Written answers

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Foreign Conflicts
      10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he sees a role for Ireland and the EU in resolving the conflict in South Sudan; if he will make representations at...
    • Humanitarian Access
      11. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress and support Ireland has given in terms of establishing humanitarian corridors to allow aid to get into Syria;...
    • Human Rights Issues
      13. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent of his engagement with the American authorities on the continued imprisonment of the Cuban five, only one of...
    • Middle East Peace Process
      16. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to provide full diplomatic recognition to Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1485/14]
    • Overseas Development Aid Expenditure
      17. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will confirm that in applying the most recent reduction to Ireland’s overseas aid budget he will ensure that...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      18. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the supports and assistance that are being provided and will be provided by his Department to the Northern Ireland...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      20. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Basque Political Prisoners Collective agreed to endorse a peace...
    • Human Rights Issues
      21. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that were taken in relation to raising the Saudi Arabian regime's human rights abuses, discrimination against...
    • Middle East Issues
      23. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza; that Israel is deepening the crisis due to...
    • Trade Strategy
      24. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if work has commenced on devising a new trade strategy; if he will indicate the number of staff and sections of his...
    • European Council Meetings
      25. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagements at the recent European Union Foreign Affairs Council meeting regarding the position of...
    • International Agreements
      28. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to ratify the Antarctic Treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51929/13]
    • UN Issues
      31. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the priorities being pursued by Ireland in terms of the UN Human Rights Council and if he will report on the contribution...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      33. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the consular assistance given to date to a person (details supplied) with particular regard to the hearing...
    • Passport Applications
      34. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding a passport application submitted more than 12 months ago in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      35. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 369 of 10 December 2013 the reason sovereign immunity is being applied to US military...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is committed to bilateral and multilateral diplomatic interaction with the Holy See; if the Irish ambassador to the...
    • Broadcasting Sector Regulation
      37. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the suspension of a journalist with a volunteer community radio station (details supplied) due to an...
    • Human Rights Issues
      40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to an escalation of violence against the community in Pitalito, Colombia, over its ongoing...
    • Middle East Issues
      41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a Palestinian teacher and non-violent political activist (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which agency staff have been used in his Department in each of the past five years to date for the purpose of...
    • Human Rights Issues
      43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to the passing of anti-homosexual legislation in Uganda; if he will re-emphasise human rights as a development...
    • EU Membership Issues
      45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make a statement on the possibility of Britain leaving the EU. [50299/13]
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      47. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the comments made recently on past crimes from the Attorney General in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      50. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of countries who presently have no Embassy here that have approached his Department about setting up such an...
    • UN Conventions
      60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline Ireland's involvement in the negotiations for the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, signed in...
    • EU Solidarity Fund
      61. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will immediately put forward an application to the EU solidarity fund to help with the disasters caused over the past...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      62. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form year on year the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years to...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions,...
    • National Internship Scheme Data
      64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1393/14]
    • Trade Relations
      66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps being taken to improve trade with South Korea; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1447/14]
    • Registration of Marriages
      70. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding obtaining a marriage certificate in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Human Rights Issues
      72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his efforts and that of his Department in the past three months at national, European and international levels in raising...
    • Illegal Israeli Imports
      73. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the British Government has issued guidance warning of the significant...
    • Nuclear Proliferation
      76. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support the EU, together with Russia and China, in seeking an agreement with Iran about its nuclear programme if...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      77. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the Dutch Foreign Minister’s recent trip to Cuba; if he is aware that the...
    • North South Ministerial Council
      79. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of all formal North-South meetings through the North South Ministerial Council, formal...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      82. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the assistance provided by Irish Aid to date to the Philippines following the typhoon; the proposals there are to provide...
    • EU Membership
      83. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of countries that propose to apply for full membership of the European Union that have attained candidate...
    • Trade Data
      85. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which new trading partnerships have been developed in each of the past five years to date; the extent to...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      86. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the network of Irish embassies abroad has developed its capacity in promoting increased trade between...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he continues to encourage awareness at EU and UN level of the ongoing pressing issues of the...
    • Syrian Conflict
      90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he and the international community continue to positively influence the situation in Syria with...
    • Egyptian Conflict
      92. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the international community continues to monitor the situation in Egypt with a view to ensuring the...
    • EU Enlargement
      93. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he and his EU colleagues continue to promote and encourage democracy in the western Balkans with...
    • Human Rights Issues
      95. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the ten most sensitive locations throughout Africa which remain currently the cause of greatest concern in the context of...
    • Colombian Peace Process
      98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and the international community continue to encourage the Colombian peace process with particular...
    • Driver Licences
      99. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the provision of an exchange agreement for Irish drivers licences with Alberta, Canada, the delays...
  • Department of Finance
    • Property Taxation Administration
      100. To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of the property tax collected in County Kerry in 2013, the amount that was given back to the local authority to use for improving services for the...
    • Money Laundering
      101. To ask the Minister for Finance the requirements imposed on banks seeking proof of identity for customers under the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010; if...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      102. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has been assessed for tax purposes with an additional payment when they have not received this...
    • IBRC Investigations
      103. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation. [55194/13]
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      104. To ask the Minister for Finance the reasons the European Central Bank reduced interest rates was not passed onto the variable mortgage holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Code
      105. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether buying houses or apartments for rent is a business; if he will ensure that all the normal and legitimate expenses of a business are...
    • NAMA Operations
      107. To ask the Minister for Finance the person responsible for setting up a management company and ensuring a unit is multi-unit development compliant in the event that the unit being sold...
    • Property Taxation Administration
      108. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is any legal impediment to local authorities passing on, or charging a levy in respect of, the local property tax payable in respect of local...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      109. To ask the Minister for Finance if Danske Bank, when it announced it was withdrawing from Ireland in October, submitted plans to the Central Bank of Ireland for an orderly withdrawal from...
    • Property Taxation Application
      111. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will issue the appropriate documentation in respect of property tax to a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [55367/13]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      112. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which agency staff have been used in his Department in each of the past five years to date for the purpose of answering and transferring calls...
    • Company Closures
      113. To ask the Minister for Finance the advice he will provide to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 who is owed €3000 by home payments following the company going bankrupt in 2013;...
    • Banking Operations
      114. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to force banks and credit card companies, as part of their strategy to reduce credit card fraud and theft, to text the card holder after each...
    • NAMA Operations
      115. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of contacts, unsolicited and otherwise, that the National Asset Management Agency and its developers have received from former employees regarding...
    • NAMA Staff Numbers
      116. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of staff employed by National Asset Management Agency; the total number of staff that have left the organisation in each year since its...
    • Tax Yield
      117. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of taxation raised from motorists in 2011, 2012 and 2013 from mineral oil tax, VRT, VAT, carbon tax and motor tax including driver licensing...
    • Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme
      118. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered any vendor financing options for the implementation of new infrastructural projects here as an alternative to new borrowing or the use of...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      119. To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost incurred by his Department as part of the recent balance sheet assessments of the banks, which advisers were engaged as part of the process;...
    • NAMA Loan Book
      120. To ask the Minister for Finance the total original book value loans in euro amount that were acquired by the National Asset Management Agency for a consideration of zero euro or some similar...
    • NAMA Loan Write-Downs
      121. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the only people who can get write-offs from the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation are those with large property portfolios; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Credits
      122. To ask the Minister for Finance the process by which the single person child carer tax credit is relinquished by a primary carer; if the credit will automatically transfer to a qualifying...
    • NAMA Property Sales
      123. To ask the Minister for Finance the procedures that apply when the National Assets Management Agency or a NAMA debtor is appointing a selling agent to dispose of a particular property; if...
    • Tax Code
      124. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason jobseeker's benefit payments are taxable while jobseeker's allowance payments are not; if this places an unfair disadvantage on those who are only...
    • Banking Operations
      125. To ask the Minister for Finance if the debt write off by AIB to Independent Newspapers (INM) was sanctioned by Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1093/14]
    • Tax Code
      126. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Wexford is liable for PAYE and PRSI on their income from a community employment scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      127. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding talks with KfW Bank in relation to its proposals for small and medium enterprises lending; the number of meetings that have been held...
    • Banking Operations
      128. To ask the Minister for Finance if AIB has met its small and medium enterprise lending target of €4 billion as per Government target for 2013; the way this target was made with...
    • NAMA Legal Fees
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of legal cases in which National Assets Management Agency has been involved in since its inception; the number of legal cases it is involved with...
    • NAMA Expenditure
      131. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount the National Assets Management Agency has spent on PR and communication consultancy fees since its inception broken down by year; if he will detail...
    • VAT Rate Application
      132. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 and response if it is appropriate for the Revenue Commissioners to continue to provide a VAT rates section to their...
    • Mortgage Interest Relief Eligibility
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount granted by way of mortgage interest relief in respect of principal private dwellings in each of the years 2010 to 2013; and the expected cost each...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      134. To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to the foreign earnings reduction tax relief scheme, if he will outline the rationale and criteria which were used to select the new countries...
    • Tax Yield
      135. To ask the Minister for Finance the total income tax, PRSI and USC paid in each county in 2012; the average paid per taxpayer in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Basic Payments Account
      136. To ask the Minister for Finance the current proposals in the EU regarding a basic bank account, harmonising the practices across the EU; the implications this will have for Ireland; and if...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      137. To ask the Minister for Finance Ireland and the Central Bank of Ireland's current position on Bitcoin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1228/14]
    • Flood Risk Insurance Cover
      138. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding insurance for properties in areas prone to flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Credit Unions Regulation
      139. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Central Bank of Ireland has reiterated controversial security rules for credit unions barring them from investing in the highest rated...
    • Tax Credits
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance the reasons for specified PAYE deductions in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1272/14]
    • Property Taxation Collection
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected in County Kerry in property tax during the year 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1282/14]
    • National Treasury Management Agency Bond Issues
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance when the State will hold its first debt sale of 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1284/14]
    • Tax Compliance
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 13 May 2013, value shift tax scheme, if his stated estimate of non-compliant firms has risen; the number of...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form year-on-year the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years to public sector workers between March...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form year-on-year the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions, under the aegis of his Department...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      146. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form year-on-year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1392/14]
    • Tax Rebates
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance the specific date upon which maternity benefit became taxable; if he will in respect of a mother who was mistakenly charged income tax, PRSI and universal...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      148. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding tax relief for over 70s [1465/14]
    • Revenue Commissioners Resources
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to provide funding for the purchase of an additional mobile X-ray scanner to the Revenue Commissioners. [1498/14]
    • Mortgage Protection Policies
      150. To ask the Minister for Finance the situation and rights of those who have a life assurance policy which is not in arrears assigned to a mortgage that is in arrears. [1523/14]
    • Property Taxation Collection
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of households who have not confirmed their payment method for the local property tax excluding those who have opted for deferred payment; the way...
    • Universal Social Charge Application
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reduce the universal social charge or to reform it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1580/14]
    • Property Taxation Assessments
      154. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a mechanism for an older person to revise the value of their property under the local property tax where they inadvertently accepted the Revenue...
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Revenue Commissioners have refused to issue a tax clearance certificate to compliant taxpayers because...
    • Insurance Industry Issues
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an estimate of the total fund in insurance companies with respect to the approved minimum retirement fund; and if he will make a statement...
    • Banks Recapitalisation
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has mentioned retrospective recapitalisation at any of his bilaterals with EU leaders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51399/13]
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of meetings he attended where the possibility of a precautionary credit line was discussed; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • EU Budget Contribution
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance the total Irish contribution to the European Union budget for the years 2011, 2012 and 2013 and the projected contribution for 2014; if he will report on the...
    • Irish Fiscal Advisory Council Resources
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the staffing and other costs of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council in 2012 and 2013 and the projected costs for the Council in 2014. [1678/14]
    • Consultancy Contracts
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance the expenditure incurred in respect of consultants and experts advising his Department in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013; the projected cost of same in 2014 in...
    • Tax Code
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a change to the VAT regime for travel agents based in Ireland who are offering hotel packages online in locations outside of Ireland to...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has discussed or plans to discuss with the Central Bank the legal basis by which the Central Bank allows commercial banks to drop prudence and overvalue...
    • Tax Credits
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of the recent taxation changes to the one-parent family credit under the tax code, the criteria by which same can be claimed; if there is...
    • Legislative Reviews
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance if the review of section 149 of the Consumer Protection Act 1995 undertaken by his Department has been completed; if the review will be published; and if he...
    • Basic Payments Account
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance if the report on the Standard Bank Account pilot scheme 2012-2013 has been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1813/14]
    • Consumer Protection
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is any legal basis in Ireland for the chargeback provision for disputed transactions on credit and debit cards similar to section 74 of the Consumer...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Momentum Programme Issues
      171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the oversight in place in relation to the functioning of the momentum scheme and the role and accountability of mentors with particular reference...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will publish the specific criteria used in the selection of the schools announced on the building list on Friday 29 November 2013; the...
    • State Examinations Commission
      174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total allocation of funding to the State Examinations Commission during each of the past six years. [55196/13]
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
      178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rates of pay that will be allocated to the ten staff of the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Third Level Fees
      179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is possible for an exemption in relation to international student fees to be given to children of an Irish person working for an Enterprise...
    • School Meals Programme
      180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that school canteens providing meals on school premises are adequately regulated; his Department's current responsibilities in...
    • Early Child Care Education Issues
      181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria that qualifies as early educational intervention for pre-school children with autism. [55243/13]
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 12 December 2013, if he will issue a written response to the points raised with him in correspondence...
    • Teacher Training Provision
      183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent of training in the bachelor of education courses for primary school teachers in the area of autism; if he is satisfied the teachers...
    • Grant Payments
      184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the hardship caused to families as a result of the fact that the remote area grant is not paid until the end...
    • Book Rental Scheme
      185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make funding available to those schools who currently operate a book rental scheme but cannot afford to replace and update the schemes...
    • Higher Education Institutions Issues
      187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 10 October 2013, if he will instruct the Higher Education Authority to provide the information...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a resolution will be found between the Health Service Executive and his Department as to who is responsible for providing a person (details...
    • State Examinations Commission
      189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department and/or the State Examinations Commission require that those persons who supervise the State examinations to be qualified...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff Contracts
      190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the job share programme for special needs assistants has not been addressed by his Department...
    • School Staffing
      191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 220, 247 and 248 of 8 October 2013 the reasons his Department cannot drill down into FACILITY in order to...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which agency staff have been used in his Department in each of the past five years to date for the purpose of answering and...
    • School Accommodation
      193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Kerry last received an overall school accommodation examination; and if he will make a statement on...
    • School Equipment
      194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider providing a grant-aided purchasing framework for post-primary schools to replace the computers used to teach technology...
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal for the funding of the replacement of windows...
    • Psychological Services
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the situation where there is currently no child psychologist at Scoil Cormac in Cashel; if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Education and Training Boards Staff
      198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 43 of 4 December 2013 if he will instruct the city of Dublin and county of Dublin education and training...
    • Departmental Policy Reviews
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the review being undertaken in relation to Irish language exemption; if consideration will be given to children...
    • School Transport Provision
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will be provided to a family (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55482/13]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      201. 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...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Gaelscholáiste Reachrann, Artane, Dublin 5 was not included as one of the 70 schools picked for the new school building programme...
    • School Enrolments
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 12 December 2013, if he has considered the introduction of PPS numbers on enrolment forms for schools...
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on a funding application under the summer works scheme in respects of general necessary repairs to a school (details...
    • School Accommodation
      205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of payments by his Department for the rental of prefab buildings for national and secondary schools in County Longford...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make a determination as to the eligibility of a course for the purposes of the student grant with Student Universal Support Ireland...
    • Site Acquisitions
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to secure a permanent site for a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene in order that Institutes of Technology do not levy the student charge of approximately €833 on apprentices...
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be approved under the summer works scheme initiative 2014 for a school (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite a student grant appeal and award 100% non adjacent rate and 100% maintenance grant and 100% fees and student contribution as...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite and award a student grant appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Pupil Data Collection
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions he proposes to take to ensure that there are adequate primary school places in an area (details supplied) for this September; the...
    • Bullying in Schools
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the implementation of the action plan on bullying for schools; the actions that have been taken to progress the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will personally intervene in the case of a student (details supplied) in Dublin 7 and ensure that she is assessed for a SUSI grant in her...
    • Further Education and Training Programmes Recognition
      219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions that must be made for the welfare needs of a expectant mother who is participating on Youthreach at the location of the programme;...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support this matter in respect of a person (details supplied) [1070/14]
    • School Staffing
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to staffing at a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1083/14]
    • Book Rental Scheme
      223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason fairer scheme for book rentals cannot be put in place; if he proposes to determine the details of rental schemes being operated in...
    • School Transport Provision
      224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will indicate the circular which states that fees for school transport may be paid in two instalments. [1136/14]
    • Further Education and Training Programmes Provision
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding city and guilds exams. [1171/14]
    • School Enrolments
      228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of parents in Greystones, County Wicklow, regarding the enrolment policy of the new school...
    • Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility
      229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 102 of 18 December 2013, if he will ensure that persons (details supplied) in County Cork both have...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial grant provisions he has put in place to support young unemployed persons to complete the final job phase of an apprenticeship...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet a delegation from the three secondary schools in Ennistymon regarding amalgamation; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements
      233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a mechanism available to a mature student to recommence a course at degree level, if they already have a masters qualification, to...
    • State Examinations Commission
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide any changes made to any accommodations scheme administered by the State Examinations Commission for students with dyslexia...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a special needs assistant in respect of a child (details supplied). [1313/14]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff Remuneration
      236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will arrange for requested information to be supplied to a person (details supplied) in County Wexford as a matter of urgency; and if he...
    • School Accommodation
      237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) will be provided with a new building as at present the school consists of a number of portacabins. [1350/14]
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form year on year the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years to public sector workers...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions, under the aegis of his...
    • National Internship Scheme Data
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1390/14]
    • School Funding
      242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 18 December 2013, when the capitation grant and the ancillary services grant are expected to be...
    • School Textbooks Rental Scheme
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a revision of the school book rental scheme; and if those schools have who established schemes voluntarily will lose out in funding...
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a summer works grant application in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement...
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will expedite a mature student grant payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider the proposed location for the new post-primary Gaelscoil for Dublin, in line with his Department's own assessment that the...
    • Third Level Participation
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered the possibility of encouraging open days for prospective A-level students from Northern Ireland at Southern Irish...
    • School Accommodation
      249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review and reverse the decision not to assist a school (details supplied) in County Cork with funding for additional accommodation...
    • School Textbooks Rental Scheme
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will extend the application process for funding under the new book rental scheme to include primary schools that have already have book...
    • School Enrolments
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action that can be taken to assist returning emigrants who have difficulty in getting their children back into their local school after being...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the school building programme in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Garda Stations Closures
      255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when it is intended to sell the old Garda Station in Leitir Móir, County Galway; the reason for the delay with the sale; and if he...
    • Coastal Erosion
      256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding he will make available in 2014 to deal with the problem of coastal erosion in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Applications
      257. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the applications that have been made from local authorities (details supplied) to the OPW in 2011, 2012 and 2013 for...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the Dargle flood protection scheme in Bray being funded by the Office of Public Works; the current...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Civil Service Commission will consider applicants residing in the proximity of vacancies when recruiting for...
    • Public Park Access
      260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the proposal by the Office of Public Works to erect a fence around all or part of Castletown demesne,...
    • Public Sector Pensions Data
      261. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons who have been enrolled to date in the single public service pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      262. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Public Appointments Service is allowed provide test results to persons so they know how they performed in their aptitude tests;...
    • Public Sector Staff Data
      263. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons working in the public service and the Civil Service in each year from 2008 to date in 2014; the expected numbers...
    • Coastal Protection
      264. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will make emergency funding available for coastal protection works at Rossbeigh Beach, Glenbeigh, County Kerry (details supplied);...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      265. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to review costs (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1195/14]
    • Performance Management Systems
      266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if penalties for underperforming civil servants will be introduced at senior and junior grades (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to use the higher scale in each pay scale grade in the Civil Service to reward workers who excel at their job, rather than...
    • Pensions Levy Issues
      268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to lift the pension levy in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1234/14]
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      270. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends, post the Haddington Road agreement, to reinstate public sector pensions which have been reduced under the agreement to...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      273. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions under the aegis of his...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      274. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1397/14]
    • Open Government Partnership
      275. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the date by which his Department will publish its open government partnership national action plan. [1401/14]
    • Standards in Public Office Commission
      276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has publically advertised the current Standards in Public Office Commission board vacancies; and the date by which he intends to...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will support a case (details supplied). [1414/14]
    • Garda Stations Refurbishment
      280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 358 now that the Garda station in Blarney has been completed when will the previous stations...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to implement the recommendations of the Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht report on...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Applications
      283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the Templemore flood relief scheme; the position regarding this project; when work will commence; and if...
    • Public Sector Management Remuneration
      284. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of each of the approvals he or his Department granted for breaching the public pay cap over each of the past...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Regulation of Accountants
      285. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his concerns relating to accountancy firms which are able to operate outside the supervision of the Irish Auditing and Accounting...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      286. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to a legal opinion produced by a person (details supplied) this year which confirms that efforts by...
    • Emigration Data
      288. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his strategy to tackle emigration. [55211/13]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      290. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the engagements he or his Department has had with Irish emigrants or their representatives since he took office. [55213/13]
    • Patent Legislation
      293. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the positions of the Industrial Development Authority and Enterprise Ireland regarding plans to either create a local court or...
    • IDA Portfolio
      294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 14 November 2013, if he will request the Industrial Development Agency in the interest of...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      295. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which agency staff have been used in his Department in each of the past five years to date for the purpose of answering...
    • International Agreements
      296. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if Ireland has signed up to the trade-related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement, the Paris Convention and the Patent...
    • IDA Site Visits
      297. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of itineraries arranged by any of the State agencies under his remit that have visited Kildare South in each of the past...
    • IDA Portfolio
      298. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if any of the business units under the remit of the Industrial Development Authority in Newbridge County Kildare have being leased in...
    • IDA Jobs Data
      299. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency Jobs announced for County Kerry in 2013; the number of site visits in 2013; and if he will...
    • Jobs Data
      300. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Enterprise Ireland jobs announced for County Kerry in 2013; the number of Enterprise Ireland site visits; and if he will...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
      301. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he expects a single, one stop shop website to be in place providing details of all Government and State agency initiatives to...
    • Youth Unemployment Measures
      302. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of any meetings he or his officials have had with youth groups or organisations working with or...
    • Microfinance Loan Fund Scheme
      303. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total amount of moneys lent by Microfinance Ireland since its inception to the end of December 2013, broken down by month and by...
    • Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation
      304. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total amount of money's lent via the credit guarantee scheme since its inception to the end of December 2013, broken down by month...
    • Seed Capital Scheme
      305. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total amount of moneys lent by the seed and venture capital scheme; the number of expressions of interest received to date, the...
    • Departmental Agencies Reports
      306. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to an internal Enterprise Ireland audit report into the pilot competitive feasibility fund in the...
    • IDA Expenditure
      307. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total grant investment by the Industrial Development Agency Ireland in the 13367 jobs created in 2013 [1147/14]
    • IDA Site Visits
      308. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits by the Industrial Development Agency client companies or prospective client companies on a county basis in a...
    • IDA Jobs Data
      310. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline a county basis in a tabular form the 161,112 persons employed in Industrial Development Agency client companies at...
    • IDA Portfolio
      313. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason for the selection of specific locations under the new property initiative outlined by Industrial Development Agency...
    • Industrial Development
      315. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of occasions on which the joint industry-Government big data taskforce has met since July 2013; the number of big data and...
    • Consumer Protection
      316. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act, 1980, or any other consumer rights legislation allows for retailers to not accept...
    • Copyright Legislation Review
      317. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the legislation underpinning for Irish Music Rights Organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1222/14]
    • IDA Site Visits
      318. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency client/potential client visits that were made by the IDA to Drogheda, County Louth in the...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      320. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form year on year the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years to public...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      321. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions, under the...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      322. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1395/14]
    • Employment Rights Issues
      323. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the protections are in place for jobseekers taking up temporary sole trader work if they need to return to social welfare, if they are...
    • Jobs Initiative
      324. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will develop a national jobs strategy for young persons in an effort to better co-ordinate the various measures and supports in...
    • Departmental Agencies Board Appointments
      325. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps being taken to fill the post of Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of the Industrial Development Agency Ireland which...
    • Employment Rights Issues
      326. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the regulations regarding an employment query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1546/14]
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      327. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs in Industrial Development Agency direct foreign investment firms at the end of December 2013 in the south west...
    • Enterprise Support Schemes
      328. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will examine and support the unemployed trades person who decides to set up as a self-employed sole trader with ambitions to...
    • IDA Jobs Data
      329. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide breakdown by county of the number of Industrial Development Authority led jobs created in 2013; if he will provide...
    • Employment Rights Issues
      331. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views that a company (details supplied) who provide services to Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Bank, Eircom and others is adhering...
    • Consumer Protection
      332. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way the European Communities (Misleading Advertising) Regulations 1988 are employed here; the number of times the National...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Youth Unemployment Measures
      333. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the report Youth Unemployment in Ireland, the Forgotten Generation by National Youth Council of Ireland. [55216/13]
    • National Internship Scheme Eligibility
      336. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of participants in total that were recruited to the JobBridge scheme in 2013; if she will provide a breakdown on a county basis up to the...
    • Community Work Initiatives
      337. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the TUS scheme; if she will further provide a breakdown of the number of participants on a county basis up to end...
    • Dental Services Provision
      338. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps being taken to publicise the availability of one free dental check-up per year under the PRSI scheme; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Insurance Issues
      339. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will extend the employer PRSI relief of 4.25% given to businesses over the past two and half years in view of the...
    • Pensions Legislation
      340. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regading an amendment to the Pension Bill. [55248/13]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      341. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a claim for disability allowance was disallowed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal in view of the fact that...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility
      342. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the criteria used to qualify for payment for supplementary welfare allowance; the amount that is actually spent on items such as these; and if she...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      343. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the file regarding a domiciliary care allowance requested by the appeals office on 3 October 2013 has not as yet been provided by her...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (1 comment)
      344. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will extend the back to education allowance scheme to those students undertaking the professional masters in education programme in Dublin...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      345. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Labour Market Issues
      346. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has consulted with any independent agencies who specialise in the role of labour market reactivation and in assisting getting the long term...
    • Community Welfare Services
      347. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that her Department facilitates rent supplement applicants who need to meet with a Community Welfare Officer to discuss their...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      348. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which agency staff have been used in her Department in each of the past five years to date for the purpose of answering and...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      351. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal for a domiciliary care allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      352. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55477/13]
    • Community Employment Schemes Places
      353. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will confirm since the funds have now been reinstalled in the community employment schemes, if they will revert to the old system of issuing...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      354. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for rent supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will be expedited; if the attached correspondence will...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      355. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that young persons, currently in receipt of jobseeker's allowance, and who manage to get a few weeks work over Christmas, will...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      359. 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
      361. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal against the decision not to grant carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and...
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service Issues
      362. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for assistance to the Money Advice Budgeting Service for each of the past three years in Athy and Newbridge in County...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration
      364. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she envisages the administration of the rent supplement allowance transferring from her Department to local authorities; if she is satisfied...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Review
      365. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current status of a report she received on domiciliary care allowance and disability allowance; if she intends to implement the recommendations...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      367. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person who is attending a part-time education course is eligible for jobseeker's allowance (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Mortgage Interest Relief Appeals
      368. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for mortgage interest relief in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Employment Rights Issues
      369. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the EU's definition of a migrant worker. [1190/14]
    • Live Register Numbers
      370. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the percentage of the local population on the live register in towns (details supplied) for each of the past six years in tabular form; and if she...
    • Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme Eligibility
      371. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason behind the decision to exclude recipients of partial capacity benefit from receiving family income supplement; and if she intends...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      372. To ask the Minister for Social Protection following reductions in the budget to those unemployed under 25 years of age, the opportunities being provided to this category of welfare dependant...
    • Community Employment Schemes Data
      373. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons participating in community employment schemes up to end of 2013; if she will provide details on a county basis in tabular form...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      375. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in respect of an appeal for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
    • Rural Social Scheme Application Numbers
      376. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number participating in rural social schemes up to end of 2013 and if she will provide details on a county basis in tabular form and if she will...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      377. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the amount paid to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow in relation to their claim for rent allowance. [1342/14]
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      378. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form year on year the occasions on which she has signed off on the awarding of added years to public sector workers...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      379. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form year on year the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions, under the aegis of her...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      380. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form year on year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in her Department in 2013. [1398/14]
    • Social Welfare Appeals Issues
      381. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [1347/14]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      382. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will approve and expedite an appeal for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      383. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determination of an appeal for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      384. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan can expect a decision made on their disability allowance appeal; and if she will make a...
    • Employment Support Services
      385. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the type of work to be done under the new Intreo scheme. [1424/14]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      387. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect of a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [1489/14]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      388. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a jobseeker's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Pension Provisions
      389. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, in the event that the provisions of the Social Protection and Pensions (No. 2) Act 2013 result in a more favourable outcome for members of a...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      390. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determination of an appeal for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      393. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determination of application for disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Issues
      396. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of an appeal for State pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      397. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her Department's regulations regarding a stated employment problem (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1545/14]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      398. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress made to date in determination of eligibility for disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Issues
      400. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a one parent family allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Child Benefit Appeals
      401. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal against the decision not to grant child benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if...
    • Pensions Legislation
      402. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider providing a right of audience for pensioners in the context of the changes being introduced under the Social Welfare and...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      403. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan. [1685/14]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      404. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a jobseeker's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork [1696/14]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      405. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1702/14]
    • Social Welfare Appeals Issues
      406. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow. [1708/14]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      407. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position in relation to a person in receipt of a pension who had the telephone allowance, if there are any exemptions or allowances for persons...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      408. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      410. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the anticipated reduction in spending of €1.7 million on domicilliary care allowance next year; and if she anticipates a...
    • Social Welfare Code
      412. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason her Department applies an interest rate of 20.8% which is over 80 times the ECB rate of 0.25% on savings and investments and property...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      413. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review a decision to refuse an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Wildlife Regulations
      414. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the action he will take in relation to the Ward Hunt proposing to hunt a deer on Stephen's Day by exploiting the wording of section...
    • National Monuments
      415. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will ensure that the agreed inspection and survey of the 1916 national monument at Moore Street will be facilitated...
    • Caiteachas Údarás na Gaeltachta
      416. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén luach saothair nó cé na cnapshuimeanna atá íoctha leis an Iarbhainisteoir Reigiúnach ag...
    • Commemorative Events
      418. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to commemorate the centenary of the founding of Cumann na mBan which occurs in April 2014. [55249/13]
    • National Library
      419. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to seek a relaxation of the public service embargo for recruitment for the post of Head of Genealogy and Chief Herald at...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      420. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which agency staff have been used in his Department in each of the past five years to date for the purpose of answering...
    • Inland Waterways Development
      421. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will explore all possible options within current fiscal constraints to advance and develop the potential of the Royal and Grand...
    • Waterways Ireland Remit
      422. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will include work on land maps to determine what land abutting the canals is owned privately, by Waterways Ireland, the Railway...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Applications
      423. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the sale of a bog (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55516/13]
    • City of Culture Initiative
      425. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the process that is applied for selecting the national city of culture; if the same criteria will be applied for the next city of...
    • Commemorative Events
      426. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason Limerick city received €6 million for the year of culture while the Battle of Clontarf organisers, Clontarf group,...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      429. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form year on year the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years to public...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      430. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions, under the...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      431. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1386/14]
    • Architectural Heritage
      432. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the grant aid that is available for insulation of ceilings and walls in listed buildings; if he will provide a list of companies that...
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      433. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps he is taking to implement the recommendations by the Joint Committee on the Environment report on Shannon Flooding...
    • Decentralisation Programme Expenditure
      434. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 340 of 17 December 2013, if he will outline fully for the 353 staff based outside Dublin where...
    • Waterways Ireland Remit
      435. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht having regard to the prospective re-opening of the Royal Canal towpath at Portland Place in Summer 2014 further to the refurbishment...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Fisheries Protection
      436. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to permit fishing in an area (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Biofuel Obligation Scheme Targets
      437. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason Ireland was not one of the group of progressively-minded EU countries which succeeded in blocking the motion...
    • Sale of State Assets
      438. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if half of the proceeds from the €1.2 billion sale of Bord Gáis will be invested in capital infrastructures...
    • Onshore Exploration
      439. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the consultation there has been between authorities in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland regarding plans for...
    • Renewable Energy Exports
      440. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to a statement made in October 2013 by United Kingdom Minister of State at the Department...
    • Renewable Energy Generation Issues
      441. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the supports in place for companies that install their own renewable electricity generating facilities on their...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      442. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will encourage EirGrid to constructively engage with the local communities regarding the pylon issue; the person...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      443. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which agency staff have been used in his Department in each of the past five years to date for the purpose...
    • Salmon Management Report
      444. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No.191 if there has been any reports or surveys on salmon numbers around our coast in...
    • Petroleum and Gas Exploration
      445. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the fact that no petroleum prospecting licence were granted to companies (details supplied) if he will confirm...
    • Community Radio Stations Funding
      446. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on a a recent Crowe-Horwath consultancy document for the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, which commented on...
    • National Postcode System Establishment
      449. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the latest developments with regard to the new postcode system; the amount expended on this project to date; and the...
    • European Court of Justice Rulings
      451. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the recent judgment in Case C-262/12 Association Vent De Colere! Federation nationale...
    • Renewable Energy Generation Issues
      452. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the percentage of Ireland's energy supply that is produced by solar energy; the megawatts this represents; and if he will...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      454. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the percentage of the country that is currently covered by a broadband service; the counties that have the least...
    • Inland Fisheries Regulation
      455. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to concerns that the existing legislation regarding inland fisheries does not take into...
    • Broadcasting Service Provision
      457. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some television programmes made and broadcast by the public broadcasters...
    • Renewable Energy Generation Targets
      458. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he envisages that the electricity system will be capable of utilising all of the electricity generated on a daily...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      459. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide evidence that placing electricity pylons under ground will add 3% per annum for 50 years to domestic...
    • Renewable Energy Generation Targets
      465. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the current storage capacity within the electricity grid; and the targets that have been set to increase same in order to...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      466. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form year on year the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      467. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions,...
    • National Internship Scheme Data
      469. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1388/14]
    • Broadband Services Provision
      470. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when high speed broadband will be rolled out in Abbeyfeale town, County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Telecommunications Services Provision
      471. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding premium telephone numbers (details supplied) [1562/14]
    • Renewable Energy Generation Issues
      472. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department has conducted a cost-benefit analysis of proceeding with the export of wind-generated electricity as...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      476. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will investigate issues surrounding the ownership of a telecommunications mast (details supplied) in Co. Cork which...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      478. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to any damage caused to wind turbines as a result of the stormy weather in December 2013...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      479. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount his Department has spent on consultants since March 2011; and the specific projects they were engaged to...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      480. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department engaged private consultants to report on the proposed export of wind generated electricity to Britain;...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Applications
      481. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 in relation to a grant for a stair lift [1066/14]
    • Household Charge Collection
      482. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households who failed to pay the €100 household charge; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration (1 comment)
      483. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for a new tenant purchase scheme to cater for persons who did not avail in time of the recently concluded...
    • Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (2 comments)
      484. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the most up-to-date figures relating to the number of persons presently on local housing authority...
    • Fire Stations Upgrade
      485. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason Graignamanagh fire station is the only station that has not received an upgrade, in view of the fact that it...
    • Rural Development Policy
      486. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the Commission for Economic Development of Rural Areas report will be launched. [55283/13]
    • Water Charges Administration
      487. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to Irish Water the person that will be responsible for the collection of payment for water from members of...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Eligibility
      488. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the rental accommodation scheme; and if he will make a statement...
    • Fire Service Issues
      489. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the boundary changes within the Kildare fire service, notably Athy; and if these...
    • Local Government Reform
      490. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the transition of town councils such as Athy town council to the municipal district; and the services and...
    • Water Pollution
      491. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the rivers and waterways here into which the chemical chromium v1 is released; and the levels of this heavy metal that are...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      492. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which agency staff have been used in his Department in each of the past five years to date for the purpose...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      494. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 142 and 143 of 12 December 2013, when Chapter 4 of the Housing (Miscellaneous...
    • Local Authority Funding
      495. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide funding for stoves to local authorities such as Kerry County Council (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Housing Data
      497. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of undeveloped land is in the ownership of local authorities for the purpose of providing local authority...
    • Local Authority Staff
      498. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the new role of a chief executive of a local authority; the functions this role will administer; the main differences...
    • Fire Stations Provision
      499. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to previous parliamentary questions, if he will provide the necessary funding in 2014 to replace the fire station...
    • Housing Regeneration
      500. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 653 of 5 November 2013, if he will provide an update on whether a regeneration...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      501. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if appropriate investment will be given to Dublin City Council in the form of financial assistance with capital...
    • Local Authority Staff Recruitment
      502. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of unemployed persons in County Kerry that will be given positions on a temporary basis in county council works...
    • Water Services Provision
      503. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way in which he proposes to put the onus of responsibility on homeowners to identify a problem with their water...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      504. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to the review of Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, which was published on 30 July 2013, has the...
    • NAMA Social Housing Provision
      505. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 19 December 2013, if he will confirm that the 369 properties delivered by the...
    • Household Charge Collection
      506. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason local authorities are not required to account specifically to central government for the usage to which the...
    • Register of Electors Data
      507. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons currently registered to vote in each county; if he will break down the figures in tabular form...
    • Severe Weather Events Response
      508. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the recent storm damage at Rossbeigh County Kerry, if he will seek emergency funding from Europe to carry out...
    • Building Regulations Amendments
      509. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider amending S.I. No. 80/2013 - Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2013 to include architectural...
    • Severe Weather Events Response
      510. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the recent storms which resulted in trees knocking power lines and telephone lines, his views on whether it is...
    • Radioactive Waste
      512. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is in contact with his Northern Ireland counterparts with respect to ascertaining the impact to health and the...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      514. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form year on year the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years to...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      515. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions,...
    • National Internship Scheme Data
      516. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1391/14]
    • Walks Scheme
      517. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current status of the walks scheme in County Donegal; his future plans to further develop same; the level of funding...
    • Local Authority Funding
      518. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department has provided to a local authority to renovate/repair a property (details supplied) in County...
    • Local Government Reform
      520. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has changed the policy in relation to local government, whereby Oireachtas members are entitled to receive copies of...
    • Motor Tax Yield
      521. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is concerned by dropping annual overall motor tax revenues; if he is concerned that the figures will continue to...
    • Building Regulations Compliance
      522. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding ARAE registration; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Housing Grant Payments
      523. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of grants approved and drawn down respectively for each local authority in each of the past three years under...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      524. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the proposals he has to provide further funding to the Cavan Monaghan Leader programme following the reduction in May 2013...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Application Numbers
      525. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide detail of the allocations to local authorities for private housing grants for 2013; the grant schemes...
    • Local Authority Charges Collection
      526. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding distressed companies in liquidation regarding arrears due to respective councils; and if he will...
    • Local Elections
      527. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which he intends to make and publish regulations under the Local Elections Disclosure of Donations and...
    • Commercial Rates Calculations
      528. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the commercial rateable valuation by county and the amount of paid parking income by county; and if he...
    • Water Charges Exemptions
      529. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if an exemption on water meter charges will be given to families who are providing care for children with...
    • Local Authority Funding
      530. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the cuts that have been directed to local authorities which were not published at the time; the amount he is...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      532. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if consideration has been given to reducing the age of eligibility for the senior alert scheme from 65 to 60; and if he...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Application Numbers
      533. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the full criteria now applying to the housing adaptation grant for persons with a disability, the...
    • Housing Adaptation Grants Funding
      534. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason for changing the eligibility criteria for disability housing supports, including the disability adaptation...
    • Control of Dogs (1 comment)
      535. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce dog breed neutral legislation in relation to the control of dogs here; if legislating restrictions...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • National Disability Strategy Implementation Plan Issues
      536. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the implementation of the National Disability Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1109/14]
    • Housing Data
      537. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his response to the latest report from a company (details supplied) highlighting a significant strength in cash payments, where 54% of...
    • Coroners Service
      538. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the operations of county morgues and county coroners expenses still have to go through the local authority and be accounted by the...
    • Residency Permits
      540. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding permission to stay in Ireland in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Garda Reserve
      541. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will amend the relevant legislation in relation to deleting the provision scrapping the €400 contribution which was payable to...
    • Magdalen Laundries Issues
      542. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in the settlement of claims made by survivors of Magdalen institutions, that where written records relating to survivors are utilised in the...
    • Garda-PSNI Transfers
      543. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to disincentives to lateral entry or transfer between An Garda Síochána and the PSNI; if he has...
    • Sentencing Policy
      544. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the average length of sentence actually served in cases where convicted persons are sentenced to periods of imprisonment of 12 months, two years,...
    • Prison Committals
      546. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the average sentence actually served by persons for non-payment of court fines; and the average current cost to the State, per day, of...
    • Garda Divisional Headquarters
      547. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if tender documents for the new Garda Divisional Headquarters in Murrough, Renmore have been prepared; when the tender documents will be publicly...
    • Criminal Assets Bureau
      548. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the €1 million plus sum of money seized near Castleconnell, County Limerick recently is deemed by Criminal Assets Bureau to belong...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      549. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of Commissions of Investigation which have been established since the enactment of the...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry
      550. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of tribunals of inquiry established under his Department’s remit from 1997 to date in...
    • Garda Forms
      551. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will publish the updated CT68 form due to be used by members of An Garda Síochána, following serious road traffic collisions,...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      553. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when an application by a prisoner (details supplied) for transfer to Northern Ireland will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Direct Provision System
      554. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will give consideration to introducing a single procedure to decide on protection claims as a matter of urgency in order to reduce the...
    • EU Funding
      555. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of all migrant-led organisations which applied for moneys from the European Refugee Fund and European Integration...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      556. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which agency staff have been used in his Department in each of the past five years to date for the purpose of answering and...
    • Garda Investigations
      557. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 150 of 23 May 2013 when the report regarding a particular series of events which took place after the...
    • Immigration Status
      559. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding residency status or eligibility to apply for naturalisation or both in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • Garda Deployment
      560. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of community gardaí currently in place and their location by county; his plans to increase the number of community gardaí;...
    • Visa Applications
      561. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the provisions in place that would allow an Irish citizen to have his or her Russian partner move to Ireland if they have not been cohabiting for...
    • Garda Remuneration
      562. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding pay rates for new gardaí; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1028/14]
    • Garda Recruitment
      563. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will take into consideration the huge number of applications and the fact that no recruits have been taken on for a number of years and...
    • Courts Service
      564. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will acknowledge the importance and excellent geographical location of Killorglin courthouse, County Kerry, by confirming that it will...
    • Deportation Orders Issues
      565. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will support the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17 in relation to a residency issue. [1069/14]
    • Human Trafficking
      566. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons granted the recovery and reflection period as victims of trafficking under his Department's administrative arrangements for...
    • Garda Equipment
      567. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in view of the decision to arm some members of An Garda Síochána with pistols, he is considering reissuing detectives and other...
    • Garda Deployment
      568. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in a county (details supplied); if he will provide breakdown in tabular form of the numbers by station and Garda rank...
    • Garda Transport Data
      569. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles in a county (details supplied); if he will provide a breakdown in tabular form of the type of vehicle and to which...
    • Garda Investigations
      572. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 20 November 2013, if the Gardaí have reopened the file on this case (details supplied); and if...
    • Spent Convictions Issues
      573. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some insurance companies (details supplied) will not take on customers who committed minor...
    • Community Policing
      574. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [1159/14]
    • Garda Reports
      575. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Garda unit established in 2009 to examine the cause of road deaths will report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1166/14]
    • Gambling Legislation
      576. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the conditions an applicant for a licence under the gambling control Bill will have to satisfy; and if findings of criminal infringements by the...
    • Common Travel Area
      577. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the legislation governing the travel documents required for travel within the common travel area; the legislation that would need to be amended...
    • Age Identity Cards
      578. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda age identity cares that were issued on an annual basis in the years 2010 to 2013, inclusive; if there was a drop in the...
    • UN Conventions
      579. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality Ireland's current position on the United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families;...
    • EU Agencies
      580. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality Ireland's involvement with the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the...
    • Garda Strength
      581. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the strength of the Kerry Garda division at the end of December 2013 regarding full Garda numbers, Garda reserve numbers and civilians; if he...
    • Garda Stations Closures
      582. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Stations that have been closed in County Kerry since 2010 and not replaced, the alternative arrangements that have been put...
    • Crime Levels
      585. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if gardaí will act and increase patrols especially for the elderly in an area (details supplied) in Dublin 9. [1335/14]
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      586. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form year on year the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years to public sector workers...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      587. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions, under the aegis of his...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      588. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1396/14]
    • Crime Data
      590. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána have any general evidence or statistics on criminal gangs using bookie shops or casinos to launder money; and if...
    • Criminal Law Review
      591. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is a criminal offence not to offer assistance to a person in serious danger to themselves or their life; in the context of an incident...
    • Gambling Legislation
      592. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the Gambling Control Bill [1464/14]
    • Crime Data
      593. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the crime statistics for the Garda J and R Districts in 2012. [1496/14]
    • Citizenship Applications
      594. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the citizenship application process; the nature of systematic correspondence from his Department to applicants; his plans...
    • Illicit Trade in Tobacco
      595. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of all of the resources, salaries, vehicles, fuel, ancillary costs of An Garda Síochána used specifically and exclusively in...
    • Garda Disciplinary Proceedings
      596. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the State has refused to pay the legal cost of two members of An Garda Síochána who were accused of assaulting a violent...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      597. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the applications to date to the Magdalen Laundries Redress Scheme by country of residence....
    • Legislative Measures
      598. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that the provisions of the Criminal Law (Incest) (Amendment) Bill 2012 are incorporated into the approved heads of the...
    • Court Accommodation Refurbishment
      599. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a commitment that while renovations are carried out in the Waterford Courthouse, the District Court, Circuit Criminal, Family...
    • Crime Prevention
      600. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will seek assurances from the Garda authorities that effective action will be taken in respect of the reported increase in burglaries in an...
    • Garda Retirements
      603. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí he expects to retire in each of the years 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. [1743/14]
    • Garda Reports
      604. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the work of An Garda Síochána Analysis Service (GSAS) in relation to youth crime; if their reports in this area will...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      605. To ask the Minister for Defence if and when further recruitment to the Defence Forces, including the Permanent Defence Force and Reserve Defence Force might be contemplated with a view to...
    • Defence Forces Reserve Strength
      606. To ask the Minister for Defence the current strength of the Reserve Defence Force; the number of the Reserve Defence Force who completed annual training of seven days, fourteen days, twenty...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      607. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which agency staff have been used in his Department in each of the past five years to date for the purpose of answering and transferring calls...
    • Departmental Consultations
      608. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of submissions his Department received on the publication of the Green Paper on Defence in 2013; if he will provide a full list of the persons and...
    • Defence Forces Properties
      609. To ask the Minister for Defence the reason the Christmas crib was allegedly removed from the Defence Forces Headquarters in Newbridge County Kildare; the person who gave the order for the...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      610. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form year on year the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years to public sector workers between March...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      611. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions, under the aegis of his Department...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      612. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1389/14]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      613. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason persons (details supplied) in County Monaghan has not received their single payment scheme and disadvantaged area scheme...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      614. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a rural environment protection scheme 4 payment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      615. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan has not received their single farm payment and disadvantaged area payments....
    • Dairy Equipment Scheme Applications
      616. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the closing date for applicants of the dairy equipment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55237/13]
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      617. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the single farm payment scheme in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Limerick. [55238/13]
    • Commonage Division
      618. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason an officer of his Department could not find any commonage on the Keelderry commonage, County Galway, and could...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      619. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when arrears in relation to disadvantaged area scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      620. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the agri-environment option scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway following an inspection...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      621. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason single farm payment has not issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; if his attention has been...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      624. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a rural environment protection scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reasons for the...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      625. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the single payment was reduced to nil in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; the reason all other...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
      626. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers in an area (details supplied) in County Kerry will be allowed to use horses for the purpose of claiming entitlements; and...
    • Agriculture Schemes Penalties
      627. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the penalty imposed on a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary in 2008 further to a single...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      628. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the most recent payment history of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; the reason payments ceased to be...
    • Agriculture Schemes Penalties
      629. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry received a penalty on their single farm payment; and if he will make a...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      630. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2013 REP scheme 4 payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Afforestation Programme
      632. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when forestry planting applications in SPAs will be processed and approved; if he considers the delays in this matter reasonable or...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      633. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will urgently examine a significant cut in farm payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; the way he...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      634. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a disadvantaged area payment has not been paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; the reason it...
    • Grassland Sheep Scheme Payments
      635. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite a 2013 sheep grassland payment in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      636. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will investigate and expedite a rural environment protection scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      637. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which agency staff have been used in his Department in each of the past five years to date for the purpose of answering...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      638. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine and expedite a rural environment protection scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Animal Welfare
      639. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action being taken by his Department to consult all stakeholders on a low-cost, all-Ireland microchip system for horses and dogs...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      640. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their rural environment protection scheme payment; the reason for the...
    • Forestry Management
      641. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 11 December 2013 where he stated he will not publish the Coillte forestry review, if his...
    • Forestry Sector
      643. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Coillte has not been in a position to supply the ESB with wooden poles for electrical cables, and the way it is justified...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      644. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for a reduction in single farm payment and headage payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry....
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      645. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal under capital investment works under the agri-environment option scheme in respect of a person...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      646. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite a rural environment protection scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Departmental Properties
      647. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual costs of renting the DVO building in Tullamore; if it makes sense that the building in Mullingar is owned by the Office of...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      648. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a rural environment protection scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if the...
    • Departmental Properties
      649. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the savings made by his Department since the closing of the DVO office in Longford, the agricultural environment structures office in...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      650. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason farmers are struggling to get information from his Department on the reason their REP scheme and single farm payments for...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      651. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the future of the white fish sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55554/13]
    • Rural Development Programme Funding
      652. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding 50:50 co-funding for rural development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55555/13]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      653. 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 1 payment; the reason for the...
    • Bovine Disease Controls
      654. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the varying BVD test results for one animal (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      655. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; when the payment will be...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Extension
      656. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an assurance that a new agri environmental scheme will start in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Farm Improvement Scheme Issues
      657. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an assurance that a new farm modernisation scheme will be introduced in 2014; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Food Prices
      658. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the low cost selling of vegetables (details supplied). [1125/14]
    • Scéim Aoníocaíochta
      659. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén fáth nach bhfuil íocaíocht faoin Scéim Íocaíochta Aonair déanta do 2013 le feirmeoir i...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      660. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 296 of 19 December 2013, in which he stated that he is not required to notify...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      662. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine and expedite a rural environment protection scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      663. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal based on their 2012 AEOS (2) application and their AEOS 2013...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      664. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the remaining 25% of a REP scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      665. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on a review of a penalty in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme Applications
      666. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application will be finalised in respect a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      668. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) may expect to receive their headage payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1271/14]
    • Live Exports
      669. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay and complications regarding the export of live cattle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1280/14]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
      670. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway may expect a decision on their appeal for an AEOS 3 grant [1287/14]
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      671. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their REPS payment; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      672. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 519, if farm payments will be approved and paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      673. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form year on year the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years to public...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      674. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions under the...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      675. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1385/14]
    • Severe Weather Events Response
      676. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the role his Department will take regarding the severe storm damage caused to island communities, for example Cape Clear, County...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      677. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when REP scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      678. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal did not receive any disadvantaged area payment in 2013 and also only...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      679. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a REP scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fallen Animal Collection Scheme
      680. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there has been a review of the charges for disposal of dead animals; when it was decided to increase the charge by €5 per...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      681. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Congested Districts Board Records
      682. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the records of the Congested Districts Board will be made available to the public; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      683. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when REP scheme payment will issue to persons (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Forestry Sector
      685. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a forestry contract (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1579/14]
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      686. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite a REP scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Animal Welfare Bodies
      687. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he allocated an animal welfare organisation grant to the Irish Red Grouse Association. [1594/14]
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      688. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rural Development Programme Funding
      689. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for an introduction for installation aid for young farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1659/14]
    • Beef Industry Issues
      690. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the crisis in the beef industry where producers are finding it impossible to have animals...
    • Milk Quota Cessation
      691. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is considering the potential for transitional arrangements to the post milk quota 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      692. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding headage payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      693. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason payment under REP scheme has not issued to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay in this...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      694. 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 2 payment; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      695. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason single farm payment has not issued to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      696. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on the review of a single farm payment overclaim penalty in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      697. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 487 of 17 December 2013, when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      698. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the 2013 disadvantaged area based payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      699. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment in respect of DAS and SFP will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway who appealed a decision and was...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      700. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will urgently issue a disadvantaged area scheme payment, a single farm payment and a REP scheme payment in respect of a person...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      701. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their 2012 and 2013 single farm payment and disadvantaged area payment;...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      702. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a lease will be drafted to allow Fingal County Council to proceed with a project in respect of a tourist office (details...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      703. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on a 2012 disadvantaged area scheme payment appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      704. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1754/14]
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Appeals
      706. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of the appeal against claw back imposed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [1765/14]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      707. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has not yet received their agri environment option scheme payment for 2013; and...
    • Forestry Sector
      708. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he plans to publish the Forest Review Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1794/14]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      710. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding payments of agri-environment option scheme and single farm payments in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      711. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      712. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has not had their agri-environment option scheme 1 payments for 2012 and 2013...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      713. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when headage payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1806/14]
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Youth Cafés Provision
      714. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide details of the assessment process for the awarding of youth café capital funding; the criteria involved; and the...
    • Youth Work Projects Funding
      715. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the number of positions arising in the youth work sector that are exclusively for community employment scheme applicants only;...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      716. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children currently on the waiting list for a special care placement; the average waiting time for such a placement; her views...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      717. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which agency staff have been used in her Department in each of the past five years to date for the purpose of answering and...
    • Youth Cafes Expenditure
      718. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total amount of state funding allocated to the Attic youth café since it was first established; and if she will make a statement...
    • Child Detention Centres
      719. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department collates statistics on the number of children who are or have been in the care of the State who have entered the criminal...
    • Adoption Services Provision
      720. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 386 of 3 December 2013, the number of additional staff that will be deployed to the adoption...
    • Youth Services Provision
      723. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide details of any websites or online resources which her Department funds to provide information to young people on youth...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      725. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will roll out the crisis intervention service emergency out of hours social work service for children and young people under the age...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      726. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of domestic adoptions and the number of inter-country adoptions which took place here in 2013; the number of social workers...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      727. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form year on year the occasions on which she has signed off on the awarding of added years to public sector...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      728. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form year on year the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions, under the aegis...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      729. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form year on year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in her Department in 2013. [1387/14]
    • Child Protection Services
      730. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if child protection social workers will operate a service 24 hours a day seven days per week under the remit of the newly established Child...
    • Youth Guarantee
      731. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the proposed role of her Department in contributing to the implementation of the youth guarantee; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Children and Young People’s Policy Framework
      732. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when she plans to publish the children and youth policy framework; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1791/14]
    • Youth Employment Initiative
      733. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the proposed EU Work Plan for Youth; if she supports this proposal; if so, what the Irish Government priorities will be; and...
  • Department of Health
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      734. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of disability payments made to a person (details supplied) in County Laois for the period between 1970 and 1990; and if he will make...
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      735. To ask the Minister for Health the position with regard to his proposals regarding the licensing of tobacco retailers, as outlined in Budget 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Regulatory Impact Assessment Usage
      737. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has carried out a regulatory impact analysis on the proposed Public Health Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Bill 2013; the persons involved...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      738. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including Crohn's Disease in the long term illness scheme in view of the financial hardship it is causing persons who do not qualify for...
    • Hospital Services
      739. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the epilepsy monitoring unit at Cork University Hospital was refurbished in Autumn 2012 but still has not...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Issues
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons sent abroad for epilepsy related treatments during each of the past 48 months and the cost per individual treatment [55228/13]
    • Hospital Facilities
      742. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at Cork University Hospital will open. [55230/13]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      743. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently on waiting lists for epilepsy monitoring. [55231/13]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      744. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which nurses and EEG technicians will be recruited to staff the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at Cork University Hospital. [55232/13]
    • Hospital Facilities
      745. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at Beaumont Hospital will be reopened. [55233/13]
    • EU Directives
      746. To ask the Minister for Health when Directive 2011/24/EU of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients' rights in cross-border health care will be fully transposed into Irish law [55240/13]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      747. To ask the Minister for Health the resources that will be put into the services for adults suffering from autism and learning disabilities in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      748. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that funding is provided in the budget 2014 to allow for the opening of the remaining beds in Kenmare Community Hospital; and if he will make...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      749. To ask the Minister for Health the guidelines, regulations and legislative provisions that apply to the regulation of private ambulance/pre-emergency care here; if these are mandatory or...
    • Health Services Provision
      751. To ask the Minister for Health if he will, make the necessary funding and resources available in the 2014 Health Service Executive Service Plan in respect of expanding the services provided...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      753. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55311/13]
    • Hospital Staff Data
      754. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant positions in hospitals filled through agency consultants appointments in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement...
    • Assistive Technology
      758. To ask the Minister for Health when a resolution will be found between the Health Service Executive and his Department as to who is responsible for providing a person (details supplied) in...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      759. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of persons who have retired from the Health Service Executive on pensions and lump sums and are now back in temporary employment in the HSE; and if...
    • Hospital Consultants Remuneration
      760. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been made to date to make savings from hospital consultants pay since 2011; and if there plans to examine further terms and conditions of...
    • Medical Card Data
      761. To ask the Minister for Health the number of discretionary medical cards he expects there to be in 2014; the reason the 2014 Health Service Executive Service Plan did not provide such...
    • Health Services Provision
      762. To ask the Minister for Health if he will supply documents that show the way the money follows the client model is applied to an organisation (details supplied) in County Meath; the way this...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      764. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in respect of an appeal for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
    • Sunbed Usage
      765. To ask the Minister for Health if he will include the restrictions on sunbed use to persons with type one and type two skin in the Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Provision
      766. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll out the national epilepsy programme with particular regard to the monitoring units for epilepsy in County Cork; when these units will be...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      767. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be reinstated in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55422/13]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      768. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which agency staff have been used in his Department in each of the past five years to date for the purpose of answering and transferring calls on...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      769. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive intends to increase the number of intermediate care beds at a facility (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make...
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      770. To ask the Minister for Health the specific role his Department is playing in the event that the Health Service Executive budget for pension lump sums is not sufficient to pay the numbers of...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      772. To ask the Minister for Health if following the publication of the 2014 Health Service Executive Service Plan funding remains in place for the construction of a care centre (details...
    • Hospice Services
      773. To ask the Minister for Health when the opening of beds at a hospice (details supplied) in Dublin 15 outlined in the 2014 Health Service Executive Service Plan will commence [55474/13]
    • HSE Savings
      774. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the €108 million in unspecified pay savings in the 2014 Health Service Executive Service plan will be found. [55475/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      775. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite and award a discretionary medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Provision
      776. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 440 of 3 December 2013, if he will consider including bowel preparation on the General Medical Services scheme; his views...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      777. To ask the Minister for Health if there is provision in the Health Service Executive service plan for 2014 or in the budget of his Department for 2014 for the development of a 100-bed...
    • Mental Health Awareness
      778. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that the programme for Government contains a commitment to develop a national dementia strategy and in view of the fact that this strategy...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      779. To ask the Minister for Health the length of the waiting list for hip replacement operations; the numbers of persons on the waiting list from Longford-Westmeath; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      780. To ask the Minister for Health the reason, contrary to Government policy, medical cards are being reviewed after a period of only six months when it has been clearly stated that this would...
    • Health and Social Care Professionals Registration
      781. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the progress being made on the intended regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists and the HETAC report on education...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      782. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a four year old child with Down's syndrome (details supplied) in Dublin 15 and other medical conditions who recently had her...
    • Health Services Reform
      783. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the reconfiguration of governance and administration structures of community health services planned for 2014; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Strategies
      784. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made by his Department to create public awareness of osteoporosis which is a preventable and treatable disease; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      785. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card was withdrawn in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55536/13]
    • Hospital Staff Issues
      787. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing levels that have been agreed for the new respiratory unit and Cork University Hospital; if he will provide a breakdown of personnel to be assigned...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      788. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any reason legal or otherwise why a specific number of beds in the new respiratory unit at Cork University Hospital cannot be ring-fenced for...
    • Mobility Allowance Review
      790. To ask the Minister for Health when he will make a decision on a new scheme to re-establish the mobility allowance scheme and the motorised transport grant scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Applications
      791. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will receive a medical card on discretionary grounds. [55550/13]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      792. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment to see a rheumatologist in Beaumont Hospital will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Applications
      793. 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. [55574/13]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      795. To ask the Minister for Health the names of persons appointed by him to the Irish Blood Transfusion Service Board since taking office and the roles to which they were appointed. [55578/13]
    • Medical Card Applications
      796. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55583/13]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      798. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a review of a medical card review in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Card Appeals
      799. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite and award a discretionary medical card appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      800. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 484 of 10 December 2013, when a decision will be made on the appropriate strategy to be employed by the Health Service...
    • Medical Card Applications
      802. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1014/14]
    • Medical Card Appeals
      803. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons (details supplied) were refused a full medical card under appeal. [1015/14]
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      804. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Ambulance Service is satisfied that it has sufficient resources to operate the ambulance service in the Drogheda area to the accepted...
    • Mental Health Guidelines
      805. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the implementation of A Vision for Change; if he will provide in tabular form the current status of each recommendation or...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the number of child and adolescent inpatient beds available in psychiatric hospitals for young persons experiencing mental health difficulties; the location of...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      809. To ask the Minister for Health if the €35 million in ring-fenced funding for the development of mental health services in budget 2012 and the further €35 million in ring-fenced...
    • Medical Card Applications
      810. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1029/14]
    • Parliamentary Questions
      812. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update to a parliamentary question submitted in June 2013, (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1036/14]
    • National Carers Strategy Status
      813. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the implementation of the national carers strategy; if he will also provide in tabular form a list of the recommendations and...
    • HSE Funding
      814. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details in tabular form of all organisations receiving funding under section 39 of the Health Act; the amount received by each organisation...
    • Hospital Facilities
      817. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of public funding provided by his Department to build, extend or renovate St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin; the year in which any such...
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      819. To ask the Minister for Health if any records exist in his Department in relation to senior executives or managers in organisations receiving funding under section 38 of the Health Act...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      820. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the emergency mental health services available during the Christmas and new year season for an adult who is under enormous stress and...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      821. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 with a major disability is not receiving a medical card. [1071/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      822. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite and award full medical cards in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; if he will take into consideration the compelling...
    • HSE Staff Remuneration
      823. To ask the Minister for Health his views on making Health Service Executive salaries public knowledge, perhaps on a relevant website, as is the case for PLCs. [1079/14]
    • Home Care Packages
      824. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will be considered for an increase in home help hours with immediate effect under the home care package; and...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      826. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card review in respect of persons (details supplied) is taking so long to process in the client registration unit. [1092/14]
    • Health Insurance Prices
      828. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for his proposals to introduce a loyalty bonus for long standing customers with regard to health insurance; if this is going to increase the cost...
    • Hospice Services
      829. To ask the Minister for Health the position on plans for a hospice in a county (details supplied); if funding is in place for the provision of this facility; and if he will make a statement...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      830. To ask the Minister for Health his views in regard to a submission (details supplied) in relation to the liberalisation of cannabis laws here; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Card Applications
      831. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1123/14]
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      832. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the expansion of the BreastCheck programme to women aged 65 to 69 years (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • HIQA Issues
      833. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the implementation of Health Information and Quality Authority standards in community hospitals caring...
    • HSE Staff Remuneration
      834. To ask the Minister for Health the persons in the Rotunda Hospital in receipt of a top-up payment and the amount of same according to the recent Health Service Executive audit. [1131/14]
    • Hospital Staff Data
      835. To ask the Minister for Health in the context of the Health Service Executive commissioned KPMG study of the three Dublin maternity hospitals in 2009, which stated they were a total of 293...
    • HSE Staff Remuneration
      836. To ask the Minister for Health the current starting salary for a newly qualified midwife. [1133/14]
    • HSE Expenditure
      837. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the special delivery unit; the way the €900,000 allocated was spent; the reason a hospital (details supplied) gets most...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      838. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will receive an appointment in Waterford General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Maternity Services
      839. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the situation whereby the majority of maternity units are not routinely scanning pregnant women for foetal abnormalities; and if he will...
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      840. To ask the Minister for Health the time at which the first call was received in reference to a stabbing incident in Drogheda at Rathmullan Park on New Years Day; the number of subsequent...
    • Medical Card Data
      841. To ask the Minister for Health when the legislation will be passed which will allow families with children aged five years and under to apply for a GP medical card as announced in budget...
    • Medical Card Applications
      842. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1230/14]
    • Medical Card Appeals
      843. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appeal for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dispensing Fees
      844. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding dispensing of medicines in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1236/14]
    • Early Intervention Services
      846. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment with the Health Service Executive Early Intervention Services will be provided to a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      847. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is covered under their parents medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1243/14]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      849. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to formulate and publish a policy document on electronic cigarettes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1255/14]
    • Dental Services Provision
      850. To ask the Minister for Health further to the Topical Issue debate of 18 December 2013, if he has received a response from the Health Service Executive; if he will now hold an independent...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      851. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make additional resources available, appoint additional occupational therapists and speech and language therapists for children with Autism and...
    • Health Services Provision
      852. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding occupational therapy in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1279/14]
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      853. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the impending closure of the mobile BreastCheck unit in Crumlin; his plans to replace this service for women in Crumlin, Kilmainham, the South...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      854. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on a medical card appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath [1301/14]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      856. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hours of rostered cover on a daily basis at each ambulance location in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1306/14]
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      858. To ask the Minister for Health the number of personnel employed in the ambulance service in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1308/14]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      859. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operational ambulance vehicles deployed in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1309/14]
    • HSE Staffing
      860. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money spent by the Health Service Executive in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 on the hiring of private investigators to monitor the movements of HSE...
    • Family Support Services
      861. To ask the Minister for Health if a position (details supplied) is correct in relation to a families payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1311/14]
    • Primary Care Centres Expenditure
      863. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the disparity in the budget allocation for primary care as outlined in the 2013 and 2014 Health Service Executive Service Plans; the way the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      864. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will issue for a knee replacement at Cappagh Hospital, Dublin, in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois under the PTL...
    • Medical Card Applications
      867. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1332/14]
    • Pension Provisions
      868. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the pension payments dates for retired staff at St. James Hospital, Dublin, with a view to reverting to the original arrangement for pension...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      869. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form year on year the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years to public sector workers between March...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      870. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions under the aegis of his Department that have been...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      871. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form year on year the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1394/14]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      873. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied). [1416/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      874. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1419/14]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      875. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the curtailment in Beechpark services, including occupational therapy and speech and language therapy, which is having a serious affect on the...
    • Pharmacy Services
      876. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure the recent incident (details supplied) is not repeated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1429/14]
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      877. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the unsatisfactory situation on Inishturk Island, County Mayo where on occasions when the full-time public health nurse is...
    • National Children's Hospital Status
      878. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the development of the new National Children's Hospital in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1452/14]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility
      879. To ask the Minister for Health in recognition of the fact that there are not enough nursing home beds available to meet the needs of the elderly in the Louth-Meath area; the reason the fair...
    • HSE Investigations
      881. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 635 of 26 November 2013, when a response will issue from the Health Service Executive. [1488/14]
    • Hospital Facilities
      882. To ask the Minister for Health if the roads access to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, for ambulances taking emergency patients to the hospital is adequate from a patient safety perspective. [1491/14]
    • Hospital Services
      883. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the introduction of cardiology services in Kerry General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1521/14]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      884. 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. [1527/14]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      887. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that have been taken to date by the National Ambulance Service on foot of a report on a series of incidents in Health Service Executive West...
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      888. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the serious difficulties of the ambulance service in Drogheda, County Louth and the north-east; and if he will make a...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      890. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding orthodontic treatment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1599/14]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      892. To ask the Minister for Health if he will undertake an independent review of the mental health services in counties Roscommon and Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1602/14]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      894. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the drug anafranil which is prescribed to patients with severe depression; and if he will confirm its continued availability here for...
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      895. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that ambulance responses in County Donegal follow internal Health Service Executive guidelines or the pertinent Health Information Quality...
    • Health Services Issues
      896. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the deliveries-to-date by public hospitals of targets that were set out by the Special Delivery Unit; the rewards system that may apply...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      897. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland in relation to funding for 2014 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1646/14]
    • Care of the Elderly Provision
      898. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a specific timeframe for the transfer of the elderly day care service from Beaumont Hospital to St. Joseph’s, Raheny, Dublin 5; and...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      899. To ask the Minister for Health further to parliamentary question No. 590 of 17 December 2013 if he will provide details of the various health professionals with a breakdown based on the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      900. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of early intervention teams for children in each local health area; the total number on each team; the numbers of...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      901. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in determination of eligibility for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      902. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reviewing the list of conditions covered under the long-term illness scheme; if he will provide serious consideration to including chronic...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      903. To ask the Minister for Health for details on the latest update on the independent review of orthodontic services of orthodontic treatment in Navan hospital, County Meath; and if he will...
    • Health Insurance Prices
      906. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the average increase to the cost of private health insurance over the past five years, referring specifically to average annual increase each year...
    • Hospitals Funding
      907. To ask the Minister for Health the level of income raised from car parking services provided in Beaumont Hospital in the years 2007-2013 broken down per quarter; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Applications
      908. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare may be awarded a discretionary medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1748/14]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      911. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1789/14]
    • Hospital Services
      913. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the steps being taken to ensure adequate service provision across Irish hospitals for cystic fibrosis patients, both children and adults, including...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      914. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the reported transfer of up to 1,200 cataract operations awaited by patients on the Waterford Regional Hospital list to private...
    • Hospital Services
      915. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the level of services that will be provided by the eye unit at Waterford Regional Hospital in future in the context of the rearrangement of hospital...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Driver Licences
      916. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the application and renewal of driver licences was withdrawn from local authorities and awarded to the Road Safety Authority;...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      917. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if legislation will be introduced to criminalise the act of clocking cars; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55499/13]
    • Driver Licences
      918. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider a driving test exemption for farmers who hold a full car or jeep and trailer licence for more than ten years. [55529/13]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      919. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding speed limits for cyclists. [1798/14]
    • Tourism Projects Funding
      920. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the tendering process for the national genealogy centre will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55252/13]
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      921. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve the structural design of a bridge (details supplied) in County Galway to enable residents in the area to cross it...
    • Rail Services
      922. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there any plans on the part of Iarnród Éireann to recruit train drivers in the near future; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Transport Provision
      923. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allow county councils, with the help of interested parties, develop and design bus shelters. [55365/13]
    • Aviation Issues
      924. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Irish Aviation Authority and the Commission for Aviation Regulation declined to participate in the stakeholder...
    • Tourism Industry Issues
      925. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Dublin Tourism Office, which was run in the old church in St. Andrew's Street by Failte Ireland; the plans to...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      927. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which agency staff have been used in his Department in each of the past five years and to date for the purpose of answering...
    • Walking and Cycling Facilities
      928. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport noting that it is the intention of the National Transport Authority to pursue a cycling and walking greenway along the Royal Canal in...
    • Road Projects Status
      929. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when traffic calming structures for the village of Templeglantine, County Limerick, will be put in place as a matter of road safety....
    • Driver Licences
      930. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the exact involvement of a company (details supplied) in County Kildare in the roll out of the new national driver licence service; the...
    • Light Rail Projects Provision
      931. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline his plans to proceed with the extension of the LUAS service to Bray; when this plan was shelved and the reasons for same; the...
    • Railway Stations Car Park Charges
      932. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details in tabular form by railway station of the amount of money collected in parking charges by Iarnród...
    • Rail Services
      933. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for his views on a submission (details supplied) regarding train fares; if he has plans through any of the State agencies under his remit...
    • Air Safety
      934. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a fuel emergency mayday on 14 December 2013 out of Dublin on a Ryanair aeroplane which diverted to...
    • Road Projects
      935. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider allocating further funding for the structural review of bridges in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • The Gathering Initiatives
      936. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to ensure the benefits of The Gathering to the Irish tourism sector, the broader economy and to communities around the country...
    • Coast Guard Services
      937. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide a new facility for the Coast Guard at a location (details supplied); when he expects this project to be commenced...
    • Regional Airports
      939. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proposed source of the €35 million identified by the report completed by the study group of Ireland West Airport Knock, which...
    • Road Safety Strategy
      940. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the special task force established in 2013 to examine the cause of road deaths will report; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Licence Renewals
      941. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if progress is being made to address the delays experienced by drivers applying for a renewal of a driving licence to the national driver...
    • Rail Services
      942. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if discussions have taken place between the National Transport Authority and Irish Rail regarding offering commuters cheaper fares for...
    • Driver Licences
      943. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Road Safety Authority has considered replacing ten-year driving licences with those that run up to the applicant's 70th birthday,...
    • Rail Services
      944. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish Rail intends to display the number of carriages of incoming trains on electronic sign information boards on platforms at DART...
    • Tax Code
      945. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a tax on the truck business; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Driving Test Issues
      946. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm if additional charges will be applied to customers of the national driving licence service who presented for testing...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      948. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form, year on year, the occasions on which he has signed off on the awarding of added years to the service...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      949. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form, year on year, the number of commercial and non-commercial State agency board positions under the...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      950. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form, year on year, the number of JobBridge interns taken on in his Department in 2013. [1399/14]
    • Airport Security
      951. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the security procedures that are in place at Dublin Airport to allow intending passengers who previously had hip or knee replacements to...
    • Driver Licence Renewals
      952. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the renewal of a provisional driver's licence will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11, the reason...
    • Railway Stations Issues
      953. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views regarding the difficulty experienced by commuters in purchasing child tickets at ticket machines in train and DART stations....
    • Roads Maintenance Issues
      954. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a dangerous section of the N72 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1515/14]
    • Public Service Obligation Levy Application
      955. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his future plans for the PSO levy on Kerry to Dublin flights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1524/14]
    • Driver Licence Applications
      956. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting list for obtaining a driving licence at each of the new driving licence centres; what he views as an acceptable waiting time;...
    • Road Transport Operator Licences
      957. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the clearance and other regulatory requirements a person would have to meet to start operating a local bus tour sightseeing service for...
    • Road Projects Status
      958. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update regarding the N17-18 project; when it is envisaged that contracts will be signed; when it is expected that...
    • Road Transport Issues
      959. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the possible constraints on cattle numbers due to the new weight regulations being proposed for cattle...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      963. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on reports that more than 200,000 written-off cars are still being driven; his views on whether this is a factor in the 18%...
    • Road Projects
      964. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the 2013 and 2014 regional and local road grant allocations by county from his Department; and if he...

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