Written answers

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Crime Prevention
      67. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding Operation Fiacla; his future plans for tackling rural crime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46543/13]
    • Legal Services Regulation
      68. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the research he has gathered in relation to multi-disciplinary practices as he proposes with the Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011. [45971/13]
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues
      69. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to address concerns expressed by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission regarding relations with An Garda...
    • Garda Stations Closures
      70. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reopen a Garda Station (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46376/13]
    • Garda Investigations
      71. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 8 of 20 June 2012, the position regarding the Garda review of the murder of Fr. Niall Molloy in Clara,...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      72. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on his engagements with Minister for Justice in Northern Ireland, David Ford MLA, in respect of security in Border...
    • Court of Appeal Establishment
      73. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the court of appeal will be up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46525/13]
    • Public Sector Staff Issues
      74. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff reductions there will be following the recent budget announcements across the justice sector. [45965/13]
    • Extradition Arrangements
      75. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extradition agreement, if any, Ireland has with Brazil. [41069/13]
    • Magdalen Laundries Issues
      76. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which he envisages that payments will begin to be paid to the women of the Magdalen laundries as part of the redress process in view of...
    • Garda Strength
      79. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of Garda currently in the force; the number of retirements due by the end of 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Parole Board Issues
      80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the time frame he has put in place to place the parole board on a legislative footing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46518/13]
    • Legislative Process
      81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the progress of the Spent Convictions Bill which has been delayed on account of a relevant legal case from the UK; and when...
    • Equality Proofing of Budgets
      83. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on introducing equality impact assessment procedures and equality proofing into the Irish budgetary process as a means of gauging the...
    • Garda Complaints Procedures
      86. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans in relation to the cases submitted to his office on 17 October 2013 by residents from across the State in relation to allegations of...
    • Proposed Legislation
      89. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will publish the Family Relationships and Children Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45967/13]
    • Organised Crime
      90. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the degree to which the existence of organised criminal gangs continue to prosper and grow; if the number of such gangs and membership therein has...
    • Court of Appeal Establishment
      91. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the outcome of the referendum on Friday 4 October 2013 which established provision for a new Court of Appeal; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      92. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new vehicles he intends to add to the Garda fleet over the next nine months. [45966/13]
    • Penal Policy Review Group Report
      93. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Penal Policy Review Group’s report on penal policy will be published. [45968/13]
    • Proposed Legislation
      94. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will publish an updated version of the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2010. [45972/13]
    • Garda Communications
      95. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action he will take to deal with the systemic leaking of information by An Garda Síochána to the mainstream media, which is a...
    • Proposed Legislation
      96. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of direct meetings he has held with representatives of the legal profession and other interested parties in relation to the Legal...
    • Courts Service Issues
      97. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the level of IT facilities in place across each of the Courts Service's districts; and the facilities in place to record data in respect of...
    • Recidivism Rate
      98. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which crimes continue to be committed by persons while on bail, sometimes while on bail for more than one offence; the extent to...
    • Departmental Budgets
      100. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality where the €70 million cut to the justice budget will take effect. [45964/13]
    • Garda Investigations
      102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will have the case of the murder of Garda Richard Fallon on 3 April 1970 independently reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Operations
      103. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to racial profiling taking place inside the gardaí, with particular reference to his knowledge of...
    • Same-sex Marriage
      104. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will respond to the Constitutional Convention's recommendations on equal access to civil marriage; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to reform family law to ensure equal status and protections for children being raised by lesbian or gay parents; and if he will make a...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Exports Data
      106. To ask the Taoiseach if he will detail the value of exports as an percentage of GDP, to the north of Ireland, Britain, America, Germany, France, Japan or others for each of the past five...
    • National Risk Assessment
      108. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for ensuring that the new national risk assessment which is to be published annually will include risks faced by the country in the areas of unemployment,...
    • Proposed Legislation
      109. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the number of Bills published by his Department since March 2011 and the number of regulatory impact assessments published by his...
    • State Gifts
      110. To ask the Taoiseach the total number of State gifts presented to foreign dignitaries during each of the past ten years; the total value of such gifts; if he will provide an itemised list of...
    • Income Data
      111. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 37 of 15 October 2013, if he will provide details on the nature of the survey to be undertaken by the Central Statistics Office as...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      112. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's Budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47084/13]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Trade Relations
      113. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has a dedicated strategy in relation to building bilateral relations with China; if he plans to visit China in the...
    • Human Rights Issues
      114. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the recent ruling in the European Court of Human Rights case (details supplied) which...
    • UN Resolutions
      115. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason Ireland abstained from the 2010 United Nations General Assembly vote to adopt a declaration on the right to...
    • Diplomatic Representation Expenditure
      116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 68 of 17 October 2013 in relation to the payment of allowances to embassy and...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 6 of 15 October 2013, if the US military aircraft that have recently landed at...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the original plaques on the entrance to the Villa Spada have been removed and replaced with new plaques; and if...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      120. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46088/13]
    • Foreign Conflicts
      121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to the ongoing charging of persons for their membership of political parties banned in the Basque; if he has...
    • European Council Meetings
      122. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will discuss the outcomes of the Foreign Affairs Council meeting that took place in October 2013; and if he will...
    • Diplomatic Representation Expenditure
      123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish embassies and diplomatic missions in use; the number of staff assigned to each mission; the costs of...
    • Overseas Development Aid Issues
      125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has examined the reduction in overseas aid budgets of other troika programme or bailout countries; his views on...
    • US Surveillance in EU Institutions
      126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken in response to the alleged surveillance of government and civilian communications in...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a person (details supplied) with their expertise in dealing with the Northern Ireland peace process has been able to...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of the official visits made to Rome by a person (details supplied) since their appointment and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's Budget 2014...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised with the Northern Ireland Secretary of State the serious issues relating to collusion outlined in the...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Reliefs Abolition
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance if payments made under circular letter S.3/2007 of 22 January 2007 are subject to income tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45682/13]
    • Tax Code
      134. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a self-employed person pays more income tax than a PAYE earner when the Government is trying to incentivise entrepreneurial activity. [46000/13]
    • NAMA Portfolio Issues
      139. To ask the Minister for Finance the list of the National Asset Management Agency properties in the Dublin area. [46148/13]
    • Tax Credits
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding single parents' allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46335/13]
    • VAT Exemptions
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he will take to assist small businesses which will be faced with 13.5% VAT on their water bills from 1 January 2014; the action he will take to...
    • Cycle to Work Scheme Numbers
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of bicycles grant aided in each county in the cycle to work scheme since the introduction of the scheme in 2009;...
    • Property Taxation Collection
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the local property tax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47110/13]
    • Tax Exemptions
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a measure to provide exemption for vehicle registration for personal security reasons for those living on border areas who may...
    • NAMA Operations
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the sales process pursued by the National Asset Management Agency such as in the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loan sale offers where the...
    • Tax Credits
      146. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that provision will be made in the forthcoming Finance Bill to ensure that the single parent tax credit may be utilised by the parent with...
    • Fiscal Policy
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will identify both the cyclical element and structural element of the fiscal deficit. [45699/13]
    • Pensions Levy Issues
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the pension levy and the pension industry not keeping to their agreement regarding the levy; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Credits
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons that will be affected by the removal of the one parent family tax credit in budget 2014; the number of those cases that will be pushed...
    • Tax Rebates
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount the State has foregone due to tax reliefs related to the construction of wind farms to date and by year from 2010 onwards. [45843/13]
    • Fiscal Policy
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance the timeline envisaged for the rapid progress towards achieving our medium term budgetary objective referred to in 2014 Economic and Fiscal Outlook; and if he...
    • Banking Sector Staff Issues
      158. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No.77 of 26 September 2013, the number of staff who were offered two day overnight retirement seminars; the staff grades who...
    • Central Bank of Ireland Properties
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected costs of making the new Central Bank building fit for use, the amount expected to be spent to ensure the concrete superstructure is safe after...
    • Budget 2014
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected additional yield or loss of revenue or the Exchequer for the remainder of 2013 for the measures announced in budget 2014 that will come into...
    • NAMA Property Sales
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance the safeguards that are in place to prevent the National Asset Management Agency from selling property to defaulting debtors, and in particular, to third...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will list the total unsecured creditors at 30 June 2012 of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation. [45887/13]
    • Tax Code
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures in place to ensure that legitimate tradespeople in the construction industry are protected against those who have started their new business and...
    • Pensions Levy Issues
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 27 June 2013, where he stated I made a point of confirming that the pension fund levy introduced as part of the...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance if he detail the consultation he had with the Department of Health concerning the removal of the tax relief restriction on private health insurance for the...
    • Exports Data
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his officials have met with any pharmaceutical companies already located in here in advance of budget 2014 to see if there are any measures which he...
    • Job Creation
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of meetings he or his officials in the Department of Finance held with ADC Therapeutics since 2011; if he will detail the number of meetings...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      169. To ask the Minister for Finance the percentage of policy holders who will be affected by the capping of tax relief on private health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider lowering the maximum quantity of tobacco products that persons are allowed to bring here from inside or outside the EU; his views on...
    • Budget 2014
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding his announcement during budget 2014 regarding his intention to abolish top slicing relief on all ex gratia lump sums payments made in...
    • Ministerial Staff
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46087/13]
    • Property Taxation Yield
      174. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount that has been received by county councils to date from the property tax on a county basis. [46106/13]
    • Budget 2014
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the budget 2014 proposal in respect of tax relief credits for single parents as it will mean a cut of €32 per week for the...
    • NAMA Portfolio Issues
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a county breakdown of building land in possession of the National Asset Management Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support Issues
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance when the next visit to Ireland by the troika will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46151/13]
    • Budget Measures
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department conducts modelling to forecast the way potential increases in a person's disposable income might be distributed within the economy in the...
    • Tax Collection
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a tax debt is registered against a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if records will be corrected. [46189/13]
    • Tax Code
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance the sources of unearned income that are counted in the determination of whether or not a person exceeds the €3,174 threshold applied by Revenue for the...
    • Pension Provisions
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the pension levy and tax relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46230/13]
    • Budget 2014
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance if the home renovation incentive announced in budget 2014 will include VAT relief for the installation of water treatment units necessary to improve drinking...
    • Pension Provisions
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the arrangements announced in budget 2014 relating to pension pot size, pension contributions and so on, the way the proposed changes will impact...
    • Credit Unions Restructuring
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he has not responded to the Newbridge Credit Union action group's alternative proposals which would allow it to keep the credit union in Newbridge,...
    • NAMA Debtor Agreements
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to debtors within the National Asset Management Agency applying pressure to commercial tenants with upward-only rent leases;...
    • NAMA Property Sales
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will establish an independent mechanism where the sale of property and outlets by the National Asset Management Agency is reviewed and a report given to...
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will arrange for the issue of a tax clearance certificate in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Mortgage Arrears Code of Conduct
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance the options available to a mortgage holder who finds that his or her lending agency disregards the code of conduct on mortgage arrears; and if he will make a...
    • Exchequer Revenue
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance the net benefit to the Exchequer as a result of the 15,000 jobs that have been created since the reduction in the VAT rate; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Exchequer Deficit
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of the reduction in VAT to 9% which the levy on private sector pension savings was meant to fund in each year since it was...
    • Exchequer Revenue
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected since the levy on private sector pension savings was introduced has been spent on job creation; and if he will make a statement...
    • Pensions Levy Issues
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of pensioners who have had their pension incomes reduced as a result of the levy on private sector pension savings; if an impact analysis was...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider extending the living cities initiative to the historically important pre-1915 houses of the Victorian seaside resort of Bray, County...
    • Government Deficit
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 24 October 2013, if he will provide a breakdown of the measures that contributed to the respective savings...
    • Tax Code
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address the rental income tax issue that arises where a family that owns an apartment that is now too small for its needs wants to rent out that...
    • National Debt
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on whether savings will be made on servicing the national debt next year; his views on the statement of the Economic Social and Research...
    • Tax Exemptions
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress he has made in his discussions with the Department of Justice and Equality and the National Treasury Management Agency regarding exemptions from...
    • Property Taxation Assessments
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a local property tax letter from the Revenue Commissioners to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow says the person's 2014 LPT is...
    • Tax Code
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the single person child carer tax credit will be applied where there is shared custody; if it will be possible for parents to split the credit taking...
    • Property Taxation Collection
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding uncollected local property tax in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bank Codes of Conduct
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance the advice he will offer to persons (details supplied) in relation to a bank overdraft. [46782/13]
    • Health Insurance Prices
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of private health insurance policies that will be directly affected by the measures announced in budget 2014; the VHI plans that will be affected;...
    • Property Taxation Assessments
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Sligo has not received a response from the Revenue Commissioners regarding the local property tax to attempts...
    • NAMA Portfolio Issues
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether it is acceptable that the National Asset Management Agency will make available the names of developers not in NAMA, but will not state...
    • Tax Code
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons that will be affected by the decision to reduce the standard fund threshold from €2.3 million to €2 million; and the...
    • IBRC Issues
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding the leaked publication of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation statement of affairs; if this statement is accurate; and if he has been...
    • Budget 2014
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance if any measures were contained in the budget 2014 document that were not included in the draft that was submitted to the troika; and if so, which measures....
    • Betting Legislation
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Betting (Amendment) Bill 2012 was withdrawn and replaced by the Betting (Amendment) Bill 2012; the timeframe for when this 2013 Bill will be...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the specification of the type of works and materials covered by the home renovation tax relief system; the works and materials that are...
    • Property Taxation Application
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding property tax in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [46956/13]
    • NAMA Loan Book
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the work of the special liquidator of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation; and if he will indicate if a discount above 4.5% will be...
    • Property Taxation Assessments
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that are open to persons who believe their property was overvalued for the purpose of the local property tax in 2013 and who now wish to change the...
    • Tax Code
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance if Section 18 of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013 favours senior public servants; and if this legislative provision skews the rules to ensure high-earning public...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding claims that the former Anglo Irish Bank overcharged customers who held loans with the bank; and if all claims of this nature have been...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's Budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47077/13]
    • Property Taxation Application
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance if the liable person listed on a local property tax database will be altered to the other listed owner (details supplied) in Dublin 11. [47102/13]
    • Universal Social Charge Yield
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the yield to the Exchequer in terms of additional universal social charge revenue arising from the budget 2014 decision to revoke medical...
    • Tax Code
      243. To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the number of persons that would be brought into the income tax net if his proposal to abolish the one parent family tax credit is approved by...
    • Illegal Tobacco Sales
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance the latest estimates of the amount of illegal tobacco being sold here every year; if he will confirm the Government estimates that 20% of all cigarettes sold...
    • Tax Code
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of persons who will be affected by the change to the SFT regime in 2014; and the basis for the estimate of a yield of €120 million...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport Provision
      254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there was a change in the timetable of the bus collecting children from a school (details...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Payments
      255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional weekly payment a young jobseeker aged 23-24 and aged 25 will receive under the proposed new rates for jobseeker's allowance if...
    • FÁS Training Programmes Provision
      257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide clarification on the delay in resolving an issue with FÁS and a company (details supplied) in County Donegal; if any...
    • FÁS Local Training Initiatives Funding
      258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views that in the absence of a second free HGV driving test as part of the FÁS-CPC driving course, in cases where the first test has...
    • Jobs Initiative
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated total number of full time jobs that have been created from initiatives which have been directly funded by the pension levy since...
    • Haddington Road Agreement Implementation
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the Haddington Road Agreement will apply to non-unionised teachers. [45999/13]
    • Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme Numbers
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of training places available for those who are currently in receipt of jobseeker's allowance or jobseeker's benefit nationally; the...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has guidelines for time off for State employees such as teachers who are elected members of the local authority and are...
    • School Transport Provision
      263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the EU Commission made a mistake when it stated that the school transport scheme was operated under contract by Bus Éireann in 2007; if...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount his Department pays private contractors for the visual inspections of school transport vehicles; if he will publish the contract award...
    • Redundancy Payments
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm as per the circular issued by his Department, the current position within the university-third level sector regarding persons...
    • FÁS Training Programmes Provision
      268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address and deal with the anomaly that appears to be emerging for hairdressers who have just come out of hairdressing college and are...
    • School Transport Provision
      269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school route (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45614/13]
    • Teacher Redeployment
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure that exists for the transfer of a teacher from one supplementary panel to another; if such transfers are common; the body...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse the decision of Student Universal Support Ireland not to pay the contribution fee in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with reference to the Government's capital investment programme which committed to the construction of a Gaelscoil in Tuam, County Galway, if the...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a special needs assistant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • School Placement
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made to assist with securing a mainstream national school place for a student with a cochlear implant (details supplied) whose...
    • Teacher Recruitment
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps and intervention he is taking in the case of a school (details supplied) in County Louth which currently employs a retired teacher for...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in determination of an application for higher education grant in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review eligibility for a higher education grant in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Springboard Programme Issues
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason only 6% of participants on Springboard courses are under 25 years of age; if he is concerned at this low number; the actions he will...
    • Youth Unemployment Measures
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the announcement in budget 2014 that 2,000 places would be ring-fenced for young jobseekers under 25 years in the successor to the...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide information on the proposed amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in County Galway; if an impact analysis for the staff...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will investigate the circumstances of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo who applied for and was awarded a higher education grant...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a special needs assistant in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on his plans for the provision of accommodation for Navan Educate Together national school, County Meath; and if he...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the following case regarding provision of a special needs assistant (details supplied). [45900/13]
    • Special Educational Needs Data
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the number of special needs assistants currently employed in primary schools across the State; and indicate if the cap on SNA...
    • Third Level Admissions Reform
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times during each of the past four years representatives of the NUI group of universities have met to discuss the matter of A Level...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46085/13]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are any short to medium term plans to provide an Educate Together secondary school in Carlow. [46109/13]
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a special needs assistant will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46114/13]
    • Home Tuition Scheme Provision
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider the decision to restrict the home tuition grant to tuition provided by teachers registered with the Teaching Council of...
    • School Curriculum
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to include the important topics of blood donation and organ donation as part of the curricula. [46258/13]
    • Relationships and Sexuality Education
      297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the ShoutOut sex-education programme operating in counties Galway, Cork and Dublin; and his plans to extend this to other locations....
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of new schools due to be completed in 2014. [46272/13]
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the work of extending the use of ITC into the classroom; and if his Department is engaging with the private sector in...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide assurances that funding is available for phase 2 of a school (details supplied) in County Meath; the expected commencement and...
    • State Examinations Commission
      301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applicants and the number of approvals granted for reasonable accommodations at the leaving certificate examinations for each of...
    • School Funding
      305. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the sufficient funding to meet the day-to-day operational costs of school (details supplied) in order that the costs do not...
    • School Transport Availability
      306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made in relation to a school bus route extension (details supplied); the reason for the delay in this decision; and if he...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available for phase two of a school (details supplied) in County Meath; when this phase of the school will be completed and ready for...
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if payment of the student contribution charge of €2,500 for the academic year 2013-14 for third level colleges, which may be paid in two...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of a school (details supplied) agreeing in principle to a schedule of accommodation, if he will confirm that it will be able to make...
    • Special Educational Needs Expenditure
      315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be granted to the Brothers of Charity for the provision of five therapy-changing beds for children with profound general learning...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding his Department would need if an allowance was given for the second and subsequent child in third level education for those...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way parents can deal with a school that requires them to purchase an Apple iPad for €800 for their children starting secondary school;...
    • School Transport Provision
      319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money refunded to his Department since 2005 for the scrappage of buses from the school transport scheme in view of the fact that...
    • School Staffing
      323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outcome of the appeal board hearing held on 22 October 2013 regarding his Department's plans to withdraw a teacher form a school (details...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a community college (details supplied) in County Dublin is requiring parents to purchase Apple...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a special needs assistant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a facility (details supplied) in County Dublin; when repairs will be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Transport Provision
      327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures used by his Department to ensure that money spent on school transport is used solely for this purpose. [46684/13]
    • School Transport Availability
      328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to put all school bus routes online. [46685/13]
    • School Transport Provision
      329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the methods used by his Department to decide which school bus routes to pay for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46686/13]
    • Schools Amalgamation
      331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he could clarify his Department's intentions regarding the new local area plan for Ballycullen, Oldcourt, Dublin 24 which recommends a...
    • School Accommodation
      332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of children currently being educated in prefabricated buildings per school; the number of...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to commence section 10 of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004, while extending the provision to address...
    • Literacy Levels
      334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any studies have been conducted by his Department on the reading habits of children under 12 years of age, outside of reading required for...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      336. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposed school at Bannow Road, Cabra West which is currently the subject of a planning application; if this is a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reason this application was...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding plans to cut the assignment of visiting teachers for blind children in mainstream primary schools; and if he will make a...
    • School Transport Provision
      339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will sanction the extension of a morning school bus route (details supplied) in County Kerry which will incur no additional cost to his...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the outcome of the mini-tender held in August for broadband for schools; the winners of contracts; the relevant schools; the relevant values of...
    • FÁS Training Programmes Provision
      342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will justify the discrimination proposed in respect of charging FÁS apprentices a fee for the time they spend in institutes of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      344. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure....
    • Early Retirement Scheme
      345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of early retirements from the post-primary education full-time teaching pool in each of the past seven years, 2006 to 2012, inclusive....
    • Springboard Programme Issues
      347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who availed of third-level courses subsidised under the Springboard initiative in 2011 and 2012. [47100/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason when calculating distance to college to determine adjacent or non-adjacent grant rates, Student Universal Support Ireland is using old...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      349. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the position of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare, which is on the five-year building programme, for the 2014...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Regulatory Impact Assessment Usage
      351. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the criteria used by Departments for the development and publication of regulatory impact assessments. [45626/13]
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      352. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will examine the pension paid to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46048/13]
    • Garda Stations Closures
      353. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to his 4 July 2013 announcement on the disposal of closed Garda stations the position regarding the plan; if estate agents have...
    • NAMA Portfolio Issues
      355. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and location of buildings transferred from the National Asset Management Agency to the Office of Public Works; and the cost...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Applications
      356. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when approval will be given for stage 2 of the flood alleviation works between Carnmore and Claregalway, as all documents are currently...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      357. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of the cost per Civil Service employee of office space; and the way this compares to similar figures in...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      359. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered asking those responsible for public sector pension schemes to make a contribution to the jobs initiative; and if he...
    • Public Procurement Regulations
      360. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way an organisation can get on the list of preferred suppliers for the Office of Public Works; when the next round of applications...
    • Local Authority Charges Review
      361. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when a rates revaluation will be carried out on a premises (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      363. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the legal obligations on farmers to keep drains and rivulets flowing through their land cleared to stop flooding on other people's land...
    • Valuation Office
      364. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is normal practice for the Valuation Office to charge a fee for the de-rating of a commercial property; if there is a mechanism in...
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      365. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the finances and plans for the proposed new convention centre in Cork. [46902/13]
    • Register of Lobbyists Legislation
      366. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ensure the IFSC Clearing House Group is covered under the regulation of lobbying Bill 2013; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      367. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way tax relief on pension contributions applies to post and pre-1995 public servants, listing the names of each pension...
    • Ministerial Staff
      368. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46092/13]
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      369. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of properties in counties Carlow and Kilkenny that are under the ownership of the Office of Public Works; and...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      372. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reasons behind the substantial two year mid-contract delay to the construction of the Bray flood protection works, a delay which is...
    • Office of the Ombudsman Staff
      376. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the information he has regarding the earliest possible date of commencement of his nominee for the position of Ombudsman; the position,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      377. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Trade Agreements
      378. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the trade agreements that are in place between Ireland and Colombia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46697/13]
    • Employment Appeals Tribunal
      380. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the average time it takes for a case under the Redundancy Payment Acts to be heard by the Employment Appeals Tribunal from the time of...
    • Industrial Disputes
      381. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will intervene directly in the current industrial dispute at a company (details supplied) which has recently developed in Dublin...
    • North-South Implementation Bodies
      382. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the funding provided to InterTradeIreland by his Department for the most recent five years for which data is available. [45692/13]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      383. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the recommendations or agreements reached to enhance co-operation and limit competition between Invest NI and Industrial Development...
    • INTERREG Funding
      385. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of matched funding provided to the 16 Interreg enterprise projects under the European Interreg IV Programme by his...
    • Exports Data
      387. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the levels of employment generated by exports to the north of Ireland, Britain, America, Germany, France, Japan or others for each of...
    • EU Directives
      388. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 366 of 11 June 2013, if revised draft regulations have been prepared for the OPC; the timeframe...
    • Gender Balance Issues
      389. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way he proposes to meet the new EU rules requiring that Irish listed company boards should have 40 per cent female membership by...
    • Departmental Meetings
      390. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of meetings he or his officials in the Department of Jobs and Innovation held with ADC Therapeutics since 2011; the...
    • Job Initiatives
      391. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of full time and part-time jobs which were created directly as a result of the reduction in employers PRSI for lower...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      392. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46090/13]
    • Companies Law Issues
      393. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question Nos 392 and 394 of 21 May 2013, the way in which the Companies Registration office is adapting and...
    • Seed Capital Scheme Applications
      400. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the procedure for applying for funding under the seed and venture capital scheme; the processing time for applications; and if he will...
    • Microenterprise Loan Fund Development
      401. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 22 October 2013, the number of groups invited to tender for the role of developing the...
    • Health and Safety Regulations
      403. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will confirm that the Health and Safety Authority retains powers conferred by the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 in...
    • Work Permit Applications
      404. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding an application for a green card in respect of a person (details supplied). [46378/13]
    • Enterprise Support Schemes
      405. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there are grants available from agencies under his Department's aegis specifically for companies looking to increase the amount of...
    • Trade Agreements
      406. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures that are provided for in the EU/Canada Trade Agreement to protect the Irish and European beef and pork sectors, in view...
    • IDA Site Visits
      407. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of times since January 2012 that companies looking to invest in Ireland been shown industrial units in an area (details...
    • Regional Aid
      408. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his position regarding the designation of the south east NUTS 3 region for regional state aid since the region clearly meets both the...
    • Budget 2014
      409. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's Budget 2014 reductions to...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Community Employment Schemes
      410. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she intends to put all community employment schemes, rural social schemes and TUS schemes under the umberella of the county councils; if he will...
    • Social Insurance Issues
      411. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a person who is 66 years of age or older in relation to charging PRSI on rental income from 2014; if they are exempt from...
    • Social Insurance Rates
      412. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm the employer PRSI at the lower rate will return to 8.5% from January 2014 at the expiry of the special rate of 4.25%. [46373/13]
    • Birth Certificate Issues
      413. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to the 2010 report on Legal Aspects of Family Relationships recognising and recommending that the problem of presumption of paternity be...
    • Register of Solemnisers
      414. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person who operates a wedding business can become registered as a civil registrar or solemniser of marriages under the secular heading; the...
    • Family Income Supplement Eligibility
      416. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person who works part-time over 19 hours per week and is in receipt of partial jobseeker's allowance or benefit may successfully claim family...
    • Budget 2014
      418. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in County Donegal that will be affected by the changes announced in Budget 2014 in relation to the social welfare payments for...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      421. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the telephone allowance, as part of their household benefits package; and the number that will be able to...
    • School Meals Programme
      423. To ask the Minister for Social Protection where the additional 100 breakfast clubs, as announced in budget 2014, will be located; the way the scheme is administered generally; if schools may...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      The Social Welfare Appeals Office has advised me that there is no record of a Disablement Benefit appeal having been received from the person concerned. However a Disability Allowance appeal by...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      425. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Issues
      426. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the appeals office will respond to correspondence sent in August by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • JobBridge Internship Scheme Eligibility
      427. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reasons persons in receipt of farm assist are not considered eligible for inclusion in the JobBridge scheme. [45730/13]
    • JobBridge Programme
      428. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the anomaly that exists within the JobBridge scheme and those who have been working voluntarily; if her attention...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      430. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will be expedited; the reason for the delay; and...
    • Community Employment Schemes Data
      431. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the implications of budget 2014 on the community employment schemes; the local training initiatives and the community training centres; and if he...
    • Youth Guarantee
      432. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the €32 million projected savings arising from the changes to jobseeker's allowance for the under 26 year olds in budget 2014 will be...
    • Labour Activation Projects
      434. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of labour activation places provided by her Department on a monthly basis from October 2012 to October 2013 inclusive broken down...
    • Respite Care Grant Data
      439. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied that her Department is automatically paying the respite care grant to all recipients of carer's allowance and half rate carer's...
    • Live Register Data
      441. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons under 26 years of age who are in receipt of jobseeker's allowance, jobseekers' benefit, supplementary payments pending...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Payments
      444. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of young persons under 25 years of age, in receipt of jobseeker's benefit for less than six months; for more than six months and less...
    • Work Placement Programme
      448. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the additional weekly payment a young jobseeker aged 23-24 and aged 25 will receive under the proposed new rates for jobseekers allowance if they...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      450. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the social inclusion unit of her Department has undertaken any analysis or research into the impact in terms of poverty and social exclusion...
    • Departmental Staff
      451. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff in the social inclusion unit in her Department for each of the following years 2008, 2009, 2010,2011, 2012 and 2013; and if she...
    • Departmental Reports
      452. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reports produced by the social inclusion unit of her Department in the years 2009 to 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • JobsPlus Scheme
      455. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason only under 25 year olds can access the JobPlus scheme after six months instead of 12 months in view of the decision to reduce jobseeker's...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
      456. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of applications by young persons under 25 years for jobseeker's allowance in 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Payments
      460. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of young persons under 26 years of age who are in receipt of jobseeker's benefit and also in receipt of rent supplement; and if she will...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      461. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of young persons under 26 years of age who are in receipt of jobseeker's allowance and also in receipt of rent supplement; and if she...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
      462. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of young persons under 26 years who are in receipt of the jobseeker's benefit and also claiming for an adult dependent; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      466. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No.33, 17 October 2013, if she will detail each scheme; the number of person's under 25 years on each scheme; the...
    • Community Welfare Services
      472. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to her decision to centralise community welfare officers to larger towns and close rural services, her plans to monitor the service; if the...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory) Eligibility
      473. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which their means of €102 prevents a person from qualifying for non-contributory Irish State pension in the case of a person...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      475. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      477. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way the implementation of DSP's new programme JobPath will impact the current funding of the existing local employment service and the continued...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      478. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) may take up a place on a community employment scheme; her plans to revise the rules surrounding same; and if she will...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      480. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that applicants for back to education allowance who deferred an offer of a place in 2012 will be assessed according to 2012 and...
    • Departmental Customer Charters
      481. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider replacing the Department's LoCall numbers with a free phone number to assist members in contacting each Department. [45922/13]
    • Mortgage Repayments Issues
      482. To ask the Minister for Social Protection regarding the abolition of mortgage interest supplement, announced as part of budget 2014, if she will explain, and release to Dáil...
    • Tax Code
      483. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of full time and part-time jobs which were created directly as a result of the reduction in employers PRSI for lower paid workers...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      487. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will be expedited; the reason for the...
    • Tax Code
      490. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to counteract the serious effects resulting from the eradication of the one parent family tax credit, such as increased poverty, resorting...
    • Civil Registration Legislation
      491. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 22 October 2013, if she will clarify if outdoor civil ceremonies in a public place are permitted by the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      492. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the supports her Department offers community associations to employ staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46006/13]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      493. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6W; and if she will make a...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      495. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will name all persons appointmented by her to all boards or agencies under the aegis of her Department since March 2011; and if she will make...
    • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
      496. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of defined benefit pension schemes that failed to submit a revised plan to meet the funding standard in June 2013; the number of the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      498. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) from Focus Ireland regarding young persons on social welfare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Staff
      500. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by her. [46093/13]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      501. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their application and appeal for carer's allowance; and if she will make...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      503. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason domiciliary care allowance has been revoked in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Code
      505. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of times in each of the past five years that her Department has required a claimant or, in the case of carer's allowance, a relevant...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      506. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will allow an appeal of an application for an invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Eligibility
      507. To ask the Minister for Social Protection where a person is not able to meet the maximum charge per month for the medical card prescription charge of €25 as announced in budget 2014,...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      508. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for an appeal regarding jobseeker's will be heard in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford. [46198/13]
    • Community Employment Schemes Review
      510. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views regarding realignment of community employment schemes. [46223/13]
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Payments
      513. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that the changes enacted last April to persons in receipt of jobseeker's benefit reducing the payment period from 12 to nine...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Delays
      514. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the work under way to reduce the delays at the Social Welfare Appeals Office in Dublin, particularly those appeals with oral hearings. [46278/13]
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      516. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person seeking lone parent claim and is estranged from their spouse is obliged to provide utility bills and bank statements for their ex-spouse...
    • FÁS Training Programmes Provision
      517. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the remedy available to FÁS scheme participants who made a complaint against a scheme supervisor and were subjected to personalised abuse after...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      521. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 23 October 2013, the correct and exact amount of rent allowance payable in the case of a person...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Issues
      522. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46352/13]
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Applications
      523. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of young persons aged 18 to 25 years who have applied for jobseeker's benefit or jobseeker's allowance and were unsuccessful and-or...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Appeals
      524. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determination of a date for an oral hearing in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if supplementary...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      525. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will detail in tabular form the total public expenditure for each individual benefit detailed in the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013 in...
    • Social Welfare Fraud Investigations
      529. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is any disproportionate welfare checking of migrants versus non-migrants as part of the Department's investigations into welfare fraud; and...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      530. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal of a domiciliary care allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      532. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will receive a date for an oral hearing in relation to their carer's allowance appeal...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      535. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether the current contributory pension regime is discriminatory in relation to older women on grounds both of sex and age as older...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      537. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is possible for a self-employed person whose business has ceased to claim jobseeker's allowance, jobseeker's assistance or jobseeker's...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      538. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Youth Guarantee
      539. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamenatary Question Nos. 268 and 269 of 22 October 2013, when the implementation plan of the youth guarantee will be completed; if...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      540. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal of a decision on a disability allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • EU Reports
      542. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion report on benefits tourism for the European Commission; if she is concerned with some...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      547. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the fact that housing benefit is immediately open to EU migrants arriving here; if she is fearful that this is contributing to Ireland...
    • Live Register Numbers
      549. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number and percentage of persons on the live register who are non-Irish citizens; the number and percentage of persons on the live register who...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      551. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in respect of an appeal for disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Fuel Allowance Eligibility
      553. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is any discretion applied to applicants who do not meet the strict criteria for fuel allowance. [46700/13]
    • Social Welfare Offices
      554. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the setting up of an Intreo office in Balbriggan, County Dublin; if she will expedite the matter in view of the need for job...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      559. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their carer's allowance appeal; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Back to Work Allowance Eligibility
      561. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the support available from her Department to a person in receipt of jobseeker's allowance, who wishes to re-train, but does not qualify for the back...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      562. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal against the disallowance of their disability benefit claim will be dealt with in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13...
    • Back to Education Allowance Applications
      566. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason back to education allowance was refused in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; if she will review the application with...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      567. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carers allowance appeal will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will...
    • Employment Support Services
      568. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons participating in internship schemes and self-employment support schemes on 30 June 2012; and the number of persons...
    • Maternity Benefit Issues
      569. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated number of women affected by the reduction of maternity benefit in budget 2014. [46913/13]
    • Disability Activation Projects
      570. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the Working with Arthritis Programme is open to persons who are not in receipt of a social welfare payment; if not, if she will consider making...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      571. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine an invalidity pension appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • European Employment Service
      573. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of letters drawing the attention of recipients of unemployment benefit and unemployment assistance to job vacancies abroad issued by her...
    • Free Travel Scheme Review
      574. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the future of the free travel scheme in the context of the budget 2014 (details supplied) and the National Recovery Plan...
    • Child Benefit Appeals
      576. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an overpayment appeal regarding child benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Registration of Deaths
      580. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to amend the Civil Registration Act Part 5 in order that the death of an unborn child or children can be registered where their death has...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      581. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      582. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the contributory pension of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will be paid upon the payment of an outstanding income tax and PRSI...
    • Budget 2014
      583. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of her Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure....
    • Family Income Supplement Appeals
      584. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a family income supplement application appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • National Parks and Wildlife Service Expenditure
      586. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will ensure that the hen harrier compensation money that is being received in their current plan will continue to be matched in...
    • Environmental Schemes
      587. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a person (details supplied) in County Galway who is participating in the Twelve Bens-Maam Turk complex scheme that is due to...
    • Arts Funding
      588. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the projects which were allocated funding in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013 under the scheme whereby 1% of all capital project...
    • Public Service Obligation Services
      589. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will work with persons (details supplied) who are preparing a socio economic study of life on the Aran Islands; if he will give...
    • Inland Waterways Maintenance
      590. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 16 October 2013, the extent of railway track that needs to be closed by Irish Rail in...
    • Ministerial Staff
      592. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46081/13]
    • Commemorative Events
      593. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to commemorate the landing of weapons to the Irish Volunteers from the Asgard in August 1914; and if he will make a...
    • Wildlife Protection
      594. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of prosecutions for breaches of the Wildlife Acts that were taken for each year over the past five years in each of the...
    • Civil Service Code of Conduct
      595. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the numbers of employees in his Department who were involved in commercial hunting during each of the past five years; the number of...
    • Special Areas of Conservation Appeals
      596. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 348 of 30 April 2013, when the special area of conservation appeal will take place; the reason...
    • Inland Waterways Maintenance
      597. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will indicate the current stage of the proposed restoration of the Ulster Canal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Applications
      598. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update on the sale of a bog (details dupplied) in County Galway: the reason for the delay in responding to...
    • Scéimeanna Teanga
      599. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé i gceist aige líon na scoláireachtaí do ghasúir chun freastal ar scoileanna dara leibhéal...
    • Grazing Rights
      602. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the legal basis on which he is refusing to pay compensation to farmers in the Nephin Beag range and the Maumturks-Twelve Bens range...
    • Commemorative Events
      604. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there is any funding available for groups who are interested in holding events next year to commemorate World War I; if so, the...
    • Wildlife Protection
      605. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the action he has taken to protect our heritage and wildlife from minks escaping from mink farms. [47047/13]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      606. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Public Service Obligation Levy Increase
      607. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason for the increase in the public service obligation levy for electricity customers; if he will confirm that VAT...
    • Energy Resources
      608. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reasons energy resources lying within the territory of the State, including its territorial waters, cannot be...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      609. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the recommendations from the international commission of experts report on the possibility of undergrounding all or part...
    • Bord Gáis Privatisation
      612. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the sale of Bord Gáis Energy; when the sale will be complete; and if he will make a statement...
    • Renewable Energy Incentives
      613. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of subsidies given by the Government to support all forms of renewable energy in the years 2011 and 2012; and...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      614. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if an independent and verifiable impact study on the environmental, economic, social and heritage effects of wind energy...
    • Renewable Energy Exports
      615. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will ensure transparency in the process of developing a national renewable energy export policy and planning...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      616. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46083/13]
    • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
      617. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the ESB pension scheme with particular concern to the €1.8 billion deficit in the...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      618. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a progress report on the roll-out of broadband, high-speed broadband and fibre broadband in an area...
    • Fisheries Protection
      619. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to reopen Lough Foyle to salmon fishermen for drift net fishing; if there will be a compensation package put in...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme Applications
      621. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the name and location of every organisation in County Mayo that applied for a grant under the better energy areas scheme...
    • Pensions Levy Issues
      624. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has engaged with the ESB to ascertain the reason the pension levy is being charged on all ESB pensioners for life...
    • Salmon Hardship Scheme Issues
      625. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 17 July 2013, in view of the fact that both the eel and salmon fisheries in...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      627. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost benefit analysis that has been carried out on behalf of his Department on wind energy, in particular on the wind...
    • Job Creation
      628. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the action he will take to support and actively encourage the manufacturers of wind turbines to come here and to produce...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      629. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether the third tier broadband speed target, of a minimum of 30Mbps for every home and business, contained...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      632. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide, in tabular form, the partial-year and full-year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014...
    • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
      633. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he was consulted prior to ESB management’s decision to treat the employees' defined benefit pension scheme as a...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      637. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a breakdown of income generated by Electric Ireland from residential electricity charges in the 12...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Local Authority Work Placement Programme
      639. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of the €2.835m allocated for the local authority social employment scheme in 2013 that has been spent;...
    • Motor Tax Exemptions
      640. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the following case regarding motor taxation (details supplied). [45898/13]
    • Local Development Companies Funding
      642. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will restore the substantial cut in allocation to the West Cork Area Partnership for 2013; and if he will make a...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      643. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to help the ageing population in areas (details supplied) in County Dublin to service their health needs and...
    • Electromagnetic Fields Studies
      644. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide assurances in relation to fears among the general public of health risks to humans as a result of...
    • Local Development Companies Administration
      645. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if an enhanced redundancy package application will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Local Authority Staff
      646. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of years service of acting in a position within a local authority must be fulfilled in order for that person...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
      647. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reintroduce the tenant purchase scheme or similar for local authority owned dwellings; and if he will make a...
    • Water Services Provision
      648. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when construction will commence for the treatment plants on the four new regional water schemes of Boyle-Ardcarne, Arigna,...
    • Waste Management Issues
      649. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the rationale for the recent landfill levy increase in view of the fact that the levy has increased from €30 per...
    • Regulatory Impact Assessment Data
      650. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the regulatory impact assessments published by his Department since March 2011. [45627/13]
    • Water Charges Administration
      651. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of revenue collected in each county in new water rates due to be introduced in 2015 that will be ring-fenced...
    • Water Meters Installation
      652. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the commencement date and targeted completion timescale for the programme of water meter installations; and if he will...
    • Regeneration Projects Funding
      653. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeline for approval of departmental funding to Dublin City Council to enable a regeneration project (details...
    • Household Charge Exemptions
      655. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will exempt the residents of an estate (details supplied) in County Westmeath from paying the household charge under...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      656. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the impact of the proposed pylons and overhead power lines on the environment and wildlife in south Tipperary...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      657. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to provide any guidance in relation to possible public health impacts that may arise from wind turbine...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues
      658. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a panel will be recommended by the Department and if the householder will have to pay for the pyrite testing; and if he...
    • Local Authority Finances
      659. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will detail in tabular form the total combined figure in euro for all local authorities for deficits, outstanding...
    • Departmental Schemes
      660. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the supports his Department offers community associations to employ staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      661. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government not withstanding the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 159 of 9 October 2013, and in view of the existence of a previous...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme Issues
      662. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the importance of personal alarm systems for elderly persons, if he and his Department are in the process of...
    • Housing Adaptation Grants Funding
      663. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding that will be provided to local authorities in counties Westmeath and Longford for housing adaptation...
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      664. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding ghost estates; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Appointments
      665. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46086/13]
    • Local Authority Charges Application
      666. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if, under present legislation, local authorities are empowered to negotiate rates arrears in businesses and companies...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme Issues
      667. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding made available to County Wicklow through the local authority, community and voluntary groups for the...
    • Property Taxation Yield
      668. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if local authorities will receive 80% of the proceeds of the local property tax collected in their area in 2014 as part of...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      669. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding funding of the Balyna regional water scheme in north-west Kildare; when it is proposed to commence...
    • Planning Issues
      670. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the consequences and penalties facing developers who provide false information on a planning application; and if he will...
    • Regeneration Projects Funding
      671. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that €4 million has been set aside for the redevelopment of an area (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      672. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether, as owners of our wind resource, the people are entitled to the best information in relation to same;...
    • Local Authority Expenditure
      673. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Local Authority National Partnership Advisory Group undertook and...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      674. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions that will be taken to resolve a housing issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [46219/13]
    • Water Charges Administration
      675. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if those who refuse to pay water charges will be sent to jail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46264/13]
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      676. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made on the plans to regulate the social housing sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46279/13]
    • Animal Welfare Issues
      677. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the large geographical disparity in outcomes between the dog pounds where over 1% are...
    • Septic Tank Registration Scheme
      678. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person purchases a property where the prior owner was late registering for the septic tank charge, it jeopardises the...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
      679. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a location (details supplied) in County Kerry will be dealt with as a priority sewerage mains extension; and if he will...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      680. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an appeal against a decision not to grant final approval for a Leader funding application in...
    • Local Authorities Management
      681. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that where a cathaoirleach-mayor requisitions a special meeting of a local...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      682. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 18 must pay arrears of €536 when they have not been driving their...
    • Local Authority Funding
      683. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding that will be made available to Longford and Westmeath County Councils to enable them to complete...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      684. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the recent referendum voting turnout, if he will arrange for appropriate research to be carried out on the...
    • Local Authority Housing Issues
      687. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the number of local authority mortgages being issued to persons from 2008 to 2013...
    • Irish Water Remit
      689. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the work Irish Water is carrying out to alter domestic water supply connections; the reason 15 mm fittings are being...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      690. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the grants available for a local community group wishing to buy a local building for use as a community centre with the...
    • Property Taxation Collection
      691. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total revenue in 2013 to local authorities from the non principal private residence tax; and if he will make a...
    • Local Authority Funding
      692. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in detail the precise amount of grant aid allocated to Westmeath County Council under all housing heads...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      693. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the amount of funding provided by his Department to Westmeath County Council for new...
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      694. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application to Mayo North East Leader Partnership Company Teoranta by an organisation (details...
    • Priory Hall Development
      698. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding owners of buy to let apartments in Priory Hall; if they will be included in any deal on their...
    • Irish Water Funding
      699. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the €240 million Exchequer equity investment in Irish Water to fund water and waste water programme will come...
    • Irish Water Establishment
      701. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Irish Water will be subject to commercial rates; and if so what the expected liability to be paid in Dublin will be; if...
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      702. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding a grant application under the Leader funding programme in respect of an organisation (details...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
      703. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a progress report on phase two and three of the Mountmellick sewage scheme; and the person who will...
    • Voluntary Housing Sector
      704. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the possible plans to change the criteria for the buying out of houses for voluntary housing groups...
    • Local Development Companies Funding
      705. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the options available to community based companies (details supplied) who due to numerous cuts in funding are no longer in...
    • Irish Water Expenditure
      707. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the expected expenditure by Irish Water in 2013, broken down by administration, salaries, capital expenditure and the...
    • Irish Water Staff
      711. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff who have been directly hired by Irish Water to date in 2013; the number that have directly transferred...
    • Local Authority Funding
      717. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by local authority in tabular form of the amount each received in 2011, 2012 and 2013...
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      718. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application by a club (details supplied) in County Mayo to Mayo North East Leader Partnership...
    • Homeless Accommodation Funding
      720. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the allocation of the homelessness budget for each of the years from 2010 to date in 2013 with specific reference to...
    • Local Government Reform
      721. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of the new municipalities that will replace three or more town councils; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
      722. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason he did not include Doolin sewerage scheme in the Water Services Investment Programme 2010 - 2013; and if he...
    • Local Authority Housing Issues
      723. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details in tabular form by local authority of the numbers of unoccupied local authority houses on 1...
    • Local Authority Housing Rents
      724. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details in tabular form by local authority of the average weekly rents charged by local authorities...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      726. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      727. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Government and-or the Garda Commissioner has instructed gardaí at Shannon not to search US military aircraft, or chartered aircraft...
    • Court of Appeal Establishment
      728. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Court of Appeal will be up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46617/13]
    • Irish Sign Language
      729. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if Irish sign language will be given legal recognition in accordance with the UN Human Rights Convention on the Rights of Persons with...
    • Criminal Assets Bureau
      730. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is considering extending further powers to allow the Criminal Assets Bureau to further target suspected criminals operating online. [45690/13]
    • Garda Deployment
      732. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí that will be redeployed and from where, to aid the Department of Social Protection in tackling fraud as reported; the...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      733. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions No. 1086 of 18 September 2013 and No. 426 of 8 October 2013, the steps he will be taking with the Department...
    • Road Safety Issues
      734. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding cyclists on footpaths (details supplied). [45740/13]
    • Garda Deployment
      735. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the increase in burglaries and attempted burglaries in Ballyfermot, if he will consider allocating extra gardaí to Ballyfermot...
    • Garda Recruitment
      737. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider exempting reserve members of An Garda Síochána from the application process required for the general public when...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      738. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda R district will receive additional Garda vehicles between now and year end; if so the number of these vehicles that will be marked...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      739. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when Garda vetting clearance will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Deportation Orders Data
      742. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality how many deportation orders, as distinct from removal orders made against EU citizens, were made against persons of Latvian and Estonian origin,...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      743. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on home repossessions. [44114/13]
    • Same-sex Marriage
      744. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered a referendum on same sex marriage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43147/13]
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      745. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the British Government’s decision to rule out a public inquiry into the Omagh bombing by the Real IRA in 1998; and if he will...
    • Visa Agreements
      746. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress he has made in seeking a new agreement on shared visitor visas with the UK; if there are any further countries with which he is...
    • EU Issues
      747. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress he has made in advancing the Irish role in EU judicial and home affairs co-operation as set out in the programme for Government; and...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      748. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action he is taking to crack down on the road based offences which most contribute to accidents involving cyclists. [40903/13]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      749. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on his engagement with his Northern counterpart Minister Ford. [46011/13]
    • Insolvency Service of Ireland Issues
      750. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position regarding the personal insolvency service. [46012/13]
    • Proposed Legislation
      751. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the inclusion of automatic guardianship rights for both parents is being considered as part of the Family Relationships and Children's Bill;...
    • Garda Civilian Staff Numbers
      752. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way civilianisation rates in An Garda Síochána stand up to international comparison; the targets he has set in respect of this...
    • Human Trafficking
      753. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form, the number of investigations into suspected trafficking crimes for 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; if...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      754. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46091/13]
    • Control of Fireworks
      755. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in view of serious hazards being encountered in communities, especially in Border counties like County Louth, he will consider strengthening...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      756. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will be nominating a new Irish member to the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      757. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding available to fund or co-fund the installation of a CCTV system in a town (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      758. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of extra staff that will be recruited to the Garda Vetting Unit arising from the announcement made in Budget 2014; when he expects the...
    • Court Accommodation Refurbishment
      759. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the works that have been carried out to a building (details supplied) in each of the past ten years; if he will itemise the works in tabular...
    • Courts Service Issues
      760. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which backlogs in the court system are likely to be overtaken in the short and medium term; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Operations
      761. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which bail is restricted in situations where the applicant has a previous history of committing crime while on bail; and if he will...
    • Garda Strength
      762. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current strength of An Garda Síochána, permanent and reserve; when he expects to be in a position to facilitate recruitment in...
    • Electronic Tagging
      764. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which tagging of prisoners has been examined as a means of monitoring activity of those on early release or parole; and if he will...
    • Garda Strength
      765. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of Gardaí, by gender and all ranks, at present; the extent to which the number is sufficient to meet requirements; and if...
    • Garda Resources
      766. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which An Garda Síochána have sufficient resources to deal adequately with the challenges of organised criminal gang...
    • Criminal Prosecutions Data
      767. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of criminal gang members that have been apprehended and convicted in each of the past five years to date; the number of any pending;...
    • Crime Levels
      769. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which the statistics show fluctuation in the levels of various crimes reported in County Kildare in each of the past five years to...
    • Legal Aid Service Reform
      771. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the proposals, if any, to update and streamline the administration of legal aid with particular reference to speeding up the process and greater...
    • Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes
      773. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of prisoners and first time offenders known to have applied for rehabilitative training or education in each of the past four...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      774. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding reform of the legal profession; the extent to which negotiations continue with respective interest groups; and if he will...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      775. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent of costs incurred by his Department in each of the past five years to date in 2013 in respect of cases brought before the courts on...
    • Garda Strength
      777. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of vacancies at all ranks in An Garda Síochána awaiting to be filled at the present time; the extent to which such...
    • Legal Aid Provision
      778. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if legal aid will be provided for persons seeking orders from the circuit court under the proposed new assisted decision making legislation....
    • Intestate Estates Issues
      781. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to encourage citizens to make a will and thus avoid the costly and complicated legal proceedings which occur when a person...
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      782. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps taken since 2011 to implement the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. [46265/13]
    • Immigration Policy
      784. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in the context of the positive result in the children’s rights referendum, there will be a change in immigration policy to reflect the...
    • Legal Matters
      785. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to establish the Mediators Institute of Ireland as regulator of the sector; and if the MII would come under the remit of the Ombudsman....
    • Community Policing
      786. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will make the necessary resources available to provide a dedicated phone line in both the Tullow and Carlow 24 hour Garda Stations for use...
    • Cash for Gold Trade
      787. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is considering mandating identification checks on persons selling items at cash for gold outlets, following on from his Department's report...
    • Traffic Fines
      788. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality with regard to the issuing of fixed charge notices pertaining to motoring offences, if he is satisfied that the use of standard post ensures...
    • Immigration Status
      789. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the numbers of persons with outstanding leave to remain applications and outstanding subsidiary protection...
    • Asylum Support Services
      790. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 180 of 26 September 2013, where he indicated that the information requested in Parliamentary Question No....
    • Garda Deployment
      791. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the rationale behind the amalgamation of the two Garda drug units in County Donegal; the moneys allocated to drug units in the county; the number...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      792. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deaths including road traffic deaths in County Donegal from illegal drug use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46462/13]
    • Drugs Crime
      793. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of search warrants per year issued to the drug units in County Donegal since the year 2000. [46463/13]
    • Immigration Status
      794. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a visa stamp 3 application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      795. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to review the legislation governing the qualification requirements and recruitment processes for persons engaged on-site by...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      797. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the average time it takes for the repatriation of Irish prisoners serving sentences abroad to be transferred to Ireland once the initial...
    • EU Issues
      798. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action he intends taking in this jurisdiction to comply with EU framework decision 2009/947 in relation to the transfer of probation...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      799. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason Irish prisoners serving indeterminate sentences for public protection in Britain cannot transfer to serve their prison sentences in...
    • Witness Protection Programme
      801. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the budget allocation to the Garda witness programme in the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013. [46586/13]
    • Asylum Applications
      802. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have applied for asylum in the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the number of asylum applications approved and...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      803. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on the rate of enforcement of the speed limit on roads here by An Garda Síochána in the years 2012 and to date in...
    • Garda Investigations
      805. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will carry out a separate investigation into the termination of fixed charge notices where the comment box was left blank; and if he will...
    • Council of Europe Conventions
      806. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on plans to sign the European Convention on Domestic Violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46624/13]
    • Garda Operations
      807. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of fireworks seized by gardaí in the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the monetary value of the fireworks seized in each of...
    • Legislative Process
      808. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the option of imposing the in camera rule will be taken away from our court judges in family law cases; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Garda Investigations
      809. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action he is taking in relation to the racist material posted on the greyhound nuts website and which posted significant anti-Roma and...
    • Citizenship Applications
      810. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person of English nationality, who has been married to an Irish citizen for over 40 years and has lived in County Kerry since 2000,...
    • Magdalen Laundries Issues
      811. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the laundry at St. Joseph's in Clifden, County Galway, was not included in the Magdalen laundry list for the purposes of the redress...
    • Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports
      812. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to the recommendation in the Report on the Review of the Legislation on Prostitution in Ireland, calling on penalising the purchase of...
    • Crime Levels
      813. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been a significant increase in the level of burglaries in an area (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Equality Issues
      814. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied that our laws are being implemented in a fair manner in respect of all ethnic minorities. [46762/13]
    • Prisoner Health
      815. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners in Irish prisons who have an intellectual disability. [46764/13]
    • Crime Data
      816. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of racially motivated crimes over the past 12 months. [46765/13]
    • Magdalen Laundries Issues
      817. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the State downplayed the abuse suffered by the Magdalen women at the United Nations. [46766/13]
    • Garda Transport Provision
      818. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Garda Station at Ballinamore County Leitrim does not have the use of a patrol car based at...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      819. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will expedite a visa application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Cork; if any further documentation is required; and if he...
    • Crime Levels
      820. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the incidents of burglary in the Kilbarrack area especially among homes owned by the elderly; if there is a...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      821. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he...
    • Family Reunification Policy
      822. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the options available to a stamp 4 citizen who seeks to bring their spouse here for family reunification purposes; and if he will make a...
    • Start-Up Entrepreneur Programme
      823. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the options available to a person who is currently resident here on a student visa to start their own business and progress their citizenship...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      824. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the options available to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry in relation to their transfer request within the Prison Service. [46958/13]
    • Citizenship Applications
      825. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the number of non-nationals who have acquired citizenship in the State since the year 2008 on the basis of...
    • Legislative Process
      826. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a date for the implementation of the mandatory vetting of organisations working with children provided for under the National...
    • Garda Recruitment
      827. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the format that the resumed Garda recruitment will entail; when it will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46994/13]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      829. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure....
    • Magdalen Laundries Report
      830. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which he will bring the report of the interdepartmental group on the implementation of the recommendations of Mr. Justice Quirke...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Reorganisation
      831. To ask the Minister for Defence the changes proposed for the relocation of soldiers based at Collins Barracks, Cork; the timeline for these changes; the way they will affect the soldiers.;...
    • Departmental Properties
      832. To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding a building (details supplied) in north county Dublin; if it is close by being sold to a community group; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Voluntary Redundancies
      833. To ask the Minister for Defence if it is possible for a person who is a civilian employee of the Department of Defence and on career break to avail of a voluntary redundancy scheme while...
    • Pension Provisions
      835. To ask the Minister for Defence if four years full-time service in the Army will count towards pension entitlements in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he...
    • Air Ambulance Service Provision
      836. To ask the Minister for Defence the current cost to his Department and the Air Corps of the operation of the air ambulance service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46015/13]
    • Ministerial Appointments
      838. To ask the Minister for Defence the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46084/13]
    • Defence Forces Training
      839. To ask the Minister for Defence in respect of the 5th Engineer non-commissioned officers course run at the School of Military Engineering at the Curragh Camp from 5 of September to 22 of...
    • Defence Forces Personnel Data
      840. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of military personnel who have been deemed medically unfit for overseas duties on an annual basis from the year 2000 to date in 2013; and if he...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      841. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will enable members of the Permanent Defence Force below the rank of sergeant to continue to serve after they have completed 21 years service; and if he...
    • Enterprise Ireland Funding
      842. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the number of Enterprise Ireland supported companies with which the Defence Forces are currently engaged; and if he will...
    • Defence Forces Operations
      843. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of suspect devices that the army disposal unit has had to deal with to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46314/13]
    • Emergency Planning
      845. To ask the Minister for Defence when the next meeting of the national emergency co-ordination committee will take place; the number of meetings that have taken place to date in 2013; the...
    • Defence Forces Personnel Data
      846. To ask the Minister for Defence the current strength of the Permanent Defence Forces with regard to all three services; the gender breakdown of same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces Reserve Strength
      847. To ask the Minister for Defence the current strength of the Reserve Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46318/13]
    • European Council Meetings
      848. To ask the Minister for Defence when the next meeting of EU Defence Ministers will take place; the agenda for same if decided; his priorities for it; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces Representative Organisations
      849. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on his attendance at the PDFORRA conference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46320/13]
    • Overseas Missions
      850. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of overseas missions in which the Defence Forces are currently involved; the number of personnel involved in each mission; and if he will make a...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      851. To ask the Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces will be taking on additional recruits in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46322/13]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      852. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's Budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47074/13]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Environmental Regulations
      853. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Wexford can sell new tractors imported from Poland here with a 3A Emissions Certification;...
    • Rural Development Policy
      854. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for Exchequer co-financing of the Common Agricultural Policy from 2014; if provision has been made in the multi-annual...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      855. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2013 disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      857. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      863. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their disadvantaged area aid payment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      864. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of farmers in each county who are receiving a single farm payment in respect of commonages; the number of farmers in...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      868. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will receive their disadvantaged area payment and single farm payment; and if he...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      869. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the impact of the proposed pylons and overhead powerlines on the agriculture, livestock and blood stock industry in...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      870. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive their single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45834/13]
    • Beef Technology Adoption Programme Payments
      871. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a timeframe as to when a payment will be received for the beef technology adoption programme in respect of a...
    • Felling Licences Applications
      872. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he proposes to have a limit of 15 cu. m imposed on farmers who wish to cut timber for their own use; and if he will make a...
    • Aquaculture Licences Applications
      873. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding two applications for an aquaculture and foreshore licences (details supplied) in County Cork; when he expects...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      874. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a single farm payment application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will...
    • Afforestation Programme
      875. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if payments will be made under the 2013 disadvantage area based payment and the 2013 single farm payment on lands that were planted...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      876. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the disadvantaged area scheme for 2013 will be paid to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      878. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an agri-environment options scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      879. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [45990/13]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      881. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2013 disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details provided) in Co. Kerry; and if he will make...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      882. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason area aid and single farm payment has been withdrawn in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      883. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when area aid and single farm payments will issue in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Grants
      884. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their first grant and premium forestry payment; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      885. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      886. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding disadvantaged area payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      889. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the practice of farmers whose lease expires on rented lands and who continue to claim area aid payments on...
    • Afforestation Programme
      890. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will issue in respect of an application to plant forestry in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork;...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      891. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) has not received their area based payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Appointments
      892. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46080/13]
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      893. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal against 100% penalty on a single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he...
    • Forestry Grants
      894. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of a forestry premium-headage payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath where all...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      895. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department received equine passports from a person (details supplied) in County Galway in respect of their 2013 disadvantaged...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      896. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will receive their disadvantaged area and single farm payments; and if he will make...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      899. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all outstanding headage payments for 2012 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [46327/13]
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      901. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment and disadvantaged area payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford;...
    • Harbour Authority Properties
      902. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received correspondence from a person (details supplied) in County Dublin regarding the leasing of a premises for a vessel...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      903. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the enhanced 50% stock relief to farm partnerships in view of Budget 2013. [46405/13]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      905. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an area based payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Farm Improvement Scheme Issues
      906. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider the reintroduction of a targeted farm drainage scheme as part of a farm improvement works programme; and if he...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      907. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the staffing levels in the agricultural offices in Tralee over the past five years; the level of staffing five years ago versus the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Conditions
      908. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a farmer in agri-environment option scheme 2 will be allowed amend their AEOS 2 plan following the ending of the Twelve Bens-Maam...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Eligibility
      909. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for his decision that there will be no roll-over of REP scheme and no new agri-environment option scheme entrants in 2014,...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      911. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will indicate the position in respect of penalties of single farm payments and disadvantaged area scheme payments for farmers...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      912. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments will issue in respect of the 2013 agri-environment option scheme; if he will consider introducing a new scheme in 2014...
    • Scéim Farantóireachta Éisc
      913. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cé mhéad ceadúnas um fheilméaracht éisc an bhradáin atá i bhfeidhm maidir le cuan Chill...
    • Departmental Agencies Funding
      914. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation provided for Bord Iascaigh Mhara in the recent estimates published with budget 2014; the increase or decrease this...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
      915. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if in considering applications for the disadvantaged area scheme for 2013, his Department take into account the restrictions imposed...
    • Commonage Framework Plans
      917. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legal basis for imposing restrictions on the stocking level of farmers under the commonage framework plans; the penalties that...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      918. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the over claim assessed against a farmer under each of the following schemes, agri-environment option scheme, REP scheme,...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      919. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when REP scheme 4 and agri-environment option scheme 1, 2 and 3 payments for 2013 will issue; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rural Development Programme Funding
      920. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of funding provided for in the 2014 Estimates for the EU co-financed rural development programme under the Common...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Extension
      922. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when it is intended to introduce a new agri-environment scheme under the Common Agricultural Policy 2014-2020; the process involved...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Reform
      923. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when it is intended to make final proposals in relation to Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 of the Common Agricultural Policy reform programme...
    • Direct Payment Scheme Eligibility
      924. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the conditions that will have to be complied with by livestock farmers to receive the greening payment under the Common Agricultural...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Statistics
      926. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers broken down by county leaving the REP scheme and the agri-environment scheme in the years 2013, 2014, 2015,...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      927. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who applied for disadvantaged area scheme payments and single payments, broken down by county in 2013; the...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme Payments
      928. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total allocation of funds since its inception to the TAMS scheme; the amount applied for under this scheme; the amount paid to...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Funding
      929. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation of funding under each measure of axis one, two three and four of the Common Agricultural Policy programme 2007-2014;...
    • Agriculture Schemes Penalties
      930. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of penalties imposed on farmers under each of the following schemes in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013, REP scheme,...
    • Forestry Grants
      931. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of forestry planting grant and forestry premium applications in the Sliabh Aughty area due to the ongoing discussions and...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      932. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 176 of 19 June 2013, if his officials have investigated a grant payment through REP scheme 4 on...
    • Animal Disease Controls
      933. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legal basis for provision 3.1 in Circular ER 14/2010 whereby if an animal sent to slaughter was not tested within the the...
    • Horse Slaughtering Data
      935. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of horses that were killed by his Department or by a local authority in 2011 and in 2012; if he will provide a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      936. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo may expect to have their area based payment processed and paid; the reason their...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      937. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      939. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) may expect payment of their disadvantaged area payment and single farm payment for 2013; and if he...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      941. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he or his officials have had discussions with the Department of Communications Energy and Natural Resources and, or, Department...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      942. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding area based payments and headage payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      943. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason persons (details supplied) in County Kerry have not received their area aid payment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      944. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their disadvantaged area aid payment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Statute of Limitations
      946. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 159 of 19 September 2013, if the statute of limitations applies to the full amount as...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      947. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when single farm payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [46814/13]
    • Land Parcel Identification System
      948. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of the 950,000 land parcels that have been reviewed to date as part of the EU ordered review of land parcels going...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      952. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue under the 2013 disadvantage area based scheme to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      953. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the alleged over-claim for the years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 against a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      955. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding area based payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Cattle Identification Scheme
      956. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the production of cattle tags here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46833/13]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      957. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding area based payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Sea Lice Controls
      958. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No.1186 of 18 September 2013, the reason the European Commission is currently reviewing the issue...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      959. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when single farm payment for 2013 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      961. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their agri-environment option scheme payment; the reason for the delay;...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      962. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their single farm payment; the reason for the delay; and if he will make...
    • Single Payment Scheme Administration
      963. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide clarification on the exact number of farmers that have been contacted as part of the claw-back on single farm...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      965. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a headage payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
      966. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway did not receive their disadvantaged area scheme payment; and if he will make...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      967. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their disadvantaged area aid payment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      969. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their single farm payment; the reason for the delay; and if he will make...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      971. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a REP scheme 4 payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Milk Quota Applications
      972. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a milk quota in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      973. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's Budget 2014 reductions to...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      974. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding area based payments in respect of a person (details supplied); when payment will issue; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      975. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47127/13]
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Missing Children
      976. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 254 of 27 March 2013, when she will supply the requested figures of missing unaccompanied asylum...
    • Preschool Services
      977. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will qualify for the free one year preschool place; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Adoption Issues
      978. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress that has been made regarding an adoption agreement between Ireland and India; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • HSE Funding
      979. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the Health Service Executive funding was given to an agency (details supplied) in 2011 when it was not an accredited...
    • Preschool Standards
      980. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the new national pre-school quality standards will be launched; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45673/13]
    • Child Care Services Regulation
      983. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a numerical figure for the number of children cared for by child minders; the percentage of these child minders that...
    • UN Convention on Children's Rights
      985. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the third and fourth State reports have been finalised and sent to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child; and, if not,...
    • Child Poverty
      987. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the following case in relation to submissions to the area based response to child poverty initiative (details supplied)....
    • Family Support Services
      988. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if adequate support services are in place to support a family (details supplied) in County Cork; if he will outline the further practical...
    • Care Services
      989. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps being taken to meet the financial and accommodation needs of a young person (details supplied) in full time education who is...
    • Missing Children
      990. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of minors that have been reported missing from the care system in County Waterford in 2011 and 2012; and to date in 2013; the...
    • Child Care Services Regulation
      991. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce any new child care regulations for child care facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46014/13]
    • Social Work Staff
      992. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 26 September 2013, the total number of social workers in the area of family support and...
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      993. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 26 September 2013, the number of vacancies arising in children and family services in 2012...
    • Children in Care
      994. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 26 September 2013, the number of young persons who left care on reaching their 18th birthday...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      995. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by her. [46082/13]
    • Adoption Records Provision
      996. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in the event of an adopted person successfully tracing their birth mother and the identity is known to them, the reason they cannot be...
    • Health Services Reports
      997. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the Health Service Executive are not making a report readily available to the person to whom it directly ascertains; if she will...
    • Youth Services Funding
      998. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is any grant scheme available through her Department to assist youth clubs with ongoing running costs; and if she will make a...
    • Grant Payments
      999. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when an application for a playground grant will be finalised in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [46488/13]
    • Children in Care
      1000. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide, in tabular form for the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013, the number of children in the care of the State; and if...
    • Social Work Staff
      1001. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers employed in the Community Care Area 8 in the years 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the number of vacant posts...
    • Preschool Services
      1002. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the request of a person (details supplied) in County Cork to defer their child's early childhood care and education...
    • Grant Payments
      1003. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding an application under the national lottery grant scheme in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County...
    • Adoption Issues
      1004. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if legislation will be amended retrospectively to allow the number of families who hold declarations of eligibility and suitability to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1006. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of her Department's budget 2014 reductions to...
  • Department of Health
    • Food Safety
      1007. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to monitor the levels of radiation in food and fish from Japan as a result of the Fukushima radiation leaks. [45719/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1008. To ask the Minister for Health if the measure announced in budget 2014 is discriminating against married couples with the new medical card eligibility criteria (details supplied); the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1009. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 can be expedited; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1010. To ask the Minister for Health if the increase of the tobacco retailers licensing charge proposed in Budget 2014 is purely a revenue-raising facility or if it is designed primarily as a...
    • Health Services Staff Training
      1013. To ask the Minister for Health if training has been provided to staff in the Health Service Executive who are dealing with persons with a mental health condition; and if not , if he will...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1014. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 104 of 15 October 2013, regarding his Department's participation in the high level implementation group to oversee the...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      1015. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding treatment abroad in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [46474/13]
    • Health Services Access
      1016. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that Ireland is one of half of all 27 EU member countries that EU migrants can access full healthcare services without ever having paid...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      1017. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on actions being taken to deal with our drug crisis. [46763/13]
    • Mobility Allowance Review
      1019. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the review of the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant; the date on which the schemes will reopen; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      1020. To ask the Minister for Health the checks he has put in place to ensure that doctors cannot overclaim for medical card patients who have died or emigrated; if his Department have a fraud...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1022. To ask the Minister for Health if applicants for the over 70's medical card are subject to the same discretionary conditions as those under 70 whereby financial hardship as a result of...
    • Hospital Staff Issues
      1025. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the salary offered in the urologist position for Temple Street Hospital is below the normal salary for these positions at €109,000; when the...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      1026. To ask the Minister for Health in reference to the statement (details supplied) which referenced the allocation of €20 million for investment in mental health in 2014, where she...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1027. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric patients waiting for inpatient orthopaedic procedures in Our Ladys Hospital Crumlin, the National Children's Hospital in Tallaght and...
    • Symphysiotomy Report
      1030. To ask the Minister for Health when he will bring proposals in relation to the Walsh Report with regard to symphysiotomy to Government; when he will appoint a judge to meet with the women...
    • Cochlear Implants
      1031. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on progress in relation the proposed business plan by the Health Service Executive and Beaumont Hospital to introduce a bilateral...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1032. To ask the Minister for Health the reason those applying for terminal medical cards are now being asked for information regarding their financial circumstances; and if he will make a...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1033. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether there are sufficient general practitioner services in Monasterevin, County Kildare, for a population of over 3,000. [45687/13]
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      1034. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are substantial waiting times for patients to see Health Service Executive speech and language therapists in County Kildare and south Dublin...
    • Health Services Provision
      1035. To ask the Minister for Health when the rehabilitation training will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 as funding has been allocated but it is now over seven...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      1036. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card appeal in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45662/13]
    • Medical Card Data
      1037. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a policy change in his Department or whether the regulations regarding the issuing of terminal medical cards is now being fully implemented; the...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1038. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria that needs to be met to receive a terminal medical card, a discretionary medical card or an emergency medical card; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      1039. To ask the Minister for Health when a paediatric urologist will be appointed to Temple Street Childrens Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45704/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1041. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deliver medical cards to all children under five years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45707/13]
    • Health Services Provision
      1042. To ask the Minister for Health the health sevices and supports that are in place to support children and adults who have been diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome [45717/13]
    • Disabilities Services Funding
      1043. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided for the disability sector in 2013 and the proposed funding for 2014 based on the estimates presented to Dáil Éireann as part of...
    • Health Services Provision
      1044. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay for the Health Service Executive paediatric psychology service (detail supplied); the reason families are being told they will have...
    • Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times
      1046. To ask the Minister for Health if the criteria he uses for measuring waiting times in emergency Departments are comparable internationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Surgery Waiting Times
      1047. To ask the Minister for Health if the criteria used to measure waiting times for surgery is used in any other OECD country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45763/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1048. To ask the Minister for Health if seriously ill patients, or their carer's, are required to reapply for medical cards at six week intervals or at any interval of less than one year; if so...
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      1049. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in a transfer by ambulance of a seriously ill infant to the Bon Secours Hospital, Cork form Kerry General Hospital on 17 September...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1050. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite surgery in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45784/13]
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      1051. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for redeployment to another part of the public service will be reconsidered in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      1052. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) is granted a swivel chair for their vehicle as they suffer mobility problems. [45832/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      1053. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45842/13]
    • Health Services Provision
      1054. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve the D-Doc services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45862/13]
    • Nursing Staff Provision
      1055. To ask the Minister for Health the number of spina bifida nurse specialists working in the public health services in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the hospitals where they are...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1056. To ask the Minister for Health if terminally ill children will be supplied with medical cards before the Government delivers medical cards to all children under five years of age; and if he...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      1057. To ask the Minister for Health if he will issue a long term illness card as a matter of urgency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1058. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE is differentiating between cancer patients with and without terminal cancer in the assessment of eligibility for discretionary medical cards; and...
    • Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments
      1059. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made with the programme for Government commitment to establish a primary care fund to pay providers of primary care [45882/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1060. To ask the Minister for Health the weighting policy that is applied to the circumstances of applications of discretionary medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45884/13]
    • Health Services Provision
      1061. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Longford will be allowed any benefit towards the cost of a neurological appointment in Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      1063. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the following proposal in relation to junior doctors (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45901/13]
    • Palliative Care for Children
      1064. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend in the past 12 month period in each primary community and continuing care area on home nursing care for children with life-limiting...
    • Health Services Provision
      1065. To ask the Minister for Health if he will furnish details of the numbers on waiting lists in respect of assessment and treatment for speech and language therapy, physiotherapy, and...
    • Medicinal Products Expenditure
      1067. To ask the Minister for Health the net savings that will be made in 2013 from the reduction in the cost of drugs and other prescribed items; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Provision
      1069. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the occupational therapy needs of children are being limited to two OT reviews per year, but there is no actual entitlement to therapy sessions...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      1070. To ask the Minister for Health further to parliamentary Question No.177 of 16 October 2013, in the cases of self harm presented to emergency units in 2011 with particular reference to the...
    • Air Ambulance Service Provision
      1071. To ask the Minister for Health the current cost to his Department, the Health Service Executive and the national ambulance service of the operation of the air ambulance service; and if he...
    • Medicinal Products Expenditure
      1072. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on pharmaceutical drugs at each acute hospital over each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46025/13]
    • Hospital Trusts
      1076. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the establishment of hospital trusts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46029/13]
    • Hospitals Policy
      1077. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the progress of establishing centres of excellence and the role of lead hospitals in such settings; and if he will make a...
    • Obesity Strategy
      1078. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made by the special action group on obesity; when a final report from the group is expected; if consultations will be held on any...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      1080. To ask the Minister for Health if he will furnish details of the money spent by his Department, the Health Service Executive and its predecessors on reports and management consultancy,...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1081. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he will take to ensure that patients who successfully apply for a medical card receive reimbursement for any costs incurred while awaiting the...
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      1082. To ask the Minister for Health with regards to the funding for the Health Service Executive staff and Department of Health staff, the level of savings he has budgeted for under the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1083. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff employed in his Department in 2012 excluding Health Service Executive staff; the role and function of these staff; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Reform
      1084. To ask the Minister for Health if the money follows the patient system of funding will commence on 1 January 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46058/13]
    • Health Services Issues
      1085. To ask the Minister for Health the incidence rate of Prader-Willi syndrome here; the services and treatments available to sufferers of this genetic disorder; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Access
      1086. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance in place to assist persons to attend outpatient appointments when they are unable to use public transport; the assistance in place to assist...
    • Health Services Provision
      1087. To ask the Minister for Health the specific details in tabular form of the health services available on each inhabited Island; if these services include 24-hour medical cover on each...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      1088. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive a hearing aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46074/13]
    • Medical Card Data
      1089. To ask the Minister for Health if an agreement was made last January 2013 to clamp down on medical cards; if the health service spending plan for 2013 stated that policy changes would...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1090. To ask the Minister for Health if the statement by a consultant neurologist (details supplied) at Beaumont Hospital that half of motor neurone disease patients in need of discretionary...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      1091. To ask the Minister for Health the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46089/13]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      1093. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the proposed restriction of e-cigarettes as medical products which could result in them being more costly and less accessible than traditional...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1095. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in determination of an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; when a medical card...
    • Clinical Indemnity Scheme
      1096. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of litigation for obstetrics for each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46142/13]
    • Health Services Issues
      1097. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath has been refused a primary care certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46150/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1098. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding income limits for the over 70's medical cards. [46154/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1100. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [46156/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      1103. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1104. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46175/13]
    • Health Services Provision
      1105. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive has discontinued physiotherapy in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan with multiple sclerosis; if...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1107. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will issue in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [46187/13]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      1108. To ask the Minister for Health if a motorised chair or scooter will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if they have been assessed by the Health...
    • Health Services Issues
      1109. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding his dealings in respect of St. Brigid's Hospital, Crooksling, Brittas, County Dublin; if he will give assurances to families and the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Oversight
      1110. To ask the Minister for Health when a review will take place on the fair deal system of financing nursing home care; when a review might be published; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Expenditure
      1111. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown on VAT income detailing the amount generated from the following pieces of medical equipment (details supplied). [46207/13]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Waiting Times
      1112. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the disparity in the totals for hospital inpatient and day case waiting lists for adults in August 2013 as reported by the National Treatment...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1113. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the National Treatment Purchase Fund did not publish separate waiting list data for the month of July 2013; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      1114. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person has to pay for transport from one hospital where they are a long-term patient to another hospital to receive treatment; and if he will...
    • Alcohol Pricing
      1115. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions he has had with the relevant members of the Northern Ireland Executive regarding a joint approach to the introduction of minimum prices for...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1116. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied). [46227/13]
    • Hospital Services
      1117. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an urgent hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1118. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an urgent hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services Waiting Lists
      1119. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the waiting time for children and young adults in need of dental treatment including surgery and orthodontic work. [46255/13]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      1121. To ask the Minister for Health if, in the unlikely event of person losing their medical card while undergoing treatment in a public hospital, he will confirm to whom the cost of treatment...
    • Generic Drugs Substitution
      1122. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date on the introduction of generic medication; and if there will be an obligation on persons on the long-term illness scheme or with...
    • Medicinal Products Expenditure
      1123. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider adding new ostomy products to the list of products approved for sale here; these products have widespread use in the UK and the European...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1124. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46299/13]
    • Health Services Issues
      1125. To ask the Minister for Health the number of requests the Health Service Executive has made under section 8 of the Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Act 2013 to the Department...
    • Hospital Acquired Infections
      1129. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe in which the air conditioning and ventilation systems in our surgical theatres are cleaned and decontaminated; if the Department is satisfied...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1130. To ask the Minister for Health when hip-replacement surgery will be scheduled in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46306/13]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      1132. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the continuous positive airflow pressure machine and the replacement parts used for the treatment of sleep apnoea to medical card holders;...
    • Dental Services Provision
      1133. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent orthodontic treatment will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      1134. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the processing of the nursing home grant scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 14; if he will expedite the...
    • Medical Card Application Numbers
      1135. To ask the Minister for Health the number of discretionary medical cards awarded in 2010, 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013; the number that were refused during the same period; the number of...
    • Suicide Prevention
      1136. To ask the Minister for Health the measures his Department are taking to help solve the suicide epidemic here particularly among young persons; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      1137. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the recommended and approved wheelchair is provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in Co. Dublin without further delay; and...
    • Hospital Services
      1138. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the number of hospitals offering exercise rehabilitation as per proposal by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Ireland as...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1139. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information regarding public hospital waiting lists for surgery (details supplied) [46363/13]
    • Prescription Charges
      1141. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a general practitioner prescribes medication that is eltroxin or lipitor which only comes in certain strengths, for example 20mg, 40mg, 60mg and...
    • European Health Insurance Card Issues
      1142. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money owed to his Department by other EU Countries under the European Health Insurance Card Scheme; the efforts being taken to recoup this...
    • Medicinal Products Expenditure
      1143. To ask the Minister for Health if drugs and other medical supplies, provided on prescription to medical card holders are at an agreed cost between the Health Service Executive and the...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      1145. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card review and issue a full medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      1146. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene and examine a medical card appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dental Services Provision
      1148. To ask the Minister for Health when dental checks will be carried out for children in a school (details supplied) in County Laois; if students in third class will be covered by this check;...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      1149. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form, the numbers of doctors employed in each hospital nationally; and if he well provide this figure broken down by grade; and...
    • Local Drugs Task Forces Funding
      1150. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the proposed cuts to local drugs task forces; if he will detail the approach which will be taken when allocating the budget for 2014 for...
    • HSE Staff Remuneration
      1151. To ask the Minister for Health if he will list all the non-core payments of middle and senior management staff (non-medical) in the Health Service Executive in 2012 non-core meaning...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      1153. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that it is taking almost two months for the medical card office to complete a review of a decision; if his...
    • Health Insurance Prices
      1155. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide further details on the figures regarding the health insurance tax relief changes impact that he referred to at the Health Committee meeting...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1156. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will prepare a handbook outlining in a transparent manner the eligibility requirements of a medical card and appeal arrangements for those...
    • Medicinal Products Expenditure
      1157. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent by his Department on the purchase of prescription drugs distributed under medical cards and distributed under general practitioner...
    • Health Services Provision
      1158. To ask the Minister for Health if a new appointment will be arranged in November in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare to attend the hearing service clinic; and if he...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      1159. To ask the Minister for Health the expected start date for the second neurologist to the north west; if he will indicate the reason they cannnot take up the position at present; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1160. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for public patients to see a consultant (details supplied) in County Donegal; if there are any patients waiting in excess of nine...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1163. To ask the Minister for Health the reason when assessing income of applicants for medical cards the Health Service Executive will not accept a P21 issued by the Revenue Commissioners and...
    • National Lottery Funding Applications
      1164. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on application by Galway mountain rescue for national lottery funding in view of the urgent need for a replacement vehicle...
    • HSE Properties
      1165. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding vacant housing owned by the Health Service Executive (details supplied) in County Dublin; if he will take steps to ensure that these...
    • Water Fluoridation
      1166. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of fluoride suppliers who have been paid in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46597/13]
    • Community Care Issues
      1167. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of persons in receipt of community based nursing services from the Health Service Executive nationwide; and the number of these that are...
    • HSE Agency Staff Expenditure
      1168. To ask the Minister for Health the total annual spend on agency nurses in the community who cover annual leave, sick leave and leave of absence. [46599/13]
    • Palliative Care for Children
      1169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that have received palliative care nursing from the Health Service Executive in 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Respite Care Services
      1170. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of children that have received short-term and long-term Health Service Executive respite care in 2012; and the...
    • Mobility Allowance Review
      1171. To ask the Minister for Health the schemes available to persons since the closing of the motorised transport grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46612/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      1173. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite and award full medical cards in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Issues
      1174. To ask the Minister for Health when proper transport facilities will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Emergency Services Personnel
      1176. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the fire brigade are not called to assist in the case of cardiac arrest where an ambulance is not available; his views that this would be a prudent...
    • Hospital Procedures
      1177. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary who is currently awaiting an urgent scan in Cork University...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1178. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding surgery at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; when they will be...
    • Medical Card Data
      1179. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a figure for the savings his Department made in 2013 from persons who held discretionary medical cards which were revoked by the Health...
    • Health Services Issues
      1180. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding proposals submitted to the Health Service Executive for the upgrading of three facilities in County Mayo (details supplied) in line...
    • Health and Social Services
      1181. To ask the Minister for Health the assessment he has made, as a result of the implications of population or census results and analyses for Cork city, regarding the provision of health and...
    • Hospitals Capital Programme
      1182. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the money needed to upgrade the country's maternity hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46731/13]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      1185. To ask the Minister for Health if the rental of BiPAP devices used to treat sleep apnoea are covered by the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46735/13]
    • Public Health Issues
      1186. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his officials have had discussions with officials from the Department of Communications Energy and Natural Resources in respect of the possible...
    • Prescription Charges
      1187. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a cap on the amount that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13, on a medical card, will have to pay in prescription charges per month; and if...
    • Medical Card Applications
      1188. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who has been informed that they are not entitled to a medical card; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1191. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of all changes made to the assessment of means and other criteria in relation to the medical card and general practitioner card...
    • Hospital Charges
      1192. To ask the Minister for Health if in the event of a person losing their medical card while in hospital, the person in question is liable for the inpatient charge from the day the card is...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      1193. To ask the Minister for Health if any allegation has been made to him or the Health Service Executive that private orthodontists working on part-time contracts in the public service for the...
    • Health Insurance Prices
      1194. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the increase rise in health insurance costs arising from budget 2014, he will set out the steps he proposes to take to reduce the cost of...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      1197. To ask the Minister for Health if cannabis is a proven and recognised medicine throughout the world in treating cancer, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's patients; and if the...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1198. To ask the Minister for Health if he will act on the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding GP cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46778/13]
    • Prescription Charges
      1199. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the anomaly whereby a person who qualifies for the long-term illness scheme, such as a diabetic, receives their medication without a...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      1200. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made regarding the proposed move of the Coombe Hospital to Tallaght in view of the fact that a new maternity unit is now likely to be...
    • Hospital Complaints Procedures
      1201. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a situation at Beaumont Hospital [46783/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1202. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a child (details supplied). [46784/13]
    • Hospital Closures
      1203. To ask the Minister for Health if the file relating to the consultation process for Shaen and Abbeyleix hospitals has been sent back from the Health Service Executive to the Department of...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      1204. To ask the Minister for Health the stage the plan is at for the construction of a new maternity unit at Portlaoise Regional Hospital; and if there is any funding provided for this [46787/13]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      1205. To ask the Minister for Health the ambulance cover, number of vehicles and personnel on duty that was in place in County Laois from 8pm on the 7 October to 8am on the 8 October [46788/13]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      1207. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that an orthopaedic surgeon is appointed to a hospital (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Respite Care Services
      1208. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will make available an appropriate respite place in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1209. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for orthopaedic surgeries at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Staff Issues
      1210. To ask the Minister for Health if there is currently a full-time paediatric orthopaedic surgeon employed at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      1212. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will extend the deadline for recruitment of senior psychologists from the 25 October 2013; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1213. To ask the Minister for Health when the commencement order for the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act will be signed; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      1215. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card review in respect of persons (detail supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46836/13]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      1216. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm if the drug nadolol, which is used to treat long OT syndrome, has been taken off the drugs payment scheme [46838/13]
    • HSE Correspondence
      1218. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a representation sent to the parliamentary division via the e-mail address given to Oireachtas Members on 27 September 2013 and follow-up e-mails...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      1219. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person ( details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will expedite same. [46860/13]
    • General Medical Services Scheme Payments
      1220. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to each general practitioner under the general medical card scheme in County Mayo for 2011, 2012 in tabular form; and if he will make a...
    • General Practitioner Services
      1224. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with general practitioners charging people who hold medical cards and GP visit cards for having blood tests carried out; and if he will make...
    • Care Services
      1226. To ask the Minister for Health if he will release the report commissioned into financial irregularities discovered at Fingal Home Care in 2012 [46870/13]
    • Health Services Provision
      1227. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to implement the national asthma programme in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46876/13]
    • Hospital Procedures
      1228. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations, medical and surgical procedures in public hospitals that were cancelled in 2011, 2012, and to date in 2013; and if he will make a...
    • Hospitals Discharges
      1229. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of bed days lost through delayed discharges in each hospital to date in 2013; and if he will make a statement...
    • Care Services
      1230. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding that will be provided for the care of older persons in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46885/13]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      1233. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be any changes to the qualifying criteria for medical cards for the under-70s in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46888/13]
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      1235. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46892/13]
    • Alcohol Labelling
      1237. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding alcohol labelling; if there are plans for a requirement for ingredients to be clearly listed on the label of alcohol products; and if...
    • Health Services Issues
      1238. To ask the Minister for Health if a special chair will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46963/13]
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      1239. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of beds and wards in hospitals (details supplied); the number of those beds and wards that are currently closed;...
    • Hospital Equipment
      1240. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has an upright MRI scanner in its possession to facilitate MRI scans to take place on patients who, due to an underlying...
    • Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments
      1241. To ask the Minister for Health the basic amount paid to a general practitioner for administering a medical card in 2007 and 2012, without GP visits; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Cancer Incidence
      1243. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons here who are diagnosed with primary peritoneal cancer each year; if any awareness raising campaigns have been undertaken in relation to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1246. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure. [47079/13]
    • Generic Drugs Substitution
      1247. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure persons who cannot take generic drugs for epilepsy continue to receive the medication they are currently entitled too under...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      1249. To ask the Minister for Health the basis on which a saving of €11 million was estimated arising from the Budget 2014 decision to revoke medical cards awarded on the basis of...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Driving Tests
      1250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current average waiting time for a driving test in Waterford City and Dungarvan, County Waterford. [45778/13]
    • Regional Road Network
      1252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline in tabular form the amount of funding provided by his Department to Westmeath County Council for road construction,...
    • Job Initiatives
      1253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide for the use of social or local employment clauses in future capital projects under his Department’s remit; and...
    • Road Projects Expenditure
      1254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount spent to date on the A5 western corridor link; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45617/13]
    • Road Projects Status
      1255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects work to commence on the construction of the M18-M17 Gort to Tuam motorway; the funding model being used that has been...
    • Road Safety Issues
      1256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for the increase in the cost of the certificate of roadworthiness in particular the road safety levy for commercial...
    • The Gathering Initiatives
      1257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he proposes to build on the impact of The Gathering in future years in view of the fact that a recent analysis of the...
    • EU Funding
      1258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the projects that will be prioritised in view of the European Commission’s agreement to triple transport infrastructure financing...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      1259. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the impact of the proposed pylons and overhead powerlines on the tourism industry in south Tipperary in view of the fact...
    • Bus Éireann Stations
      1260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the future of the office in the bus station in Killarney County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Dublin Bus Services
      1261. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of routes operated by Dublin Bus at 1 October 2011, 1 October 2012 and 1 October 2013; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rail Services
      1262. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if defibrillators are available on the trains of Irish Rail; if there are any plans to provide same; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Traffic Calming Measures
      1263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ask the National Transport Authority to outline the funding available to the local authority to conduct works at a village...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      1264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to the upcoming sport capital programme, I have been informed by a GAA club that this year the club would have to register...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      1265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the name, qualifications and current salary of each political staff member appointed by him. [46094/13]
    • Driving Licence Issues
      1266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the impact that the centralising of the new driving licences and taking them away from the local post office will cause...
    • Rail Services
      1267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the precise rationale behind the decision of Irish Rail to reconfigure the number of carriages assigned to DART services in the context...
    • Commemorative Events
      1268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Failte Ireland refused funding to the local committee commemorating the Battle of Clontarf in 2014 as it will boost Irish...
    • Road Signage
      1269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a national policy regarding the erection and retention of signage along national and secondary routes for the purposes of...
    • Rail Network
      1270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current age and number of rolling stock in use by Irish Rail on intercity railways outside the greater Dublin region. [46275/13]
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      1271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to make public transport more accessible for persons with a disability. [46276/13]
    • Rail Services
      1272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of real time passenger information display units that have been placed in Fingal since March 2011; the locations of same; and...
    • Public Transport Provision
      1273. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of bus shelters tat have been placed in Fingal since March 2011; the locations of same; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Projects Status
      1274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the current situation regarding the upgrading of the N4 between Castlebaldwin and Cloonamahon. [46290/13]
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      1275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of regulations governing the maximum height of any vehicle on roads with particular reference to HGVs, if he will accommodate...
    • Road Safety Issues
      1276. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to undertake a national speed limit review; the type of roads that will be covered by such a review; and if he will make a...
    • Dublin Bus Services
      1277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the attached correspondence (details supplied) regarding Dublin Bus. [46494/13]
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      1278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the need for a public swimming pool for Lucan, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46626/13]
    • Taxi Regulations
      1280. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to Taxi Regulation Bill Section 52.DI, if he will confirm if the words exclusive right are open to a legal challenge; if...
    • Road Network
      1282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the evolution of traffic routes into and out of Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46854/13]
    • Tourism Policy
      1283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the role and priorities of Failte Ireland regarding the development of skill sets in the tourism industry; and if he will make a...
    • State Airports
      1285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the development of Cork Airport for transatlantic routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46859/13]
    • Ports Development
      1287. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to bring forward legislation to provide effect to the measures outlined in the ports policy document published earlier...
    • VAT Rate Application
      1288. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the continuation of the 9% VAT rate for the tourism industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46930/13]
    • Road Projects Status
      1289. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Galway city outer bypass project; the timescale for moving this project forward; when he expects construction...
    • Tourism Capital Investment Programme
      1290. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details on the additional funds for tourism capital provided in Budget 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Transport Provision
      1291. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is considering the extension of the Dublin bus routes to other towns in County Meath alongside Dunboyne; and if he will make a...
    • Rail Services
      1294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the conditions for carriage of bicycles on Irish Rail, both DART and Intercity services; and if the conditions could be loosened on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the partial year and the full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to...
    • Road Projects Status
      1297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will direct the National Roads Authority to revisit the proposed Tralee to Dingle road upgrade as a priority and progress the...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      1299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding projects approved for sports capital grants; if all projects aproved have commenced; the number that have been...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      1300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on airline companies response to zero travel tax; and if he has communicated with all airlines regarding future expansion of...
    • Tourism Projects Funding
      1301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details on the €8 million provided in the budget for the development of the Wild Atlantic Way and if local...

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