Written answers

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      93. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the details of an oral arrangement between his Department and Dublin City Council to...
    • Planning Issues
      94. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeline for the implementation of revised planning regulations covering wind turbines; and if he will make a statement...
    • Water Charges Administration
      95. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the water charging tariff structure enables additional fees to be levied on households who do not use a certain amount...
    • Irish Water Staff
      96. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of former local authority workers currently employed by Irish Water; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      97. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the changes made to the housing adaptation grants criteria. [5022/14]
    • Water Services Funding
      98. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will make funding available to Donegal County Council to upgrade treatment plants and to replace the lead piping...
    • Local Authority Staff
      99. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a voluntary redundancy scheme for staff in local authorities working in the water sector; and if he...
    • Private Residential Tenancies Board Issues
      100. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the work he is doing to ensure the good work currently done by the Private Residential Tenancies Board is continued in...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
      101. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the long overdue new scheme for tenant purchase of local authority housing will be put in place; and if he will...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Data
      102. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide on a county breakdown of the total number of housing adaptation grants distributed in 2010 to 2013,...
    • Irish Water Administration
      103. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total cost of the Water Services Transition Office in 2013 and the estimate for 2014; the number of staff employed; if...
    • Planning Issues
      104. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider reviewing section 42 of the Planning and Development Act and Article 45 of the Planning and...
    • Building Regulations Amendments
      105. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider deferring the coming into operation of the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014 due to a wide...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
      106. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the exact status of the Fethard Burncourt water treatment scheme; if he will provide a commitment that work will begin on...
    • Local Government Reform
      107. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason that,even though the report of the working group on active citizenship is imminent, the working group did not...
    • Irish Water Staff
      108. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has calculated the rate of natural attrition loss of the 4,300 employees covered by service level agreements over...
    • Vehicle Registration Issues
      109. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties faced by haulage companies regarding declaring their vehicles off-road...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      110. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in detail by local authority, the number of houses to be built under the capital programme for social...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      111. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding provided for projects under the Leader programme 2007-13; the expenditure to date; and if he will make a...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration
      112. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the crisis in the rental accommodation scheme where many tenants in the scheme are...
    • State Bodies Mergers
      114. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form, the professional advice obtained from external consultancies in relation to the merger...
    • Noise Pollution
      115. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a phenomenon known as the hum, persistent low frequency noise; the incidence of same;...
    • Irish Water Administration
      116. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the executive and board structure of Irish Water; the number of executive and board members,...
    • Water Services Provision
      118. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the policy that will be followed to repair leaks in water infrastructure at housing estates which have not been taken in...
    • Irish Water Staff
      119. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the precise stages of the recruitment process which has been utilised by Irish Water in the recruitment of staff; if this...
    • Climate Change Policy
      120. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his Department's role in climate change policy.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2217/14]
    • Community Development Initiatives
      122. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the Galway Volunteer Centre's funding will be maintained at the existing 2013 level for this year to enable the...
    • Irish Water Administration
      123. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he held any discussions with Bord Gáis in relation to the system of bonus payments before establishing Irish Water...
    • Rural Development Programme Funding
      124. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will seek funding for the provision of high speed broadband in rural areas under the rural development fund...
    • Irish Water Expenditure
      125. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he expects savings to be generated from Irish Water; the way he foresees savings being generated after the service...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      126. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the 4,500 to 5,000 social housing units due to be delivered this year, as...
    • Local Government Reform
      127. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to section 35 of the Local Government Reform Bill 2013, the reason behind deleting lines 12-30 on Page 51, and...
    • Waste Disposal
      129. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a detailed report on the Oxigen site in Ballymount that went on fire on the morning of 25 January; and...
    • Irish Water Remit
      130. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his policy in relation to Irish Water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3531/14]
    • Election Management System
      131. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has issued guidelines to local authorities regarding the hiring of staff for polling stations in view of the...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Trade Data
      132. To ask the Taoiseach the proportion of GDP which is attributable to cross-Border trade for the most recent five years for which data is available. [4900/14]
    • Departmental Contracts
      133. To ask the Taoiseach the way the departmental contracts for taxi companies for the purposes of taxis for the use of departmental staff are decided and allocated; if there is a public tender...
    • Capital Programme Expenditure
      134. To ask the Taoiseach in relation to capital building projects currently underway under the remit of his Department, and the building programmes planned for 2014, if he will outline the...
    • Pensions Legislation
      135. To ask the Taoiseach if he has considered the establishment of a junior Minister with special responsibilities for pensions, as in the UK, to tie together the disparate departmental elements...
    • Departmental Agencies Board Appointments
      136. To ask the Taoiseach if he will itemise in tabular form the occasions on which his Department has engaged the services of external professional advice such as a company (details supplied) on...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      138. To ask the Taoiseach when he next plans to meet with the British Prime Minister David Cameron. [5040/14]
    • World Economic Forum
      141. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5044/14]
    • Oireachtas Reform
      142. To ask the Taoiseach if he will set out his planned reforms for the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5045/14]
    • Referendum Campaigns
      143. To ask the Taoiseach if he will set out the referendums he plans to hold in the next two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5046/14]
    • World Economic Forum
      144. To ask the Taoiseach if he met with representatives of the US Chamber of Commerce at the World Economic Forum in Davos; if the issue of lobbying against proposals to ban tobacco advertising...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      145. To ask the Taoiseach the apps his Department or its agencies have been involved in developing for smartphones and other multimedia devices in the past three years; the cost and the software...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Passport Application Fees
      146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider introducing a provision which would allow a reduced cost for old age pensioners applying for passports...
    • Human Rights Issues
      147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made representations to Myanmar officials urging them to investigate reports of more than 40 persons having been...
    • International Agreements
      148. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the arrangements for submarines from other states entering Irish water; the notification and monitoring required; the way...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of money the State has contributed to the holding of Africa day in 2012 and 2013; the amount committed for...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the proposals he has to discuss further with the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister in the Northern Ireland...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will itemise in tabular form the occasions on which his Department has engaged the services of external professional...
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 35 of 14 November and 51 of 12 November 2013, how it came to be, that using the...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the apps his Department or attached agencies have been involved in developing for smartphones and other multimedia devices...
  • Department of Finance
    • Fuel Laundering
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form a county breakdown of green diesel operations stopped by the Garda in 2010 to 2013, inclusive; and if he will make a...
    • Money Laundering
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the anti-money laundering obligations of banks; if this includes the declaration by a bank to the Revenue Commissioners in the case that a...
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether there would be merit in the possibility of an exemption from the local property tax for houses that were deemed to be of heritage value...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      158. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding mortgage arrears and the process of repossession being pursued by the banks here if those deemed unsustainable for the mortgage arrears...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will implement a new banking service that will be available throughout the post office network and operated by An Post; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Strategies
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance if a new communications strategy to increase awareness of State supports for small and medium enterprises has been completed; the costs to the Exchequer of...
    • Credit Review Office Applications
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance if there has been an increase in applications to the Credit Review Office since the decision to increase the upper limit of the decline loan amount to...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will itemise in tabular form the occasions on which his Department has engaged the services of external professional advice such as a company (details...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance about the levy on the banks which he announced during the recent budget; it has now been reported that what he proposes could actually be deemed to be...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on permitting PAYE workers to claim back tax on charitable donations, particularly with respect to encouraging persons to donate to community...
    • Property Taxation Application
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ask the Revenue Commissioners if it is the case that there will be a loss to the Exchequer as a result of a reinterpretation of the local property...
    • Mortgage Data
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding banks making agreements with mortgagees; if he will provide figures in tabular form for the number of split mortgages that have been...
    • Tax Code
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons that are working in the public service and Health Service Executive who will receive a lump sum retirement payment will be taxed; and if so, the...
    • Revenue Commissioners Investigations
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of instances where a complaint against the Revenue sheriff was lodged in the past ten years; of those, the number which were subsequently referred...
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has been approached by any covered institution seeking a system of bonus payments for senior staff. [5210/14]
    • Tax Compliance
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance the mechanism available to persons (details supplied) in County Kildare to resolve a problem regarding their P45; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Insurance Coverage
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to a possible arrangement between the Government and flood insurance companies which offers fairer solutions that balance out...
    • Tax Rebates
      174. To ask the Minister for Finance when a tax refund will be paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5242/14]
    • Property Taxation Administration
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the non-deductibility of local property tax from private rental income is being excused on the basis that it would reduce the tax base, when it is...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance the terms of the emergency legislation to liquidate IRBC; the protection measure provisions currently in place regarding the protection of over 13,250...
    • Tax Credits
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance with reference to the single person child carer credit, if a person who cares for a child for a cumulative total of 2,400 hours per year is eligible as a...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications that have been granted by the Central Bank under section 149 of the Consumer Credit Act for the provision of a new service or an...
    • Tax Rebates
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) is entitled to claim a tax rebate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5416/14]
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance the apps his Department or attached agencies have been involved in developing for smartphones and other multimedia devices in the past three years; the cost...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance further to a Parliamentary Question of 28 January 2014 if he will provide the nature of the consultancy contract awarded to a company (details supplied) and a...
    • Fuel Prices
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the price of home heating oil (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5532/14]
    • Vehicle Registration Issues (1 comment)
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the need for regulation of the production and distribution of licence plates for vehicles registered here; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Closures
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of expressions of interest that were received in relation to Mount Carmel Hospital; if the National Asset Management Agency secured any formal bids...
    • Property Taxation Yield
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of local property tax collected in each local authority area in 2013. [5638/14]
    • Property Taxation Administration
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Property Taxation Collection
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the position regarding the local property tax for a family (details supplied) in Dublin 12; if the family’s concerns can be...
    • Financial Instruments
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the new agreement on the markets in financial derivatives impact here; and the action he will take on this issue. [5707/14]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Child Abuse Issues
      196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to the State Claims Agency withdrawing the letters it sent to persons currently suing the State for compensation...
    • Home Tuition Scheme Administration
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will respond to correspondence by the Irish Centre of Behavioural Support and Research regarding changes being made to the home tuition...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consultative process related to primary school amalgamations and specifically the requirements regarding consultation with parents and school...
    • School Curriculum
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in rolling out the new English junior cycle course in 2014-15, teachers are finding the...
    • School Closures
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a vacant school building (details supplied) in County Mayo; the amount of money spent on maintaining this building in 2011 to 2013,...
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the summer works application from a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath has been received by his Department; when a decision will be...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the emergency works application from a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath has been received by his Department; when a decision will...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 67 of 28 November 2013, regarding the opening of a new second-level school in Carrigtwohill in 2016-17...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will itemise in tabular form the occasions on which his Department has engaged the services of external professional advice such as a...
    • Professional Qualifications Recognition
      206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many highly skilled immigrants work below their skill-set or are unemployed as a result of a...
    • Language Interpretation Services
      207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider the development of a State recognised directory of accredited interpreters. [5064/14]
    • Foreign Language Assistant Scheme
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to immigrant parents who often have difficulty negotiating the school system; if he will consider introducing...
    • Teacher Recruitment
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will amend the Employment Equality Act to prevent schools from recruiting or dismissing teachers based on their religious ethos. [5066/14]
    • In-service Training
      210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the type of in-service training for teachers on racism and managing diversity in schools; and his plans to improve same. [5067/14]
    • School Curriculum
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will introduce a module on interculturalism, including the use of existing anti-racist education programmes. [5068/14]
    • Foreign Language Assistant Scheme
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will increase language supports for migrant students. [5069/14]
    • After-School Support Services
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will utilise under-employed teachers and trainee teachers for after-school programmes. [5070/14]
    • School Curriculum
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will create a State-wide secondary school English language immersion framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5071/14]
    • Teacher Training Provision
      215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that continual professional development courses for English as an additional language teachers are available. [5072/14]
    • Modern Language Teaching
      216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will conduct a feasibility study to determine the costs of reinstituting the modern languages primary school initiative. [5073/14]
    • Adult Education
      217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the provision of vocational courses combined with English teaching at further education colleges and university level....
    • English Language Training Organisations
      218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide a comprehensive standard curriculum and recommendations for State-funded English language providers; and if he will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a lack of awareness of immigration categories by colleges and grant-awarding...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria that are considered when deciding whether to award a school DEIS status, either band 1 or band 2. [5112/14]
    • Schools Guidance Counsellors
      225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a comprehensive response will be issued to correspondence sent to him on 8 October 2013 from a person (details supplied) regarding guidance...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any leniency or flexibility in respect of the date of birth or age and timing of a person's 23rd birthday for grants for mature...
    • School Transport Appeals
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school transport in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • An Teanga Gaeilge
      228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cén gníomh atá beartaithe aige a dhéanamh chun gníomhú de bhun mholadh an Choimisinéara Teanga i leith...
    • Special Education Review
      229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which he will receive policy advice on education for children with autism from the National Council for Special Education. [5205/14]
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in determining eligibility for a higher education grant in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he...
    • Adult Education
      231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a centre (details supplied) in County Longford will be allowed to take on a kitchen attendant at the facility; the reason the centre has been...
    • Third Level Fees
      232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if tax relief can be claimed in respect of tuition fees paid for approved courses at approved colleges of higher education, including Government...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding Student Universal Support Ireland applications in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he...
    • School Enrolments
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school place in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [5345/14]
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
      235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will appoint an appeals officer to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Child Abuse Issues
      238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights in vindicating the case so courageously pursued by a person...
    • Teacher Statistics
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 191, 220, 247 and 248, if he will clarify that schools are not obliged to make returns to his Department...
    • School Staffing
      241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the management structure at a school (details supplied) in County Waterford. [5398/14]
    • National Internship Scheme Data
      242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of JobBridge interns currently working for an organisation (details supplied); and the number who have previously completed...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way new early intervention preschools set up by his Department to support children with additional needs are functioning; if there has been...
    • Third Level Fees
      244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a joined-up approach between the Central Applications Office for third level education courses and the SUSI grants system because in...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the apps his Department or attached agencies have been involved in developing for smartphones and other multimedia devices in the past three...
    • School Accommodation
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the total number of prefabs that were rented in County Waterford in the years 2010 to 2013, inclusive, that...
    • School Management
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his proposals to remedy a boundary issue affecting a school (details supplied) in County Galway; if his officials will meet with school...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide a primary school and secondary school in Dublin 13 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5530/14]
    • Weight of Schoolbags
      249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the concerns of parents that their childrens' school bags are too heavy with the weight of all the school books needed for class;...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills since the abolition of maintenance grants for postgraduate students, the provisions that are being made for students from lower socio-economic...
    • Site Acquisitions
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the dialogue between an organisation (details supplied) regarding the purchasing of a small parcel of land adjacent to a school in County...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      252. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in regards to the practice in relation to awarding 12% of Government tenders to foreign companies, if he will state the monetary value...
    • Charities Regulation
      253. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funding that Rehab received through sales of its lottery scratch card for the years 1997 to 2011, inclusive; the profit...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of money spent on flood defences in tabular form, by county in the years 2002-2014; and if he will make a...
    • Public Procurement Regulations
      255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will commit that all tenders involving over-the-counter transactions will be decided on the basis on both social and economic...
    • Public Procurement Contracts Expenditure
      256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total value of island wide public procurement for the most recent consecutive five years for which data is available. [4890/14]
    • Coastal Protection
      257. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works will carry out emergency remedial works at Kells Beach, County Kerry, as significant damage was done...
    • Public Sector Staff Issues
      258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the traditional mandatory time period which persons who leave the Civil Service must observe before being permitted to apply for...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will itemise in tabular form the occasions on which his Department has engaged the services of external professional advice such...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      261. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding a flood defence wall (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5090/14]
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      262. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when general recruitment to the public service will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5208/14]
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      263. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 299 of 23 April 2013, the position in relation to a flood alleviation project (detailed supplied)...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Funding
      264. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the provision of a flood relief scheme in respect of an area (details supplied) in County Cork; the progress that...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      265. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the apps his Department or attached agencies have been involved in developing for smartphones and other multimedia devices in the past...
    • Freedom of Information Legislation
      266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider bringing amendments to the Freedom of Information Bill, in relation to plans to increase the price of FOI requests...
    • Public Sector Staff Redeployment
      267. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a person working in a public sector body is eligible to transfer to a civil service Government Department; if a central system for...
    • Public Sector Staff Issues
      268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the options open to a public sector employee who has been aggrieved, has reported the grievance to higher level management on several...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      269. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 307 of 22 January 2013, the current status of the office space at a property (details supplied)...
    • European Patent Law
      270. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views, in the context of the reform of European patent law and the creation of a Unified Patent Court, of the siting of a court in...
    • Microenterprise Loan Fund Expenditure
      271. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the amounts paid out by Microfinance Ireland to consultants since its inception, showing a...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      272. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the consultancy fees spent on the credit guarantee scheme, showing a breakdown of the expenditure;...
    • Trade Data
      273. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total value of cross-Border trade to the economy for the most recent consecutive five years for which data is available. [4899/14]
    • Departmental Agencies Mergers
      274. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total expenditure to date relating to the merger of the National Consumer Agency and the Competition Authority; if he will provide...
    • Redundancy Payments Waiting Times
      275. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the minimum statutory obligations of companies when making employees redundant; if it is possible for contractual arrangements to...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      276. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will itemise in tabular form the occasions on which his Department has engaged the services of external professional advice such...
    • ILO Convention Ratification
      278. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the timeframe, including a target date, for the ratification of the ILO Convention on domestic workers; and if consideration has been...
    • Science and Technology Groups
      279. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if Ireland will apply for full membership of CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research; if not, the reason for same; and if...
    • Regional Aid
      280. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 17 October 2013, if the report referred to in the reply is now to hand. [5133/14]
    • Microenterprise Loan Fund Applications
      281. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications made to the microfinance scheme to date, in total, and broken down by county where applicants are based;...
    • Work Permit Applications
      282. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when a decision will issue in relation to a work permit application in respect of a person (details supplied). [5315/14]
    • Organisation of Working Time Act
      283. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding entitlement to pay for part-time, casual workers in respect of public holidays or annual leave; and if he will...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      285. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the policy in relation to support and training of small and medium enterprises in relation to Government tenders mentoring; and if he...
    • IDA Site Visits
      286. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the number of Industrial Development Agency site visits made to Waterford in the years 2010 to...
    • Intellectual Property Management
      287. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs here supported by the protection of intellectual property rights; the importance of IP protections as part of...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      288. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the apps his Department or attached agencies have been involved in developing for smartphones and other multimedia devices in the past...
    • Job Creation Data
      289. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of jobs created and lost in 2013 by companies supported by the IDA, Enterprise Ireland and other agencies under the...
    • IDA Site Visits
      290. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 15 January 2014, the actual towns visited during each itinerary visit; and if he will...
    • State Bodies Issues
      291. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if an assessment has been made of the amount of money that will be saved as a result of the dissolution of Forfás; and if he will...
    • Pension Provisions
      294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding pension payments at Forfás (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5557/14]
    • Job Creation Data
      296. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of high potential start up jobs that have been created by Enterprise Ireland in County Kerry since the inception of the...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      297. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if mature students who are on back to education allowance are eligible for any other additional funding or supports to participate in the Erasmus...
    • State Bodies Issues
      298. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of personnel who moved from FÁS to her Department to establish Intreo offices; the number of persons that moved in...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      301. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • National Internship Scheme Data
      302. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of JobBridge participants per economic sector based on Nace Rev. 2 codes; and if data is available on the education profile of JobBridge...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      303. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if staff are being assigned specifically to meet the demands of employers seeking information on JobsPlus and other schemes during the development...
    • Labour Activation Measures
      304. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide on a county basis in tabular form, the number of participants on labour activation schemes during 2012 and 2013; and if she will...
    • Community Welfare Services
      305. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of community welfare service clinics that have closed in 2013 or will be closed in 2014 on a county...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      307. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Limerick has not received payment from her Department in view of the fact that they are casually...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Issues
      308. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an oral hearing will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [4938/14]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      310. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for a carer's allowance appeal will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      312. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a jobseeker's appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Appointments to State Boards
      313. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will itemise in tabular form the occasions on which her Department has engaged the services of external professional advice such as a company...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      315. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will indicate eligibility for back to education allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      316. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the timeframe for the provision of an Intreo office (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5124/14]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      317. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a carer's allowance appeal will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      318. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an invalidity pension appeal will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      319. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a review of carer's allowance will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Issues
      321. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been reached following an oral hearing in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      322. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 10 December 2013, if she will review the decision on physical inspection of the form as there appears...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals
      323. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider providing an exemption to the rent cap in respect of a person (details supplied) in view of the special circumstances of the...
    • Invalidity Pension Application Numbers
      324. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of applications for invalidity pension received in her Department in 2009-2013, inclusive; the...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      325. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if applicants appealing a decision refusing them invalidity pension are entitled to an oral hearing if they request it; and if she will make a...
    • National Social Target
      326. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made in achieving the national social target for poverty reduction to date; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      328. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an oral hearing will be provided on a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      329. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if domiciliary care allowance will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if the appeal will be expedited; and if...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      330. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [5185/14]
    • Community Employment Schemes Data
      331. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action an employer may take at an organisation where community employment workers are employed (details supplied) if overtures are made to the...
    • Local Employment Service Issues
      332. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the case of a person (details supplied) who has been denied funding to train as a security guard because they have no promise of work...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      333. 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...
    • Social Insurance Payments
      334. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the changes to PRSI, in particular the employers PRSI, which has now reverted to 8.5% from 4.25%; if this will have a...
    • Data Protection
      335. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will respond to recent criticisms of her Department by the Data Protection Commissioner when he stated that he is entirely unsatisfied with...
    • Employment Support Services
      336. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding employment opportunities in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Appeals
      337. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for one-parent family allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications
      339. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an adult dependent allowance is being granted in respect of State pension contributory payment in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Social Welfare Fraud Data
      342. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of cases of suspected fraud that have reported to her Department; the amount of payments that have been suspended or ceased; the number...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      343. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determination of an appeal for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      344. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will receive a decision on their invalidity appeal; and if she will expedite a response. [5389/14]
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      346. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the apps her Department or attached agencies have been involved in developing for smartphones and other multimedia devices in the past three years;...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      348. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 412 of 15 January 2014, the date on which the present formula for the assessment of means regarding capital,...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      352. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in the determination of application for rent support in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      353. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will detail the alleged overpayment of €6,365.60 to a person (details supplied) with dates and amounts of overpayments; if she will...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      354. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will address an issue in respect of a person (details supplied) who is receiving a €100 per week jobseeker's allowance payment but has...
    • Redundancy Payments
      356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the expected level of redundancy payments the State will have to make as a result of the closure of Mount Carmel hospital; and if she will make a...
    • Job Initiatives
      358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the progress of the gateway scheme to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5547/14]
    • Social Welfare Fraud Data
      359. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the savings made by her Department for the years 2012 and 2013 by way of welfare control measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      363. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an invalidity pension application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Mortgage Interest Supplement Payments
      364. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of the mortgage interest supplement; if she will review and reconsider the decision to wind down existing recipients in...
    • Community Employment Schemes Data
      365. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the annual cost per participant of the community employment scheme as administered by her Department; the amount of the cost that is incurred at...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • National Monuments
      366. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht acting on his undertaking under preservation order No. 1 of 2007, if he will ensure that a date is set immediately for the...
    • Waterways Ireland Remit
      367. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will support the proposal from Waterways Ireland to increase the cost of the annual mooring permit, houseboat permits, and the...
    • Turbary Rights
      368. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their legal fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4933/14]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      369. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will itemise in tabular form the occasions on which his Department has engaged the services of external professional advice...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      371. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the apps his Department or attached agencies have been involved in developing for smartphones and other multimedia devices in the...
    • National Landscape Strategy
      372. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress that has being made on a national landscape strategy; when he expects to be in a position to finalise the strategy; the...
    • Heritage Sites
      373. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding is available for the preservation of a building (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Seirbhísí Aeir Fóirdheonaithe
      374. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a bheidh an tuarascáil atá á réiteach don Roinn maidir leis an ngá atá le...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Salmon Hardship Scheme
      375. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding fishing rights on the Owenmore River, Bangor, County Mayo; the timeframe for the reopening of the...
    • Inland Fisheries Stocks
      376. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider reopening commercial eel fishing in areas that are above conservation limits; his views that eel...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      377. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the likely capacity factor of the proposed Cluddaun wind farm over its lifetime; the amount of electricity it would be...
    • Petroleum and Gas Exploration
      378. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the action he has taken to ensure that the negative environmental implications of fracking gas extraction techniques on...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      379. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps being taken to improve broadband quality in rural areas of County Waterford, thereby facilitating home-based...
    • Petroleum and Gas Exploration
      380. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding fracking (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4859/14]
    • Bord Gáis Privatisation
      381. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there will be job losses, redundancies or voluntary redundancies at Bord Gáis Éireann once the commercial...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      382. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will itemise in tabular form the occasions on which his Department has engaged the services of external...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      385. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the consideration that has been given by him and his agents to utilising the routes of the existing 110kvAC transmission...
    • Renewable Energy Projects
      386. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the development of wave energy potential off the western seaboard is not being prioritised in efforts to...
    • Renewable Energy Generation Targets
      388. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way he expects the new climate change package just unveiled by the European Commission to impact on the Government's...
    • Postcode Implementation
      389. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the value of the contract awarded to a company (details supplied) for design of a new postcode system. [5196/14]
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      395. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the massive response to the Grid Link consultation, which received huge national media coverage, if 18...
    • Inland Fisheries
      398. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the analysis that has been carried out by Inland Fisheries Ireland to establish the viability of the proposed...
    • National Energy Efficiency Action Plan
      403. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there is a monitoring system for the carbon control strategy which applies to all buildings in the State portfolio....
    • Departmental Multimedia Services
      404. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the apps his Department or attached agencies have been involved in developing for smartphones and other multimedia...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      406. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will accept that satellite broadband services are not a viable option in many coastal areas because of high annual...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      408. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the energy produced by the proposed wind turbines in the midlands can be used in the Irish grid; and if he will make a...
    • Broadcasting Sector Regulation
      409. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures available to the Oireachtas and the Government to ensure that RTE does not act in contravention of its...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      410. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the terms of reference for the expert panel to oversee the preparation of reports on Grid Link and Grid West; and if he...
    • Post Office Network
      412. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will put in place plans to ensure the survival of post offices (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Severe Weather Events Response
      414. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will request the Office of Public Works to carry out emergency remedial works at Waterville, County Kerry, as a...
    • Coastal Protection
      415. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that there is a special exemption for the carrying out of coastal protection works in special areas of...
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      416. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will investigate the outcome of a Labour Court decision (details supplied). [5012/14]
    • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration
      418. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide figures in tabular form for the number of mortgage to rent arrangements that have been put in place to...
    • Tax Code
      419. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the options available to a person (details supplied) in County Wexford wishing to tax a recovery vehicle; and if he will...
    • Waste Management Regulations
      420. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if provision will be made for farmers and other contractors who have their own slurry vacuum tanker to deliver the sludge...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration
      422. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons who have transferred from the rent supplement scheme to the rental accommodation scheme in 2012 and...
    • Water Charges Introduction
      423. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to include in the forthcoming consumer protection and competition Bill provisions to mandate the amalgamated...
    • State Properties
      424. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is a national carbon control strategy for all the buildings in the State portfolio. [5442/14]
    • Motor Tax Issues
      425. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a scaled tax rate for pre-2008 cars that relates directly to their CO2 emissions as is the case...
    • State Bodies Issues
      426. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the budget allocated from his Department to Philanthropy Ireland; the number of staff currently employed by Philanthropy...
    • Library Services
      429. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has conducted any research into staffless libraries; his views that this is a direction in which the...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Issues
      430. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the possible additional allocation of public occupational therapists in view of the recent criteria change...
    • Planning Issues
      431. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applications for extension of time under section 42 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 that were made...
    • Building Regulations Amendments
      432. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the options available to persons who wish to construct a home in stages using various subcontractors without employing a...
    • Departmental Funding
      433. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money given to the new communities partnership in each year since the partnership was established; the...
    • Local Authority Charges Collection
      436. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding unpaid water charges due to local authorities in the context of the transfer of functions to Irish...
    • Irish Water Establishment
      437. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff at Irish Water and the Irish Water transition office that have been seconded from existing roles in...
    • Air Quality
      439. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there was an air quality report performed during and after the recent fire in the Oxigen plant in the Ballymount...
    • Irish Water Funding
      440. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the €490 million subvention from the local government fund to Irish Water will have to be repaid. [4949/14]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      443. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will itemise, in tabular form, the occasions on which his Department has engaged the services of external...
    • Water Charges Introduction
      445. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there are plans for waivers on water charges for people on low incomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Land Issues
      446. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the proposal to introduce a levy or tax on unused land, particularly land in prime urban locations. [1509/14]
    • Commercial Rates Issues
      447. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the proposal contained in the Local Government Bill 2013 to apply a 50%...
    • Commercial Rates Calculations
      448. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will examine the 177% increase in commercial rates; if he will act on this matter (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      450. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has instructed his Department to ensure that assessments are conducted into the impact of the Grid 25 project on the...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Eligibility
      451. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the recent announcement by the British Prime Minister to introduce changes to UK housing benefit rules for...
    • Proposed Legislation
      452. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation and/or policy relating to height restrictions on suburban garden trees and hedges; if...
    • Departmental Funding
      453. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application for core funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied) which is crucial...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
      454. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress regarding Carrigtwohill wastewater treatment programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5122/14]
    • Irish Water Remit
      456. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the policy that will apply in cases of water leaks, sewerage leaks and other sewerage problems in estates that have been...
    • Water Services Provision
      457. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will address the problem of very regular water disruptions to households and businesses in Killorglin and the...
    • Departmental Funding
      459. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding impending cutback to volunteer centres in Carlow, who have been informed that there will be a cut...
    • Fire Service Staff
      460. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Dublin fire brigade is recruiting again in 2014; the position of persons already on the panel; if there will be any...
    • Haulage Industry Regulation
      461. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions that will be taken by his Department to address the concerns of the Irish Road Hauliers Association in respect...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
      462. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the Social Housing Assessment Regulations 2011, whereby separated persons who are the joint owners of...
    • Waste Disposal
      466. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which the programme for Government commitment to introduce a national waiver scheme for waste collection...
    • Irish Water Staff
      469. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff from South Tipperary County Council, Clonmel Borough Council, North Tipperary County Council and other...
    • Commercial Rates Issues
      472. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if landlords are liable for outstanding rates following the departure of tenants who have failed to meet their obligation...
    • Water Quality Issues
      473. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will investigate the chlorine levels and the water quality in Milltown, County Kerry and in an estate (details...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      474. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the apps his Department or attached agencies have been involved in developing for smartphones and other multimedia devices...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      477. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for dealing with the increased numbers of homeless persons, particularly in Dublin; the number of social housing...
    • Motor Tax Yield
      478. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the increase in revenue generated from motor tax as a direct result of closing the motor tax exemption loophole on 1...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      479. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will estimate the current level of motor tax evasion; if a strategy to increase enforcement is necessary; and if the...
    • NAMA Portfolio
      481. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of National Asset Management Agency housing units that are now occupied; and the status of all other identified...
    • Local Authority Housing Application Numbers
      483. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will commit to providing a regular update to the Houses of the Oireachtas on the numbers of people on housing...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Administration
      484. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he expects the new housing assistance payment scheme to work; the persons that will be eligible to avail of same;...
    • Private Rented Accommodation Provision
      485. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the efforts he has made to investigate the possibility of introducing measures to tie private rents to the cost of living...
    • Motor Tax Exemptions
      489. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that no additional penalties are imposed on owners of old tractors where their registration is now being...
    • Irish Water Expenditure
      491. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the names of the persons, companies or other entities that received consultancy contracts from Uisce Éireann in 2013;...
    • Regeneration Projects Expenditure
      492. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown in tabular form of moneys spent on consultant fees relating to the Ballymun regeneration...
    • Private Residential Tenancies Board Enforcement
      494. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that the Private Residential Tenancies Board is empowered to impose a penalty which is the effective...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Personal Insolvency Act
      495. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide figures in tabular form for the number of personal insolvency arrangements that have been put in place to date; and if he will...
    • Animal Welfare
      496. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cases currently before the courts under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013; the number of prosecutions under the new powers of this Act;...
    • Direct Provision System
      497. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form a county breakdown of the number of persons in each of the direct provision centres around the country; and if...
    • Firearms Licences
      500. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the process for the regulation of shooting ranges here; if the concerns of members of the public are taken into consideration when examining an...
    • Legal Aid Applications
      501. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current waiting time to access legal aid in County Tipperary, both north and south; the way this compares nationally; if his attention has...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      502. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will itemise in tabular form the occasions on which his Department has engaged the services of external professional advice such as a...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      504. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the reported anti-social behaviour problems in a town (details supplied) in County Meath; the measures that...
    • Legislative Briefings
      505. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the progress of the Criminal Legal Aid Bill; if consideration will be given to withdrawing free legal aid for...
    • Data Protection
      506. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the changing nature of the information which is contained on IT hardware that may be seized by the Revenue Sheriff is presenting a direct...
    • Court Accommodation Provision
      507. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his position regarding the closure of the courthouse in Balbriggan; when this will take place; the alternative uses that will be made of this...
    • Garda Operations
      508. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a report was received from Garda authorities on the problem of bicycle theft in Dublin and an initiative undertaken recently in the UK; and if...
    • Road Traffic Accidents Data
      509. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers involved in a fatal or serious road collision in the 12 months of 2013; the number of drivers involved in such collisions...
    • Court Procedures
      510. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 500 of 21 January 2014, if he will provide a breakdown based on each court district of the number of...
    • Garda Operations
      511. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 501 of 21 January 2014, if the moneys recouped by An Garda Síochána for policing services at...
    • Garda Reports
      512. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1129 of 18 September 2013, if the report referred to in the reply is now to hand. [5129/14]
    • Garda Operations
      515. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 807 of 5 November 2013, if the report referred to in the reply is now to hand. [5132/14]
    • Crime Data
      516. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form a county breakdown of cattle rustling figures in 2010 to 2013, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Stardust Fire
      517. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will respond to the seven issues raised on the Stardust Fire Tragedy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      518. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will instruct the Garda Commissioner to ensure greater attention is directed to an area (details supplied) due to the rise in anti-social...
    • Road Safety
      519. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers prosecuted for driving while holding a mobile phone in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Deportation Orders Data
      520. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons, and their nationality, who, in 2012 and 2013, after being refused leave to land in Ireland, were subsequently placed on a...
    • Money Laundering
      521. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if anti-money laudering obligations of banks are the same for property service providers regulated under the Property Services Regulatory...
    • Citizenship Applications
      522. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application by a person (details supplied) in County Longford who after 40 years of living in Ireland has not received...
    • Garda Promotions
      523. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will deal with the following matter regarding gardaí (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5267/14]
    • Asylum Applications
      524. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe an application has been under consideration in the case of a person (detail supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement...
    • Penalty Points System
      526. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any member of the Garda Assistant Commissioner's (details supplied) internal review team investigating the terminations of penalty points, or...
    • Magdalen Laundries
      527. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is covered by the Magdalen redress board; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Drug Rehabilitation Clinics
      528. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his view on the concentration of methadone clinics in the city centre; his views on whether the Garda has sufficient resources to deal with...
    • Garda Stations Refurbishment
      529. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the proposed improvements to a Garda station (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if a new station has been proposed; and...
    • Smithwick Report
      530. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he discussed the Smithwick report with the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      533. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will issue a reply to the victims of the Omagh bomb and in particular to the issues raised by the report submitted to Government by the...
    • Health Services Provision
      534. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will introduce legislation to provide enhanced medical services to eligible women similar to that available to holders of the Health...
    • Garda Investigations
      536. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with the family of a person (details supplied) to discuss the need for an independent inquiry into their murder. [5294/14]
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      537. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the apps his Department or attached agencies have been involved in developing for smartphones and other multimedia devices in the past three...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      538. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will expedite an application for a certificate of naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Cash for Gold Trade
      539. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any developments, legislative or otherwise, have been made regarding the cash for gold business; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      540. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding mortgage arrears and the process of repossession being pursued by the banks here in view of the perception that the...
    • Oireachtas Joint Committee Reports
      544. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update regarding the examination of the report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality on...
    • Visa Applications
      545. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a visa application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5541/14]
    • Prisoner Data
      546. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of female prisoners currently incarcerated in the State in the 70-80 age group. [5598/14]
    • Garda Recruitment
      547. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that registered for the aptitude test to join An Garda Síochána; the number that have completed the test within...
  • Department of Defence
    • Appointments to State Boards
      550. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will itemise in tabular form the occasions on which his Department has engaged the services of external professional advice such as a company (details...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      552. To ask the Minister for Defence the apps his Department or attached agencies have been involved in developing for smartphones and other multimedia devices in the past three years; the cost...
    • Military Records
      553. To ask the Minister for Defence if military records in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford may be released to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5696/14]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • State Properties
      554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will assign responsibility for old Land Commission banks to his Department, the Office of Public Works or the local...
    • Horse Slaughtering Data
      555. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses that have been put down in each local authority area in 2013 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Animal Welfare
      556. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of enforcement actions taken by his Department under the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 in urban and rural areas; and...
    • Fish Quotas
      557. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider changes to the herring quota in area 6A to allow inshore fishermen to carry their tonnage quota onto the next...
    • Turbary Rights
      558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a person (details supplied) in County Sligo who has held turbary over a plot of bog since 1938; the options...
    • Rural Development Programme Projects
      559. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a building (details supplied) will qualify for the new farm buildings grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4956/14]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      560. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will itemise in tabular form the occasions on which his Department has engaged the services of external professional advice...
    • Genealogical Services
      562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is intended that the former Land Commission maintained by his Department should be made publicly available for genealogical...
    • Agriculture Schemes Penalties
      563. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason payment was reduced in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Coillte Teoranta Staff
      564. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the persons who are the employee representatives on the board of Coillte; if all employee representatives' positions are filled; and...
    • Special Areas of Conservation Designation
      566. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding compensation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5121/14]
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      567. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farm payments have issued to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [5165/14]
    • Grassland Sheep Scheme Payments
      568. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a sheep grassland scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      569. 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 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Fish Landings
      570. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in a tabular statement the official recorded landings of blue whiting over one tonne per vessel per annum from...
    • Grant Payments
      571. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the grants available to a peson (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5289/14]
    • Young Farmers Scheme
      572. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a young farmer with no qualification or single farm payment entitlement and who currently farms 39 hectares of land would have...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
      573. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if donkeys will still count as livestock units for stocking density purposes under the disadvantaged area scheme in 2014; if any...
    • Harbours and Piers Maintenance
      574. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will sanction funding for the proposed dredging of Dunmore East Harbour; the estimated cost of this project; and if he will...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      575. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (detail supplied) in County Mayo will receive their REP scheme payment for 2013; and the reason for the delay in same;...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      576. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the apps his Department or attached agencies have been involved in developing for smartphones and other multimedia devices in the...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      577. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline all payment amounts under the various schemes made to a herd number (details supplied) by his Department for the...
    • Control of Dogs
      578. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of his proposal to introduce mandatory microchipping of dogs; the anticipated savings that would accrue to local...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      580. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a AEO scheme 3 payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      581. 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...
    • Milk Supply
      583. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an investigation is being carried out into alleged milk quota infringements relating to a company (details supplied); if the...
    • Aquaculture Licences Eligibility
      584. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way a fish farm in Cuan Chill Chiaráin is permitted to restart a fish farm that has not been operational for a number of...
    • Farm Inspections
      585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Question No. 292 of 19 December 2013, if he will provide the corresponding figures for good agricultural and environmental...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that will be put in place to ensure the viability of and livelihood protection for mountain farmers in the new rural...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will carry out an investigation in conjunction with Teagasc and the farm organisations to examine and evaluate the continuation...
    • Agriculture Schemes Eligibility
      588. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a person's entitlements (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5698/14]
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Departmental Funding
      590. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will furnish a copy of the 2013 national survey into Health Service Executive-funded agencies providing child and family services;...
    • Direct Provision System
      591. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the role the Child and Family Agency has in ensuring the well-being of children living in direct provision centres; the work her Department...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      592. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will itemise in tabular form the occasions on which his Department has engaged the services of external professional advice such as...
    • Youth Cafés Provision
      594. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to establish a youth café in a town (details supplied) in County Meath in 2014; if she received any applications from groups...
    • Education Statistics
      596. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children under 17 years of age, with a breakdown based on the children’s ages and the counties in which they reside,...
    • Children in Care
      598. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 568 of 12 March 2013, if the report referred to in the reply is now to hand. [5126/14]
    • HSE Expenditure
      600. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 of 13 November 2013, if the report referred to in the reply is now to hand. [5128/14]
    • Child Care Costs
      601. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if as part of her intention to review all the childcare support programmes and other proposals she will consider a proposal to have child...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      602. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the apps her Department or attached agencies have been involved in developing for smart phones and other multi-media devices in the past...
    • Child and Family Agency Staff
      603. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date on which all social worker vacancies will be filled. [5631/14]
    • Departmental Funding
      606. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the establishment of the Child and Family Agency, the position regarding funding for the Rape Crisis Network Ireland to allow...
  • Department of Health
    • Haddington Road Agreement Implementation
      609. To ask the Minister for Health if any representative lobby groups from the Health Service Executive have sought exemptions from the Haddington Road agreement; if any such exemptions have...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes Policy
      610. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the concentration of methadone clinics in the city centre and social order issues that arise as a result of same; the negative impact this has on...
    • Tobacco Industry Lobbying
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied) which highlighted that the influential Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America in...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      612. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for using gross income for the calculation of medical card eligibility for the over 70s and net income for those under 70; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Applications
      613. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork who has suffered a sympyhsiotomy has been denied a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • HSE Legal Cases
      614. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be further legal action taken regarding the financial irregularities uncovered at an organisation (details supplied) in 2012. [5601/14]
    • Hospital Facilities
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the ICU capacity in each acute hospital; the occupancy rate in these beds in each hospital in 2013; the occupancy rate in each unit on each day between 20 and...
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      616. To ask the Minister for Health the funding options available to a voluntary housing association (details supplied) in County Mayo to assist in covering the costs incurred in providing a...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      617. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to employ a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon in the Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda; the reason there has been such a delay...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for orthopaedic surgery in the Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • HIQA Investigations
      619. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Information Quality Authority investigation into ambulance service response times will specifically examine the death of a person (details...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      620. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry is on a list to be admitted to Ashling House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4901/14]
    • Health Services Issues
      621. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4903/14]
    • Health Services Staff Data
      622. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the number of vacant consultant posts throughout the country; the specific positions involved; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      625. To ask the Minister for Health when the position of clinical psychologist, covering the Ballyfermot, Palmerston area will be filled in Cherry Orchard Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Appeals
      626. To ask the Minister for Health if he will insist on an early response to an appeal for an increased contribution under the nursing home support scheme in respect of a person (details...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      627. To ask the Minister for Health if the fair deal scheme will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if he will expedite a response [4937/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      628. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4950/14]
    • Health Services Provision
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a service was cut in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4951/14]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      630. To ask the Minister for Health if medical cards will be reinstated in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4955/14]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      631. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to regulate the sale and supply of e-cigarettes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4958/14]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      632. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4967/14]
    • Hospital Services
      633. To ask the Minister for Health if all blood samples taken in the mid-west region are sent to the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick for testing; his views on whether that office is...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      634. To ask the Minister for Health if he will itemise in tabular form the occasions on which his Department has engaged the services of external professional advice such as a company (details...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      636. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a level 5 FETAC course in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5059/14]
    • Health Services Provision
      638. To ask the Minister for Health when a sustainable long-term solution will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Equipment
      639. To ask the Minister for Health the current location of an extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy machine purchased for University Hospital Galway in 2010; and the number of public patients...
    • Air Pollution
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he has refused to investigate a public report, put before him by the Irish Environmental Forum, which was published by Professor Jacqueline McGlade...
    • Health Services Issues
      641. To ask the Minister for Health the analysis and data used by his Department, in consideration of whether the Health Service Executive should take over Mount Carmel Hospital, which led to the...
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that have been developed in his Department to date for bringing any and all of the highly skilled workforce from Mount Carmel Hospital into the...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      643. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 697 of 19 November 2013, if the report which he undertook to obtain from the Health Service Executive in relation to the...
    • Health Services Provision
      644. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the current and long-term care plan in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Guidance Counsellors
      645. To ask the Minister for Health if a comprehensive response will be issued to correspondence sent to him on 8 October 2013 from a person (details supplied) regarding guidance counselling in...
    • Disability Support Services Issues
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacancies in each early intervention team in Dublin North-East; the length of time each post has been vacant; if he will ensure all posts are...
    • Hospital Consultants Recruitment
      647. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to appoint a full-time consultant paediatrician urologist at Temple Street Children's Hospital, Dublin 1; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      648. To ask the Minister for Health if he will restore a full medical card to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare with a long-term illness, who have had their card removed after nine...
    • Medical Card Applications
      649. 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. [5190/14]
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      650. To ask the Minister for Health if and when an appointment will be arranged with an ear specialist in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made towards affording access to individualised funding for persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5222/14]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale behind persons living in the State but working in Northern Ireland, part of the UK, holding full Irish medical cards; if the Irish Government is...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      653. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 314 of 16 January 2014, the up-to-date position regarding a timeframe for the commencement of disability services with...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      654. To ask the Minister for Health if there is sufficient medical staff in the Health Service Executive to deal with the workload; the number of medical staff compared to administration staff...
    • Hospital Staff Issues
      655. To ask the Minister for Health when he was informed about difficulties with recruiting consultants in particular posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5258/14]
    • Health Services Staff Issues
      656. To ask the Minister for Health if there are officials in his Department or in the Health Service Executive that are responsible for medical manpower planning; and if he will make a statement...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      657. To ask the Minister for Health if he has met the Irish Hospital Consultants Association recently; the issues that were discussed; the actions that were taken; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Meetings
      661. To ask the Minister for Health if the CEO of the Health Service Executive sits at the management advisory meetings in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5264/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); if same will be expedited due to the person having a...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      666. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) receives an appointment for orthodontic care. [5343/14]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      667. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive an earlier appointment date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5344/14]
    • Nursing Home Repayment Scheme
      668. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a nursing home charge in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5347/14]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      669. To ask the Minister for Health the decision of the Health Service Executive to allow patients with ADHD to be covered under the long term illness scheme; if this will be back dated and if...
    • Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act
      670. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding rodent legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5366/14]
    • Palliative Care Facility
      671. To ask the Minister for Health when he will sanction capital funding for the palliative care unit based at Waterford Regional Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5369/14]
    • Health Services Provision
      672. To ask the Minister for Health if support pay will be given to the elderly parent of a person (details supplied) in County Meath. [5376/14]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      673. To ask the Minister for Health the resources that will be provided to each county through the progressing disability dervices for children and young people programme in the next two years....
    • Ambulance Service Equipment
      674. To ask the Minister for Health the vehicles that have been purchased by the national ambulance service in the past 12 months; the purpose of these vehicles; and if any of these vehicles are...
    • Proposed Legislation
      675. To ask the Minister for Health if the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014 will be subject to notification procedure to the European Union which one must follow...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      676. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly can expect an appointment for MRI Scan at Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore. [5400/14]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      677. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the full details of the December waiting lists in the format customarily used by the National Treatment Purchase Fund. [5403/14]
    • Medical Card Data
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the 2013 target for discretionary medical card which was detailed in the Health Service Executive September 2013 management data report was not...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      681. To ask the Minister for Health if the provision of a mobility scooter to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will be expedited; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Qualifications Issues
      682. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which all medical graduates from overseas practising here may have studied for one year less than normal in any EU country; and if he will make a...
    • Disabilities Services Funding
      685. To ask the Minister for Health the funding available for the disability services department in Tullamore, County Offaly for 2014; if this will lead to an increase or reduction in services...
    • Autism Support Services
      686. To ask the Minister for Health the services available for persons with autism in the Laois/Offaly area; if provision will be made in the new service plan to improve these services in view of...
    • Hospitals Funding
      687. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide separate breakdowns in tabular form of all moneys allocated to St. James' Hospital, Our Lady’s Childrens Hospital Crumlin and the...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      689. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide timeframes for when the academic posts committed to for St. James' Hospital, Our Lady’s Children's Hospital Crumlin and the Coombe...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      691. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of staff numbers employed in the St. James' Hospital, Our Lady’s Children's Hospital Crumlin and the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      694. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a separate breakdown of in-patient and out-patient waiting times across all specialities at St. James' Hospital, Our Lady’s...
    • Hospital Procedures
      695. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide information on the number of elective procedures and surgeries cancelled at the St. James' Hospital, Our Lady’s Children's Hospital...
    • Vaccination Programme
      696. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding BCG vaccinations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5440/14]
    • Hospitals Funding
      697. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide separate breakdowns in tabular form of all moneys allocated to Sligo Regional Hospital from 2007 to 2014; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      699. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a tabular form a breakdown of staff numbers employed in Sligo Regional Hospital from 2007 to 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      702. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a separate breakdown of inpatient and outpatient waiting times across all specialties at Sligo Regional Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the apps his Department or attached agencies have been involved in developing for smartphones and other multimedia devices in the past three years; the cost...
    • Hospitals Funding
      705. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide separate breakdowns in tabular form of all moneys allocated to Mallow General Hospital, County Cork from 2007 to 2014. [5469/14]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      707. To ask the Minister for Health the posts that remain vacant in Mallow General Hospital, County Cork; the length of time they been vacant; if the positions have been advertised; and when will...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      708. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of staff numbers employed in the Mallow General Hospital, County Cork from 2007 to 2014. [5472/14]
    • Health Services Issues
      711. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that transgender persons undergoing transition in the Munster area can receive treatment in the endocrinology unit in Cork; and his plans to...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      712. To ask the Minister for Health in view of general practitioners having full electronic visibility of the medical card panel of patients available to them and having the facility to allow...
    • Hospitals Policy
      713. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposed co-location of the Regional Maternity Hospital, Limerick with the Mid-Western Regional Hospital at Dooradoyle; and if he...
    • Hospitals Funding
      714. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide separate breakdowns in tabular form of all moneys allocated to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda from 2007 to 2014. [5488/14]
    • Hospital Staff Data
      716. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of staff numbers employed in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda from 2007 to 2014. [5490/14]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      719. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a separate breakdown of inpatient and outpatient waiting times across all specialities at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda. [5493/14]
    • Audiology Services Provision
      721. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently on the waiting list for audiology services in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5503/14]
    • Community Care Issues
      722. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalents for community services; the number employed on temporary contracts, via agencies or through voluntary organisations...
    • Hospital Transfers
      723. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who has been waiting eight weeks to be transferred from Kerry General Hospital to Cork University Hospital for...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      724. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to add Crohn's disease to the long-term illness list. [5515/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      725. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Dental Services Provision
      726. To ask the Minister for Health when a dental clinic will be restored in Loughrea, County Galway; his plans to ensure that children in south Galway have proper access to dental services; and...
    • Health Services Issues
      727. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons in Kerry and Cork must wait for more than two years to have cataracts removed; the action he will take to rectify this situation; and if he...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      728. To ask the Minister for Health if an earlier date will be provided for an appointment for a speech and language therapist assessment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Prescription Charges
      729. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding prescription charges in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5586/14]
    • Hospital Equipment
      730. To ask the Minister for Health if the CT scanner in Louth County Hospital is in regular use; the number of times it has been used in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Services
      731. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients referred to Mount Carmel Hospital in 2013 for convalescence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5596/14]
    • Hospitals Funding
      732. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide separate breakdowns in tabular form of all moneys allocated to Kerry General Hospital from 2007 to 2014. [5603/14]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      733. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframes within which the academic posts committed to Kerry General Hospital will be appointed. [5604/14]
    • Hospital Staff Data
      735. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of staff numbers employed in the Kerry General Hospital from 2007 to 2014. [5606/14]
    • Hospitals Expenditure
      736. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full breakdown in tabular form of all money spent on agency staff at Kerry General Hospital from 2007 to 2014. [5607/14]
    • Hospital Services
      738. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a separate breakdown of inpatient and outpatient waiting times for all specialities at Kerry General Hospital. [5609/14]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Application Numbers
      741. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications on hand on 31 January 2014 for the nursing homes support scheme; the number approved awaiting funding on the same day; the average...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      742. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals to child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, in 2013; the number who were accepted; the number refused; the reason for...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      744. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the ambulance service (details supplied). [5671/14]
    • National Children's Hospital Expenditure
      745. To ask the Minister for Health the projected cost of the development of the children's hospital on the St. James's Hospital site; the estimated timetable for completion of the project; the...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      746. To ask the Minister for Health the current projected cost of the development of the new endoscopic suite at Roscommon County Hospital; the estimated timetable for completion of this project;...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      747. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the ambulance cover in County Kerry and north Cork will be strengthened and enhanced; in view of the resources and personnel, if he will...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Driver Licences
      748. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the delay in the new National Driving Licence Service centres; if he is satisfied that the City West office is capable of...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      749. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to revise the current road tax regime for commercial vehicles in favour of introducing a pay as you go road user charge in view...
    • Public Transport Issues
      750. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the budget for bus shelters and accessibility improvements has not yet been allocated by...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      751. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will itemise in tabular form the occasions on which his Department has engaged the services of external professional advice such as...
    • Tourism Industry Issues
      753. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of individual projects pertaining to route signage, development of discovery points and infrastructural...
    • Driver Licences
      754. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to open a National Driving Licence Service office in the city centre to deal with backlogs in the existing Dublin centres....
    • Road Safety Authority Campaigns
      755. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 14 November 2013, if the report referred to in the reply is now to hand. [5134/14]
    • Public Transport Issues
      756. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will contact the Chief Executive Officer of Iarnród Éireann regarding the entrance to a DART station (details supplied);...
    • Road Tolls
      757. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 699 of 26 November 2013, if he has met with representatives of the Irish Road Haulage Association...
    • Tourism Promotion
      758. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the designation of a considerable part of south Kerry as an International Dark Sky Reserve; if he will...
    • Greenway Projects
      759. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the details of the route of the north Kerry line which was one of the two applications for a greenway project...
    • Departmental Funding
      760. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is preparing an application to the European Investment Bank for additional transport projects; and if he will submit an application...
    • Aviation Issues
      761. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which airlines such as Air India might be encouraged to land in Dublin-Shannon Airport while en route to New York; and if...
    • Information and Communications Technology Issues
      762. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Apps his Department or attached agencies have been involved in developing for smart phones and other multi-media devices in the past...
    • Proposed Legislation
      763. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he proposes legislation to provide greater regulation to the conversion of cars to gas sector, in particular, pertaining to the...
    • Taxi Licences Renewals
      764. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any special provision will be made for a person whose SPSV licence has lapsed over the course of an ongoing insurance dispute which...
    • Public Transport Initiatives
      765. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the DART commuter transport link to residential areas of Donabate and further areas on the rail network in north...
    • Coast Guard Services
      766. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Marine Survey Office and the Irish Maritime Administration have carried out a staffing analysis at Malin Head, Valentia and Dublin...
    • Public Transport Initiatives
      767. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 16 May 2013, if he will ask both Irish Rail and the National Transport Authority,...
    • Road Network
      768. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will, in conjunction with the National Roads Authority, make available the necessary funding to provide an overlay to the surface...

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