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Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Oct 2017)

Noel Rock: Everyone in this House knows the merits of an independent permanent electoral commission: an increase in voter participation and in voter education, maintaining the electoral register and monitoring campaign finances among many other benefits. Is there an established timeframe for the legislation this will require or for the establishment of this body?

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Control (4 Oct 2017)

Noel Rock: 124. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has been liaising with local authorities regarding the culling of seagulls in Dublin city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42126/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Data (4 Oct 2017)

Noel Rock: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the use to which the statistics his office receive from the RTB and the PRTB are put; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42125/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (3 Oct 2017)

Noel Rock: I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Finian McGrath, for coming into the House to deal with this matter. I seek to raise the most urgent issue of the provision of a primary care centre in Finglas. This project was first approved in 2012. In July 2013, it was described by the then Minister of State at the Department of Health, former Deputy Alex White, as a...

Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (3 Oct 2017)

Noel Rock: I thank the Minister of State for his considered response to the issues raised and questions posed. I suspect the site the Minister of State spoke about is the same one about which I received correspondence in the past. Maybe the owners of the site have changed their minds or maybe the HSE has moved on to look at a different site since my parliamentary question was submitted. I would...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Oct 2017)

Noel Rock: 105. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress in discussions with the Brazilian authorities to remove the State from a blacklist of tax havens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41349/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Botanic Gardens (3 Oct 2017)

Noel Rock: 128. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding will be provided to the OPW to complete renovation works to the cactus house and the giant waterlily house in the National Botanic Gardens; if funding will be provided for more botanical science staff in the gardens in view of the fact that it has two members of staff, which is a low figure compared with other botanical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Administration (3 Oct 2017)

Noel Rock: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SOLAS still owns the property on Shanliss road, Santry, which was used as a FÁS centre; if so, if it has plans for the property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41345/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (3 Oct 2017)

Noel Rock: 318. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug Translarna is not being made available for persons that suffer with Duchenne muscular dystrophy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41347/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Organisations (3 Oct 2017)

Noel Rock: 519. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress on his call for an organisation (details supplied) to implement measures still outstanding from the 2002 Genesis report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41346/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Sep 2017)

Noel Rock: My question concerns the markets in financial instruments Bill 2017. Has the relevant Department assessed, in light of this and the EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, MiFID II, the long-term implications for Ireland as a financial services centre in light of certain functions transferring from national authorities to be now conducted by pan-European authorities? Can this be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (28 Sep 2017)

Noel Rock: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding extending the fair deal scheme to allow persons receive care in their own home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41008/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (27 Sep 2017)

Noel Rock: 152. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 444 of 14 February 2017, the public hospitals that are resourced with at least one clinical nurse specialist whole-time equivalent that is specific to the HSE’s outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy OPAT programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40854/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (27 Sep 2017)

Noel Rock: 153. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 444 of 14 February 2017, the number of persons that were IV antibiotic inpatients in each public hospital in 2016; the number of hospital bed days that were taken up by IV antibiotic inpatients in each public hospital in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40855/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (27 Sep 2017)

Noel Rock: 154. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 444 of 14 February 2017, the number of persons that were community-based IV antibiotic patients via the OPAT programme; the number of persons on the self-care OPAT programme; the number on the nurse led OPAT programme; the number of hospital bed days that these groups of persons accounted for in 2016, by hospital, in...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2017)

Noel Rock: Deputy Eamon Scanlon has got his funding, on which I congratulate him. The Market and Financial Instruments Bill is important legislation. Has the relevant Minister considered the potential implications of the European Commission's proposals announced yesterday relating to reforming the European supervisory authority and specifically the proposal to amend the MiFID II directive? What is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (11 Sep 2017)

Noel Rock: 251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants on contracts pre-1995 who have had their pay affected by the introduction of PeoplePoint (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37774/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (11 Sep 2017)

Noel Rock: 610. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in the Garda special crime task force; the number of gardaí in the taskforce when it was originally set up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37777/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (11 Sep 2017)

Noel Rock: 609. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the State will be issuing an apology to a person (details supplied); his plans to review the immigration interrogation policy at the State's airports. [37771/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (11 Sep 2017)

Noel Rock: 832. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent by the HSE on postage and postal services; the forms of communication used by the executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37025/17]