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Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Welfare (5 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 354. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical devices tested on animals here each year; the percentage of tests legally required by the EU; the number of tests that lead on to human clinical trials; the success rates of the tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10778/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tender Process (5 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 355. To ask the Minister for Health the expected cost of a project (details supplied); the expected cost of the feasibility report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10779/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Prospecting Licences (5 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 416. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of all town lands in which a prospecting licence for minerals exploration has been granted or renewed between 2011 and February 2019; and the details of all town lands in which a prospecting licence is to be granted or renewed. [10547/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (5 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 417. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is a policy on importing fracked shale gas in view of the recent ban on fracking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10549/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (5 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 418. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the policy on building new fossil fuel infrastructure; if past support for LNG infrastructure will be reassessed in view of the recommendations of a recent report by an organisation (details supplied) and increasing climate court cases here, in Europe and internationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Mining Licences (5 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 419. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the public consultation processes in place for mining objections; if further mining will be permitted in areas where a community has expressed its opposition to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10551/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Subsidies (5 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 469. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the subsidy for Dublin Bus is calculated; if it is based on the number of buses advertised that is intended to be run rather than the number of buses that are actually run; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10507/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Development (5 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 473. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the sale of the Port of Cork property at Custom House Quay, Cork, (details supplied) by the Port of Cork company of which he and the Minister for Finance are the sole shareholders; if transfer of ownership has taken place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10553/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (5 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 481. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing public transport issues in County Limerick particularly with regard to the bus service and its lateness and incorrect real time information both at bus stops and through the app; his plans to tackle the issue; if County Limerick is to receive a BusConnects plan; if so, the timeframe for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant Eligibility (5 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 589. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the period of residence in a house is a criterion for having a stair lift installed by the council as in the case of a person (details supplied); the reason necessity is not the determining factor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10476/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 591. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider making regulations requiring a person signing a consent form for a planning application on their land to provide contact details in order that the council can contact them to ascertain if the consent is genuine or not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10506/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Regulations (6 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the next steps following on from the 2017 schools energy efficiency pilot in terms of a wider schools energy retrofit programme, particularly regarding the timeline for the deep retrofit of further schools and the number of schools he plans to be deep retrofitted; if he has engaged with the Minister for Communications, Climate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (6 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of deaths that have occurred in homeless accommodation units in each of the years since 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11211/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (6 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: 317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of deaths that have occurred in homeless family hubs in each of the years since 2015, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11212/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Building Finance Ireland (7 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: This week many homeowners and management companies of defective buildings, who were led down a path by the Government in relation to securing loan funding for the remediation of latent defects caused by rogue developers during the boom years, found that the path set out by the Government led straight into a brick wall. The Minister for Finance indicated in an answer to a parliamentary...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Building Finance Ireland (7 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: With respect, these homeowners need more than an acknowledgment of their stress. With regard to the Home Building Finance Ireland scheme, the Minister of State said the Minister for Finance had been very clear, which he was. I have his remarks. He said nothing contained in the HBFI legislation prevented a funding application like this being considered. In reply to my parliamentary...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Building Finance Ireland (7 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: This is a pre-2014 issue. I ask the Minister of State to accept as a fundamental principle that this is not simply a matter of private contract. For many of these homeowners, there is no recourse to builders and developers who have long since gone bust. Does the Minister of State accept that this is a public safety issue? The Government cannot simply sit idly by.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Building Finance Ireland (7 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: Is it waiting for a tragedy to occur? Will it take a death? Fire alarms are going off in these buildings and people think their apartment complexes are going to burn down. They are living in fear and the Government must act.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Building Finance Ireland (7 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: The Government must indicate that it intends to do something.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Building Finance Ireland (7 Mar 2019)

Catherine Martin: It means self-certification.