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Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: It is a sad reflection that neither he nor the Minister with special responsibility for housing, Deputy Paudie Coffey, is in the House to listen to this important debate. This housing crisis is crippling many families in Ireland today.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: Since 2012, there has been a fivefold increase in the number of families with children in emergency homeless accommodation. Currently, 1,600 children are living in emergency accommodation. In 2013, some 20 families were becoming homeless in Dublin every month. In the past few months, this has more than tripled to over 80 families every month. These are families with no history of...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (26 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: 56. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will extend the remit of the scheme he announced on 10 December 2015, for small businesses affected by flooding, in order that more businesses may apply, as currently funding is only available for businesses that are located within an area that pays local authority commercial rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2740/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (26 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: 209. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to ensure payment is made to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath under the agri-environment options scheme. [2984/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care Education (26 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: 300. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 358 of 24 November 2015, the assumptions used to cost the additional expenditure required for an increase in capitation to providers of the early childhood care and education scheme; how many weeks of free preschool it was assumed that each of the 127,000 children would undertake to arrive at the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Improvement Scheme (26 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: 489. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reintroduce the local improvement scheme though the local authorities. [3091/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (26 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: 490. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to allocate funding for lighting for Tang village in County Westmeath. [2705/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Redeployment (27 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: 35. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath, who has been on a transfer list for over 12 years, is offered a transfer. [3316/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Properties (27 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: 102. To ask the Minister for Defence to carry out a feasibility study and investigate possible future uses of this facility of Columb Military Barracks in Mullingar, County Westmeath. [3360/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff Recruitment (27 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: 130. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of new social workers Tusla Child and Family Agency will recruit in 2016 further to its budget 2016 increase; the average cost of employing an entry grade social worker with the agency. [3420/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Allowances (27 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: 133. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an application for a person (details supplied) in County Longford. [3301/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (27 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to urgently expedite and grant an application for emergency works for a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath which was submitted in June 2015. [3325/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: 1. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs under the terms of the early childhood care and education scheme, if he will ensure that preschool services will be able to extend the provision they offer, given their concerns at their unsustainability under the 38-week capitation system; the negotiations or discussions he has had with the preschool sector regarding the capacity within...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: Will the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs give an update on the negotiations or discussions he has had with the preschool sector regarding capacity within preschools to handle the extension to the preschool year commencing in September 2016? Has he identified any gaps in capacity? If so, where are those gaps and how does he intend to alleviate them?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: It would have been more prudent had the Minister consulted with the sector prior to making the announcement. From my engagement with the sector, I am getting the impression there are significant concerns that there will not be sufficient capacity. In a reply to a parliamentary question I put down last year, the Minister stated he identified approximately 10,000 vacant places across the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: To be fair, I do not think the Minister gets it. He seems to be relying on the hope that more people will apply to provide the service in September. We are only seven months away from September. Will he tell us exactly how many spaces are available now? He has not answered that yet. What scheme has the Minister put in place to ensure there will be capacity if existing services need to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: Such as?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Preschool Services (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: The Minister should watch this space in September.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: 4. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs how he and Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, are protecting the welfare of children sleeping in emergency homeless accommodation; and the care and in-reach plans being put in place for children who are in emergency accommodation. [3397/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Robert Troy: This question follows on from the previous one and asks the Minister how he and the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, are protecting the welfare of children who are sleeping in emergency homeless accommodation. What plans have they put in place to support these children and families, and will the Minister update the House on the matter?