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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to locate a school (details supplied) on the site currently in the process of the completion of the conveyancing process for another school; his plans to acquire a different site for the new national school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47052/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care Provision (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 862. To ask the Minister for Health if the social care national office of the HSE has sanctioned the required €1 million refurbishment of the Maynooth community care unit in County Kildare; if not, when a decision is likely to be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47048/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 871. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received correspondence from Dublin City Council's special committee for fire and ambulance services and emergency management regarding the need for four additional ambulances to meet Dublin Fire Brigade's emergency medical service capacity needs; if his office received these requests from the council dated 10 February 2017 and 19 July 2017; the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry Development (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 960. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has determined the location the national food innovation hub should be located; the process in identifying a location for the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47054/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Divisions Report (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 1335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will establish a boundary committee to review local government electoral areas; the timeframe for the boundary committee's work; the terms of reference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46512/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Divisions Report (7 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: 1336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to media reports regarding the establishment of a second local government boundary committee for South Dublin, Fingal, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Cork and Galway local authorities; the terms of reference for this committee; if it will examine altering the external boundary of these local...

Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: Critically, there is no reason anyone in a nursing home or who attends community care day centres, on a daily or weekly basis, should not be facilitated with the vaccine. By and large, the people attending those centres are older. Second, we have the more recent reports of the carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae, CPE, bug. The HSE has acknowledged that it is extremely difficult to...

Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: Just as the country recently prepared for Storm Ophelia through public announcements and putting safeguarding arrangements in place, we need to prepare for what could turn out to be one of the most challenging winters facing the health services in decades. All the indications are that Ireland is at high risk of a health crisis this winter due to a combination of a flu epidemic and concerns...

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: I am sure the Tánaiste is as concerned as I am by the enormous slow-down in the schools building programme particularly for older schools that are due to be completely rebuilt. We have children facing into the rest of the winter in freezing cold conditions in old buildings, which are no longer fit for purpose, and prefabs. Last year the capital programme for schools was €334...

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: There has been no addition.

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: It is less than last year.

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: It is less than last year.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Portfolio (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 63. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there have been inquiries from prospective investors about a replacement manufacturing industry for a site (details supplied); the way in which the IDA is actively promoting the site to existing customers and potential investors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45376/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when tenders will be invited for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45375/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board has concluded its examination of options for accommodation for a new school (details supplied) in Maynooth, County Kildare; if not, when it will conclude the examination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45377/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his officials have not yet communicated with the board of management of a school (details supplied) if the school is to be a new build school project or a refurbishment project; when the position will be clarified; when a design team will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45378/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has completed the schedule of accommodation requirements for the extension to a school (details supplied); if completed, the details of the accommodation requirements agreed; if not, when the schedule will be completed; when a design team will be appointed for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45379/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 147. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to prioritise the provision of capital funding for the new endoscopy unit and other ancillary services at Naas General Hospital, Naas, County Kildare, from the additional capital allocation of €471 million announced under the mid term capital review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45380/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 148. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to prioritise the provision of capital funding for phase 3C of Naas General Hospital, Naas, County Kildare, from the additional capital allocation of €471 million announced under the mid term capital review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45381/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Swimming Pool Programme Funding (26 Oct 2017)

Joan Burton: 242. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of additional funding allocated to sport from the allocation of €1,258 million under the mid-term capital review up to 2021; his plans to reintroduce the local authority swimming pool capital programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45382/17]