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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service Funding (15 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funding provided to the Money Advice and Budgeting Service in each of the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47581/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Citizens Information Services Funding (15 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount of funding provided to the Citizens Information Service in each of the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47582/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (15 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delay in establishing the promised affordable housing scheme; and when full details will be issued to local authorities in relation to same. [47568/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (15 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to proceed with legislation to address the issue of spiralling rents in student accommodation as promised in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47569/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (15 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a company (details supplied) was involved in the building of social housing; and if so, the steps he is taking to ensure quality control. [47570/18]

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Second Stage (14 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. It is a mixed bag in many ways. There are measures to be welcomed, measures that have been omitted and other areas where the Minister has not gone far enough. There is no doubt the situation this year is less tight than it was in previous years, and that is to be welcomed. More funding is available within the social protection budget, and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (14 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the building projects that are under way with a company (details supplied); his plans to continue with these contracts in view of the serious structural defects that have been identified in many of the schools built by this company; and the precise manner in which he plans to ensure quality control and protection for the public funds. [47429/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (14 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to address the problem and threat to public safety as a result of the widespread misuse of quad bikes and scramblers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47434/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (14 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the interdepartmental group in respect of the widespread and growing problem of the misuse of quad bikes and scramblers and the safety threat that this poses to the public thathe has established has only met on two occasions in 2018 as of 9 November 2018; if he will address this issue of public safety as a matter...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (14 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the advice that the interdepartmental group in respect of the widespread and growing problem of the misuse of quad bikes and scramblers that he has established to examine the issue has received from the Attorney General; and if he will introduce the recommended measures in order to address this issue as a matter of urgency....

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital Location (14 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 239. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the proposal to develop the new national maternity hospital on the grounds of St. Vincent's University Hospital; the way in which it is planned to ensure that this asset is retained in full public ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47430/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital Location (14 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 240. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether in order to be capable of providing the full range of women’s healthcare services there cannot be an involvement of a religious body in the ownership of the building or the site on which the proposed new national maternity hospital is to be located [47431/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (14 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to address the imbalance in pension increases for members of a fund (details supplied) in view of the fact that the rate of payment has remained static for this group for ten years and the fact that its members cannot qualify for a State pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47435/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse (14 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 265. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, in the recording of abuse claims, the field "founded or unfounded" exists on the NIIS information system as used by Tusla; the protocols for the use of this categorisation if it exists in the NIIS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47364/18]

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: The Taoiseach referred to the fact that he is taking legal advice from the Attorney General in respect of the two senior gardaí at the centre of the Charleton tribunal. In a general sense, would he accept there is an issue in the State where senior public servants whose performance has been less than satisfactory and, in some cases, grossly unsatisfactory, sail off into the sunset with...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

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An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: Not if one is on low pay.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (13 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 433. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided for procedures carried out under the cross-border directive by procedure and location in which the procedure was carried out for each year of the existence of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47053/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (13 Nov 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 434. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures carried out under the cross-border directive by the number that took place in private hospitals or clinics and those carried out in public hospitals or clinics; the amount of funding provided for treatment in public and private settings by procedure and location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47054/18]