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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (26 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: 560. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driver test instructors that have been hired in each quarter since quarter one in 2016. [9533/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (26 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: 564. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA will be requested to work with Irish Rail to ensure overcrowded services are supplemented with buses (details supplied). [9607/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (26 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: 583. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when family resource centres will receive notification of their 2019 allocations; if existing centres will see their annual budget increase in line with the budgets of new centres which opened in the past two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9333/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (26 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: 600. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a decision to issue a pension to community employment supervisors in line with the LRC recommendations will be reviewed. [9145/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (26 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: 605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [9233/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (26 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: 606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure an increased pension with regard to years spent as a carer or homemaker is awarded to a person (details supplied). [9234/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (26 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: 612. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review will be undertaken of the payment structure of the free travel scheme, that is, the percentage of commercial fares paid to State transport operators for the provision of the free travel scheme. [9294/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (26 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: 632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to include carer's allowance as income as part of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan. [9003/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (26 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: 636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the land and property to be transferred to the Land Development Agency in tabular form; the lands which have been transferred to date; and the timeframe for the remaining lands identified. [9134/19]

Accessibility of Public Transport for People with Disabilities: Motion (21 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this important debate. I acknowledge all of the people who made submissions, particularly those who made presentations to the committee. Some of the people who made presentations to the committee did so at some discomfort and inconvenience to themselves. They shared very personal stories and first-hand experience with us as committee members, which...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Equipment (21 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: I accept that the Minister of State is only present to represent the Minister, Deputy Harris, and that she does not have the authority to give definitive commitments. She was given a script that she was to read out. Much of that information was not new, though. I can, and have, read Project Ireland 2040. I know what it entails regarding my constituency and the Department of Transport,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Equipment (21 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: That is the word.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Equipment (21 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this matter. I contacted the Minister's office to clarify that it is about an MRI scanner as opposed to a CT scanner. I trust the Minister of State received that clarification.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Equipment (21 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: This is an essential piece of infrastructure for the midland region. Currently, an adult patient in the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, has to be referred to the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, while a paediatric patient has to be referred to Dublin. Given the fact that Mullingar is a paediatric hospital for the midlands, this is simply unacceptable as it is causing seriously...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: The Minister must have been out at Dublin Airport shooting down the drone. That is what delayed him coming here today. On a serious note, when there was traffic chaos in Gatwick Airport he said we had no reason to have any fears and that, in his opinion and on the advice available to him, this would not happen in Dublin. It is an appropriate issue to raise with the Minister today now that...

Road Traffic (Bus and Cycle Lane) (Amendment) Bill 2019: First Stage (21 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Road Traffic Act 2010 to make provision for the use of digitally recorded data from electronic devices of footage and/or other readings from road traffic safety cameras/closed circuit television cameras as evidence of the unlawful entry into or parking in a bus lane or cycle track and to provide for related matters....

Road Traffic (Bus and Cycle Lane) (Amendment) Bill 2019: First Stage (21 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: The cost of insurance, in particular that of public liability, is crippling business the length and breadth of the country. One of the key recommendations of Mr. Justice Kearns' report requires the passage of the Judicial Council Bill 2017 but it has yet to be brought into the Seanad. The reason it has not been brought to the Seanad is due to the time that has been spent on the Judicial...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: What about the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Feb 2019)

Robert Troy: 130. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for surgery will be expedited for a person (details supplied). [8859/19]