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Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Joint Sub-Committee on Human Rights relative to Justice and Equality Matters: Ratification of UN Conventions: Dr. Eilionóir Flynn, National University of Ireland, Galway (14 May 2015)

Anne Ferris: Is Senator Zappone happy with that?

Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Joint Sub-Committee on Human Rights relative to Justice and Equality Matters: Ratification of UN Conventions: Dr. Eilionóir Flynn, National University of Ireland, Galway (14 May 2015)

Anne Ferris: Has Senator Zappone finished asking her questions?

Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Joint Sub-Committee on Human Rights relative to Justice and Equality Matters: Ratification of UN Conventions: Dr. Eilionóir Flynn, National University of Ireland, Galway (14 May 2015)

Anne Ferris: On behalf of the committee I thank Dr. Eilionóir Flynn for attending the committee and making an interesting presentation which has given us much food for thought. We will continue to work on the issues raised and are eager to do so.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Beit Foundation (19 May 2015)

Anne Ferris: 549. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the intended beneficiaries of the Alfred Beit Foundation are the citizens of Ireland, and that the trust was established with the charitable objective of education in fine arts, her views regarding the risk that further sale of trust assets could be contrary to achieving the overall...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Beit Foundation (26 May 2015)

Anne Ferris: 1062. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht notwithstanding the fact that the administration of the Beit Foundation, which owns and operates Russborough House, is a matter for the trustees and that her Department has no role in the direct administration of the trust, her views that she has, in fact, a role in the arts education of the beneficiaries of the trust, namely, the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Suicide Incidence (9 Jun 2015)

Anne Ferris: 143. To ask the Taoiseach the processes undertaken by the Central Statistics Office in the recording and reporting of suicide statistics, including the collection of statistics from Garda stations through the form 104 process; the collection of such statistics from the Prison Service and the Central Mental Hospital; if there has been any recent internal or external review of the effectiveness...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes (9 Jun 2015)

Anne Ferris: 565. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the prison system has engaged or assisted in recent times in any research programmes in the areas of treating challenging behaviour, self destruction, violent behaviour or mental health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21920/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Health (9 Jun 2015)

Anne Ferris: 573. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide figures for the health care budget allocated to the prison service as a whole in each of the years 2012 to 2014, inclusive; the health care budget allocated to Mountjoy Prison and Wheatfield Prison in the same years; how these figures compare with comparative health care spend in total as well as in each named facility; the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Forms (9 Jun 2015)

Anne Ferris: 574. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the procedures for Form 104 reporting by gardaí to the Central Statistics Office, particularly the manner in which the procedures apply to the recording of suicide statistics; if any difficulties have been identified by Garda management with either the reporting process or the use of the classification...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deaths in Prison (9 Jun 2015)

Anne Ferris: 575. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the cause of death determination process in use to record causes of death in prisons; the process involved in recording and conveying cause of death statistics from the prison service to the Central Statistics Office, including the timelines involved; if any recent review of the effectiveness of the process has been undertaken; and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deaths in Prison (9 Jun 2015)

Anne Ferris: 576. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to detail the number of deaths by suicide in Irish prisons in each of the years 2012 to 2014, inclusive; the number of deaths by suicide of released former prisoners on temporary release or remission in the same years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22123/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (9 Jun 2015)

Anne Ferris: 821. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the total health care budget allocated to the Central Mental Hospital in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014; the health care spend at that facility in each year, and for the data to be presented in total format per annum, and in the format of per head of population within the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22120/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (9 Jun 2015)

Anne Ferris: 822. To ask the Minister for Health the suicide prevention policies applied at the Central Mental Hospital; the number of suicide-related deaths per year over the past ten years at that facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22124/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates (9 Jun 2015)

Anne Ferris: 1072. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on any proposals to reduce commercial rates obligations on wind farm operators, as well as his views on the necessity to seek European Union state aid approval for any such plans, in view of the fact that the renewable energy feed in tariff programme required state aid clearance; if any application has been...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Projects (9 Jun 2015)

Anne Ferris: 1109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a briefing on the role of An Bord Pleanála in fast-tracking European Union renewable energy projects of common interest; the number and identity of applicants to any part of that process to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22165/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan Implementation (9 Jun 2015)

Anne Ferris: 1125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the offshore renewable energy development plan implementation, with particular emphasis on the status of planned wind farms off the east coast of Ireland, in view of the lack of an import export energy agreement with the United Kingdom for the foreseeable future, and the growth of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Generation (9 Jun 2015)

Anne Ferris: 1126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on his Department's knowledge on the progress of the Codling Windpark project; if this project still retains European Union common interest status; if so, the reason this is the case, in view of the lack of the necessary import-export plans to the United Kingdom; if the Codling proposal is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services (9 Jun 2015)

Anne Ferris: 1183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will conduct a review of the Irish Rail ticketing system to ensure that all elderly and other vulnerable passengers who have purchased a ticket will be entitled to a seat during their journey, that all fare-paying passengers will be guaranteed a seat on inter-city journeys; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22292/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Exports Controls (9 Jun 2015)

Anne Ferris: 1202. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of all export licences issued by the National Gallery of Ireland in each of the years from 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 date for paintings or other works of art in the ownership of the Alfred Beit Foundation, or were assets of the foundation at the time of the granting of any such licence; the names and...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Exports Controls (9 Jun 2015)

Anne Ferris: 1203. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of all licences or other permits issued by her Department or by previous Departments with responsibility for arts or culture in each year since 2010 and for 2015 to date to enable the export of paintings or other works of art in the ownership of the Alfred Beit Foundation or that were in the ownership of...