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Questions on Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: The programme for Government references labour activation schemes and back-to-work schemes, both of which are badly needed. I wish to raise an issue relating to community employment placements. Traditionally, employees would have gone onto a Tús scheme. From there they would have gone on to work with a local organisation, often a community or charitable organisation, and then they...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: Will the Minister review the operation of this scheme? It is not working. This is the position throughout the country. Individuals and organisations are losing out. Will the Minister review the operation of the scheme? It is in the programme for Government. Will the Minister clarify the situation?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Status (17 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: 46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding the Balyna group water scheme in north-west Kildare; if the scheme will go ahead, and if the scheme does not proceed, if his Department intends to refund the many households in the area that contributed financially to the scheme during the setup phase. [35356/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Planning (17 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: 50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that the process by which local area plans are devised is fit for purpose in view of the fact that expectations can often be raised that zoning will translate to actual land uses, for example, amenity or educational, in view of the fact that a coincidence of zoning, ownership and intention is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (17 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: 113. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the current system of Garda vetting is local and particular to each school and must be repeated school by school for temporary substitute workers, such as special needs assistants who move around between schools and who find this a barrier to securing work in more than one school, and that it...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Third Level Funding (17 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: 272. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total funding allocated to the programme for research in third level institutions in the period 2010 to 2016 annually in tabular form; the programme funding that has been allocated in 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35674/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (16 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the school transport scheme, which has been proven not to be adequately working in view of the recent number of children who were not accommodated en route to a school; if he will make available additional funding to allow operators use higher capacity vehicles in order to alleviate this problem; if he will provide an update...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (16 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: 80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35355/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration (16 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider siting another vehicle registration tax registration centre in north Kildare in view of the demand from large population towns such as Leixlip, Celbridge and Maynooth and that the closest centre currently within the county is at Naas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35396/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Charges (16 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: 240. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if clampers at car parking places are permitted to impose fees of €120 as they have done recently at Sallins railway station in view of the fact that legislation was enacted to cap fees at €100 in the last Dáil term; if he is satisfied with the operation of this legislation; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (15 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: 68. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations and the number of gardaí in each in County Kildare on 31 October 2010 and on 31 October 2016; the proportion of the proposed 800 additional recruits in 2017 that are likely to be assigned to County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34716/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (15 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: 109. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position of County Kildare in comparison to other counties in terms of the number of gardaí per head of population; and if, as expected, County Kildare lies towards the bottom of that list, the measures being taken to address the shortfall of gardaí vis-à-vis other counties. [34752/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (15 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: 408. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for an illness benefit allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35003/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (15 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: 409. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal of an application for a carer's allowance in respect a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35004/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. It is good to hear from them all. I have a couple of questions which I will ask in no particular order. The first concerns the role of the community sector, which I think was mentioned in one of the presentations. This also includes the local radio sector, maybe the commercial sector and maybe the broadcasting authorities. I am not sure if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: Regarding the BAI's rebalancing and looking at the commercial and community aspects, which was mentioned at some stage earlier, there is CRAOL, an umbrella community radio group, and all the local radio stations, which are employed commercially as well. I am interested in the BAI's thoughts on the position if these were to come under its wing in the future. I am not sure whether they are at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: That is helpful. At one stage, it was proposed that every device would have a licence attaching to it. Therefore, in a household with three televisions and three iPads, six licences would have been required. If five out of the six were registered, would the household be considered to be evading? I did not think that was the case but I wanted to clarify that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Broadcasting: Discussion (8 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: I second Deputy Ryan's proposal for a wider forum for all the stakeholders. If we could contribute to that, I would be happy to do so. It is a good suggestion.

Other Questions: Research and Development Supports (3 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: 15. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation following the publication of Innovation 2020, the mechanism in place to review progress and ensure targets in the strategy are being met on an annual basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32997/16]

Other Questions: Research and Development Supports (3 Nov 2016)

James Lawless: Following the publication of Innovation 2020, which set out a number of targets for research, innovation and such matters, what measures are in place to quantify, track and, if necessary, remediate progress towards those targets?