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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (29 Nov 2016)

Mary Butler: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an application for funding by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37341/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (29 Nov 2016)

Mary Butler: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when new wind farm planning guidelines to assist the proper planning of wind power projects will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37181/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (29 Nov 2016)

Mary Butler: 503. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36862/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (30 Nov 2016)

Mary Butler: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 5 July 2016, the reason the borrowings of NUIG and Maynooth University are classified as outside general government for EUROSTAT purposes in view of the fact that NUIG and Maynooth University each receive 71% of their income from the State and WIT receives 73% of its income from the State. [37920/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (30 Nov 2016)

Mary Butler: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Waterford Institute of Technology was instructed by the HEA to cease borrowing in 2012 due to the fact its borrowings are classified as within general government, despite having a history of borrowing independently from 1992 to 2012. [37921/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (30 Nov 2016)

Mary Butler: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department has not given effect to the borrowing framework contained in the Institutes of Technology Act 2006. [37924/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority (30 Nov 2016)

Mary Butler: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current borrowings of all HEA funded higher education institutions here; the original value and date of the loan; the purpose of the loan; the repayment schedules; the interest rates; the lenders; and the nature of any State guarantee or underwriting of the loan, in tabular form. [37922/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Authority Expenditure (30 Nov 2016)

Mary Butler: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the prioritisation exercise for capital expenditure and the capital project approval process for all HEA funded higher education institutions here. [37923/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (30 Nov 2016)

Mary Butler: 118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason his Department has not given effect to the borrowing framework contained in the Institutes of Technology Act 2006. [37919/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (1 Dec 2016)

Mary Butler: 50. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intensive home care packages currently being provided to persons with dementia for each local health office in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38024/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 Dec 2016)

Mary Butler: 84. To ask the Minister for Health the reason 1,425 persons were waiting more than a year for inpatient and day case treatment in Waterford University Hospital in October 2014; and the reason the numbers waiting more than a year have jumped so much since April 2014. [38023/16]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Business of Committee (1 Dec 2016)

Mary Butler: Apologies have been received from Deputies Maurice Quinlivan and Bríd Smith. Before we begin, I ask members, visitors and those in the Gallery to ensure their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of this meeting as they interfere with the broadcasting equipment, even when in silent mode.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2016)

Mary Butler: This meeting has been convened to consider the Supplementary Estimate for Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, which was referred by the Dáil to the committee on 24 November with an instruction to report back to the Dáil not later than 8 December 2016. I welcome the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, the Minister of State, Deputy...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2016)

Mary Butler: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Breen, for his statement. I now invite questions.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2016)

Mary Butler: Subhead B4 relates to the science and technology development programme and there is an increase of €27 million. That is most welcome. Is it possible to get a breakdown of the figures for each of the seven universities, as well as the Royal College of Surgeons, Waterford Institute of Technology, Teagasc and the Tyndall National Institute? There is something of a coincidence in what...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2016)

Mary Butler: Thank you, Minister. I appreciate that.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2016)

Mary Butler: Thank you, Minister of State, for your invitation. I would be delighted to take you up on that. The LEO office in Waterford is immediately across the road from the local authority office because there was no more room in that building. It is a fine premises, front and centre.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2016)

Mary Butler: I thank the Minister, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, the Minister of State, Deputy Pat Breen, and their officials for attending today's meeting. That concludes the committee's consideration of the Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2016 regarding Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Message to Dáil. (1 Dec 2016)

Mary Butler: In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:The Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2016: Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (6 Dec 2016)

Mary Butler: The first matter of business is COM (2016) 662, under Schedule A, which is a proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the participation of the Union in the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area, PRIMA . It is proposed that this proposal warrants further scrutiny. Is that agreed?