Written answers

Tuesday, 8 July 2014

  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Preschool Services
      65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a commitment that the early start preschool scheme that currently exists in 40 DEIS schools on a pilot basis will remain in...
    • Third Level Quality Assurance Compliance
      66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the linkage agreement between Dublin City University and All Hallows; and if he will confirm that this agreement...
    • Construction Contracts
      67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the investigations that have taken place into employment practices on construction sites of educational facilities, such as St Patrick's College,...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to section 4 of Circular 0030/2014, if children are expected to assist in catering for the care needs of their fellow pupils who have...
    • Quality and Qualifications Ireland Accreditation
      69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he envisages that the QQI will determine the fees that will apply to the providers with which it engages; his views on whether the fees could...
    • Overseas Students Data
      70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on increasing the numbers of international students studying here, as committed to in the programme for...
    • Construction Contracts
      71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the serious allegations which have been brought to his attention of illegal or hidden economic activity on some building...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when An Grianán Institution was added to schedule A of the Residential Institutions Redress Act; the rationale for its late inclusion; the...
    • Autism Support Services
      73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the work of his Department in conjunction with the National Council for Special Education in producing a...
    • Fee Paying Schools
      74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the pupil-teacher ratio in private schools will be reduced to ensure equality between fee-paying and non-fee-paying schools; and if he will...
    • Schools Establishment
      75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a new secondary school in Swords, in view of the current and projected population; the likely timescale for delivery of same; and...
    • Schools Anti-Bullying Procedures
      76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 24 of 29 May 2014 and the subsequent completion of the school year at primary and secondary level, if he...
    • State Examinations
      77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has examined the possibility of making leaving certificate results available earlier in order to provide students with more time to prepare...
    • Teacher Statistics
      78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will act on the calls by the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals for a State-wide audit of teachers in order to ensure...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for increasing special needs resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29402/14]
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which he expects to be in a position to meet the full requirement in respect of special needs teachers and special needs assistants...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when Gaelscoil Phádraig will gain access to Archbishop Mc Quaid national school in Loughlinstown, which was allocated to it in 2005 by his...
    • Physical Education Facilities
      82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools at both primary and secondary level that have adequate facilities to implement the PE curriculum in full; and if he will...
    • Teacher Statistics
      83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he and his Department will conduct an audit of teaching resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29396/14]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the number of additional accommodation approvals and the number of projects to go to construction under the five-year plan...
    • Residential Institutions Issues
      85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications made to Caranua to date; the number of payments made to applicants; and if he is satisfied with the speed at which...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the operation of Student Universal Support Ireland in order to ensure those who fall outside the rigid application of the...
    • Schools Establishment
      87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the progress on securing new premises and establishing new schools (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a...
    • School Staffing
      88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of small schools expected to lose a teacher in 2014-15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29397/14]
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he agrees that, as a trained professional, the class teacher in a primary or secondary school is best placed to judge whether the appointment...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Staff Sick Leave
      94. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the total number of sick days taken by staff in his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014, further broken down by...
    • Departmental Reports
      95. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department for each year since March 2011; the costs per report; the company...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      96. To ask the Taoiseach the current members of the interdepartmental working group on alcohol sponsorship of sport; the dates of each of the meetings of the working group; the target month for...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      97. To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the case of the hooded men with the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, during the Brussels EU summit. [28975/14]
    • European Council Meetings
      98. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussions at the EU summit in Brussels on 26 and 27 June; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28977/14]
    • EU Issues
      103. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed with the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, the election of a new EU Commission President. [28984/14]
    • Freedom of Information Data
      113. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline in tabular form for each year from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of FOI requests received by his Department; the total refused; total granted;...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      114. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical and-or career break, broken down by timeframe, that is, zero to six...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      115. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office, inclusive of costs incurred from use of the ministerial...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      116. To ask the Taoiseach if he will detail, in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to office; a list of uses of each external public...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      117. To ask the Taoiseach the total amount spent on external IT consultants by his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29161/14]
    • EU Issues
      120. To ask the Taoiseach if he met Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker prior to or after the EU Council's proposal to the European Parliament of Mr. Juncker as President of the Commission;...
    • Legislative Process
      127. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments his Department has published since March 2011; and if he...
    • Debt Collection
      128. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department or agencies under its auspices have engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing money owed to them; if his Department has guidelines...
    • Departmental Funding
      129. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of funding his Department provides for library services for persons with a visual impairment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29583/14]
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      130. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; and if he will provide details of any request made for an increase above...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      131. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form details of increments paid since 2008 in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30535/14]
    • Departmental Staff Rehiring
      132. To ask the Taoiseach the number of retired civil and public servants rehired on temporary contracts or as consultants under his remit; if he will provide a breakdown of these figures in...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Human Rights Issues
      133. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the imprisonment of al-Jazeera journalists in Egypt was raised at the EU summit in Brussels. [28972/14]
    • Middle East Peace Process
      134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he raised at the EU summit the deteriorating situation in the Middle East, which has seen efforts to revive the stalled initiative to...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he raised at the EU summit the worsening humanitarian crises in South Sudan, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine. [28983/14]
    • Ukrainian Conflict
      136. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the peace plan in the Ukraine and the President of Russia's commitment to same; and if he will make a statement...
    • North South Ministerial Council
      137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the next meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council will take place; if the matter of the Narrow Water Bridge will be on the agenda...
    • Freedom of Information Data
      138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline in tabular form for each year from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of FOI requests received by his Department; the...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical and-or career break, broken down by...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office, inclusive of costs incurred from...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will detail in tabular form the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to office; the list of...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total amount spent on external IT consultants by his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit from March 2011 to date; the...
    • Legislative Process
      145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments his Department has published...
    • Debt Collection
      146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department or agencies under its auspices have engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing moneys owed to them; if...
    • Human Rights Issues
      147. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he will take to help in the search for more than 200 school girls who were abducted by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria in April;...
    • UN Reform
      148. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the proposals he has made to the Secretary General of the United Nations to put in place new structures, given that the current structures...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      149. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; and if he will provide details of any...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      150. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that have been taken to assist those suffering from the Ebola virus in West Africa. [29691/14]
    • Middle East Issues
      151. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will push for more action from the United Nations and European Union to de-escalate the violence in the Middle East; and if he will...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      152. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 99 of 1 July 2014, the number of occasions on which each country of origin's military aircraft landed...
    • Human Rights Issues
      153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had recent contact with the Egyptian authorities in relation to the detention of an Irish citizen (details supplied); and if he...
    • Diplomatic Passports
      154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland provides diplomatic passports to Irish citizens working in European Union Delegations run by the European External Action Service...
    • UN Committees
      155. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of times and the occasions Ireland has chaired the Western European and Others Group at the UN in New York since it became a...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      156. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form details of increments paid since 2008 in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Staff Rehiring
      157. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of retired civil and public servants rehired on temporary contracts or as consultants under his remit; if he will provide a...
  • Department of Finance
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      158. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any allowances available for old age pensioners who suffer from reduced mobility due to COPD to enable them to continue to drive a vehicle to...
    • Tobacco Seizures
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the successful Garda operations in terms of the seizures of smuggled tobacco products over the past 12 months. [29350/14]
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on extending local property tax exemptions to include households where high level care is provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Sporting Events
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance the changes that will be needed in the tax code here if an application is considered to host football matches for the UEFA Euro 2020 Championships; and if he...
    • Tax Credits
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on extending the home renovation incentive scheme to privately rented dwellings in such a manner that landlords benefitting from the incentive would...
    • Freedom of Information Data
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline in tabular form for each year from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of FOI requests received by his Department; the total refused;...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical and-or career break, broken down by timeframe, that is,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form, the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office, inclusive of costs incurred from use of the...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail, in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to office; the list of uses of each...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount spent on external IT consultants by his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit from March 2011 to date; the number of vacancies on...
    • Mortgage Protection Policies
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance if, under legislation, financial institutions such as banks can waive the requirement for a customer to take out mortgage protection insurance in the event of...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance the protection that is available to prevent children from undertaking credit card transactions on the internet; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry has been requested by the Revenue Commissioners to pay back €162. [29279/14]
    • Legislative Process
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments his Department has published since March 2011;...
    • Property Taxation Deferrals
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form on a county basis the total number of households that have sought deferrals on the local property tax; the number that have...
    • Debt Collection
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department or agencies under its auspices have engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing moneys owed to them; if his Department has...
    • Bank Codes of Conduct
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance the code that was in place before the Central Bank of Ireland consumer protection code came into effect on 1 July 2007; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance the circumstances of a house sale where a vendor has claimed an exemption of unfinished housing estate and it is subsequently discovered after the sale that...
    • NAMA Property Sales
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the report in a Sunday newspaper, that the National Asset Management Agency sold a warehouse in Dublin, which is generating €750,000 in rent...
    • Banking Sector
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the recent engagement by Permanent TSB of Morgan Stanley to assist with the disposal of over €2 billion of par value loan portfolios, if he...
    • Bank Restructuring
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance the way his Department monitors Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Banks in their adherence to the terms of the restructuring decisions for those two banks by...
    • Banking Sector
      190. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has undertaken any study into the competitiveness of the retail banking sector here; the way competitiveness has decreased in the past six...
    • Property Taxation Data
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of local property tax returns filed under bands 1 and 2, that is, property value of €150,000 or less; the number of these returns that...
    • Tax Credits
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out in tabular form the annual cost and the number of companies that benefited from the research and development, R and D, tax credit in each...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any request made for an...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department, agencies under his control or any staff received requests, proposals or submissions on the need for a mortgage indemnity scheme in...
    • Central Bank of Ireland IT Operations
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in a spreadsheet format the value in euro and punt of each individual transaction of punt to euro exchange at the Cental Bank of Ireland in...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance the losses the Central Bank of Ireland has made on the exchange of punts to euro since 2002 taking into account the original provision of €60 million...
    • Tax Credits
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance when the advisory group on tax and social welfare will publish its report on increasing the incentives for persons to return to work; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list for each year since 1997 the applicable stamp duty rate on non-residential property; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Budget 2014
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that on current projections Ireland will have a primary budget surplus this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29635/14]
    • Structural Budget Balance
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the ESRI Bergin and Fitzgerald note on the structural balance for Ireland; the definition his Department uses for defining...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to regulate pay day lenders here; if companies (details supplied) were to begin to offer such loans here, the regulations by which they would be...
    • European Stability Programmes
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance if the EU Commission will be carrying out an alert mechanism report under macroeconomic imbalances procedure now that Ireland has exited the bailout...
    • Dark Pool Trading
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance if dark pool trading, private forums for trading securities that is not openly available to the public, regulated here; and if so by whom; the number of...
    • Bank Branch Closures
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding the announcement by Ulster Bank of the closure of a further ten branches here; his plans to meet senior executives in Ulster Bank or Royal...
    • Credit Availability
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance the loan amount the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, SBCI, has advanced to Irish small and medium-sized enterprises; the amount of funding the SBCI...
    • VAT Rebates
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance if VAT remains refundable on the installation of pendent alarm systems; and if he will consider extending this to include the cost of the annual monitoring...
    • Tax Code
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount raised by the close company surcharge, and the professional close company surcharge for the years 2007 to 2013 and the estimate for 2014; and if he...
    • Fuel Rebate Scheme
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to provide for a new fuel grant scheme for disabled drivers which will have the same levels of support as the current excise relief scheme. [29793/14]
    • Revenue Commissioners Investigations
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Louth who regularly imports goods through Dublin Port, was selected for a random stripping examination by...
    • Property Taxation Collection
      216. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding local property tax in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29830/14]
    • Tax Code
      217. To ask the Minister for Finance the information sources his Department has utilised in any study prepared to assess the utility and implications of adopting a wealth tax; if he will share...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      218. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he will take to ensure that predominantly State-owned banks pass on recent interest rate reductions to their customers who are on variable rate...
    • European Banking Sector
      219. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the Irish arrangements and permanent delegation to the European Banking Authority based in London; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Financial Instruments
      220. To ask the Minister for Finance if the practice of crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending can be incorporated legislation in view of the recently issued consumer notice on crowdfunding,...
    • World Bank Policy
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline Ireland's operational relationship with the World Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29896/14]
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      222. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on calls to make private health insurance payments fully income tax deductible in budget 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29900/14]
    • Universal Social Charge Exemptions
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reduce the universal social charge for retired persons in budget 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29902/14]
    • Tax Code
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax concessions available in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29903/14]
    • House Purchase Schemes
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a scheme to make provisions for first-time buyers to buy homes and who are unable to buy homes due to the large deposit needed; if this...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Further Education and Training Programmes Funding
      227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support a community training centre (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29306/14]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the allocation of funding for a centre (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Adult Education
      229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budget allocation in his Department in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 for adult literacy programmes. [29001/14]
    • Higher Education Schemes
      230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide clarity on the screening indicators for the higher education access route; the persons who qualify under the socioeconomic...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school transport in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [29020/14]
    • Freedom of Information Data
      232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline in tabular form for each year from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of freedom of information requests received by his...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department on a sabbatical or career break, broken down by timeframe, that is, less...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office, inclusive of costs incurred from use of...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide, in tabular form, information on the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to office;...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the progress of the proposed amalgamation of the national schools in Kanturk, County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • International Students
      237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the progress that has been made in achieving the objectives and targets set out in Ireland's International...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount spent on external IT consultants by his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit made since March 2011; the number of...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is his Department's policy that all children on the autism spectrum who qualify for home tuition should, instead of availing of the home...
    • Home Tuition Scheme Provision
      242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the continuation of home tuition in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Cork for the 2014 to 2015 school year;...
    • Legislative Process
      243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments that his Department has published...
    • School Curriculum
      244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the proposed politics and society subject for the senior curriculum may be hampered by the change in status of civics,...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a primary school in County Cork has had its special needs assistant allocation cut from four posts to two for the forthcoming school...
    • Debt Collection
      246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department or agencies under its auspices have engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing moneys owed to them; if his...
    • Private Schools
      247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following newspaper reports on the imminent sale of All Hallows College, if he can guarantee that the students will be returning in September to...
    • EU Funding
      248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the European bodies that are responsible for overseeing the funding of SOLAS courses here. [29345/14]
    • SOLAS Funding
      249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding arrangements for outside organisations which provide training on SOLAS courses; if they get paid per student per day or a fixed...
    • School Curriculum
      250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of civic, social and political education, CSPE, teachers that consideration is being given to the...
    • Health Professions Admission Test
      251. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the number of private colleges offering tuition courses in the health professions admission test; and if his Department has made any...
    • Teachers' Panel Rights
      252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason teachers who qualified here but later worked in the United Kingdom may not have their experience in the UK taken into account when...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he will take to deal with the fact that County Meath has the second highest pupil-teacher ratio in the country; and if he will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the work that has been carried out to improve school facilities, by school, in County Meath in each of the...
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
      257. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an applicant to Caranua who is unhappy with a decision handed down by an appeals officer has the right to appeal the decision to the...
    • Departmental Bodies
      259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who engaged in multi-annual courses and to whom commitments were made by the Education Finance Board; the number of these...
    • Education Policy
      260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 27 May 2014, if section 28 of the 1998 Education Act has been enacted and is in place; the timeframe...
    • Education and Training Boards
      261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used for short listing candidates for teaching positions in ETBs; and if he will indicate if this a centralised system for all ETBs....
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason when upskilling from dental nursing to dental hygienist, students are not eligible for a grant even though dental hygienist is level 7...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a full-time special needs assistant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork for each year since the commencement of the project; if his...
    • Education and Training Boards
      265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a reply will issue in respect of correspondence sent to him regarding an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if a solution can...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in respect of appeal for higher education grant in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
    • Departmental Funding
      267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding his Department provides for library services for persons with a visual impairment; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; and if he will provide details of any request...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on progress made on the outstanding matter of school extensions for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin...
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Student Universal Support Ireland has recently added the additional requirement of providing a copy of a passport with the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 will be officially approved for its new school building; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Site Acquisitions
      272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills following recent announcements in local media, if a new site has been selected for a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • Fee Paying Schools
      273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the value of the fee paying schools annual State subsidy during each of the past five years. [29725/14]
    • School Equipment
      274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools using iPads and other tablet equipment rather than hard copy books. [29726/14]
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children attending resource teachers during each of the past five years; and the number of resource teachers employed during each...
    • School Textbooks
      276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected cost of the school book rental scheme for the next two years; the number of schools it will cover; and the number of schools that...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital expenditure dedicated to first and second level schools, third level, FÁS and training and others, set out in tabular form, for...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average primary school class size for the 2013-14 school year. [29734/14]
    • Schools Data
      282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school teachers employed on 30 September 2013; and the number of pupils in primary school on that same date. [29737/14]
    • Education Fees Waiver
      284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of waivers and exemptions granted to groups under section 80(3)(13) of the Qualifications and Quality Assurance Education and Training...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of allowing all community groups have a fee waiver of QQI fees. [29740/14]
    • School Transport Applications
      286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 163 of 30 April 2014, if his Department will cover school transport costs as a student (details supplied)...
    • Education and Training Boards Data
      287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and variety of training courses currently available through SOLAS to residents in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • School Accommodation
      288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work that will be done in July and August with a college (details supplied) in County Meath to ensure it is ready to accept students in...
    • Exchequer Savings
      289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the net and gross annual saving to the Exchequer if the pay scales of chief executives of education and training boards were capped at...
    • Fee Waiver Applications
      291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a fee waiver in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Erasmus Programme
      292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the Europe 2020 Strategy, the increased investment in education, training, youth and sport by the European Commission, the increased...
    • European Globalisation Fund
      293. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the benefits he envisages of the application to the European Commission for co-funding support for a programme of guidance, training, education...
    • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Data
      294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of persons with disabilities and mental health difficulties as a result of the withdrawal of the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposed start and completion dates in relation to the pending re-development of a college (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • Site Acquisitions
      296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a progress report on the efforts of Donegal education training board to secure a site at Buncrana, County Donegal, of adequate...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the new proposed primary school for New Ross town will proceed to construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29872/14]
    • European Globalisation Fund
      298. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the concerns of former employees of a company (details supplied) in County Limerick arising from the non-provision of IT...
    • Teacher Registration Issues
      299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29906/14]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on Ireland’s engagement with the European Alliance for Apprenticeships which is intended to bring together efforts of...
    • Quality and Qualifications Ireland Administration
      301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the introduction of the Quality and Qualifications Ireland's fees on the community based education organisations; and if he will...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form details of increments paid since 2008 in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30529/14]
    • Departmental Staff Rehiring
      303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retired civil and public servants who have been rehired on temporary contracts or as consultants under his remit; if he will...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Legislative Process
      304. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position is in relation to the Valuation Bill 2014 (details supplied) regarding sport clubs, community groups and voluntary...
    • Commercial Rent Reviews
      306. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider amending legislation on rateable valuation of commercial premises to enable a property occupier-owner to seek a...
    • Pensions Levy
      307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reduce the pension levy on Dublin City Council fire brigade employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29503/14]
    • Departmental Bodies Abolition
      308. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of quangos that have been abolished since March 2011; the total number of quangos there were before that date; the number now...
    • Economic Models
      309. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on developing an economic model to measure the impact and who loses or gains most from public service spending cuts or tax...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29802/14]
    • Freedom of Information Data
      311. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline in tabular form for each year from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of FOI requests received by his Department;...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical and-or career break, broken down by...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      313. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office, inclusive of costs incurred...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      314. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to office; the...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      315. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount spent on external IT consultants by his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      317. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit from March 2011 to date; the...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      319. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform following the storms of late last year and early this year, the assessment that has been conducted of the storm damage caused to coastal...
    • Legislative Process
      320. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of Bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments that his Department has...
    • Debt Collection
      321. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department or agencies under its auspices have engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing moneys owed to them;...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      322. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form details of increments paid since 2008 in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Na Forais Thuaidh Theas
      323. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform an dtabharfaidh sé sonrú ar na céatadáin sábhála éifeachtúla a d’aontaigh na Ranna...
    • Capital Programme Expenditure
      324. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of capital investment spending in each year since 2000; the percentage of GDP this was...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      326. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a new round of a comprehensive review of expenditure is underway; the work that has been done to date; and if he will make a...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      327. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; and if he will provide details of any...
    • Departmental Staff Rehiring
      328. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of retired civil and public servants rehired on temporary contracts or as consultants under his remit; if he will provide a...
    • Local Authority Expenditure
      329. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the controversy and public anger over the €36 million spent by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council on a...
    • Public Sector Staff Data
      330. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a yearly breakdown, on a departmental basis across all Departments, of public and Civil Service staff reductions...
    • Outsourcing of Public Services
      331. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he intends to carry out a full auditing review of the full cost of outsourcing in the public sector. [29524/14]
    • Freedom of Information Fees
      332. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to the recent announcement regarding the freedom of information, FOI, application fee, his plans to revise the fees applicable...
    • Freedom of Information Remit
      333. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider extending the freedom of information legislation to cover records that are kept by religious institutions. [29774/14]
    • Child Protection
      334. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the protocols for dealing with a convicted paedophile who is in public employment in terms of the steps taken to advise staff or...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Trade Agreements
      335. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on current developments with counterparts in European Union member states regarding the Transatlantic Trade and...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      336. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline in tabular form per annum from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of freedom of information requests received by...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      337. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break broken down by zero...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      338. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form, the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office inclusive of costs incurred...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      339. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to office; the...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      340. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total amount spent on external information technology consultants by his Department in 2010 to 2013, inclusive, and to date in...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      341. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department has re-negotiated external IT consultancy contracts and costs since March 2011; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      342. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit made since March 2011 to...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      343. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the awarding of funding for a transport route; and if he will make a...
    • Employment Rights
      344. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if time spent on public holidays is required to be included when calculating the number of days to which an employee is entitled; and...
    • Legislative Process RIA
      345. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments that his Department has...
    • Debt Collection
      346. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department or agencies under its auspices have engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing money owed to his...
    • Company Registration
      347. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way a company (details supplied) that applied for registration on 11 July 2013 was registered on the same day. [29361/14]
    • Enterprise Support Services Provision
      348. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if grant support is available to enable the expansion of a business (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Employment Rights
      349. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the legal basis an employer may have for making certain deductions (details supplied) from an employee's wages; the recourse the...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      350. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any...
    • Prompt Payments
      351. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the legislative action he will take to tackle the increasing problem of delayed payment of outstanding invoices by businesses. [29759/14]
    • Trade Agreements
      353. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on the talks related to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the Trade in Services Agreement; if...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      354. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form details of increments paid since 2008 in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Rehiring
      355. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of retired civil and public servants that have been rehired on temporary contracts or as consultants under his remit; if he...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Free Travel Scheme Administration
      356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to limit the use of bus passes for older persons on any of the bus routes which are being considered for privatisation; if she will...
    • Birth Certificates Administration
      357. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the need for an apostille stamp on a birth certificate for persons born in Northern Ireland when notifying intent...
    • Civil Marriages Data
      358. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of registered solemnisers here, categorised by county and religious or secular group, currently and in each of the past ten years; and if...
    • Rural Social Scheme Administration
      359. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the rural social scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29645/14]
    • School Meals Programme
      360. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has ever examined or had costed or conducted a feasibility study for a school meals programme for every school. [29728/14]
    • JobsPlus Scheme
      363. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason persons who are in receipt of one parent family as opposed to other payments are being denied the chance to participate on JobsPlus,...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      364. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current number of citizens who are signing for credited contributions with her Department and are not in receipt of a social protection payment;...
    • One-Parent Family Payments
      365. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of reversing reductions in the earnings disregard for the one parent family payment introduced in Budget 2012. [28998/14]
    • Family Income Supplement Expenditure
      366. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the budget allocation in her Department for family income supplement in the years 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014. [28999/14]
    • Back to Education Allowance Payments
      367. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the rate of back to education allowance to recipients of the payment aged under 26 years to €188 per week. [29000/14]
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      369. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of staff in her Department currently on a sabbatical/career break broken down by 0-6 months; 6-12...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      370. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form, the total photography costs for her Department since coming to office inclusive of costs incurred from use of...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      372. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determination of an application for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; when a...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      373. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a determination will be made on an appeal for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork [29134/14]
    • Free Travel Scheme Payments
      374. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will immediately allocate funding support to the provider and licence holder of the Buncrana, County Donegal to Derry City bus...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Expenditure
      375. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that have been given rent supplement in excess of the maximum amount by her Department after making contact with the Threshold...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      376. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total amount spent on external IT consultants by her Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if she will make a statement...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      378. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under her Department's remit made since March 2011 to date; the...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      379. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 will be provided with the rent allowance they are entitled to as a matter of urgency...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      380. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determination of an appeal for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will...
    • Legislative Process
      386. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of bills her Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments that her Department has published...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Appeals
      388. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal for one parent family payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will...
    • Debt Collection
      389. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department or agencies under its auspices has engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing money owed to her Department or...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      393. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a decision has not yet issued on a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      394. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will clarify whether a married couple regarding a married couple, one of whom is in receipt of a jobseeker's payment, if the temporary income...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      396. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will initiate a review of the eligibility criteria for participation in community employment schemes; and if she will ensure that as part of...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration (1 comment)
      398. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the highest weekly payment from all payments from her Department to any one family and person; the highest annual monetary value from all payments...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      402. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on an appeal lodged in respect of entitlement to domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Funding
      405. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of funding her Department provides for library services for persons with a visual impairment; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      408. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of her special advisors; if she will provide details of any request made...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      410. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding illness benefit and carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if she will make a statement...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      411. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a statement...
    • Pensions Legislation
      413. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that before deciding to support the conclusion by the chairperson of the Pensions Board that a complaint of failure by the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      415. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a carer’s allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) County Donegal; and if she will make a...
    • Water Charges Exemptions
      417. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending the water allowance payment to all full-time carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29711/14]
    • Farm Assist Scheme Data
      418. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form by county the number of persons who lost their farm assist payments under the terms of budget 2013. [29745/14]
    • Traveller Community
      421. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will meet the National Traveller Partnership as soon as possible (details supplied). [29775/14]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      422. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied with a social welfare appeal being furnished to an appeals officer in early February of this year in respect of a person...
    • Youth Guarantee
      423. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to increase the age of eligibility for the Youth Guarantee scheme ahead of the next budget. [29813/14]
    • Skills Development
      424. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the services and opportunities that are offered to those seeking work by the Skills to Work initiative; if the Skills to Work roadshow will visit...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      425. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of jobseeker's allowance payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      426. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will undertake to review the decision to discontinue the telephone allowance; the implications this decision has had on old age pensioners...
    • Living Alone Allowance
      428. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will increase the living alone allowance form €7.70 a week in budget 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29898/14]
    • One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility
      429. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to introduce an adequate number of free child care places, as previously promised, to counteract the difficulties being faced by parents...
    • Departmental Staff Rehiring
      433. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of retired civil and public servants that have been rehired on temporary contracts or as consultants under her remit; if she will provide...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • National Monuments
      434. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on recent statements (details supplied) in relation to the historical site in Moore Street, Dublin 1. [29273/14]
    • Departmental Bodies Expenditure
      435. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will ensure that there is a capital of €12 million for Údarás na Gaeltachta for the year 2015; if he will...
    • EU Culture Programme
      436. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the increased opportunities and additional support and funding that will be available under Creative Europe 2014-2020; the expected...
    • Freedom of Information Data
      437. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will outline in tabular form for every year from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of freedom of information requests...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      438. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break, broken down by...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      439. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office, inclusive of costs incurred...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      440. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide, in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to office;...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      441. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total amount spent on external IT consultants by his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      443. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit made from March 2011 to...
    • Legislative Process
      444. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of Bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments that his Department...
    • Debt Collection
      445. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department or agencies under its auspices have engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing moneys owed to...
    • Archaeological Sites
      446. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way many historical wells and hand water pumps have been categorised by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by county; and if he...
    • Departmental Legal Costs
      447. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their legal fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29546/14]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      448. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide an update in relation to correspondence submitted to his office on 8 May 2014 (details supplied) regarding...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      449. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; and if he will provide details of...
    • National Parks Projects
      450. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way Adopting a Woodland can deliver the work now urgently needed in the areas of Killarney National Park under scrutiny,...
    • National Library
      451. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department and the Government have any proposals to acquire the letters of farewell sent by teenage revolutionary, Kevin...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      452. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will extend the National Parks and Wildlife payment to farmers by one year until GLAS is up and running, as this payment is...
    • Proposed Legislation
      453. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the draft heads of a national monuments Bill will be published; when it is likely to be introduced to Dáil Éireann;...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Payments
      454. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive their bog compensation scheme payment; the reason for the delay in...
    • Sports Facilities Expenditure
      456. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the extent of capital or current funding provided for sporting or cultural activities in each of...
    • Ministerial Travel
      457. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the amount of money spent on trips as part of foreign delegations for each of the past four years;...
    • Departmental Programmes
      458. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to expand the successful historic towns initiative; and if he will provide in tabular form the amount spent on historical...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      459. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form the amount of money spent on private consultants for each of the past four years; and the proposed...
    • Departmental Programmes
      460. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to expand the successful walled cities initiative; andif he will provide in tabular form the amount spent on this...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      461. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide in tabular form details of increments paid since 2008 in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Rehiring
      462. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of retired civil and public servants that have been rehired on temporary contracts or as consultants under his remit; if...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      463. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the take up rate of action 78 of the Action Plan for Jobs 2014, relating to the...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      464. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he expects the European Commission to make its decision in relation to the roll-out of fibre broadband along the ESB...
    • Pension Provisions
      465. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary has had their pension stopped by the Inland Fisheries Ireland;...
    • Broadband Services Provision
      466. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will he ensure that the area of Courtbrack and Foxes Bridge, County Cork, will be included in the recently...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      467. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline in tabular form per annum from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of freedom of information...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      468. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical/career break broken...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      469. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide, in tabular form, the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office inclusive of...
    • Departmental Contracts
      470. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide, in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      471. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total amount spent on external information technology consultants by his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to...
    • Departmental Contracts
      472. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department has renegotiated external information technology consultancy contracts and costs since March 2011; and...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      473. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit made since...
    • Legislative Programme
      474. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of Bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments that his...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      475. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department or agencies under its auspices has engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing money...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      476. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will respond to the issues raised in a consultant report (details supplied) relating to current salmon conservation...
    • Departmental Funding
      477. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if any consideration has been given by his Department to the continuous multi-year annual funding being provided to TG4;...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      479. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme Administration
      480. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland feels the need to replace the current grant agreement in place for...
    • Communications Market Regulation
      481. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of US Federal Communications Commission deliberations on net neutrality, if he will outline the position in...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      482. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the rights, if any, adjacent property owners have regarding ESB Networks running cables in front of or near their...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      484. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form details of increments paid since 2008 in his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Rehiring
      485. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of retired civil and public servants who have been rehired on temporary contracts or as consultants under his...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Genetically Modified Organisms
      486. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he has taken to register Ireland's opposition to genetically modified crops in the EU; and the other action he...
    • Property Taxation Deferrals
      487. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if 80% of the deferrals sought on the local property tax will be retained by the local authority when they are paid. [29322/14]
    • Water Meters
      488. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way a company (details supplied) was awarded a regional contract by Irish Water to install water meters on 26 July...
    • Septic Tank Registration Scheme
      489. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person who has not yet registered their septic tank owing to a specific medical situation can now register their tank...
    • Community Development Initiatives
      490. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a public meeting that has been organised in response to a local community's experience...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      491. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the options there are for persons to who wish to purchase, but cannot afford to buy houses at current prices, including...
    • Freedom of Information Data
      492. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline in tabular form for each year from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of FOI requests received,...
    • Local Authority Rates
      493. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason for directing every local authority in the country to write to owners of vacant previously rated properties...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      494. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break, broken...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      495. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form, the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office inclusive of...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      496. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to...
    • Severe Weather Events Response
      497. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he expects work to be completed at Bertra Beach, Westport, County Mayo which suffered significant storm damage...
    • Regeneration Projects Expenditure
      498. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount that has been spent on the regeneration of Ballymun; if he will provide a breakdown of that spending; and the...
    • Building Regulations Qualifications
      499. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the role and the institute of clerk of works who come from a trades background are being segregated by current...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      500. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount spent on external IT consultants by his Department in 2010 to 2013, inclusive, and to date in 2014; and...
    • Local Government Fund
      501. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government what the €200,000 allocated from the local government fund to the household charge support unit in 2014 is expended...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      503. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit made from March...
    • Derelict Sites
      504. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to review and update provisions of the Derelict Sites Act (1990); his views that the Act is fit for purpose to...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      505. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government what were the special circumstance that he referred to at the Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the...
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      506. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application to Mayo North East LEADER Partnership by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo;...
    • Planning Issues
      507. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a planning development issue and architectural heritage (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement...
    • Legislative Process
      508. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments that his...
    • Property Taxation Administration
      509. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason Dublin’s local property taxes are going to be reassigned to other regions when this tax can support the...
    • Community Development Initiatives
      510. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if organisations running community development projects which focus on a single group or issue, such as women's groups,...
    • Noise Pollution
      512. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total number and amount raised in noise pollution fines in 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014. [29319/14]
    • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Yield
      513. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide on a county basis the total income from the non principal private residence tax per annum since its...
    • Debt Collection
      514. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department or agencies under its auspices have engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing moneys...
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      515. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application for rural development LEADER funding grant application in respect of an organisation...
    • Water Quality Issues
      516. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the application for funding by Limerick City and County Council for UV treatment to...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Administration
      517. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the duration of the pilot housing assistant payment schemes in the six chosen local authority areas; and when his...
    • Library Services Provision
      518. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the closure of the local studies library (details supplied) in Ballywaltrim, County Wicklow; and if...
    • Capital Programme Expenditure
      519. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he expects funding towards housing needs and repairs to be released to Meath County Council as there are a large...
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      521. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application to Mayo North East LEADER by (details supplied); when it is expected that a decision...
    • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
      522. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the application procedure for a local authority mortgage; if each local authority currently advertise this service to...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Administration
      523. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way the introduction of the housing access payment later this year will be reflected in central government funding to...
    • Housing Issues
      524. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households currently on the social housing list to be allocated a permanent home for December 2011, December...
    • Local Authority Housing
      526. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of new dwelling units to be constructed for social housing in 2014, 2015 and 2016 in areas controlled by Dublin...
    • Private Rented Accommodation Deposits
      527. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a third party rental deposit scheme for the private sector residential renting market. [29465/14]
    • Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls
      528. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce limits on rent increases for the private sector residential renting market. [29466/14]
    • Fire Service
      529. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the representations he made to the Department of Finance for more funding for the redevelopment and purchasing of new...
    • Library Services Staff
      530. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if approval has been given to the application by Wicklow County Council to fill a number of vacancies in Wicklow County...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      531. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the review of the 2006 wind energy development guidelines in relation to noise, setbacks and shadow flicker will be...
    • Control of Dogs
      532. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he proposes to change dog control laws in view of the apparent increase in attacks by dogs; if so, if he will detail...
    • Departmental Funding
      533. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork for each year since the commencement...
    • Water Charges Introduction
      534. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in the context of the forthcoming domestic water charges, if he will provide a detailed list of the free allowances that...
    • Library Services Funding
      535. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding, if any, his Department provides for library services for persons with a visual impairment; and if...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      536. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide...
    • Environmental Protection Agency Investigations
      537. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason for the delay in bringing forward the remediation plan for Kerdiffstown landfill, Naas, County Kildare in view...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      538. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the draft guidelines for wind energy recommend a noise level much higher than that recommended by the World...
    • Local Authority Staff Recruitment
      539. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if section 54 of the Local Government Reform Act 2014 regarding the appointment of a chief executive of a council is...
    • Disabilities Services Funding
      540. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will reconsider a decision not to provide funding for Deaforward, an essential support service for the deaf...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
      541. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the person responsible for the continued maintenance and upkeep of the many mechanical sewerage treatment plants abandoned...
    • Housing Issues
      542. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his role in relation to the appointment of the chief executive officer of an association (details supplied); if his...
    • Grant Payments
      546. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the senior alert scheme can be accessed retrospectively by a qualifying person who is seeking to recoup the cost of a...
    • Local Authority Staff Remuneration
      547. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in a tabular form the current salaries paid to all city and county managers of local authorities. [29806/14]
    • Departmental Funding
      550. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the environmental partnership fund, the amount of the available funding in 2013 that was allocated to Cork...
    • Housing for People with Disabilities
      551. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the €46 million in funding recently announced for a range of housing projects which will provide a total...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
      552. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the Memorandum of Understanding that is due to be reached between Irish Water and local...
    • Departmental Funding
      553. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress to date in determination of eligibility for assistance under the pyrite remediation scheme in the case of...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      558. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding avenues available for elderly persons who require a personal alarm monitor and who have had to discontinue a...
    • Waste Management
      559. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if waste brokers who do not handle the waste themselves require a waste collection permit under waste management...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      561. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form details of increments paid since 2008 in his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      562. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of retired civil and public servants that have been rehired on temporary contracts or as consultants under his...
  • Department of Defence
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      563. To ask the Minister for Defence the precise duties at the Department of Defence which has been assigned to the Government Chief Whip; if it is his intention to seek to amend the Ministers...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      564. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will outline in tabular form per annum from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of FOI requests received by his Department; the total refused; the...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      565. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical-career break broken down by zero to six months; six to 12...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      566. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form, the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office inclusive of costs incurred from use of the...
    • Departmental Contracts
      567. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide, in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to office; the list of uses of the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      568. To ask the Minister for Defence the total amount spent on external IT consultants by his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      570. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit made since March 2011 to date; the number of...
    • Naval Service Staff
      571. To ask the Minister for Defence if it is possible for a serving member of the Naval Services to transfer to the Army; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29211/14]
    • Legislative Programme
      572. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments that his Department has published since March...
    • Departmental Operations
      573. To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department or agencies under its auspices has engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing money owed to his Department or its...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      574. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any request made for an...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      575. To ask the Minister for Defence if in the past a member of the Defence Forces from a foreign State has ever been transferred to the Irish Defence Forces. [29650/14]
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      579. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form details of increments paid since 2008 in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30528/14]
    • Departmental Staff Rehiring
      580. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of retired civil and public servants that have been rehired on temporary contracts or as consultants under his remit; if he will provide a...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Animal Welfare
      581. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his position regarding introducing a ban on the use of wild animals in circuses. [29961/14]
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      582. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the further investment he will seek for fishery harbours in 2015 to supplement available funding under the EU maritime and fisheries...
    • Freedom of Information Data
      583. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline in tabular form for every year from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of freedom of information requests...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      584. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical-career break broken down as...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      585. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form, the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office inclusive of costs incurred...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      586. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to office;...
    • Agriculture Schemes Eligibility
      587. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a farmer was milking cows in the past and then changed to suckling are they entitled to more entitlements due to changes in...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      588. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount spent on external IT consultants by his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      590. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit made from March 2011 to...
    • Beef Industry
      591. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on beef price levels and the attendant difficulties experienced by farmers as a direct result of pricing levels; the action...
    • Legislative Process
      592. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments his Department has...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Appeals
      593. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on correspondence regarding fines in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Debt Collection
      594. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department or agencies under its auspices have engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing moneys owed to...
    • Land Parcel Identification System
      595. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of appeals that have been lodged to the independent appeals group set up by him to examine appeals of decisions made by...
    • Departmental Funding
      597. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding, if any, his Department provides for library services for persons with a visual impairment; and if he will make a...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      598. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 4 June 2014 , when an agri-environment option scheme payment will issue to a person...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      599. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      600. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 621 of 27 May 2014, when a decision on single farm payment will issue in respect of a person...
    • Animal Welfare
      601. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the five racehorses that died from injuries at Clonmel races this month, if he will strengthen regulations in the horse...
    • Aquaculture Licences Applications
      602. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an aquaculture site (details supplied) in County Donegal; the reason an application for the renewal of the...
    • Ash Dieback Threat
      603. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that have been taken to help nurseries that have been affected by ash dieback; if his attention has been drawn to the fact...
    • Beef Industry
      604. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is intended to seek protected geographical indication, PGI, status for Irish beef in a joint application with the Northern...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      606. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the agri-environment option scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry [29840/14]
    • TB Eradication Scheme
      607. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the cull of badgers to stop the spread of TB (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29859/14]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      608. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application for AEOS payment will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make...
    • Animal Welfare
      609. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason no sufficient advertising was carried out by his Department to announce the publication of the draft code of practice for...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      611. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form details of increments paid since 2008 in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Rehiring
      612. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of retired civil and public servants that have been rehired on temporary contracts or as consultants under his remit; if...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Insolvency Service of Ireland Application Numbers
      613. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have engaged with the Insolvency Service of Ireland to date; the number of cases that have dealt with mortgage arrears...
    • Legislative Programme
      614. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the Mental Health Commission Annual Report 2013, which states that there are other areas where progress remains slow and...
    • Road Safety Statistics
      615. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to speed detection vans, the number of speed detection operations carried out in County Longford in the years 2012 and 2013; and if...
    • Equality Issues
      617. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline any body of work that she has carried out to date on the issue of introducing shared parental leave; her views that a more...
    • Data Protection
      618. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider extending data protection legislation to cover records that are kept by religious institutions. [29774/14]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      619. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding that has been provided for counselling for victims of the Dublin Monaghan bombings; the reason this funding has been withdrawn; and...
    • Prisoner Releases
      620. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider taking on board an amnesty similar, but to a lesser degree, to that given by the Czech President Václav Klaus in 2013,...
    • Freedom of Information Data
      621. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline in tabular form for each year from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of FOI requests received by her Department; the...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      622. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the number of staff in her Department currently on a sabbatical or career break, broken down by timeframe,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      623. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the total photography costs for her Department since coming to office inclusive of costs incurred from use...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      624. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by her Department since coming to office; the list of...
    • Garda Investigations
      625. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the concerns in relation to the resource and IT limitations of the computer crime investigation unit of the...
    • Direct Provision System
      626. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the length of time broken down by years that current asylum seekers have been living in direct provision accommodation. [29145/14]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      627. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount spent on external IT consultants by her Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if she will make a...
    • Prisoner Welfare
      628. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action she will take regarding the long hours of lock up time of 18-19 hours at Limerick women's prison in view of the fact that the time...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      629. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has renegotiated external IT consultancy contracts and costs since March 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Appointments to State Boards
      630. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under her Department's remit made from March 2011 to date; the...
    • Garda Stations Refurbishment
      631. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the building plans for a headquarters (details supplied); when she expects progress to be made; if the project...
    • Prison Committals
      632. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the restrictions and or guidelines in place for persons who have been convicted of sex offences seeking housing within communities after release...
    • Legislative Process
      633. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Bills her Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments her Department has published since...
    • Crime Data
      634. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of bicycle thefts per annum per Garda district for the past five years; her plans to address this problem; and if she will make a...
    • Garda Operations
      637. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of small area policing projects in operation; the total spend per project; the future plans for the projects; and if she will make a...
    • Debt Collection
      638. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department or agencies under its auspices have engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing moneys owed to them; if her...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      639. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 4 June 2014, when she expects a report from the Garda authorities in relation to the matter to be...
    • Registration of Title
      640. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason Land Registry is reluctant to provide deeds to a property (details supplied) in Dublin 2 even though they have a copy of the original...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      641. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the Legal Services Bill 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29437/14]
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Administration
      642. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline in tabular form the funding and staff levels of GSOC; the number of cases dealt with by GSOC on an annual basis from 2007 to...
    • Prison Committals
      643. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of life sentenced prisoners released and the number of life sentenced prisoners recalled to prison in 2013; the average length of time...
    • Departmental Funding
      644. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork for each year since the commencement of the project; if her...
    • Asylum Applications
      645. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in determination of an application for subsidiary protection in a case (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      647. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of her special advisers; if she will provide details of any request made...
    • Citizenship Status
      648. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is possible for an Irish national to hold dual Hungarian and Irish citizenship and for a Hungarian national to hold dual Hungarian and...
    • Garda Operations
      649. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason Gardaí were called out to police a SIPTU picket on a company (details supplied) in County Limerick; if it was the former Garda...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      650. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding traffic pile up limiting access to the beaches (details supplied) on the northside of Dublin; and if she will make a...
    • Courts Service
      651. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason Dun Laoghaire courthouse is being considered for closure in view of the fact that it will result in a breakdown of the administration...
    • Public Order Offences
      652. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the number of public order offences prosecuted in Dublin city centre between July 2012 to date in 2014; if...
    • Garda Operations
      656. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 467 of 24 June 2014, the full cost of policing to which she alluded; the cost of all salaries of...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations
      657. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will respond to correspondence in respect of allegations in a legal case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Serious Crime Review Team
      658. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No: 380 if she will specifically address the issue of a meeting with the relatives of Fr. Molloy in view of the...
    • Residency Permits
      659. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected position of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement...
    • Visa Agreements
      660. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the legislative provisions, both through Acts of the Oireachtas and statutory instruments that will need to be put in place before the...
    • EU Meetings
      661. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline Ireland's operational arrangements as chairman of the Europol management board; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      662. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the bail Bill will be published; if he will provide details of the measures contained of the Bill; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Courts Service
      663. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the work of her Department in proposing reforms of the family law courts; and if these reforms will be...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      664. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form details of increments paid since 2008 in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Health
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Expenditure
      665. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the national and per county budget for specialist equipment for home care for example specialist beds for the years 2012 to...
    • HSE Investigations
      666. To ask the Minister for Health if there are current investigations ongoing into abuse of patients in the psychiatric services; if so, the number of same; the number of investigations into...
    • HSE Funding
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork for each year since the commencement of the project; if his Department...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      668. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a change in the manner in which parliamentary questions are answered by his Department when the ongoing reform of management and governance of...
    • Prescription Charges
      669. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of completely removing the €2.50 per item prescription charge on medicines for medical card holders [28996/14]
    • Health Screening Programmes
      670. To ask the Minister for Health the projected cost of extending the BreastCheck screening programme to women aged between 65 and 70 years of age in order that these women would receive free...
    • Medical Card Data
      671. To ask the Minister for Health if persons (details supplied) in County Kildare who have for the past number of years been the holder of medical cards and were withdrawn this year will now be...
    • An Bord Altranais agus Cnáimhseachais na hÉireann
      672. To ask the Minister for Health if Section 26 of the 1985 Nurses Act supersedes section 13(8) of the Act; if he has given approval for changes to quorum requirements for fitness to practice...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      673. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to change the eligibility criteria for medical cards for the over 70s; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29012/14]
    • Home Care Packages
      674. To ask the Minister for Health following the recent investigations and reporting into Fingal Home Care the efforts that been applied to improve the management and monitoring of the service...
    • Accident and Emergency Services Fees
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria and amounts for paying for emergency departments; if he will outline all changes to the policies and amounts in the past five years; and if he...
    • Departmental Schemes
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the funds and schemes that community groups providing support to older persons can apply for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29018/14]
    • Mental Health Services Report
      677. To ask the Minister for Health his views of correspondence (details supplied) regarding mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29019/14]
    • Medical Card Administration
      678. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Mayo [29022/14]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      679. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the expert panel reviewing medical card eligibility will consider including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis on the list of serious or...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug Fampyra, which is licensed by the Irish Medicines Board, is not available on the drug rebate scheme; if it is due to a decision, on cost...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      681. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline in tabular form for each from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of freedom of information, FOI, requests received by his Department; the...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      682. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break, broken down by timeframe, that is, less...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      683. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office, inclusive of costs incurred from use of the...
    • HSE Expenditure
      684. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the tendering process relating to the Health Service Executive taxi service for the Louth, Meath, Cavan and Monaghan areas; how...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      685. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to office; the list of uses of each...
    • Health Services Provision
      686. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the current seven-week waiting time for adult ophthalmic services as confirmed by the Health Service Executive; and if he...
    • Dental Services Provision
      687. To ask the Minister for Health if an operation will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of the urgency of the case and the length of time the...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      688. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive an orthopaedic appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29133/14]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      689. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be renewed immediately in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [29137/14]
    • Dental Services Provision
      690. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the waiting times in the Dublin Dental Hospital; his views on the provision of the acute dental services in the State; and his views on...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      691. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent on external IT consultants by his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      693. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit made from March 2011 to date; the number of...
    • Mental Health Commission Reports
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the chairman's forward to the Mental Health Commission annual report 2013. in which he states that, since 2007, staffing in mental...
    • Mental Health Commission Staffing
      699. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Mental Health Commission annual report 2013 (details supplied) and the chairman’s foreword to same regarding the delay in...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      700. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the 477 persons who were to be employed in the mental health services in 2013; the number that were employed in 2013 and have taken up...
    • Medical Card Applications
      701. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29220/14]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      703. To ask the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be arranged at Waterford Regional Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow [29226/14]
    • HSE Complaints Procedures
      704. To ask the Minister for Health if any allegations of a conflict of interest in the awarding of contracts by the Health Service Executive is currently being investigated by the HSE or any...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      705. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the reason a dedicated nurse specialist has not been appointed to assist the rheumatologist at Kerry General Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Diagnoses
      706. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will be assessed by the Brothers of Charity in Cork for autism; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • HSE Complaints Procedures
      707. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the number of complaints received in respect of the psychiatric services on physical abuse, sexual abuse, mental abuse and over-medication; the...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      708. To ask the Minister for Health if he, his officials or the Health Service Executive met representative groups of patients that have received physical abuse, sexual abuse, mental abuse or...
    • Medical Card Administration
      710. To ask the Minister for Health the progress he is making regarding a proposal to allocate medical cards on the basis of medical need; if public consultation in this regard will take place;...
    • General Practitioner Services
      711. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioners are required to provide a home visit service to private patients on their list or in their catchment area; if GPs participating in the...
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      713. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the average waiting time for a North Doc home visit in 2011, 2012 and 2013; the shortest and longest waiting times in the same years; the service's...
    • Medical Card Applications
      714. To ask the Minister for Health to explain his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a medical card matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29274/14]
    • Health Services Provision
      715. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the position regarding repayment of moneys in respect of medication in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Legislative Process
      716. To ask the Minister for Health to set down the number of Bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments his Department has published since...
    • Hospital Services
      717. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that a person (details supplied) in County Dublin in the care of Beaumont Hospital is currently receiving no treatment because the drug...
    • Debt Collection
      718. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or agencies under its auspices have engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing moneys owed to them; if his Department has...
    • Primary Care Centre Provision
      719. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the building of the new primary care centre in Kells, County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29349/14]
    • HSE Complaints Procedures
      720. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the treatment of a person (details supplied) at a recent consultant appointment; his views that this practice is widespread. [29352/14]
    • Civil Registration Legislation
      721. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the number of civil registrars available to perform civil marriages and civil partnerships in each of the past ten years, broken down by county and...
    • Medical Card Applications
      723. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will me made on a medical card application in respect of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29359/14]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      724. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his views on the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding stoma care products; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      725. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the estimated cost of implementing the extension of the free cancer screening programme BreastCheck to women aged 65 to 69 years; and if he will...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      726. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that medical cards are being refused to over 70 applicants who are a few euro over the income limit (details...
    • Maternity Services
      727. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the names of all maternity units and their associated perinatal mortality rates in each year from 2003 to 2013, as compiled...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      728. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that medical cards are being refused to applicants over 70 years who are slightly over the income limit (details...
    • Patient Transfers
      730. To ask the Minister for Health if a transfer of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly from Kerry General Hospital to the Lakeview unit of Naas General Hospital may be facilitated; and...
    • Ambulance Service Transport
      731. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency ambulances with more than 300,000 km, 400,000 km and 500,000 km on the clock respectively; the measure being taken to replace such...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      732. To ask the Minister for Health if a discretionary medical card will be returned to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29449/14]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
      733. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3 of 25 June 2014, if he will confirm that all persons who were on the long-term illness scheme and were also medical...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      735. To ask the Minister for Health if a new application for consideration for the inclusion of the drug Fampyra for multiple sclerosis under the community drugs scheme been received by the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      736. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29458/14]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      737. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding entitlement to engage with social workers for children and adults with severe and profound disabilities; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Procedures
      739. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that an urgent surgical procedure is carried out in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      740. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 623 of 17 June 2014, when a detailed response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29481/14]
    • Hospital Investigations
      741. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that surveillance equipment was illegally used in an office used by maintenance staff at Letterkenny General...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Administration
      742. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medication has been withdrawn from a person (details supplied) in County Kildare after 11 years of supply; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Card Data
      743. To ask the Minister for Health the number of valid non-discretionary medical cards currently held [29495/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      744. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      745. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be seen by a cardiologist at Kerry General Hospital; the timeframe for the current waiting list; the...
    • Health Services Staff
      746. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) is being forced to retire at 65 years of age from the Health Service Executive when that person will only be entitled to...
    • Home Care Packages
      747. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a patient (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the services currently provided for the patient; and details of the current home care package...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      748. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Cork who made an unsuccessful medical card application in 2012 is included in the special review of medical cards...
    • Mental Health Act Review
      749. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the status of the review of the Mental Health Act 2001; and when this review will be completed [29551/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      750. To ask the Minister for Health the documentation outstanding in respect of an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      751. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money that is spent by his Department in the area of mental health in each of the 26 counties of the State last year and for each of the previous...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      752. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any request made for an increase...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      753. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29644/14]
    • General Medical Services Scheme Administration
      754. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the procedure to be followed by medical card holders in order to claim and receive a monetary refund where these medical card holders have...
    • Health Services Access
      755. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to cases where social workers for organisations such as Enable Ireland and citizen's information are advising persons that they...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      756. To ask the Minister for Health the number of National Ambulance Service vehicles destroyed by fire between 2008 and to date in 2014; the action the NAS has taken with the manufacturers of...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      757. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be furnished with specialised medical socks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29690/14]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      758. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway may expect to receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29693/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      760. To ask the Minister for Health if a renewed medical card will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare [29702/14]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      761. To ask the Minister for Health if the review of governance structures in mental health services in Carlow, Kilkenny and South Tipperary has been completed; when same will be published; when...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      762. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 18 June 2014, when a detailed response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29705/14]
    • Primary Care Centre Provision
      763. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the proposed Health Service Executive primary health care centre planned for lands in a location (details supplied) Dublin 22, the current...
    • Mental Health Act Review
      764. To ask the Minister for Health if under the Government's stated commitment to the development of a community based model of care, he will support the amendment to the Mental Health Act 2001...
    • Home Care Packages
      765. To ask the Minister for Health if he supports legislating for a statutory entitlement to primary home care which will provide for a detailed and practical transfer of care protocol; and if...
    • Hospital Services
      766. To ask the Minister for Health if MRI scanning is available at the Cork University Maternity Hospital outside main hours and at weekends; if the service is not available in...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      767. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that applications under the fair deal scheme are taking in excess of 12 weeks to process, and that applications for...
    • HIQA Inspections
      768. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Health Information Quality Authority findings from a number of inspections on disability services for children and young persons...
    • Local Drugs Task Forces
      769. To ask the Minister for Health the service that the North East Regional Drugs and Alcohol Task Force has put in place to replace which was being provided by the Ana Liffey Drug Project; if...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes Policy
      770. To ask the Minister for Health if he will refocus spending in the area of drug policy on public health interventions in view of the need for comprehensive needle and syringe programme...
    • Hospital Staff
      771. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the number of formal complaints made by staff at Kerry General Hospital over the past three years; and if...
    • General Practitioner Services
      772. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) in relation to the Health Service Executive payments for out of hours GP consultations; and if he will make a...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      773. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on the Health Service Executive list of long-term illnesses; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      774. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on the medical card review (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Water Fluoridation
      775. To ask the Minister for Health if he will state categorically that the fluoride concentrations in the public drinking water poses no known medical problems to the general public [29779/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      777. To ask the Minister for Health the progress being made with the transfer of a person (details supplied) in County Galway from a hospital in England to the Central Mental Hospital in Dublin;...
    • Health Services
      778. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene and secure an urgent residential placement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois whose quality of life is being...
    • Medical Card Applications
      779. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29815/14]
    • Hospital Consultants Contract Issues
      780. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 567 of 15 April 2014, the number of private patients seen by each of the consultants in each of the past five years; the...
    • Hospital Transfers
      781. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow will be transferred to the National Rehabilitation Hospital as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Services
      782. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have a procedure carried out in St. James Hospital, Dublin. [29829/14]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      783. To ask the Minister for Health if a full medical card will be reinstated under the new discretionary guidelines in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      784. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 433 of 1 July 2014, the administrative basis upon which health care will be made available under the forthcoming redress...
    • Medical Card Applications
      785. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29857/14]
    • Hospital Facilities
      786. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the use of part of Dingle Hospital for office space (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29858/14]
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      787. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange to have a person (details supplied) in County Wexford, who is in severe pain, dealt with as a matter of urgency by the Health Service...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Threshold
      788. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reducing the ceiling of the drug refund scheme in Budget 2015. [29899/14]
    • Insurance Levy
      789. To ask the Minister for Health his views on calls to reverse the levy on private health insurers for use of private beds in public hospitals in Budget 2015; and if he will make a statement...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      790. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for speech and language therapy for public health patients in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29909/14]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      791. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to add iports to the category of approved products under the long term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29919/14]
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      793. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form details of increments paid since 2008 in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30532/14]
    • Departmental Staff Rehiring
      794. To ask the Minister for Health the number of retired civil and public servants that have been rehired on temporary contracts or as consultants under his remit; if he will provide a breakdown...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Traffic Offences
      795. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is working in conjunction with An Garda Síochána and the criminal justice working group in examining the...
    • Rural Transport Programme
      796. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff currently employed by the rural transport programme who will be made redundant due to the restructuring of the...
    • Cross-Border Projects
      798. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Narrow Water Bridge will form part of the Government proposals under the new programme for cross-Border co-operation; and if he...
    • Freedom of Information Data
      800. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline in tabular form the total number of FOI requests per annum received by his Department between 2009 and to date in...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      801. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break, broken down by...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      802. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form, the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office, inclusive of costs incurred...
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      803. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide, in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to office; the...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      804. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount spent on external IT consultants by his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      806. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit made since March 2011 to date;...
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      807. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current legal maximum overall width of an agricultural trailer or piece of towed equipment weighing more than 3.5 tonnes that is...
    • Legislative Process
      809. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of Bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments that his Department has...
    • Debt Collection
      810. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department or agencies under its auspices have engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing money owed to his...
    • Sports Funding
      811. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the clubs in Dublin that have yet to draw down moneys from previous rounds of sports funding; the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      813. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding legislation in relation to disabled drivers' parking cards (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Taxi Regulations
      814. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 is not being allowed to change the name on their taxi plate due to new regulations on...
    • Road Projects
      816. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport following recent improvement works to the Athlone bypass, if this road will be incorporated into the M6 motorway; and if he will make a...
    • Driver Licences
      819. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the driving licence transfer arrangements that exist between this State and individual Canadian provinces; his plans to expand this to...
    • Road Safety
      826. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will instruct the National Roads Authority to immediately review the traffic flow arrangements at Owenahincha junction on the N71...
    • Departmental Funding
      827. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding his Department provides for library services for persons with a visual impairment; and if he will make a statement...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      828. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any...
    • Taxi Regulations
      829. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the advisory committee of the National Transport Authority has come to a decision regarding the establishment of a new category of...
    • Departmental Agencies Expenditure
      833. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the National Transport Authority's annual spend on consultants, agency workers and any other non-public service staff or services. [29797/14]
    • Proposed Legislation
      836. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding the Vehicle Clamping Bill 2014, if there will be a review or appeal procedure which will enable parties not satisfied with the...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      837. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding an application for a quad slide in respect of a club (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Rural Transport Programme
      839. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the roll out of the revised rural transport programme; the timelines that are envisaged for its completed...
    • Driver Licences
      841. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form a status report on mutual recognition of Irish driving licences with all the Canadian provinces and...
    • Transport Licence Applications
      842. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a transport licence application in respect of a company (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make...
    • Sports Facilities Expenditure
      844. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the extent of capital or current funding provided for sporting or cultural activities in each of the...
    • Ministerial Travel
      845. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the amount of money spent on trips as part of foreign delegations for each of the past four years; the...
    • Departmental Agencies Expenditure
      846. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the funding spent by Tourism Ireland and Fáilte Ireland for each of the past four years; and the...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      847. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the amount of money spent on private consultants for each of the past four years; and the proposed...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      848. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will annualise the sports capital grants scheme. [29953/14]
    • Departmental Agencies
      849. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding that would be saved if Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland were amalgamated. [29954/14]
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      853. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form details of increments paid since 2008 in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Rehiring
      854. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of retired civil and public servants that have been rehired on temporary contracts or as consultants under his remit; if he...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Early Child Care Education
      855. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a child (details supplied) will be accepted for the early childhood care and education scheme. [29007/14]
    • Education Welfare Service Staff
      856. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps has he taken to provide an educational welfare officer for the Dublin 15 area; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Completion Programme
      857. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a programme (details supplied) in County Cork will experience a cut to its budget for the next school year; if so the amount of same;...
    • Children in Care
      858. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children in care with a disability; and the number of these children who have an allocated social worker. [28993/14]
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      861. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will outline in tabular form per annum from 2009 to date in 2014 the total number of FOI requests received by his Department; the...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      862. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical and-or career break broken down by...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      863. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form, the total photography costs for his Department since coming to office inclusive of costs incurred from...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      864. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide, in tabular form, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming to office; the list...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      865. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total amount spent on external IT consultants by his Department in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      867. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form the number of appointments to State boards under his Department's remit made since March 2011 to date;...
    • Child and Family Agency Expenditure
      868. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 12 June 2014, if he will provide in detail the expenses claimed by members of staff attending...
    • Legislative Process
      869. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of Bills his Department has published since March 2011; the number of regulatory impact assessments that his Department has...
    • Debt Collection
      870. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department or agencies under its auspices has engaged the services of a debt collection agency in pursuing money owed to his...
    • Youth Cafes Expenditure
      871. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the sources of funding from his Department or agencies of his Department for youth cafes; if any new youth cafes are being funded at...
    • Youth Services Funding
      872. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 698 of 24 June 2014, the level of this funding that went to the Centre for Effective Services for...
    • Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
      874. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide the name, position and annual salary awarded to each of his special advisers; if he will provide details of any request...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      875. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will investigate a case where a family (details supplied) have been deemed ineligible for the community childcare subvention scheme;...
    • Hospital Services
      876. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding Tallaght Hospital crèche (details supplied). [29699/14]
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      877. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will ensure a bilateral agreement is made with Russia to allow Irish families to adopt children from Russia without further delay....
    • Early Child Care Education
      878. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is a cap on the fees that early child care providers can charge parents who qualify for subsidised child care under the community...

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