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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Youth Justice Strategy (15 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 85. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the annual reports of the committee appointed to monitor the effectiveness of the diversion programme for 2015 and 2016 will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7509/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Weight of Schoolbags (15 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the steps that will be taken to address the issue with regard to the recent survey conducted by the National Parents’ Council Primary regarding the back health of children from carrying heavy school bags; when his Department last issued information to all primary and post-primary schools highlighting the health hazards of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (15 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 210. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to lower the premium placed on land and property assets of persons availing of the nursing homes support scheme from 7.5% to its previous level of a 5% premium; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7512/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse (15 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 300. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 1682 of 17 January 2017, the reason the Garda is not an agency involved in the process of creating a national service model for sexual abuse services for children and their families, particularly since she mentions Garda investigation as a key element in her reply; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Gender Recognition (21 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 305. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the precise legal basis on which persons applying for a gender recognition certificate and wishing to use a name different from that on their original birth certificate are required to provide evidence of use and repute in respect of a name or to produce a deed poll that has been enrolled in the High Court; the reason such additional...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (22 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, with regard to a closed Garda station (details supplied), the Garda Commissioner has indicated to her a timeframe as to when the review of the re-opening of Garda stations agreed in the programme for Government will be completed; if she has requested same; if so, when the announcement will be made; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (22 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) concerning gross human rights violations in the Syrian Government's Saydnaya prison; his views on the call for an urgent and independent investigation into crimes committed at the prison; the action he has taken on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Domestic Violence (22 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recent passage through the Duma, the Parliament of the Russian Federation, and adoption by the Russian President, Mr. Putin, of a law decriminalising the first instance of domestic violence against a spouse or partner; his plans to call on the Russian Government to repeal this law which is in breach...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 646. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently on the pre-planned hospital waiting list and the pre-admit hospital waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10365/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 650. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons removed from waiting lists in each of the past 12 months due to their failure to respond to outpatient validation letters, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10447/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Authority Expenditure (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 785. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1557 of 17 January 2017 and the information subsequently supplied by the NTA, the reason Fingal County Council, with 16% of the greater Dublin area, GDA, population spent only 1% of the sustainable transport measures grant programme expenditure in the GDA; and if his or his Department's attention...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: European Court of Justice Rulings (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Martin: 798. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the fact that in 2015 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in case C-266/14 that in instances in which workers do not have a fixed place of work, the time they spend travelling between their home and their first and last customers each day counts as working time; if her attention has...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Provision (1 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 304. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the procedures in place to ensure local authorities designing cycle routes comply with the National Cycle Manual (details supplied). [10603/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (7 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 37. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the draft National Biodiversity Action Plan 2017-2021 contains no actions in relation to the network of natural heritage areas; and the reason actions contemplated in the plan to designate proposed NHAS and to strengthen the coherence, connectivity and resilience of the protected areas network, which have...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Emergency Plan (21 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the actions he is taking to ensure, in the event of a nuclear accident related to the generation and storage of nuclear power in the UK, the safety of the public in view of the proposed exit of the UK from the Euratom Treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13943/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Activities (21 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1051. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which Coillte has fully complied with all of its own consultancy processes and procedures in respect of development of Coillte land at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13519/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Activities (21 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1052. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Coillte has a full and accurate list of all farmers and other landowners who are likely to be materially affected by a proposed development on Coillte land at a location (details supplied); the steps he plans to take to ensure all relevant consultation processes and procedures are fully followed by Coillte in this regard; and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (21 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps Fáilte Ireland and his Department took to ensure compliance with the terms of the grant scheme for large tourism projects 2016-2020 and relevant EU and Irish planning, state aid and competition law, in respect of the proposed funding of a tourism development project in the Dublin mountains at a location (details...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (21 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 1210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps Fáilte Ireland is taking to ensure that any tourism development project in the Dublin mountain area is fully compliant with all relevant planning and state aid rules and is also fully compliant with the relevant Irish and EU Law in regard to environmental impact assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (22 Mar 2017)

Catherine Martin: 40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps taken by his Department or agencies under its aegis to provide safe cycling routes to all primary and secondary schools and third level colleges in pursuance of objective 4.1 of the national cycle policy framework; and if he anticipates that the target in that objective of providing all of these routes by 2020 will be met....