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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (16 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 372. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all existing management grade HSE staff per community health care organisation and other division by grade in each case; and the corresponding figures for the end of 2013 to 2015, inclusive. [40708/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (16 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 373. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital beds which were closed as of 9 December 2016 by hospital, with a reason for the closure in each case. [40709/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (16 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 374. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 519 of 12 July 2016, if he will intervene to ensure that a person (details supplied) who previously was denied occupational therapy due to the lack of maternity cover, is provided an essential review as part of an early intervention service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40715/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (16 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 422. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to address the carbon footprint of the livestock sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40714/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Departmental Schemes (16 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 480. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent of coverage of low income households that qualify for inclusion in the warmth and wellbeing scheme; the details of the areas completed to date; the uptake in each area; and the way in which he will proceed with this scheme. [40706/16]

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

Róisín Shortall: 509. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the situation whereby several hundred rickshaws are operating in Dublin city at weekends and the implications of this for public safety; and his plans to regulate this activity or otherwise address it from the prospective of licencing, insurance, motor tax, vetting of drivers and so on. [40710/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (16 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 516. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the sports allocations made in each of the past ten years outside of the sports capital programme; the value, location, purpose and recipient of each allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40978/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (16 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 517. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the projects from which allocated sports capital programme funding has been withdrawn in each of the past ten years; the value, location and purpose of the project in each case and the applicant name and the reason for the withdrawal. [40979/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (16 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: 518. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total value of allocations over the past ten years under the sports capital programme that have yet to be drawn down, with a breakdown by the year the allocation decisions were made. [40980/16]

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

Róisín Shortall: 519. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a payment was made, and the details of any such payment, by his Department or any body under the aegis of his Department to provide for the bail of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41006/16]

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Why is it now that he-----

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: One must ask why the Minister has not used this evidence. It is available to everybody else. If he is to bring in some kind of rent restrictions, why has he not extended them to all those areas so badly affected by rent inflation? He clearly did not use the evidence in designating the areas. There is a clear argument for extending these restrictions across the country. However, he is now...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: He has arrived. I missed you. I am looking forward to hearing from you. I am glad you have joined us, finally.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I find it impossible to understand how, after all the racket that was made and all the posing and shadow boxing that went on during the past few days, you can have the courage to come here tonight. You must feel very ashamed of the carry on that has happened during the past few days and the withering climb down you have had to engage in to come along here this evening.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I listened very carefully to what the Minister said on "Morning Ireland". When he was asked to defend the figure of 4%, he said it was evidence based and that everything he was doing was evidence based. Saying it is evidence based does not make it evidence based. When the Minister was asked to point to the evidence, it was very thin on the ground. He said the evidence was taken from the...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I ask the Minister to justify the fact that people are saying they have never seen returns like they can get from the Irish rental market and they feel badly for the Irish people. How can the Minister possibly justify giving those people a 4% year on year increase in rent for the next three years? Has the Minister any defence whatsoever for it? The IRES REIT owns almost 2,500 apartments in...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: My reading of the formula the Minister is using and the definition of "t" in it seems to confirm it.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: I look forward to that, given that it is not clear in the amendments. After a certain amount of weak handed pressure from his colleagues in Fianna Fáil, the Minister has said he will consider the extension of the rent pressure zones in the next couple of months.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: Given that the Minister keeps talking about it being evidence based, I must ask why he has not used the evidence to select the areas. There is a significant problem in all of Dublin and there are issues in Cork. Why did the Minister not use the evidence available regarding the rent hikes we have seen during the past year?

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Róisín Shortall: For example, the rate of rent inflation during the past 12 months has been 15.8% in Meath, 13.4% in Kildare, 10.6% in Wicklow, and 15.2% in Louth. I can pull this evidence from the Internet in two minutes. Why can the Minister and his Department not get their hands on the evidence, given that he claims the Bill is evidence based? Why has he not included these areas in his proposals?