Written answers
Thursday, 27 November 2014
- Department of Education and Skills
- Apprenticeship Programmes
11. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 912 of 4 November 2014, if she will provide further details of the nature of the review being carried out by...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
13. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when all articles of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs, EPSEN, Act 2004 will be implemented; if she will provide up-to-date...
- Industrial Disputes
14. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has met representatives of the locked out bricklayers and builders at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Costs
16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a survey carried out by the Irish Primary Principals Network which found that most parents are worse off...
- Schools Data
17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of one-teacher primary schools in the country in each year since the school year starting September 2011; the number of such schools in...
- Minor Works Scheme Restoration
18. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the minor works grant has been omitted from the list of grants for primary schools, in view of the fact that a large number of national...
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
19. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that persons who apply for Student Universal Support Ireland grants on the basis of illness benefit,...
- English Language Training Organisations
20. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role her Department is playing in addressing the problems in the regulation of English language schools; the communications she has had with...
- Departmental Budgets
21. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the commitment in the programme for Government to protect front-line services in education; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Funding
22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support ChildVision, the National Education Centre for Blind Children, Dublin 9, in 2014-15. [45098/14]
- Student Grant Scheme Administration
23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has reviewed the proposal put forward by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul to have the Student Universal Support Ireland application...
- Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme Numbers
24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of participants who have enrolled on the VTOS scheme through the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board for the...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role of the apprenticeship council; their role in the development and implementation of apprenticeships; and if she will make a statement on...
- Gaelscoileanna Issues
26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the significant demand for a new Gaelcholáiste in the north Kildare area with parents of over 200 children...
- School Staffing
27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be any further alleviation of moratorium on filling posts of responsibility at post-primary level; and if she will make a statement...
- Schools Amalgamation
28. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will be publishing the value for money report on small primary schools; if she plans to implement its recommendations; and if she will make...
- Schools Review
29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in addressing the specific issues of rural schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45089/14]
- School Accommodation
30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the progress of the prefab replacement programme; the number of schools that have had prefabs replaced by county; the number...
- State Examinations Reviews
31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on junior cycle reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45282/14]
- Technological Universities
32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way she plans to advance proposals for a technological university in the south east; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45286/14]
- Third Level Staff Remuneration
33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the high rates of casualisation and low rates of pay in the third level sector for casual academics; and her plans to address the...
- Industrial Disputes
34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has agreed to the meeting requested by building workers and Unite members involved in the dispute at a building project (details supplied);...
- School Staffing
35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details on planned changes to staffing schedules in small primary schools, which will increase the appointment-retention figure for a second...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views that the school profiling element of the proposed new special needs model has caused deep concern and that many school principals,...
- School Staffing
37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her assessment of the impact of the moratorium on filling posts of responsibility at post-primary level; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Enrolments
38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with the increase in enrolments in 2015 and for the next number of years her plans to ensure additional capacity, with particular reference to...
- Minor Works Scheme Restoration
39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to reinstate the minor works grant. [45122/14]
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which she will be in a position to improve class sizes in the course of the current year with particular reference to schools...
- Broadband Service Provision
41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to improve broadband connectivity in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45285/14]
- Disadvantaged Status
42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will include a school (details supplied) in County Mayo in the DEIS scheme so that the pupils there will have parity with the pupils in...
- English Language Training Organisations
43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to regulate the education of non-EU nationals in the Irish education system, as it appears to be run by a system of agents...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
44. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that class sizes here are the second highest of EU members; to set out her views on the fact that...
- Educational Disadvantage
45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide supports for disadvantaged pupils in 2014/15. [45097/14]
- Minor Works Scheme Restoration
46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a minor works grant in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45283/14]
- Schools Establishment
47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the number of secondary school places in Dublin 15; and her plans to create more places to resolve the shortage that...
- Education and Training Boards Expenditure
48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the introduction of a capital fund for publicly-owned facilities and buildings operated wholly or partially by education and...
- Teacher Training Provision
49. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an up to date assessment on Tréimhse Foghlama sa Ghaeltacht and the reason the Mary Immaculate College in Limerick feels...
- Departmental Reports
50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 6 November 2014, if she will put on the record of Dáil Éireann the findings and...
- Department of Social Protection
- Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if interim payment will issue on humanitarian grounds in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is awaiting the result of a...
- Social Welfare Code
52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way she will address the situation whereby young persons aged 24 and under, whose parents earn over the threshold, are ineligible to receive...
- National Internship Scheme Data
53. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of JobBridge participants in County Kerry at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45635/14]
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
55. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a carer's allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Departmental Investigations
56. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when her Department will reach a final decision on a matter (details supplied) regarding meter readers. [45671/14]
- Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
57. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for delay in payment of jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Exceptional Needs Payment Eligibility
58. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare qualifies for exceptional needs or other payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Mortgage Arrears Proposals
59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the schemes that are currently in place to support persons in difficulty paying their mortgage; if new schemes are being considered; and if she will...
- Disability Allowance Applications
60. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she will make a...
- Exceptional Needs Payment Applications
62. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an exceptional needs payment may be made in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
63. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an increase in rent support will be offered in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
65. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the precise position relating to the cessation of jobseeker's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Applications
66. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when an application for jobseeker's allowance will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
- Department of Finance
- Insurance Compensation Fund
67. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update regarding claims unpaid arising from those insured with the now defunct company (details supplied); the persons/organisation that...
- Government Deficit
68. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 1 of 5 November 2014, following the revised charging arrangement, if he will provide an update to his estimate that the...
- VAT Rate Reductions
69. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45581/14]
- Mortgage Lending
70. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the implementation of the maximum 80% LTV for mortgage loans; the measures he will implement to assist prospective home owners that are...
- Local Government Fund
71. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide all occasions where he has requested a payment from the Local Government Fund under the provisions of S6 (2C) of the Local Government Act...
- Insurance Industry Regulation
72. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason there is a delay in excess of three months in processing applications from the Central Bank of Ireland to be an insurance broker in respect of a...
- Tax Yield
73. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount in capital taxes that have been raised and the amount of DIRT tax since March 2011; the amount of this, in tabular form, that is due to budgetary...
- Pensions Levy
74. To ask the Minister for Finance if it consideration is or will be given, as a mechanism for reducing taxation and giving back to taxpayers, to returning all or portions of the pension levy,...
- Tax Code
75. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on Ireland's placing compared to other OECD countries in respect of the progressiveness of the income tax system; Ireland's place...
- Exports Data
76. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the opinion expressed by a member of Independent Fiscal Advisory Council (details supplied) that up to half of the growth in GDP in 2014 may be...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Water Charges Administration
77. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 20 November 2014, the reason the cost of the water conservation grant is estimated at...
- Public Sector Pensions Levy
78. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount that has been raised by the levy on public service pensions since its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- International Agreements
79. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will seek a debate with the necessary approval of Dáil Éireann for the free trade agreement between the European Union...
- Job Retention
80. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress made to date in attracting alternative employers to take over the employment contracts of a company's staff (details...
- Company Law
81. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 211 of 23 September 2014 his further views on problems being faced by a company (details...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Single Payment Scheme Applications
82. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Agriculture Schemes Administration
83. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payment of their single payment scheme and disadvantaged areas scheme...
- Single Payment Scheme Appeals
84. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal under the single farm payment scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
85. 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; and if he will make a statement...
- Farm Safety
86. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will reduce the investment threshold for the farm safety scheme from €2,000 to €1,000 to encourage greater...
- Beef Industry
87. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the practice of large beef processors holding and feeding large numbers of cattle until slaughter in an effort to control...
- Milk Quota
88. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the decision of the milk quota appeals tribunal if there is further consideration available in respect of a person (details...
- Single Payment Scheme Appeals
89. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an appeal has been received by his Department in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal regarding their single...
- Single Payment Scheme Applications
90. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the scheduling of a ground inspection in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be expedited in view of the...
- Pigmeat Sector
91. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the difficulties facing the pigmeat sector were discussed at the most recent EU Agriculture Council; if he put forward proposals at...
- Single Payment Scheme Applications
92. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Agriculture Schemes Appeals
93. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a 2014 area aid appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
94. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an issue will be resolved regarding an agri-environment option scheme application in respect of persons (details supplied) in...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
95. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath has their full single farm payment paid to them as same has...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
96. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their disadvantaged area aid payment; and if he will make a statement on...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
97. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Milk Quota
98. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he put forward proposals at the most recent meeting of the EU Agriculture Council regarding the serious difficulties facing many...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
99. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway under the 2014 disadvantaged area based scheme; the...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
100. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason an amount was withheld in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo for their 2014 single payment scheme...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Deployment
101. To ask the Minister for Defence the exact size of the Nordic Battle Group of which Ireland is a member; the number of troops it consists of; the number of troops that Ireland contributes;...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Gender Balance
102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the real social dynamics group and their attitudes towards women; and her views on the impact of such attitudes towards gender...
- Domestic Violence Policy
103. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the prevalence of domestic violence here, and noting that we are now only one of eleven members not to have signed the convention,...
- Garda Misconduct Allegations
104. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 18 November 2014, the terms of reference that the panel of junior and senior counsel are working...
- Garda Operations
105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is the case that a crime scenes unit is always dispatched to assess the scene of a road collision in which there has been a fatality or...
- Garda Deployment
106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of personnel in An Garda Síochána who work in the crime scenes unit. [45604/14]
- Garda Reserve
107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality regarding correspondence (details supplied) if she will consider, in view of the commitment to An Garda Síochána, their communities and...
- Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration
108. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 24 September 2014, when application forms will be published (details supplied); and if she will make...
- National Museum
109. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Luger pistol confiscated by the RIC from Roger Casement in 1916 is in Garda Headquarters in the Phoenix Park; if so, if it will be handed...
- Prison Visiting Regulations
110. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 of 20 November 2014, whether her understanding is that the term "spiritual visits" is synonymous with...
- Garda Strength
111. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in An Garda Síochána from 1970 to the present, broken down annually. [45662/14]
- Judicial Appointments
112. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that in other countries, experience as an academic lawyer or an in house lawyer qualifies people for...
- Residency Permits
113. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current and/or expected residency status eligibility in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Deportation Orders
114. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which recognition is provided to the extent of residency here during which they paid their income tax and PRSI over a seven year...
- Naturalisation Applications
116. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in regard to the determination of residency/eligibility to apply for naturalisation in the case of a person (details...
- Immigration Policy
117. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration may be provided to amendment of immigration laws here along the lines recently announced by President Obama in respect of...
- Garda Operations
118. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to provide additional resources for An Garda Síochána towards its investigation of the brutal and horrific murder of a person...
- Garda Data
119. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of warrants currently outstanding for between zero to three months, three to six months, six to nine months, nine to 12 months and...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Domestic Violence Refuges
120. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the campaign to seek funding for Cuan Alainn Refuge, managed by Respond Housing at Cookstown Way,...
- Departmental Funding
121. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding rape crisis centres; the funding by location for each since 2012; his plans to expand support services to them; and...
- Youth Services Funding
122. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to funding difficulties faced by a youth club (details supplied) in County Cork as the service was forced...
- Department of Health
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
123. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive a decision on their application for nursing homes support scheme; and if he will make a statement...
- Respite Care Services
124. To ask the Minister for Health if he will explore the different options for the provision of respite services for children with special needs (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
- Health Services Provision
125. To ask the Minister for Health the way a person (details supplied) in County Kildare may avail of services for their child whose care needs are known to the Health Service Executive; and if...
- Hospitals Building Programme
126. To ask the Minister for Health if the design team has been appointed for the 100 unit at St. Patrick's geriatric hospital, John's Hill, County Waterford; if the money has been ring fenced...
- Mental Health Services Provision
127. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the progress in recruitment of posts per region and initiative in each year from 2012 to date in 2014, inclusive, for...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
128. To ask the Minister for Health his views on adding acute rheumatoid arthritis to the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45589/14]
- Mental Health Act Review
129. To ask the Minister for Health further to the ongoing delay in the publication of the expert group's review of the Mental Health Act 2001, the impact of the delay of over a year in...
- Health Services Staff Recruitment
130. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 610 of 23 April 2013, if he will confirm that all of the posts identified in his reply have now been filled; the number...
- Medical Card Eligibility
131. To ask the Minister for Health if under the revised conditions for the issuance of medical cards, he will consider the inclusion of chronic asthma sufferers aged 70 years and over; and if he...
- Disability Support Services Provision
133. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of early intervention teams for children in each local health area; the total number on each team; the number of...
- Health Services Staff Recruitment
134. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that all of the community based mental health teams are in place in the Health Service Executive west; the posts that remain to be filled;...
- Primary Care Centre Provision
135. To ask the Minister for Health when work will commence on the construction of the new primary care centre at Baldoyle, Dublin 13 [45609/14]
- Mental Health Services Provision
136. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the care and admission policy of acute psychiatric patients at Portiuncula and Galway University Hospitals in view of the fact that the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
137. To ask the Minister for Health the levels over the past two months of patients being placed on trolleys due to lack of beds in Cavan and Drogheda hospitals; and if he will make a statement...
- Hospital Services
138. To ask the Minister for Health if there are current plans regarding restoration of services at Monaghan General Hospital; the plans they contain; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
139. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the statutory obligations of publication of annual financial accounts for the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland; and if he will...
- Health Services Provision
140. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive access to services for the person's child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45630/14]
- Hospital Appointment Status
141. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be provided with an appointment to see a consultant dermatologist as a matter of urgency; and if he will...
- Primary Care Centre Provision
142. To ask the Minister for Health when work will commence on the construction of a new primary care centre at Cromcastle Road, Coolock, Dublin 5. [45648/14]
- Hospital Admissions
143. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to all elective to public-voluntary hospitals, if he will provide in tabular form for each month in 2014 and for each of those hospitals the number...
- Orthodontic Service Provision
144. To ask the Minister for Health if he will grant orthodontic treatment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the fact that the only reason the person is now out...
- General Practitioner Services
145. To ask the Minister for Health if an application to the Health Service Executive for change of doctor in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will be processed without...
- Ambulance Service Response Times
146. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the revised approach of dealing with emergency call outs in response to serious road collisions whereby only an ambulance is...
- Medical Card Eligibility
147. 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. [45664/14]
- Medical Card Applications
148. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on a medical card application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medical Card Administration
149. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical officers and deciding officers in the primary care reimbursement scheme section dealing with medical cards for the whole country; and if...
- Ambulance Service Response Times
150. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the response times for ambulances in counties Carlow and Kilkenny; if it is the case that ambulances are dispatched from County Galway to...
- Nursing Home Services
151. To ask the Minister for Health if a waiting list placement for nursing home care will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon. [45686/14]
- Departmental Funding
152. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding to a centre (details supplied) in view of the number of referrals the centre gets from probation officers and that the centre's...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
153. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form for each public-voluntary hospital, the numbers waiting in September 2014 for coronary bypass operations, indicating the...
- Medical Card Eligibility
154. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which it may be possible to undertake a further review of eligibility for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Patient Transport Provision
155. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the disability transport service is being reduced (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45735/14]
- Services for People with Disabilities
156. To ask the Minister for Health the reason transport services for persons with an intellectual disability are being reduced on the northside of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Medical Card Reviews
157. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card renewal may be effected in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Staff
158. To ask the Minister for Health the number of junior and senior consultants who are currently attached to the accident and emergency department of Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9. [45751/14]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Human Rights Issues
159. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way he will support the lifting of the blockade against Cuba which is infringing on the human rights of the Cuban people; and if he will...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Transport Administration
161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason this Deputy's correspondence (details supplied) has not been replied to, notwithstanding its having been furnished to Bus Éireann...
- University Status Applications
162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address WIT's preference to become a university outside the terms of her proposed technological universities Bill and the breakdown...
- School Staffing
163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to lift the moratorium on posts of responsibility in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45574/14]
- Pupil Data Collection
164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if grant aid will be made available to assist primary schools with the ever-increasing requirements of her Department in compiling the pupil...
- School Staffing
165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 1 July 2014, the number of relief teaching days allocated to teachers on a departmental pension in...
- School Accommodation
166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm plans for the development of permanent school accommodation for a school (details supplied) currently housed in temporary...
- Schools Building Projects Status
169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide information on the planning schedule, start dates and layout of the new building at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15....
- School Staffing
170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an appeal in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [45647/14]
- Site Acquisitions
171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45652/14]
- Minor Works Scheme Restoration
172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to reopen the minor works scheme in 2015. [45657/14]
- School Transport Eligibility
173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when assessing a student for eligibility of a school bus ticket, if it is the shortest distance between the home and the school that is...
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ascertain from Student Universal Support Ireland the way a grant applications for siblings were assessed and the guidelines used for...
- School Transport Eligibility
177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the distance requirements in place for school transport eligibility; if her attention has been drawn to the minimum distance...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she expects to be in a position to improve the pupil-teacher ratio and class sizes at primary and second level in the course...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which she expects to be in a position to provide the necessary support facilities at primary and second level schools throughout...
- School Patronage
181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which she and her Department continues to liaise with the authorities at the various denominational schools in the various urban...
- Bullying in Schools
183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she and her Department continue to monitor the incidents of school bullying particularly through electronic means; if she is...
- School Accommodation
184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of temporary and-or permanent school place accommodation requirements currently on hand in her Department as set out in...
- Further Education and Training Programmes Provision
185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she remains satisfied that the skills requirement of the workplace continues to be met by education; her further proposals in...
- Education Expenditure
186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the most commonly raised issues affecting education in the classroom as set out in submissions from the various school authorities such as...
- Student Grant Scheme Representations
188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which a support grant or other assistance may be available in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
- Schools Building Projects Administration
189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which the school building programme throughout the country remains in line with requirements and expectations; the extent to which...
- Gaelscoileanna Issues
190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she expects to respond to the well-presented application for Gaelcholáiste in north Kildare in view of the extent to...
- Further Education and Training Programmes Provision
192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken or the steps she proposes to take to assist applicants for higher education courses who are being refused higher education...
- Schools Building Projects Status
193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the need for extensions in respect of schools (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Local Authority Housing
195. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government If extra housing options are available for those on the housing list who spent time in industrial schools; and if he will...
- Local Authority Housing Maintenance
196. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of local authority-owned homes vacant at present; and if he will provide in tabular form the figures by local...
- Pyrite Issues
198. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the process of pyrite remediation is expected to commence in respect of a property (details supplied) in County...
- Water Meters
199. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the water metres being installed by Irish Water are capable of smart metering, that is, if they are capable of being...
- Water Charges Exemptions
201. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding a matter (details supplied) regarding the rent-a-room scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
- Local Authority Housing
202. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a new scheme will be introduced to allow local authority tenants to purchase their houses; if he will provide details...
- Irish Water Establishment
203. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if local authorities will transfer existing debts for water services onto Irish Water; the total debt involved; the...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
204. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding single social housing and voluntary housing units; and if he will make...
- Proposed Legislation
205. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on when the maritime area and foreshore (amendment) Bill will be published by his Department....
- Marine Resources
206. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the process involved for his Department in drawing up marine spatial plans; and the way his Department determines the...
- Irish Water Staff
207. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if severance payments are being paid to the outgoing directors of the board of Irish Water; and if he will make a...
- Irish Water Expenditure
208. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the annual interest costs Irish Water will incur on loans taken out to cover the cost of water meter installation; and if...
- Irish Water Funding
210. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the expected Government subvention to Irish Water via the local government fund in 2015; and if he will make a statement...
- Water Charges Yield
211. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the expected revenue to Irish Water from commercial water charges in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Water Charges Exemptions
212. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost to the State of the provision of free water allowances in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Petroleum and Gas Exploration
214. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources while understanding that a company (details supplied) has exercised the right to have first option on an exploration...
- Inland Fisheries
215. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 1083 of 4 November 2014, the position regarding plans to dredge the River Shannon...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- National Car Test
216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide the details of waiting lists for the national car testing centres in Monaghan, Cavan, Kells, Dundalk and Drogheda; the...
- Public Transport
218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the feasibility report on the new Cabra-Finglas link bus, which is due before end of November 2014. [45661/14]
- Tourism Ireland Funding
219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the current operation of the Dursey Island cable car; if he will provide investment for the cable car to ensure a...
- Road Safety Authority
220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who work in the administration and operation of the Road Safety Authority; the amount it costs to fund the RSA from...
- Sports Funding
221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding non-capital grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45733/14]
- Road Improvement Schemes
222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if specific funding will be allocated to Monaghan County Council to upgrade the Ballybay-Cootehill road R190 in view of constant flooding...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Proposed Legislation
223. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 1142 of 4 November 2014 when the legislation to enable the de-designation of national heritage...
- Arts Council Funding
224. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on an issue raised by Creative Spark Louth Craftmark (details supplied) regarding funding; and if she will make a statement...
