Results 10,501-10,520 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (17 Apr 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 989. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 174 of 14 December 2016 and 227 of 24 May 2017, the status of the work of the Lyme borreliosis subcommittee; his plans to update processes for the detection and treatment of Lyme disease; his further plans to improve follow up care for persons following diagnosis; his views on whether training for doctors is adequate...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (17 Apr 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 1031. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the roll-out of the proposed out-of-hours general practitioner service for north County Wicklow; if a service provider has been selected; the service to be provided; the scheduled start date for the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16770/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (17 Apr 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 1188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the options available to him to prevent the sale of goods which use packaging that cannot currently be recycled here. [16096/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Warmer Homes Scheme Data (17 Apr 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 1176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of households that have availed of the warmer homes scheme in each of the years since its existence. [15712/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Warmer Homes Scheme Data (17 Apr 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 1177. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if perons who have already benefitted from the warmer homes scheme can apply again for the additional benefits further to his recent announcement regarding improvements under the scheme. [15713/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (17 Apr 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 1187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action he is taking to promote the development of facilities here for the recycling of soft plastics; and the requirements set down in respect of the recycling industry to have such facilities or to have the option of subcontracting this type of material to companies in another country in which soft plastics can...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (17 Apr 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 1189. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the basis on which companies are permitted to put a recyclable logo or emblem on the packaging of their goods; if there is a system to limit the use of this logo or emblem here to packaging that can be recycled here; and the way in which this is currently policed here. [16097/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (17 Apr 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 1301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the proposals for BRT between Swords and Dublin city centre in view of the recently announced MetroLink plans; if the BRT scheme will be progressed during the planning and construction phase of MetroLink; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15985/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Payments (17 Apr 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 1456. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the action she is taking through her Department or through the Citizens Information Board to ensure there is greater uptake of the UK's winter fuel payment by eligible persons resident here and to raise awareness of the availability of the scheme and the hard and soft criteria applying to the scheme. [16291/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (17 Apr 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 1485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the statutory basis for the fuel allowance scheme, the household benefits package and the free travel scheme. [16771/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (17 Apr 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 1585. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 120 of 22 March 2018, the work being undertaken by his Department to encourage those availing of the nursing homes support scheme to make their vacant homes available for sale or rental; his plans to address the issue of financial disincentives as part of this work; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (29 Mar 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 95. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts being made to promote an ending to the ongoing conflict in Syria on a bilateral and multilateral level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14757/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (29 Mar 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken on a bilateral basis to express the Government's opposition directly to the Russian and Iranian embassies in Dublin to their ongoing involvement in atrocities in Ghouta and elsewhere in Syria. [14758/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (29 Mar 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 97. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that will be taken by the Government to address the refugee crisis in Syria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14759/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Data (29 Mar 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance the median and mean tax rebate issued to first-time buyers under the help to buy scheme in 2017; the cost of the scheme in 2017; and the number of purchasers that availed of the scheme on a national, Dublin and ex-Dublin basis in tabular form. [14764/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (29 Mar 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 130. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on discussions which have taken place to date at the community sector high level forum in regard to the need for community employment scheme supervisors to be provided with a pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14686/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Correspondence (29 Mar 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 131. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to correspondence to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; his policy in respect of issuing letters such as this; if there is a lower limit amount of pension overpayment which the PSSC will not attempt to recoup from bereaved persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14781/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Training Fund (29 Mar 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the value of the national training fund for each of the past ten years; the allocations that have been made from this fund since 2016, in tabular form; the process by which these allocation were decided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14522/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes (29 Mar 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the workforce development framework report; his plans to publish the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14523/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (29 Mar 2018)

Róisín Shortall: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure adequate accommodation is provided to schools (details supplied) to ensure they can grow to full stream in cases in which there is a clear demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14897/18]