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

Catherine Martin: 1052. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Coillte has a full and accurate list of all farmers and other landowners who are likely to be materially affected by a proposed development on Coillte land at a location (details supplied); the steps he plans to take to ensure all relevant consultation processes and procedures are fully followed by Coillte in this regard; and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (21 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps Fáilte Ireland and his Department took to ensure compliance with the terms of the grant scheme for large tourism projects 2016-2020 and relevant EU and Irish planning, state aid and competition law, in respect of the proposed funding of a tourism development project in the Dublin mountains at a location (details...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (21 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps Fáilte Ireland is taking to ensure that any tourism development project in the Dublin mountain area is fully compliant with all relevant planning and state aid rules and is also fully compliant with the relevant Irish and EU Law in regard to environmental impact assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: Táim sásta labhairt anocht ar son an rúin seo mar go díríonn se ar chuid mhaith den mhí-chothromaíocht atá sa chóras oideachais seo againne, mí-chothromaíocht gur féidir leis an Rialtas a leigheas go héasca má chinntíonn sé infheistíocht do na hearnáil áirithe seo. I commend Deputy Thomas Byrne on...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: Ba mhaith lion a rá leis an Teach anocht go bhfuil an Comhaontas Glas sásta tacaíocht a thabhairt don Bhille seo. Once again in this House, we find ourselves discussing the need to repeal an uncompromising, extremely rigid Article in the Constitution which has caused untold unnecessary suffering to many Irish women and families since its inception in 1983. One of the many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: I thank everyone for their presentations. I concur with Senator Gallagher in commending Deputy Daly on bringing this Bill forward. Due to his knowledge of the legislation, he has already raised the relevant questions. I would be interested in coming back later to discuss the parent and student charter Bill. I have one question for Dr. Muldoon. Currently, what are the biggest stumbling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: Mr. McLoughlin said that the Department will put the flesh on the charter and then it would go to consultation with working groups, which I presume will be students and parents. Then there will be individual charters by school, because obviously there cannot be a one-size fits all as there is huge variation in the make-up of school communities. How will the consultation with parents and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: No, in secondary schools.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Education (Amendment) Bill 2015 and General Scheme of Education (Parent and Student Charter) Bill 2016: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: That needs to be addressed too and should be brought into the open. Public representatives and community activists may be involved in other schools too. I do not know if that is necessarily a good thing for the student or the parents, for interviewing teachers. This is something that needs to be brought into the open. If we are talking about students, is it time to seriously consider...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (7 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 37. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the draft National Biodiversity Action Plan 2017-2021 contains no actions in relation to the network of natural heritage areas; and the reason actions contemplated in the plan to designate proposed NHAS and to strengthen the coherence, connectivity and resilience of the protected areas network, which have...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: A commitment was made in the programme for Government to review the closure of Garda stations, and as part of the review there is a clear commitment to launch a pilot scheme to reopen six Garda stations, and it states this would be initiated within two months. That was ten months ago.

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: Since the closure in my constituency of Stepaside Garda station in 2012 the community lives in constant fear, with some residents having been the victims of burglary not just once or twice, but on three occasions. The community is living in hope its station will be identified as one of the six to be reopened. This is why over the past year I have submitted a number of questions to the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Provision (1 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 304. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the procedures in place to ensure local authorities designing cycle routes comply with the National Cycle Manual (details supplied). [10603/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 646. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently on the pre-planned hospital waiting list and the pre-admit hospital waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10365/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 650. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons removed from waiting lists in each of the past 12 months due to their failure to respond to outpatient validation letters, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10447/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Authority Expenditure (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 785. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1557 of 17 January 2017 and the information subsequently supplied by the NTA, the reason Fingal County Council, with 16% of the greater Dublin area, GDA, population spent only 1% of the sustainable transport measures grant programme expenditure in the GDA; and if his or his Department's attention...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Court of Justice Rulings (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 798. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the fact that in 2015 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in case C-266/14 that in instances in which workers do not have a fixed place of work, the time they spend travelling between their home and their first and last customers each day counts as working time; if her attention has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (22 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, with regard to a closed Garda station (details supplied), the Garda Commissioner has indicated to her a timeframe as to when the review of the re-opening of Garda stations agreed in the programme for Government will be completed; if she has requested same; if so, when the announcement will be made; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (22 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) concerning gross human rights violations in the Syrian Government's Saydnaya prison; his views on the call for an urgent and independent investigation into crimes committed at the prison; the action he has taken on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Domestic Violence (22 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recent passage through the Duma, the Parliament of the Russian Federation, and adoption by the Russian President, Mr. Putin, of a law decriminalising the first instance of domestic violence against a spouse or partner; his plans to call on the Russian Government to repeal this law which is in breach...