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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 171. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a limited number of gardaí have received training to carry out roadside drugs tests; the number of trained gardaí in each division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6637/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences Data (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 172. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of roadside drugs tests carried out in each month since April 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6638/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 180. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the Sláintecare report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6589/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Health Records (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 235. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an initiative in Sweden that would allow persons to access their health records electronically by 2020 (details supplied); and his plans to allow persons to access their records in a similar fashion here. [6632/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 236. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 has had their general practitioner changed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6633/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Drug and Alcohol Testing (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has investigated an alternative drug testing device for roadside testing to address the fact the current device does not function at temperatures below four degrees; if his attention and the attention of An Garda Síochána was drawn to this issue when the contracts for supply of these devices was awarded; and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Drug and Alcohol Testing (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of introducing roadside drug testing devices; the contracts awarded in relation to this programme; the value of each of the contracts awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6640/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 264. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding provided to a service (details supplied) in each year since 2004. [6629/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (8 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 265. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the strategy for funding direct contact youth work services as distinct from Tusla-funded child services in the Ballymun area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6630/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (13 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department is retrospectively seeking to impose a growth restriction on recently opened Educate Together schools in Tramore, New Ross, Castlebar, Trim and Tuam against the lawful preference of a significant number of families in these areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7096/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (13 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department is instructing Educate Together schools to turn away large numbers of families in Tramore, New Ross, Castlebar, Trim and Tuam (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7097/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (13 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department is restricting the long-term viability of developing schools in Tramore, New Ross, Castlebar, Trim and Tuam when his Department's 2012-13 forum of patronage and pluralism report recommended that accommodation options for a full stream of provision should be considered for each area; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (13 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána has given him a formal assurance that all unlawful killings are properly investigated; the precise wording of this assurance; if he has satisfied himself with this assurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7346/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Zero-hour Contracts (13 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 638. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated number of existing workers who would see a change in their contracts as a result of the new section 18(2) of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997. [7041/18]

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: Despite the fact that 96% of our State-funded primary schools remain under the patronage of religious bodies, we now have the farcical situation where a number of oversubscribed multidenominational schools have been told to limit their intakes severely to a half stream of just 13 pupils from next September. The five Educate Together schools, in Trim, Tramore, Tuam, New Ross and Castlebar...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach seems to be repeating the erroneous statement made by the Department which it subsequently corrected. The original arrangement with the five schools was not to limit them to a half stream. In the case of the majority, it was a minimum of a half stream. In each case it was said the long-term requirement for accommodation for a full stream had to be considered. I ask the...

Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: What is the Taoiseach's opinion?

Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach will recall from his time as Minister for Social Protection that there is a serious need for protection for people in defined benefit pension schemes to prevent their employers winding up the schemes and walking away. This kind of practice is not allowed elsewhere and should not be allowed here either. At the time, the Taoiseach did not avail of the opportunity to introduce...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: Far too many people in this country are suffering because of insecure and precarious employment. Our young people, in particular, find themselves locked out of secure employment, decent conditions and fair pay. Having a set working week and a set wage is, for many people, now only something their parents' generation enjoyed. Too many people find themselves waiting for emails or texts from...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Feb 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance if a review will be undertaken of the interaction of the tax and social welfare codes to address the unfair treatment of cohabiting persons whereby a couple is assessed as a family unit for welfare purposes but assessed individually for tax purposes. [7694/18]