Written answers

Tuesday, 30 September 2014

  • Department of Health
    • Care of the Elderly Provision
      78. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce minimum standards with statutory support for the care of elderly persons and vulnerable adults in their own homes by public and private...
    • Diabetes Strategy
      79. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a national policy guiding the Health Service Executive in terms of insulin pump treatment for young persons with diabetes; if it is planned that the...
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      80. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that the extremely dangerous MMS and CD are outlawed following numerous attempts at specially organised events to push them as a miracle...
    • Health Insurance Prices
      81. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which he or his Department continues to monitor the costs of private health insurance throughout the health sector; if conclusions have been...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      82. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the operation of the treatment abroad scheme department of the Health Service Executive in relation to the making of decisions, the...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      83. To ask the Minister for Health the way he proposes to reduce waiting times for outpatients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36537/14]
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      84. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the forthcoming seminar scheduled in November by the Genesis II group, in which unregulated products such as MMS and CD, which claim to cure autism...
    • Early Child Care Education
      85. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide special needs assistants for children with disabilities attending pre-schools and crèches. [36157/14]
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      86. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the planned extension of free breast screening to women in the 65 to 69 years age bracket; the timeframe now envisaged for its...
    • Health Insurance Regulation
      87. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he has taken or hopes to take to stabilise the private health insurance market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36496/14]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      88. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the case in the High Court at the end of August where no inpatient bed was available for a teenager with psychiatric difficulties, if he is satisfied...
    • Departmental Budgets
      89. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the current health budget deficit; the expectation of the final figure for this year's deficit; the steps he is taking to ensure that this...
    • Maternity Services
      90. To ask the Minister for Health if he will withdraw the guidance document for the implementation of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, which amplifies rather than minimises the flaws...
    • National Children's Hospital
      91. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the national children's hospital; the extent the initial preparatory work in terms of planning permission and identification of the scale...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      92. To ask the Minister for Health the action he and the Health Service Executive will take to assist St. Christopher’s Services to continue providing a safe and quality service to the...
    • Orthodontic Service Provision
      93. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update of the progress being made on the delivery of orthodontic care through orthodontic therapists; his plans to extend the remit of the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
      94. To ask the Minister for Health the way he proposes to address waiting times for the fair deal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36532/14]
    • Health Services Staff
      95. To ask the Minister for Health the alternatives to agency staff available to him in view of the significant cost increases in using agency staff in the Health Service Executive; and if he...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      96. To ask the Minister for Health when the programme for Government commitment on the extension of BreastCheck will be honoured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36530/14]
    • Hospital Staff
      97. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the level of resources allocated to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, in particular to its emergency department to meet demand for services;...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      98. To ask the Minister for Health the measures that will be put in place to tackle the difficulties in the provision of child and adolescent mental health services; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Staff
      99. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of consultant posts being filled by agency staff in Letterkenny General Hospital; the total cost in 2014 to Letterkenny General Hospital of the...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      100. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has received requests for information from the Ombudsman, concerning the special housing needs of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      101. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on extending the free national breast cancer screening programme, BreastCheck, to women aged 65 to 69 years; and if he will...
    • Health Promotion
      102. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the progress of the Healthy Ireland project; his priorities in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36495/14]
    • Emergency Planning
      105. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the measures the State has in place to deal with potential epidemics, particularly in view of the ongoing ebola crisis; and if...
    • Universal Health Insurance Provision
      106. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the next steps towards universal health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36502/14]
    • Health Insurance Prices
      107. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken by his Department to control the cost of private health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36491/14]
    • Hospital Staff
      108. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the consultant posts which are being filled by agency staff in Letterkenny General Hospital; the length of time that these posts have...
    • Hospital Services
      109. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on developments in Cappagh hospital, Dublin; if he will provide an update on the number of operating theatres being used in comparison to...
    • Psychological Services
      110. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to issues with regard to the recruitment of psychologists by the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      111. To ask the Minister for Health if he considers the welfare of children with mental health issues is adequately protected considering the chronic shortage of inpatient beds throughout the...
    • Hospital Consultants Contract Issues
      112. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he plans to take to ensure that all hospital consultants are compliant with the terms of their public contract; the extent of serial breaches that he...
    • Abortion Services
      113. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the way he will ensure that psychiatrists are screened to work within the new legislation in view of the fact that over 100...
    • Misuse of Drugs
      114. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Act proposing changes to prescribing practice and scheduling regulation of benzodiazepine and...
    • HSE Expenditure
      115. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Health Service Executive's financial position; the latest projection for the deficit in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Water Charges Exemptions
      116. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions his Department has had with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to water charges and persons with...
    • Maternity Services
      117. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he proposes to take to overhaul Irish maternity policy which shows increasing reliance on caesarean sections, which is expensive, wasteful, damaging...
    • Abortion Legislation
      118. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the results of a recent opinion poll (details supplied) in which legislation for abortion here is now widely supported and deemed urgent by the...
    • Health Services
      119. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to ensure better co-operation and engagement between primary and community carers and the acute sector regarding services such as home...
    • Symphysiotomy Redress Scheme
      120. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a new redress scheme for survivors of symphysiotomy in view of the fact that the ex gratia compensation scheme designed by Judge Yvonne Murphy...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      121. To ask the Minister for Health the way he will improve the ambulance service, especially in rural Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36535/14]
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      122. To ask the Minister for Health if the commitment to extend BreastCheck to women in the 65-69 age group will be honoured in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36539/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      123. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      124. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the review of the agreement with the pharmaceutical companies concluded in late 2012; his expectations for further savings in...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      125. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the improvement in the symptoms of multiple sclerosis sufferers in the Irish health care setting who have been taking the drug Fampyra, if he will...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Unemployment Data
      126. To ask the Taoiseach the number of people deemed to be economically inactive, that is either not working, not being able to work, or otherwise unavailable for work; and if he will provide a...
    • Parliamentary Counsel Staffing
      127. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the number of vacancies for parliamentary counsel at any grade which were sanctioned but remained unfilled at the end of 2011, 2012,...
    • Departmental Agencies
      129. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form all of the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under his Department's remit; the core duties and functions of...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Unemployment Levels
      130. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the recent assessment she has made regarding the level of unemployment here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37112/14]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      131. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of persons in County Meath whose rent supplement payment has been withdrawn from 2011 to date; the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      132. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance appeal will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      134. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Appeals
      135. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a supplementary welfare allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
    • One-Parent Family Payments
      136. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the outcome of the review in respect of a one-parent family payment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
    • Youth Guarantee
      137. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the roll out of the youth guarantee; if she will provide in tabular form a list of programmes and the corresponding...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      139. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a carer's allowance appeal will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Investigations
      140. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the ESB continues to treat meter readers as self employed, with all the consequent loss of employment rights despite its loss in a High...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      142. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a disability allowance appeal will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Properties
      148. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if staff from her Department are working in a building (details supplied) in County Kildare; if this is a permanent arrangement; if rent is being...
    • Social Welfare Fraud Investigations
      151. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the circulars governing the use of investigating social media accounts of persons for social welfare fraud within her Department; and the number of...
    • Pension Provisions
      155. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to comply with a Labour Court recommendation on the issue of pension provision for community employment supervisors; and if she will make...
    • Redundancy Payments
      157. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position in relation to enhanced redundancy payments in respect of a person (details supplied); the reason this payment has not yet been...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      158. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 401 of 15 July 2014 the exceptions she was referring to when she stated that any income, with some exceptions,...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      159. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 has had a jobseeker's application suspended; the reason the local office has yet to forward the...
    • Disability Allowance Application Numbers
      160. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the more than 100% increase in the number of recipients of disability allowance over a ten-year period between 1996 and 2006, from...
    • Illness Benefit Application Numbers
      161. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the decrease in the number of recipients of illness benefit from a 20-year high of 81,253 people in 2010, to an estimated 58,468...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      162. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in relation to an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway...
    • Departmental Schemes
      163. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide full details and guidelines with regards to the JobBridge and Gateway schemes operated by her Department; the reasons for two...
    • Community Employment Schemes Places
      165. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to revisit the policy decision to reduce the participation limits on the community employment scheme with a view to restoring previous...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      166. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the outstanding documentation required in respect of an application for rent allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      167. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address an office facility issue at one of her Department's offices (details supplied) in Dublin 11. [36962/14]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      172. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason full rent support has not been awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      174. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 120 of 17 September 2014, if she will indicate the loss of income to a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 155 of 17 September 2014, her views on the impact of the reduction in rent payable to a person (details...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on amending the criteria for eligibility for the back to education allowance to make eligible persons who have been out of work for a...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
      177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of unsuccessful jobseeker applicants under 24 years of age whose application was unsuccessful due to...
    • One-Parent Family Payments
      178. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review an allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [37160/14]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an invalidity pension appeal will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Agencies
      181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form all of the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under her Department's remit, the core...
  • Department of Finance
    • Employment Investment Incentive Scheme
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance to state the level of investment that has been generated through the employment and investment incentive on an annual basis, the number of enterprises that...
    • Seed Capital Scheme
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance to state the level of investment that has been generated through the seed capital scheme on an annual basis, the number of enterprises that have benefitted,...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance the policy instruments that have developed in order to create jobs by way of relief in capital gains tax on an annual basis; the level of investment that will...
    • Budget 2015
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance with regard to the forthcoming budget and the outcome of the agri-taxation review that consideration will be given to the introduction of a tax deposit scheme...
    • Economic Data
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which the fundamental economic indicators remain positive in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36484/14]
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on introducing tax relief on repayments of approved loan products for students on graduate entry medicine programmes in the State; if legislation...
    • Banking Sector
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Irish Cuba support group will have its banking services terminated at short notice by the Bank of Ireland. [36599/14]
    • VAT Rate Application
      190. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change the rate of VAT applicable to herbal remedies and food supplements; if an economic impact assessment of any proposed changes has been...
    • Banking Sector
      191. To ask the Minister for Finance if any State body or State owned bank is paying for use of a building (details supplied) in Newbridge, County Kildare. [36681/14]
    • Tax Yield
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of moneys accrued to date from the 2009 windfall tax; his assessment on its economic impact; the revenue earned to date in 2014; and if he will...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce tax incentives for persons interested in building their own homes in the forthcoming budget 2015; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Rebates
      197. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is due a refund due to unemployment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36849/14]
    • Property Taxation Application
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance if section 97(2) of the Taxes Consolidation Act, 1997, where it refers to services rendered to a tenant, should apply in the case of local property tax and...
    • VAT Rate Increases
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance the partial and full-year cost to the Exchequer of raising the VAT registration threshold for small and medium enterprises with low turnover from...
    • Insurance Costs
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding insurance costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36972/14]
    • Banking Sector Redundancies
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support a matter (details supplied) regarding employees of an Irish bank losing their jobs due to outsourcing of their division; and if he will...
    • Banking Operations
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the Central Bank regulations governing the type of employment and financial history required by lending institutions; if lending...
    • Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Establishment
      206. To ask the Minister for Finance the timeframe for when the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37096/14]
    • Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Remit
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance if there will be limits on the size of loans given by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37097/14]
    • Tax Code
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the threshold for the higher level of income tax rate of 41% which is calculated at earnings of €32,801 and over,...
    • Economic Data
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance the proportion of current illicit trade in the latest growth figures in view of the new European Union accounting procedures which were introduced here; and...
    • Tax Code
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the significant debts facing the one-third of graduating doctors who obtain their qualification through the graduate route...
    • Budget 2015
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the proposals in respect of carers and the vital service they provide to the community and health system with the upcoming budget (details...
    • Departmental Agencies
      212. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form all of the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under his Department's remit; the core duties and...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      213. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on tackling flooding in an area (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Procurement Regulations
      214. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to ensure that off shore, non EU registered companies can be prevented from getting public contracts here; and if he will make...
    • Flood Risk Insurance Cover
      215. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if she will continue to engage with the Irish Insurance Federation to discuss flood insurance for those areas where considerable...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      216. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plan to eliminate flooding in Kilbannivane graveyard, Castleisland, County Kerry; when this work will proceed; and if he will make a...
    • Civil Service Accountability
      217. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform as part of his project of reform, if he has considered restructuring and amalgamating any grades within the civil service; and if he...
    • Planning Issues
      218. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works is seeking planning permission on a building (details supplied) in County Kildare. [36680/14]
    • Legislative Programme
      219. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the budget allocation for the Statute Law Revision Programme for the years 2011 to 2016; the amount of expenditure that will be incurred...
    • Commercial Rates Valuation Process
      220. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on reclassifying pre school facilities as educational so that they can have similar status for commercial rates as the...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      221. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the improved fiscal circumstances, his plans to lift the embargo on public sector recruitment; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Agencies Expenditure
      222. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount in legal fees incurred by the Commission for Public Service Appointments for the year to date and for each of the past three...
    • Commercial Rates Valuation Process
      223. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if private fee paying schools and private nursing homes are subject to commercial rates; and if so on what basis is the rate calculated....
    • Departmental Agencies
      224. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form all of the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under his Department's remit; the...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Trade Missions
      225. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to undertake a trade mission to Spain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36885/14]
    • Job Creation
      226. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will direct Enterprise Ireland and the Industrial Development Authority to pursue the potential for job creation in the former...
    • Trade Agreements
      227. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the discussions he has had in relation to the Trade in Services Agreement Financial Services Annex, covering 50 countries, and being...
    • Departmental Agencies
      231. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form all of the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under his Department's remit;...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Harbours and Piers Development
      232. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the destruction of the pier at East End Village, Inishbofin, County Galway, the focal point of an...
    • Special Areas of Conservation Designation
      233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the appropriate assessment for Rutland natura site, County Donegal, will be completed and the conservation objectives set in...
    • Fishery Harbour Pollution Issues
      234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the persons responsible for the monitoring and clean up of pollution incidents in fishery harbour centres; the level of incidence...
    • Aquaculture Licences
      235. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of environmental monitoring on an ongoing basis that takes place in bays that have fin fish aquaculture licences; by whom...
    • Animal Welfare
      236. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to recent graphic footage which has appeared online and in a newspaper (details supplied) apparently...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding disadvantaged areas scheme payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; if all the...
    • Land Parcel Identification System
      238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on a land parcel identification system appeal submitted by a person (details supplied) in County Galway;...
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications
      239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding salmon farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36589/14]
    • Beef Genomics Scheme
      240. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made on an application for the beef genomics scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged area scheme 2014 payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reasons for the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
      243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an appeal has been lodged for the 2012 agri-environment options scheme 3 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Agriculture Schemes Appeals
      244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on an appeal lodged with the agriculture appeals office by a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the following information in tabular form: grant assistance from his Department for investment in piers and...
    • Departmental Investigations
      247. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of costs and expenditure associated with investigations carried out by his Department's special investigations unit for...
    • GLAS Scheme Payments
      248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for variance between the rates of payment per hectare under GLAS to farmers of commonage land and land in the ownership of...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in Counties Mayo and Roscommon who have received letters regarding overpayment of disadvantaged areas scheme;...
    • Departmental Investigations
      250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to recent court cases, civil and criminal, where the operation and conduct of the special investigation unit has been...
    • Agrifood Sector
      251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total value of Ireland's agricultural imports and exports with Canada in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an agricultural appeal in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be finalised; and if he will make a...
    • Grassland Sheep Scheme Payments
      254. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has not received their 2014 sheep grassland scheme grant; and if he will make...
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments
      255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Longford will receive their overdue payments for one animal in 2012 and 12 animals in...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      256. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo, will receive their 2013 sheep grassland scheme payment and 2013 disadvantaged areas...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      257. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a decision has been made regarding a review of single farm payment for 2013 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      258. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for refusal of entry into agri-environment options scheme 3 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      259. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a 2013 single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when payment will...
    • Departmental Agencies
      260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form all of the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under his Department's remit;...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Strength
      261. To ask the Minister for Defence the current vacancies by rank in the Army, Naval Service and the Air Corps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36881/14]
    • Defence Forces Review
      262. To ask the Minister for Defence when deliberations on the new white paper on Defence will commence. [36890/14]
    • Departmental Agencies
      263. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form all of the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under his Department's remit; the core duties and...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Departmental Contracts
      264. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the contract for the privately operated mobile speed-detection vans is due for renewal; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Court Judgments
      265. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of actions for repossession of houses and or apartments initiated in the courts in 2013; the number initiated to date in 2014; the...
    • Visa Applications
      266. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position in respect of visa entry to Ireland to a non-EU national who is married to an Irish citizen (details supplied); and if she will make...
    • Departmental Contracts
      268. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 593 of 15 July 2014, if she will provide the total cost and usage to date in 2014; her plans to expand the...
    • Crime Data
      269. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current timeframe for establishing a European criminal records information system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36442/14]
    • Liquor Licence Applications
      270. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding licensing and late night opening of a pub in a residential area (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if she will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      271. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to update to Stamp 4 in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she will make a...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      272. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if requested documentation has been received in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in respect of an application for...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      273. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if figures are available on any prosecutions brought by An Garda Síochána against persons for failing to surrender driving licences to...
    • Departmental Reports
      276. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 550 of 17 September 2014, if she will publish the first interim report of the criminal justice working...
    • Proposed Legislation
      277. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the proposed Mediation Bill will have any relevance either to insolvency legislation or in the context of mediation being refused in appeals...
    • Garda Civilian Staff Numbers
      278. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of public service vehicle inspectors that are attached to An Garda Síochána, by county; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Registration of Title
      279. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding registration by the land registry office in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Programme
      280. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 will be presented for Report Stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36562/14]
    • Proposed Legislation
      281. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has considered the report and recommendations from the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality regarding prostitution; if she...
    • Immigration Data
      282. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been refused permission to enter here at ports of entry over the past five years; and if she will make a statement...
    • Garda Reserve
      283. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants analysed by Garda division for the Garda Reserve who are waiting to be called into training and service; and if she will...
    • Legislative Programme
      284. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe for the enactment of the Mediation Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36577/14]
    • Asylum Applications
      286. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the numbers of asylum seekers who are currently waiting on a decision (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36734/14]
    • Crime Prevention
      287. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will appraise herself of the ongoing spate of criminal vandalism, arson, and break-ins in Carndonagh, County Donegal; if she will request...
    • Data Protection Commissioner Appointment
      288. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the appointment of the new Data Protection Commissioner. [35187/14]
    • Garda Deployment
      289. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of retirements from An Garda Síochána in County Tipperary from the years 2011 to date in 2014; and the total number of...
    • Garda Transport Provision
      290. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to purchase additional marked motorcycles for the Garda traffic corps; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36884/14]
    • Private Security Authority Remit
      291. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to implement licensing for private investigators in view of the fact that the legislation currently refers to the area in very limited...
    • Crime Levels
      292. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of break-ins to dwelling houses in each Garda district in County Kildare in the past two years to date; those areas most affected; the...
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal
      293. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will appoint new members to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal in order that the tribunal may more speedily assess...
    • Legislative Programme
      294. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011 will be enacted; the current status of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36943/14]
    • Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration
      295. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the departments within the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service dealing with requests to...
    • Courts Service
      296. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the waiting times for victims of domestic abuse seeking protection orders and their first District Court hearing; and if she will make a...
    • Visa Applications
      298. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in determination of a visa application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Asylum Seeker Accommodation
      299. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the suitability of Mount Trenchard, County Limerick, as an asylum seeker accommodation centre; the reasons for the discontinued use...
    • Citizenship Applications
      300. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in determination of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if she...
    • Crime Prevention
      302. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions she has had with An Garda Síochána regarding the increase in knife crime in Dublin and the ways of addressing this...
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      303. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the works in a Garda station (details supplied) in County Meath; her position in relation to this Garda station; and if...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      304. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol from May 2014 to date; the number of these drivers whose...
    • Asylum Applications
      305. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have sought asylum in the State for each of the past five years including this year to date; and if she will make a...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      306. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if guardians ad litem require Garda clearance; if not, the reason; and the person that has responsibility for the regulation of guardians ad...
    • Road Safety
      307. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is examining a means of improving co-operation between An Garda Síochána and the Police Service of Northern Ireland in the area...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      308. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 490 of 24 June 2014, the actions that were taken against the 59 drivers detected with a blood alcohol level...
    • Departmental Agencies
      311. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form all of the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under her Department's remit; the core...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child Abuse
      312. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the investigation into a child abuse case (details supplied); the reason for the delay in forwarding the information...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      313. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding cases where payments are made to a provider but then inadvertently withdrawn before the child becomes ineligible on...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      314. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will clarify the terms of reference for the inquiry into the mother and baby homes and if the terms of reference will include other...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      315. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the actions he has undertaken to tackle youth homelessness. [36456/14]
    • Child and Family Agency Staff
      316. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 751 of 17 September 2014, if he will provide a breakdown on a regional basis of the number of social...
    • Adoption Records Provision
      317. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of persons waiting for an appointment with the adoption information and tracing service in the years 2013 and to date in 2014,...
    • Child Detention Centres
      318. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will report to Dáil Éireann on the progress achieved to date in refurbishing and extending Oberstown House; and the remand...
    • Children in Care
      319. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a full breakdown of the number of children placed in institutions outside of Ireland under a special care order granted...
    • Child and Family Agency Expenditure
      320. 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...
    • Child Care Services Funding
      321. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding available for the establishment of community after-school services; the application process; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Family Support Services
      322. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to provide mainstream revenue funding in respect of a centre (details supplied) in County Dublin in 2015 following the...
    • Bullying of Children
      323. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding bullying allegations by Athletics Ireland and ignoring the code of ethics, Children First, and duty of care in...
    • Departmental Functions
      324. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of his decision to transfer questions submitted last week by this Deputy to the Department of Health, if he will indicate the areas...
    • Proposed Legislation
      325. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update on his legislative proposals; and the proposals that will be brought before the Oireachtas. [36922/14]
    • Referendum Expenditure
      326. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 186 of 7 November 2012 if he will provide a further breakdown of the costs associated with the...
    • National Lottery Funding Applications
      327. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding a grant application submitted by a school (details supplied) in Dublin 17. [36932/14]
    • Child Protection Services
      328. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action he has taken to address the fact that thousands of cases concerning children at risk have not yet been allocated a social...
    • Departmental Agencies
      330. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form all of the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under his Department's remit; the...
  • Department of Health
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      331. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of qualification for a medical card under the EU scheme, whether a person is considered subject to Irish social security legislation if that...
    • Emergency Planning
      332. To ask the Minister for Health if he will develop a national response plan in respect of the ebola outbreak which is a global health risk; if such a plan will incorporate civil society...
    • Medical Consent
      333. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to put the right to informed consent and voluntary refusal on a statutory footing in view of the Hamilton v. the Health Service Executive ruling,...
    • Medical Card Applications
      334. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in determination of an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      335. To ask the Minister for Health the plans being put in place by the Health Service Executive for the Sacred Heart Hospital in Roscommon town, County Roscommon, the Plunkett Home in Boyle,...
    • Medical Card Applications
      340. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on a medical card application will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • HSE Agency Staff Expenditure
      341. To ask the Minister for Health if the reported costs of €110,000 every 13 weeks to recruit agency consultants to Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, were taken from the...
    • Medical Card Data
      342. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card holders aged 69 years and younger registered with the primary care reimbursement service-Health Service Executive as resident in...
    • HSE Properties
      344. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to utilise the new facility purchased at Mount Carmel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36570/14]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      345. To ask the Minister for Health the process used to recruit and appoint the interim board for the University of Limerick Hospital; the process to be used to appoint the final board; the...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      346. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure that Fampyra (details supplied) is made available to those with multiple sclerosis here; if he will review the decision made...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      347. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an ophthalmology appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      348. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria that are used for evaluation for funding under the Tusla programme for residential care centres for people with disability. [36592/14]
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      349. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reviewing the pay for graduate nurses and restoring pay parity to all nurses on the new graduate nurses scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      350. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the crisis in speech and language services. [36600/14]
    • Hospitals Capital Programme
      351. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the Health Service Executive's commitments to allocate €750,000 in capital investment to upgrade a hospital (details...
    • Disease Awareness
      352. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide help and advice to persons with Lyme disease; the information available through his Department and the Health Service Executive regarding...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      353. To ask the Minister for Health the reason asthma is not included in the long-term illness scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36609/14]
    • Palliative Care Services
      354. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the provision of services in the palliative care unit in University Hospital Waterford; the timeframe of the progression to date; when he...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      355. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospital appointment will be scheduled in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36630/14]
    • Organ Donation
      356. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the roll-out of improved organ transplant networks which was provided for as part of budget 2014; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Applications
      357. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on a medical card application will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      362. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical appointment will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36661/14]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      363. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on a medical card review will issue in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36664/14]
    • General Practitioner Services
      365. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding free general practitioner care for under sixes; when the scheme will be operational nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      367. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to double the capacity at Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin to facilitate up to 120 patients to be treated for spinal deformity each year;...
    • Medical Card Delays
      368. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their medical card application; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      369. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a knee replacement having been on the waiting list for many years; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      370. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and review a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36706/14]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      371. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made regarding the provision of adequate multi-disciplinary therapy services at St. Frances special school, Beaufort, County Kerry;...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      372. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a date for a knee operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36709/14]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      373. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue on a medical card review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Card Applications
      375. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on a discretionary medical card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36724/14]
    • Vaccination Programme
      376. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the influenza vaccine rates for the years 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 claimed by general practitioners and pharmacists. [36730/14]
    • Medical Register Administration
      377. To ask the Minister for Health if a decision has been made on an application for Medical Council approval in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      378. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease on the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36751/14]
    • Prescription Charges
      379. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that when a person's medication dose for some drugs is increased on their prescription, that is Butrans, from 20mg...
    • Medical Card Applications
      380. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a determination of an application for a medical card in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Administration
      381. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions for medical card holders seeking to avail of in vitro fertilisation through the public health services. [36760/14]
    • Health Services
      382. To ask the Minister for Health the entitlements and supports available from the Health Service Executive for persons seeking to avail of in vitro fertilisation. [36761/14]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      384. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the review of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; when a decision will be made...
    • Health Services Funding
      385. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the State funding given to the Alzheimer's Society of Ireland on an annual basis if he has sought an explanation as to the reason the Labour...
    • Health Strategies
      386. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the roll-out of the national hepatitis C strategy; if the funding-neutral elements will be implemented; if funding to fully...
    • Health Services Provision
      388. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to provide a routine dermatology service in the south east; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36813/14]
    • Health Services Expenditure
      389. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in full the amount spent by the State on medicines in the years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and estimated spend for 2014; if he will provide a...
    • Health Services
      390. To ask the Minister for Health his priorities over the next 18 months. [36823/14]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      391. To ask the Minister for Health when the expert medical review group will report on the medical conditions that should be included for discretionary medical card applications. [36824/14]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      392. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate adequate home help hours in respect of persons (details supplied) in counties Longford and Westmeath. [36832/14]
    • Patient Safety Agency Establishment
      394. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Patient Safety Authority; the planned remit of same; when it will be put on a statutory basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • General Practitioner Services
      395. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the negotiations with the Irish Medical Organisation regarding delivery of free general practitioner care to under six year olds; and...
    • Symphysiotomy Reports
      396. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the redress scheme recently announced for survivors of symphysiotomy; the timeframe for its establishment; the process of applications;...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      397. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford. [36847/14]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      398. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an electric wheelchair in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36850/14]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      399. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the treatment of prize bonds in the over 70s medical card assessment; if they are considered savings in view of the fact they generate...
    • Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments
      400. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive has not provided a direct reply to Parliamentary Question No. 633 of 24 June 2014; and if he will ensure that the...
    • Patient Files
      401. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive has not provided a direct reply to Parliamentary Question No. 570 of 10 June 2014; and if he will ensure that the...
    • Motorised Transport Grant Eligibility
      402. To ask the Minister for Health if persons who previously qualified for the motor transport grant prior to its discontinuation will be considered retrospectively for vehicles purchased during...
    • Medical Card Applications
      404. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal is still awaiting a decision for their medical card on a discretionary basis since it was submitted on...
    • Hospital Admissions
      405. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the implementation of a system, similar to other countries, whereby alcohol-drug related admissions to accident and emergency departments would be...
    • Primary Care Centre Provision
      406. To ask the Minister for Health when the next stage of the tendering process for the long-proposed Mountainview-Summerhill primary community care facility Dublin 1 will be completed; the...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      407. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide a speech and language therapy service in Waterford, to St. Patrick's rehabilitation unit in Waterford; when the current vacancies will be...
    • Hospital Transfers
      409. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the transfer of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny to a hospital in County Carlow as requested by their family. [36899/14]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      410. To ask the Minister for Health if an early date will be set for a hip operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny as their case is urgent and they are assessed as...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      412. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on plans to alter the roll-out of clinical services for children and adults with physical disabilities in the constituencies of...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      414. To ask the Minister for Health his position regarding the moratorium on filling any health worker posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36919/14]
    • Universal Health Insurance Provision
      415. To ask the Minister for Health the way he will move to a situation whereby this country creates a fair and equal health service where persons receive health care on the basis of need rather...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      416. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on hospital waiting lists. [36921/14]
    • Obesity Strategy
      417. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department carried out research into the way a fat tax could be imposed, and if so, if he will provide this research. [36934/14]
    • Audiology Services Provision
      418. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 652 of 17 July 2014, if he will provide an update; if approval has been obtained for the project; the current status of...
    • Vaccination Programme
      419. To ask the Minister for Health when the national immunisation advisory committee will be making a decision regarding immunisation against meningitis B; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      420. To ask the Minister for Health if the medical card reviews for over 70s, suspended last May, has been recommenced; if so, if he will publish the new framework for awarding medical cards...
    • Hospital Facilities
      421. To ask the Minister for Health the supports offered to Cork University Hospital in rectifying the continuing laboratory information management system problems; if financial assistance will...
    • Dental Services Provision
      423. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Health Service Executive dentists and dental services that have been withdrawn from local health centres, by town, by county in the past five...
    • HSE Properties
      424. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant rooms left by the cessation of Health Service Executive provided local services within local health centres; his proposals for these empty...
    • Health Services Provision
      426. To ask the Minister for Health the number of chiropody services that have been withdrawn from local health centres, by town, by county in the past five years; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      428. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [36969/14]
    • Dental Services Waiting Lists
      429. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a dental examination in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36974/14]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      430. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [36977/14]
    • Hospital Services
      431. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate the rheumatology clinics at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36980/14]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      432. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Waterford will receive treatment for Dupuytren's contractures; the format this treatment will be, for example,...
    • Health Services
      433. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of outpatient assessments sent to private hospitals in the past 12 months, by originating public hospital,...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      434. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a review for a discretionary medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      435. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Card Administration
      436. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card which had been previously granted on discretionary grounds but since removed, will be reinstated in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      437. To ask the Minister for Health if an orthopaedic appointment will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37043/14]
    • Medical Card Administration
      438. To ask the Minister for Health the reason documentary evidence of savings, shares, investments and so on are required to process an application for a medical card under EU regulations when...
    • Hospitals Funding
      439. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allocate money to the South Infirmary Victoria Hospital, Cork to allow it to undertake orthopaedic operations and begin to clear the backlog that...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      440. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card review application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford in April 2014; and if he will make a...
    • Hospitals Funding
      441. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the funding for Cappagh hospital to deal with the huge waiting list for hip operations where patients are being told that it will be...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      442. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list in Cappagh Hospital for hip replacements to date; the number of hip operations that have been preformed since January...
    • Health Strategies
      443. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a children's future health fund to deliver a package of measures that will protect Irish children's health, including tackling under-age...
    • Childhood Obesity
      444. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a tax on sugar sweetened drinks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37107/14]
    • Accident and Emergency Services Provision
      445. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address problems with overcrowding at Beaumont Hospital accident and emergency department (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Administration
      447. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the apparently inordinate number of documents that go missing while processing applications for medical cards within the...
    • HSE Staffing
      448. To ask the Minister for Health if a social worker will be assigned to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37123/14]
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      449. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend BreastCheck to women aged between 65 and 69 years of age as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37126/14]
    • Health Services Funding
      450. To ask the Minister for Health if he will sanction additional funding in respect of a resource centre (details supplied) in County Longford which is facing a deficit. [37129/14]
    • Medical Card Application Numbers
      451. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of medical card applications in respect of those under and over 70 years of age currently in the system and awaiting decision; and if he will...
    • Medical Card Administration
      452. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which it is possible to streamline the system of assessment for medical cards with a view to achieving a dramatic reduction in the time taken to...
    • Health Insurance Prices
      453. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which his Department continues to monitor the various issues affecting the cost of private health insurance; if particular contributing factors...
    • National Children's Hospital Expenditure
      454. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the costs associated with previous preparations for the national children’s hospital will be offset and utilised as part of the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      455. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of patients on waiting lists for various procedures in all hospitals throughout the country as recorded at specific times throughout the...
    • Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
      456. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of children currently listed as awaiting orthodontic treatment; the extent to which the waiting list has fluctuated in each of the past five...
    • Hospital Services
      457. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the full scale of services continues to be provided at Naas General Hospital, County Kildare; the extent to which equipment continues to be...
    • Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Recruitment
      459. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which arrangements are in hand to ensure an adequate supply of junior hospital doctors throughout the country in the public health sector; and if...
    • Narcolepsy Issues
      460. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which services are currently available for children and parents suffering from narcolepsy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37139/14]
    • Universal Health Insurance Provision
      462. To ask the Minister for Health the current position in regard to achievement of universal health insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37141/14]
    • Patient Safety
      463. To ask the Minister for Health the ongoing steps taken to ensure patient safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37142/14]
    • Health Services Staff Data
      465. To ask the Minister for Health the costs associated with the employment of agency staff at all levels throughout the health sector, the degree to which savings may be made by the appointment...
    • Health Services
      466. To ask the Minister for Health the areas throughout the health service currently experiencing the greatest pressure/demand in the public health sector; the measures/steps required to address...
    • Primary Care Centre Provision
      467. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of primary care centres already provided throughout the country; those pending; the extent to which the latter are ready to go; when...
    • Hospital Acquired Infections
      470. To ask the Minister for Health the steps taken or needed to be taken to prevent hospital bugs and infections throughout the public health sector; the extent to which comparisons have been...
    • Ebola Outbreak
      471. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department, along with the Health Service Executive, are putting in place systems to enable health professionals to work on a short-term basis in west...
    • Hospital Services
      472. To ask the Minister for Health the number of registered gynaecologists and registered psychiatrists here; the number of these that have indicated that they wish to be available under the...
    • National Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation
      473. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the National Positive Ageing Strategy was launched on 25 April 2013 with a guarantee that an implementation plan would...
    • Medical Card Applications
      474. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the determination of an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
    • Orthodontic Service Provision
      475. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the pilot scheme in the area of orthodontics currently in place in Dublin north-east which involves using orthodontic therapists; and the...
    • Departmental Agencies
      477. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form all of the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under his Department's remit; the core duties and...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Overseas Development Aid Expenditure
      478. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans towards honouring the commitment to spending 0.7% of national income on overseas development; and if he will make a statement on...
    • International Agreements
      479. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is satisfied with the level of input by his Department to the proposed Irish ratification of the EU free trade agreement with Colombia...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      481. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed with the Italian Presidency of the European Union the need to have a rapid and co-ordinated approach by the European...
    • Departmental Agencies
      486. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form all the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under his Department's remit; the core...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the student-teacher ratio at a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial support options available to an Irish citizen who has just completed the leaving certificate and is studying in a university in...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary that has applied for major capital funding; the timeframe for completion...
    • Third Level Institutions Mergers
      490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the development of a new technological university for the south east; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Playgrounds
      491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if amenity grants are available to a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36686/14]
    • School Curriculum
      492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the proposed politics and society course will be available for the leaving certificate cycle; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Teacher Training Provision
      493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to change the implementation of the policy in the professional development service for teachers with regard to the need for staff...
    • Visiting Teacher Service
      494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the review carried out into the visiting teacher service; when the review will be concluded; and if she will...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to implement the review of apprenticeship training here; the recommendations made in the said review; if in particular...
    • Fee Paying Schools
      496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that fee charging schools (details supplied) are provided with adequate funding in budget 2015; and if she will make a...
    • Industrial Disputes
      498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to an industrial dispute at a site under the school building programme (details supplied) in County Dublin; and...
    • School Staffing
      499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views that two temporary teachers allocated to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 17 will remain in their posts this academic year; and if...
    • Youthreach Programme Funding
      500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of funding provided by her Department for the Youthreach programme per year from 2010 to date in 2014; and her views with...
    • Youthreach Programme Reviews
      501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will conduct a review of the Youthreach programme; and if so, if the Joint Committee on Education and Skills will be involved in this...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position for teachers who wish to register with the Teaching Council and the requirement to have completed 300 teaching hours before...
    • Reading Recovery Programme
      503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department changed the criteria for eligibility of primary teachers to be trained as reading recovery teachers; and if she will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their Student Universal Support Ireland grant application. [36782/14]
    • School Accommodation
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 216 of 18 September 2014, if she will outline in tabular form the latest demographic data referred to in...
    • Proposed Legislation
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposed admissions Bill (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36814/14]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will acquire the Rosmini facility (details supplied) in Gracepark Road, Dublin 9 as a specific centre for the education of blind and...
    • Youthreach Programme Funding
      510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding allocated in 2013 and 2014 for Youthreach projects; the number of Youthreach projects in operation in 2013 and 2014; the number of...
    • School Staffing
      511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision to remove one mainstream class teacher from a school (details supplied) in County Galway on the basis that it is...
    • Job Initiatives
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if JobBridge internships for special needs assistants comply with JobBridge criteria, particularly regarding the prospect of paid employment...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria which are being adhered to by the National Council for Special Education special educational needs organisers when allocating...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she has received submissions from the authorities at Hewetson School, Millicent Road, Clane, County Kildare, in respect of...
    • English Language Training Organisations
      518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools which have applied for recognition from the Accreditation and Co-ordination of English Language Services under Quality and...
    • School Equipment
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available to primary schools to replace books with tablets; if there is provision under the book rental scheme for funding towards...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 60 of 5 February 2014, the further progress that has been made regarding the acquisition of a site required...
    • English Language Training Organisations
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for ACELS/QQI recognition for a training centre (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if she will make a...
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
      527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relaton to Caranua if she will undertake a review of the level of the service provision in view of recent representations from survivors of...
    • Gaelscoileanna Issues
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any study has been completed by her Department in relation to the need for another second level Irish language school to cater for the demand...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address an issue involving workers at a site (details supplied) in County Dublin; her plans to rectify the situation; and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects Administration
      532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the number of new schools being built; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37001/14]
    • School Accommodation
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 463 of 23 September 2014, the date on which she expects the primary school in Craddockstown to be in an...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants who have been made redundant in each year since 2008; the number of special needs assistants employed...
    • School Transport Provision
      535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provision that will be made for the students (details supplied) in County Longford who have not yet been provided with transport to their...
    • School Curriculum
      537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to introducing a driver's education class to the secondary school curriculum, particularly to be taught in...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a special needs assistant will be provided in the case of a child (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Proposed Legislation
      539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the implementation of the Equality of Access (Downs syndrome) Bill; if she will provide for the recent improvements for...
    • School Transport Provision
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received correspondence from the Galway section of the schools transport section of Bus Éireann relating to problems being...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a timeframe for the completion of stage 2A design in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and when the much...
    • School Accommodation
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to develop a Gaelcholaiste in Dublin 15 to service the needs of west Dublin and east Meath. [37162/14]
    • Minor Works Scheme Applications
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the minor works grant for the school year 2014/2015 will be granted; if she will provide details on the research her Department has undertaken...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student (details supplied) in County Kerry is entitled to a student field trip grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37169/14]
    • Legislative Programme
      545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the proposed Admissions Bill plans to remove educational choice (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37179/14]
    • Departmental Agencies
      546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form all of the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under her Department's remit; the core...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Construction Regulations
      547. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to support Irish steel fabrication companies in meeting the requirements of the Construction Products Regulation...
    • Housing Issues
      548. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1575 of 17 September 2014, if he will provide details on the membership of the...
    • Environmental Policy
      549. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider legislation similar to that in the United Kingdom limiting the height of trees in small suburban...
    • Water Charges Administration
      550. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the consequences of a person not registering with Irish Water by not returning the application form sent to their...
    • Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding
      551. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to ring-fence funding to support the National Collective of Community Based Women's Networks to deliver the only...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      555. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will set a new limit on the distance between wind turbines and places of residence; and if he will make a statement...
    • Homeless Accommodation Provision
      556. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to extend the extra funding granted to the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive to immediately adjacent...
    • Water Charges Administration
      561. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the water supply of persons living in areas in County Donegal which is often cut off due to burst pipes will still have...
    • Voluntary Housing Sector
      562. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to change the criteria for the buying out of houses for voluntary housing groups (details supplied); and if he...
    • Hydraulic Fracturing
      563. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the names of all organisations and consortiums who submitted a bid to undertake the joint Northern...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      564. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a decision will be made on projects submitted to Mayo North East LEADER by a company (details supplied) in County...
    • Planning Issues
      566. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any planning application for lithium mining in the Carlow-Wicklow region, or any region, will be subject to the normal...
    • Water Meters
      567. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding a shared water meter and assessing individual liability in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      568. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of a Leader funding application for a community project (details supplied) in County Mayo; the reason for the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      569. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 5 of 17 September 2014, in which he states that he expects some 6,000 social housing...
    • Planning Issues
      570. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of independent investigations into planning irregularities launched in 2013; the status of investigations into...
    • Water Charges Administration
      572. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on increasing the free domestic water allowance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      573. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 27 March 2014, if he will provide an update; and if he will make a statement...
    • Water Charges Administration
      574. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to Irish Water and allowances for children if he will indicate the way in which the allowances will apply...
    • Legislative Programme
      575. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for good neighbour legislation as exists in many other countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Irish Water Remit
      576. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on concerns regarding tampering with a water supply (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      577. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the amount of money his Department has given to the Orange Order in the years 2012 and 2013; if he will...
    • Water Supply
      578. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total spent between 2011 and 2013 in repairing and replacing leaking water pipes. [37003/14]
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation
      583. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to the implementation of the pyrite remediation scheme, if he will ensure that homeowners are not left out of...
    • Water Charges Administration
      584. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the responsibility for paying a water tax bill falls on a landlord when the tenant defaults on payment; and if he will...
    • Planning Issues
      585. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding plans for the Dublin docklands strategic development zone; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authority Housing
      586. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to change the laws regarding succession of tenancy in council housing (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Septic Tank Inspections
      590. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if, in consideration of the new obligations on persons with homes with septic tanks, a fast-track planning process may be...
    • Water Charges Administration
      591. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if dementia will be considered for inclusion on the list of medical conditions for which water charges will be capped; and...
    • Water Services Provision
      592. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the protocols that are being developed and procedures to be followed in the taking in...
    • Irish Water Establishment
      593. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a full breakdown in tabular form of the expenses incurred by his Department in establishing Irish Water...
    • Departmental Agencies
      595. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form all of the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under his...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Mining Licences
      596. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he held a meeting or meetings with the Chinese ambassador or his officials this year regarding lithium mining in the...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      597. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will ensure that the Borlin Valley-Coomhola areas in County Cork be included for the roll out of fibre optic...
    • Inland Fisheries
      604. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to introduce a set-aside scheme for eel fishermen who have been unable to fish for the past number of years due...
    • National Postcode System Establishment
      606. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update regarding the geo coding project; when he expects it to be operational and the cost of same;...
    • Post Office Network
      608. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there is a business plan for An Post on the future of post offices; if so, whether he will engage and discuss this...
    • NewERA Projects
      609. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will publish the NewERA report into RTE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37197/14]
    • Departmental Agencies
      610. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide, in tabular form, all of the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under his...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Penalty Points System
      611. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1671 of 17 September 2014, the reason for the very low number of drivers surrendering their driving...
    • Taxi Licences Renewals
      614. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the means of facilitating a person who lost their taxi licence in the past number of years due to the licence lapsing in very difficult...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      615. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a sports capital grant for an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Sports Capital Programme Eligibility
      616. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding sports grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36731/14]
    • Sports Capital Programme Data
      617. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the overall allocation for sports grants for 2014; if he will provide a breakdown of the amount received in each county; and the amount...
    • Ports Development
      619. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has any information regarding the filling in of Dublin Port dry dock; his views on this matter. [36779/14]
    • Integrated Ticketing
      620. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Leap cards cannot be used in a touch-on, touch-off manner on Dublin Bus; his plans to introduce this practice; and if he will...
    • Road Projects
      621. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of fulfilling the commitment to part-fund the A5 improvement project in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Transport Provision
      622. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider making all bus lanes in our cities operational 24 hours, seven days a week; the further capital investment that will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      623. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the partial and full year monetary effect of his Department's budget 2014 reductions to expenditure;...
    • Road Safety Statistics
      624. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out the number of fatalities on roads here this year; the comparison with the same period last year; the actions he will take to...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      625. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out his views on an application to amend Bus Éireann Expressway route number 7, which is intended to abandon historic...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      626. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when there will be an end to the freeze in taking on permanent staff in Iarnród Éireann; and if he has a role in the matter....
    • Tourism Promotion
      627. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that more than 180,000 persons work directly in the tourism industry and in view of the decline in tourism,...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      628. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties many agencies representing persons with disabilities and reduced mobility are having...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      629. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the application process will be open for the next round of sports capital grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tourism Industry
      630. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to explain the reason there is a 25% increase in membership fee to Fáilte Ireland homes approval scheme for 2015. [37041/14]
    • Tourism Promotion
      631. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to explain the reason for the lack of marketing of the south east, midlands and east coast in 2014; and his plans to promote these areas...
    • Airport Security
      632. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a permit was issued to a company (details supplied) to carry munitions or dangerous cargo through Shannon airport on 21 September...
    • Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme
      633. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the deferred members of the pension fund in Aer Lingus will be put under the protection of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013;...
    • Departmental Agencies
      635. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form all of the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under his Department's remit; the...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • National Parks Projects
      636. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to set out her views on a matter relating to Killarney National Park and the issue of rhododendron infestation (details supplied)....
    • National Monuments
      638. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to explain the position regarding jointly funding the purchase of the Motte in Granard, County Longford; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Agencies
      639. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide in tabular form all of the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under her Department's remit;...