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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Dietary Allowance Administration (4 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 577. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reinstate diet supplements for persons suffering from coeliac disease and throat cancer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30826/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Census of Population Data (4 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 608. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the policy response which occurs further to the publication of the census of population; the section or sections of her Department involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31407/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Environmental Policy (4 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the situations in which an environmental assessment must be conducted as part of a planning permission to operate a quarry and or landfill site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30887/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (4 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if persons residing in direct provision centres are considered in need of housing; if they are included in homelessness figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30786/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments (4 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the specific allocation of funding that is planned to be accessed in order to fulfil the offered incentive to landlords to sign up to the housing assistance payment scheme in circumstances in which applicants on the Dublin housing lists are able to seek approval and payment of two months rent in advance and a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Services Infrastructure (4 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the consideration that has been given by Irish Water to identify and prioritise capital investment requirements for settlements that align with the sustainable transports links such as rail networks to support proportional and sustainable growth in areas in order to mitigate against transport related climate change...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Development Contributions (4 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 677. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the development contribution balances of each local authority; if special development contributions are included; if so, the balances of these of each local authority; the amount of both balances for years other than 2017; the number of requests for sanction of spending on specific projects that have been made to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Census of Population Data (4 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 680. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the account taken of the census of population in the local property tax redistribution model; the way in which new needs associated with new populations are measured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31399/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Census of Population Data (4 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 681. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the consideration which is given following the publication of the census of population; the sections involved; if it prompts policy responses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31420/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Consultation Process (5 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 33. To ask the Minister for Finance the forms of stakeholder engagement he has participated in in advance of signalling his budgetary intentions to reduce income tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31478/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2018 (5 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the impact that potential income tax cuts will have on the ability to invest in vital public services in budget 2018; his views on the further erosion of the tax base; the way in which he plans to offset the potential exchequer losses from a proposed tax cut; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31480/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt Servicing (5 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to use his position to engage with EU officials regarding Ireland's debt burden; his further plans to seek a change to Ireland's debt schedule; his views on whether this is something that should be considered particularly in the context of Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31479/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Transactions (5 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the schedule relating to the extinguishing of the floating rate treasury bond; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31477/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (5 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the number of ASD units within primary and secondary schools; the existing number of ASD units within primary and secondary schools, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31618/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (5 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reexamine the case of a person (details supplied) regarding incremental credit in view of the fact that the person was teaching a programme that was part funded by the HSE and had an agreement with his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31737/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy Implementation (5 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 204. To ask the Minister for Health the community supports for persons with dementia here; his plans to expand the support levels for persons with dementia; his further plans to meet dementia advocacy groups to discuss increases in funding in the context of budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31735/17]

Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: I will share time, four minutes, four minutes and two minutes, with Deputies Eamon Ryan and Seamus Healy. There is no doubt that this is the biggest emergency facing this country yet all we are doing is having a three-month review. Some of us flagged this issue several years ago. We said we should have been almost on a war footing then. The fact that we are still talking about this in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (6 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a new standard approach to awarding government contracts for taxi services is being considered; if so, the changes proposed; if a new tender will include criteria for a minimum number of accessible taxis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31970/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (6 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the number of personal assistant hours funded in each of the years 2010 to 2016, and to date in 2017; the locations in which they were funded; the average number of hours provided by location; his plans to increase funding for additional hours; the reason there is no nationwide structure and no standard approach to allocating hours; the reason the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Review (6 Jul 2017)

Catherine Murphy: 200. To ask the Minister for Health if the review into the system of motorised grants is complete; the outcomes of the review; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that users are struggling to replace vehicles; the timeframe for likely changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32023/17]