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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (9 Jun 2015)

Tom Fleming: 471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the monitoring being carried out on deer that are infected with tuberculosis; the communication his Department has with the Office of Public Works and the National Parks and Wildlife Service; if he in conjunction with the Office of Public Works will introduce a plan to combat the threat of tuberculosis spreading from deer herds to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Programme (9 Jun 2015)

Tom Fleming: 480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make adjustments to the new beef data and genomics scheme as many aspects of the new scheme are over-complicated, the requirements are set at too high a level and will impose excessive costs on farmers, and adjustments are required to address anomalies regarding the inflexibility of the six-year rule and payment...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (9 Jun 2015)

Tom Fleming: 699. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, in view of the fact that the person has submitted all the relevant information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21627/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (9 Jun 2015)

Tom Fleming: 798. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently examine an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22081/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (9 Jun 2015)

Tom Fleming: 826. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been facilitated in the paired kidney exchange programme with the United Kingdom in each year from 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; the arrangements that are in place to facilitate the current waiting list of nearly 60 patients; the number of kidney donors, including live voluntary donors, who are currently available; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (9 Jun 2015)

Tom Fleming: 843. To ask the Minister for Health the update on the review of Lantern Lodge day care centre, New Road, Killarney, County Kerry, as residents are worried and concerned regarding any proposed downgrading, as this centre provides quality support and is also vital as a drop-in centre to its clients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22230/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (9 Jun 2015)

Tom Fleming: 852. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce legislation to regulate the counselling and psychotherapy sector to ensure that all regulated practitioners would be educated to at least degree level, level 8 according to the QQl, and that suitably qualified practitioners are part of a register that is administered by an independent regulator, for example, CORU; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Proposed Legislation (9 Jun 2015)

Tom Fleming: 959. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the draft technological universities Bill 2014 in view of the fact that if implemented as currently drafted it will lead to a dramatic reduction in the regional provision of programmes and corresponding inequity in access to higher education and allow the Higher Education Authority and the new technological universities the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (9 Jun 2015)

Tom Fleming: 1081. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details, in tabular form, in respect of funding for grant aided schemes, housing aid for older people, housing adaptations and disability grants, in each local authority area, for each year from 2000 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22275/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (9 Jun 2015)

Tom Fleming: 1082. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details, in tabular form, of the funding for social housing in each local authority for the years 2000 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; the number of new units built in each year and the category of housing units built; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22276/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (9 Jun 2015)

Tom Fleming: 1154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date progress on the development and upgrading of the Milltown-Killorglin road at Kilderry, County Kerry; the commencement date for the new road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21975/15]

Aer Lingus Share Disposal: Motion (Resumed) (28 May 2015)

Tom Fleming: I have grave reservations about how the proposed takeover of Aer Lingus by IAG will look in future. In trying to analyse the consequences for our national and regional airports, we cannot ignore the approach taken by British Airways to its domestic market and what has occurred there in recent years. British Airways has consolidated its transatlantic services into the London airports,...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)

Tom Fleming: That limit is preventing many family carers upskilling with a view to returning to the workforce, but there has been no movement on that. The removal of the bereavement grant shows a lack of awareness of the significant cost on families on the death of their loved ones. The solution offered, namely, asking family carers to apply for an exceptional needs payment at a distressing time in...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)

Tom Fleming: I stress the importance of providing affordable options for families to provide care to their loved ones and allow them live in their own homes. A typical example is the housing grant scheme, which is administered by county councils. The mobility aid grant is an essential piece of the jigsaw in allowing people to live in their own homes but funding for that grant has been halved from...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)

Tom Fleming: I ask the Tánaiste and her fellow Ministers to get back to the drawing board, address the matters I have raised and enhance what is needed to be enhanced in the forthcoming budget. Some of these matters could be addressed immediately if the windfall was available.

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)

Tom Fleming: The number of carers estimated by the Carers Association is 187,000, which I believe is a conservative figure. At least another 100,000 are indirectly engaged in caring in some capacity or another. That brings the figure up to almost 300,000 people engaged in caring. That is a huge resource that we cannot underestimate, and the cost-benefit savings to the State from that resource are...

Leaders' Questions (28 May 2015)

Tom Fleming: The Carers' Association, which represents 187,000 carers in this country attended a meeting with Oireachtas Members on 19 May. The main item on the agenda was the national strategy report for carers and the slow progress being made on the report which was first planned and published in 2012. There are some 42 actions recommended in the strategy, but many of them remain untouched. Several...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (27 May 2015)

Tom Fleming: 44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review and expedite an application for an invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, given that all medical evidence has been submitted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20913/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (27 May 2015)

Tom Fleming: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review and expedite an application for an invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20925/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (27 May 2015)

Tom Fleming: 50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine and expedite an application for an illness benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, given that this application has been pending for a long time and the person recently had an assessment with the medical assessor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20957/15]