Written answers

Tuesday, 18 February 2014

  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Parking Regulations
      101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to street clamping policy, the safeguards he has put in place to ensure that clamping is used primarily to modify driver...
    • Traffic Calming Measures
      102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce congestion charges in the city centres of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford; and if he will make a...
    • Vehicle Height Limits
      103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on representations that have been made regarding the height restrictions for trailers, with specific...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      104. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the current state of Busáras; if he will support greater investment in improving Busáras for bus passengers; his...
    • Tourism Promotion
      105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the footfall to date on the Wild Atlantic Way and the Green Way in the west of Ireland; his plans to support SMEs and entrepreneurs along...
    • Public Transport Issues
      106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason public transport workers have endured a significant erosion of their wages and terms and conditions of employment on cost...
    • Driver Licences
      109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the roll out of the National Driver Licensing Service; if he is satisfied that the delays which were...
    • Community Involvement Scheme
      110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has completed his review of the community involvement scheme and if a further allocation will be made for 2014; and if he will make...
    • Aviation Issues
      111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his proposals to make the relevant aviation regulatory bodies subject to freedom of information legislation, to enable the public to be...
    • Transport Infrastructure
      112. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the impact of the recent storm damage on Ireland’s maritime facilities and on coastal erosion; the...
    • Public Transport Provision
      114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline a strategy in relation to the urgent necessity to deliver Metro North. [7523/14]
    • Road Safety
      115. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the regulations covering the vehicle roadworthiness certification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7526/14]
    • Penalty Points System
      116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a detailed report on the issues examined to date by the penalty points working group established; if he will outline...
    • Roads Maintenance
      117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views that the regional and local roads allocation for 2014 to local authorities is sufficient in view of the recent storms which...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of Ireland's boxing success, if he will prioritise working with the Irish Amateur Boxing Association to develop a major boxing...
    • Aviation Issues
      119. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the recent memorandum of understanding that was signed between Etihad Airways and College Ireland...
    • Vehicle Clamping
      120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the regulation of vehicle immobilisation Bill and notwithstanding the great need to provide regulation in this...
    • Harbour Authorities
      122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has received the annual report and accounts for 2012 or 2013 from the Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company as the latest accounts...
    • Transport Infrastructure
      123. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which transport infrastructure in respect of road and rail transport continues to be evaluated with a view to concentration...
    • Tourism Promotion
      124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which targets in respect of tourism growth have been revised upward following the success of The Gathering in 2013; the...
    • Legislative Programme
      125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a detailed update on contacts or discussions his Department have had with both the Irish Sports Council and the...
    • Sports Sponsorship
      126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views regarding the sponsorship of sport by alcohol producers; if he has been in contact with the national sporting organisations to...
    • Airport Development Projects
      127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider the strategic importance of Cork Airport to the development of the west Cork economy noting in particular the...
    • Sports Funding
      128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will bring forward any plans from his Department to increase the number of active participants in sporting organisations here; if...
    • Aviation Issues
      130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has made a decision regarding the licence application by the long-haul service of Norwegian Air International to operate its...
    • Tourism Industry Issues
      131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether hotels-bed and breakfasts and so on should not increase the cost of their rooms by significant amounts when there...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he or his Department have any discussions with local authorities to resolve the issue of proof of ownership of council property in...
    • Transport Infrastructure
      134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the transport infrastructure projects that have been undertaken during the course of the current capital...
    • Air Services Provision
      135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress made in establishing a direct air link between Ireland and China; if he has been in contact with his Chinese counterpart on...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of any recent discussions he has had with members of the Northern Ireland Executive and the Northern Ireland...
    • Road Projects Status
      137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update from the National Roads Authority on its plans to upgrade the N71 in west Cork; if his Department is...
    • Garda Investigations
      138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reasons no action has been taken under article 16 provisions of the 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation - Chicago...
    • Harbour Authorities
      139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the value of the assets transferred from State ownership to the Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company when the new company was established; and...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • State Bodies Issues
      140. To ask the Taoiseach as far as he is aware if any official body under the aegis of his Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for Ireland collected by a company (details...
    • Local Authority Functions
      141. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of all specific new powers or functions conferred on local authorities by legislation under his area since June 2009 and a reference to the...
    • State Bodies Issues
      142. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of any bodies under the aegis of his Department in respect of Government policy for which he is responsible for answering parliamentary...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      143. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of bodies in respect of which he has the authority to appoint board members. [7474/14]
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      144. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical-career break broken down by 0 to six months, six to 12 months, one...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      145. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form, the total number of uncertified sick days taken by employees in his Department and the average uncertified sick days per employee...
    • Security Checks
      146. To ask the Taoiseach if any of his departmental or ministerial offices have been swept for electronic or any other type of surveillance or bugging equipment since coming to office in March...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      147. To ask the Taoiseach if he will list any new organisations-agencies established in his Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions and the annual operating budget for these...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      148. To ask the Taoiseach if he will clarify if all branches of the civil service within his Department are applying Department policy that staff progress or incremental salary scales on the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Departmental Staff Issues
      149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if a decision is internal to his...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical-career break broken...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form, the total number of uncertified sick days taken by employees in his Department and the...
    • Commemorative Events
      152. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to mark the centenary of the beginning of the Great War; his plans to honour the Irish war dead from that...
    • Security Checks
      153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any of his departmental or ministerial offices have been swept for electronic or any other type of surveillance or...
    • Departmental Agencies
      154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will list any new organisations-agencies established in his Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions...
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      155. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact he has had with key players on Capitol Hill in the US since the publication of the Border Security Economic...
    • Irish Communities Abroad
      156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his Department's actions on the Irish diaspora; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2219/14]
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he took to mark the 20th anniversary of the Downing Street Declaration; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Northern Ireland Marching Season
      158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his position regarding the proposals on the Parades Commission made by Dr. Haass; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department is reviewing the number of Irish embassies across the eurozone; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Foreign Policy
      161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on Irish neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4835/14]
    • Diplomatic Representation
      162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the American Ambassador to Ireland will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2176/14]
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      163. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has written to or spoken with Secretary of State Villiers regarding an inquiry into the Ballymurphy murders in 1971;...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will clarify if all branches of the civil service within his Department are applying Department policy that staff...
    • State Bodies Issues
      166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade as far as he is aware if any official bodies under the aegis of his Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for...
  • Department of Finance
    • Property Taxation Administration
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify a situation regarding the local property tax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8059/14]
    • Universal Social Charge Application
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to alleviate the burden of the universal social charge on employees in view of its initial introduction as a temporary measure; and if he will make...
    • Legislative Programme
      169. To ask the Minister for Finance when the sale of loan books to unregulated third parties Bill will be published; the aim of the Bill; and the number of mortgage holders that are likely to be...
    • Property Taxation Administration
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance the position in regards to a person who can not get flood insurance for their home to have a lower household property tax valuation; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical/career break broken down by 0 to six months, six to 12...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form, the total number of uncertified sick days taken by employees in his Department and the average uncertified sick days per...
    • VAT Exemptions
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will exempt flood gates for private homes from VAT to assist homeowners to protect their properties from flooding; if he will consider introducing a tax...
    • Credit Unions Regulation
      174. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the delay in the Central Bank coming to agreement with a credit union (details supplied) regarding the building and value in use; when he...
    • Tax Code
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of a 1%, 2% and 3% cut in the standard and higher rates of income tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7756/14]
    • Universal Social Charge Yield
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of a 1%, 2%, 3%, 4% and 5% cut in the universal social charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7757/14]
    • Tax Code
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Exchequer of raising the threshold for entering the higher tax band for singles and couples by €1,000, €2,000, €3,000,...
    • VAT Rate Increases
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected increase in indirect taxes such as VAT from which the State will benefit as a result of every million euro cut in income tax; and if he will make...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to prevent the sale of mortgages from foreign owned banks to unregulated operators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7760/14]
    • European Banking Union
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans regarding Irish legacy bank debt; if he will make Irish agreement on European banking union conditional on a deal on legacy debt; and if he will...
    • VAT Rate Reductions
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of reducing VAT on construction work to 9%; if he will consider this on a pilot basis as an economic stimulus; and if he will make a...
    • National Monuments
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 6 February 2014, the person who will receive the public money now being set aside for the restoration of the...
    • Pensions Levy Issues
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide exact details of the amount, in monetary terms, of the €1.452 billion pension levy collected to date that has been used for job...
    • Financial Institutions Levy
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that the bank levy is anti-competitive; his views on the way the levy will impact on the ability to attract new entrants to the Irish banking...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the accounting policy (details supplied) is consistent with his assurances that banks do not systemically overvalue assets in their...
    • Tax Rebates
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance the rebate available to persons with disabilities for expenditure on essential home adaptations, fuel, transportation, equipment and other related expenses;...
    • NAMA Operations
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance the precedent for the National Asset Management Agency to sell properties and other assets by a bidding process whereby a bid which stipulates an offer as a...
    • Banking Sector Staff Issues
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of Ulster Bank employees here as a result of the RBS review that is currently underway; if his attention has...
    • Tax Credits
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) who lost their one parent family tax credit, changed tax bands as a result of the loss of this tax credit; and if he...
    • Security Checks
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance if any of his departmental or ministerial offices have been swept for electronic or any other type of surveillance or bugging equipment since coming to office...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will list any new organisations-agencies established in his Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions and the annual operating budget for...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide information on the Central Bank guidance or rules governing the split mortgage sustainable solution to a mortgage arrears problem; and if...
    • Tax Code
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance the grounds on which online bookmakers and betting intermediaries are exempt from the payment of VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8095/14]
    • Betting Legislation
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a prohibition on the advertising of betting on Gaelic football and any others sport under the Betting Act 1931; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Budget Measures
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reverse the budget 2014 measure regarding health insurance due to the fact that as a result health insurance premiums have been increased...
    • IBRC Mortgage Loan Book
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 22 October 2013, if he will publish the independent advice from PwC in relation to the way the residential...
    • NAMA Operations
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance further to statements by the chairman of the National Asset Management Agency on 8 March 2012 to the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday...
    • IBRC Mortgage Loan Book
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance the minimum threshold amount he will allow a mortgage holder to buy back his or her mortgage from the bank (details supplied). [8186/14]
    • Insurance Levy
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a general levy on insurance companies in order to pay for flooding incidents rather than having taxpayers footing a bill; and if he...
    • Tax Rebates
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance when a person (details supplied) will receive a tax rebate for 2011. [8206/14]
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter relating to pyrite and the property tax (details supplied). [8212/14]
    • Illicit Trade in Tobacco
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts that have been made by the Revenue Commissioners to clamp down on the sale of illegal cigarettes here; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm previous statements that the recipient of private residential rental income is a business person in respect of that rental income; if it is...
    • Financial Services Ombudsman Issues
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact a case in which a bank (details supplied) in County Waterford is refusing to acknowledge receipt of or to apply a...
    • Property Taxation Yield
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the payment of the local property tax, at its current level, may be forwarded to local authorities to include in it a provision whereby...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the IMF retaining an office in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2181/14]
    • Fiscal Policy
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance if the fiscal council has approved the Government's economic plan 2014-2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2187/14]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has met the fiscal council recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2184/14]
    • Economic Policy
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the medium-term economic strategy plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2196/14]
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the mortage crisis is being dealt with as per the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2182/14]
    • Eurozone Crisis
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the comments made by the former governor of the ECB, Mr. Jean-Claude Trichet, in Strasbourg on Tuesday, 15 January in relation to the European...
    • Tax Agreements
      229. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress being made on the international talks on double taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4834/14]
    • Fiscal Policy
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the fiscal council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7475/14]
    • Banking Sector Issues
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the costs incurred in respect of the recent balance sheet assessments of the Irish banks; the person who paid for...
    • Tax Code
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to the abolition of the one-parent family tax credit and its replacement with the single person child carer credit in the recent Finance Act, if...
    • IBRC Loans
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money owed to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation by commercial clients which has to date been written off by virtue of agreements reached during...
    • Banking Sector Issues
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his officials have had any discussions recently with the UK authorities regarding the future of the Ulster Bank operations here in advance of the...
    • Banking Sector Staff Issues
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department’s estimate of the number of jobs lost in the banking sector here in the past two to three years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • State Bodies Issues
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance as far as he is aware if any official bodies under the aegis of his Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for Ireland collected by a company...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views regarding the declining standard of education being provided to Irish children in the small schools that are losing teachers under the...
    • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Data
      241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons engaged in SOLAS courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7822/14]
    • Pension Provisions
      242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the implications for the pension entitlement of a permanent primary teacher who would resign their position to take up a...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions that are being made to provide a special needs assistant for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 11 who is due to start primary...
    • Home Tuition Scheme Provision
      244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a home tuition grant will continue to be paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [7548/14]
    • Schools Building Projects Expenditure
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of the 2013 building projects that have been completed; if any of these projects were completed under budget; if he will consider...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a Student Universal Support Ireland grant will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [7563/14]
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to previous parliamentary questions, if he will now re-examine a student grant appeal and issue a 100% non-adjacent rate, 100%...
    • Teacher Training Places
      248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties of trainee teachers in their attempts to gain probationary teaching hours; if he will put in...
    • Teacher Secondment
      249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding primary school teachers who have been seconded to the special education support service and have now been informed that...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical-career break, broken down by 0 to six months,...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form, the total number of uncertified sick days taken by employees in his Department and the average uncertified...
    • Special Education Review
      254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the review of the visiting teacher services; if any of the parents of the affected children are being consulted; and if he...
    • School Staffing
      255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an English as an additional language post for a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the length of time a special needs child, who is in a special class in a mainstream school, can stay in a post primary school if they have...
    • Value for Money Reviews
      257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for not publishing the value for money report on two-teacher schools; the persons who carried out the report; the cost of same; when...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of each pupil-teacher ratio reduction by one in the primary and secondary sectors; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a student grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [7817/14]
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath may expect a decision on their application for summer works programme. [7853/14]
    • School Accommodation
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on their application for additional accommodation. [7854/14]
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a decision on its application for summer works programme. [7855/14]
    • Bullying of Children
      269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the Net Children Go Mobile study on children’s use of the Internet in Ireland, recent research which...
    • Security Checks
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any of his departmental or ministerial offices have been swept for electronic, or any other type of, surveillance or bugging equipment since...
    • School Accommodation
      271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action being taken to replace the prefab classrooms at a school (details supplied) in County Cork with permanent accommodation; and if he...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will qualify for a student grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7922/14]
    • School Textbooks Rental Scheme
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Meath will be included in the book rental scheme grant, in view of the fact that the parents and the...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list any new organisations or agencies established in his Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions and the annual...
    • Parent and Student Charter
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the proposed creation of a parent and student charter; when the discussion paper that is being prepared on the...
    • Summer Works Scheme Administration
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be available to schools for summer works programmes in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7962/14]
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm or deny that a report was done for the National Council for Special Education and his Department pre 2005, since the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be approved in view of the fact that the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when it is anticipated that construction work will begin on school projects (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement...
    • School Transport Provision
      281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the availability of school transport for the child of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • School Staffing
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the immediate allocation of two assistant principal posts to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 10; and if he will make a...
    • Education and Training Boards Staff
      283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the contradiction between the reply to the parliamentary question (details supplied) where it was indicated that the maximum point...
    • Parliamentary Questions Issues
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 64, 65 and 66 of 5 February 2014, the date by which he expects to be in a position to provide the...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding students ASD classes in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify a situation regarding schools (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8201/14]
    • School Staffing
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the decision to withdraw a legacy teaching post for the 2014-15 school year from a primary school (details supplied) in Cork...
    • Home-School Liaison Scheme
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the home school community liaison allocation to each of the second level schools in Dublin 9 and Dublin 11 areas....
    • Summer Works Scheme Eligibility
      289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason colleges of further education are not now eligible to apply to his Department for funding under circular 59/2013; when and the reason...
    • School Enrolments Data
      290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the intake capacity of each primary school in Leixlip, Celbridge, Maynooth, Kilcock and Clane in 2014; the projected intake capacity of each of...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway, was awarded the 100% adjacent rate maintenance grant plus 100% fees and has now been...
    • School Transport Provision
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school bus at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry will make the pick up and drop off at a safer location; and if he will make a...
    • Teacher Training Provision
      293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the plans to introduce a Gaeltacht scholarship scheme for primary school teachers to attend intensive Gaeilge courses in the...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Funding
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make funds available to repair storm damage to a school (details supplied) in County Kerry. [8359/14]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the number of new school buildings that are at or near completion; the position of replacement of prefabs throughout the country; the...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify if all branches of the Civil Service within his Department are applying Department policy that staff progress or incremental...
    • State Bodies Issues
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether he is aware of any official bodies under the aegis of his Department which subscribe to the daily inflation data for Ireland collected by...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Insurance Coverage
      300. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects the memorandum of understanding to be agreed with insurance companies that are licensed here to provide flood cover to...
    • Drainage Schemes Status
      301. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if compensation was ever paid for loss of income in the Claregalway Cregmore area, County Galway, by the Office of Public Works under...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the options identified by his Department in terms of State investment in flood defences; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      305. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break broken down by 0 to...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      306. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the total number of uncertified sick days taken by employees in his Department and the average...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure
      307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the total spending on flood defences on an annual basis from 2000-13; and if he will make a statement...
    • Insurance Coverage
      308. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to give details on the progress that has been made between his Department and the insurance industry on information exchange on...
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out the expected date of the completion of the catchment flood risk assessment and management, CFRAM, studies; if he will...
    • Public Sector Pensions Issues
      311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the basis on which he has written to the pension committee at North-South bodies to inform them of a change in the pension scheme rules;...
    • Capital Programme Expenditure
      312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail his plans for further economic stimulus programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7809/14]
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      313. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on works at Derrynane House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7812/14]
    • Security Checks
      314. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any of his departmental or ministerial offices have been swept for electronic or any other type of surveillance or bugging equipment...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      315. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will list any new organisations or agencies established in his Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions and the...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      316. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding funding to build an embankment to prevent flooding in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and...
    • Public Sector Staff Sick Leave
      318. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the regulations for the new sick pay arrangements in the public service will be published; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      319. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the financial support that will be given to Dublin City Council to address the potential risk of flooding around the River...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to give details on the value of contracts entered into by the State, its agencies and public bodies which went to contractors in...
    • Insurance Coverage
      322. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm the level of engagement he has had with the Irish Insurance Federation regarding flood protection measures that are...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      324. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 284 of 26 November 2013 regarding flooding of the River Deel, Crossmolina, County Mayo, if the...
    • Public Park Access
      325. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reopen Mount Congreve Gardens, County Waterford, to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8127/14]
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      326. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider putting in place a system whereby applicants for positions advertised under the publicjobs.ie could be given a more...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      327. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 243 of 11 February 2014, if he will clarify if all branches of the civil service in his Department...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      328. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works will provide information on the pedestrian and railway bridge at Lansdowne Road in terms of the...
    • Haddington Road Agreement Implementation
      329. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if proposals have been forwarded for grade rationalisation with a view to restructuring grades in each grade of the public sector by...
    • Public Sector Staff Data
      330. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of persons employed by the State as of 31 December 2013, broken down by civil servants, local authorities, State body,...
    • State Bodies Issues
      331. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform as far as he is aware if any official bodies under the aegis of his Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for Ireland...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Unfair Dismissals
      332. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will clarify the statute of limitation under the Unfair Dismissals Act; and if this position can support the case of a person...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      333. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical-career break broken down by 0 to...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      334. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form, the total number of uncertified sick days taken by employees in his Department and the average...
    • Job Creation
      335. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the rate of job creation in County Kerry; if his attention has been drawn to the Industrial Development Agency record in...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      336. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding County Kerry's status for grant aid for foreign direct investment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      337. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether an accounting policy (details supplied) may be interpreted by banks as an opportunity to delay the recognition of...
    • Equality Tribunal Cases
      338. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the two year waiting time for the hearing of complaints at the Equality Tribunal; his plans to...
    • Security Checks
      339. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if any of his departmental or ministerial offices have been swept for electronic or any other type of surveillance or bugging...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      340. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will list any new organisations-agencies established in his Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions and the annual...
    • Industrial Development
      341. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if Industrial Development Authority Ireland is satisfied with the provision and capacity of manufacturing and office space in Galway...
    • Employment Rights Issues
      342. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the requests and observations addressed to him by the International Labour Organisation; and the replies he sent to each request and...
    • Job Creation Targets
      344. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on his Department's progress in relation to job creation in County Waterford; if he will provide an...
    • Job Creation Data
      346. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details on companies in County Waterford, including company names, number of jobs created and type of support...
    • Land Issues
      347. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on plans that have been put in place for lands in County Limerick which are owned by Shannon Development;...
    • EU Directives
      348. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he proposes to transpose the EU Sharps Directive under the Health and Safety Act; if he will provide a timeframe for its...
    • County and City Enterprise Boards Abolition
      349. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if, in the context of the development of the new local enterprise offices which will provide directed and targeted supports for...
    • Enterprise Ireland Expenditure
      350. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total spending by Enterprise Ireland, broken down by Enterprise Ireland and its subsidiary organisations, each county enterprise...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      351. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the names of each consultant-consultancy paid over €25,000, the EU public tender threshold limit, by...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      352. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will clarify if all branches of the civil service within his Department are applying Department policy that staff progress or...
    • State Bodies Issues
      353. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation as far as he is aware if any official bodies under the aegis of his Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for Ireland...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Pensions Reform
      354. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the terms of reference of the ad hoc group that she is chairing in relation to pensions in the State sector. [7465/14]
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      355. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason an application for the back to school grant was denied in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make...
    • Humanitarian Assistance Scheme
      356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of residents and tenants of certain locations in Cork city and county (details supplied) which were flooded in June 2012 have since...
    • Departmental Programmes
      357. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rationale and the basis on which the allocation from Pobail to an organisation (details supplied) for 2014 was determined; if Pobail has taken...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current rent caps for rent allowance for each council area in the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8151/14]
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      359. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the hardship the decision to discontinue the telephone allowance is causing to the persons affected, particularly...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      360. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a disability allowance will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow in view of the fact that they are waiting for...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Issues
      361. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding social welfare payments due to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if correspondence relating to their benefits...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      362. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if domiciliary care allowance has been approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [7541/14]
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      364. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider correspondence dated 18 January 2014 submitted to her office in the names of persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      365. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review a decision to refuse an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications
      366. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if supplementary welfare allowance will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, who has no income and has two dependent children;...
    • Local Employment Service Issues
      367. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will be obliged to put the provision of Local Employment Services and Jobs Clubs, currently provided by a range of community and...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      369. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form, the number of staff in her Department currently on a sabbatical/career break broken down by 0 to six months,...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      370. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form, the total number of uncertified sick days taken by employees in her Department and the average uncertified sick...
    • Food Poverty Issues
      371. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures her Department is taking to prevent food poverty; if she will provide national data on food poverty based on the survey on income and...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      373. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 5 February 2014, when the person concerned will be contacted regarding their back to education allowance...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      374. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress made to date in respect of a review for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
    • Live Register Data
      375. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her estimate of the number of persons on the live register who previously worked in construction; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      376. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress in respect of a review of eligibility for invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who submitted...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      377. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress made to date in determination of application for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
    • Work Placement Programmes
      378. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons employed in each local authority under the new Gateway local authority work placement scheme; and if she will make a statement...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      379. 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...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility
      380. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      382. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons engaged in the JobBridge programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7822/14]
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      384. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 4; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      386. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an Irish person living in France for six months and whether they would have entitlement to claim jobseeker's allowance for...
    • Family Income Supplement Eligibility
      387. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason community employment scheme workers are prohibited from receiving family income supplement even though they are working the minimum hours...
    • Community Employment Schemes Data
      388. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she considers the work done and the skill required to efficiently carry out the necessary duties, performed by warmer homes scheme employees, as...
    • Community Employment Schemes Review
      389. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if all warmer home scheme employees, involved in the fitting and installation, receive the same top up to their social welfare payments and that...
    • Security Checks
      390. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if any of her Departmental or Ministerial offices have been swept for electronic or any other type of surveillance or bugging equipment since coming...
    • Drug Rehabilitation Projects
      391. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will explain the discrepancies in figures provided on the number of drug rehab T-coded participants on community employment schemes in three...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      392. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will list any new organisations/agencies established in her Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions and the annual operating...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      393. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that an oral hearing is afforded to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in respect of an application for disability...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      394. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in respect of persons who were formerly self employed and who do not qualify for jobseeker's allowance because of the means test, her plans to...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Issues
      395. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a social welfare appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; when a decision will be made in respect of...
    • Illness Benefit Appeals
      397. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in determining an appeal against disallowance of illness benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      398. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in determining an appeal against disallowance of carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      399. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in determining an appeal for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare [8064/14]
    • Farm Assist Scheme Appeals
      400. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a decision has not yet issued on a farm assist appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if she will make...
    • Departmental Contracts
      401. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will appoint a sponsor to work in tandem with the Meath Job Club so that the job club can continue to provide this essential service, or...
    • Social Insurance
      402. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if persons may sign on for credits where they do not have a means tested social welfare payment as a result of their spouse's income; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure
      403. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amounts in tabular form that her Department has paid in jobseeker's allowance and benefit in 2011, 2012 and 2013; the anticipated expenditure...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      404. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she anticipates a budgetary surplus in her Department in 2014 as a result of rising employment and falling unemployment; the anticipated and...
    • Social Welfare Code Reform
      405. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the efforts she is making to tackle high replacement rates; if she can point to circumstances where departmental changes since March 2011 have...
    • Labour Activation Measures
      406. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the efforts she is making to ensure her Department has a detailed breakdown of the skills sets of jobseekers; the way she is measuring the success...
    • Social Welfare Fraud Investigations
      407. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the follow up there has been on a case of reported alleged social welfare fraud since the report was first submitted (details supplied); and if she...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      408. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will carry out an immediate poverty impact assessment with respect to the changes from a unit based approach to a monetary value based...
    • Departmental Schemes
      409. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the situation whereby a person is only permitted on a Tús scheme for a maximum period of 12 months; and if she will make a...
    • Death Certificates Issues
      411. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to allow for the registration of the death of an unborn child in certain circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      412. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on a matter relating to a freedom of information request received by her Department (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Reports
      413. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to an article in The Irish Times on 3 February 2014, which stated that detailed studies were carried out on core benefits prior to budget...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Reviews
      414. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given to increasing the fuel allowance payment and introducing other measures to guard against the risk of fuel poverty...
    • Pensions Reform
      415. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding pension trustees (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8328/14]
    • Money Advice and Budgeting Service
      416. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current waiting lists for the Money Advice and Budgetary Service by area; if any areas are significantly out of line with the average; if he...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      417. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      418. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will clarify if all branches of the Civil Service within her Department are applying departmental policy whereby staff progress or...
    • State Bodies Issues
      419. To ask the Minister for Social Protection as far as she is aware if any official bodies under the aegis of her Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for Ireland collected by a...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Inland Waterways Development
      420. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide from Waterways Ireland details of the public consultation held on the new draft by-laws for the Grand Canal, Royal...
    • Animal Welfare
      421. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on a seal cull, which is badly needed off our coast at the moment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Irish Language Issues
      422. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current status of the language assistants' scheme operating in the Gaeltacht; if this will be extended to all Irish medium...
    • Film Industry Promotion
      424. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding available for a short film project promoting local sites in Youghal, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      425. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department on a sabbatical-career break broken down by 0 to six...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      426. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form, the total number of uncertified sick days taken by employees in his Department and the average...
    • Heritage Projects
      428. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will intervene with Waterways Ireland to prevent the Noamh Eanna docked in Grand Canal Basin from being sent for scrap for a...
    • National Monuments
      429. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 6 February 2014, the person that will be the recipient of the public moneys being set...
    • Film Industry Development
      430. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to expand the Irish Film industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7806/14]
    • Commemorative Events
      431. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to mark the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7808/14]
    • Security Checks
      433. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if any of his Departmental or Ministerial offices have been swept for electronic or any other type of surveillance or bugging...
    • Special Areas of Conservation Criteria
      436. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if local authorities can initiate a process whereby specific areas within their functional area that have particular ecological or...
    • Metal Detectors
      437. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will update the regulations on the detection of metal using metal detectors to bring them in line with those in the United...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      438. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will list any new organisations-agencies established in his Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions and the...
    • Heritage Sites
      439. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 452 of 28 January 2014, if he will provide an update on the case (details supplied) regarding...
    • Special Protection Areas Appeals
      440. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the list of SPA stage 2 appeals before the designated Areas Appeals Advisory Board; the length of...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme
      441. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 453 of 28 January 2014, when payment of bog compensation will issue to a person (details...
    • Natural Heritage Areas Designation
      443. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 27 of 29 January 2014, when legislation will be enacted to permit the de-designation of...
    • Irish Language Issues
      444. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to examine the feasibility of introducing a voluntary code for bilingual labelling and packaging of all goods sold in...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      449. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will clarify if all branches of the civil service within his Department are applying Department policy that staff progress or...
    • State Bodies Issues
      450. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht as far as he is aware if any official bodies under the aegis of his Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for Ireland...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • National Emergency Plan Implementation (1 comment)
      451. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if consideration is being given to investing in an advance warning system for Ireland in view of the recognised threat...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      452. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the efforts that have been made to implement plans to have fibre-optic cables which will allow speeds 100 Mpb/s and...
    • North-South Interconnector Issues
      454. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will clarify if an underground route-specific analysis of the North-South interconnector was ever carried out by...
    • Broadcasting Service Provision
      455. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of meetings his Department has had with organisations (details supplied) in relation to Saorview; and if he...
    • Postcode Implementation
      456. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason a UK company has been given the tender for the new Irish postcodes at the cost of €25 million; the...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      457. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical-career break broken...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      458. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form, the total number of uncertified sick days taken by employees in his Department and...
    • Proposed Legislation
      461. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views regarding the ESB (Electronic Communications Networks) Bill 2013; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Service Broadcasting Charge
      462. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the broadcasting charge (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7745/14]
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      463. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps a landowner at a location in County Kerry (details supplied) would need to take to remove silt and other...
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      465. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if all technical vacancies in the petroleum affairs division of his Department have been filled; and if he will make a...
    • Inland Waterways Maintenance
      466. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the extraction of gravel from rivers; and if he will make a...
    • Security Checks
      467. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if any of his Departmental or Ministerial offices have been swept for electronic or any other type of surveillance or...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      468. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will list any new organisations-agencies established in his Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions...
    • Postcode Implementation
      469. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason it is considered necessary to create a unique postal code for every household in the country in view of the...
    • Energy Conservation
      470. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason fuel merchants are required to collect information including MPRN from customers in the sale of solid fuels...
    • Fisheries Protection
      471. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his interpretation of by-law 533 of the 1966 Fisheries Act as it relates to snorkelling for shellfish when snorkelling is...
    • Departmental Programmes
      473. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding a proposed interpretative centre project (details supplied) in County Mayo; if he will confirm...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      474. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the review of wind farm guidelines; when he envisages a report being ready; and if he will make a...
    • Electric Vehicle Grants
      477. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to promote fuel-efficient cars and-or fuel-saving systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8234/14]
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      479. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will clarify if all branches of the Civil Service within his Department are applying departmental policy that staff...
    • State Bodies Issues
      480. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources as far as he is aware if any official bodies under the aegis of his Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Housing Grant Applications
      481. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide financial assistance to allow a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny to modify their house to...
    • Planning Issues
      482. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the extraction of gravel from rivers; and if he will make a...
    • Housing Grant Payments
      483. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason he has revised the focus of the housing aid for the elderly grant to exclude replacement doors and windows; his...
    • Water Meters Installation
      484. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of jobs created by the programme to install water metering; the number of companies contracted to install water...
    • Election Management System
      485. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider allocating a minimum of 20% of positions in polling stations and count centres to unemployed persons...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      486. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will provide details of the amounts the Exchequer will provide to co-finance the next round of Leader-funded...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation
      487. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update regarding the pyrite remediation scheme and a date for when he expects the scheme to open up...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      488. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the sewage treatment plant at Killimy Road, Emo, County Laois, which is not functioning properly, will be allocated...
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      489. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a company (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payment of its Leader grant; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      490. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break,...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      491. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline, in tabular form, the total number of uncertified sick leave days taken by employees in his Department...
    • Local Government Reform
      492. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps proposed to implement the terms of section 48 of the Local Government Reform Act 2014; if he will clarify...
    • Water Charges Introduction
      493. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for farmhouses in respect of water metering; if existing meters and allowances will continue into the future;...
    • Social Welfare Code
      494. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the Department of Social Protection can deduct payments for an award made against a social welfare recipient under the...
    • Housing Issues
      495. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of known vacant apartment units in the city of Dublin, either finished...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      496. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the introduction of a system whereby hauliers can pay their road tax in monthly instalments; and if he will...
    • Mortgage Data
      497. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number and types of home loan facilities available to non-first time buyers from his Department, through the local...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      498. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons known to be homeless here at present. [7865/14]
    • Security Checks
      501. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any of his Departmental or Ministerial offices have been swept for electronic or any other type of surveillance or...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      502. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm the status of moneys allocated for the provision of individual sewerage schemes by his Department...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      503. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form from each county a list of moneys allocated under the housing aid for elderly scheme,...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
      507. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if she will consider an immediate tenant purchase scheme and with the proceeds make vacant local authority dwellings...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      508. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will list any new organisations/agencies established in his Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions...
    • Housing Issues
      509. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding of €400,000 will be provided, under his Department's special needs projects, to complete a housing...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Expenditure
      510. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm if any financial aid is being made available for businesses affected by recent weather damage and...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      511. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the implications for farmers in relation to succession rights of the Memoranda of...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      513. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will examine the way in which motor tax is paid; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that if a person wants...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Applications
      514. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regards to housing applications, if a person is no longer in possession of divorce or separation papers and cannot...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      515. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units built; and the number that were allocated in each council area in the country for 2010,...
    • Water Quality Issues
      516. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the supply of water to households throughout the country by Irish Water; the specific standards...
    • Property Taxation Administration
      518. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will introduce legislation to ensure that 80% of the local property tax will be retained in the local authority...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      519. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there will be a further re-distribution of unspent funds which have been allocated by local development companies under...
    • Wastewater Treatment Issues
      520. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the projected timeframe for the completion of the pilot waste water treatment scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Climate Change Policy
      521. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the recent widespread flooding, if he will outline the broad content and objectives of this country’s...
    • Building Regulations Amendments
      522. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the new rules regarding certification required for persons building new houses; when these will be...
    • Planning Issues
      524. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the guidelines that deal with preplanning meetings under the Development Management Guidelines for Planning...
    • Local Authority Charges Collection
      525. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider introducing arrangements whereby bin charges imposed by local authorities and the water rates to be...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund Grants
      526. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of last year's disbursements of dormant account funds allocated to beneficiary projects;...
    • Foreshore Licence Applications
      527. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) in County Sligo has been waiting over seven months for a reply to an application to...
    • Building Regulations Amendments
      528. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will defer the new Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014, SI No. 9 of 2014, to allow further examination in...
    • Water Charges Introduction
      531. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the process for establishing the water charges fee to apply from 2015; the role of Government,...
    • Planning Issues
      532. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding solar panels (details supplied). [8329/14]
    • Water Supply
      533. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the options available for a community (details supplied) in County Meath to improve the quality and supply of their water;...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      534. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person (details supplied) can pay their outstanding motor tax over a long period in view of the particular...
    • Local Authority Funding
      535. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a table showing the amount each local authority has requested in emergency funding as a result of...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      536. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify if all branches of the Civil Service within his Department are applying Department policy that staff...
    • State Bodies Issues
      537. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government as far as he is aware if any official bodies under the aegis of his Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Stardust Fire
      538. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update of his communication with the Stardust Victims and Relatives Committee; his views regarding the new evidence which...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues
      539. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken in view of reports that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, was spied on; the nature of the...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations
      542. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he took in view of Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission concerns over Garda handling of a case (details supplied); and if he...
    • Insolvency Service of Ireland Remit
      543. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí that have sought advice on insolvency arrangements; the number of gardaí who have availed of the personal...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Staff
      545. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff in the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Funding
      546. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total budget of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a...
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Awards
      548. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if and when a new board will be put in place relative to the criminal injuries compensation scheme; the number of cases to be considered; and the...
    • Firearms and Ammunition Security
      549. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the proposals submitted to him by the An Garda Síochána seeking new legislation to ban almost all handguns which...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      551. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [7591/14]
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      552. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical-career break broken down by 0 to six months,...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      553. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the total number of uncertified sick days taken by employees in his Department and the average uncertified...
    • Crime Investigation
      554. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the recent spate of burglaries in Sutton housing estates (details supplied); the discussions he has had with...
    • Immigration Controls
      555. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding payment for a certificate of registration in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a...
    • Child Custody and Access
      556. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in the context of the Children and Family Relationships Bill 2013, if he intends to provide for access to children by grandparents without them...
    • Deportation Orders Data
      557. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders that were issued in 2011, 2012 and 2013; if all deportation orders were issued to the last known address of the...
    • Penalty Points System
      558. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to parliamentary Question No. 494 of 26 November 2013, if he has received a reply from the Garda authorities; and if he will make a...
    • Breaches of Bail Data
      560. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons recorded as having absconded while on bail in each of the past ten years to date; the number of such persons who were...
    • Legal Aid Application Numbers
      561. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will he provide a county breakdown of the number of applicants for legal aid in each of the past three years; the number of these...
    • Legal Aid Service Expenditure
      562. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the annual cost to the Exchequer for free legal aid; if a county breakdown exists for this figure; if the legal professional recipients of free...
    • Immigration Status
      563. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in order to regularise the status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a...
    • Public Order Offences
      564. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 20 November 2013, the reason for the delay in furnishing the report; and if he will make a statement...
    • Crime Investigation
      565. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that have been put in place to combat the number of break-ins in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Security Checks
      566. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any of his departmental or ministerial offices have been swept for electronic or any other type of surveillance or bugging equipment since...
    • Public Order Offences
      567. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested and charged under section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order Act) 2011 for the years 2011, 2012 and 2013; and...
    • Garda Transport Data
      568. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles that were decommissioned in each of the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; the number of vehicles with...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      570. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will list any new organisations-agencies established in his Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions and the annual operating...
    • Criminal Law
      571. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a matter in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8006/14]
    • Personal Injury Claims
      572. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will introduce legislation facilitating a system of annual index linked periodic payment orders for the lifetime of a person suffering...
    • Crime Investigation
      573. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will investigate the claim of a sexual harassment incident (details supplied). [8075/14]
    • Crime Prevention
      574. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding available to carry out a pilot project regarding community text alert for an area (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make...
    • Legislative Programme
      575. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form the legislation in place for which his Department is responsible for enforcing which also confers powers or...
    • Prison Education Service
      576. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the education facilities available in each prison here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8130/14]
    • Crime Investigation
      577. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will re-examine the new evidence in relation to the death of a person (details supplied). [8132/14]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      579. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to a parliamentary question on 5 February 2014, the reason requests by representatives of a person (details supplied) for a meeting with...
    • Firearms Licences
      580. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an explanation for the delay and procedural roadblocks for the renewal of a firearms licence in respect of a person (details...
    • Courts Service
      581. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the circumstances under which it was justifiable to increase the fee for Supreme Court appeals from €138 to €250; the person who...
    • Sexual Offences
      582. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to fund another sexual abuse and violence in Ireland report. [8221/14]
    • Money Laundering
      583. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the definition of a suspicious transaction and improper conduct in relation to cash transfers which must be reported by a property service...
    • Crime Data
      584. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the crime figures for the Whitehall area from 2009-2013. [8269/14]
    • Court Accommodation Provision
      585. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Courts Service has plans for the closed courthouse in a town (details supplied) in County Mayo; if there have been any approaches to the...
    • EU Programmes
      586. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is the case that EEA citizens can be members of executive boards of integration forums receiving funding under Promoting Civic Partnership...
    • Firearms Licences
      587. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of illegal/unlicensed firearms he believes to be in circulation in the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8335/14]
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      594. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify if all branches of the civil service within his Department are applying Department policy that staff progress or incremental...
    • State Bodies Issues
      595. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality as far as he is aware if any official bodies under the aegis of his Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for Ireland collected by a...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Reserve Training
      596. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the numbers of Reserve Defence Forces, recorded attending more than ten hours of training in 2013, in each Permanent...
    • Defence Forces Reserve Strength
      597. To ask the Minister for Defence the date on which the military authorities will know the effective strength of the Reserve Defence Force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7967/14]
    • Defence Forces Operations
      599. To ask the Minister for Defence with regard to the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation) Act 1993 and section 6(1) thereof, the number of applications...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      600. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical-career break broken down by 0-6 months, six to 12 months,...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      601. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form, the total number of uncertified sick days taken by employees in his Department and the average uncertified sick days per...
    • Security Checks
      602. To ask the Minister for Defence if any of his departmental or ministerial offices have been swept for electronic or any other type of surveillance or bugging equipment since coming to office...
    • Naval Service Vessels
      603. To ask the Minister for Defence the maximum number of years in service a Defence Forces Naval Service vessel should serve before it should be replaced; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      604. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will list any new organisations-agencies established in his Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions and the annual operating budget for...
    • Departmental Functions
      605. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will detail in tabular form any legislation in place for which his Department is responsible for enforcing that also confers powers or responsibilities...
    • Departmental Properties
      606. To ask the Minister for Defence the progress that has been made regarding works needed to clear the site and demolish existing buildings at the Magee Barracks in County Kildare to improve...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      607. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will clarify if all branches of the Civil Service within his Department are applying Department policy that staff progress on incremental salary scales...
    • State Bodies Issues
      608. To ask the Minister for Defence as far as he is aware if any official bodies under the aegis of his Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for Ireland collected by a company...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Land Issues
      609. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his proposals to clearly identify who is responsible for this old land commission network and its repair, upkeep, and renewal...
    • Inland Fisheries
      610. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide emergency financial aid to inshore fishermen whose incomes have been devastated due to the adverse weather...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      611. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the full farm payment for 2013 has been paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if all issues are now...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      612. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application for consolidation of entitlements in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be approved; if...
    • Animal Welfare
      613. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an organisation (details supplied) recently forcibly ejected two animal welfare...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      614. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a rural environment protection scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      615. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical-career break broken down by 0 to...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      616. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form, the total number of uncertified sick days taken by employees in his Department and the average...
    • EU Programmes
      617. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department is engaged in to prevent food poverty; if his Department will continue to work with measures in this...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
      618. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if lands outside the disadvantaged area designated approximately 12/15 years (details supplied) in County Offaly will be reviewed...
    • Departmental Offices
      619. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form on a county basis the number of Department of Agriculture offices that have been closed or reduced...
    • Dairy Equipment Scheme Applications
      620. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 667 of 15 January 2014 when an application for dairy equipment scheme grant will be finalised...
    • Pigmeat Sector
      621. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding pig meat imports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7790/14]
    • Sheepmeat Sector
      622. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding changes to payments in the sheep farming sector; and if he will make a...
    • Beef Industry Issues
      623. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding losses for winter finishers; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Code
      624. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports available from his Department to encourage and assist young dairy farmers to take over family run farms from their...
    • Sheep Census
      625. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the requirement to submit a sheep census become legally enforceable under Irish law; the specific statutory authority...
    • Security Checks
      626. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any of his departmental or ministerial offices have been swept for electronic or any other type of surveillance or bugging...
    • Rural Development Programme Funding
      627. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the rural development programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7911/14]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      628. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will receive their 2013 agri-environment option scheme payment; and if he will...
    • Departmental Offices
      629. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm the arrangements being put in place to maintain the services provided to local farmers in the midlands following...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      630. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will list any new organisations-agencies established in his Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions and the...
    • Land Parcel Identification System
      631. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a reply will issue from his Department to a person (details supplied) [7953/14]
    • Foreshore Licence Applications
      633. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application for a foreshore licence for a proposed salmon fish farm in Galway Bay; when a decision will be...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      634. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Galway has received all of their agri-environment option scheme 2 payments and if not, the...
    • Agricultural Appeals Office
      635. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite an appeal hearing in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Farm Inspections
      636. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the professional code of conduct inspectors in his Department are obliged to comply by and if he will furnish same. [8053/14]
    • Farm Installation Aid Scheme
      637. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that all young farmers engaged in farming since 2009 and thereby did not benefit from farm installation aid which...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      638. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on a review sought by a person (details supplied) in County Galway against an over-claim assessment by...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      639. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their single farm payment; the reason for the delay; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Investigations
      640. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the case of a farmer (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; where this case currently is; the action his...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Reform
      641. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the position of young farmers who took over the family farm in 2009 or 2010; his views on the way they will be affected...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      642. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive their rural environment protection scheme payment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Poultry Industry
      643. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a new scheme for the building of poultry houses as part of the new rural development programme; and if he will...
    • Town Trusts
      644. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 491 of 11 February 2014, in which he states that he was advised that the bank accounts were now...
    • Fodder Crisis
      645. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form on a county basis the total amount of money spent on the fodder transport scheme in 2013; the...
    • Farms Data
      646. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the total number of animals who died on farm in 2011, 2012 and 2013. [8317/14]
    • Fodder Crisis
      647. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to deal with future fodder crisis here in view of the experience of the 2013 fodder crisis. [8318/14]
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      649. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way the new single farm payment scheme will impact on a farm enterprise (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      650. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify if all branches of the civil service within his Department are applying Department policy that staff progress or...
    • State Bodies Issues
      651. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine as far as he is aware if any official bodies under the aegis of his Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for Ireland...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Adoption Records Provision
      652. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding access to adoption files; her plans to facilitate persons in these circumstances;...
    • Legislative Programme
      653. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the heads of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill is; when she expects the Bill to come before the relevant...
    • Child and Family Agency Remit
      654. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify the role of child welfare or attendance officer (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      655. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form, the number of staff in her Department currently on a sabbatical or career break broken down by 0 to...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      656. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form, the total number of uncertified sick days taken by employees in her Department and the average...
    • Guardian Status
      657. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question of 4 February 2014, in view of the large amount of expenditure incurred on guardians ad litem, their...
    • Adoption Services Provision
      658. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 720 of 15 January 2014, the number of social workers being deployed this year from existing adoption...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      659. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if any children were placed in private child care centres in this jurisdiction on foot of special care orders made by the High Court in the...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      664. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the valid timeframe for declarations to adopt a child from a country will be extended to allow enough time for the whole process to be...
    • Security Checks
      665. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if any of her departmental or ministerial offices have been swept for electronic or any other type of surveillance or bugging equipment...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      666. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will list any new organisations/agencies established in her Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions and the annual...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      667. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the childcare supports available to lone parents participating in springboard courses; if she will extend eligibility under childcare...
    • Departmental Programmes
      668. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the rationale for ceasing funding to the Meitheal project in County Wexford; the alternative funding or alternative programmes she is...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      669. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will clarify if all branches of the civil service within her Department are applying Department policy that staff progress or...
    • State Bodies Issues
      670. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs as far as she is aware if any official bodies under the aegis of her Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for Ireland...
  • Department of Health
    • Departmental Expenditure
      671. To ask the Minister for Health the costs by the Chief State Solicitor’s office of the legal action being taken by his Department in respect of High Court proceedings with the...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8085/14]
    • Food Safety Standards Regulation
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the action he has taken to collect and analyse data on the growing incidence of persons with food allergies here; and if research into human food intolerances...
    • Health Services Issues
      677. To ask the Minister for Health the reason files and documents held by the CAMHS Service in County Kildare have not been passed to the CAMHS Service in Wexford where a person (details...
    • Mobility Allowance Review
      678. To ask the Minister for Health when a replacement scheme for the mobility allowance which has been discontinued, will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8491/14]
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the latest update on the national independent review of orthodontic services; if the review is assessing orthodontic services in the Dublin North East Health...
    • Audiology Services Provision
      681. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for two hearing aids in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Provision
      682. To ask the Minister for Health if occupational therapy will be extended in the case of the son of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare who has benefitted greatly from their...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      683. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance and local support that is available to persons (details supplied) in County Kildare who have four children under the age of ten years, two of...
    • Health Services Provision
      684. To ask the Minister for Health if an early date for a hip operation will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; if he will outline the timeframe involved...
    • Medical Card Applications
      685. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [7543/14]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      686. To ask the Minister for Health if a wheelchair has been provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if he will outline the status of this case; and if he make a statement on...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      687. To ask the Minister for Health if orthodontic treatment will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will expedite a response. [7545/14]
    • Health Services Provision
      688. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost to date incurred by the Health Service Executive in their dealings in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny relative to a...
    • Hepatitis C Compensation Payments
      689. To ask the Minister for Health the reason various figures outlined in Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 6 February 2014, contradict published accounts on the hepatitis C website; if he will...
    • Hospital Staff
      690. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the number of persons currently employed at Waterford Regional Hospital under the JobBridge scheme; the type of positions they hold; and if...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      691. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the medical assessment unit to re-examine a medical card appeal in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Symphysiotomy Report
      692. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received the report in relation to women who have undergone surgical symphysiotomies; if he will outline its content; the action he will take on foot...
    • Hospital Services
      693. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reiterate his previous commitment that there will be no plans in place to charge the emergency service in James Connolly Hospital in view of recent...
    • Health Services Provision
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a three and a half year old child (details supplied) is still awaiting assessment; the reason for the delay; if he will ensure that further early...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      695. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break broken down into categories of 0 to six...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      696. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form, the total number of uncertified sick days taken by employees in his Department and the average uncertified sick days per...
    • Medical Card Applications
      697. To ask the Minister for Health if he will have information corrected on a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Orthodontic Services Provision
      698. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Meath has been waiting four years for orthodontic treatment in Navan Hospital, County Meath; when they will...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      699. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the ambulance service in Kerry and north Cork, if the Health Service Executive will revert to the original level of cover until such time as the...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      700. To ask the Minister for Health when the new psychiatric admissions unit will be opened in Beaumont Hospital and will be fully commissioned; the number of staff who will be available there;...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      701. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include ulcerative colitis, which is a chronic incurable condition, on the list of qualifying ailments for qualification for a long-term illness...
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      702. To ask the Minister for Health the specific reasons for the variation in medication costs between Ireland and neighbouring European countries; his views on the discrepancy in price in...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      703. To ask the Minister for Health if he will deal with a matter regarding rents in St. Michael's House (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7699/14]
    • Health Services Provision
      704. To ask the Minister for Health if the payments regarding the Health Service Executive initiative for the outsourcing of the adult hearing aid services were front-loaded; and if he will make...
    • Drug Trials
      706. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the trial of a drug (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7703/14]
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      707. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be considered for a job in the ambulance service as they have already done the training; and if he will make...
    • Health Services Issues
      708. To ask the Minister for Health his view on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7734/14]
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      709. To ask the Minister for Health following the announcement that a county nursing home (details supplied) will not meet the Health Information and Quality Authority physical environment...
    • Hospital Services
      710. To ask the Minister for Health the quality of service likely to become available to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10; when a full assessment and diagnosis will be completed; if this...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      711. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the increased demand for STI services at Kerry General Hospital; if his attention has been drawn to the six-week wait for an...
    • Alcohol Pricing
      712. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with below cost selling of alcohol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7763/14]
    • Hospital Procedures
      713. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange for an urgent surgical procedure in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      714. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to prohibit smoking in cars where children are passengers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7811/14]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      715. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review eligibility for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has been wheelchair bound for 25 years; and...
    • Autism Incidence
      716. To ask the Minister for Health the steps needed in relation to getting a child tested for autism; if he will state the waiting list for children with autism to be tested; and if he will make...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      719. To ask the Minister for Health the ambulance cover for Carlow town and county; if this is sufficient service for the population of the county; the way this compares with the service provided...
    • Health Services Issues
      720. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 670 of 2 February 2014, the other options available to a person in County Cork who lives next door to two unused...
    • Medical Card Data
      722. To ask the Minister for Health if discretionary medical cards are being awarded for primary immunodeficiencies patients; if he will provide in tabular form the number of PID patients who...
    • Security Checks
      723. To ask the Minister for Health if any of his departmental or ministerial offices have been swept for electronic or any other type of surveillance or bugging equipment since coming to office...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      724. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 890 additional posts announced in the community mental health service over the past number of years that have been filled to date; when he...
    • Medical Card Applications
      725. To ask the Minister for Health if the hospital fees incurred by a cancer patient (details supplied) in County Cork during the lengthy processing time for a medical card application which was...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      726. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the appointment of a urologist to Temple Street hospital; and if he will provide a timeframe for the appointment. [7918/14]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      727. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim is waiting over three years for a knee replacement operation; when they will be seen by a consultant;...
    • Disability Support Services Issues
      728. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the transition of governance at Cregg House, Sligo between Wisdom Services, Sisters of Wisdom, and the Health Service Executive; and if...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      729. To ask the Minister for Health if he will list any new organisations-agencies established in his Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions and the annual operating budget for...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      730. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange for the leaks in the windows and roof in the Ballyfermot-Palmerstown primary care and mental health centre to be fixed; and any other...
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      731. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances being delayed for more than 20 minutes at each of the Dublin hospitals (details supplied) because the ambulances are waiting for their...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      732. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the case that some patients waiting long periods for outpatient appointments are no longer appearing on official waiting lists but are being placed on...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      733. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients on outpatient lists since the start of 2013 that have been transferred to private hospitals for appointments; the cost of this...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Oversight
      735. To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the Health Service Executive to examine the charging of a monthly flat fee for extras on top of a person's (details supplied) fair deal...
    • Hospital Equipment
      736. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the serious risk posed to cardiac patients due to the lack of CATH laboratory in Sligo Regional Hospital; and if he will...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      737. To ask the Minister for Health if home-help will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is wheelchair bound and needs urgent assistance in this...
    • Patient Safety Agency Establishment
      738. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the establishment of an advocacy/patient safety authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8027/14]
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      739. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider using a number of hotels that are currently held under the National Asset Management Agency to be reassigned as low-dependency nursing...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding adult speech and language therapy service in Waterford city; the impact this is having on patients there including neurology patients;...
    • Nursing Staff Provision
      741. To ask the Minister for Health if seven nursing staff intended to deliver the national epilepsy care programme at Cork University Hospital have yet to be deployed; if he will outline the...
    • Health Insurance Prices
      742. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce the fees paid or to introduce revised fee structures to consultants operating in public hospitals in an effort to address the growing cost...
    • Hospital Charges
      743. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the amounts currently being charged in public hospitals for basic inpatient overnight accommodation in public, semi-private...
    • Hospital Data
      744. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details in tabular form by hospital for 2011, 2012 and 2013 the amounts of bad debts resulting from unpaid hospital bills; and if he will...
    • HIQA Issues
      746. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the proposed introduction of measures that will lead to the establishment of minimum standards, qualifications and inspection...
    • Health Services Issues
      747. To ask the Minister for Health the health cover options available to non-citizens planning to retire here (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8068/14]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      748. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8078/14]
    • National Lottery Funding Applications
      749. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an application for capital funding (details supplied) in County Cork was not recommended for funding by his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      750. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in respect of an appeal for a medical card in the case of the son of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      752. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the closing of Raheen Day Centre in Sligo town; if the closure of the centre will be in line with the Health Service Executive policy...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      753. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a date for knee replacement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8140/14]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      754. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan may expect to have a decision made on their medical card review; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Issues
      755. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding financially assisting a person seeking treatment abroad (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8161/14]
    • Health Insurance Community Rating
      756. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the risk equalisation scheme currently in operation having regard to the fact a significant proportion of the elderly are now insured by...
    • Respite Care Grant Eligibility
      757. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive has not yet provided either day care or respite service to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      758. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for a kidney transplant here at present; the average waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8191/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      759. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8202/14]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      760. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare. [8203/14]
    • Disability Support Services Issues
      761. To ask the Minister for Health the current resource and staffing levels for speech and language therapists working in the disability service early intervention and school age teams in Laois...
    • Generic Drugs Substitution
      763. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce a protocol for the use of generic prescriptions here similar to that applied by the National Health Service in the UK which results in...
    • Maternity Services
      764. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the option for pregnant women of having a home birth; if there is a national policy in place governing the issue; and if he will make a statement...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      765. To ask the Minister for Health further to the Disability Federation of Ireland's recent paper Promises, Commitments, and Delivery: Mid-Term Review of the Programme for Government, his views...
    • Hospital Staff
      766. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to tackle the emerging hospital consultant recruitment crisis. [8264/14]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      767. To ask the Minister for Health the reason only one Calpa van covers the entire State in view of the potential for Calpa vans to decrease delays in picking up patients who have mental health...
    • Hospital Staff
      768. To ask the Minister for Health the hospitals which have yet to comply with the European working time directive; if these hospitals face financial sanctions for non-compliance; and if he will...
    • Hospital Services
      769. To ask the Minister for Health when a proper urology care team will be put in situ in Temple Street children's hospital for children with spina bifida; the reason it has taken so long for...
    • Medical Card Applications
      770. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 [8351/14]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      771. To ask the Minister for Health if the Meath child and adolescent mental health services are fully staffed; if not, the positions that are vacant; when he expects them to be filled; the way a...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      772. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify whether all branches of the Civil Service in his Department are applying Department policy that staff progress or incremental salary scales...
    • Departmental Bodies
      773. To ask the Minister for Health as far as he is aware if any official bodies under the aegis of his Department subscribes to the daily inflation data for Ireland collected by a company...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Heritage Sites
      774. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to invest in and upgrade national heritage sites to make them attractive to the domestic and international tourist markets....
    • Departmental Programmes
      775. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proposed budget for the centralised computerisation of the shipping and seafarers' registries. [8087/14]
    • Drainage Schemes Issues
      776. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if local authorities can invoke section 76 of the Roads Act 1993 to remove water from public roads, removing the risk of flooding to...
    • Legislative Measures
      777. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he argued for any extra provisions to be made in the forthcoming legislation on protection of whistleblowers to protect any employees...
    • Driver Licence Renewals
      779. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he will take to protect the rights of a person (details supplied) whose driving licence application to the National Driver...
    • Transport Infrastructure
      780. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of his meetings with the European Investment Bank, the EU Commission and the Trans-European Transport Network,...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      781. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the section of the Royal Canal towpath which will be upgraded at a cost of €750,000 as part of the...
    • Railway Stations Upgrade
      783. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has plans to make funding available to Irish Rail to improve customer access to train platforms six and seven at Dublin...
    • Rail Services
      784. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding overcrowding on the Sligo to Dublin train. [7610/14]
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      785. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department on sabbatical or a career break broken down by 0 to six months,...
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      786. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the total number of uncertified sick days taken by employees in his Department; the average number of...
    • Local Improvements Scheme
      788. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider a review of the local improvement scheme; if he will consider a ring fenced allocation of funding to local...
    • Regional Airports
      792. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the capital and other spending from his Department allocated to the regional airports in Ireland in...
    • Taxi Regulations
      793. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the operation of the Taxi Regulation Act 2013 since it came into force; if he intends to review the operation of...
    • Public Transport Issues
      794. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form and by date the percentage increase in fares in DART, Luas, Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      795. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the failure to date to implement section 44 of the Road Traffic Act 2010, which would allow for a copy of the fixed charge...
    • Disabled Drivers Permits
      796. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a disabled drivers permit will be renewed in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Rural Transport Services Provision
      798. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the progress to date in reforming rural transport and how his Department is working with the Department of Environment,...
    • Rural Transport Programme Issues
      799. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give renewed consideration to the difficulties being experienced by an organisation (details supplied) in its delivery of...
    • Roads Maintenance Issues
      800. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request a company (details supplied) to complete its sub-standard drainage works on the M8 Cahir South County Tipperary which...
    • Roadworthiness Testing
      801. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to exempt vintage veteran vehicles to reduce the regulatory burden to owners of historic vehicles, in order to have a similar...
    • Irish Coast Guard Issues
      802. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the employment of Irish citizens as flight crew in the Irish Coast Guard; and if...
    • Road Projects Status
      803. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the necessity for the construction of the Claregalway inner relief road has been diminished by plans for the...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      805. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update in relation to plans for the establishment of a cycle greenway between Galway and Clifden; and if he will...
    • Security Checks
      806. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any of his departmental or ministerial offices have been swept for electronic or any other type of surveillance or bugging equipment...
    • State Airports
      807. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria hotels must be in possession of in order to be permitted to pick up guests at Dublin Airport; and if he will make a...
    • Road Projects Status
      808. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the road construction projects that will be completed in 2014; the road construction projects that will commence in 2014; and if he will...
    • Road Signage
      809. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review and comment on the quantity of signage for the town of Dunmanway off the N71 at West Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      810. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update regarding any pending improvements planned for regional road No. 586 located at Dunmanway County Cork; and...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      811. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will list any new organisations-agencies established in his Department since 9 March 2011; the role and functions and the annual...
    • Road Safety
      815. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline any proposed plans either by his Department or at a European level to introduce V2V, vehicle to vehicle technology,...
    • Roads Maintenance
      816. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of plans to complete the Newcastle West to Barnagh road improvement scheme on the N21 in County Limerick; and...
    • Tourism Industry Issues
      817. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider providing an impetus or running a competition with a view to developing or creating an app for tourists along the...
    • Rural Transport Programme Issues
      818. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for rural transport in west Cork following the completion of the tender process; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Projects
      819. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide this Deputy with details of correspondence that his Department have received from Limerick County Council in relation...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      820. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details to this Deputy of requests that his Department or the National Roads Authority have received from Limerick...
    • Road Projects Status
      821. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Donegal County Council have applied for funding to replace the Mulantyboyle Bridge in Glenties, County Donegal; if he will consider...
    • Road Tolls
      822. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has made any representation to his counterpart in the UK concerning the implementation of the lorry road user charge being...
    • Sports Capital Programme Application Numbers
      823. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide on a county basis the number of clubs and organisations who have registered under the 2014 sports capital programme;...
    • Rural Transport Programme Funding
      824. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport will he intervene directly with the National Transport Authority in order for them to allocate funding to Bus Éireann for the...
    • Aviation Promotion
      826. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on his plans for the Kerry-Dublin flight subsidy; if he will continue this vital economic lifeline for the...
    • The Gathering Initiatives
      827. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures being taken to build on the legacy of the Gathering; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8121/14]
    • State Airports
      828. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will bring forward the State airports (Shannon group) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8122/14]
    • Road Safety
      829. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce measures to regulate the use of animal drawn vehicles and the practice of sulky racing; if he envisages that any...
    • Tourism Promotion
      831. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to run particular advertising campaigns aimed at emerging markets like Japan, China, Russia that may be less familiar with...
    • Private Bus Operators
      832. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide full details of the reason bus routes (details supplied) in County Waterford went for private tender; if he will...
    • Traffic Management
      833. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will initiate measures to manage traffic at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rail Network
      834. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reopen the rail line between Mullingar and Athlone to facilitate enterprise and passengers commuting between these two large...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      835. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding for a cycle lane at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry. [8223/14]
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      836. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a section of road (details supplied) in County Kerry will be improved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8224/14]
    • Noise Pollution
      837. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the policy of Iarnród Éireann regarding the operation of diesel trains that remain in stations in...
    • Dublin Bus Services
      838. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way funds raised from unclaimed refund receipts from Dublin Bus are used. [8270/14]
    • Tourism Promotion
      840. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he expects the tourism industry to expand in the current year having regard to the performance in previous years; and...
    • Sporting Events
      842. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he intends to encourage the tourism sector to expand in the wake of or around major sporting events; and if he will...
    • Road Projects
      845. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the degree to which current traffic volumes on main arterial routes continue to be measured with a view to putting in place plans to...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      846. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the degree to which roads carrying the heaviest volumes of traffic continue to be monitored by his Department with a view to a...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      848. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if in the context of registration in respect of the sports capital programme, any difficulties were experienced by applicants in the...
    • Tourism Industry Issues
      851. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he remains in contact with the stakeholders in the hotel sector with a view to ensuring the availability of adequate...
    • Tourism Promotion
      852. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he expects air passenger traffic to and from this jurisdiction to expand in the coming years with particular...
    • Tourism Employment
      853. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which hotel occupancy has been monitored over the past three years to date with a view to identification of growth trends...
    • Transport Infrastructure
      855. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which adequate co-ordination in respect of road, rail, air and sea transport exists with a view to ensuring maximum...
    • Pilot Training Colleges
      857. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in the aftermath of the closure of the pilot training college in 2012, the measures have IAA have put in place to ensure that a similar...

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