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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 May 2018)

John Curran: 42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he expects passport renewals for children to be processed online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20792/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Data (15 May 2018)

John Curran: 60. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications processed through the passport office in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20791/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Administration (15 May 2018)

John Curran: 102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the number of passport applications has increased in 2018 by 18% to over 800,000 applications; his plans to resource the Passport Office accordingly to address the increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20897/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Data (15 May 2018)

John Curran: 250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the local and regional drugs taskforces that have a representative from his Department on the taskforce in each of the years 2016 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; the number of meetings that took place; the number that were attended by the representative from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20902/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (15 May 2018)

John Curran: 365. To ask the Minister for Health the local and regional drugs task forces that have a representative from his Department on the task force in each of the years 2016 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; the number of meetings that took place; the number that were attended by the representative from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20900/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug and Alcohol Task Forces (15 May 2018)

John Curran: 366. To ask the Minister for Health the local and regional drugs task forces that have a member of HSE sitting on the task force in each of the years 2016 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; the number of meetings that took place; the number that were attended by the representative from the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20901/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Drugs Task Forces (15 May 2018)

John Curran: 534. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the local and regional drugs task forces that have a representative from her Department on the task force in each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; the number of meetings that took place; the number that were attended by the representative from her Department; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (15 May 2018)

John Curran: 573. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons that have been excluded from the homeless housing list by local authority in tabular form as a result of receiving temporary accommodation in private rented houses using emergency accommodation funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20898/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (15 May 2018)

John Curran: 574. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding owed by his Department to each local authority for social housing projects in tabular form; the projects and associated funds which have now been owed for more than three months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20899/18]

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Matters of Public Policy: Discussion with Taoiseach (10 May 2018)

John Curran: The issue of pensions is a regular feature at the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection. In the short time available I want to refer specifically to the issue of defined benefit pension schemes, with which the Taoiseach will be familiar. When he was Minister for Social Protection, he indicated that he would introduce legislation. That legislation was brought forward...

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Matters of Public Policy: Discussion with Taoiseach (10 May 2018)

John Curran: I thank the Taoiseach for his answer to my question on the issue of defined benefits. As he highlighted, this committee is aware of the issues. Our specific concern is that the heads of the scheme were published, Second Stage was dealt with and now we are in a vacuum. Once the Government published the heads of the scheme and we completed Second Stage of the Bill, a vacuum was generated....

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Matters of Public Policy: Discussion with Taoiseach (10 May 2018)

John Curran: Show your hand.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (9 May 2018)

John Curran: 64. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to offer a grant or bursary scheme to parents wishing to send their children to the Gaeltacht; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19901/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (9 May 2018)

John Curran: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schedule regarding the delivery of a new secondary school in the Citywest and Saggart areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20324/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (9 May 2018)

John Curran: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the site location of the new secondary school announced recently for the Citywest and Saggart areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20325/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (9 May 2018)

John Curran: 143. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he plans to take to reform legislation to protect front-line gardaí in view of an assault on an unarmed front-line garda in Dublin recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20330/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (9 May 2018)

John Curran: 181. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of general practitioners in communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20326/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (9 May 2018)

John Curran: 182. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients per general practitioner in each CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20327/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Housing Provision (9 May 2018)

John Curran: 183. To ask the Minister for Health the stage at which his Department and the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government are in relation to providing a new supported model of housing for elderly persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20328/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (9 May 2018)

John Curran: 230. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he plans to address the expensive compliance costs on account of missing climate change and renewable energy targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20320/18]