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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Low Pay (6 Sep 2019)

Robert Troy: 1770. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has examined the policy options in respect of low skill and pay, and in respect of work disproportionately done by women in circumstances in which such jobs congregate near dense urban labour markets, in view of the rise of same in another jurisdiction as per a report (details supplied). [36859/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Appeals (6 Sep 2019)

Robert Troy: 1772. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if jobseeker's benefit will be awarded on appeal to a person (details supplied). [34725/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (6 Sep 2019)

Robert Troy: 1773. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an invalidity pension will be awarded to a person (details supplied). [34726/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (6 Sep 2019)

Robert Troy: 1878. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the child benefit payment to cover pupils who will be 19 years of age sitting their leaving certificate (details supplied). [36510/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (6 Sep 2019)

Robert Troy: 2007. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the publication of the updated wind energy guidelines; and if the public consultation period has commenced as stated in July 2019. [36870/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Solar Energy Guidelines (6 Sep 2019)

Robert Troy: 2008. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the publication of guidelines to govern the construction of large-scale solar energy farms. [36871/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration Authority Administration (6 Sep 2019)

Robert Troy: 2010. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the waiting times to have matters dealt with by the Land Registry; his views on whether there are resource shortages within the system which are resulting in unnecessary delays in dealing with queries; and the resources he will put in place to resolve this matter (details supplied). [36935/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Robert Troy: I thank the Chair. I thought the meeting was starting at 1.30 p.m. I got my times wrong. When the board of the FAI originally came before the committee, I posed a question that remains unanswered. From my perspective, this was an indication that more than one person was at fault for the corporate governance problems in the FAI. A press release was issued when it was originally identified...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Robert Troy: They were to respond to us on that, but they have not done so. The person who gave the guarantee that he would respond is now the sole nominee for the position of president of the FAI. When I asked him what actions he would take if it were deemed appropriate that all members of the board should stand down as a means of instilling confidence in the board, he replied by saying that whatever...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Robert Troy: I would rather a verbal reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance Review Group Report for the FAI Board and Sport Ireland: Sport Ireland (17 Jul 2019)

Robert Troy: The Vice Chairman is here.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (11 Jul 2019)

Robert Troy: As has been said, contradicting stories have come from the three different agencies. That is why they need to be brought into one room so that they cannot contradict the stories. The Minister is the person to do that. Since this issue was made known in 2013, why has it taken five years for the ESB to make an application? Where does that application stand now? When will we have a decision...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (11 Jul 2019)

Robert Troy: The decision this morning to lay off 148 people will have a devastating impact on those to be laid off, their families, the community of Lanesborough and much further afield. To my mind, the State bodies, comprising the ESB, the EPA and Bord na Móna, have been negligent in their attitude in dealing with these employees. They have failed them. They have failed loyal employees who have...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh (Atógáil) - Questions on Promised Legislation (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Robert Troy: The Tánaiste will remember that a week before he moved from his previous role as Minister with responsibility for housing and planning he issued, to great fanfare, a press release stating the wind energy guidelines would be announced within weeks. That is more than two years ago. As my colleague has rightly identified, communities are still awaiting the new updated wind energy...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh (Atógáil) - Questions on Promised Legislation (Resumed) (11 Jul 2019)

Robert Troy: After two years.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Brexit Preparations (11 Jul 2019)

Robert Troy: 202. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a recommendation in a report (details supplied). [31126/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Jul 2019)

Robert Troy: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to impose a tax of 23% on certain food supplements; if the introduction of VAT on such products will be delayed pending a planned review by the Tax Strategy Group. [31245/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (11 Jul 2019)

Robert Troy: 217. To ask the Minister for Finance if the issue of returning emigrants being charged high car insurance due to the fact they have lost their no claims bonus will be addressed (details supplied); and his views on whether the matter should be addressed urgently. [31365/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Station Refurbishment (11 Jul 2019)

Robert Troy: 224. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of planned works to Mullingar Garda station; and when these works will commence. [31261/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (11 Jul 2019)

Robert Troy: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount collected from the national training levy in each of the years 2010 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the use made of this funding by types of course or programme, apprenticeship, traineeship, further education, third level, research and so on; the purpose of the fund; the evolution of its use over the past number of years; and if he...