that left care at 18 years of age and are now homeless. [41839/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Exemptions (24 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that while the Irish language exemption on the basis of a learning difficulty is recognised as part of the leaving certificate applied programme year 1, the foreign language exemption on the basis of a learning difficulty is not recognised as part of leaving certificate applied programme year 2; the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Standards (24 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the claims outlined in a newspaper (details supplied) that Dublin City Council cannot design apartments to be wheelchair accessible and also at the Department's minimum building size standards; if so, the minimum size building standard for a wheelchair accessible apartment; his...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (24 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 594. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the circumstances under which a zebra crossing may be constructed; the requirements that must be adhered to in such cases; the number of such pedestrian crossings constructed in 2015 and 2016; the circumstances under which a pedestrian crossing made up of a yellow box may be constructed (details supplied); if such yellow box crossings...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (24 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 595. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a zebra crossing (details supplied) is in compliance with statutory guidelines on the construction of pedestrian crossings; the circumstances under which the crossing is permissible at this site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2805/17]

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: This week, individual citizens and families in my constituency have become the latest innocent victims of being forced to face the fallout, living nightmare and financial upset of learning that their dream homes have been severely blighted by inept, incompetent, greed-driven building standards that were not properly regulated by the State. There is a duty on Government to protect its people...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: While I appreciate the Taoiseach's recognition that we need a supervisory authority, the fact is local authority building control is greatly underfunded. In many cases claims against builders are statute barred because defects were not noticed by home owners in the legally stipulated period and there are still no solutions for people whose homes were built pre-2014. The huge legislative gap...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (31 Jan 2017)

Catherine Martin: 446. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in calculation of income for the family income supplement, superannuation and the pension levy are deducted for the purpose of calculating assessable income, whereas they are not for the medical card, whereby only tax, PRSI and the USC are deducted; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of substitutable days whereby no substitute teachers were employed in primary schools for the school years 2015-16 and 2016-17 to date, by year and whether the school in question is a special school, in tabular form. [4884/17]