Results 2,841-2,860 of 3,791 for speaker:Tom Fleming

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (29 Jan 2015)

Tom Fleming: 125. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will examine the current basic capitation rates, for the free preschool year linked to national agreed pay scales with a view to increasing same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4118/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Qualifications (29 Jan 2015)

Tom Fleming: 126. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide free child hours and continuing professional development, CPD, days, as part of all Government funded schemes, to enable those working in the early childhood sector to implement fully the National Curriculum and Quality Framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4160/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Delays (29 Jan 2015)

Tom Fleming: 133. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a hospital referral in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4106/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (29 Jan 2015)

Tom Fleming: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce mechanisms to ensure that children with additional needs have the support they need to engage fully, as equals, in their early child care education setting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4123/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Proposed Sale of Aer Lingus: Discussion (29 Jan 2015)

Tom Fleming: It has been stated that the approximate job losses projected for Dublin Airport is 1,200, based on the experience of the takeover of Iberia airlines. Are there any projected figures for job losses at Shannon and Cork airports in the event that the takeover bid is successful? There will be a massive deficiency in connectivity to the regions which will have resultant adverse effects on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Small and Medium Enterprises Debt (3 Feb 2015)

Tom Fleming: 278. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of survey results by ISME that 57% of companies which had applied for loans were refused, if he will significantly increase the target for lending in 2015 and consider options to make more money available to small businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4876/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Expenditure (3 Feb 2015)

Tom Fleming: 312. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the payments in 2014 by Enterprise Ireland by company, county and by payment type; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4875/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Assist Scheme Applications (3 Feb 2015)

Tom Fleming: 314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide farm scheme regulations in CD form to assist applicants with literary difficulties such as dyslexia and so on as the Revenue Commissioners provide such service and co-operation to this sector of the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4319/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (3 Feb 2015)

Tom Fleming: 438. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4596/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Standards (3 Feb 2015)

Tom Fleming: 589. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation to rescind the former Minister, John Gormley's legislation to ban bedsits, as this act has been a huge contributory factor to the current homeless crisis. [5022/15]

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

Tom Fleming: 599. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans for extending high quality broadband to an area (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4646/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (3 Feb 2015)

Tom Fleming: 615. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will retain and reallocate the funding for the N86 Tralee to Dingle road in County Kerry following the resolution of the current impasse on the vital continuation of improvements as Kerry County Council has justified the economic need for this development and is pursuing the process to ensure the further approval to construct...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)

Tom Fleming: I welcome the Taoiseach's intervention in the house repossession crisis. The number of court proceedings for house repossessions is rising at an alarming rate. In 2014 approximately 10,000 new applications for repossession were made to the courts. Between 1 and 10 January 2015, more than 1,400 court applications were made. According to all of the indications, there will an avalanche of...

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)

Tom Fleming: To compound matters, borrowers in many cases lost their jobs in the recession and remain unemployed. It is unsustainable for these people to meet the huge arrears and to live in their homes. I ask the Taoiseach to act diligently in the work he has been doing since last week and will continue over the next number of months. I ask him personally to give this matter his full time and attention.

Leaders' Questions (4 Feb 2015)

Tom Fleming: The number of debt deals being processed through the new insolvency agency has been dismal up to now to say the least. In the first half of 2014, fewer than 30 cases were being processed. I hope there will be a positive outcome from the Taoiseach's engagement last week on the new agency. All the evidence is that the banks do not want to deal with the majority of people in debt distress....

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Tom Fleming: The Irish public has suffered in a similar manner to the other so-called "PIGS" countries. They are burdened with a debt of over €200 billion. In Ireland's case, the IMF calculated that every €100 of austerity would cost the economy €50 in lost growth and unemployment. This was the fiscal situation, and through the imposition of austerity on our defenceless public, the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 Feb 2015)

Tom Fleming: 128. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a referral in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [5116/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (5 Feb 2015)

Tom Fleming: 229. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the operational hours of the dialysis unit in Kerry General Hospital to cater for all the 50 plus patients attending the unit to facilitate the three patients from Kerry who are currently attending Cork University Hospital for dialysis treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5308/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (5 Feb 2015)

Tom Fleming: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the proposed amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in County Kerry as a matter of urgency due to these schools' continuous endeavours for same; and if she will expedite the necessary funding for refurbishment of the school which is required to ensure the amalgamation will proceed for September 2015; and if she will...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Tom Fleming: I welcome the amendment arising from Deputy O'Donovan's suggestions. It is very relevant to the situation regarding impediments to road developments. However, the Minister is aware of the fact that there is an impasse and a long, drawn-out saga concerning the further development of the Tralee to Dingle road. An Taisce is the body putting in the objections. Would this amendment resolve...