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Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Provision (28 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 630. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding braces in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25175/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (28 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 697. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a grant for road improvement will be made available to Kerry County Council. [25111/13]

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: I thank the Technical Group for allowing me some of its speaking time to contribute on the Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013. This is an important Bill in the context of what has happened over the years down at the Four Courts with the massive toll and burden put on our already struggling taxpayers when they had to pay massive sums of money for...

Order of Business (23 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: Many subcontractors are finding it extremely difficult to get paid by main contractors. Deputy Durkan raised the matter of the Construction Contracts Bill, which is one of the slowest Bills ever to make its way through the Houses of the Oireachtas. It has left people in the lurch for a long time and is very important.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (23 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 14 May 2013, the reason resources cannot be guaranteed to support enrollment; and the reason the child must wait until they start school [24943/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (23 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 66. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a special fund to address and alleviate the flooding that is occurring in a housing estate (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24930/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service Issues (23 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 166. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the cost to the State in the years 2010 to 2011, 2011 to 2012, 2012 to 2013 for the provision of Romanian interpreters working for our court service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24931/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (23 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 168. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the provisions that are being put in place to prepare for the new wave of immigrants that are expected to arrive here in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24942/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: European Union Solidarity Fund (23 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 192. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make an application for EU solidarity funding to help address the serious situation and suffering that our farmers are enduring at present during this fodder crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24929/13]

Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Housing Act 1966 is extremely outdated, for example, with regard to the impediment on housing authorities when dealing with tenants of homes they had previously purchased and now want to sell on. Has the Government any plans to bring in new legislation to update the 1966 Act? The Taoiseach is at a Heads of Government meeting today. He should surely demand that EU leaders recognise...

Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Government knows there is a fodder crisis and it is nothing to laugh at.

Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: And the fodder crisis.

Leaders' Questions (22 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: The Minister wanted to go first.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Redeployment (22 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding re-deployment within vocational education committees (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24570/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Banking Inquiry (22 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 119. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline the type of banking enquiry that will be proposed; if it will done in an Oireachtas style committee set up, and therefore not be a vastly expensive enquiry putting an additional burden on the already hard pressed tax payers of the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24674/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale (22 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will abandon the attempt to raise, a relatively small amount of money in relation to the total that could be accrued from selling of the States forestries and its crop of timber; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24744/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Natural Gas Grid (22 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the action he is taking regarding a proposal for County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24742/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (22 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 235. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will put in place a detailed independent review of the whole forest sector here, both Coillite and private, with a view to determining the changes that still need to be made to meet the challenges of the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24746/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (22 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 236. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to the agri-environment options scheme, 9,500 farmers applied before the closing date of November 2012, the timeframe these applications will be finalised in view of the fact that already their incomes have been drastically reduced since the REP scheme plan finished; if it is now more vital than ever that these...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Penalties (22 May 2013)

Michael Healy-Rae: 237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a fine in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24792/13]