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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: 1266. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be scheduled for an operation. [1479/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: 1267. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be scheduled for an operation. [1480/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Speeds (17 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: 1479. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will examine the way in which broadband service providers can advertise the availability of speeds within an area which may not be achievable at all; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41637/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan (17 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: 1481. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will prioritise the introduction of high-speed broadband in an area (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41677/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Mobile Telephony Services (17 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: 1485. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide information on the formation of a task force or oversight committee to monitor mobile phone coverage in rural Ireland; when this will come into operation; the persons and bodies that will comprise the membership of this task force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41842/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects (17 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: 1558. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there have been any recent developments regarding the Mullingar-Rooskey bypass. [41251/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Environmental Regulations (17 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: 1610. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timescale for the implementation of the Euro VI emission standards; if he will urgently sign this legislation into law; and if he will address the concerns of stakeholders in the motor industry which have been submitted to his Department and issue a response to these concerns. [1804/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services (17 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: 1611. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is his Department's policy to expand rail freight here; the measures being taken to achieve this; and if his Department has considered a subvention to reduce rail access charges for freight. [1857/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Subsidies (17 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: 1618. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total annual subsidy to each of the constituent CIÉ companies including both Public Service Obligation, PSO, funding and capital funding provided by the National Transport Authority in each year from 2009 to 2016, in tabular form. [1876/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Funding (17 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: 1621. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when funding will be provided to Westmeath County Council to extend the midlands greenway from the Whitegates to the marina in Athlone town. [1885/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Strategy Implementation (17 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: 1676. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the plans in place to support and assist community child care providers to mitigate against the inevitable pressures which will follow the removal of community employment workers from the rota from 1 January 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41248/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Commemorative Events (17 Jan 2017)

Robert Troy: 1737. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department will issue a special edition of the 1916 commemorative medal to all veterans and retired members of Óglaigh na hÉireann. [1934/17]

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Robert Troy: It is regrettable that in the dying days of this year and Dáil session such important legislation will be rushed through. Did the Government learn nothing from the mistakes of the previous Government which introduced the Water Services Bill 2013 in Christmas week several years ago and rushed it through? The Government had to deal with the aftermath of that for many years. I have grave...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (16 Dec 2016)

Robert Troy: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if time spent teaching in a private school not in the European Union is included under teaching service in the incremental payscale. [40590/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (16 Dec 2016)

Robert Troy: 501. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 562 of 25 October 2016, if he will provide details of the discussions and the clear position outlined in that reply that his Department has taken with regard to this matter. [40483/16]

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Robert Troy: Yes. I move amendment No. 16:In page 27, after line 38, to insert the following:“Amendments to Taxi Regulation Act 2013 38.(1) The Taxi Regulation Act 2013, is amended in section 2 by inserting the following definitions:“(a) ‘PSR’ means public service rickshaw; and (b) ‘PSR regulations’ means regulations made under section 20.”.(2) The Taxi...

Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)

Robert Troy: Only Deputy Howlin's party was here.

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2016)

Robert Troy: I support what my colleagues have said. I will be interested to hear the Minister's rationale for rejecting the amendment. It is a very worthwhile amendment. Unfortunately, there is a family in the Gallery who require this, having suffered an unimaginable tragedy, a fatality because of the lack of such an amendment. As I said at the outset, the reason we have Committee and Report Stages...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2016)

Robert Troy: I do not know whether it was a slip of the tongue or it was genuine but the Minister said initially that the NTA was going to bring forward proposals by the end of January and then he said it would be in the first quarter of 2017. He will then try to get Cabinet approval on the heads of a Bill and try to get space in what will be a tightly sought after space in the new year in terms of...

Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (14 Dec 2016)

Robert Troy: I have tabled an amendment in this regard. I also tabled it on Committee Stage. At present, no agency or public body has the authority to regulate rickshaws. The NTA, which regulates small public service vehicles such as taxis or hackneys, cannot regulate rickshaws because a public service vehicle is defined as a vehicle that is mechanically propelled. Likewise, Dublin City Council and...