Results 8,681-8,700 of 18,851 for speaker:Fergus O'Dowd

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Recycling Policy (6 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 118. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will introduce the tyre levy; the recycling targets he will introduce as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19918/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (6 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 203. To ask the Minister for Health to review, as a matter of urgency, the disabled drivers and passengers scheme to allow consideration of additional medical conditions and disabilities which are not currently covered under it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19908/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 222. To ask the Minister for Health to review an application by a person (details supplied) for a transfer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19973/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 227. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list, the average waiting time and the number of persons waiting over six months for laser treatment of kidney stones in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20045/16]

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Go raibh maith agat - bhíos chun a rá Leas-Cheann Comhairle - a Chathaoirligh. This is a very important debate because it is the first time in this House that we have had a constructive engagement from the Opposition with the Government on what has rightly been described as a national emergency. It is a forum where all of the parties of this House and none have come together under...

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: He will praise us for what we are doing because we are all on the same page on this. We all want this to work. It will only work if we all work together.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Mortgages (7 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 117. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will increase the income limit for families who have dependent children who apply for house purchase loans under Statutory Instrument No. 408 of 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20135/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance (12 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 764. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 633 of 5 July 2016, the funding Meath County Council has applied for in respect of the proposed spine road R150 Laytown to Bettystown, County Meath, for 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21056/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (14 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will urgently meet with a school (details supplied) which was removed from the list of agreed major projects for construction in 2016; if he is aware of the major concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21912/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices Data (14 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 271. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons who accessed the local enterprise offices for their services in the Leinster region in the years 2014 and 2015; the number of staff currently employed in each location in Leinster; the amount of funding each location in Leinster has drawn down in the years 2014 and 2015; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 623. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the waiting lists nationally for inpatient procedures by acute hospital; the patient waiting times for each such procedure by individual hospital; the funding provided for such procedures for each hospital for each of the past three years; his plans to significantly reduce these waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 624. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the waiting list nationally for cardiology tests, MRI, CT, EEG and bone scans in tabular form; the patient waiting times for such tests for each acute hospital; the funding provided for each hospital for each of the past three years; his plans to significantly reduce these waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22271/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 625. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the comprehensive review undertaken by the HSE to establish the reason patients have to wait more than 12 months to be seen in a small number of hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22272/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 676. To ask the Minister for Health the improvements made to the Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda through capital investment in each of the years 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22750/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (19 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 852. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 764 of 12 July 2016, the date Meath County Council applied for the revised total application of €4.38 million in respect of the R150 Bettystown-Laytown spine road; the date at which all available funding had been allocated to projects within his Department for 2016; and if he will make a...

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: This is an important debate. This Fianna Fáil Bill is not coming at the right time. Indeed, on the production of the new action plan for housing, what Members on this side of the House and most of the Members on that side of the House were talking about was building houses for people who cannot house themselves and about the provision of housing, particularly in the social housing...

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: I have seen much change.

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: Under Fianna Fáil, the Ballymun houses were built to meet a housing crisis. That did not work as families could not live in those high-rise apartments. It did not make sense but at the time they were the best thing since the sliced pan. In our county, there were houses built with prefabricated structures and after ten years they began to fall apart. Perhaps Deputy Scanlon remembers...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Authority Funding (20 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 430. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding provided to the Louth County Council for roads in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date; the amount of that designated money that has been used for national roads, regional roads, local primary roads, local secondary roads and local tertiary roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23291/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Authority Funding (20 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 431. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if and when Louth County Council and Meath County Council will receive grants from his Department for community involvement schemes for 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23300/16]