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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Funding (6 Dec 2017)

Barry Cowen: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proportion of Solas funding for further education to be performance based in the future. [51899/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (6 Dec 2017)

Barry Cowen: 173. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [52112/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (5 Dec 2017)

Barry Cowen: 63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each Garda station in counties Laois and Offaly as of 1 November 2017; the number of community gardaí in the division; and the number of Garda Reserve and new recruits assigned to the division since recruitment resumed in 2014. [51631/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Dec 2017)

Barry Cowen: 301. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [51426/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Dec 2017)

Barry Cowen: 329. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment. [51547/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Dec 2017)

Barry Cowen: 359. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [51757/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Dec 2017)

Barry Cowen: 365. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [51796/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (5 Dec 2017)

Barry Cowen: 373. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be made available to the Health Service Executive for the provision of hearing aids (details supplied). [51880/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Homelessness Strategy (30 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: Like the previous speaker, I have questions about the fact that these facilities are not yet available, even though they were supposed to be made available after the summit. We look forward to them being made available as soon as is practically possible. We have been told that funding is not an issue. I would like to see that proven by virtue of the facilities being put in place. Houses...

Topical Issue Debate: Homelessness Strategy (30 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: Does this cover Offaly?

Topical Issue Debate: Homelessness Strategy (30 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: Money is not an issue.

Topical Issue Debate: Homelessness Strategy (30 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: The sad deaths of two men in less than 24 hours underline the scale of the challenge we face in housing. With their passing and their loss to their friends of families, it is not a time, obviously, for political point scoring. I express my condolences to those who have felt their loss. It is, however, another call to action to get to grips with the housing crisis. Their passing...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Short Term Lettings) Bill 2017: First Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Short Term Lettings) Bill 2017: First Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000, to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and to provide for related matters. This Bill seeks to initiate proper regulation of short-term lettings, which would bring more homes back into the conventional rental market. The Bill provides for a 90-day limit on short-term lettings...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bord na Móna: Chairperson Designate (28 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: Like others, I wish to congratulate Mr. Meagher on his appointment. I acknowledge his suitability based on his distinguished and successful career at Glanbia and note his comment that it, too, like Bord na Móna is rooted in rural Ireland. He is well aware of the historical fact that Bord na Móna has been to the forefront of economic life, vitality and the social fabric of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Local Government Fund (28 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated payment to the Exchequer from the local government fund in 2018. [50362/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: 361. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [50077/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Government Fund (28 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: 559. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount received by his Department from the local government fund in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and the estimated amount in 2018. [50361/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Motor Tax Yield (28 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: 722. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the motor taxation receipts received in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, by county, in tabular form. [50359/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Fund (28 Nov 2017)

Barry Cowen: 723. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the income components and the anticipated income to the Local Government Fund in 2018; the expected expenditure items and total expenditure in 2018 following the enactment of the Water Services Act 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50360/17]