Results 141-160 of 4,107 for speaker:Anne Rabbitte in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Inspections (16 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 256. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of inspections and the number of visitations of each child care provider and the number of providers inspected, in each Tusla service area in 2015 and 2016, in tabular form. [35283/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Inspections (16 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 257. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of crèches or other centre based child care facilities that had more than one inspection by Tusla in 2015 or in 2016; the location of these facilities; and if reasons are provided for a second or subsequent inspection. [35380/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Data (16 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 258. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of crèches or other centre based child care facilities that were found not to be compliant with child care staff to child ratios in each year since the introduction of these regulations. [35381/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Inspections (16 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 259. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of unannounced visitations to child care facilities that took place in 2015 and 2016 in each Tusla service region; her views on whether the centre based child care facilities should receive at least one unannounced visit by Tusla inspectors per year; and her Department's and Tusla guidelines on the number of unannounced...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: After-School Support Services (16 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 260. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the regulations in terms of staff to child ratios and other child welfare and protection regulations that exist for after school child care; her views on whether regulations in this area are not requisite to deal with expansion in the after-school sector for children up to 15 years of age; and her further views on whether they will need...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Regulation (16 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 261. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is a statutory requirement for child care providers to maintain a logging system noting hourly supervision rotas and the staff to child ratios that pertained on any given day. [35384/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (22 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 443. To ask the Minister for Health the reason surgery is not being sanctioned in UCHG due to hospital pressure; and when a person (details supplied) will receive a reliable date for surgery [36139/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (23 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 106. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason voluntary day centres for elderly persons have no entitlement to the free TV licence which is part of the household benefits package (details supplied). [36506/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Prices (23 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 183. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department, or a body under its aegis, has considered any proposals for improving pricing transparency for private health insurance; and his views on whether the opacity of pricing in the sector has a negative impact on the cost of health insurance for households. [36490/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (23 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 215. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the introduction of the new affordable child care scheme will necessitate any changes to legislation; and if an amendment will be required to the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 to add her Department or another body to Schedule 5. [36479/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (23 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 216. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way the proposed system of administering the new affordable child care scheme will determine eligibility via the online system for persons that do not opt for joint assessment of income; her views on whether persons, for example, unmarried and-or cohabiting that have not opted for joint assessment of income could be considered...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (23 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 221. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department, or a body under its aegis, has considered any proposals for improving pricing transparency for child care fees in centre based child care providers; and her views on whether the opacity of pricing in the sector has a negative impact on the cost of child care for parents. [36499/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Legislation (24 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 44. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a new Gambling Control Bill will be published, in view of the fact that heads of a Bill were published in 2013. [36629/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme Eligibility (29 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 338. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to change the eligibility criteria for the rural social scheme, including the length of time a person is allowed to be on the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37440/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (29 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 550. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant paediatricians currently employed in approved posts. [37201/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (29 Nov 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 785. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of hours of formal child care per week and the number of weeks per year a child will have to undertake for their parents to be eligible for the universal child care subsidy. [37498/16]

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

Anne Rabbitte: 40. To ask the Minister for Health the reason 3,635 persons were waiting more than a year for inpatient and day-case treatment in University Hospital Galway in October 2016; and the reason the numbers waiting more than a year have increased by 5,000% since April 2014 [38042/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates (6 Dec 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 202. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the assistance and supports available to retailers in circumstances in which a local business finds itself in difficulty with rates payments due to years of austerity and a build up of hard core debt and in which the repayment arrangement is in fact placing the retailer further into debt; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (6 Dec 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of houses the local authority purchased off the open market in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date in tabular form. [38809/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (6 Dec 2016)

Anne Rabbitte: 206. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the average price that the local authority paid for properties purchased in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date by county in tabular form. [38810/16]