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Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: I can hand them over to the Minister.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: This is May 2015.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this important matter for discussion in the Topical Issue Debate. Waterford Regional Hospital, now known as Waterford University Hospital, is the closest hospital to a large number of people in south County Kilkenny, many of whom are waiting for an outpatient appointment or inpatient day case treatment in the hospital. The number of people on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (24 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 155. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that if a bull or heifer is rated at four or five stars at either the time of purchase or time of testing that the animal will remain in compliance with the beef genomics and data scheme, despite any subsequent down grading which may take place thereafter, as was confirmed by a person (details supplied) at the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (24 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is appropriate European Union funding available for an Irish undergraduate student seeking financial aid for maintenance and accommodation costs, in order to accept a place on an undergraduate course in on-call children's therapy in Bournemouth in the United Kingdom; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25439/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (24 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is appropriate funding available through her Department for an undergraduate Irish student seeking financial aid for maintenance and accommodation costs in order to accept a place on an undergraduate course in on-call children's therapy in Bournemouth in the United Kingdom; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25321/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (24 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 255. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if an independent committee is being set up with the purpose of examining the boundary between Counties Kilkenny and Waterford; if such a committee is to be established, the way he plans to ensure absolute independence and transparency with regards to its membership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25429/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (23 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 188. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason her Department has issued application forms for social welfare payments with a clear recommendation to use commercial banks in preference to using the post office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24955/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (23 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 189. To ask the Minister for Social Protection with regard to the new forms for social welfare payments, which contain clear recommendations to use commercial banks in preference to using the post office, if she will withdraw and replace these forms with the previous issue of forms, where payment at the post office was given as the first option listed and no recommendation was made; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (23 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 391. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will confirm that appropriate funding will be made available through his Department to support programmes such as the Kilkenny school completion programme, as its current funding is scheduled to cease in August 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24938/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (23 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 392. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he envisages that appropriate funding will be ring-fenced by his Department for the Child and Family Agency to continue to support programmes such as the Kilkenny school completion programme when their current funding ceases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24939/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Strips (23 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 653. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he will ensure that there are no further low flying incidents reported at Kilkenny Airfield at Holdensrath in County Kilkenny following intensification of the use of same due to sponsored parachute jumping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25018/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (18 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way it transpired that tourism, cultural and heritage organisations in the inland counties of Carlow, Kilkenny, Kildare and Tipperary are prevented from accessing valuable INTERREG funding by the restriction to coastal counties outlined in the new Ireland-Wales Co-operation Programme (INTERREG) 2014 to 2020 Citizens Summary...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (18 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason, in relation to Priority Access 3: Cultural and Natural Resources and Heritage, the drafting process led to the final version of the Citizens Summary featuring such explicit changes, from the 2014 consultation cocument, excluding inland counties from the Axis and focusing solely on coastal areas; if he will justify this...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (18 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason, in relation to Priority Axis 2: Adaption to Climate Change, the drafting process led to the final version of the Citizens Summary featuring such explicit changes, from the 2014 Consultation Document, excluding inland counties from the Axis and focusing solely on coastal areas; if he will justify this seismic change of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (18 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 115. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will postpone the mandatory euro-star index system stipulation of the beef data and genomics programme for five years, and instead implement this aspect of the programme as a more lenient guideline for the next five years, with a view to full implementation, as originally intended, in the year 2020; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (18 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 116. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will amend the beef data and genomics programme by making 2014 and 2015 referral years, in order to afford farmers a more realistic opportunity of inclusion in the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24429/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (18 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 117. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will amend the euro-star index rating of the beef data and genomics programme from 60% to 40% for the next five years, with a view to possibly reverting to the higher percentage of 60% by year 2020, if necessary, to afford farmers a more realistic opportunity to comply with the regulations, as currently outlined in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (18 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 119. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a guarantee that the beef data and genomics programme will not lead to inbreeding over the impending duration of the programme, in view of strong reports that there are not enough bulls with a four or five star rating within the artificial insemination system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24432/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (18 Jun 2015)

Bobby Aylward: 122. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will amend the beef data and genomics programme to stipulate that each year over the next five years be considered a rolling year for the purpose of assessing the relevant statistics and information accumulated during this period, on its own merit, on a yearly basis, replacing the current five-year assessment stipulation, as...