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Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 113. To ask the Minister for Defence if the Irish Defence Forces plan to take any role in the European Union Naval Force Operation in the Mediterranean, which received the approval of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council on Defence on 18 May 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21375/15]

Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: On 18 May, the EU Foreign Affairs Council on Defence agreed to establish what the Council refers to as an EU military operation to break the business of smugglers and traffickers of people in the Mediterranean. We know the LE Eithnehas been dispatched to assist with the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean and has done some good work. Can the Minister confirm that this vessel or any other...

Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: It is a bit worrying that the Minister has not answered either of my questions. Does he not think that we should play a neutral role and advocate for non-military action in the area? The idea that military action could in any way help things is ridiculous. The EU was formed on the foundations built up after the Second World War and on the idea that inhumanity should not be tolerated....

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 121. To ask the Minister for Defence the role of the LE Eithne in the European Union response to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean; if he will guarantee that it, or any other Irish vessel, will not become involved in any European Union military operations in the Mediterranean, regardless of whether a United Nations Security Council mandate is secured in this regard; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Staff (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 437. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the role and scope of the welfare officer on the Irish Greyhound Board; if the holder of that role has any mandate as regards alleged breaches on the part of the Irish Coursing Club; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21418/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Remit (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 462. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any of the greyhounds that raced in the 2015 Con and Annie Kirby Memorial Stake in County Limerick tested positive for banned substances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21959/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Remit (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any bitches tested positive for banned substances in the 2013 Oaks and the 2013 Saint Leger finals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21960/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 464. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Chairman of the Irish Greyhound Board has met with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, as promised in November 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21962/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 465. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the Irish Greyhound Board and the Irish Coursing Club have enforced the Artificial Insemination of Greyhounds Regulations 2005 since their introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21963/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Remit (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason three investigators into an incident at Dundalk Greyhound Stadium, County Louth, initiated by the Irish Greyhound Board, did not finish their investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21964/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Irish Greyhound Board plans to sell the greyhound stadium at Harold's Cross in Dublin 6W, prior to a change in zoning for the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21965/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 468. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the pension deficit in the Irish Greyhound Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21966/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Funding (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that all private tracks funded by the Irish Greyhound Board are compliant in paying entry fees to the Irish Greyhound Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21967/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on reports that greyhounds which tested positive for procaine had their positive tests annulled under a threshold that was introduced after they had been found positive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21968/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 473. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of fines handed out by the Control Committee of the Irish Greyhound Board for the various breaches, since March 2011; the amounts of the fines incurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21987/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 87 of 27 May 2015, if he will indicate the number of the 128 samples sent for drugs testing to the Laboratory of Government Chemists in the United Kingdom since January 2015 that tested positive for banned substances; if he will provide details of the substances identified in these samples; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Recruitment (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 784. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 19 November 2014, if he will provide a progress update on the recruitment for a consultant dermatologist in University Hospital Waterford; if any of the three such posts there have been permanently filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21954/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 789. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a respiratory nurse currently working in Wexford General Hospital with asthma patients; if not, his plans to recruit one in the near future; if he will provide details of the services available in Wexford General Hospital for asthma patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21992/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 1073. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions his Department is taking in response to recent reports by ALONE, that one older person became homeless every three days in March 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17281/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Postcode System Expenditure (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 1117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the contracts his Department has with Capita Ireland; the amounts of money involved in any such contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21791/15]