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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (7 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the number of administrative days that are allocated to school principals; her plans to redress the imbalance between administrative and non-administrative school principals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34926/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil Data Collection (7 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the reason primary schools are required to make regular test result returns to her Department; the purpose of these results; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34927/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (7 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to redress the inequity in teachers' pay scales that were applied to recent new entrants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34928/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (7 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a list of the schools in counties Wicklow and Carlow participating in the delivering equality of opportunity in schools scheme; the entitlements of these schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34929/15]

Financial Resolution No. 4: Income Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: On measures such as this, it is very important that the Minister should outline all the detail of the change and the reasons behind it. I join with Deputy Sean Fleming in asking the Minister who lobbied on this or who sought this change. Did other organisations seek a similar change? As a concept, I welcome any reliefs that are put in place to ensure the quality and standard of nursing...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Income Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: I would like to see results.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (13 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: 150. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a subject access request under the data protection legislation should include a request to a defendant in a personal injuries case to hand over to the plaintiff any CCTV footage he or she may have with respect to the incident in dispute; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35575/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (13 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: 314. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card by persons (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35675/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (13 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: 430. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 which provides for a new scheme for the tenant purchase of existing local authority houses, along incremental purchase lines; when this will be introduced, as it was promised for second quarter of 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: I am sharing time with Deputies Róisín Shortall, Thomas P. Broughan and Peter Mathews.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: While the Minister for Health is in the Chamber, I wish to make a request of him. I have made it in the past and it would cost little or no money, namely, a requirement for medical professionals who must deliver bad news to do so in an appropriate manner and in an appropriate location. I interact repeatedly with people who have received bad news or whose family has received bad news in a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Administration (20 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: 333. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department liaises with the horticultural industry on proposals or changes it makes to environmental schemes that require a change to the supply of plants and hedgerows; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36497/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (20 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: 359. To ask the Minister for Defence the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36049/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Data (20 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: 554. To ask the Minister for Health the contract a company (details supplied) currently has with the Health Service Executive; the amount the company has been paid to date for that contract; the details of what it involves; the reports that have been completed; when the contract ceases; the total cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36119/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Data (20 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: 555. To ask the Minister for Health the contracts a company (details supplied) has had with the Health Service Executive since 2011; the details of what these were for; the cost to date for the work and services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36120/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (20 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: 615. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of two-teacher schools; the minimum number of pupils required to keep the two teachers; if exceptions can be made to this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36626/15]

Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: I ask the Taoiseach to advise whether the details of the promised tenant purchase scheme have been published or agreed yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Work of the Syria Civil Defence: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: I apologise for missing the presentation, which I now have read. I will make a few brief points. Can Mr. Al Habib pinpoint or give members a view as to when the breakdown in Syria happened? Fifteen or 20 years ago, one would have thought Syria was doing reasonably well and there were not that many difficulties there. What was the spark or the straw that broke the camel's back that caused...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Work of the Syria Civil Defence: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: How can Europe identify the legitimate refugees? Mr. Al Habib has mentioned Lebanon and its borders that prevent Hezbollah from crossing the border. I was in Damascus 20 years ago and I got the impression that it was a police state. I went from Damascus to Beirut, across the Beqaa Valley, and all of northern Lebanon was occupied by Syrians and there were Syrian checkpoints. Does Syria...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Work of the Syria Civil Defence: Discussion (21 Oct 2015)

Billy Timmins: I have a very brief point. I thank Mr. Al Habib for indulging me. Would he say that any of the refugees that have come here were involved in atrocities for ISIS or the Assad regime?