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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Sep 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 740. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to announce the terms of reference for the commission of inquiry into mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34230/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Sep 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 741. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on broadening terms of reference for the commission of inquiry into mother and baby homes to include all institutions involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34231/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Sep 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 742. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on empowering the commission of inquiry into mother and baby homes to make observations regarding evidence suggesting criminal wrongdoing, so that it may make recommendations regarding a criminal investigation being established into such matters as it deems to be appropriate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34232/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (17 Sep 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 1062. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend BreastCheck to women aged 65 to 69 years of age as outlined in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34170/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility (17 Sep 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 1063. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in the proposal to grant medical cards based on medical need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34171/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Bioenergy Strategy Publication (17 Sep 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 1645. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to introduce a renewable heat incentive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34208/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Resources (17 Sep 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 1646. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to introduce a household tariff for solar PV; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34209/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Resources (17 Sep 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 1647. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the increase in recent years of the use of coal as a power generation fuel and its contribution to the overall carbon content of the electricity generation fuels; his further views that as consumers here are paying subsidies through REFIT to decarbonise the power sector that the buying of cheap high impact...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Incentives (17 Sep 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 1653. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the details of any studies his Department has undertaken to investigate the benefits of converting Moneypoint power station to biomass; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34601/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Incentives (17 Sep 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 1654. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the details of any studies his Department has undertaken to investigate the benefits of converting Moneypoint power station to co-fire on biomass; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34602/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Incentives (17 Sep 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 1656. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has examined the possibility of adjusting the proportion of renewable energy that is derived from wind energy when taking into consideration the evolvement of the technological and commercial environment in recent years and the need to be cost as well as carbon conscious; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy Review (17 Sep 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 1655. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has examined the contents of the BW Energy response to the Irish Government's consultation on the May 2014 Green Paper on Irish energy policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34603/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Turf Club for its presentation. I am somebody who probably knows the least about horse racing in this committee. We do not have any courses in Donegal. We have plenty of bookies but we do not have any racecourses. I wanted to ask about the integrity services and the Turf Club's request in respect of off-course integrity checks. The presentation stated that the Turf Club...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of Horse Racing Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (16 Sep 2014)

Thomas Pringle: Every group that has attended the committee on this Bill has sought representation on the proposed new board of Horse Racing Ireland. Will the delegations explain how effective the current board is? Are there any instances in which they feel it is not representative of the interested parties in the industry? Regarding head 5 and the negotiation of media rights resting solely with the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation Targets (17 Jul 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide the details of the proposals outlined in the bioenergy plan to optimise the contribution that energy from biomass can make in achieving our renewable targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31652/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Data Protection (17 Jul 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 28. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way he will permit An Post to access TV subscription data for payment of the TV licence taking into consideration data protection concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31651/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (17 Jul 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 643. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who suffer from multiple sclerosis who were prescribed the drug, Fampyra, in the Biogen Idec Fampyra NPS Programme here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32085/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks Projects (16 Jul 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 144. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details of the recent inspection by officials from the National Parks and Wildlife Service to Inis Bó Finne Island off County Donegal to monitor corncrake numbers; the rank of the relevant officers involved; the nature of the information recorded; an itemized list of all lands entered during the course of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme Expenditure (16 Jul 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 160. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details of the annual cost of REFIT in relation to wind energy; the projected cost in the next ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31801/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (16 Jul 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 221. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost in hiring one chiropodist. [31693/14]