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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: 905. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the names of the greenways here that received sanctioned funding from his Department; and the funding amount allocated to each greenway in tabular form. [27064/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: 906. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of greenways here in respect of which funding was sanctioned in the past five years and that have been completed to date. [27065/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: 907. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding allocated to greenways here for the past five years; and the amount of funding which has been drawn down from this allocation in tabular form. [27066/16]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: 908. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the names of greenways that are in difficulty at the present time vis-á-vis planning issues, agreement with landowners and difficulties of this nature. [27067/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Overtime (16 Sep 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: 143. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the overtime cost for garda rank only in the Sligo and Leitrim Garda division for 2015 and 2016; the reason there was such a large decrease in garda rank between 2011, €803,732 and 2014, €320.298; her views on whether this should increase; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25646/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Equipment (16 Sep 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: 154. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if every Garda regional divisional headquarters here has access to biohazard protection suits, gloves and masks for its garda rank members that can be used for protection from disease and sickness in the event of an incident with an arrested member of the public in custody; if not, the reason; her views on whether every regional Garda station...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (16 Sep 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: 158. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the OPW and An Garda Síochána have identified the location for the new regional Garda station in Sligo town; when this project will begin construction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25709/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Constituency Boundaries (16 Sep 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: 612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to establish an electoral boundary commission in order to review the local authority electoral boundaries for the 2019 Local Elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25463/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Applications (16 Sep 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: 614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is aware that there are long delays in processing HAP applications in Sligo County Council due to staff shortages; if he will allocate additional resources to Sligo County Council on the same basis as the recent allocation of funding for general road operatives; if he is aware that persons are currently being...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Licence Applications (16 Sep 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: 619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide details as to the intentions of an application (details supplied) and the expected benefits to the State of this licence being granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25684/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (16 Sep 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: 740. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given to allow persons who are in receipt of disability benefit to undertake a JobBridge internship or its replacement in the future for more than a maximum of two nine-month placements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25464/16]

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: Thank you, Acting Chairman, for the opportunity to speak on this important motion. I wish to place on the record my deep disappointment and concern that the decision to appeal this ruling took so long to be agreed on by the Government. It should not have required a media circus and a number of days of political turmoil to make a decision that is in the best interests of the country. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: UN Migration Summit: Discussion (28 Jul 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: I thank the representatives for being here and for their frank and informative contributions. Quite a number of the questions that I wanted to pose have already been asked. Mr. Clarken said that the contribution of the rich countries is in the region of 9%. Perhaps he might elaborate on that. With regard to the EU-Turkey deal, there must be great concern about the events that happened in...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (21 Jul 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: The free legal aid scheme is to be transferred from the Department of Justice and Equality to the Legal Aid Board. When can we expect the criminal legal aid Bill to be brought before the House for debate? We have been talking about this Bill for quite some time in the House and it needs to be advanced.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Business of Select Committee (21 Jul 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: In the event that the ambassador is not available next Thursday, will the meeting still proceed?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (21 Jul 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: 635. To ask the Minister for Health the number of orthopaedic surgical procedures that have been carried out (details supplied) in each of the past three years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23984/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Jul 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: 636. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently placed on a waiting list for assessment or a waiting list for specific surgical procedures (details supplied); the average waiting time on those lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23989/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: Despite the Government's best intentions with regard to improving the rights and protections offered to victims of crime, many people still feel they are not sufficiently dealt with or supported. In this context, when can we expect the criminal justice (victims of crime) Bill to be brought before the House? Anyone who has been a victim of crime in the past knows that we need to support...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Staff (19 Jul 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: 176. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the number of staff within the Customs and Excise section of the Revenue Commissioners that are detailed to investigate illegal narcotics and illegal drug importation in counties Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan and Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22219/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Drugs Crime (19 Jul 2016)

Tony McLoughlin: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that there are no detector drugs dogs working in Ireland West Airport, Knock or assigned to the Border-midlands-west region since early 2016; if he can provide a guarantee as to when a drugs detector dog will be assigned with permanent staff to this airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22310/16]