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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (6 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the existing or planned measures to ensure that primary school teachers are sufficiently trained to deal with mental health issues that may arise with regard to their pupils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31701/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (6 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to bring forward the date of allocating SNA resources to schools to March-April as recommended by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31700/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which NAMA considered the tax structures of potential bidders for assets being sold by NAMA; the impact of these to the potential returns to the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31469/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 45. To ask the Minister for Finance the freedom of information procedures that operate within NAMA; the process followed from receiving a request to publication; if the procedures adhere fully to the Freedom of Information Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31471/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Transactions (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 2 May 2017, if he has satisfied himself that NAMA achieved maximum return under section 10 of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 with regard to the debt refinancing transaction Project Nantes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31467/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of Ireland's stated support of calls for an independent international investigation into alleged violations of international humanitarian law in Yemen; if Ireland has taken substantive measures, diplomatic or otherwise, to demonstrate concerns in this area; if Ireland has taken actions at EU or UN level to instigate an...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Investigations (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has raised issues with either the United States of America or the United Arab Emirates in view of the recent reports by an organisation (details supplied) into torture prison camps being run by the UAE with US support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31652/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 22 June 2017, if he will define the phrase "carbon neutral" in respect of agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31693/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 22 June 2017, if he will define the phrase "sustainable" in respect of agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31694/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 222. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 22 June 2017 (details supplied), the European forms of food production the family farm is ranked against; the position of the family farm in that ranking in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31695/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Exploration (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 233. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 27 June 2017, if his Department carried out economic projections on the potential economic benefits of successful offshore exploration in the Atlantic margin weighed against the potential negative economic impacts of the advancement of rapid climate change that would occur as...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Exploration (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 234. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 27 June 2017, if his Department carried out a separate environmental impact assessment on the burning of fossil fuels that may be found and extracted as a result of the issuing of offshore exploration licenses in the Atlantic margin; if not, the reasoning behind this approach...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (4 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 42. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the rationale behind the decision to cut all funding for counselling services in the school completion programme; her views on whether this could have serious negative consequences for the children and young persons currently availing of these services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31175/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (4 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 61. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reconsider the withdrawal of funding for the school completion programme's counselling grant scheme and instead significantly increase the scheme's budget to allow the scheme to be opened up nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31174/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Data (4 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 71. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of companies that are registered here with the Companies Registration Office in 2017 that are deemed to be an external company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31053/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (4 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale to appoint a second auditor to NAMA with regard to the recent announcement by NAMA of the appointment of a company (details supplied) as statutory auditor; the advice sought regarding this decision, by both NAMA and his Department; if legal advice was sought from the Attorney General; if the decision is in breach of section 57(1) of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (4 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 22 of June 2017, if a projection has been carried out by his Department in relation to emissions reduction from the agricultural sector in 2020, 2030 and 2050; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31303/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (29 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 15 and 31 of 18 May 2017, the reason Project Shift was not discussed at Northern Ireland advisory committee meetings; if a person (details supplied) advised the debtor regarding the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30742/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services (28 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to parliamentary question number 71 of 22 March 2017, the status of the report on the consultation process on the current and future role of rail transport here; his plans to open an express train service from Wexford town to Dublin, in order to facilitate commuters and increase the number of passengers using the service; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Jun 2017)

Mick Wallace: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the recent projections of the EPA that, rather than reducing, transport emissions are expected to increase by 10% to 12% between 2015 and 2020; in view of the fact that road transport accounts for 95% of total transport emissions here, his further views on whether Government transport policy heavily favours the road system...