Written answers

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Industrial Property Portfolio
      103. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will rationalise the ownership of industrial land and estates between the agencies under his remit; and if he will make a...
    • Enterprise Support Schemes
      104. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the process of engagement between Enterprise Ireland and Dublin Business Innovation Centre when an investor ready business plan has...
    • Industrial Development
      109. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether it is appropriate for the chief executive of the Industrial Development Agency to laud Ireland's low pay as a...
    • Enterprise Ireland Expenditure
      110. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether the moneys spent by Enterprise Ireland and other such agencies justify the level of jobs created. [17471/14]
    • Regional Development
      111. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if consideration will be given to the development of asset inventories and matrices for towns across the country as a support and...
    • Industrial Development
      112. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way Enterprise Ireland and the Industrial Development Agency Ireland supported companies can be encouraged to develop greater...
    • North South Ministerial Council
      113. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions being taken to support the economy of the Border region through the North South Ministerial Council; and if he will make a...
    • Job Creation
      114. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to ensure that all areas of the country enjoy a growth in employment; the success of his strategy; and if he...
    • Enterprise Ireland Funding
      115. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to any issues in relation to the evaluation of applications to the Enterprise Ireland competitive...
    • Housing Issues
      116. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there has been any engagement between his Department and the housing section of the Department of the Environment, Community and...
    • Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation
      117. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether the credit guarantee scheme provides good value for money for the firms participating in it; and if he will make...
    • Unemployment Levels
      118. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason there is so little investment in the south east in view of the fact that it is such an unemployment black spot, especially...
    • Job Creation Targets
      119. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he expects to achieve targets in respect of job retention and job creation in the current year; the extent to...
    • IDA Site Visits
      120. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency visits to County Donegal in 2013, Quarter 1, 2014; the number of confirmed visits for the...
    • Grocery Industry Competition
      121. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will consider fast tracking proposals to put a code of practice for the grocery industry on a statutory basis; and if he will...
    • Aviation Issues
      122. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if Enterprise Ireland are taking a sectoral approach to the airline industry and adequately taking into account the entire value to...
    • Trade Agreements
      124. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on whether the EU-US negotiations on a transatlantic trade and investment partnership are sufficiently transparent; his...
    • Enterprise Ireland Staff
      125. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the budget for the potential exporters division of Enterprise Ireland; the number of staff it employs; the way its work can be...
    • EU Directives
      126. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures he will put in place to address breaches of the 1993 EU working time directive in private nursing home care; and if he...
    • Land Acquisition
      127. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of business or industrial land held by Enterprise Ireland that is not currently occupied or in use; his views on whether...
    • Science and Technology Groups
      128. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which innovation-technology has continued to contribute to national recovery with particular reference to the extent to...
    • Employment Rights Issues
      129. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions that can be taken to address proposed cuts to pay and conditions for maritime workers in some companies operating on...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      131. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for each region of the State, and the percentage of inputs that are sourced in Ireland for each of the last five years by foreign...
    • Trade Union Movement
      132. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will support in law the right of union leaders to articulate on behalf of their union members the likelihood of industrial...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Live Register Data
      133. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons who signed off the live register in 2013; the number of persons who signed off the live register in the first three months of 2014; if he will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      134. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of each of the solicitors and barristers who received payments from the Office of the Chief State Solicitor during each of the past five...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      135. To ask the Taoiseach the total legal costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17363/14]
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      136. To ask the Taoiseach the total external public relation costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17379/14]
    • Employment Data
      137. To ask the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 25 March 2014, if he will request the Central Statistics Office to compile data on the number of employees currently on zero...
    • Tobacco Industry Lobbying
      138. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings he held with tobacco industry representatives during his St. Patrick's Day mission to the United States; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Unemployment Data
      139. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a regional break down, as per the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, of the number of persons aged 16 to 25 years who are not currently...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • North South Ministerial Council
      140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, in the context of the North South Ministerial Council agenda, consideration will be given to the prioritisation of...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total legal costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17357/14]
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total external public relation costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17373/14]
    • Foreign Conflicts
      143. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason it is not possible to transfer funds from Europe through banking channels to South Sudan, which has gained its...
    • Passport Applications
      144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a response has been received from An Garda Síochána in the matter of issues raised with the Department of...
    • Emigrant Support Services
      145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding assistance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Human Rights Issues
      146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied), a Saharawi political prisoner, who launched a...
    • Passport Services
      147. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding emergency passports; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • EU Issues
      148. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline Ireland's position that was taken at the Committee of Permanent Representatives and-or the Permanent...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he raised at the most recent meeting of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council the ongoing serious conflict and...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he raised at the most recent meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council the concerns and warnings of the UN's Chief...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct local property tax offices to furnish written confirmation of non-liability in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      152. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress the Government has made in implementing the recommendations of the Moriarty tribunal report; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fuel Laundering
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of fuel laundering plants uncovered in the past five years, by county and by year. [18011/14]
    • Fuel Rebate Scheme
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of businesses are precluded from the diesel rebate scheme because they purchase fuel in quantities...
    • Revenue Commissioners Powers
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that it is appropriate for senior revenue officials in Waterford Revenue Commisioners to attempt to block this Deputy as a public representative...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount given in tax relief to investors in the building of private hospitals (details supplied); if he will provide a breakdown of this scheme based...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance the total legal costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17356/14]
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance the total external public relation costs incurred by his Department in 2011 to 2013, inclusive, and estimated in 2014. [17372/14]
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a tax clearance certificate in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Property Taxation Collection
      169. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to the due date on the local property tax as many families are finding it hard after Christmas; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a levy on bank drafts issued by the various banks in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17439/14]
    • Corporation Tax Regime
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance if the EU Commission has written to him since March 2011 regarding Ireland's corporation tax. [17494/14]
    • Banking Sector Remuneration
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff that received a total remuneration package including pension payments, allowances and benefits of...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff by grade within his Department that received a performance related bonus in each of the past three years; the reason for the bonus; and if...
    • Living City Initiative
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify a situation regarding the Living City initiative (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17543/14]
    • NAMA Portfolio
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of bidders for the National Asset Management Agency's Project Eagle; the date the bidding process commenced; if he instructed NAMA to dispose of...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance following the reported sale of €800 million of par value loans by the special liquidators of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation to an entity linked...
    • IBRC Loans
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 4 March 2014, the total par value of loans covered by the 33 borrower groups that have or will be offered for...
    • Banking Operations
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department or the Central Bank of Ireland have made representations to the banks in respect of problems being encountered in respect of SEPA; and if he...
    • IBRC Bond Issues
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance the interest rate that applies to each tranche of bonds issued to replace the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation promissory; the average interest rate; the...
    • Property Taxation Data
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of single debit authority payments for the local property tax which were not completed due to problems with implementation of SEPA; and if he will...
    • Revenue Commissioners Telephone Call Recordings
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is currently a system in place for the audio recording of incoming or outgoing calls in the Revenue Commissioners; if so, which calls are recorded;...
    • Tax Collection
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a mandatory practice for agents of the Revenue sheriff whereby copies of an individual's statutory rights are provided to them when they...
    • Tax Code
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the tax implications on a transaction which involves two farmers swapping small parcels of land without any financial...
    • Carbon Tax Implementation
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the implementation of increased carbon tax on solid fuels will lead to increases in instances of persons going across the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a tax demand in respect of a nursing home bill query (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Code
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding capital gains tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17775/14]
    • Payment Protection Insurance Policies
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance the legal impediment or other obstacle that exists to prevent the Central Bank of Ireland releasing the number of mis-sold payment protection insurance...
    • IBRC Staff
      199. To ask the Minister for Finance if the better than expected sale of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation assets will result in improved redundancy conditions for former staff of IBRC, as...
    • Financial Services Ombudsman Issues
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance the person responsible for ensuring that the decisions of the Financial Services Ombudsman in respect of individual cases are implemented by the financial...
    • Motor Industry Issues
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a car swappage scheme which would hopefully have the effect of improving sales; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17858/14]
    • Tax Forms
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will issue an official notice of the tax assessment for 2012 and 2013 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make...
    • Tax Exemptions
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a company (details supplied) which operates commercially with corporate membership and has almost €1 million on deposit upon which no tax...
    • Financial Services Ombudsman Staff
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the Financial Services Ombudsman's office is made up of those with connections to the financial institutions that they are charged...
    • Consumer Protection
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance the law governing so-called pyramid investment schemes; his views on whether the law provides adequate protection for consumers; and if he will make a...
    • Deposit Protection Scheme Issuse
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance The number of deposits covered by the deposit guarantee scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17958/14]
    • National Car Test
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the VRT inspection regime which is currently operating at 25 national car test centres; if he will consider extending the facility so...
    • Tax Yield
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide figures on the expected loss to the Exchequer in income tax if the entry point to the marginal rate of tax is increased by €10,000;...
    • Bank IT Systems
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of how central to the economy and everyday lives of all citizens the effective operation of the day-to-day banking IT system are across the financial...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Momentum Programme Issues
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons availing of training and education projects under the momentum programme since its establishment in the years 2013 and to...
    • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Places
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if and when a place on a FÁS course will be offered in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student (details supplied) in County Mayo does not have access to an special needs assistant in secondary school despite having an...
    • School Curriculum
      214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for curriculum reform. [17311/14]
    • Educational Reform
      220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the advice he has sought from any statutory bodies on education reform or changes since coming to office; and the outstanding advice yet to be...
    • Higher Education Schemes
      221. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a late application for the HEAR scheme will be accepted in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs Data
      222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide, in tabular form, information for 2011, 2012 and 2013 and for each county within the State on the total number of whole time...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there have been cases appealed to the review committee taken under section 15(4) of the Residential Institutions Redress Act. [17347/14]
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total legal costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17354/14]
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total external public relation costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17370/14]
    • Education Grants
      226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is top up funding available for an Irish student (details supplied) who has won a scholarship in the University of Notre Dame to study...
    • School Placement
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the current lack of secondary school places in the Castleknock-Carpenterstown area of Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding project math and dyslexic students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17429/14]
    • Adult Education
      229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding unemployment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17434/14]
    • Schools Building Projects Status (1 comment)
      230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the status of plans for the new building for a school (details supplied); and if he will confirm that...
    • School Transport Provision
      232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 3 October 2013, when asked to explain return to risk, if he will confirm the date on which and the...
    • State Examinations
      233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the remaining Leaving Certificate examinations that will higher level maths attract an extra 25 points; and if this has not yet been...
    • Special Educational Needs Services Provision
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to change the qualifying criteria for July provision to include children with Down's syndrome regardless of their IQ; and if he will...
    • School Accommodation
      237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on a project (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17561/14]
    • School Enrolments
      238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has approved an extra junior infant class for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; if so, the number of places which...
    • Third Level Qualifications Recognition
      239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the problem faced by Irish graduates who seek employment in the Middle East because the parchments issued on...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the provision of a site for a new school build (details supplied) in County Meath; the timeframe required to...
    • School Transport Availability
      241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if arrears of a remote area grant will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the special needs assistants in primary schools engage in job-sharing and the minimum and maximum hours each job-sharer can share in a special...
    • Energy Usage
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grant assistance available to post-primary schools to address heat loss and energy consumption; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Staffing
      244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of legacy posts which have been lost as a result of changes made in budget 2012; the years in which...
    • School Uniforms
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the impact of a change in school uniform policy on a number of clothing manufacturers in the Monasterevin area...
    • Schools Guidance Counsellors
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with reference to a reply to a parliamentary question dated 7 March 2014 (details supplied), if he considers the support provided in second level...
    • Autism Support Services
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 97 of 2 April 2014, in view of his response that he was satisfied the Special Education Support Service,...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be allocated from his Department to provide permanent accommodation for primary schools in an area (details supplied) in north...
    • Autism Support Services
      253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be granted home-based provision 2012; the reason this has not been granted; and if he will...
    • School Accommodation
      254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school project (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17814/14]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the planned extension to a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pension Provisions
      256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of any pension entitlements in respect of a person (details supplied). [17821/14]
    • Redundancy Payments
      257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in a specific payment issuing to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Chaplaincy Services Provision
      258. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process whereby the Government issues a policy statement to the effect that all chaplains, that is, those of faith groups as well as those of...
    • Youthreach Programme Issues
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Youthreach places available during each of the past years. [17869/14]
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure whereby an employee of his Department (details supplied) in County Offaly can obtain a transfer on her return to work to an office...
    • Minor Works Scheme Expenditure
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the minor works grant will be paid to primary and post-primary schools during this calendar year; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the entitlement of a person (details supplied) to a student grant in order to further the applicant's education and career progression. [17919/14]
    • Special Educational Needs Staff Remuneration
      263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason special needs assistant contracts for part time appointees contain no mention of any system for calculation an SNA's part time wages...
    • Quality and Qualifications Ireland Accreditation
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to delays in FETAC issuing final certificates to persons who completed courses in healthcare; if he will provide...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a new school building (details supplied); if a site has been identified; the location of the site; when...
    • Child Protection
      266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department's requirements in relation to child protection are being implemented and monitored by his Department at a school (details...
    • School Staffing
      268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 26 March 2014, the periods in which payments were made for teaching staff at Linden House in...
    • Schools Building Projects Expenditure
      269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide confirmation of the cost of new classrooms and building at a school (details supplied) in County Galway. [18034/14]
    • School Accommodation
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that have been approved, including the value of the improvements, to a school (details supplied) in County Galway. [18035/14]
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will list the primary schools in counties Cavan and Monaghan that will be affected by changes in the pupil teacher ratio with effect from...
    • Education and Training Boards Issues
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has set out the statutory instrument or the rules for the nomination and election of members of the Education and Training Board after the...
    • Residential Institutions Issues
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has raised the issue of a review of the evidence of State responsibility in the case of the Bethany Home with the Department of Justice; if...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • EU Directives
      277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to introduce legislation which would provide for a social clause to allow a quota of local labour to be employed on all...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations
      278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress the Government has made in implementing the recommendations of the Moriarty tribunal report; and if he will make a...
    • Legislative Programme
      279. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the Public Service Management Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17271/14]
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total legal costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17361/14]
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total external public relation costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17377/14]
    • Museum Projects
      282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the provisions that have been made for the residents of Portobello in view of the potential risk which emanates from a design of the...
    • Leader's Allowance Issues
      284. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount paid to each qualifying party leader in respect of TDs not including payments made in respect of Senators; the amount paid to...
    • Public Sector Reform Implementation
      285. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made in relation to proposals for grade rationalisation and restructuring in each sector of the public service by 2014 as...
    • Pension Provisions
      287. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason his Department has written to the CEO of the pensions committee of Waterways Ireland who oversees the administration of the...
    • Public Sector Reform Implementation
      288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full breakdown of all costs relating to the transfer to People Point of administrative responsibility for personnel...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations
      289. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress the Government has made in implementing the recommendations of the Moriarty tribunal report; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      290. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total legal costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17359/14]
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      291. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total external public relation costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014.; and if he will make a...
    • Job Creation Data
      292. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons, companies or projects Enterprise Ireland referred to Dublin Business Innovation Centre in the years 2012 and...
    • Enterprise Support Schemes
      294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total funding provided by Enterprise Ireland to the Dublin Business Innovation Centre for the years 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he...
    • Local Enterprise Offices Remit
      295. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the contact name, number, office and so on of an official or staff who can advise small businesses on the northside...
    • Employment Rights Issues
      296. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of complaints made to the Rights Commissioner Service regarding breaches of section 18 of the Organisation of Working Time...
    • Work Permit Appeals
      297. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when a decision will issue on the work permit appeal of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8. [17555/14]
    • Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
      298. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the various non-bank sources of funding available to small and medium sized enterprises; the way SME's can access such funding; and if...
    • IDA Site Visits
      299. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress to date on sourcing a new tenant for a premises (details supplied); the number of site visits arranged to the premises in...
    • Job Losses
      301. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which his Department has identified the most important issues affecting job retention based on the performance over the...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      303. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which the cost base in Irish industry remains in line with that in other adjoining and European jurisdictions; and if he...
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      304. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which consideration remains to be given to supporting regional developments in a way likely to spread economic growth...
    • Job Creation
      305. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the role he sees for job creation through innovation, science and technology in the future; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      307. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he continues to monitor the performance of smaller, indigenous companies here in comparison with similar...
    • Horizon 2020 Strategy Funding
      308. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which indigenous Irish companies and multinational corporations continue to have access to European grant aid for...
    • Job Creation
      309. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which job creation efforts are focused on youth and long-term unemployment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Job Creation Data
      310. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of indigenous jobs created over the past three years to date in the wake of foreign direct investment; and if he will make...
    • Job Creation
      311. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which foreign direct investment and indigenous investment has contributed to job creation in County Kildare over the...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Labour Court Recommendations
      313. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will be advanced the funds owed to them for the enhanced redundancy scheme from...
    • Redundancy Payments Waiting Times
      314. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in a specific payment issuing to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Youth Unemployment Measures
      315. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she expects emphasis to be placed on efforts to reduce the numbers on the live register in the current year with particular...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      316. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the huge saving carers make for the State, her views on the making the carer's allowance exempt from means assessment; and if she will...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Appeals
      317. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding farm assist in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [17329/14]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      318. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      319. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total legal costs incurred by her Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17362/14]
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      320. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total external public relation costs incurred by her Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17378/14]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      321. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      322. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if agreement can be reached in respect of an overpayment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      323. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has been waiting since 4 March 2013 for a decision on the review on their application for jobseeker's...
    • Pension Provisions
      324. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the way a resolution can be found to the ongoing difficulties in the Irish aviation superannuation scheme; and if she is examining ways...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      326. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views regarding the decision to substantially reduce a weekly personal rate of jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Work Placement Programmes
      327. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons availing of community work placements under the Tús scheme since its establishment in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to...
    • JobsPlus Scheme
      328. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons employed under the JobsPlus scheme since its establishment; and the amount of expenditure incurred on the scheme to date....
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      329. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision can be expected in respect of eligibility for disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      330. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 311 of 1 April 2014, if there are facilities for Irish citizens who are living permanently or temporarily in...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      334. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a disability allowance appeal will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • National Internship Scheme Data
      335. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons employed on the JobBridge scheme in County Longford over the past three years; and the number of persons who participated on...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility
      336. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the criteria for coeliacs to receive dietary allowance. [17530/14]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      337. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in issuing a decision on an oral hearing held on 3 March 2014 for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details...
    • Social Welfare Complaints Procedures
      338. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of complaints made regarding treatment of clients by front-line staff in social welfare offices during each of the past four years; and...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Data
      339. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of rent supplement in Dublin; the number of persons in the rental accommodation scheme in Dublin; and the cost of...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      340. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on his disability allowance claim; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      341. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a rent supplement allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Public Services Card
      342. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the purpose and the cost to date of development and roll-out of the public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17614/14]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      343. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance appeal will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      344. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an invalidity allowance appeal will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      345. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an oral appeal hearing in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      346. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a review of the decision to refuse the application for disability allowance in respect of a person...
    • Social Welfare Fraud Investigations
      347. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to review the monitoring mechanisms employed to reduce fraudulent payment of child benefit; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Application Numbers
      348. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons refused domiciliary care allowance during 2012, 2013 and 2014; if she will be reviewing policies regarding this allowance in...
    • Child Care Qualifications
      349. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide funding for training for community employment staff in County Laois to train in child care up to level 5; and if she will make a...
    • Industrial Relations Issues
      352. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider reforming the anomaly in the industrial relations system where workers who go through the full third-party system of rights...
    • Constitutional Convention Recommendations
      353. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her response to the proposal made by the Constitutional Convention to include social and economic rights in the Constitution, including specific...
    • Unemployment Levels
      354. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views regarding the latest employment figures, that long-term unemployment is much higher here than it is in the Nordic countries such as Sweden...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      359. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the circular or legislative provision that governs the administration of social welfare payments for persons who continue to engage in subsidiary...
    • Mortgage Arrears Information and Advice Service
      361. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will set out in tabular form the total number of persons in financial difficulty who have benefited from the Mortgage Arrears Information and...
    • Public Procurement Regulations
      362. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the public procurement criteria used when tenders are issued by her Department; if there is a restriction on the turnover of companies who can...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Applications
      363. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a farm assist review which has been ongoing since May 2013 will be completed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [17889/14]
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      364. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding part-time work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17916/14]
    • Rural Social Scheme Administration
      365. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm the future of the rural social scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17930/14]
    • Invalidity Pension Payments
      367. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision regarding their invalidity pension arrears; if these arrears will be...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      368. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason €28.20 is being deducted from the one-parent family allowance payment to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      369. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      371. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been reached in respect of an appeal for jobseeker's allowance following an oral hearing in the case of a person (details...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • National Monuments
      372. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a date has been set for his meeting with relatives of the signatories to the 1916 Proclamation as agreed at the 2011 Easter Rising...
    • Noxious Weeds
      373. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding efforts to control Japanese knotweed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17265/14]
    • Inland Waterways Development
      374. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the review of all issues relating to the ongoing management of lakes in Muckross Park, Killarney and in particular its boating...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      375. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total legal costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17350/14]
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      376. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total external public relation costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17366/14]
    • Natural Heritage Areas Designation
      377. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the position regarding a bog which has been included in the NHA area (details supplied); if same can be cut by seeking appropriate...
    • Commemorative Events
      378. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if plans for a new chapel in Glasnevin to celebrate the centenary of the 1916 Rising have been approved; if funding will be made...
    • Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge
      379. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an mbeidh seirbhísí stáit á gcur ar fáil as Gaeilge do phobal na Gaeilge ar comhchaighdeán leis na...
    • Special Areas of Conservation Designation
      380. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress made on the national peatlands strategy; if turf cutting has now ceased on all raised bog SACs; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations
      381. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has made any inquiries to the Director of Public Prosecutions office, the Criminal Assets Bureau and the Revenue...
    • Postal Services
      382. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the restrictions in place for the transportation of ink toner cartridges by post in and out of Ireland; and if there are...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      383. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total legal costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17352/14]
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      384. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total external public relation costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17368/14]
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      385. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the terms of reference for the McGuinness commission will be agreed; when the committee will report back; and if...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      386. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the black spot for broadband in an area (details supplied) in County Galway; when this will be...
    • Energy Schemes Data
      392. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the number of applications which were made under the better energy homes scheme, the...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Application Numbers
      393. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will specify, for each financial institution, the number of mortgage to rent transactions that have been completed...
    • Foreshore Issues
      394. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the State is the sole owner of a beach (details supplied) in County Donegal up to the high water mark. [17296/14]
    • Water Charges Introduction
      395. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the expertise of the Commission for Energy Regulation - Energy Regulator - in matters such as setting...
    • Planning Issues
      397. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the progress of large scale off shore wind development close to the east coast; if in view...
    • Private Rented Accommodation Rental Costs and Controls
      398. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his position on introducing rent controls to tackle the growing problem of continuing increases in rental prices,...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations
      399. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress the Government has made in implementing the recommendations of the Moriarty tribunal report; and if he will...
    • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Exemptions
      400. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if farmers' children, particularly a person (details supplied) in County Longford, will be required to pay a second...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      401. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total legal costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17355/14]
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      402. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total external public relation costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17371/14]
    • Departmental Funding
      403. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the €2 million allocated for health and safety training and safety equipment as part of gateway scheme and which...
    • Land Acquisition
      404. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is provision in law that would allow a person to be excluded from purchasing land public or private on the open...
    • Building Regulations Amendments
      405. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will support the amendment of building control laws which came into effect on 1 March 2014 (details supplied); and...
    • Fire Service Issues
      406. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of requests received from Dublin City Council during 2013 under the fire service capital programme; the number...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      407. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of ambulances stationed at a fire station (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Waste Disposal
      408. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has conducted an analysis and or evaluation of the private waste collection sector in terms of cost and service...
    • Dublin Docklands Development Authority
      412. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will instruct the Dublin Docklands Development Authority to resolve financial issues with a construction company...
    • Planning Issues
      419. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his policy in relation to local authorities gifting public assets to private companies, with the stated intention of...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      421. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will request Irish Water to make funding available as a matter of urgency to address the mid-Kerry water supply...
    • Turbary Rights
      422. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the nature and extent of licences or permissions required by commercial turf extractors from his Department, the...
    • NAMA Social Housing Provision
      423. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of vacant housing units that are in the National Asset Management Agency portfolio for Clongriffin/Belmayne,...
    • Local Authority Housing
      424. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application submitted by Monaghan County Council in respect of a housing project (details...
    • Control of Dogs
      425. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the dates on which has he recently engaged with expert bodies on the current Control of Dogs Act 1998 Regulations; the...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      427. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has been liaising with the Department of Social Protection in developing the proposed new housing...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      428. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total number of homes directly provided for under Part V of the 2000 Planning and Development Act to date broken down...
    • Private Residential Tenancies Board
      430. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 374. of 8 April 2014, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are...
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      432. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding will be approved for an estate (details supplied) under the special development funding scheme for site...
    • Water Meters Installation
      433. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the number of water meters installed to date on a county basis; the target to date and...
    • Planning Issues
      435. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the establishment of the Planning Regulator; if this has been set up, if it will be publicly...
    • Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
      438. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form on a county basis the total social housing waiting list in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      440. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated number of social houses provided in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014, 2015 and 2016; and if he will...
    • Rural Development Policy
      441. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the recommendations of the CEDRA report; when it is due to come before Dáil Éireann; if it will be debated; and...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
      443. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the internal capital receipts collected for the provision of social housing in Wicklow-east Carlow will be ring-fenced...
    • Homeless Accommodation Funding
      444. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government since the Pathway Accommodation and Support System was extended nationally in 2013 the amount of funding that has been...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      445. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the current housing shortage, if he has definite proposals for the Wicklow/ East Carlow region to carry out an...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      448. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which Wicklow County Council will receive 2014 funding for housing adaptation grants, for works completed to...
    • Waste Disposal
      450. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 356 of 08 April 2014, where he stated that the Galway Clinic at Doughiska has been...
    • Radon Gas Levels
      451. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the heightened levels of radon affecting certain counties in Ireland, the steps being taken to raise awareness...
    • Fuel Laundering
      452. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated cost of cleaning up each illegal plant; and the total cost per annum for the cleaning up of illegal fuel...
    • Control of Dogs
      458. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the concerns that the current primary legislation regarding dogs is not sufficiently...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Ground Rents Abolition
      459. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his proposals for new legislation to abolish ground rents outright; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17613/14]
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Reports
      460. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress the Government has made in implementing the recommendations of the Moriarty tribunal report; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Recruitment
      461. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is his intention that the open competition for the new Garda Commissioner will be conducted by the new independent policing authority; and...
    • Residential Institutions Issues
      462. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the request that he undertake a review of the evidence with respect to State responsibility in the matter of Bethany Home, with a view to...
    • Residency Permits
      463. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the decision to refuse residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement...
    • Crime Investigation
      464. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the independent examination of the report of the Garda serious crime review team relating to the death of Fr. Niall Molloy, by Dominic McGinn...
    • Citizenship Applications
      467. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when an application for citizenship will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      468. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total legal costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17360/14]
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      469. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total external public relation costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17376/14]
    • Registration of Title
      470. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if an application to register a property (details supplied) in County Kerry has been lodged with the Land Registry; and if he will make a...
    • Garda Resources
      471. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will examine the need for extra resources to be provided to An Garda Síochána to police a growing town (details supplied) in...
    • Garda Communications
      472. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of explicit notifications he has received under section 41 of the Garda Síochána Act over the past three years. [17430/14]
    • Immigration Data
      473. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons detained under section 9 of the Refugee Act 1996 in 2012 and 2013 and the average length of detention; the number of...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      474. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there is a significant delay in the Garda vetting process (details supplied); [17505/14]
    • Garda Transport Expenditure
      475. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of maintenance of Garda vehicles in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013 excluding staffing costs; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Transport Data
      476. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the 438 extra Garda vehicles that came into service in 2013; the number of those that were marked or unmarked Garda cars...
    • Direct Provision System
      477. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the lines of communication between his Department and RIA; the frequency of meetings; the procedures for dealing with issues that occur in direct...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      479. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received a request to meet a person (details supplied); and if he is willing to meet them to discuss the serious matters that they have...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      480. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a matter regarding fixed charges (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17600/14]
    • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
      481. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a matter regarding victims' issues (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17601/14]
    • Planning Issues
      482. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider implementing legislation in relation to the topping and cutting of trees on private property, in particular where such trees...
    • Garda Stations
      483. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of total Garda numbers by station, sub-district, district, division, and region broken down by Garda rank from...
    • Coroners Service
      484. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that post mortem examinations are not carried out in Sligo on weekends; if his attention has been...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      485. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a person is signing onto the live register to receive jobseeker's allowance, if this will impact on their application for Irish citizenship in...
    • Judicial Appointments
      486. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the consultation process on judicial appointments. [17810/14]
    • Irish Jewish Museum
      487. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the involvement he has had with the Irish Jewish Museum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17823/14]
    • Registration of Title
      488. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a land registry dealing (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if same will be expedited; and if he will make a statement...
    • Reports of the Ombudsman for Children
      489. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will publish the reports of the Ombudsman for Children into the Health Service Executive conduct, and the report of the Ombudsman under...
    • Rights of Way Provision
      490. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if following a recent Supreme Court judgment on a dispute regarding historic rights of way at a location (details supplied) in County Sligo; if...
    • Garda Investigations
      491. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he or his Department have been asked to review the death of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who died outside a nightclub on 26...
    • Prison Religious Services
      493. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the process whereby the Government issue a policy statement to the effect that all chaplains, that is, those of faith groups as well as those of...
    • Garda Career Breaks
      494. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí that have applied for the incentivised career break under the scheme available in An Garda Síochána in view...
    • Home Care Issues
      495. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there will be a criminal investigation into the unauthorised payments of €37,000 to the CEO of Fingal Home Care in 2011 and other...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      496. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department is examining methods of having stronger regulation, including by promoting transparency, in the area of the fees charged by...
    • Human Trafficking
      497. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 455 of 8 April 2014, his views on the State's implementation of these legal obligations in such...
    • Visa Applications
      498. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in order to obtain Irish visas for the children of an Irish citizen (details supplied) in County Westmeath who are...
  • Department of Defence
    • Official Commemorations
      502. To ask the Minister for Defence the reason for the change in protocols for the 1916 Commemoration in Arbour Hill; particularly the decision to discontinue the tradition of providing a guard...
    • Departmental Transport
      503. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the total use and total cost per annum of the Government jet in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014. [17348/14]
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      504. To ask the Minister for Defence the total legal costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17353/14]
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      505. To ask the Minister for Defence the total external public relation costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17369/14]
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      506. To ask the Minister for Defence the status of negotiations, with PDFORRA, on their claim for a review of the maximum service of privates and corporals who enlisted post 1 January, 1994; and...
    • Official Commemorations
      509. To ask the Minister for Defence if he has responded to the issues raised in a recent correspondence, details supplied, in relation to the 1916 Commemoration in Arbour Hill; if he will...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      510. To ask the Minister for Defence the process whereby the Government issue a policy statement to the effect that all chaplains, that is, those of faith groups as well as those of secular...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      511. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position in relation to a farmer who owns their own farm and is currently in receipt of the single farm payment and who now...
    • Farm Grants
      512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the grants available to farmers to assist with the construction of underpasses of public roads; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Scéim um Chaomhnú an Chomhshaoil Faoin Tuath
      513. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a dhéanfar íocaíocht faoi REPS4 le feirmeoir i gContae na Gaillimhe (sonraí leis seo); cén...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      514. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total legal costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17349/14]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      515. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total external public relation costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17365/14]
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      516. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single payment scheme review which has been ongoing for many months will be concluded in respect of a person, details...
    • Land Reclassification
      517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make public the scheme of trust for the Laurencetown cow park and sports field trust; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal under the disadvantaged area scheme in respect of a person, details supplied, in County Donegal; and...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      519. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will allow a review of a decision to cut a single farm payment in respect of a person, details supplied, in County Galway; and...
    • Farm Safety
      520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has made any advances regarding farm safety in relation to the agitation process for slurry in view of the number of tragic...
    • Aquaculture Licences
      521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the problem of delays for shellfish licences; if his attention has been drawn to the long waiting times involved;...
    • Hare Coursing
      522. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request the Irish Coursing Club to extend drug testing of greyhounds to all hare coursing events; and if they refuse to do...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      523. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding agriculture payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      524. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in payment of a rural environment protection scheme payment for 2013 in respect of a person (details...
    • Pigmeat Sector
      526. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there have been any further developments regarding the ban by Russia on all imports of pig meat from the EU; if he raised this...
    • Rural Development Programme Funding
      527. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be any grant assistance towards the construction of silage pits under the new rural development plan; when he expects...
    • Animal Identification Schemes
      528. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason electronic tagging of horses is expected to cost approximately €100 when the cost of electronic tagging in...
    • EU Regulations
      529. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify the relevant Article(s) contained within Council Regulation 504/2008 that authorises the Irish implementing rule...
    • Drainage Schemes Expenditure
      530. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposals he has to provide financial assistance towards land drainage in view of the substantial costs involved in such work and...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      531. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an AEOS payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      532. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a single farm payment entitlement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork for the years 2013...
    • Agriculture Schemes Administration
      533. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will take steps to ensure that the farm entitlements of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath which were leased for a...
    • Fallen Animal Collection Scheme
      534. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to the introduction of the revised terms and conditions for the fallen animal TSE subsidy scheme, if he will provide an...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      536. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford is not in receipt of their entitlements to disadvantaged payments and...
    • Property Services Regulatory Authority Remit
      538. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the introduction of new regulations regarding the operation of marts and the auctioning of livestock which now requires a...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child Care Services Funding
      539. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the subsidies available for child care for working couples in severe mortgage negative equity; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Adoption Records Provision
      540. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she is taking to make it easier for adults, who were adopted as children, to access records relating to their identity,...
    • Child Care Services Funding
      541. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will detail, in tabular form, the funding allocated to each local authority for child care services in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014;...
    • Youth Services Funding
      542. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will detail in tabular form, the funding allocated to each local authority for youth services in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; and if...
    • Adoption Services Provision
      543. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason her Department will not process adoption applications for children based in India for approved Irish families; and if she will...
    • Adoption Legislation
      544. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will consider extending the adoption declaration allowing families to adopt beyond the two years limit; if she will consider...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      545. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when an accredited agency will be established for Irish adoptions from India; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17346/14]
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      546. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total legal costs incurred by her Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17351/14]
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      547. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total external public relation costs incurred by her Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17367/14]
    • Child Care Services Funding
      548. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding available to a child care centre (details supplied) in Dublin 17; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17428/14]
    • Youth Services Funding
      549. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will review the funding cut to Youth Work Ireland Galway, in view of the threat to the rural co-ordinator position within the group;...
    • Child Care Services Expenditure
      550. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average cost of child care in Dublin; the average cost of child care across the State; and the number of child care places in Dublin as...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      551. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of assessments that have been completed by the Health Service Executive and any other bodies for the purposes of inter-country...
    • Adoption Services Provision
      553. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the staffing numbers of the Adoption Authority since its inception showing increase or decrease in staff numbers since the Authority was...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      554. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to extend the lifetime of post Hague Declarations of Eligibility and Suitability for the purposes of inter-country adoption in...
    • Adoption Services Provision
      555. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the length of time currently taken for the Adoption Authority to issue a Declaration of Eligibility and Suitability from the time they...
    • Departmental Reports
      556. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 18 of 13 February 2013, if she will make available a copy of the report of the National Director for...
    • Youth Services Funding
      557. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the full extent of allocations for youth services in 2013 paid out in County Lomgford; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Child Care Services Funding
      558. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to provide capital funding for community and not for profit child care services which have not availed of grant assistance to...
  • Department of Health
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      560. To ask the Minister for Health his views on concerns expressed by US business organisations that standardised packaging could impact on US investment here (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      561. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions in place to aid disabled drivers and passengers who are not in a position to afford a vehicle that has been specially constructed or adapted for...
    • Food Labelling
      562. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure compliance with the EU Regulation No. 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers regarding food ingredient...
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      564. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for 2011, 2012, 2013 and for Q1 2014 for each ambulance base in County Donegal, the percentage of ECHO calls reached by a...
    • Hospital Consultants Contract Issues
      567. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients that were seen by each of the consultants on public contracts in St. Vincent's Hospital Dublin in each of the past five years;...
    • Accident and Emergency Departments Waiting Times
      568. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that accurate figures for those patients in the accident and emergency unit of St Vincent's Hospital Dublin,...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      569. To ask the Minister for Health if he envisages that a new long term nursing home centre will be built for the town of Athlone, County Westmeath [17323/14]
    • Nursing Home Services
      570. To ask the Minister for Health the variation of price for a patient to be cared for in a nursing home run by the Health Service Executive and for a patient being cared for by a private...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      571. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours that were allocated for County Westmeath in 2012 and in 2013; and if he will guarantee that there will be no further reduction in...
    • Motorised Transport Grant Applications
      572. To ask the Minister for Health when he will reinstate the motorised transport grant; if he will be allocating a budget for the same grant; if he will look into the situation of a person...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      573. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17341/14]
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      574. To ask the Minister for Health the total legal costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014 [17358/14]
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      575. To ask the Minister for Health the total external public relation costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014 [17374/14]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      576. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card has been put on hold in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17384/14]
    • Disability Services for Children and Young People
      577. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the necessary resources to a school (details supplied) in County Kerry as this facility caters for over 60 pupils who are assessed as...
    • State Properties
      578. To ask the Minister for Health if a lease regarding the Health Service Executive West (details supplied) was renewed upon its expiry in June 2013; if the terms of the lease were renegotiated...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      579. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the necessary funding and resources in 2014 for the Coolgrane Training Centre and Cherryfield Facility in Killarney, County Kerry; and if he...
    • Medical Card Applications
      580. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card renewal form can be sent to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17412/14]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      581. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17445/14]
    • Hospital Procedures
      583. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a 16 year old Down syndrome patient (details supplied) with severe Hallux Valgus deformity of their feet, who was recently transferred from Crumlin...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      584. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22, who is mentally and physically disabled and suffers from scoliosis, spina bifida and epilepsy and is...
    • Medical Card Administration
      585. To ask the Minister for Health the medical and social factors that present on an application for medical cards that are considered when deciding upon whether to approve a medical card on...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      586. To ask the Minister for Health if Ehlers-Danlos syndrome will be covered under the treatment abroad scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry in view of the fact that...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      587. To ask the Minister for Health the steps involved in having the medicinal product (details supplied) included under the GMS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17529/14]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      588. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reinstating medical cards for coeliacs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17531/14]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      589. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to including illnesses such as lupus in the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17536/14]
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      590. To ask the Minister for Health if the ambulance service in the Youghal and greater east Cork area is meeting the target response times as set out by the Health Information and Quality...
    • General Practitioner Services
      591. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinvestigate complaints about the quality of the SouthDoc service being provided to Youghal, County Cork, following persistent claims of refusal to...
    • Audiology Services Provision
      592. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hearing aid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17541/14]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      593. To ask the Minister for Health if two hours of home help will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17544/14]
    • Neuro-Rehabilitation Services Provision
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the progress of the 2011 national strategy and policy for the provision of neurorehabilitation services; and his views on the recent...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      595. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the introduction of the ambulance call centre to be located in close proximity to the Square, Tallaght, Dublin 24. [17577/14]
    • National Children's Hospital Issues
      596. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the construction of the urgent care centre to be located at Tallaght hospital, Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Equipment
      597. To ask the Minister for Health if he will deal with a matter (details supplied) regarding hospital equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17588/14]
    • Universal Health Insurance Provision
      598. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an indication of the average premium for health insurance under the universal health Insurance system; if this premium will be in the order...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      600. To ask the Minister for Health if he will deal with a matter (details supplied) regarding hospital appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17616/14]
    • Hospital Services
      601. To ask the Minister for Health if he will appoint a person (details supplied) from the Health Service Executive to discuss a matter with a person in County Wexford who suffers from an...
    • Motorised Transport Grant Scheme Closure
      602. To ask the Minister for Health the scheme that has been put in place to support those who previously depended upon the motorised transport grant; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the options open to families who have no further resources to maintain a family member in a nursing home when that member has been recommended for the fair...
    • Data Protection
      604. To ask the Minister for Health when a response will issue to Parliamentary Question No. 225 of 23 January 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17635/14]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      605. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug Daxas will no longer be available to medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17636/14]
    • Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists
      606. To ask the Minister for Health if he will evaluate the prospects of reducing the unacceptable length of time patients aged under 14 years must wait to receive surgery at the orthodontic...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      607. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health residential units that have been closed in the past three years; the locations of same; how many more are expected to be closed;...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility
      609. To ask the Minister for Health the reason, in relation to the nursing home support scheme, the contribution of the State is being assessed for private or voluntary nursing homes, with the...
    • Health Services Issues
      611. To ask the Minister for Health further to a report (details supplied) which identified a seven year timeframe for implementation of the recommendation to move all persons out of congregated...
    • Hospital Admissions
      613. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will undergo surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17683/14]
    • Patient Transport Provision
      614. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for transport will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo to enable attendance at hospital appointments. [17684/14]
    • Health Services Provision
      615. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; the procedure for accessing invasive ventilation, including the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Oversight
      616. To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned that there seems to be inconsistency and a lack of transparency in the method of calculating a payment rate for individual nursing...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund Issues
      617. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of companies within and outside the State that the National Treatment Purchase Fund uses for forensic accounting purposes; if...
    • Health Services Provision
      618. To ask the Minister for Health if he will deal with the following matter (details supplied) regarding hospital aftercare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17696/14]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      619. To ask the Minister for Health when a hip operation will be carried out in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17699/14]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      620. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied). [17720/14]
    • Health Services Issues
      621. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the level of research dedicated to inner ear syndrome; if delivery of the ENT service is adequately resourced; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      623. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of the terms of reference for the national ambulance capacity review; the structure of the board that will carry out the review; and...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      624. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including the medical product (details supplied) on the GMS and DPS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17773/14]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath has been waiting for some time for a hip replacement surgery in the Midland Regional Hospital...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      626. To ask the Minister for Health if Omega3, including Lutein, has been recommended and prescribed by general practitioners and opthalmologists to help with age related macular degeneration; if...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      627. To ask the Minister for Health if he will conduct a Health Information and Quality Authority based investigation into allegations regarding the safety of service users and staff at St...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      628. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the age for free mammograms through the BreastCheck screening programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17807/14]
    • HSE Funding
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding securing a premises or funding for a premises in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry [17808/14]
    • Contaminated Blood Products
      630. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2 of 16 May 2012, and his stated willingness to review the matter with a view to finding some definable way of addressing...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      631. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will receive an appointment for treatment at Beaumont Hospital [17827/14]
    • Dental Services Provision
      632. To ask the Minister for Health when a dentist last visited a school (details supplied); when they are next scheduled to visit this school; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Bodies
      633. To ask the Minister for Health in reference to recommendation 20.5 of A Vision for Change, the identity of the current chair and members of the monitoring group; the date of their last...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      634. To ask the Minister for Health the way he will address the issues identified in recent media reports (details supplied) regarding delays in admitting suicidal patients and patients...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      635. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the medical assessment unit to urgently re-examine a medical card appeal in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
    • Hospital Charges
      636. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a patient who is referred to accident and emergency by an optician or optometrist is liable for a €100...
    • Primary Care Centres Provision
      637. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the progress and location for the proposed primary care centre in Balbriggan, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Symphysiotomy Reports
      639. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the reports of Judge Yvonne Murphy and Professor Oonagh Walsh of which he has been in possession since last May; if he will publish both...
    • Hospital Consultants Recruitment
      640. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to appoint two additional consultants to ensure that Roscommon County Hospital complies with the model 2 requirements in his Department's acute...
    • Medical Card Applications
      641. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the length of the waiting list for hip operations at Cappagh Hospital; when a person (details supplied) in County Dublin may expect to receive a date for their...
    • HSE Documents
      643. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a document entitled, terms of reference Health Service Executive review of Roman Catholic chaplaincy services in partnership with the...
    • Government Policy
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the process whereby the Government issued a policy statement to the effect that all chaplains, that is, those of faith groups as well as those of secular...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility
      645. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in determining eligibility for assistance under the nursing home support scheme in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      646. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reschedule, to an earlier date, his meeting with representatives of persons attending a school (details supplied) in County Kerry, with regard to...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      647. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a cataract operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17896/14]
    • Hospital Charges
      655. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a case (details supplied) in County Kerry; if he will reimburse the moneys owed as both procedures should have been covered by the Health...
    • Health Services Provision
      659. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Health Service Executive west is reducing the level and frequency of day centre services in County Leitrim...
    • Home Care Packages
      662. To ask the Minister for Health to set out his views on recent revelations regarding over-payments made to the chief executive of Fingal Home Care; and the procedures in place to recoup the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      663. To ask the Minister for Health to set out 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....
    • Medical Card Reviews
      664. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the position regarding the renewal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Card Applications
      666. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied). [17994/14]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      667. To ask the Minister for Health to detail when a person (details supplied) in County Longford will receive an appointment for a procedure at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      670. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to directing that medications such as sumatriptan be available without prescription which will enable speedier access to...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      674. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a surgical procedure in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18041/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the determination of an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      676. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to recommence the proposed Narrow Water Bridge project to link County Louth and County Down; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Transport Infrastructure
      677. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider including Claremorris, County Mayo in the TEN-T network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17274/14]
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      678. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding an application for sports capital grant in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      679. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding road improvements in an area (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Exports Controls
      680. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the restrictions in place regarding the transportation of ink toner cartridges in and out of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      682. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legal position in relation to cattle travelling on roads upgraded on the community involvement schemes; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      683. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total legal costs incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated in 2014. [17364/14]
    • Taxi Regulations
      685. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if under the new taxi licensing laws, where a person holds a licence, he or she does not have the right to pass this onto a family member...
    • Road Projects
      686. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding consultations with the National Roads Authority, Limerick County Council, the Department of Transport, Tourism and...
    • Taxi Regulations
      687. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to establish a forum to whom taxi drivers can refer complaints (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Pension Provisions
      688. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proposed actions that may be taken when the expert review into the Irish aviation superannuation scheme is concluded on 14 April...
    • Taxi Regulations
      689. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to hire additional enforcement officers in respect of the new taxi regulations announced last week; and if he will make a...
    • Semi-State Bodies Remuneration
      690. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the salaries including pensions and any other bonus-related addition including company cars of chief executive officers of commercial...
    • Canal Facilities
      691. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the pathway along the Royal Canal between O'Reilly's bridge and Phibsborough is not being upgraded along with other sections...
    • Tourism Capital Investment Programme
      692. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date on which he expects Fáilte Ireland to issue the call for expressions of interest in connection with the possible...
    • Taxi Regulations
      693. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will advise on the matter in relation to the transfer of taxi plates (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Cycling Facilities Funding
      694. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the necessary funding to Kerry County Council and South Kerry Development Partnership to develop the greenway old...
    • Rural Transport Services Provision
      695. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if progress has been made regarding the development of a rural taxi licence, which is proposed to help persons living in rural areas...
    • Public Transport Issues
      696. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the efforts made to ensure public transport is accessible to those with neurological difficulties or reduced mobility; his views on the...
    • Taxi Regulations
      697. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of taxis registered in Dublin; and the numbers registered in 2007 to 2013, inclusive. [17559/14]
    • Dublin Bus Services
      698. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request that Dublin Bus place an additional bus stop at Balbutcher Lane, Ballymun behind Balcurris Park. [17581/14]
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      699. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will devise provisions for recipients of social welfare who cannot afford to purchase "a vehicle that has been specially...
    • Road Signage
      700. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a place name sign on a national secondary road will be moved (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17663/14]
    • Light Rail Services
      701. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with the transport infrastructure service and Luas operators to ensure the safe and accident-free operation of Luas...
    • Motor Insurance Regulation
      702. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding an indirect discrimination practiced by a motor insurance company (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Airport Development Projects
      703. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a progress update on plans to extend the runway at Waterford Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pension Provisions
      704. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position of the Irish aviation superannuation scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) on the north side of Dublin; and if he...
    • Regional Road Network
      705. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make emergency funding available for a section of the L-3018, local primary route from Coolcorcoran Cross and Inchycullane....
    • Departmental Funding
      706. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding allocated for festivals in 2014; if he will provide details of the criteria for applying for funding and on the...
    • Departmental Programmes
      707. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 697 of 8 April 2014, if he will provide details of the proposed capital investment plan to 2020; if...
    • Air Services Provision
      709. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the exorbitant prices being charged by a company (details supplied) operating the Donegal to Dublin...
    • Airport Charges
      710. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Knock airport is charging a development tax on its flights which is not advertised on...

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