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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Complaints (8 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 151. To ask the Minister for Health if the national advocacy unit is still operational; if so, if there is a set timeframe for reply to a complainant; to conduct an investigation into the complaint; and to have a final decision made by the complaints officer. [35003/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (8 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the difficulties being experienced by families (details supplied) in County Offaly in accessing school transport; if she will liaise with Bus Éireann with a view to providing a bus to accommodate the children to allow them attend their local school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34979/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (8 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a City and Guilds qualification obtained in another country is recognised within the Irish education system; if a person holding such a qualification requires further accreditation in order to teach here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34980/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Small and Medium Enterprises Debt (13 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance if Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland, in order to meet their contractual obligations with the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, must apply a minimum percentage reduction on business loan interest rates to small and medium enterprise applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35778/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (13 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 333. To ask the Minister for Health if additional funding will be made available to the Health Service Executive to provide resources, that is, properties, qualified staff and host families, to clear the backlog of adult special needs persons requiring a permanent home specific to their needs. [35768/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Animal Welfare (13 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 440. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the local authorities hold a register of puppy breeders who have been found to be in breach of legislation but who have not received a conviction for animal cruelty; if such breeders can obtain a licence to continue breeding; if puppy breeders who have received a conviction for animal cruelty are allowed to obtain a...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Tréimhse Shocraithe le haghaidh Ré Dháil Éireann) 2015: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Fixed Period for the Duration of Dáil Éireann) Bill 2015: First Stage (14 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: The Deputy generated it.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges (14 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 50. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to explain the reason that a centre (details supplied) in County Offaly has sustained 34% cuts to funding from the Health Service Executive-Túsla, Child and Family Agency, which is above cuts to similar providers; the reason for the delay in reimbursing a shortfall of €4,047 due to an error when transferring their funds in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (14 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Offaly will receive a new school building, as it is still operating on a split site following an amalgamation in 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35821/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (20 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 287. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are procedures in place in order to make disused buildings available to the community, for example old courthouses or Garda stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36164/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Availability (20 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that Bus Éireann has refused a bus ticket to a child (details supplied) in County Offaly on the basis of a late payment, even though there are spaces on the bus travelling the route to the child's home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36351/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (20 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will liaise with Bus Éireann concerning a family (details supplied) in County Offaly who obtained concessionary school bus tickets for their children, but from whom the tickets were withdrawn five days prior to the school commencing the school bus service with the payment being returned; the reason payment was accepted and the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (20 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 658. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a new scheme to replace the 1995 tenant purchase scheme terminated in December 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36350/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (20 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 702. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a precedent whereby funding was awarded under the 2013 or 2014 Sports Capital Programme without the relevant Diocesan Trust being party to the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36344/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (20 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 703. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an application was deemed invalid (details supplied) for the same reason under the 2014 and 2015 Sports Capital Programme; if this information was communicated to the applicant in 2014; if the criteria changed in 2015; if these changes have been communicated to the applicant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36345/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (20 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: We are now in public session. No. 7 is the scrutiny of EU proposals. There are three schedule B proposals for decision. COM (2015) 356 is a proposal for a Council decision establishing the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the Council for Trade in Services of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, on the acceptance of preferences notified by WTO members as regards...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (20 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: We will suspend for a few moments to allow our guests to take their seats. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I remind members and those in the public Gallery to ensure their mobile telephones are switched off for the duration of the meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment, even when in silent mode. I welcome Ms Julie Sinnamon, chief executive officer, Enterprise Ireland and her colleagues, Mr. Tom Hayes, divisional manager regions and entrepreneurship, Mr. Niall O'Donnellan,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Annual Report 2014: Enterprise Ireland (20 Oct 2015)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Before we begin, in accordance with procedure I am required to read the following. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. However, if they are directed by the committee to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and continue to so do, they are entitled thereafter only to...