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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (10 Oct 2018)

Carol Nolan: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if pay equality will be restored for teachers in budget 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41419/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (10 Oct 2018)

Carol Nolan: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision will be made in budget 2019 to increase the capitation grant to primary schools. [41420/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Payments (10 Oct 2018)

Carol Nolan: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision will be made in budget 2019 to increase the annual minor works grant to primary schools. [41421/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (10 Oct 2018)

Carol Nolan: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if provision will be made in budget 2019 to provide teaching principals with one day per week administrative relief substitution cover. [41414/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (10 Oct 2018)

Carol Nolan: 171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if provision will be made in budget 2019 to provide low cost loans to farmers. [41473/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (10 Oct 2018)

Carol Nolan: 190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to increase the level of grant aid in budget 2019 for domestic solar energy systems; and his further plans to reduce the current average nine year wait time for a return on investment to a more attractive five year payback period. [41422/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (10 Oct 2018)

Carol Nolan: 191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce an incentive scheme in budget 2019 to subsidise the cost of connecting agriculture solar energy suppliers to the ESB Networks grid in order to incentivise producers to contribute non-storable surplus to the grid in the absence of export tariffs for the supply of solar energy for same. [41423/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Improvement Scheme Funding (10 Oct 2018)

Carol Nolan: 230. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans in budget 2019 to continue the local improvement scheme; and his further plans to increase the level of funding available in the next round. [41416/18]

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Oct 2018)

Carol Nolan: The proposal to increase the VAT rate to 13.5% is extremely unfair. I do not support any VAT increase, particularly in rural counties, regardless of whether it is the 11% rate proposed by some parties or 13.5%. It is extremely unfair. I have been contacted by many owners of small businesses from counties Laois and Offaly and learned that they are absolutely struggling to pay rates and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (27 Sep 2018)

Carol Nolan: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of non-DEIS primary schools with two special classes other than ASD classes designated for pupils with special educational needs; the number of these schools that have a teaching principal; and the number that have an overall school enrolment between 113 and 175 inclusive that have a teaching principal. [39225/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (27 Sep 2018)

Carol Nolan: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of non-DEIS primary schools with two special classes other than ASD classes in which the overall school enrolment is between 113 and 175 inclusive; the number in which the principal has administrative status; the name, address and roll numbers of these schools; and the criteria on which these positions of administrative principal...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Carol Nolan: I did not interrupt the Deputy. Again, is the Deputy a rural Deputy?

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Carol Nolan: It is not all about Dublin or other cities.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Carol Nolan: I have every right to speak here.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Carol Nolan: Alcohol abuse is a complex and social problem and it requires a multifaceted approach, not one approach that is doomed to fail. I do not believe we will tackle the problems we have through crude, misleading and perhaps downright untruthful health warnings on our alcohol products. There is every reason to believe that this proposal is doomed to fail at EU level. That has been said by some...

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Carol Nolan: Go raibh maith agat as ucht an deis labhairt ar an topaic seo. I support the objectives of this Bill. I am very aware of the culture and difficulties we have with alcohol. We are all very aware of them. It is condescending and downright disingenuous to assert that we are ignorant of that fact; we are not. What we are saying here, however, is that part of this Bill lacks common sense....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Carol Nolan: I am aware of many issues with home help in my constituency. There are very few hours for elderly couples who are trying to take care of each other in Laois and Offaly. It has been an ongoing issue for a considerable time. Provision needs to be made in the upcoming budget. This situation has gone on for too long. We must ensure that our elderly people are taken care of and be cognisant...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (20 Sep 2018)

Carol Nolan: 148. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects to have sight of the chief medical officer’s report on the clinical and technical implication of using transvaginal mesh implants in surgical procedures [38165/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (20 Sep 2018)

Carol Nolan: 149. To ask the Minister for Health the transvaginal mesh implant clinical protocols in place for surgical training, reporting and registration of procedures, reporting and publication of guidelines; and if the protocols in place meet the recommended standards of the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence [38166/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (20 Sep 2018)

Carol Nolan: 150. To ask the Minister for Health the number of transvaginal mesh implant removals that have been performed here; if these were full or partial removals; the number that were publicly or privately funded, respectively; and the number as a percentage of total implant procedures performed in this regard. [38167/18]