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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration (7 Dec 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will investigate the current level of engagement among housing agencies with the mortgage to rent scheme; if he is satisfied with same; if he will consider implementing legislation or amending the principal legislation to ensure that there is a higher level of engagement between housing agencies and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (7 Dec 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 159. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in the issuance of a second lump sum payment of a pension scheme into the estate of a deceased person (details supplied); if he will ensure that any procedural difficulties in respect of this specific payment are promptly resolved in order that it can be issued without further delay; the timeframe in respect of the time...

Flood Prevention Measures: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2016)

Bobby Aylward: This motion serves as a stark reminder of the utter devastation many Deputies of this House witnessed this time last year. Nationwide, we saw 500 homes and 400 businesses flooded over the winter months with an estimated €100 million in damages from a series of storms. Locally, the communities of Thomastown and Inistioge on the River Nore, Graiguenamanagh on the River Barrow and...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Improvement Schemes (14 Dec 2016)

Bobby Aylward: Deputy Ross is the Minister now.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (14 Dec 2016)

Bobby Aylward: I thank the Chair for selecting this very important matter for discussion. I am disappointed that the senior Minister is not here but I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne. In mid-November, the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on health, Deputy Kelleher, made two impassioned speeches in this House following a meeting with members of the Scoliosis Advocacy Network who are...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (14 Dec 2016)

Bobby Aylward: I thank the Minister of State for her response and I hope she will appreciate that I am not trying to be political in any way, shape or form on this particular issue but we must do everything we can in the coming weeks and months to shorten these waiting lists. These children and their families are enduring too much pain and suffering as a result of the current waiting times and I urge the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (14 Dec 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason SUSI has failed to address a query lodged by this Deputy's office six weeks ago in respect of person (details supplied) except for a repeat response; the reason SUSI has failed to clarify which document can be provided in place of a notice of assessment from the Revenue Commissioners; the reason SUSI has failed to clarify the reason...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Administration (14 Dec 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the application process for the sports capital grant will commence; the closing date for submission of applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40339/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (14 Dec 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will commission Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, to conduct a review on the N24 between Carrick on Suir and Mooncoin, inclusive of all junctions and assess the need for upgrades of the safety measures currently in place to ensure the necessity for same will be brought to the attention of him and TII and commenced...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TAMS Applications (16 Dec 2016)

Bobby Aylward: 428. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in reaching a decision for a TAMS II application lodged by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40547/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (17 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 411. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his plans to formulate and implement a universal policy to ensure that students who are enduring extended absences from the classroom have access to daily lessons and homework assignments through an online platform or integrated system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1157/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (17 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 285 of 27 September 2016 to outline the position regarding an application for temporary accommodation in respect of a school (details supplied), in view of the fact that no response has been forthcoming since the application was initially lodged in August 2016; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (17 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 706. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to discuss reports emerging from the Republic of the Union of Myanmar with the European Union and United Nations which detail the infliction of serious human rights violations including torture, rape, sexual assault, summary executions and the destruction of mosques and homes upon the Rohingya people, 160,000 of which are...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (17 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 1693. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the budget for the family resource centre programme will be increased in line with the 5.5% increase in funding to Tusla's budget allocated by the Department of Finance in budget 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1108/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (17 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 1694. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will investigate the possibility of ring-fencing €21.126 million within the Tusla budget for the family resource national programme to support voluntary boards of management in meeting the basic operational costs for the 109 family resource centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1109/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I want to join with my colleagues in expressing my disappointment that the Minister is not present to face us and to discuss the supply of a 24-7 service in the south east. As has been said, it is the only region in the country that does not have a 24-7 service. Are we in the south east different to anyone else? Are we backward people who do not deserve the service everyone else in the...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Why does the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, think we are here today?

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I accept what the Minister of State, Deputy Corcoran Kennedy, said. She has good intentions, but her reply was not good enough. We can all play politics with hospitals if we want to and talk about what we did and did not do over the past 20 years, but we are where we are today. I travelled throughout south Kilkenny during a by-election and a general election during the past two years....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (18 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: 49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will approve the resources that may be necessary for the allocation of a temporary teaching post until June 2017 for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1300/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Does the patient fund refer to the nursing home patient pocket money? Is that what we are investigating and when will we deal with that?