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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (18 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: 324. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps taken since the Health Information and Quality Authority review to address concerns raised regarding Tusla services in County Roscommon; the steps yet to be taken to fulfil all outstanding aspects of the recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48929/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications (18 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: 378. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 9 October 2014 the number of persons on the placement list for the nursing homes support scheme; the time it is taking for funding to issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48930/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (18 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 1 July 2014, the number of relief teaching days allocated to teachers on a departmental pension in 201-14 and the current school year at primary and post-primary respectively; the steps being taken to reduce this number; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48927/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Appointments to State Boards (18 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: 562. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of vacancies on each public board accountable to his Department; the steps he will take to fill vacant positions on each board; the process to be used to fill such vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48926/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme (18 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: 618. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 237 of 16 October 2014, the number of appeals received by the group to date in 2014; the number of cases; the numbers determined; the current processing time for such appeals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48917/14]

Water Services Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (17 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: I agree with the principle of what Deputy Stanley said. Although the most secure way to ensure Irish Water and its assets are not privatised is to enshrine it in the Constitution, we do not have such a facility in this legislation. I am glad the Minister listened to the argument proposed here on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week and accepted the amendment. Sadly, it is the exception that...

Other Questions: Science Foundation Ireland Remit (17 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: 9. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to ensure that Science Foundation Ireland continues to fund basic fundamental scientific research; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48001/14]

Other Questions: Science Foundation Ireland Remit (17 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: The Government housing strategy is to supply 110,000 houses over the next six years. What is the possibility of this being achieved without training of bricklayers in this country? This is the policy now being implemented by Government in relation to its science strategy. Without basic research we cannot have applications. Electricity and the light bulb were not invented by incremental...

Other Questions: Science Foundation Ireland Remit (17 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: The Minister and I will fundamentally disagree anyway.

Other Questions: Science Foundation Ireland Remit (17 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: I accept what the Minister is saying and I have no difficulty with the principle of a substantial amount of funding going into that particular avenue. In my view, however, we are now putting all of our eggs in the one basket. A number of years ago the IRFU tried to close down Connacht Rugby on the basis of the west of Ireland not having the required capacity or strengths in relation to...

Other Questions: Science Foundation Ireland Remit (17 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: I have no problem with support and investment in Ulster, Leinster or Munster rugby but Connacht Rugby cannot be ignored. That is what is happening. We are ignoring basic research. I accept that there is funding available from Europe, which is the usual answer trotted out. What is being done in this area is akin to asking a ten year old child to by-pass second level education and go...

Other Questions: Job Losses (17 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: 6. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he is taking to secure jobs at the MBNA site in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48000/14]

Other Questions: Job Losses (17 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: At the end of last month MBNA closed its facility in Carrick-on-Shannon and the final 160 staff were laid off. At its height MBNA employed 1,100 people in Carrick-on-Shannon. While it is all well and good to see job creation and job announcements on the east coast, the reality is that parts of my constituency have been decimated by unemployment, particularly in a town such as...

Other Questions: Job Losses (17 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: I bring the Minister back to his comment that there has been a small number of preliminary inquiries about the facility, both from foreign-owned and Irish-owned businesses. He gave me that comment in the House three months ago. What progress has been made in moving forward any of these preliminary inquiries in the past three months?

Other Questions: Job Losses (17 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: The Minister is correct in saying MBNA did not leave behind a body of work. However, it had a body of work on offer for sale for the two years prior to its announcement that it would close. The inter-agency group was established after MBNA announced it would close the facility in November. Should that group have been established when Bank of America announced it was getting out of the...

Other Questions: Job Losses (17 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for the interest he has taken in the issue and know that IDA Ireland has been pushing the issue internationally. I ask the Minister to take a personal interest in the matter in the coming months. There is a very tight window if we hope to attract an alternative employer. The financial services sector in Dublin is expanding rapidly and there is a squeeze on available...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (17 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the national ambulance service provided individual hospital turnaround times earlier this year, but is now refusing to provide any figure other than a national figure for all hospitals; his views that this is in the interests of patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48718/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (17 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: 180. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the national ambulance service provided ambulance response times for each of the nine sub regions earlier this year, but is now refusing to provide any figure other than a super-regional figure; his views that this is in the interests of patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48719/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: Are any new or additional resources being deployed there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Review of National Ambulance Service: Health Service Executive (16 Dec 2014)

Denis Naughten: I asked a question on ambulance stations.