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Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (15 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: 90. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the feasibility of restoring scale and polish dental treatment (details supplied) which has been discontinued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39504/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (15 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will implement the recommendation of the gaeltacht placement working group; if she will address the issue of huge costs of approximately €2,000 for placement for four weeks as well as additional costs for transport, spending money loss of earnings at home and the cessation of part time jobs and so on; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (15 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine an issue of 35 pupils in a classroom (details supplied) in County Kerry; if she will address the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39503/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Haulage Industry Regulation (15 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: 163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce measures to ensure that the costs of operating a truck here are in line with the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and other EU member states; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39510/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Transport Council Meeting Briefing: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (15 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I am pleased he said in the presentation he delivered that he intends to support the regional airports. I have a specific query about Kerry County Airport and the public service obligation. When does the Minister expect that the new subvention or subsidy will be approved? Are discussions currently taking place at a high level to see how compliance...

Seanad Reform: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: It is now over 12 months since the referendum on the abolition of the Seanad. We had a raft of promises following that exercise, including one to carry out an urgent review of the workings of the Seanad, but it has been quickly forgotten about. It has been put to bed and nothing has changed, this after 75 years during which there were ten separate reviews and reports on the Seanad. The...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Collection (21 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding property tax in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40205/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Funding (21 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: 270. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total payments to each company by Enterprise Ireland and on a county basis in tabular form for each year from 2003 to 2013, inclusive; the amount of payment to each company in each specific year; the purpose of each payment and the job creation record of each recipient company in those years; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (21 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: 479. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will confirm that Ireland is seeking to avail of subsidised rental accommodation under a scheme operated by the Holy See for poor countries such as those in the developing world; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39767/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (21 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: 536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine a third level education grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40383/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance (21 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: 609. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the necessary funding to carry out emergency remedial work to road subsidence on a dangerous traffic hazardous section of the R570 Barraduff to Glenflesk road stretching from Knockanes, Headford to Curreal, Glenflesk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40325/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance (21 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: 612. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the necessary funding to carry out emergency remedial work to road subsidence on the traffic hazardous section of the N72 Rathmore to Killarney road on a 200 metre stretch of the road west of Barraduff village; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40379/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (21 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: 613. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine the issue regarding a holder of a fully licensed car, van, lorry and coach driver who cannot automatically acquire a taxi licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40387/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks and Wildlife Service Staff (21 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: 627. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will lift the embargo on staff recruitment to facilitate the recruitment of the additional staff necessary for Killarney House and gardens for the 2015 tourism season; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40382/14]

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: In these times of crippling austerity there is nothing that more infuriates the public than the squandering of public moneys and the imposition of new charges and taxes which further compound the existing and continuing hardship on a very suppressed public, hundreds and thousands of whom are living on a shoestring budget and enduring hardship in all its forms on a daily basis. Irish Water...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (23 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the hazardous state of a road (details supplied) in County Kerry as urgent improvements are required to existing traffic calming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40801/14]

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2014)

Tom Fleming: The ports of registration lists must be expanded. Fishing vessels should be able to register in their home ports and I will seek an amendment to provide for that. It would be easier administratively and more convenient. It should also allow for fishermen to have boats with the letters of their home ports on the-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Invalidity Pension Appeals (4 Nov 2014)

Tom Fleming: 96. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the existing processing and the adjudication of invalidity pension applicants due to the high percentage of initial refusal decisions being reversed following reviews and appeals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41748/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Invalidity Pension Appeals (4 Nov 2014)

Tom Fleming: I ask the Minister if she will review the existing processing and adjudication of invalidity pension applicants due to the high percentage of initial refusal decisions being reversed following reviews and appeals. There is an increasing trend towards obstacles and barriers in initial stages, although decisions may be subsequently reversed. Will the Minister intervene and use her good office...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Invalidity Pension Appeals (4 Nov 2014)

Tom Fleming: I welcome the Minister's statement about the review group being set up and I hope this will be a workable and efficient process that will expedite the work. The statistics for 2013 speak for themselves. There were 6,958 appeals for invalidity pensions. Overall, some 80.04% of appeals by applicants were successful, with 32% of decisions being reversed in the initial stages by deciding...