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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (13 Apr 2017)

Catherine Martin: 138. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details of resources available to support local groups seeking to meet their own housing needs through the co-operative housing model; if he will consider issuing a circular to local authorities encouraging support for co-operative housing groups, including the provision of low cost sites; and if he will make a...

Garda Commissioner: Motion [Private Members] (12 Apr 2017)

Catherine Martin: Tá an Comhaontas Glas fíorshásta tacaíocht a thabhairt don rún seo. It is essential for the proper operation of a State that the public has confidence, respect and trust in its police force but in recent times, there has been a worrying erosion of this by the inability or perhaps perceived unwillingness of the Garda Commissioner to properly and efficiently handle a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (11 Apr 2017)

Catherine Martin: 251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will allow the filling of the remainder of a school's (details supplied) allocation of special needs assistants in view of the fact that while the school has been allocated 18 special needs assistants only 14 are currently working at the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18010/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Maintenance (6 Apr 2017)

Catherine Martin: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans and the anticipated timeline for the deep thermal retrofit of social housing stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13942/17]

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Catherine Martin: I thank the Members who contributed and I am delighted there is cross-party support for the motion. I am especially delighted for the mothers and fathers who are present in the Gallery to watch the debate as they seek a fairer system for mothers of premature babies. Present legislation and policy abjectly ignores, and is cruel in its disregard for, the huge unforeseen pressure and turmoil...

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Catherine Martin: I move:"That Dáil Éireann: notes that:— a premature baby is a baby who is delivered at less than 37 weeks gestation; — 1 in 16 women in Ireland will deliver a premature baby; — according to figures from the Economic and Social Research Institute and the Central Statistics Office, over 4,500 babies are born prematurely in Ireland every year, which in 2014 was...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Eligibility (4 Apr 2017)

Catherine Martin: 663. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if State-owned community schools can apply for the sports capital grant; if not, if there is an alternative under which these particular community schools can seek such support in view of the fact that other types of schools are not necessarily similarly barred from applying for the sports capital grant; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of his Department's ownership of a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15599/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the official timeline for phasing out a school (details supplied); his plans for providing four extra classrooms for a school (details supplied) over the next two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15600/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (29 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the land acquisition for access to the site of a new school building at a school (details supplied) between stakeholders; if contracts have been exchanged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15601/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (28 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will seek to acquire lands which have recently been put on the market adjacent to a school (details supplied); if not, the reason he did not seek to purchase the land for the use of the adjacent school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15101/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes (28 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he is taking to ensure that released prisoners have access to training and education, in view of the fact that it is an essential part of rebuilding life after conviction and in further view of Dublin Institute of Technology introducing Garda vetting for applicants to their access programme (details supplied); and if he will make...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Schemes (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: I thank the Minister for the information she provided on the supports and initiatives currently running in the area. To be honest, I still do not hear a comprehensive strategy. Unfortunately, the one element that is missing is ambition and we must be ambitious in this area. We need sustainability and sustainable enterprises not just to be part of the strategy, but rather the cornerstone of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Schemes (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: The Government must be much more active in helping create these new jobs in the renewable sector. Facilitating the movement of people into the sector while achieving our climate targets and fair and full employment in this country are indelibly linked. This is incredibly important for areas like the midlands, which currently has more than 3% greater unemployment than the rest of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Schemes (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to stimulate investment in sustainable enterprise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14754/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Enterprise Support Schemes (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: This question relates to the fact that we as a country must invest in job creation in sustainable enterprises. Where is the long-term vision and plan and the joined-up interdepartmental thinking? What is the Government's plan to exploit the opportunity for thousands of jobs in the new renewable energy sectors in which it currently does not appear to be interested?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (22 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps taken by his Department or agencies under its aegis to provide safe cycling routes to all primary and secondary schools and third level colleges in pursuance of objective 4.1 of the national cycle policy framework; and if he anticipates that the target in that objective of providing all of these routes by 2020 will be met....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Data (22 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 62. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of wheelchair accessible taxis that operate here; if this is sufficient to ensure a reliable supply for passengers at all times; and his plans to improve the availability of wheelchair accessible taxis during the lifetime of the Government. [14243/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Emergency Plan (21 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the actions he is taking to ensure, in the event of a nuclear accident related to the generation and storage of nuclear power in the UK, the safety of the public in view of the proposed exit of the UK from the Euratom Treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13943/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Activities (21 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1051. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which Coillte has fully complied with all of its own consultancy processes and procedures in respect of development of Coillte land at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13519/17]