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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: Restoring capitation rates is not good enough. The previous Government invested €500 million in the previous decade to ensure there would be sufficient spaces available in the sector. Will the Minister introduce capital funding to ensure we will have sufficient capacity in the sector? It is a welcome announcement, but I do not think it has been well thought out. Parents will face...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: Will the Minister confirm how many spaces are available?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: Some 35,000 spaces will be needed in September 2016.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: The Minister is not answering the question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: The spaces will be needed next September.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (2 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: The Minister is fond of going to the newspapers.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse Reports (2 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: 12. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs why a number of recommendations made in the Ryan report have yet to be implemented; if the increased budget for Tusla - Child and Family Agency in 2016 will be adequate to implement the recommendations in full. [42682/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Inspections (2 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: 31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of progress that Tusla - Child and Family Agency is making in the registration and inspection of early years services under the Child and Family Agency Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42686/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (2 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: 34. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the actions he is taking in response to the most recent Health Information and Quality Authority inspection report which highlights the lack of suitable placements to meet the needs of some young persons in care due to the closure of high-support units, which has meant that many young persons with complex needs are currently in mainstream...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence (2 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: 37. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will make prioritise the restoration of funding that was cut to domestic abuse and violence services, given the increase in Tusla - Child and Family Agency services for 2016. [42683/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Service Provision (2 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: 133. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding orthodontic treatment for children in the midlands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43164/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (2 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is acceptable that some of the bus service for a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath was cut following the granting of an application for an extension that included a provision to accommodate parking, making it impossible for the school to honour its road safety commitments; if she will retore the full bus service so that the...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: In the past week global leaders have attended the Paris summit on climate change. President Obama spoke about the need for this generation to act on climate change policy because if it does not it will be too late for future generations. It is a challenge and an opportunity for all of us to do what is right. It involves everyone in urban and rural areas taking up this challenge. Wind...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: As the scale of the turbines increases communities are justifiably concerned about the noise, the shadow flicker, the distance from the turbines-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: -----and the impact this will have on the quality of their lives and communities. New draft revisions to the noise setbacks and the shadow flicker in the 2006 wind energy guidelines were published two years ago this month. These required turbines to have a noise limit of 40 decibels and a setback of 500 m and a complete elimination of shadow flicker. The Minister for the Environment,...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: Since then various Ministers have said the new guidelines would be published in 2014. We are now in the last month of 2015 and we have no new guidelines. County development plans are being amended and overturned for taking a proactive stance and introducing local policy on wind energy in the absence of national policy.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy White, has changed the Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff, REFIT 2 scheme to enable-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: -----existing applicants who are experiencing difficulty in the planning process.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has said------
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Robert Troy: If the Deputies would listen to what I am saying they would not need circulation of anything.