Written answers

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

  • Department of Social Protection
    • Free Travel Scheme Administration
      101. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she will provide funding to a company (details supplied) in County Donegal under the free travel scheme in order that the senior citizens in...
    • Youth Unemployment Data
      103. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the up to date statistics for youth unemployment; the progress in addressing this issue; the position regarding the availability...
    • Back to Education Allowance Payments
      104. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the step she will take to ensure that those entitled to a back to education-education training and development option are able to access the payment...
    • Youth Guarantee
      105. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures that have so far been taken on the youth guarantee implementation programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41682/14]
    • Respite Care Grant Payments
      106. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will propose an amendment to the Social Welfare Bill 2014 to provide for an increase of €325 in the respite care grant. [41663/14]
    • Work Placement Initiative
      107. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will amend the rules governing the Tús scheme to remove the element of compulsion in view of the inappropriateness of having a reluctant...
    • Respite Care Grant Payments
      108. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reverse the cuts to the respite care grant in the upcoming Finance Bill. [41685/14]
    • Social Welfare Payments
      109. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way the €100 water allowance will be administrated; the number of persons that will be entitled to the water allowance; the estimated...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      110. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will extend greater supports to former carers in the period following the conclusion of their caring role. [41661/14]
    • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
      111. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will introduce further legislation to afford greater protection to deferred members during the restructuring or wind-up of defined benefit...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      112. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she continues to make efforts to address the serious issue of homelessness arising from the inability of families to access...
    • Anti-Poverty Strategy
      113. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions she will take to tackle the increase in poverty as outlined by Social Justice Ireland; if she will provide the number of persons...
    • Community Employment Schemes Data
      114. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of community employment participants who will be impacted by the final cessation of concurrent payments in 2015 broken down by CE scheme...
    • Rural Social Scheme Eligibility
      115. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will substantially increase the numbers participating on the rural social scheme due to the invaluable service they provide to community...
    • JobPath Initiative
      116. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the geographical regions that are identified to implement the JobPath pilot schemes and the number of and percentage of long-term unemployed in each...
    • Pension Provisions
      117. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied that the current pension legislation protects the interests of deferred pensioners sufficiently; her plans to improve pension...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      118. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to increase rent supplement levels, in view of the recent rise in homelessness; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41698/14]
    • National Internship Scheme Administration
      119. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the changes she plans to make to the operation of the JobBridge scheme to ensure that it is not being used to replace real jobs. [41703/14]
    • Jobseeker Schemes Eligibility
      120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will cease the policy of penalising unemployed persons from taking up casual work and allow them to sign off from days they are working; if...
    • Child Poverty
      121. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which her Department proposes to continue to address the issue of child poverty, as outlined in the recently published UNICEF report,...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      122. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure all job-related training activation programmes will be accessible to persons with disabilities; and if she will make a statement...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      123. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will guarantee that there will be no further cuts to social welfare payments despite efforts by the Department of Public Expenditure and...
    • Social Insurance
      124. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied with the current operation of the PRSI system; if she will guarantee the current benefits arising from the payment of PRSI into...
    • Tax and Social Welfare Codes
      125. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the level of interaction that exists between her Department's social welfare services division and the Revenue Commissioners, particularly in terms...
    • JobPath Initiative
      126. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the awarding of JobPath contracts to private firms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41683/14]
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      127. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the impact of possible future water poverty on the social protection budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41681/14]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      128. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department plans to reverse the cuts in rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41684/14]
    • JobPath Initiative
      129. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the targets for providing employment opportunities to jobseekers through the new JobPath programme in 2015 and 2016; and if she will provide an...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Live Register Data
      130. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons on the live register at the local offices in Kinsale, Bandon and Clonakilty in County Cork; if he will detail the list by age and duration on the...
    • EU Treaties
      131. To ask the Taoiseach if the provisions of Lisbon treaty will reduce Ireland’s voting power in the European Union from 1 November; the reason this significant change is not being...
    • Employment Data
      132. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons at work in the economy when the Government came to power and the present figure; if these figures include part-time workers and workers in labour...
    • Imports and Exports Data
      133. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the annual volume of freight exports and imports that came through the local ports between 2004 and 2014. [40708/14]
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Remuneration
      134. To ask the Taoiseach the public services and semi-State companies under the remit of his Department that deliver bonuses to staff who need improvement. [41125/14]
    • Constitutional Convention Recommendations
      135. To ask the Taoiseach his response to each of the recommendations of the Constitutional Convention concerning Dáil reform; and when the Dáil will debate these recommendations. [41654/14]
    • Census of Population Statistics
      138. To ask the Taoiseach in view of the fact the Central Statistics Office falls under the remit of his Department, the fact approximately 5,000 persons of Roma origin live here and the Pavee...
    • Departmental Agencies
      141. To ask the Taoiseach the number of quangos established in his Department since 2011; the number of members of same; the cost and expense incurred to date, including details of the briefs...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      142. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a jobseeker's allowance payment has been reduced to €100 in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      143. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding young persons with a disability seeking employment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41310/14]
    • Budget 2015
      145. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures in budget 2015 that will help senior citizens; her plans for future budgets in helping senior citizens; and if she will make a...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      147. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determining an appeal for jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • Widow's Pension Eligibility
      148. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to change the rules and legislation regarding entitlement to any type of widow's pension in respect of persons (details supplied) who are...
    • Widow's Pension Appeals
      149. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a widow's pension has not been paid in respect of a person (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      151. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that persons (details supplied) in County Westmeath in receipt of social welfare who are encouraged to...
    • Free Travel Scheme Review
      154. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the free bus pass scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40979/14]
    • Departmental Investigations
      155. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the length of time a matter has been under investigation (details supplied); the reason this matter has not yet been finalised; the stage at which...
    • Job Initiatives
      156. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the supported employment initiative. [41002/14]
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      157. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Galway participating on the job initiative scheme is entitled to the water support payment as well as the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      158. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure the determination in view of the delay of an appeal for carer’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      159. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be approved for domiciliary care allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41022/14]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility
      160. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to change the current practice of ending domiciliary care allowance for parents of children with systemic juvenile rheumatoid arthritis...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      162. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a carer's allowance application appeal will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      163. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [41085/14]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      164. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a SWAI appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Services Card Registration
      166. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the issuing of the public services card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; specifically the reason...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal to the social welfare appeals office in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if it will be expedited due...
    • Illness Benefit Appeals
      171. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision in respect of an appeal for illness benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be expedited; and if she...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      172. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determination of an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals
      173. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that she has received an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17 against a decision by her Department to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      174. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to means test children's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41196/14]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in respect of an appeal for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare whose family is in dire...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if existing participants of community service programmes are entitled to continue to claim secondary benefits from her Department; if she will...
    • Job Initiatives
      179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the work activation measures and schemes provided by her Department which are accessible to individuals who are signing on for credits but who do...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in respect of her Department's review of rent levels for the purposes of setting the caps for rent supplement, the frequency of when these reviews...
    • Community Employment Schemes Data
      182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the figure for the number of community employment supervisors currently employed and the number of supervisors expected to...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      183. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of meetings she or officials from her Department had with a person (details supplied); the purpose of each of those meetings; and if she...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      184. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 has not yet received a reply from her Department to a letter sent on 29 August 2014 regarding...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      185. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to implement recommendations from the European Commission that Ireland should be paying carer's allowance to people paying their...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      189. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the social welfare entitlements available to persons who were previously self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41392/14]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      190. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry in view of the fact...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reinstate the telephone allowance; the cost of restoring it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41415/14]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      192. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has been awarded a domiciliary care allowance in respect of their child; if the child concerned...
    • JobsPlus Scheme
      193. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have applied for participation in the JobsPlus programme in each year since its inception; the number of persons approved...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      194. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if repayments of €5 per week will be accepted in respect of overpayment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
    • Child Benefit Eligibility
      196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding full-time education; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Payments
      197. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon is entitled to backpay from 5 March 2014 to 14 October 2014 on their jobseeker's benefit in view...
    • Departmental Staff Retirements
      199. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 147 of 21 October 2014, the number of persons who retired on ill health grounds from 2010 to date in 2014 who...
    • Mortgage Interest Supplement Applications
      200. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the documentation that remains outstanding in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in respect of the application for mortgage...
    • Social Welfare Code Reform
      203. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to deal with social welfare reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41595/14]
    • Community Employment Schemes Funding
      204. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given to the possibility of allowing travel expenses for members of a community employment scheme (details supplied) in...
    • Illness Benefit Eligibility
      205. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if assistance is available in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41643/14]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      206. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) had their payment cut; the criteria used; if all considerations, including PRSI deductions, were made in the...
    • Illness Benefit Appeals
      207. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No 148 of 21 October 2014, if she will respond to a further query in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      208. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determination of an appeal for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      211. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a disability allowance appeal will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      212. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow. [41791/14]
    • Rural Social Scheme Eligibility
      214. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide additional rural social scheme spaces to Údarás na Gaeltachta catering for the Ballinskelligs, the Glen, Waterville,...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      217. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who will be effected by the decision to terminate the practice of paying an additional social welfare payment to some...
    • Youth Guarantee
      218. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the budget for the youth guarantee in 2013, 2014 and 2015; the number of places available in the youth guarantee...
    • Live Register Data
      219. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons under the age of 25 who are currently on the live register broken down by jobseeker's benefit, jobseeker's allowance and...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      220. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of employment service officers currently employed in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41890/14]
    • Job Initiatives
      222. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form each live register activation programme currently in operation and the numbers participating in these programmes...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      223. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of persons who receive jobseeker's allowance at a rate below €188; the reason for this; and if...
    • Pension Provisions
      225. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the option of retirement on a transitional payment until retirement age is reached (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      226. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rules in place that will apply to a person who was born in 1965 in relation to eligibility for the State pension (contributory) in terms of the...
    • Social Welfare Eligibility
      228. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for social welfare supports including child benefit which were refused under the habitual residence condition since its...
    • Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme
      229. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the Irish airlines superannuation scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Irish Water Administration
      230. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an agreement exists between her Department and Irish Water for the use of PPS numbers by Irish Water as outlined in the Social Welfare...
    • Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme
      232. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the Irish airlines superannuation scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Registration of Births
      235. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for late registration of a birth for a person (details supplied) will be completed and a birth certificate issued; and if she...
    • Post Office Network
      236. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has engaged with and-or met with An Post to discuss the impact of the introduction of electronic payments and how An Post can possibly adapt...
    • Child Poverty
      238. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she expects to be in a position to progressively address the issue of child poverty in forthcoming years; and if she will make a...
    • National Carers Strategy Status
      240. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she and her Department continue to assess the role of carers with specific reference to the long term impact on families; and if...
    • Unemployment Benefits
      242. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she expects the cost of unemployment benefit-assistance to fluctuate in the coming year; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory) Numbers
      243. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the number of recipients of non-contributory old age pension are set to increase-decrease over the next five years; and if she...
    • Labour Activation Measures
      244. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which she expects back to work incentives to play a role in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42158/14]
    • Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
      246. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the degree to which the waiting period for the hearing of appeals in respect of various benefits-allowances has improved; the extent to which the...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Data
      247. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of cases referred to appeal in the case of invalidity pension, disability allowance or other health related payments; the number of such...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory) Numbers
      248. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of recipients of non-contributory old age pension; the degree to which this number has fluctuated in the past six years; and if she...
    • Departmental Funding
      249. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on losses in the workforce of the social justice sector (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42192/14]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
      251. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the basis on which her Department may request private bank statements from persons on jobseeker's allowance; the data protection measures that are...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      253. 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...
    • Public Services Card
      254. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the criteria used to get the public service card for clients, vis-à-vis attending the office in person, and postal registrations, where the ID...
    • Departmental Bodies
      255. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of quangos set up since 2011 in her Department; the number of members of same; the cost and expense incurred to date including details of...
  • Department of Finance
    • VAT Exemptions
      256. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the fact that water charges will not be subject to VAT, in line with EU approval, if the Irish Water call out charges will be subject to VAT; and...
    • National Pensions Reserve Fund Administration
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of lending undertaken by the NPRF SME Credit Fund to date; the number of projects involved; the total number of jobs supported; the...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses that have made use of the small and medium enterprise online tool designed to assist the SME sector; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tax Credits
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change the single person child carer tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41721/14]
    • Property Taxation Administration
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason an additional transaction fee of 1.49% is allowed to be charged on credit card payments of local property tax; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Property Taxation Collection
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the timing of property tax bill (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41906/14]
    • Fuel Laundering
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he has taken to combat the practice of petrol stretching; his plans to increase the penalties for same, including criminal convictions for...
    • Excise Duties
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding duty paid within the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42271/14]
    • Fuel Prices
      266. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form an analysis of the price of oil and the price of petrol, excluding excise duties in both cases, compared to the price of...
    • Credit Unions
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct the liquidators at a credit union (details supplied) in County Kildare to engage with the local community and members of the credit union...
    • Tax Credits
      268. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners treat income tax credits for male waiters and female waiters equally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40916/14]
    • Universal Social Charge Payments
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the universal social charge. [40917/14]
    • VAT Exemptions
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the most recent cuts to school budgets which have resulted in principals in County Wicklow indicating they may not be able to heat their school for...
    • Revenue Commissioners Resources
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to maintain the walk-in Revenue Commissioners office in Tallaght, Dublin 24. [40988/14]
    • Bank Restructuring
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a State supported bank is planning to outsource a number of functions (details supplied); the number of...
    • Financial Services Ombudsman
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change the rule whereby a person can only submit a complaint to the Financial Services Ombudsman in respect of a product sold to them within the...
    • Tax Code
      275. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will change the tax status where middle and low income earners pay more tax then large corporations; if this status has changed following budget 2015;...
    • Mortgage Applications Approvals
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance the way persons who have already had a mortgage approval or are in the process of buying a house, but may not conclude the sale until 2015, will be affected...
    • Mortgage Repayments
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the charge on a property when the full moneys owed on the mortgage account have been paid to the mortgage provider but the deeds to the...
    • Tax Code
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance the purpose and reasoning, and the evidence supporting this reasoning, for the decision to remove the 80% windfall tax applying to chargeable gains on the...
    • Household Charge Administration
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 13 May 2014 and the acknowledgement therein that the Revenue Commissioners recognise that the person in question...
    • Insurance Coverage
      280. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 475 of 23 September 2014 his views regarding the possible increase in buildings insurance premia given the increased...
    • National Pensions Reserve Fund Investments
      281. To ask the Minister for Finance the financial exposure of the National Pensions Reserve Fund and other agencies under the National Treasury Management Agency to the planned incinerator at...
    • VAT Rate Application
      282. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 17 September 2014, if he is in favour of a change to the EU VAT directive and relevant orders to allow for a zero...
    • Tax Data
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of interest paying accounts on which DIRT tax was paid in each year from 2011 to 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41302/14]
    • Tax Yield
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount raised to date from the bank levy introduced in budget 2014; the number of institutions on which the levy was applied; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Data
      288. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has examined the feasibility of charging DIRT at the account holders' marginal tax rate rather than a flat rate of 41%; and if he will make a statement...
    • Pension Provisions
      289. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding mis-selling of a pension policy and the role of the Financial Services Ombudsperson (details supplied) [41309/14]
    • Tax Agreements
      290. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will engage with the relevant authorities in the United States with a view to concluding an updated double taxation agreement along the lines of the...
    • Departmental Meetings
      291. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of meetings he or officials from his Department had with a person (details supplied); the purpose of each of those meetings; and if he will make a...
    • Fuel Laundering
      292. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to eliminate fuel laundering which is having a serious impact on economy here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41338/14]
    • Budget 2015
      293. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected structural deficit for 2015 and 2016; the medium target for closing the structural deficit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41359/14]
    • Housing Loans
      294. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank of Ireland's loan to value restrictions on buy to let property purchases as currently proposed will apply to funds or real estate...
    • Stamp Duty
      295. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify if stamp duty may be applied to the sale or transfer of loans by Irish regulated financial institutions; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Rebates
      296. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has not received their tax rebate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41389/14]
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      297. 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 here; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      298. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the capital gains tax relief measures announced in the budget to encourage farm consolidation, if he will facilitate the many farmers who are...
    • Irish Water Funding
      299. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of equity capital that has been provided by the State to Irish Water to date; the planned equity investments in 2015 and 2016; and if he will...
    • Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Staff
      300. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff employed by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41430/14]
    • Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Funding
      301. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress made by the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland in securing funding; the amount of funding that has come from KfW; and if he will make a...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises Debt
      303. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of institutions with outstanding loans to small and medium enterprises here; the number of institutions that are subject to targets for dealing...
    • Central Credit Register
      304. To ask the Minister for Finance when the central credit register will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41435/14]
    • NAMA Property Sales
      305. To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding the National Asset Management Agency selling 600 apartments to investors when there is a shortage of properties in the market for people...
    • Universal Social Charge Yield
      306. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue raised and the number of persons through the imposition of a 45% USC rate on bank bonuses with a breakdown by year. [41452/14]
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      307. To ask the Minister for Finance the process, including length, number of interviews, advertising and short listing for the position of Secretary General of his Department; when a person...
    • IBRC Mortgage Loan Book
      308. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgages still held by IBRC in special liquidation; the proportion which are residential mortgages and buy to let respectively; the arrears...
    • Pension Provisions
      309. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reduce the amount of tax on a particular pension scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41489/14]
    • Tax Code
      311. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures in budget 2015 that will help the so-called squeezed middle; his plans for future budgets in helping the squeezed middle; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Data
      312. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 16 July 2014, if figures are available on the number of people who applied to register under the relevant...
    • Housing Finance Agency Funding
      313. To ask the Minister for Finance if loans from the Housing Finance Agency to voluntary sector housing associations are included in the calculation of the State's debt to GDP ratio. [41549/14]
    • Living City Initiative
      314. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 is eligible for the living city initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41570/14]
    • Tax Reliefs Cost
      316. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of persons who availed of the tax credit in respect of service charges in each year in which it applied; the...
    • Insurance Compensation Fund Drawdown
      317. To ask the Minister for Finance the costs incurred to date by the administrators of a company (details supplied) for the rescuing of the company; the likely final cost; when the...
    • Tax Data
      318. To ask the Minister for Finance the changes in budget 2015 to the rate of stamp duty; the criteria for exemption from stamp duty; and the rates that apply if the consanguinity relief, which...
    • Home Renovation Incentive Scheme
      319. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on increasing the amount of home renovation incentive available to a house owner where a house is being renovated and made available to a local...
    • Tax Reliefs Eligibility
      320. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the details of the tax relief announced in the budget to those providing their own water and wastewater treatment through a private well...
    • EU Budget Contribution
      321. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the reported recalculation of EU member states' contributions will affect Ireland's contribution; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Banking Sector Staff
      322. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff directly employed by AIB and the number employed through outsourcing as of October 2014; and these same figures at the time of the State...
    • Mortgage Arrears Rate
      325. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to tackle the mortgage crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35206/14]
    • Budget Consultation Process
      326. To ask the Minister for Finance if the revised growth figures for 2015 for the German economy have any implications for growth figures announced on budget day 2015; and if he will make a...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises Debt
      327. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that the employment prospects for the small and medium enterprise sector would be enhanced by more comprehensive action to tackle SME debt; and if...
    • Home Renovation Incentive Scheme Eligibility
      328. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce tax relief for persons who carry out remedial works on their own septic tank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41814/14]
    • Corporation Tax Regime
      329. To ask the Minister for Finance if the corporation tax measures in the Finance Bill 2014 have been approved by the EU Commission on state aid grounds. [41833/14]
    • Mortgage Interest Relief Eligibility
      330. To ask the Minister for Finance if mortgage interest relief will be available to a person who purchased a property as a first-time buyer in 2008 and who subsequently rented out the property...
    • EU Budget Contribution
      331. To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost including breakdown of Ireland's financial contributions to the European Union, including the Commission, Parliament, Central Bank, Court of...
    • Debt Relief
      332. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support debt cancellation in situations of unsustainable and illegitimate debt instead of increased International Monetary Fund, IMF, lending as...
    • Pensions Levy
      333. To ask the Minister for Finance if the pension levy is applicable to both incomes of a person (details supplied) in County Clare who has a full-time position with the local authority and...
    • Economic Growth Rate
      334. To ask the Minister for Finance the new measurement of economic growth, GDP and GNP, in view of a recent EU directive; the way this compares to the previous measurement; and if he will make...
    • Defined Contribution Pension Funds
      335. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which he has studied the impact on holders of combined contribution pensions who are prevented from accessing their total savings due to the...
    • Tax Exemptions
      336. To ask the Minister for Finance in the context of other tax changes in the budget, the reason he did not review the income exemption limits for people aged over 65 years of age and the...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      337. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) is being requested to pay back tax when cheques for sick leave were not cashed by the person; if he will clarify with...
    • Tax Rebates
      338. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the diesel rebate scheme; his plans to change existing guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Property Taxation Yield
      339. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 119 of 8 April 2014, his estimate of the cost of allowing the local property tax to be deducted as an expense by...
    • Tax Yield
      340. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield in each year from 2011 to 2013 from income tax, PRSI and USC on income from the rent received by landlords from residential properties; and if he...
    • Savings Accounts Interest Rates
      341. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason banks have been allowed to apply pressure to ensure that post offices and credit unions keep their savings rates low; and if he will make a...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      342. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the sale of mortgage loans in Ireland to funds operating from a separate jurisdiction [42139/14]
    • Tax Yield
      343. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding tax on the self-employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42165/14]
    • Financial Services Ombudsman
      344. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a case with the Financial Ombudsman (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42166/14]
    • IBRC Mortgage Loan Book
      345. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that all potential bidders for a certain commercial loan book being sold by the IBRC special liquidator (details supplied) had equal access...
    • NAMA Loans Sale
      346. To ask the Minister for Finance the difference in the amount bid by the highest bidder and the second highest bidder in respect of the sale of loans (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Tax Settlements
      349. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding an appeal submitted to the Revenue Commissioners by a person in County Cork (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mortgage Schemes
      350. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding new Central Bank rules on house deposits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42273/14]
    • State Bodies
      351. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of quangos set up since 2011 in his Department; the number of members of same; the cost and expense incurred to date including details of the...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Valuation Office
      352. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his Department's policy regarding rates on properties utilised by charities (details supplied) which are registered charities; and if it...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      353. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects the feasibility study, including environmental impact statement, to identify possible flood mitigation measures for...
    • Departmental Properties
      354. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the means by which the Office of Public Works has come into the possession of Newbridge Credit Union building, County Kildare; if in...
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      356. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding an application for funding in respect of an area (details supplied) relative to a pilot scheme to solve local...
    • National Monuments
      357. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will extend the opening hours for visitors to Kilmainham Gaol from Monday to Saturday from 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., with a revised...
    • Coastal Protection
      358. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding repair works at Rosses Point, County Sligo; when a decision on provision of funding for these repair works will...
    • Public Sector Pensions Legislation
      359. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the moneys raised to date from the pensions related deductions since it was introduced in 2009; the percentage rate at which it was...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      361. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason all requests for meetings at a local or regional level involving the Office of Public Works in relation to local matters have...
    • Haddington Road Agreement Implementation
      362. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the lowest paid workers in the Civil Service have not had their first hour of unpaid overtime restored since March of this...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      363. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 16 July 2014, if he will make arrangements to ensure that the information will be provided;...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      365. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has issued guidelines on the payment of bonuses and performance related pay across the public sector and the commercial semi-State...
    • Pension Provisions
      366. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a member of the non-established State employees scheme who will be 64 years of age in December, and who has total reckonable service...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      367. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of meetings he or officials from his Department had with a person (details supplied); the purpose of each of those meetings;...
    • Public Service Reform Plan Measures
      368. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the improvements that have been introduced by his Department in recent years to ensure that spending decisions are more informed and...
    • Public Procurement Contracts Social Clauses
      369. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 259 and 260, if any of the measures he referred to in the reply apply to construction contracts...
    • Ethics in Public Office Legislation
      370. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will move the resolutions to designate chairpersons of the Oireachtas committees as officeholders as set out in the Standards in...
    • State Properties
      371. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if provision is made in the vote of the Office of Public Works for 2015 to enable construction to commence on a project (details...
    • National Monuments
      372. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if wheelchair accessible toilets will be built in the vicinity of Ross Castle, Killarney, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Bodies
      373. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of quangos set up since 2011 in his Department; the number of members of same; the cost and expenses incurred to date...
    • Pensions Legislation
      374. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to extend early retirement schemes in the public service beyond June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Appointments to State Boards
      375. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding State board appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37637/14]
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Construction Contracts
      376. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason there is a delay in the enactment of the Construction Contracts Act 2013 which was signed into law on 29 July 2013; the...
    • Trade Agreements
      377. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way he is ensuring that Ireland’s ongoing engagement with the negotiations on the proposed Transatlantic Trade and...
    • Work Permit Appeals
      378. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress to date in determination of an application for work permit in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Trade Agreements
      379. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of the protections for human rights contained within the Colombia Free Trade Agreement; the commitments to...
    • Employment Rights
      381. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 22 of 16 October 2014 if he will report on his consideration of the feasibility of wage setting...
    • Irish Water Administration
      383. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of meetings he or officials from his Department had with a person (details supplied); the purpose of each of those...
    • Microenterprise Loan Fund Expenditure
      384. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the review of the microenterprise loan fund scheme will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41433/14]
    • Innovation Vouchers Initiative
      385. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications for innovation vouchers; the total number issued; the number redeemed; the total value of vouchers redeemed...
    • Job Creation Data
      386. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new jobs created in new Industrial Development Agency companies in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 in...
    • Local Enterprise Offices Remit
      387. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the start-up grants available in the case of a business in County Dublin (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • IDA Site Visits
      388. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on concerns at the number of Industrial Development Agency visits made to County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
      389. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the financial resources and supports available to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission; the number of staff it will...
    • Recruitment Agencies
      390. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the regulations in place for recruitment agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42246/14]
    • State Bodies Establishment
      391. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of quangos set up since 2011 in his Department; the number of members of same; the cost and expense incurred to date...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Scéim Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste
      392. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a dhéanfar íocaíocht faoi scéim na limistéar faoi mhíbhuntáiste do 2014 le feirmeoir...
    • Farm Inspections
      393. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a site inspection will take place regarding a single farm payment appeal in respect of persons (details supplied) in County...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      394. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive their disadvantaged area payment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Budget 2015
      395. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the positive initiatives in the budget for young farmers to inherit land and the top-up agreed for the new CAP for single...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      396. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the disadvantaged area based scheme for 2014 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be...
    • Water Supply
      397. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department intervened with local authorities or other organisations to secure fresh water supplies for a company (details...
    • Animal Welfare Bodies
      398. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action he proposes to take in relation to the fact that a charity (details supplied) has had 49 staff leave since May 2013, and...
    • Forestry Sector
      399. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dates on which felling licences pursuant to the Forestry Act 1946 were granted to the National Roads Authority for tree felling...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      401. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the existing and proposed reference areas and forage areas for the four commonages, namely, Cloghaun, Kilbeg, Kilnagappagh and...
    • Trade Agreements
      402. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to ensure the interests of Ireland’s agriculture will be protected under the transatlantic trade and...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      403. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2014 disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Animal Welfare
      404. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the protections that are afforded to the Bilberry goat herd at Bilberry in Waterford city; the steps he is taking to ensure this...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      406. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their 2014 disadvantaged area and single farm payments; and if he will...
    • Parking Charges
      407. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the proposal to introduce paid parking in Howth, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      408. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      410. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue under both the single farm payment and area aid scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      411. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay for the area based payment and the single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Scéim Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste
      413. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén fáth go bhfuil ró-íocaíocht faoi Scéim na Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste do 2013...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      414. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the disadvantaged area based payment scheme for 2014 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway;...
    • Scéim Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste
      415. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a dhéanfar íocaíocht faoi Scéim na Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste do 2014 le feirmeoir...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      416. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Meetings
      418. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of meetings he or officials from his Department had with a person (details supplied); the purpose of each of those...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Eligibility
      419. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 275 of 23 September 2014, in which he stated that this matter had been resolved, if the 39...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      420. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment will issue for the disadvantaged area payment scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      422. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged area and single farm payment will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      423. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a duplicate of a decision will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo, and to this Deputy, considering that the...
    • Beef Imports
      424. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of beef imported into this country by month to date in 2014. [41450/14]
    • Single Payment Scheme Administration
      425. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of single farm payment applications which have been selected for satellite inspection in 2014; the number of these...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      426. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41464/14]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      428. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive their area aid payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • On-farm Investment Schemes
      429. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on allowing for the upgrading of existing equipment and add-on facilities in the next TAM's funding scheme; and if he will...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      430. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way his Department deals with 2014 disadvantaged area scheme and first 50% tranche of 2014 single farm payments in respect of a...
    • Forestry Premium Payments
      431. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review a case in respect of a person (details supplied) regarding an overpayment issue; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      432. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [41522/14]
    • Forestry Grants
      435. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will have their forestry road grant paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41531/14]
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      436. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm and disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Departmental Offices
      437. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to close the district veterinary office in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41578/14]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      438. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their AEOS 3 payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      439. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a REP scheme 4 payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who has not yet received...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      440. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (detail supplied) in County Mayo will receive their single farm payment; the reason for the delay; and if he will make...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      443. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will arrange for payment to issue in respect a person (details supplied) in County Cork regarding their 2014 disadvantaged area...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      445. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2014 disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      446. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of 2013 single payment scheme and agri-environment option scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      447. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2014 single farm and disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
    • Farm Inspections
      448. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason an on-site ground inspection was not carried out for an appeal of a penalty on a single farm payment in respect of a...
    • Departmental Functions
      449. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reasons for the disbandment of his Department's special investigations unit; if all those employed in its service in 2013-2014...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      450. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans regarding those who have been found innocent in the courts of charges made against them by agents of his Department; if he...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      451. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive their single farm payment; the reason for the delay; and if he will...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway can expect to receive payment of all grants applied for in view of the fact that...
    • Milk Quota Applications
      455. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review an application for a quota under the hardship scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2014 single farm and disadvantaged area payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an area aid appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a penalty applied to a disadvantaged area scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41949/14]
    • Farm Inspections
      462. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers subject to an on-farm and satellite inspection for land eligibility in 2014; the number of those cases that...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason reduced single farm payment and area based payment have been issued to a person (details supplied) in County Cork without...
    • Beef Data Programme
      465. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that there will be no limit on the number of animals that individual farmers can apply on and get paid on under...
    • Food Labelling
      466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views regarding the new labelling initiative being pursued by the Minister for Agriculture in Northern Ireland and supported by...
    • Beef Industry
      467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views regarding the Bord Bia data which show that the key R3 steer cattle price here is now over €1/kg below the same R3...
    • Beef Technology Adoption Programme
      468. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is no provision in his Department's Estimates for the beef technology adoption programme for 2015; if this means...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42140/14]
    • Animal Welfare
      471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an inquiry was made into an incident which occurred in Roscommon dog pound in August 2014, in which the dogs were left unattended...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a review is taking place into which force majeure circumstances will be applied in the context of single farm entitlements of...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      473. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the severe hardship caused to many family farm households due to delays in issuing payments such...
    • Departmental Bodies
      477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of quangos set up since 2011 in his Department; the number of members of same; the cost and expense incurred to date...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      478. To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding reviews of eligibility criteria for a candidate's eyesight who has previously had corrective laser eye surgery, in view of eligibility...
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      479. To ask the Minister for Defence if the 21 year rule for Permanent Defence Force personnel enlisted after 1994 will be reviewed; his views that many of those affected by this rule are very...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      480. To ask the Minister for Defence if colour blindness debars applications for the Defence Forces and Reserve Defence Forces; the criteria used in debarring members having regard to the fact...
    • Defence Forces Operations
      482. To ask the Minister for Defence if he has received a request to send personnel from the Irish Defence Forces to West Africa to help in the effort to deal with the Ebola crisis; his views on...
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      483. To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding non-payment of Defence Forces' salary in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Defence Forces Medicinal Products
      484. To ask the Minister for Defence in view of previous statements that ten soldiers were reported as having side effects from Lariam, the number of these that were NCOs and the number that were...
    • Defence Forces Operations
      485. To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding Ireland’s participation in the UNDOF mission in the Golan Heights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42167/14]
    • White Paper on Defence
      486. To ask the Minister for Defence when the White Paper on Defence will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42168/14]
    • Defence Forces Expenditure
      487. To ask the Minister for Defence the way in which Ireland’s defence spending as a share of GDP compares to that of other neutral countries in the European Union; and if he will make a...
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      488. To ask the Minister for Defence his views on recent claims regarding the standard of living of members of the Defence Forces that were made at the recent PDFORRA annual conference; and if he...
    • Defence Forces Medicinal Products
      489. To ask the Minister for Defence his views on Lariam being prescribed for members of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42171/14]
    • Defence Forces Strength
      490. To ask the Minister for Defence if on the 30 November 2012, Defence Force Regulation CS 4 had an allowed establishment for the number of Permanent Defence Force personnel positions in the 14...
    • Defence Forces Reorganisation
      491. To ask the Minister for Defence the specific study which underpinned the decision by the former Minister for Defence in 2011 to discontinue the Western Brigade. [42173/14]
    • Air Accident Investigations
      492. To ask the Minister for Defence if all investigations and inquiries into an accident (details supplied) in County Galway have been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Bodies
      493. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of quangos set up since 2011 in his Department; the number of members of same; the cost and expense incurred to date including details of the...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Proposed Legislation
      494. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the existing provisions relating to ground rent purchase scheme here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40998/14]
    • Constitutional Convention Recommendations
      495. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 7 October 2014 stating that the Government has also undertaken to look at making Article 41.2 of the...
    • Garda Recruitment
      497. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding Garda recruitment; and when the next recruitment date for new trainees (details supplied) will be. [41013/14]
    • Criminal Law
      498. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce or amend legislation in order that judges have the full range of options available to them including community service...
    • Immigration Policy
      499. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on an extension of the deadline regarding a matter (details supplied) regarding programmes at an international college of technology....
    • Public Order Offences
      500. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on introducing laws to make it illegal to beg beside or in the vicinity of parking ticket machines. [41050/14]
    • Garda Investigations
      501. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans regarding confirmed reports of the way the Provisional IRA movement dealt with complaints of sexual abuse; her views that victims are...
    • Immigration Status
      502. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review a stamp 4 application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Data
      503. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Garda PULSE system will shut down temporarily to facilitate updates and the input of information in relation to new offences or new...
    • Garda Resources
      504. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the sharp rise in break-ins, particularly in homes and business premises, and an armed robbery at Saggart post office on 18 October...
    • Garda Investigations
      505. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to examine a person's claims (details supplied) that the Garda bureau of fraud investigations failed to screen the allegations against...
    • Direct Provision System
      506. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the direct provision working group is due to meet; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41283/14]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      507. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason she has not replied to the request by the Sex Workers' Alliance of Ireland that she meet with sex workers to hear their objections to...
    • Direct Provision System
      509. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if, in view of the well-established and well-documented human rights and value for money concerns that have been in the public domain for many...
    • Restorative Justice
      510. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will confirm receipt of correspondence in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and the process involved to have this...
    • Immigration Status
      511. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in regularisation of status in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Resources
      512. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the Garda personnel attached to Áras an Uachtarán are based at Cabra Garda station, Navan Road, Dublin 7; if she will...
    • Garda Station Closures
      513. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to close the Cabra Garda station, Dublin 7; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41376/14]
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      514. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the independent review panel of complaints against An Garda Síochána; the timeline for the completion of the review; the...
    • Crime Prevention
      515. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on investing in portable metal detectors for the Garda to use in helping to deal with knife crime; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Awards
      516. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 30 January 2014, when a decision is expected to be made on an application in respect of a person...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      518. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there has been a delay in the establishment of a commission of investigation following the Guerin report; and if she will make a...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      520. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 661 of 17 September 2014, the number of people in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and up to 12 September 2014...
    • Drug Rehabilitation Clinics
      521. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 324 of 21 October 2014, if she will elaborate on the nature of the review that she will be proposing in...
    • Property Registration Fees
      522. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter (details supplied); if there is any measure present or pending to allow registered charities to waive their property...
    • Garda Powers
      523. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure by which the Garda or local authorities can remove vehicles from public roads, or employ other agencies to do so on their behalf...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      524. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a meeting can be facilitated between a correspondent (details supplied) and officials in her Department. [41803/14]
    • Immigration Status
      525. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if and when stamp 4 will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Family Reunification Applications
      526. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied that allegations of fraudulent documentation and impending Garda investigations were thoroughly investigated in advance of...
    • Immigration Status
      527. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress in determination of application pursuant to section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 in the case of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Garda Investigations
      528. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has raised the investigation of the death of a person (details supplied) with the Garda authorities; and the steps she will take to have...
    • Crime Data
      529. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reports received by the Garda of bicycles stolen from the carpark at the Red Cow Luas stop in the years 2010 to 2013, inclusive,...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      532. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding justice for a person. [41918/14]
    • Prisoner Releases
      534. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the number of prisoners currently on temporary release broken down by prison; the type of offence the...
    • Prisoner Data
      535. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total prison population; the number of prisoners in tabular form, broken down by prison; the capacity of each prison within the...
    • Garda Operations
      536. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of outstanding warrants nationwide on PULSE as of this date; if she will provide a breakdown by bench, penal and committal warrants of...
    • Prisoner Data
      537. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the most up-to-date statistics on recidivism here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41958/14]
    • Irish Prison Service
      538. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the staff numbers in the Irish Prison Service from 2011 to date in 2014; the resources allocated to the Irish...
    • Prisoner Data
      539. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 305 of 23 September 2014 and 269 of 7 October 2014, the number of convictions each prisoner...
    • Insolvency Service of Ireland Applications
      540. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the number of successful applications for personal insolvency arrangements, debt settlement arrangements and...
    • Courts Service
      541. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current waiting time experienced in applying to be heard in the High Court and Supreme Court; the number of cases pending in these courts;...
    • Garda Promotions
      542. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current vacancies in senior Garda posts; when she will fill these posts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41964/14]
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      543. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the actions being taken to address the anti-social behaviour difficulties currently being experienced in Dublin city centre; her plans to provide...
    • Property Registration Authority
      544. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a dealing registration in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      545. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding available for communities wishing to install CCTV systems in local towns and villages; if this funding will be applied towards mobile...
    • Immigration Status
      546. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in determination of an application pursuant to the provisions of section 3(11) of the Immigration Act 1999, as amended, in...
    • Road Traffic Accidents Data
      548. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of road traffic accidents involving vintage vehicles reported in the past five years; of these, the number that were caused by any...
    • Garda Investigations
      549. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an investigation (details supplied) in County Meath; her plans to address this issue as a matter of urgency; the further...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      550. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a criminal investigation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42198/14]
    • Proposed Legislation
      551. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality's deliberations into trafficking of persons for prostitution and...
    • Penal Policy Review Group Report
      552. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the actions she has taken for each recommendation contained in the strategic review of penal policy final...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • HSE Complaints Procedures
      554. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reasons an investigation by the Health Service Executive that was commenced against a person (details supplied) in County Longford has...
    • School Attendance Data
      555. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children under age 15 who have left the school system during each of the past five years who were not on the register of...
    • Early Child Care Education
      556. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to child care providers that have yet to be paid for their participation in the ECCE scheme for Q3 2014 and...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      557. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will indicate the period for which a person (details supplied) in County Galway was resident in the Tuam mother and baby home; the...
    • Home Schooling
      558. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps parents are required to take if they wish to home-school their children who are of primary school age. [42095/14]
    • Child Care Qualifications
      559. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of early childhood care and education teachers who hold a two-year diploma in Montessori education who are paid the higher...
    • Child Care Services Funding
      560. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will expedite the appeal of a centre (details supplied) in County Wicklow in respect of the early years capital grants programme...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      561. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update regarding a service (details supplied) in Dublin 17; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41207/14]
    • Departmental Funding
      562. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 590 of 4 February 2014, if he will furnish a copy of the 2013 national survey into Health Service...
    • National Lottery Funding Applications
      563. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when a decision will be made on an application in respect of a group (details supplied) in County Dublin for a national lottery grant; and...
    • Child Protection
      564. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will clarify for the purposes of developing child safeguarding policies his Department's exact definition of a child; and if he will...
    • Departmental Funding
      565. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps he will take regarding the allocation of his Department's budget that cognisance would be taken of the significant reduction of...
    • Youth Cafés Provision
      566. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps he will take to ensure that appropriate funding is allocated in order to ensure that a youth café (details supplied) in...
    • Legislative Measures
      567. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update regarding the implementation of new legislation as outlined in the children's referendum; and if he will make...
    • Adoption Data
      568. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children who have been adopted into Ireland from countries not signed up to the Hague Adoption Convention since the Adoption...
    • Child Care Services Expenditure
      569. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps that have been taken to ensure that crèche facilities are paid only for children who avail of the crèche's services and...
    • Crèche Facilities
      570. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will list the crèche facilities funded by public moneys that remain empty; the sums allocated in each case; if he will list the...
    • Early Child Care Education
      571. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to extend the early childhood care and education scheme and introduce a full second year of free pre-school care and education as...
    • Departmental Reports
      572. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to disseminate a school readiness research report commissioned by his Department and the Department of Education and Skills in...
    • Departmental Funding
      573. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the vital work undertaken by Teenline with particular reference to children and teenagers suffering from...
    • Departmental Agencies
      574. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of quangos set up since 2011 in his Department; the number of members of same; the cost and expense incurred to date including...
  • Department of Health
    • Water Fluoridation
      575. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details regarding the studies that confirm that fluoride in water is good; if he will indicate if any other countries that mandate by law...
    • Departmental Funding
      576. To ask the Minister for Health the funding available from his Department for a centre (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41497/14]
    • Primary Medical Certificates Application Numbers
      577. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary medical certificates issued in each of the past eight years to date; the number refused in the same period; and if he will make a...
    • Traveller Community
      578. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the Pavee Point report Challenging Barriers and Misconceptions: Roma Maternal Health in Ireland, particularly where it states that not having the...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      579. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department began assessing means for a medical card on the basis of the value of the family farm in addition to income derived from the farm; and if...
    • Medical Card Data
      580. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form by local health area the number of medical cards discontinued as a result of the changes implemented in the Health...
    • HIQA Investigations
      581. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce legislation to enable Health Information and Quality Authority investigate individual complaints about the standards of care in nursing...
    • Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
      582. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is a six year orthodontic waiting list in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he...
    • Health Services Provision
      583. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be considered for insulin pump therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40932/14]
    • Respite Care Grant Applications
      584. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry regarding their need for respite care; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      585. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40980/14]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      586. To ask the Minister for Health when the new drug recently approved for MS patients (details supplied) will be available on prescription for patients; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Charges
      587. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown for each acute hospital of the unpaid patient bills at 1 January 2014; a breakdown for each acute hospital of the unpaid patient...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      588. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Longford who has been approved for nursing home subvention will receive the agreed nursing home financial support;...
    • Dental Services Provision
      589. To ask the Minister for Health the dental screening services that are being given to primary school children in County Galway; the reason children are not being screened in second and fourth...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      590. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are waiting to receive a Baha hearing device; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40993/14]
    • Symphysiotomy Issues
      591. To ask the Minister for Health the total number, from 1940 to date, of symphysiotomies and pubiotomies carried out in each public hospital in the State, and in each private hospital where...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      592. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Carlow has to wait until July 2015 for hip replacement surgery; the steps he will take to expedite same. [41003/14]
    • Medical Card Data
      593. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 1 October 2014; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; the number for each type of card issued on a...
    • Registration of Nurses
      594. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the issue of an increase by €50 in the annual retention fee for nurses by the Irish nursing board as the new fee increase to...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      595. To ask the Minister for Health if the cuts of one million euro to a service (details supplied) in County Dublin over the past five years will be reversed in this year's Health Service...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      596. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the provision of medical treatment in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and his further views on the waiting lists at the...
    • Hospital Services
      597. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn the considerable inconvenience and stress caused to the parents of children with arthritis living throughout the State by the...
    • Hospital Staff
      598. To ask the Minister for Health if a third rheumatology consultant will be appointed by the Health Service Executive to service those suffering from arthritis in the north west region; if a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      599. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operating theatres available for use in a hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 11; the number of operating theatres that are in use; the number...
    • Health Services Provision
      601. To ask the Minister for Health the options regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Louth who is currently awaiting a heart transplant in a hospital since August 2014; and...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      602. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help and section 39 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41078/14]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a case in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when the person concerned may expect an appointment. [41087/14]
    • Cancer Incidence
      604. To ask the Minister for Health the number of instances recorded of the various forms of cancer on a county basis throughout the country in each of the past ten years to date in 2014, the...
    • Health Services Provision
      605. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 will have their chiropody treatment visits increased to six visits per year. [41096/14]
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      606. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the roll out of DNA screening of women aged between 30 and 49 as recommended by the Health Information and Quality Authority in their...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      609. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of persons waiting for orthopaedic surgery and, in particular, knee surgery at hospitals (details supplied); and...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      610. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment in a hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41112/14]
    • Midwifery Services
      612. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 351 of 7 October 2014, if his attention has been drawn to the Health Service Executive Dublin mid-Leinster region...
    • Medical Card Applications
      613. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Provision
      614. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive an occupational therapy intervention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41168/14]
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons a person (details supplied) in County Cavan who attends a Health Service Executive service in County Longford cannot receive speech therapy...
    • Disabilities Services Funding
      616. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the €75,000 cut to a centre (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [41183/14]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
      617. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place to tackle the long waiting times for the fair deal nursing home scheme; his views that it is acceptable that scarce hospital beds...
    • HSE Funding
      618. To ask the Minister for Health if senior officials at a hospice (details supplied) are still in receipt of top-up payments; if so, the persons in receipt of them; and the amount they are in...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      620. To ask the Minister for Health when a hospice (details supplied) in Dublin 6W awarded a contract to a company; if the Health Service Executive's tender competition rules were followed with...
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      621. To ask the Minister for Health if he will award national lottery funding for an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41198/14]
    • Hospital Staff
      622. To ask the Minister for Health his views on staffing levels and shortages at the country's largest paediatrics diabetes centre in a hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [41208/14]
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      623. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers on the waiting list for speech and language therapy in County Kildare. [41214/14]
    • Health Services Provision
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers on the waiting list for occupational therapy in County Kildare. [41216/14]
    • Hospital Services
      628. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the cross-Border agreement that had been in place for ten years to cater for maxillofacial surgery to be carried out in...
    • Medical Card Applications
      629. To ask the Minister for Health if he will assist in the provision of a medical card to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is blind and is receiving ongoing medical treatment...
    • Home Care Packages
      632. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding for home care in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [41227/14]
    • Rare Diseases
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the research the State is funding and-or collaborating with other states into Gaucher's disease; and if he will report on research the State funds into other...
    • Palliative Care for Children
      635. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make funds available to increase the number of palliative care units for children; if he will report on the assistance the State gives to Laura Lynn...
    • Hospital Staff
      636. To ask the Minister for Health the alternative arrangements which are being made for the patients and staff of the St. James's Hospital dental clinic which was suddenly closed recently; and...
    • Dental Services Provision
      637. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for closing the St James's Hospital dental clinic when an alternative location for the much used services had not been sourced. [41237/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      638. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41239/14]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      642. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve the national ambulance service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41279/14]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      643. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 15 October 2014, and following on from the disclosure that the patient in question will have to wait five months...
    • Medical Card Applications
      644. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 15 October 2014, where the patient has been discharged from Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin...
    • Hospital Discharges
      645. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 15 October 2014, where the patient was discharged from Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      647. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford who has been waiting for an appointment in Tullamore...
    • Health Services Staff
      650. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychiatrists assigned to Toghermore House, Tuam, County Galway; the number of hours per week each of them are present in Toghermore; the...
    • Departmental Meetings
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the number of meetings he or officials from his Department had with a person (details supplied); the purpose of each of those meetings; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing Home Services
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date on the implementation of all the 11 recommendations of the Leas Cross inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41335/14]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card review in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41341/14]
    • Home Care Packages
      654. To ask the Minister for Health when a home care package will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly to enable them to return home as they are currently in...
    • Medical Card Applications
      655. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41355/14]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      656. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a fair deal application payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Administration
      657. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for refund of moneys paid for a prescription in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      658. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41366/14]
    • Home Care Packages
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the reason home care packages in Lucan, County Dublin, have ceased since 5 June 2014; his plans to reinstate these home care packages; and if he will make a...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      664. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the Health Information and Quality Authority review of ambulance services; when the review will be published; when he expects...
    • Orthodontic Service Provision
      665. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of counties that do not have a full-time orthodontist; the orthodontic services currently provided for children in County Laois along...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      666. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card review in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41396/14]
    • Palliative Care Services
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the actions his Department and or the Health Service Executive have taken arising from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children's report on end of...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      668. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly. [41399/14]
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      669. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a patient's referral (details supplied) in County Donegal; the reasons the patient has yet to be referred to the relevant experts despite...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure
      670. To ask the Minister for Health his views on funding for a nursing home (details supplied) in County Louth; his plans to address the crisis in nursing home waiting lists; and if he will make...
    • General Practitioner Services
      671. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a blood test called brain natriuretic peptide (details supplied). [41423/14]
    • Addiction Treatment Facilities
      672. To ask the Minister for Health the residential addiction treatment facilities available to people living in counties Louth, Meath, Monaghan and Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Appeals
      673. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made in relation to an application that has been made regarding a nursing home support scheme (details supplied) in County Galway; the...
    • Health Services Provision
      674. To ask the Minister for Health further to previous questions on the matter, the latest preparations for any possible cases of Ebola in the State. [41437/14]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) whose income is below the qualifying threshold was refused the full medical card. [41438/14]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding extra home help in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41439/14]
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      677. To ask the Minister for Health the way a person qualified and experienced in mediation might access employment opportunities in mediation services in the HSE or other statutory bodies such...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      678. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding provision of a rheumatologist at Kerry General Hospital. [41444/14]
    • Mental Health Act Review
      679. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the commitment in the programme for Government to review the Mental Health Act 2001. [41456/14]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      680. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an assessment from the child and adolescent mental health services in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      681. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 445 of 21 October 2014, of the 21 applicants for prior authorisation for treatment under the cross-border health care...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      682. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41469/14]
    • Health Services Provision
      683. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to recent changes to the hospital transport provision which means patients regularly availing of this transport to get to...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      684. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card review in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41478/14]
    • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
      685. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the extension of the National Drugs Strategy 2009-2016 which is due to expire in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41485/14]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      686. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will be called for an operation; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health and Safety
      687. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding health and safety concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41487/14]
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      688. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the children's hospital; if Blanchardstown, Dublin, may yet be considered as the site for the new hospital; the work completed to date...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      689. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and when this person may expect an appointment. [41500/14]
    • Medicinal Products Supply
      692. To ask the Minister for Health if the new hepatitis C treatment, Sovaldi, will be made available to patients, in view of the fact that it has been approved for the National Health Service in...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      693. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be given a date for their operation at the eye and ear hospital in Dublin without...
    • Hospital Staff
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding recognition by An Bord Altranais of nursing qualifications awarded in Australia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41532/14]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      695. To ask the Minister for Health further to the recent figures released by the National Treatment Purchase Fund, the actions have been undertaken to reduce the waiting lists at Kerry General...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      696. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a request for an appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in Beaumont Hospital due to a serious back compliant which is...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      698. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the review of a medical card application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medicinal Products Supply
      699. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to issue iodine tablets to households; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41543/14]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      700. To ask the Minister for Health notwithstanding his response to Parliamentary Question No. 1,120 of 17 September 2014, if he will review eligibility for a medical card in the case of a person...
    • Patient Safety
      701. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the findings of the Health Service Executive in relation to its audit of allegations of illegal advice and activity in the Irish Family...
    • Narcolepsy Issues
      702. To ask the Minister for Health the supports in place for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 4 who suffers from H1N1 swine flu vaccine-induced narcolepsy to reach third level education;...
    • Prescription Charges
      703. To ask the Minister for Health if pharmacists have no responsibility for the collection of prescription charges for those resident in private or Health Service Executive nursing homes;...
    • Hospital Charges
      704. To ask the Minister for Health if persons involuntarily detained under the Mental Health Act 2001 are liable for inpatient charges; if such charges apply to inpatient service users in acute...
    • Coroners Service
      705. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a recent ruling of medical misadventure by the Dublin City Coroner is respect of a person (details supplied) and his...
    • Care of the Elderly Funding
      706. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the recent rate reductions in respect of the tender process for the provision of services for the elderly in the community will not...
    • Ministerial Hospital Visits
      707. To ask the Minister for Health his schedule of visits to hospitals and if he has visited Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9. [41574/14]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
      708. To ask the Minister for Health the legal basis that applies to grant payments under the fair deal scheme from the date funds are released rather than the date of approval to the scheme; and...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      711. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the fact that it will take 15 weeks to issue fair deal funding to a person (details supplied) whose application was approved on 1 October 2014;...
    • Hospital Procedures
      712. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and when they will be recalled for operation. [41593/14]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      713. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 367 of 21 October 2014, if he will address the problem of MMS and CD being available via open information sharing by...
    • Medical Card Applications
      715. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Midwifery Services
      716. To ask the Minister for Health the role of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland in respect of the practise of midwifery and whether it is the responsibility of the board, rather than...
    • Nurses and Midwives Act 2011
      717. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to amend section 40 of the Nurses and Midwives Act which ties the need for indemnity insurance directly to an unreliable service level agreement with...
    • Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director
      718. To ask the Minister for Health the way the Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director has been constituted; from whom the authority of the office is derived; the criteria and...
    • Medical Card Applications
      722. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Charges
      723. To ask the Minister for Health the guidelines, recommendations or regulations in place for hospitals in the use of debt collection agencies in the settling of patients' bills. [41638/14]
    • Health Services Provision
      725. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details with regard to provision of paediatric health services in County Wexford; the average waiting time for speech and language therapy; the...
    • Primary Care Centre Provision
      726. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the Health Service Executive policy to sell or otherwise dispose of health care centres in rural areas, in particular the centre in Aughrim,...
    • Hospital Groups
      727. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new hospital groups that will be rebranding and renaming themselves following the recent changes by the West North West Hospital group; the...
    • Universal Health Insurance White Paper
      728. To ask the Minister for Health if he will be establishing the expert commission on the future basket of services, including those that will be covered under universal health insurance, UHI;...
    • HSE Expenditure
      729. To ask the Minister for Health the net current deficit that Vote 39 for the Health Service Executive is showing against profile at the end of October, taking into account any receipts from...
    • HSE National Service Plan
      730. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received a draft service plan from the Health Service Executive for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41780/14]
    • Hospital Staff Data
      731. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of senior house officer positions in each public or voluntary hospital on 1 October 2014; the number of such...
    • National Children's Hospital Status
      733. To ask the Minister for Health the latest timeframe for the completion of the children's hospital project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41783/14]
    • HSE Agency Staff Expenditure
      735. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount paid to each agency staff provider by the Health Service Executive in 2013; the amount paid to date in 2014 to...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
      737. To ask the Minister for Health following the introduction of the nursing home support scheme, Fair Deal, the recoupment of nursing home fees that have been recovered by the State from...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      738. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appeal of a decision to refuse a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if it will be expedited due...
    • Medical Card Applications
      739. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in determination of an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in county Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an eye operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41806/14]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      742. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be approved for the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41810/14]
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      744. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding beds for cystic fibrosis patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41813/14]
    • Hospital Staff
      745. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is only one trained nurse in Sligo Regional Hospital who may provide lymphatic drainage care to breast...
    • Respite Care Services
      746. To ask the Minister for Health his views in relation to correspondence (details supplied) regarding funding for respite care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41823/14]
    • Counselling Services
      747. To ask the Minister for Health the resources and measures that will be or have been put in place to provide counselling and other support services to assist families and the wider community...
    • Child Protection
      748. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child, voluntarily placed in residential care by Tulsa (details supplied) did not receive a visit or assessment by the child and adolescent mental...
    • Medical Card Applications
      749. 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 Dublin 22. [41836/14]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      754. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in determination of a medical card review in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Midwifery Services
      757. To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding qualified midwives leaving the country following qualification; the incentives in place to encourage midwives to remain here following...
    • Budget 2015
      758. To ask the Minister for Health if hepatitis C services will be funded in budget 2015 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41898/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      759. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41904/14]
    • Medical Card Appeals
      760. To ask the Minister for Health if a discretionary medical card will be reinstated in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; the reason this process that was supposed to be...
    • Health Services
      761. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41919/14]
    • National Lottery Funding Applications
      763. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the hugely supportive services provided by Little Way Cancer Support Service, Clane, County Kildare; if he will consider offering direct aid from...
    • Medical Card Applications
      764. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41938/14]
    • Symphysiotomy Reports
      765. To ask the Minister for Health if the operation of symphysiotomy was carried out at St Luke's Hospital, County Kilkenny, in 2013; if so, under what circumstances, including whether patient...
    • Midwifery Services
      766. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an independent midwife had their State indemnity insurance removed after transferring a person from their home to hospital when they became dizzy...
    • Maternal Mortality
      767. To ask the Minister for Health the number of maternal deaths that have occurred to date here since the publication of the confidential maternal death inquiry report 2009-2011; and the number...
    • Infant Mortality
      771. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the research done by Pavee Point that infant mortality rates for Travellers is 3.6 times higher than the national average for settled persons and...
    • Medical Card Applications
      772. To ask the Minister for Health the average processing time for a medical card application in Primary Care Reimbursement Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41981/14]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      773. To ask the Minister for Health if a knee replacement operation will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5. [41983/14]
    • National Children's Hospital Location
      774. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the traffic assessment carried out in the site selection process in respect of a hospital (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes Places
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people receiving methadone broken down by Health Service Executive areas; the number of doctors prescribing methadone broken down by HSE...
    • Hospital Facilities
      777. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports that seriously ill children are being put at risk by being transported abroad for treatment on extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation...
    • Respite Care Services
      779. To ask the Minister for Health his views on cutbacks to respite services at a facility (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42001/14]
    • Hospital Staff
      780. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the Health Service Executive North East's long-standing failure to investigate the properly lodged complaints of eight nursing staff...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      781. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42009/14]
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      782. To ask the Minister for Health the sequence of events surrounding the response of the ambulance service to an incident (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      783. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers in County Donegal waiting for financial approval for the fair deal programme. [42018/14]
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      785. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the vital work undertaken by Teenline with particular reference to children and teenagers suffering from depression or a tendancy to self-harm; if...
    • HIQA Inspections
      786. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of extending the remit of HIQA to cover all private health care facilities including privately owned facilities given the important remit of HIQA...
    • Medical Card Administration
      787. To ask the Minister for Health if house calls by a patient's general practitioner are covered under the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42079/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      788. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the ongoing delay in reviewing the medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if it can be expedited...
    • Medical Card Administration
      789. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioners are allowed to charge medical card patients for medical letters they require; if there is a difference depending on the reason for the...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      790. To ask the Minister for Health her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a community nursing unit in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42083/14]
    • Mobility Allowance
      791. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the new travel subsidy scheme to replace the mobility allowance scheme; her plans for associated statutory provisions; and if...
    • Fire Service
      792. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposed takeover of Dublin Fire Brigade by the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42101/14]
    • Health Services Staff
      793. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide in tabular form for each local health area for each of the following years 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 the number of...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      794. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that two people here die each day from alcohol dependence, the reason Selincro, nalmefene, an innovative treatment which was found to be...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      797. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) whose medical card was removed and replaced with a GP visit card; and if she will expedite an early...
    • Medical Card Applications
      799. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not been granted a medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42115/14]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      800. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive an appointment for a MRI scan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42130/14]
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      801. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated and spent on mental health in each year from 2011 to 2013 inclusive; the budget and anticipated spend in 2014; and if she will...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      802. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in a hospital operation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42133/14]
    • Hospital Staff
      803. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for each of the public and voluntary hospitals, the number of consultant positions vacant as of 24 October 2014 in each of...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
      804. To ask the Minister for Health the specific section of the Nursing Home Support Scheme Act which places a cap on expenditure under the fair deal scheme. [42174/14]
    • Hospital Charges
      805. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form broken down by each public-voluntary hospital the revenue raised between 1 January 2014 and 30 September 2014 from charges...
    • Respite Care Services
      806. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide in tabular form the number of places available for respite care for children aged 18 years or under who have serious chronic disabilities...
    • Hospital Groups
      811. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that the hospitals in the Health Service Executive West region operated as a pilot for the new hospital group system, if consideration will...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      812. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly may expect a hospital appointment. [42215/14]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      813. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review medical care criteria (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42217/14]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      814. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review medical care criteria (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
    • Health Services Staff Data
      815. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners contracted to the Health Service Executive at the end of 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014. [42239/14]
    • Health Lottery
      816. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a health lottery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42248/14]
    • Health Services
      817. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical procedure will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13. [42249/14]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      818. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a colonoscopy and the measures, being undertaken to cut these waiting times. [42250/14]
    • Health Insurance Prices
      819. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make health insurance more affordable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42258/14]
    • Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments
      820. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that within the primary care reimbursement service any medical evidence submitted by an applicant must be dated within three months of an...
    • Medical Card Applications
      821. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42270/14]
    • Departmental Bodies
      823. To ask the Minister for Health the number of quangos set up since 2011 in his Department; the number of members of same; the cost and expense incurred to date including details of the briefs...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Middle East Issues
      824. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a proposal (details supplied) from an experienced senior academic regarding the contribution which third...
    • Foreign Adoptions
      825. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the procedure to be followed by Romanian born twins (details supplied) in County Kildare who were adopted and moved here with their Irish...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      826. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the volunteer initiative as announced in October 2013; the allocation that was given to this initiative from...
    • Scottish Independence
      827. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent independence referendum in Scotland and its implications for Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      829. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the recent announcement that the Irish and British Governments are to initiate all-party talks to resolve outstanding...
    • Peace and Reconciliation Programme
      830. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of all funding awards provided to groups and organisations in Northern Ireland since 2005 for reconciliation....
    • Human Rights Issues
      831. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been appraised of international concern arising from persecution of Christians at various jurisdictions worldwide; if efforts are...
    • Passport Applications
      833. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding an Irish passport (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41821/14]
    • Debt Cancellation
      834. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will engage constructively at the United Nations in the process of standing for global debt justice for countries of the...
    • Overseas Development Aid Oversight
      835. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide reassurances that no development aid funds made available by Ireland to countries in Africa are being used to finance...
    • Middle East Issues
      836. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised concerns with the Israeli ambassador in relation to the proposed further expansion of settlements by the Israeli...
    • Infectious Diseases Epidemic
      838. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of overseas development assistance funding provided to date to deal with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa; his plans to provide...
    • Departmental Bodies
      840. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of quangos set up since 2011 in his Department; the number of members of same; the cost and expense incurred to date including...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport Administration
      841. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a delay by Bus Éireann in the issuing of school transport tickets; the reason for the delay; if the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      842. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the apprenticeship council will be established; her plans for reform of apprenticeship; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Momentum Programme
      843. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have applied for participation in the Momentum programme in each year since its inception; the number of persons...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      844. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 has been refused a full-time special needs assistant despite the repeated recommendation of...
    • Third Level Fees
      845. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Irish citizen applicants who would be affected by amending the residency clause of the free fees initiative. [41935/14]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      846. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which apprenticeships are available in all areas throughout the country at present; the uptake of such places; the extent to which...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      847. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties for trainee teachers in their attempts to gain probationary teaching hours; her plans to put...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      848. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child (details supplied) in County Galway will be permitted to avail of a bus service under the school transport scheme to travel to the...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      849. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding equipment to support a person with a disability (details supplied) in Dublin 17; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Capitation Grants
      850. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the most recent cuts to school budgets, which have resulted in principals in County Wicklow indicating they may not be able to heat...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      851. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children currently waiting to receive a Baha hearing device; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40994/14]
    • International Students
      852. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on an extension of the deadline regarding a matter (details supplied) which concerns programmes at an international college of...
    • Traveller Community
      853. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding streams available to programmes providing Traveller education. [41066/14]
    • School Transport Applications
      855. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be reached in relation to an application for school transport supports in respect of persons (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility
      856. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 194 to 197, inclusive, of 16 October 2014, if she is satisfied with the position of alternative...
    • Third Level Facilities
      858. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for an extension to a school (details supplied) in County Louth; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Minor Works Scheme Applications
      860. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a minor works grant will be granted to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41199/14]
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      862. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding payment in respect of a teacher in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Scéim Deontais do Mhionoibreacha
      864. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cathain a íocfar deontais faoi Scéim na Mionoibreacha, 2014 leis na scoileanna atá ag súil leo chun deisiúchán...
    • EU Funding
      865. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projects within her Department that received EU funding in 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41278/14]
    • Scéim Deontais do Mhionoibreacha
      866. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an bhfuil Gaelscoil Inse Chóir, Baile Átha Cliath 8 i dteideal deontas faoi Scéim na Mion-Oibreacha, 2014 agus cathain a...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      869. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the bus service to Ballinabranna, County Carlow will change its route slightly to facilitate persons (details supplied) in County Carlow to...
    • Bullying in Schools
      870. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place for anti-bullying training for teachers in primary schools; the funding in place to run these training programmes; her...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      871. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the current level of engagement between her Department and the Department of Health in terms of employing psychologists and...
    • School Staffing
      872. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the introduction of a dedicated resource teacher for each junior infant class in mainstream classes in order to help young children...
    • Schools Amalgamation
      874. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a school amalgamation project (details supplied) in County Tipperary; if funding has been made available for the project; and if...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      875. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Trinity College, Dublin is extending four-year degree courses to five years, describing the last...
    • School Curriculum
      876. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to extend the curriculum in secondary schools to financial education and financial risk management in order to equip young people to...
    • Visiting Teacher Service
      877. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 274 of 25 June 2014, if officials from her Department have concluded their consideration of the report on...
    • Departmental Circulars
      878. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has elaborated on the strategies outlined in circular 30/2014, in particular the use of reactive strategies for junior infant...
    • Springboard Programme
      880. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have applied for participation in the Springboard programme in each year since its inception; the number of persons...
    • Departmental Programmes
      881. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have applied for participation in the Skillnet programme in each year since its inception; the number of persons...
    • Special Educational Needs Staff Remuneration
      882. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to revise the pay rates of special needs assistants employed in 2011 who are paid less than those prior to 2011; and if she will make a...
    • State Examinations
      883. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Cork may use a laptop when they are sitting the leaving certificate; and if she will make a statement on...
    • International Students
      884. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports and compensation for fees paid that were offered to international students of a language school (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • Schools Building Contractors
      885. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the contractors administration services are required to give advance notice of a visit to a construction site; if so, her views that this...
    • Child Abuse
      886. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of the outstanding 45 cases relating to allegations of sexual abuse in day schools, if the State Claims Agency has made...
    • Gaelscoileanna Issues
      887. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received details setting out the case for a Gaelcholaiste in north Kildare; if she has had sight of the supportive submission prepared...
    • Minor Works Scheme Expenditure
      888. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that there is provision in the 2015 budget for minor works grants for primary schools, as such a provision existed in...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      889. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding young apprentices in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41482/14]
    • Reading Recovery Programme
      890. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 503 of 30 September 2014, the criteria for eligibility as requested in that question; the reason that no...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      891. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that children who cannot attend a recognised school and are not receiving education at home and are...
    • Teacher Statistics
      892. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Deputies and Senators who currently have teaching positions held open for them in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Discipline
      893. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a board of management is obliged to provide information to a parent in a case where a teacher is disciplined following a negative interaction...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      895. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the significance of inclusion on the five year building programme for new schools-extensions; if she will set out the way a building project with...
    • Schools Data
      897. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role of the education and training boards as it relates to provision and planning for new primary or secondary schools in their areas; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      898. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills on learning supporting teachers in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin, if the school will lose learning support teachers;...
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      899. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if and when higher education grant will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; the reason the 2013 P60 in respect...
    • School Curriculum
      900. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce an Irish curriculum at second level to cater for native Irish speakers given that their competency in the language far...
    • Capitation Grants
      901. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding available to assist national schools with field trips and excursions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41552/14]
    • Third Level Fees
      902. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to reduce the cost of college registration fees here in the context of the cost in Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement...
    • Summer Works Scheme Expenditure
      903. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a summer works scheme for primary and secondary schools in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41603/14]
    • School Patronage
      904. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to an address to the Catholic Primary School Management Association in March 2014 by the Secretary General of her Department, in which it...
    • School Accommodation
      905. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 216 of 18 September 2014, if her Department has had any form of contact with potential patrons for a new...
    • School Transport Provision
      906. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if assistance can now be offered in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford in allocating a bus ticket; and if she will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      907. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a married couple who are separated, although not legally, and whose child is prohibited from getting a grant as they...
    • Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements
      908. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the lowest number of leaving certificate points where the appellant's leaving certificate was one of the criteria used accepted by University...
    • School Accommodation
      909. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's policy regarding the specification for the provision of rooms for resource teacher in terms of the size of the room, sharing...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      911. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has been refused a higher education grant by the Student Universal Support Ireland; the...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      912. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's work in conjunction with SOLAS in supporting apprenticeship programmes in skilled trades and in introducing new apprenticeship...
    • Trade Agreements
      914. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request the European Commission to provide an explicit exclusion of education from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland Administration
      915. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to rectify the anomaly within procedures for assessing entitlement for the special rate of the Student Universal Support Ireland grant,...
    • Student Grant Scheme Administration
      917. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of the student grant scheme for third level, if rental income is included on a gross basis or net of certain expenses and allowance;...
    • Employment Rights
      918. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an investigation was carried out into employment conditions at a site (details supplied) in County Dublin; who carried the inspection out;...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      919. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; her further views that the current resource hour allocation is...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      920. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the purchase or development of new school buildings and site for a school (details supplied) in County Galway. [41911/14]
    • Third Level Charges
      922. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) who is attending Pallaskenry Agricultural College and as part of the course has to attend Limerick IT for...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland Administration
      923. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the difficulties presented for students applying for Student Universal Support Ireland assistance who cannot prove their address as...
    • Third Level Data
      925. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students from this jurisdiction who have attended third level education in the north of Ireland during each of the past five years;...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      927. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding repair works at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9; the reason for the delay in approval; if approval has been...
    • Schools Building Projects Expenditure
      929. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial support made available to a school (details supplied) in County Cork including capitation, summer works, emergency repairs,...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      930. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be provided for additional special needs assistants at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Overseas Students Data
      931. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if universities and institutes of further education have discretion in applying the residency requirements for availing of the lower band of fees...
    • Third Level Grants
      932. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding third level grants in respect of a case (details supplied) the funding available to students in a similar position; and if...
    • School Meals Programme
      933. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the sale of fizzy drinks in schools is not banned; the steps being taken to regulate the consumption of these unhealthy drinks during...
    • School Staffing
      936. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the terms and conditions by which school secretaries are employed by national schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42100/14]
    • Education and Training Boards
      937. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding tendering at education and training boards [42105/14]
    • Teacher Statistics
      938. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools with one mainstream teacher in 2011/12; 2012/13; 2013/14 and to date in 2014/15. [42118/14]
    • School Enrolments Data
      940. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s projections of the number of first level students in primary schools for 2015-16; 2016-17; 2017-18; 2018-19 and 2019-20....
    • Teacher Statistics
      942. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will detail in tabular form the number of primary schools with two teachers in 2013-14 that now have one teacher in 2014-15; the number of...
    • School Staffing Appeals Mechanism
      947. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will detail in tabular form for the years 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 the number of two teacher primary schools that appealed the loss of...
    • Special Educational Needs Data
      950. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the new provision for allocating support for children with special needs, if it is expected that each school gather private...
    • Education Policy
      951. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills under the new profiling currently being undertaken for the provision of additional resources, if greater weighting is to be given to schools with...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      952. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is the policy of her Department to remove resources from schools which have successful early intervention programmes as a result of new...
    • Revenue Documents Issuance
      953. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a P45 will be supplied to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42143/14]
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      954. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to expedite an application for a student grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she...
    • Water Charges Administration
      955. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied)) regarding water charges at schools. [42199/14]
    • Springboard Programme
      956. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the uptake of the Springboard courses in 2013 and to date in 2014 by course and institution; when the new course topics will be decided for the...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      957. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the implementation of the new allocation model for resource teaching as designed by the working group established by his...
    • Schools Designation
      958. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school project (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42211/14]
    • Student Universal Support Ireland Administration
      959. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review an appeal for a higher education grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Public Sector Staff Career Breaks
      960. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of career break applications from primary and secondary school teachers that her Department has received over the past four academic...
    • Departmental Bodies
      962. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of quangos set up since 2011 in her Department; the number of members of same; the cost and expense incurred to date including details...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Motor Tax Collection
      963. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review a matter (details supplied) regarding motor tax. [41049/14]
    • Radiation Monitoring Systems
      964. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has considered the introduction of microwave radiation monitoring systems similar to those in place in...
    • Motor Tax Yield
      965. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the purpose motor tax receipts will now be put following the creation of Irish Water and the commencement of domestic...
    • Water Quality
      966. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the process required in order to issue boil notices or water restriction notices in relation to the supply of drinking...
    • Constitutional Convention Recommendations
      967. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his response to each of the recommendations of the Constitutional Convention concerning Dáil electoral reform, the...
    • Pensions Levy
      969. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that firemen are entitled to a gratuity payment and not a pension, the reason a pension levy has been...
    • Local Authority Staff Redeployment
      970. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures which will be put in place to ensure that the shared services plans are operating across the public service...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      972. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if motor tax services can be introduced across the post office network as it would make the service more widely available...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
      973. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will introduce a new house purchase scheme for local authority houses at an early date; and if he will make a...
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      974. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the scheme to support national organisations; the moneys that have been paid out to...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      975. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the arrangements he has put in place to provide interim funding to Leader local action groups including Cavan-Monaghan...
    • Irish Water Administration
      976. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the assistance available to persons (details supplied) in Dublin 13 to complete their Irish Water application; and if he...
    • Data Protection
      977. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures that will be taken by Irish Water to ensure that customer data sent by the company outside the European...
    • Community Development Projects
      979. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the National Collective of Community Based Women's Networks was excluded from participating in the social...
    • Irish Water Administration
      982. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number and the percentage of that number of application packs issued by Irish Water that have been returned properly...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
      986. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on a scheme (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Irish Water Remit
      987. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of Irish Water's announcement that it intends to apply call-out fees of €188 for the first hour when...
    • Electoral Reform
      988. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 14 October 2014, his views on the amendment of section 8 of the Electoral Act...
    • Irish Water Administration
      990. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on returning the administration of Irish Water to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Septic Tank Inspections
      991. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is a local authority requirement to inspect a septic tank where the individual householder reports that their septic...
    • Social Inclusion Measures
      993. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding stage two of the social inclusion and community activation programme; his views on the revised plan...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      994. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 373 of 10 June 2014, the extent to which the targeted outputs for social housing...
    • Water Meters
      995. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason customers do not have access to their own water meters so as to monitor there own usage; and if he will make a...
    • Social Inclusion Measures
      996. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government following the announcement of the social inclusion and community activation programme (SICAP) budgets for April to...
    • Irish Water Funding
      997. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1562 of 17 September 2014, the projected revenue that will be raised by Irish Water...
    • Irish Water Staff
      998. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if all board members of Irish Water have a current tax clearance certificate; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Housing Regeneration
      999. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the plans in place to deal with site clearance of non-viable ghost estates; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Irish Water Remit
      1000. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the specific policy directions given by his Department and or the Government to Irish Water; and if he will make a...
    • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
      1001. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has issued any directions to local authorities regarding outstanding land acquisition loans, some of which are now...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      1003. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the implementation of the recommendations by the Joint Committee on the Environment in its report...
    • Irish Water Administration
      1004. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the source of the data which enabled Irish Water to send correctly named and addressed application packs to citizens; the...
    • Water Meters Installation
      1005. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria used in the awarding of the contract for supply and installation of water meters; the number of companies...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      1006. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the schemes available to support young persons with a disability seeking employment (details supplied); and if he will...
    • Asbestos Remediation Programme
      1007. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a grant is available from his Department to assist with the removal of asbestos from residential properties and...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      1008. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider introducing legislation to provide emergency accommodation in cases where additional homeless...
    • Water Charges Introduction
      1010. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding water charges (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41316/14]
    • Irish Water Staff
      1011. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of meetings he or officials from his Department had with a person (details supplied); the purpose of each of...
    • Planning Issues
      1013. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding solar panels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41352/14]
    • Property Taxation Exemptions
      1014. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on waiving the interest and penalties on the non-principal private residence charge for homeowners who can...
    • Planning Issues
      1015. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if consideration has been given to the introduction of legislation to limit hedge and tree height on domestic properties,...
    • Building Regulations Application
      1016. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if local authorities are responsible for carrying out inspections on plumbing and heating in new homes; if not, if he...
    • Irish Water Administration
      1017. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on concerns expressed (details supplied) regarding the reply by Irish Water to correspondence received; and if...
    • Planning Issues
      1018. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of local authorities being responsible for planning rules of quarries, the agency responsible for the assessment...
    • Irish Water Administration
      1019. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that Irish Water is holding households responsible for the maintenance for any water pipe work up to 225mm from...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund Administration
      1020. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if dormant accounts funding will be made available for applications in the future; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      1021. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when interested parties will be in a position to make applications for funding under the new LEADER programme; and if he...
    • Waste Management Regulations
      1023. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of the tyre industry in relation to a proposal by his Department to...
    • Irish Water Administration
      1024. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify who precisely has ownership of Irish Water in view of the fact that it is listed as a private company...
    • Irish Water Remit
      1025. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Irish Water automatically assumes responsibility for the provision of water services in housing estates which have not...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      1030. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the delay in producing the regulations required to give effect to the provision of the Housing Miscellanous Act 2014...
    • Housing for People with Disabilities
      1031. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to ensure that new housing stock will be wheelchair user friendly; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Water Charges Administration
      1033. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will introduce measures to address the problem of tenants of business premises who leave landlords saddled with...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      1034. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has explored models of low cost social housing construction used in other countries as possible models for use...
    • Property Taxation Administration
      1036. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will allow houses that are not property tax compliant to become available to local authorities, on condition that...
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      1037. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of an application to Mayo North East Leader Development Company by an organisation (details supplied) in...
    • Local Authority Housing
      1038. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application for funding from a public body (details supplied) in County Laois; the number of...
    • Building Regulations Amendments
      1041. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to address problems arising from the implementation of Statutory Instrument No 9 of 2014 (details supplied);...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      1045. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for dealing with homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41819/14]
    • Waste Disposal
      1046. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to legislate to compel the payment by weight for both domestic and non-domestic waste disposal customers and to...
    • Housing Issues
      1048. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the change in the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2008 relating to bed-sits, the number of...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      1049. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if full approval has been granted by his Department for a housing project (details supplied) in Dublin 17 proceed to...
    • Housing Data
      1050. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form, the number of vacant private housing units in the Dublin City, Dún...
    • Water Charges Introduction
      1053. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out his views on the timing of water charges bills (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement...
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      1056. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to ongoing discussions between his Department and Irish Water on the taking over of private estates that...
    • Seirbhísí Uisce
      1058. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government cén fáth go bhfuil aithbhreithniú á dhéanamh ag Uisce Éireann ar scéim uisce...
    • Waste Disposal
      1059. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to explain the reason brown waste collection bins are charged for while green bins are free although brown bin waste is...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      1060. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when his Department will publish the new wind energy guidelines; if the public will get a further input; the period of...
    • Local Authority Finances
      1061. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 240 of 21 October 2014 to the Minister for Finance the stage discussions are at...
    • State Properties
      1063. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline the legislation in place to prevent squatting on public lands; his plans to update legislation (details...
    • Control of Dogs
      1064. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline the amount of public money granted annually to the ISPCA for the running of dog pounds; if he will indicate...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Administration
      1065. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to the roll-out of the housing assistance payment in local authority areas to explain the interim...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      1066. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out the percentage of all new social housing schemes which will be allocated to persons with a disability; and if...
    • Water Services Funding
      1067. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if EU funding was ever received to repair the water infrastructure here in the past; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Irish Water Administration
      1070. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to explain the reason the Irish Water website has no landline listed under contact details, but solely mentions a 1890...
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      1072. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out the status of an application to Mayo North East Leader by a club (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he...
    • State Bodies Establishment
      1073. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to detail the number of quangos set up since 2011 in his Department; the number of members of same; the cost and expense...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Inland Fisheries Ireland Staff
      1074. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the chief executive officer of Inland Fisheries Ireland attended the world recreational fishing conference in Sao...
    • Inland Fisheries Ireland Remit
      1077. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to explain the position regarding the cleaning of a stream (details supplied) in County Kerry; if his Department will...
    • Energy Policy Review
      1078. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to set out his views on a comprehensive energy policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42037/14]
    • Electric Vehicle Grants
      1079. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to set out his plans to incentivise the purchase and use of electric vehicles. [42134/14]
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1080. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to explain the position and timeframe for the plans to upgrade the broadband service in Newtown, County Kildare, as...
    • Departmental Meetings
      1081. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to set out the number of meetings he or officials from his Department have had with a person (details supplied); the...
    • Inland Fisheries
      1082. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when dredging operations will commence in the hot water stretch of the River Shannon at Lanesborough, County Longford,...
    • Postal Services
      1084. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to set out his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the introduction of a new post code system; and if...
    • Energy Conservation
      1085. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the proposed national smart metering project will still be proceeding notwithstanding that it appears, in the context...
    • Bioenergy Strategy Implementation
      1086. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to set out his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a renewable heat incentive scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Television Licence Fee Collection
      1087. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update regarding the introduction of the broadcasting charge; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      1088. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the independent expert panel considering EirGrid's Gridwest and Gridlink for route specific studies and...
    • Mining Industry
      1089. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding works at a site (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      1090. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of quangos set up since 2011 in his Department; the number of members of same; the cost and expense incurred...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Projects Status
      1091. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for the commencement of the western bypass of Ardee, County Louth, the N52; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Projects
      1092. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make available the remaining funding that is required to finish the ring road in Dingle, County Kerry; if funding may be...
    • Regional Road Network
      1093. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding an application (details supplied) for funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41626/14]
    • Roadworthiness Testing
      1094. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the rationale for embarking upon a consultation process to subject pre-1980 vintage and classic cars to NCT tests and...
    • Driver Licence Renewals
      1095. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if driving licence renewal services can be introduced across the post office network as it would make the service more widely available...
    • Integrated Ticketing
      1096. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly concerning Leap cards on Dublin Bus whereby the on-bus card reader console displays to the...
    • Rail Services
      1097. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding Wi-Fi services on the DART fleet; if Wi-Fi is now available on all DART trains; if not when it is expected; and...
    • Driver Licences
      1098. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a system will be put in place whereby a resident of Northern Ireland who received a driving licence here but has since lost it can be...
    • Aviation Issues
      1099. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views regarding regulations on civilian use of drone technology in view of the growing usage of this technology; and if he will make...
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      1102. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional funds will be provided to Clare County Council to enable it to meet its statutory obligation under the Roads Act to...
    • Haulage Industry Regulation
      1103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the road haulage drivers' dispute concerning their huge costs; if he will confirm that 2,000 jobs have moved from...
    • Road Signage
      1104. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to deliver on his predecessor's commitment to introduce bilingual road signage with the Irish language given equal prominence;...
    • Tourism Policy
      1105. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans or proposals to overcome the traditional under-representation in the midlands area, particularly in Longford and Westmeath, in...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      1106. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has not been awarded the Bus Éireann vehicle recovery and towing service...
    • Road Network
      1107. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the inconvenience caused to hauliers and drivers operating trucks on motorways, national primary and...
    • Road Safety
      1108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce a statutory control procedure in relation to written-off vehicles to ensure that severely and irreparably damaged...
    • Taxi Regulations
      1109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a taxi licence/plate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41272/14]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the total capital expenditure of his Department from 2010 to 2013 inclusive, broken down by project...
    • Tourism Promotion
      1112. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps Tourism Ireland is taking to promote tourism in Ireland in the UK market during this winter period; and if he will make a...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      1113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the amounts of funding provided to County Longford for road construction, realignment and improvement...
    • Rail Services
      1114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address the concerns expressed by commuters from County Longford that trains can be delayed for anything up to an hour...
    • Taxi Regulations
      1115. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the maximum fares review being carried out by the National Transport Authority; if he anticipates that this will result in...
    • National Transport Authority
      1116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total expenditure budget for the National Transport Authority in 2014; the details of the expenditure for 2011, 2012 and 2013; the...
    • Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme
      1117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 9 October 2014, the basis on which he has already decided that he will sign the ministerial...
    • Road Projects Status
      1118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on plans for widening the N11 southbound from the Fassaroe interchange; if this work will be given priority...
    • Commissioners of Irish Lights
      1119. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the details of his Department's contribution to the new funding arrangements for the Commissioners of Irish Lights,...
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      1120. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding to surface dress the network of roads in Scartaglen village, County Kerry, in his funding programme for 2015;...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      1121. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has oversight over the number of persons who have been disqualified from driving either as a result of an order from...
    • National Vehicle and Driver File
      1122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1694 of 17 September 2014, if he will provide an update on when the transfer arrangements to...
    • Ports Policy
      1124. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the role local councillors will play in the new structure when the Drogheda Harbour Commission is constituted into the Drogheda Port...
    • Public Transport
      1125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on recent fare increases by public transport operators; his further views that the new fares are affordable; and if he will...
    • Rail Services
      1128. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions he has had with Irish Rail about shorter trains being used on the DART service, especially at peak times, and the impact...
    • Ports Policy
      1129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Drogheda Port Company operates under his remit or that of another State body; if this company is answerable to its board of...
    • Road Safety
      1130. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if further consideration has been given to the holding of mandatory speed awareness courses for persons in contravention of speeding...
    • Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme
      1131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position concerning possible changes to the pensions of persons currently in payment under the Irish airlines superannuation scheme...
    • Mountain Rescue Service
      1132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress that has been made on establishing a new, single point of responsibility for the funding and oversight of the country's...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      1134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to expand the DublinBikes scheme to Marino, Dublin 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42223/14]
    • Hotel Accommodation
      1135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the hotel capacity in Dublin further to the lord mayor's task force stating that an additional 5,000 rooms were required; and the...
    • Tourism Data
      1136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the visitor numbers to Dublin over the past five years. [42253/14]
    • National Car Test
      1140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding national car test, NCT, appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Agencies
      1141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of quangos set up since 2011 in his Department; the number of members of same; the cost and expense incurred to date,...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Natural Heritage Areas Designation
      1142. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans on removing the designation of an area (details supplied) as part of a national heritage area; if so, when the process...
    • Heritage Projects
      1143. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the grant aid that is available for the refurbishment of old farm building in counties Longford and Westmeath; and if she will make...
    • Severe Weather Events Response
      1144. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on whether it was fair not to establish a compensation scheme for island residents who had their boats destroyed in last...
    • Waterways Ireland Expenditure
      1145. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline the amount of funding allocated each year from her Department to Irish Waterways since 2009 to date in 2014; and...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Payments
      1146. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ferry Services Provision
      1147. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for the Aran Islands ferry service; if the service is due to cease at the end of the month; and if so, the measures that...
    • General Register Office
      1148. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when records withdrawn from a website (detials supplied) will be restored; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41912/14]
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Payments
      1149. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 931 of 18 September 2012, the reason payment only issued for two years (details supplied); and...
    • Film Industry Promotion
      1150. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of Irish language feature films the Irish Film Board funded over the past 20 years; the level of funding to each...
    • Built Heritage Jobs Leverage Scheme Expenditure
      1151. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the level of drawdown of funds under the built heritage scheme by county; and if it is intended to hold a new round of the scheme....
    • Appointments to State Boards
      1152. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide in tabular form the names and number of appointments she has made to boards under her Department's aegis since...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      1153. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide in tabular form the number of freedom of information requests received by her Department since her appointment;...
    • Heritage Projects
      1154. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the culture and heritage listing being prepared will be finalised; the eligibility criteria for inclusion on the list; if there...
    • Departmental Agencies
      1156. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of quangos set up since 2011 in her Department; the number of members of same; the cost and expense incurred to date,...

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