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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (8 May 2019)

Dara Calleary: 358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of emergency works funding for a school (details supplied). [19593/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (8 May 2019)

Dara Calleary: 675. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for not publishing the 2017 pricing review of the nursing home support scheme; the timeframe for same; his views on whether supports under the scheme need to be reformed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18633/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (8 May 2019)

Dara Calleary: 676. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions relating to nursing homes contained in the proposed 2019 GMS contract for general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18634/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs Availability (8 May 2019)

Dara Calleary: 893. To ask the Minister for Health if Versatis patches will be reinstated on the medical card scheme. [19443/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission Reports (8 May 2019)

Dara Calleary: 1207. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will adopt the key recommendations of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission report published 28 September 2018 to establish an economic regulator for household waste collection; if he will consider its functions to include economic licensing, data collection and analysis, market design and consumer...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance Funding (8 May 2019)

Dara Calleary: 1271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the grant allocation to each local authority in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date 2019 for each of the three main grant categories - restoration improvement, discretionary grant and restoration maintenance - for regional and local roads; the amount expended in each year to date; and the amount paid out to date out as a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Roads Maintenance Funding (8 May 2019)

Dara Calleary: 1272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if separate funding is provided for footpath refurbishment and construction in view of insufficient roads maintenance funds available to carry out such works on district roads. [18524/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes Administration (8 May 2019)

Dara Calleary: 1372. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if consideration will be given to requesting from the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform that the threshold for the requirement for e-tenders be increased in order to cut the level of bureaucracy that is hindering community groups from bringing smaller Leader projects forward. [18525/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Comhar Naíonraí na Gaeltachta (8 May 2019)

Dara Calleary: 1606. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the annual capital allocation to Comhar Naíonraí na Gaeltachta in each of the years 2016 to 2018, in tabular form; and the 2019 allocation in this regard. [18901/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Funding (18 Apr 2019)

Dara Calleary: I am afraid the response confirms all our fears. It is extraordinary. The HSE recruited for positions in 2018. The reason it recruited was because of extraordinary waiting lists but it did not plan for the resources of those extra positions during the 2019 budget. What kind of dummies are doing the accounts here? That is basic accounting. When one expands a service, one resources it to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services Funding (18 Apr 2019)

Dara Calleary: I welcome the Minister for Thursdays to the Chamber. I am grateful to the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this issue. I am joined by Deputy Eugene Murphy as my question also relates to Roscommon and County Galway. I understand that HSE management in CHO 2 in Galway, Mayo and Roscommon are planning a range of curtailments of services, including the cancellation of 20 agency staff contracts...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2019)

Dara Calleary: As we come towards the end of the session, on behalf of Fianna Fáil I thank the Ceann Comhairle and the staff of the House for their courtesy during the session. I particularly acknowledge the work done by Ceann Comhairle and the organisers of Dáil100 on the major events which bookended the session - the centenary of the First Meeting of Dáil Éireann in the Mansion House...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2019)

Dara Calleary: Last week, I raised the issue of the so-called cuckoo funds, which are basically large corporate funds in receipt of tax incentives that are buying out complete housing and apartment developments before they can go on general sale or, in the case of a development I mentioned last week, even where booking deposits have been made. The deposits in question were subsequently returned. In this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2019)

Dara Calleary: If the Tánaiste needs reminding, this is a practice that has removed from the market thousands of units, and equivalently thousands of houses, which could have been available to first-time buyers in 2018. Three thousand units might have been available to hard-working families who are struggling to get on the housing ladder and 3,000 units might have made a commute a lot shorter for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2019)

Dara Calleary: I assure the Tánaiste that there is no mix-up. Some 3,000 apartments and houses built last year could have been acquired by families and first-time buyers but were instead acquired by funds. The Tánaiste knows we have a housing crisis. A time of crisis is not a time to be re-engineering the housing market.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2019)

Dara Calleary: These funds are buying the apartments and, to use the Tánaiste's phrase, they are "adding to supply" on the basis of the very cosy tax arrangements available to them. If the Government put tax or cosy arrangements in place for people who want to build homes for families, they would redirect their investment towards homes as opposed to investing in corporate units and thereby adding to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2019)

Dara Calleary: Is it not time to re-examine the taxation model and decide to put money into increasing the supply of homes as opposed to corporate units that add to corporate profit? The latter is what is happening. Some 3,000 units are involved. There were 295 in Leopardstown that would have been available to families. This is also the case in Dundrum and Citywest. They could have been bought by...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Bodies Data (18 Apr 2019)

Dara Calleary: 46. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the State agencies and bodies under the remit of his Department; the location of each such body by county; and the number of full and part-time persons employed in each such body. [18229/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Bodies Data (18 Apr 2019)

Dara Calleary: 50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the State agencies and bodies under the remit of his Department; the location of each such body by county; and the number of full and part-time persons employed in each such body. [18233/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Agencies Data (18 Apr 2019)

Dara Calleary: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance the State agencies and bodies under the remit of his Department; the location of each such body by county; and the number of full- and part-time persons employed in each such body. [18232/19]