Results 721-740 of 8,073 for speaker:Peter Burke

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school (details supplied) regarding its application on the school building programme for the development of a new school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16493/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to expedite the construction of a school (details supplied) in view of significant past delays with the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16492/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Administration (5 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: 288. To ask the Minister for Health if DPS, drugs payment scheme, patients must pay the DPS amount of €144 only 11 times per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17051/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Administration (5 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: 289. To ask the Minister for Health the approach taken by DPS, drugs payment scheme, pharmacists when a patient runs out of medication before the calendar month is up; if there are instances where patients must pay €144 twice in one month; if this is taken into account at the end of the year in cases where patients could have made up to 14 monthly payments; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (6 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: 17. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which the repair and lease scheme will be rolled out across the country; when local authorities will be informed and authorised on implementing the scheme; his plans to expedite this process due to huge demand in counties such as Longford and Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16813/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (6 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: 35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if and when the local infrastructure fund can be accessed by Westmeath County Council in order to upgrade housing on the Ardmore Road, Mullingar; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16812/17]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: At the moment, one has to declare one's place of work. If one is an accountant, one would list the practice in which one works. If one has to declare the amount of income one receives from the employment, that is a different situation.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: No, it is not. One just declares where one works.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: That is not my understanding.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: One does not have to declare the amount of one's salary. If one's salary exceeds that threshold, one has to state the employment in respect of which that salary is received. One does not have to state the amount of the income.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: That is my understanding.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: Correct. One does not have to declare the amount.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: Where the hope value exceeds the common use value is generally how it is determined in the tax Acts, is it not?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Emergency Services (11 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: 715. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the progress of the tender for the national emergency 999 service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17743/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (11 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: 730. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the sports capital grants will be allocated; the basis upon which the applications are reviewed in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17485/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (12 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance the detail of the VRT regime here; if the State pays penalties to the European Union for implementing same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18433/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (12 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: 276. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied). [18455/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (13 Apr 2017)

Peter Burke: 24. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider the request from the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to grant moneys in order to extend the LIHAF, local infrastructure housing activation fund scheme for projects which were not allocated funding under the recently announced projects in view of the demand for a scheme in Mullingar,...

Other Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (2 May 2017)

Peter Burke: 47. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the actions that have been progressed by her Department under the Action Plan for Rural Development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20343/17]

Other Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (2 May 2017)

Peter Burke: I wish to ask the Minister for the Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to outline the status of the actions that have been progressed by her Department under the Action Plan for Rural Development and if she will make a statement on the matter. I was very grateful that the plan was launched in Ballymahon in my constituency, Longford-Westmeath. To have the Taoiseach, the...