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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (8 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 484. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is waiting a significant time for an operation and if the person can be scheduled for an operation as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14797/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (8 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 485. To ask the Minister for Health to provide more home help for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14799/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 486. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite an appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14800/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Burial Grounds (8 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 493. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make land available from St. Finian's land bank in Killarney, County Kerry for the provision of a public graveyard for the population of Killarney and its hinterland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14959/16]

Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I wish Deputy Simon Harris the very best in his new role as Minister for Health. I ask him to take charge of all aspects of health to ensure that there is accountability in our health service. I think back over the years and my time as a member of Kerry County Council and it seems to me that former Ministers for Health were not really accountable for health at all. They threw it back to...

Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: At the outset, I have to declare that I have a small company operating in Kerry. I have to make the Dáil aware of this because it could be construed by some that I have a conflict of interest. However, I want to highlight concerns by small subcontractors in many parts of the country who are being put under severe financial pressure and are struggling to survive. Some are going under...

Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: It is on jobs and rural development, on page 42 of the programme for Government. Large payments of VAT and other taxes due to the principal contractors whom the subcontractors work for are being delayed, in many cases for long periods, by the Revenue Commissioners. The delay is rumoured to be caused by a shortage of staff in the Revenue departments. This is causing a vicious circle whereby...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (31 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 670. To ask the Minister for Health when a dental appointment will be provided to a person (details supplied). [12746/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (31 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 782. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for afforestation on marginal ground, given that it has completely stopped due to the requirement to have 80% of green ground and 20% of marginal ground to obtain grant aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12741/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Planning Issues (31 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 853. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene with Transport Infrastructure Ireland to put an end to the situation, following the signing into law of the spatial strategy in 2012, whereby planning applicants on the N22 road between Rathmore and Killarney find it impossible to get planning permission (details supplied). [12812/16]

Order of Business (25 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: I ask the Taoiseach and the new Minister for Health, in light of the very disturbing article in yesterday's newspapers which highlighted that disabled and elderly persons' applications for home help would be delayed until later in the year, that this issue be dealt with in a proactive fashion, because elderly and disabled people do not have much time on their side. When they need help to get...

Order of Business (25 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: No. I am talking about home help for these people. It is in the programme for Government.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (24 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how he will address the anomaly whereby newly qualified teachers, despite having been educated to a high standard for this profession, are paid 22% less than their colleagues who have been employed since before 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11531/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (24 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 253. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the take-over of group water schemes by Irish Water and given that his Department has apparently been discussing this for more than two years but no scheme has been taken over, even though hundreds of schemes have applied to be taken over during this time. [11803/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (24 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 464. To ask the Minister for Health the reason emergency ambulances are disallowed from transporting patients from home to district or community hospitals, even though they are requested to do so by a local general practitioner; the reason in one case the emergency ambulance arrived to take a patient to the local district hospital two miles away; when the ambulance staff realised that the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 465. To ask the Minister for Health why the intermediary care vehicles in County Kerry are not fully staffed; the number of these vehicles which are parked, because of the lack of paramedics to operate them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11533/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax the Exchequer received from the carbon tax in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10206/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges (17 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 349. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the financial relief he will provide to persons on group water schemes now that water charges have been abolished for private residents receiving public water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10205/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (17 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 355. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide funding for the provision of a traffic warden at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10610/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Recruitment (17 May 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: 356. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide funding for the provision of a traffic warden for primary and secondary schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10611/16]