Written answers

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Equipment
      10. To ask the Minister for Defence the measures that are in place to ensure that the technologies developed following co-operation between the Defence Forces and companies and research...
    • Defence Forces Reserve
      11. To ask the Minister for Defence if he has considered legislative employment protections of members of the Reserve Defence Force, in order to allows a clear framework through which a reservist...
    • Defence Forces Medicinal Products
      12. To ask the Minister for Defence regarding the deployment by the Defence Forces of one doctor and three medical NCOs to Sierra Leone if Lariam is being prescribed as an anti-malarial drug for...
    • Defence Forces Operations
      13. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of occasions and cost of Defence Forces personnel being involved in ATCP duties at Shannon airport in 2014; his plans to change same; and if he will...
    • Overseas Missions
      14. To ask the Minister for Defence in view of the human suffering and human rights abuses taking place in Darfur and in Congo DRC, if this is an area where Irish troops could make a real...
    • Defence Forces Strength
      15. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent the strength of the Defence Forces at all levels remains sufficient to meet any and or all requirements of a security nature now and in the future;...
    • White Paper on Defence
      16. 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. [1214/15]
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      17. To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding the promised review of pay and remuneration for the Defence Forces; and if improvements are likely in the near future. [1208/15]
    • Air Corps Operations
      18. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to expand the operational roles of the Air Corps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1202/15]
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      19. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which discussions are ongoing or agreement reached in respect of members of the Defence Forces due to retire on completion of a specific number...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      20. To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding the effectiveness of his Department's interaction with the Department of Justice and Equality and Department of Foreign Affairs and...
    • Military Neutrality
      21. To ask the Minister for Defence his views on a change to the State's policy on military neutrality in the White Paper on Defence; his further views that the United States use of Shannon...
    • Overseas Missions
      22. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a progress report on the Defence Forces’ participation in the UNDOF mission in the Golan Heights; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      23. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the Action Plan for Jobs is being cut each year and high skilled workers are not being followed up having completed various State funded...
    • European Court of Human Rights Rulings
      24. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the decision of the European Court of Justice in April 2013 has a wider implication beyond the case of the former Waterford Crystal workers; if...
    • Property Tax Administration
      25. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that weekly local property tax reductions from payments are synchronised with those payments to avoid extra weeks deductions being...
    • Citizen Information Services
      26. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will introduce the community visitors programme in 2015, in partnership with Inclusion Ireland and other stakeholders; and if she will make a...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      28. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine and expedite a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Education and Training Provision
      29. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the courses available through her Department or agencies in County Kilkenny to assist those wishing to upskill or return to work; and if she will...
    • Mortgage Interest Supplement Scheme
      30. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding mortgage interest supplement in respect of persons who are long term unemployed (details supplied); the way she plans on...
    • Departmental Offices
      31. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when she will have an Intreo office fully operational in Swords, County Dublin. [49471/14]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      32. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will approve and expedite an appeal for jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      34. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [49523/14]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal claim for benefit will be expedited and approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will expedite...
    • Momentum Programme
      36. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the difficulties persons may have being forced onto momentum courses while not being able to afford the cost of getting to class for the placement;...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      37. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine a refusal for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry in view of the fact that additional...
    • Community Services Programme
      38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding Pobal funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will support a matter (details supplied) regarding funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49565/14]
    • Departmental Investigations
      41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the date by which the scope section of her Department plan to complete its investigation into allegations regarding the Kishoge site in Lucan, County...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Data
      44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for exceptional needs payments excluding ENP5 applications by county for the years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; the...
    • Social Welfare Code
      45. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 9 December 2014 her views on a change to the current legislation and rules in relation to income earned...
    • Back to Work Allowance
      46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 16 December if she will clarify the final paragraph of her reply wherein she makes reference to the...
    • Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
      47. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a profitable company (details supplied) in County Meath has not provided for its employees’...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      48. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the current rent supplement limits and revise same, with a view to flexibility on the limits for tenants who are at risk of...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views that persons who have earned through their contributions, an entitlement to a widow's-widower's contributory pension should not be denied...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49746/14]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has submitted all recent documentation...
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      54. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of agencies, quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by her Department which have been scrapped, merged or reduced since...
    • Decentralisation Programme Data
      55. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the agencies or sections from her Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and expenses incurred by...
    • Pensions Insolvency Payments Scheme
      58. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the pension schemes that became insolvent between 25 January 2007 and 25 December 2013 and which availed of the personal insolvency practitioners...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason that there is no disregard of €2,539.48 allowed for money received from agri-environmental schemes such as REPS-AEOS in the...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      60. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the action she will take on a matter (details supplied), where a tenant in receipt of rent supplement did not pass this on to the landlord and, when...
    • Pension Provisions
      61. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on State pensioners not having their the basic rates cut; if she will ask the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to reconsider...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      62. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      64. 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. [1194/15]
    • Illness Benefit Appeals
      65. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision on an illness benefit appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be expedited; and if she will make a...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      66. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are circumstances where a person over the age of 55 who has been on community employment for three years can continue on this scheme or if...
    • Maternity Benefit
      67. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost to extend paid maternity leave from 26 weeks to 52 weeks over a five year period, year 1, 26 weeks to 36 weeks, year 2, 36 weeks to 40...
    • Pension Provisions
      69. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will support a matter (details supplied) regarding pensioners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1324/15]
    • Social Welfare Appeals Waiting Times
      70. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average time between an appeal of a decision being registered and the appeal being considered; the causes of delays; the steps her Department is...
    • Community Services Programme
      71. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reopen the community services programme to new applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1346/15]
    • Insolvency Payments Scheme Payments
      73. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when her Department will have completed a review to decide if payments can be made to persons under the insolvency payments scheme after being made...
    • Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
      76. To ask the Minister for Social Protection bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon agus cad iad gráid na...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Data
      77. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a supplementary welfare exceptional needs payment will be provided for persons in need of urgent dental treatment; and if she will make a...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      80. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
    • National Internship Scheme Data
      83. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of host organisations on the JobBridge programme that have taken on between one and four interns; the number that have taken on five to...
    • Youth Guarantee
      87. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of jobseeker's under 25 years of age by county in tabular form who to date have been offered and completed a personal progression plan as...
    • Employment and Youth Activation Charter
      90. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of employers who have signed up to the Employment and Youth Activation Charter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1590/15]
    • JobsPlus Scheme
      99. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to detail the number of jobseekers who have qualified for the JobsPlus initiative since July 2013; the number of these jobseekers who are still in...
    • Employment Support Services
      102. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to detail the number of systematic short time workers in receipt of social welfare payments or credits; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Live Register Data
      104. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the number of part-time and casual workers on the live register who are under 25 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Respite Care Grant Data
      105. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set down the number of persons who received the respite grant in each of the past three years, by county, in tabular form; the cost to the...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      107. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reconsider her Department's eligibility requirements for separated parents in respect of their accommodation needs in light of a recent...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      108. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by her Department during 2014; if she will also provide details of all the relevant...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      109. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to outline the position regarding a carer's allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Social Insurance
      112. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form details of all loans received by the Social Insurance Fund in each year from 2011 to 2014; and if she will make...
    • Departmental Offices
      114. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse the decision to close the social welfare branch office in Clones, County Monaghan; if her attention has been drawn to the...
    • EU Directives
      115. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of EU directives which remain to be implemented within her Department; the name of these directives;...
    • Legislative Programme
      116. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in her Department that have been subject to the pre-legislative...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      118. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the number of secondments from her Department to external private firms in 2010 to 2014, inclusive, and to date in 2015; the firms...
  • Department of Finance
    • VAT Exemptions
      121. To ask the Minister for Finance if water bills will be subject to VAT. [49611/14]
    • Corporation Tax Regime
      122. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide details on the beneficiary companies and the cost in tax expenditure of the operation of the tonnage tax in each year since 2011. [49741/14]
    • Property Tax Data
      123. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a copy of the full local property tax and household charge payment history in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and the...
    • Property Tax Rate
      124. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ease the burden of the property tax levy (details supplied) by putting a ceiling on it for several years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Collection Forecasts
      125. To ask the Minister for Finance to forecast the amount of revenue that would be generated if a 5% tax rate was applied on all lotto winnings in excess of €750,000; and if he will make...
    • Energy Prices
      126. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has endeavoured to quantify the benefit to the economy of the reduction in cost of brent crude oil; and if he will provide figures for same....
    • Revenue Commissioners Powers
      127. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a time limit on how far back the Revenue Commissioners can go with investigations to claim unpaid tax; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Collection Forecasts
      128. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 11 December 2014 and incorporating the taxation model outlined in that question if he will provide comparisons of...
    • Inflation Rate
      129. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the assessment he has made of the risk that deflation may pose to the economy and if he is seeking to take action to counteract it; his views on...
    • Bank Charges
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance the obligations a bank has to inform customers of changes to fees or the introduction of fees. [49484/14]
    • Income Data
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of individual income taxpayers, total income and the total universal social charge paid for each of the gross income ranges (details...
    • Fiscal Policy
      135. To ask the Minister for Finance the way he assesses the progress, made since 2011, of the eurozone towards being an optimal currency union; the policies he is pursuing to achieve this goal;...
    • Fuel Prices
      136. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the Irish economy of the lag by the market in wholesale and retail markets in passing on the recent falls in crude oil prices; if this failure to...
    • European Investment Bank
      137. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will include the Shannon LNG project on the Government's submission for European Investment Bank funding as the proposed LNG terminal in Tarbert, County...
    • Personal Insolvency Act
      138. To ask the Minister for Finance regarding the personal insolvency legislation, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some credit unions are not co-operating with this; his views...
    • European Central Bank
      139. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the significant role that inappropriately low set interest rates by the ECB played in the recent economic crisis here, causing an inappropriate...
    • Departmental Investigations
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to an illegal scam involving the European central register for the collection and publication of VAT registration numbers; if...
    • Insurance Industry
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance the conditions whereby a company must adhere to in order to enter the home insurance market and the legislation which underpins these conditions; and if he...

    • 142. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 16 December 2014 if he will address the issue of the gains made by the European Central Bank on the holdings of...
    • Tax Code
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance the financial supports available for persons who are in negative equity who need to let their mortgaged homes and rent alternative accommodation themselves in...
    • NAMA Portfolio
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding renting; if the National Asset Management Agency is currently in the housing rental sector; and if he...
    • Personal Injury Claims
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding persons who have applied to an insurance company (details supplied) for a personal injury claim; when they can expect to be...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      146. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review eligibility for a primary medical certificate in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of agencies, quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by his Department which have been scrapped, merged or reduced since this...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      148. To ask the Minister for Finance the agencies or sections from his Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; and the travel costs and expenses incurred by...
    • Mortgage Lending
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the Central Bank of Ireland proposal to restrict mortgage lending with the introduction of a 20% deposit requirement for borrowers; his further...
    • Economic Growth Rate
      150. To ask the Minister for Finance the worth in monetary terms to the Irish economy of each percentage point in growth in terms of GDP. [1086/15]
    • Universal Social Charge Application
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance the worth to the economy of a 1.5% rate of universal social charge to higher earners, that is over €100,000. [1087/15]
    • VAT Rebates
      152. To ask the Minister for Finance if a full VAT return has been paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and the reason for the delay. [1090/15]
    • Tax Yield
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the total amount of money collected by the Revenue Commissioners in 2014 from self-employed persons; and the total amount...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      154. To ask the Minister for Finance the total moneys paid by his Department to external consultants, professional companies or advisers in relation to the jobs action plan in each year since and...
    • Tax Compliance
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has paid their proper income tax payments; if not, if they are owed arrears regarding their payments; and if...
    • Property Tax Exemptions
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a disabled person (details supplied) in County Kerry has not qualified for the maximum valuation band reduction in the chargeable value of their...
    • Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon agus cad iad gráid na bpost...
    • Mortgage Interest Relief Application
      158. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the mortgage interest relief TRS has been reduced in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • VAT Rate Increases
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance the increase in VRT and VAT on new car sales in 2014 compared to 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1502/15]
    • Property Tax Collection
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a surcharge of 1.3% is applied when paying local property tax by credit card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1511/15]
    • VAT Rate Application
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason there has been a change in the VAT classification of smoothies made of frozen yoghurt; the reason frozen yoghurt is no longer classified as milk...
    • EU Directives
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions that will be undertaken by his Department to transpose the EU directive on the comparability of fees related to payment accounts, payment account...
    • State Bodies Mergers
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress towards the amalgamation of the offices of the Financial Services Ombudsman and the Pensions Ombudsman; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • General Government Debt
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance the general budget deficit in each of the past eight years; his forecast for the budget deficit over each of the next three years; and if he will make a...
    • Fiscal Policy
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance if he envisages that further tax increases or spending reductions will be required over the next three years to meet the Government’s commitment to...
    • Banks Recapitalisation
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is still his policy to seek retrospective recapitalisation of formerly guaranteed institutions; the progress made to date; his views on comments made...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will facilitate an initiative enabling an alliance of post offices and credit unions to grant loans to the general public, as together they could...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by his Department during 2014; if he will also provide details of all the relevant fees paid to...
    • Disabled Drivers Grant
      169. To ask the Minister for Finance when the amendment to section 92 of Finance Act 1989, tax concessions for disabled drivers and so on in the Finance Act recently passed will come into effect;...
    • Deposit Interest Rates
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the announcement of a DIRT refund for first-time buyers, announced in budget 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1709/15]
    • Tax Collection
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) has had an increase in their PAYE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1712/15]
    • Exchequer Returns
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown by company of the €475 million in dividends received from the State companies in 2014; and if he will make a statement...
    • Property Tax Yield
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason local property tax receipts were 10.8% below target in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1735/15]
    • Tax Yield
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of taxation raised from motorists in 2013 and 2014 from mineral oil tax, VRT, VAT, carbon tax and driver licensing receipts; and if he will...
    • Tax Code
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the State of reducing excise duty on petrol and diesel by 10% in each case; the impact per litre, including VAT, this would have on the retail...
    • Local Government Fund
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of all transfers which have taken place from the local government fund to the Central Fund in 2014 by date and amount concerned;...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the proceeds from the sale of the combined portfolio off floating rate notes and fixed rate bonds which had been acquired by the Central Bank of...
    • EU Directives
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of EU Directives which remain to be implemented within his Department; the name of these directives; the...
    • Departmental Staff
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of secondments from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners and his Department respectively to external accountancy firms and consultancy firms in...
    • Legislative Process
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the pre-legislative scrutiny...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Staff
      187. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason workforce de-layering has not yet been achieved within his Department as it has in the Health Service Executive in line with...
    • State Properties
      188. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans that exist for the restoration by the Office of Public Works of the now derelict State-owned Kilmacurragh House, County...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      189. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if advance works have been or will be approved for raising roads at a location (details supplied) in County Galway as part of a scheme...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      190. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ensure that all gates erected by the Office of Public Works on the public right of way on the banks of the River Loune river...
    • Freedom of Information Remit
      191. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of his stated commitment to transparency and accountability in the spending of public moneys, his views that it is acceptable...
    • Irish Language
      192. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will review the policy of including Irish language translation as part of awarding overall translation contracts of minority...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      193. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will set out the contractors' pay and conditions of employment clause attached to public works contracts; if these conditions are...
    • Public Sector Staff Data
      195. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the current number of whole time equivalent workers employed in public sector. [49624/14]
    • Decentralisation Programme Office Accommodation
      196. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the locations of properties that were leased to accommodate the decentralisation during 1997 and 2011; the agreed duration of each lease...
    • Departmental Bodies Abolition
      197. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of agencies quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by his Department which have been scrapped, merged or...
    • Decentralisation Programme
      198. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the agencies or sections from his Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and expenses...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      199. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the advice he will provide to persons wishing to contribute their expertise and experience to the improvement of the board of a State...
    • State Pensions Reform
      200. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will not cut the basic rates of State pension as this will have dire consequences on the pensioners who are rapidly reaching the...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      201. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount of moneys paid by his Department to external consultants, professional companies or advisers in relation to the jobs...
    • Roads Maintenance
      202. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a road at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry will be repaired following its deterioration due to heavy vehicle use for the...
    • Ferry Services Provision
      203. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding a tendering process (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1225/15]
    • Property Transfers
      204. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the transfer of a facility (details supplied) in County Kerry to a community group; and if he will make a...
    • Drainage Schemes
      205. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of staffing plans on a scheme (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Commercial Rates Valuation Process
      206. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if community child care facilities which operate on a not-for-profit basis, and have charitable status from the Revenue Commissioners,...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      207. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the methodology used and marking system to decide tenders for State contracts for jobs such as cleaning of Garda stations and so on; if...
    • Garda Stations
      209. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the Office of Public Works' intentions for the Enfield, County Meath property which remains closed for...
    • Seirbhísí Aistriúcháin
      210. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform an bhfuil sé i gceist aige tairiscintí faoi leith agus comórtas faoi leith a reáchtáil maidir le...
    • Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
      211. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Caiteachais Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do...
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      212. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of all Office of Public Works investment in County Cork during the period 2011 to 2014; and if he will make a...
    • Public Sector Staff Sick Leave
      216. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the statutory instrument that allows periods of illness experienced during pregnancy to be counted as general sick leave for teachers;...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      217. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by his Department during 2014; if he will also provide details of all the...
    • Public Sector Staff Sick Leave
      218. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a review of the discriminatory impact of changes in public sector sick leave entitlements which calculated pregnancy sick leave as...
    • Official Languages Act 2003 Compliance
      219. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the recent findings by the Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht that there is a lack of staff with sufficient...
    • EU Directives
      220. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the number of EU directives which remain to be implemented within his Department; the name of these...
    • Legislative Programme
      221. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      223. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of secondments from his Department to external private firms in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015; the firms...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Trade Agreements
      226. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Water Meters Installation
      227. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of inspections carried out by the Health and Safety Authority at water meter installation sites by date and location; and...
    • Construction Contracts
      228. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if advertisements for adjudicators as provided for in the Construction Contracts Bill will be placed by the end of 2014. [49437/14]
    • Fuel Prices
      229. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in the context of the disconnect between the magnitude of the fall in crude oil prices and the magnitude of the fall in retail petrol,...
    • Registered Employment Agreements
      230. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a sectoral registered employment agreement as provided for in the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2014 will be enforceable...
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      231. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of agencies quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by his Department which have been scrapped, merged or...
    • Decentralisation Programme Data
      232. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the agencies or sections from his Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and expenses...
    • Community Enterprise Centres
      233. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the business development management programme; and if contracts for funding of some existing BDMs which have...
    • IDA Data
      235. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the total number of Industrial Development Agency client visits by county and in the case of...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      237. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the total number of Enterprise Ireland clients on a county basis and in the case of Dublin, a break...
    • Enterprise Ireland Investments
      239. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the total amount of investment in companies by Enterprise Ireland on a yearly basis since 2011; the...
    • Local Enterprise Offices
      240. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the total number of local enterprise office and previously county enterprise board supported...
    • Microenterprise Loan Fund Expenditure
      242. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the total amount of lending undertaken by Microfinance Ireland on a yearly basis since its...
    • Credit Guarantee Scheme Applications
      243. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in a tabular form the total amount of lending underwritten by the credit guarantee scheme on a yearly basis and by...
    • IDA Expenditure
      244. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total amount of money spent by Industrial Development Agency Ireland in developing each of the three facilities at Waterford,...
    • Farm Safety
      245. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in a tabular form the amount of money spent by the Health and Safety Authority on farm safety initiatives in each...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      247. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of money spent on an annual basis since 2011 by his Department on external consultancy companies or professional advice; if...
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      249. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total amount of moneys paid by his Department to external consultants, professional companies or advisers in relation to the jobs...
    • Foreign Direct Investment
      250. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the number of new Industrial Development Agency Ireland supported investments in each county and in...
    • IDA Funding
      251. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total amount of investment made that is actually transferred to companies instead of commitments, by Industrial Development Agency...
    • IDA Data
      253. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total number of investments announced by the Industrial Development Agency Ireland in each year since 2011; the number of those...
    • Employment Rights
      255. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding an unfair dismissal case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1213/15]
    • Low Pay Commission Establishment
      256. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applicants for membership of the Low Pay Commission; the date by which the nine members of the Commission will be...
    • IDA Site Visits
      257. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency client site visits that occurred in each county in the State in 2014; if he will provide a...
    • IDA Data
      258. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a county breakdown of the number of Industrial Development Agency led jobs created in 2014; the amount of IDA jobs...
    • Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
      259. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon agus cad iad...
    • Trade Agreements
      260. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if all public services and institutions have been excluded from the remit of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership trade...
    • IDA Site Visits
      261. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the annual number of Industrial Development Agency Ireland sponsored site visits by potential...
    • Job Creation
      263. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the total number of jobs created by Enterprise Ireland client companies from 2009 to 2013. [1572/15]
    • Consumer Protection
      264. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of submissions received following the consultation on the implementation of EU Directive on Consumer Alternative Dispute...
    • Collective Redress
      267. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions taken to date by his Department to implement the EU Commission Recommendation on Collective Redress dated 11 June 2013;...
    • Contract Law
      268. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to bring forward legislation to implement the recommendations of the 2008 Law Reform Commission report on the Privity of...
    • Local Enterprise Offices
      269. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of businesses that have been supported by each local enterprise office in each year since the establishment of the service;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      270. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the investment made by his Department to support job creation in each of the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Job Creation Data
      271. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of all jobs announcements in County Cork over each of the past four years of which his Department has been...
    • IDA Site Visits
      273. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will seek assurances from the Industrial Development Agency that attention is being paid to the job creation needs of Tallaght,...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      274. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by his Department during 2014; if he will also provide details of all the...
    • Water Meters Installation
      275. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of reports that the Health and Safety Authority have received to date from members of the public of incidents arising from...
    • Job Creation
      276. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when it is planned to launch the creating competitive regions strategies; and if, with particular reference to the west of Ireland,...
    • EU Directives
      277. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the number of EU directives which remain to be implemented within his Department; the name of these...
    • Legislative Programme
      278. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      280. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of secondments from his Department to external private firms in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015; the firms...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Pesticide Use
      283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of new rules and regulations that came into force on 1 January 2015 regarding persons applying sprays and pesticides, the...
    • Special Areas of Conservation Designation
      284. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that the forest management protocol for the hen harrier special protection areas will be reinstated while the hen...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme
      285. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will permit the registered owners of donkeys to continue to use them in calculations of the stocking density for the...
    • Fisheries Protection
      286. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will lift the ban on fishing dog fish for boats under 15 meters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49463/14]
    • Dairy Equipment Scheme
      287. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the new dairy equipment scheme, which has been allocated funding under the new CAP programme, will be made available to farmers;...
    • Veterinary Nursing
      288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 287 of 2 December 2014, if a veterinary nurse can solely hold a certificate of suitability as...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the second instalment of the single farm payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) engaged in agricultural...
    • Animal Welfare Expenditure
      290. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the application made by friends of seal rescue Ireland for funding made under the animal welfare scheme; when will seal...
    • Fish Quotas
      291. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm the traditional swap between Ireland and Belgium for plaice in areas VII f-g; and the benefit this is to Irish...
    • EU Regulations
      294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding tail docking in dairy herds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49716/14]
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      295. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their rural environment protection scheme 4 payment; the reason for the...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      296. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 9 December 2014 regarding a person ( details supplied) in County Donegal, if a site...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2013 agri-environment options scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Eligibility
      298. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has been refused admission to agri-environment options scheme 3. [49768/14]
    • Afforestation Programme
      299. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason an afforestation pre-approval application has been refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and...
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      300. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of agencies quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by his Department which have been scrapped, merged or...
    • Decentralisation Programme Data
      301. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the agencies or sections from his Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and expenses...
    • Farm Safety
      302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding EU grants for farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1078/15]
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      303. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when single farm payments will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Beef Industry
      307. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the beef sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1103/15]
    • Commonage Framework Plans
      308. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding commonage farmers and their participation in the GLAS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      309. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of moneys paid by his Department to external consultants, professional companies or advisors in relation to the jobs...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      310. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the single farm payment application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who has...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      311. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has not received their disadvantaged area aid payment; and if he will make a...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      312. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an AEOS payment for 2013 will be paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny in view of the fact that they...
    • Land Parcel Identification System
      313. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the fines and cuts on many farmers as a result of the land parcel identification system (details supplied);...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme Payments
      314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if in view of the dire predictions for cash flow for dairy farm incomes for 2015, if he will consider extending the completion dates...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will issue on a single farm payment appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork regarding a 5%...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      316. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an AEOS payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [1223/15]
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      317. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal under the single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he...
    • GLAS Establishment
      318. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the GLAS scheme will open for applications; when the terms and conditions will be made available; the expected date of the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      319. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an AEOS payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      321. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the research that has taken place or is taking place regarding the carbon sequestration capabilities of farms here; and if he will...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      322. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment for 2013 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Grant Payments
      323. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when applications to transfer entitlements will be completed by his Department for herd owners (details supplied) in west Cork; and...
    • Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
      324. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon agus cad iad...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      325. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision on a review of single farm payments will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      326. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of a disadvantaged area payments/agri-environment options scheme 2014 will issue to a person (details supplied) in...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      327. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of agri-environment options scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Grants
      328. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a forest road grant payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      329. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive their single farm payment. [1487/15]
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      331. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their agri-environment options scheme year three payment. [1495/15]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      332. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 18 November 2014, if payment under the disadvantaged area scheme 2014 has issued in...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      333. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2013 single farm payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Beef Exports
      334. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all cuts of meat and all parts of beef animals, including trimmings, are covered under the new agreement allowing beef onto the...
    • Pigmeat Sector
      335. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to address a matter (details supplied) regarding pig meat producers here; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications
      336. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 477 and 478 of 2 October 2012, if he will review and expedite the approval of an aquaculture...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      339. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by his Department during 2014; if he will also provide details of all the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      340. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will have their payment issued; the reason for the delay in same; and if he will...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      341. 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...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      342. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive their agri-environment option scheme payment; the reason for the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      343. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their disadvantaged area payment; the reason for the delay; and if he...
    • Food Exports
      346. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of any discussions that have been held at political or official level with the Russian authorities regarding the impact...
    • Noxious Weeds
      347. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to add Japanese knotweed to the noxious weed list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1784/15]
    • EU Directives
      348. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the number of EU directives which remain to be implemented in his Department; the name of these...
    • Legislative Programme
      349. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      351. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of secondments from his Department to external private firms from 2010 to date in 2015; the firms involved; and if he will...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Properties
      354. To ask the Minister for Defence if consideration will be given to the use of a property (details supplied) in County Kerry to provide accommodation for persons who are homeless; and if he...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      355. To ask the Minister for Defence if he is satisfied with existing arrangements between his Department and the Departments of Justice and Equality and Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding the...
    • Defence Forces Contracts
      356. To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding the conciliation and arbitration scheme review for members of the Permanent Defence Forces in PDFORRA's request regarding privates and...
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      357. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of agencies quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by his Department which have been scrapped, merged or reduced since this...
    • Decentralisation Programme Data
      358. To ask the Minister for Defence the agencies or sections from his Department that were decentralised during the period from 1997 until 2011; the travel costs and expenses incurred by...
    • Departmental Contracts
      359. To ask the Minister for Defence the total moneys paid by his Department to external consultants, professional companies or advisers in respect of the Action Plan for Jobs in each year since...
    • European Court of Human Rights Judgments
      360. To ask the Minister for Defence in view of the recent cases at the European County of Human Rights (details supplied) which upheld certain trade union rights for Defence Forces' personnel...
    • Defence Forces Expenditure
      361. To ask the Minister for Defence the resources the Government plans to put into the funding of new equipment and capabilities for the Defence Forces; and the upgrades that are necessary to...
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      362. To ask the Minister for Defence the plans for the use of the Defence Forces in serious industrial relations conflicts or other social conflicts. [1232/15]
    • Defence Forces Remuneration
      363. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to increase the pay of Defence forces personnel. [1233/15]
    • White Paper on Defence
      364. To ask the Minister for Defence when the new White Paper on Defence will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1305/15]
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      367. To ask the Minister for Defence if new personnel have been stationed at Custume Barracks as part of the Defence Forces recent recruitment drive; the number of same; and if he will make a...
    • Army Barracks Closures
      368. To ask the Minister for Defence his priorities for the future of Columb Barracks, Mullingar, County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1351/15]
    • Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
      370. To ask the Minister for Defence bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon agus cad iad gráid na bpost...
    • European Defence Agency
      371. To ask the Minister for Defence the contributions Ireland makes to the European Defence Agency. [1464/15]
    • Defence Forces Contracts
      372. To ask the Minister for Defence the measures being taken to ensure that matters taken to the Defence Forces conciliation arbitration scheme are dealt with in a timely manner; and his views...
    • Defence Forces Operations
      373. To ask the Minister for Defence the position regarding the recent revelations of surveillance of telephone calls within the State by GCHQ in Cheltenham, England; if the Defence Forces employ...
    • Overseas Missions
      374. To ask the Minister for Defence the resources being deployed and the activities of Defence Forces personnel in Ukraine. [1467/15]
    • Army Barracks Closures
      377. To ask the Minister for Defence the current use of all military installations decommissioned or otherwise not in use throughout the country since 1998; if all have been disposed of or...
    • Defence Forces Strength
      378. To ask the Minister for Defence the separate strength of the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps and their respective reserves; the extent to which this is in line with requirements; the...
    • Defence Forces Training
      379. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which the Defence Force Reserve personnel are afforded annual training or retraining; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1556/15]
    • Defence Forces Personnel Data
      380. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of women who have retired from the Defence Forces, all branches, in each of the past five years to date; the way such numbers are likely to be...
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      381. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which he expects members of the Defence Forces to be deployed overseas in the coming years; the scale of any such proposals; and if he will make...
    • Defence Forces Strength
      382. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which he remains satisfied that the current strength of the Defence Forces remains adequate to meet requirements; and if he will make a...
    • Air Corps Equipment
      383. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which ongoing upgrading of aircraft and IT continues in the Air Corps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1560/15]
    • Naval Service Vessels
      384. To ask the Minister for Defence if he is satisfied as to the extent to which new sea-going vessels continue to be made available to the Naval Service or the upgrading of existing vessels and...
    • Defence Forces Strength
      385. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which positions at all ranks remain to be filled in the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1562/15]
    • Defence Forces Retirements
      386. To ask the Minister for Defence the total number of personnel at all ranks due to retire from the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps in the current year; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Proposed Legislation
      387. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to publish the Curragh of Kildare Bill; the number of the suggested alternatives as proposed as an alternative to the Bill that have been completed;...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      388. To ask the Minister for Defence when there will be a new recruitment competition for the Defence Forces, particularly the Naval Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1654/15]
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      389. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by his Department during 2014; if he will also provide details of all the relevant fees paid to...
    • EU Directives
      390. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the number of EU directives which remain to be implemented within his Department; the name of these directives; the...
    • Legislative Programme
      391. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the pre-legislative scrutiny...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      393. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of secondments from his Department to external private firms in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015; the firms involved; and if he...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Garda Investigations
      396. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report to Dáil Éireann on the current situation with regard to the investigations by An Garda Síochána and the...
    • Statutory Instruments
      398. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the public consultation process in place prior to the introduction of the Statutory Instrument No. 541/2014; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      399. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality regarding the Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011, and in view of the context of a new Bill on lobbying reform, Registration of Lobbying Bill...
    • Residential Institutions
      400. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014 provides for health services to be made available without charge to women in...
    • Irish Water Expenditure
      402. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if Irish Water is paying for the use of Garda resources in the policing of protests at the installation of water meters. [49577/14]
    • Criminal Prosecutions
      403. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the legality behind a case where a property owner may be brought to a criminal court on charges of trespassing on their own...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      404. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to do away with non-convictions showing up on Garda statements issued in response to Garda clearance requests from employers-colleges;...
    • Legislative Measures
      405. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos 380 and 381, if a civil partnership to civil marriage conversion process similar to that in the UK will be...
    • Criminal Law
      406. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding phone and e-mail tapping; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49603/14]
    • Courts Service
      407. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of High Court cases under judicial review and Article 40 cases brought by applicants that were opposed. [49609/14]
    • Statutory Instruments
      408. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address concerns regarding SI 541/2014 (details supplied). [49612/14]
    • Citizenship Applications
      409. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin15; and if she will make a statement...
    • Legislative Programme
      410. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will repeal the Lunacy Regulation (Ireland) Act 1871; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49652/14]
    • Legislative Process
      411. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will publish the revised Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Bill 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49653/14]
    • Legislative Measures
      412. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will introduce hate crime legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49654/14]
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations
      413. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission failed to conduct a proper investigation into a complaint against gardaí made...
    • Disability Services Provision
      414. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding issues raised by persons with intellectual disabilities; and if she will make a...
    • Prison Investigations
      415. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will respond to issues raised by the Irish Penal Reform Trust (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49699/14]
    • Legislative Measures
      416. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support proposals on the assisted Decision Making Capacity Bill (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Powers
      417. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of complaints or requests to search suspect aircraft that were made at Shannon Garda Station from 2002 to December 2014. [49713/14]
    • Judicial Appointments
      418. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to enable those of a non-religious viewpoint to truthfully affirm rather than being forced to swear the existing oath, upon taking up...
    • English Language Training Organisations
      419. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that are being put in place to ensure the former students of a now closed English-language school (details supplied) are able to...
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      420. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of agencies, quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by her Department which have been scrapped, merged or reduced...
    • Decentralisation Programme Data
      421. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the agencies or sections of her Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and expenses incurred by...
    • Refugee Status Applications
      422. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce a one-off scheme to clear the backlog of persons in the protection process in advance of the introduction of a single...
    • Garda Powers
      423. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding incorrect and misleading information; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      424. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 9 April 2014 when a reply will be provided. [1082/15]
    • Departmental Funding
      425. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will given to funding or part funding community alert groups to cover their increased costs and in particular the costs of text...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      426. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount of moneys paid by her Department to external consultants, professional companies or advisers in relation to the jobs action plan...
    • Alcohol Sales Legislation
      427. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding taxi drivers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1158/15]
    • Courts Staff
      428. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown on the number of civil servants employed by the Courts Service in County Tipperary for 2011, 2012 and 2013, and...
    • Proposed Legislation
      429. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to propose a referendum to deal with legacy upward only rental agreements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1180/15]
    • Garda Strength
      430. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the number of gardaí of all ranks assigned to each station in the DMR-East division in the past five...
    • Crime Prevention
      431. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on recent incidents of burglary in the Glasnevin north area; if there is a proposal for further community...
    • Control of Firearms
      432. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of handguns or rifles stolen from licensed firearm holders excluding firearm dealers and blank deactivated firearms since 2009; when...
    • North South Ministerial Council
      433. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if concerns regarding dissident activity was discussed at the North South Ministerial Council meeting; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Deployment
      435. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if security personnel has been increased for the Taoiseach because of the threat of violence at the ongoing protests; and if she will make a...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      436. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will amend the terms of reference of the commission of investigation being carried out by Mr. Justice Kevin O'Higgins to include...
    • Prison Building Programme
      438. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the management and procurement practices in place in the prison service for major building projects in particular procurement, which...
    • Public Procurement Contracts Data
      448. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if full details of the complaints, challenges, legal and otherwise received by the Irish Prison Service in the past three years regarding...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      449. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the Child and Family Rights Bill if she will return to the original definition of assisted reproduction, as otherwise certain children...
    • Departmental Funding
      450. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a centre (details supplied) is not in receipt of funding from her Department while at the same time being requested to cater for...
    • Garda Operations
      451. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the Garda community text alert scheme in the Garda R and J Districts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1380/15]
    • Charities Regulation
      452. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the proposed register of charities is likely to be enacted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1385/15]
    • Prisoner Releases
      453. 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...
    • Prisoner Data
      454. 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...
    • Personal Insolvency Act
      455. 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...
    • Prisoner Data
      456. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the number of persons currently in prisons here between the ages of 16 and 25; and if she will make a...
    • Garda Deployment
      457. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí stationed in counties Carlow and Kilkenny by station in each of the past five years; the number of vehicles in same;...
    • Policing Authority Establishment
      458. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views with the previous Ombudsman for Children that a representative from that office should be represented on the new independent Garda...
    • Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
      459. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon agus cad iad gráid...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      460. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the total photography costs for her Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; the costs incurred...
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      461. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the use of external public relations firms employed by her Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014;...
    • Firearms Licences
      462. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for a compensation scheme for those persons who may be unable in the future to obtain licences for currently legally held firearms...
    • Wards of Court
      463. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress of the revised Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Bill 2013; when it will be published; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      464. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the terms of reference of the commission of inquiry arising out of the Guerin report can or is it likely to be extended at any stage to...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      465. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide assurances to residents in Fettercairn estate, Tallaght, Dublin 24 that everything possible is being done to deal effectively...
    • Crime Levels
      466. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that immediate action is taken in respect of the recent rise of crime in the Saggart, County Dublin area; if her attention has...
    • Garda Operations
      467. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the advice being offered by local gardaí about the...
    • International Terrorism
      468. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the rising threat of fundamental Islamic terrorism with origins in the EU; the actions that are being taken by the Irish Government...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      469. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by her Department during 2014; if she will also provide details of all the relevant...
    • Crime Data
      470. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason certain crime statistics, in particular rates of theft and burglary, are higher in the commuter belt counties of Kildare and Meath; if...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      471. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on extending the terms of reference to the commission of investigation lead by Sean Guerin to include an investigation into the death...
    • Garda Transport Expenditure
      472. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent on maintenance of An Garda Síochána vehicle fleet in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014. [1729/15]
    • Criminal Legal Aid
      473. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the expenditure on criminal legal aid in each year from 2009 to 2014; her plans to reduce the annual cost; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Garda Deployment
      474. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the most up-to-date numbers of gardaí by district and division; and if she will make a...
    • Garda Transport Data
      475. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a list in tabular form, of all Garda vehicles by vehicle type in each Garda district; the number of vehicles of each type...
    • Garda Resources
      476. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the number of gardaí in County Longford per station from 2008 to date in 2015; the number of vehicles...
    • Drugs Crime
      477. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to address the increasing concerns surrounding illegal drug use in County Longford; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Community Policing
      478. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to involve communities further in crime prevention measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1770/15]
    • EU Directives
      479. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the number of EU Directives which remain to be implemented within her Department; the names of these...
    • Legislative Process
      480. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in her Department that have been subject to the pre-legislative...
    • Departmental Staff
      482. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of secondments from her Department to external private firms in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015; the firms involved;...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Foreign Adoptions
      485. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding adoption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1175/15]
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      486. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a mother and baby home inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Young People’s Facilities and Services Fund
      489. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when he will advise Cabra for Youth (details supplied) of its 2015 funding allocation [49510/14]
    • Sports Funding
      490. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding that is available from his Department to fund sports activities for young persons in disadvantaged areas. [49630/14]
    • Family Support Services
      491. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a decision been made by his Department of the provision of funding to a centre (details sullied) in County Dublin for 2015. [49650/14]
    • School Completion Programme
      492. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the school completion programme funding in Donaghmede, Ayrfield, Kilbarrack and Edenmore areas, Dublin will be protected in 2015; if...
    • Youth Services Funding
      493. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs regarding the recent allocation of capital grants for youth projects, if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of spending involved and...
    • Children First Guidelines
      494. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs regarding child protection, the steps that a person must undertake, and the approvals they must secure, in regard to setting up classes for...
    • Departmental Agencies Funding
      495. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of agencies quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by his Department which have been scrapped, merged or...
    • Decentralisation Programme Data
      496. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the agencies or sections from his Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and expenses incurred...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      497. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total moneys paid by his Department to external consultants, professional companies or advisors under the jobs action plan in each year...
    • Social Workers Register
      499. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if Tusla will to re-open the social workers' panel to new applicants during 2015 for potential vacancies that may arise; and if he will...
    • Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
      501. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon agus cad iad...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      502. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form the total photography costs for his Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; the costs...
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      503. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      504. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form per annum the total cost of external IT contractors incurred by her Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and...
    • National Youth Strategy
      505. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update on the development of a National Youth Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1606/15]
    • School Completion Programme
      506. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of funding for the school completion programme which has been cut by 33% since 2008; and if it is intended that it be...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      507. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by his Department during 2014; if he will also provide details of all the...
    • Back to Work Allowance Eligibility
      508. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the difficulty a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary is encountering with the back to work enterprise...
    • Child Protection Guidelines
      509. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on reports that Tusla has moved the threshold for the protection and welfare of children from adequate care and protection to...
    • Child Care Services Funding
      510. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount to be allocated to a community childcare facility (details supplied) in County Clare; when the organisation is likely to receive...
    • EU Directives
      511. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form the number of EU directives which remain to be implemented within his Department; the name of these...
    • Legislative Programme
      512. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      514. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of secondments from his Department to external private firms in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015; the firms...
  • Department of Health
    • Congregated Settings Report
      517. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commence a programme of investment that will ensure the implementation of the congregated settings report; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      519. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      520. To ask the Minister for Health if he will deal with the crisis at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49442/14]
    • HSE Data
      521. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe envisaged for completion of the investigation into the work practices of a person (details supplied); his views that the Health Service Executive...
    • Maternity Services
      522. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 266 and 267 of 26 February 2014, if he will publish a copy of the draft report which presents options for the delivery...
    • Health Services
      523. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 381 of 23 September 2014, if he will put in place a long term transport arrangement to suit the needs of a person...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      524. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow will be called for an operation in view of the fact that they have been on a waiting list for over 15...
    • Medical Card Applications
      526. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on a medical card will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49469/14]
    • Home Care Packages
      527. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 165 and 166 of 13 November 2014, if he will provide the information requested as the reply received from the Health...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      528. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49483/14]
    • Medical Card Applications
      529. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the renewal of a medical card application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff
      530. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding staffing in the health services (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49501/14]
    • Drug Treatment Programmes Policy
      531. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the drug problem in Dublin City centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49514/14]
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Applications
      532. To ask the Minister for Health when a long term illness card will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49517/14]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      533. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an electric wheelchair in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49520/14]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      534. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Laois has been denied access to a certain treatment; if he will arrange to have this matter reviewed; and if...
    • Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme
      535. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the redress scheme for the survivors of symphysiotomy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49525/14]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      536. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will supply size seven Lieber pull-ups to a person (details supplied) in County Cork as they are available at the HSE in...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      537. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is suffering from continuous pain that requires...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      539. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite a medical card review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Eligibility
      540. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a legislative barrier preventing the temporary postponement of the taking up of the fair deal package by those who have successfully completed the...
    • National Children's Hospital Status
      541. To ask the Minister for Health the current position regarding the development of the new national children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49554/14]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      542. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an ambulance transporting a patient from Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, to a hospital in Dublin...
    • Disability Services Provision
      543. To ask the Minister for Health the number of registered service providers that are regulated under the Health Act 2007 (Care and Support of Residents in Designated Centres for Persons...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      544. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the staffing levels that are in place in each location from which CAMHS services are provided across the country; if he will...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      545. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time for which a person remains on a methadone programme; the average cost per annum in maintaining a person on a programme; the number...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      546. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford had their chronic illness medical card withdrawn; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Equipment
      547. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that MRI equipment compatible with equipment required for general anaesthesia is made available to Cork University Hospital in order that...
    • Hospital Services
      548. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the full implementation of the Donohue and Walsh recommendations, August 2013, following their review of the care provided by Castlebar...
    • Health Services Staff
      550. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding nurses who are injured while on duty and covered by the injury grant or the social welfare injury benefit resulting in different rates...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      551. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive a hospital appointment in view of the fact that they are over a year waiting for this procedure;...
    • Hospital Consultants Contract
      552. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 780 of 8 July 2014, the number of consultants who have returned figures that suggest they are seeing numbers of private...
    • Hospital Procedures
      553. To ask the Minister for Health the grounds on which a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 was denied access to the treatment abroad scheme and also denied access to the cross-border...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      554. To ask the Minister for Health if Our Lady’s Hospital Navan will have its full complement of staff, including directly employed registrars as of 5 January 2015. [49592/14]
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      555. To ask the Minister for Health his views on extending the free cervical smear testing programme to include under 25 year olds; if the scheme will be extended on the basis that should a...
    • Hospital Groups
      556. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanism being used to appoint each of the members of the new hospital group boards. [49604/14]
    • HSE Investigations
      558. To ask the Minister for Health if he will order a public inquiry into the revelations broadcasted on RTE (details supplied). [49616/14]
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      559. To ask the Minister for Health the agency or body which has responsibility for calibrating the commercial methadone pumps which are used by pharmacies to dispense methadone; and if there is...
    • Health Services Provision
      561. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will receive her physiotherapy. [49629/14]
    • Maternity Services
      562. To ask the Minister for Health the current location of the medical records, including the birth registers and the ​maternity ​theatre registers, for each year from 1950 to...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      563. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm of the 79 patients waiting more than nine months for various procedures including spinal assessment, cast change, full spinal surgery,...
    • Disability Services Provision
      566. To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct that the Health Service Executive will ensure that the service level agreements signed with disability providers for 2015 will allocate 5%...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Applications
      567. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Limerick will receive back payment for ADHD medication as applied for under the long-term illness scheme; and if he...
    • Health Services Provision
      568. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a child (details supplied) in County Cavan receives the therapies that he urgently requires without further delay; and if he will make a...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      569. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase home care hours from 90 minutes a day to three hours a day in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10. [49672/14]
    • General Medical Services Scheme Administration
      570. To ask the Minister for Health the position in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49678/14]
    • Departmental Correspondence
      571. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding issues raised by persons with intellectual disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      572. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of mental health funding including the commitment to €35 million of ring-fenced mental health funding per year since 2011;...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      573. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health posts that had been approved in 2012 and still remain unfilled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49689/14]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      574. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the 24-7 crisis intervention within specialist mental health services; when this is to be provided; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      575. To ask the Minister for Health the details of recruitment of child and adolescent psychiatrists; figures on waiting lists for CAMHS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49691/14]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      576. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who continue to be admitted to adult psychiatric wards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49692/14]
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      577. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the new counselling and primary care service initiated in July 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49693/14]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      578. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of staff that have been recruited into mental health services since 2011; the actual increase in numbers of positions in view of natural wastage,...
    • Hospital Services
      579. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on provision of high-quality acute inpatient units based at major general hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49695/14]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      580. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork is not entitled to a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49696/14]
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      581. To ask the Minister for Health if and when bowel screening will be made available to the over-70s; and the reason persons under 70 are not screened. [49698/14]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      582. To ask the Minister for Health if he will sanction the use of Erivedge in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who cannot afford to pay the cost of this drug and cannot...
    • HSE Investigations
      583. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a matter (details supplied) regarding persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49706/14]
    • Drugs-related Deaths
      584. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a matter (details supplied) regarding methadone deaths here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49708/14]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      585. To ask the Minister for Health when a bone marrow transplant consultant will be appointed to Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12. [49717/14]
    • Home Help Service
      586. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the recent investigation into abuse in care facilities, if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of the number of complaints that have been...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      587. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for kidney transplants; the number of transplants that were carried out here in 2014; the hospitals these transplants...
    • Medical Card Applications
      589. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision on a medical card application will be reached in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Disease Management
      590. To ask the Minister for Health if he will initiate a full review of the diagnostic approach to Lyme disease in view of numerous examples of unsatisfactory patient experience; and if he will...
    • Hospital Consultants Remuneration
      592. To ask the Minister for Health when the vacant consultant positions at Kerry general hospital will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49764/14]
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      593. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposed increase in the registration charge for nurses and midwives from €100 to €150; his views that it is unfair to...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a lumbar test in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1001/15]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      595. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an operation to remove cataracts in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      596. 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....
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      597. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in receipt of a top-up payment from disability services as they are in units in nursing homes where the weekly cost is in excess of the...
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      598. To ask the Minister for Health the number of agencies quangos or other bodies within, funded by, or established by his Department which have been scrapped, merged or reduced since this...
    • Decentralisation Programme Data
      599. To ask the Minister for Health the agencies or sections from his Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and expenses incurred by decentralised...
    • General Practitioner Services
      600. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding local general practitioners here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1046/15]
    • Audiology Services Provision
      601. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hearing aid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1051/15]
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      602. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 146 of 27 November 2014, if he will indicate precisely, after a road traffic collision has taken place and a call is made...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; when they may expect a tonsil operation in Tallaght hospital, Dublin 24; and his...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
      604. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a long-term illness scheme; if he will add Leukodystrophy 4H syndrome onto the long-term illness scheme in...
    • Health Services Provision
      605. To ask the Minister for Health the action his Department or the Health Service Executive has taken to date in 2015 to resolve the issues raised by a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      606. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the registration fees for nurses charged by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland in view of the fact that the fee has risen sharply in the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      607. To ask the Minister for Health if an early date will be set for an operation at Waterford Regional Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [1096/15]
    • General Practitioner Co-operatives
      608. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a North Doc home visit in 2014; the shortest and longest waiting times in 2014; the service target waiting time in 2014; and if he...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      609. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a Health Service Executive review of the ambulance service in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1106/15]
    • Child Care Services Provision
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that nursing hours are provided in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Monaghan to enable them to get to school. [1110/15]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      612. To ask the Minister for Health the total moneys paid by his Department to external consultants, professional companies or advisers under the Action Plan for Jobs in each year since and...
    • Registration of Nurses
      613. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the nursing registration fee which was increased by 50%; if this will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1156/15]
    • Cancer Research
      614. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent study by the Johns Hopkins school of medicine in the U.S. which states that most cancer cases are the result of bad luck; and if he...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      615. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be carried out in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1161/15]
    • Accident and Emergency Department Waiting Times
      616. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that will be taken by the Health Service Executive to reduce the high number of patients on trolleys in accident and emergency and awaiting...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      618. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding wards in Kerry General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1170/15]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      619. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the files of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1172/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      620. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding medical card applications in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      621. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a referral for orthotics in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; if he will expedite the orthotics in view of their...
    • Dental Services Provision
      622. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a dental procedure in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1177/15]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      624. To ask the Minister for Health when a cataract operation will be scheduled in resect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1179/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an MRI in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1181/15]
    • Community Care Provision
      626. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the reduction in numbers of community care beds including step-down facilities, long-term care beds, and nursing home beds since the current...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare is not being processed due to the submission of an...
    • Medical Card Applications
      628. 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. [1210/15]
    • Accident and Emergency Services Provision
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to address the crisis in accident and emergency departments in hospitals as it has become a national emergency; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Applications
      630. 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 Appointment Delays
      631. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in performing a knee replacement operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and when the person may expect a...
    • Home Care Packages
      632. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of applications for home care packages in each county in 2014; the number of successful applications; the number...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
      633. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of applications for the fair deal scheme for nursing home subvention in each county in 2014; the number of...
    • Hospitals Funding
      634. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown by year since 2010 of the budgets for Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda and Louth County Hospital. [1247/15]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      637. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for patients attending outpatient clinics in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and in Louth County Hospital. [1250/15]
    • Hospital Beds Data
      639. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds available in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital and Louth County Hospital each year from 2010. [1252/15]
    • Home Help Service Expenditure
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the financial cuts to the home help budget covering County Louth each year since 2010. [1255/15]
    • Hospital Beds Data
      645. To ask the Minister for Health the number of respite beds available in County Louth each year since 2010. [1258/15]
    • Hospital Services
      650. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Cottage Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth. [1263/15]
    • Hospital Beds Data
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the promised 100-bed unit for elderly patients announced in 2012 for St. Mary’s Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth. [1264/15]
    • Primary Care Centres
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the primary care centre for north Drogheda, its proposed role and the services to be provided. [1265/15]
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      653. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the refurbishment work carried out and to be carried out at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth. [1266/15]
    • Hospital Staff
      654. To ask the Minister for Health the number of specialists in hospitals in the midland counties, that is Laois, Offaly and Kildare, who treat patients with sleep apnoea disorder and the...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      655. To ask the Minister for Health the services available to persons suffering mental health illness in the Athlone and south Westmeath area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1283/15]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      656. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive essential spinal fusion surgery in view of the fact the person has been waiting since 2013 and...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      658. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in providing a person (details supplied) in Dublin 20 with a date for a stomach operation in St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8. [1304/15]
    • Social Workers Recruitment
      659. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive intends to reopen the social workers panel to new applicants during 2015 for potential vacancies that may arise; and if he will...
    • Health Services Provision
      660. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow with dyspraxia will be seen by a speech therapist and a physiotherapist. [1332/15]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      661. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make the drug Soliris (eculizumab) available in respect of a person (details supplied) who is suffering from the ultra rare and life threatening...
    • Hospital Charges
      662. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a proposal (details supplied) regarding fixed fees for acute hospitals here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1344/15]
    • Medicinal Products Expenditure
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons for whom the Health Service Executive has refused to fund Soliris during 2012, 2013 and 2014. [1345/15]
    • Medical Card Administration
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the new medical card system; and the way these changes will impact on patients. [1360/15]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      665. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding nursing home support, fair deal; the current waiting time; and his plans to reduce this [1361/15]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      666. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding support required in respect of a person in County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
      667. To ask the Minister for Health bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon agus cad iad gráid na bpost...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      668. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the total photography costs for his Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; the costs incurred from use of the...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      669. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; a list of uses...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      670. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form per annum the total cost of external IT contractors incurred by his Department in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. [1455/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      671. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will be assessed for a hip operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1458/15]
    • Hospital Services
      672. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence regarding hospital treatment of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1459/15]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      673. To ask the Minister for Health the recommended case load that the Health Service Executive operates for therapists, included occupational therapists, speech and language therapists,...
    • Dental Services Provision
      674. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is available for dental treatments for medical card holders who require additional treatment which is not covered under the general medical services...
    • Accident and Emergency Services Provision
      675. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the situation at Naas General Hospital, County Kildare, where continuing overcrowding exists at the accident and emergency...
    • Proposed Legislation
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the range of measures being considered for inclusion in the public health (alcohol) Bill; when the general scheme of the Bill will be published; and if he will...
    • Accident and Emergency Services Provision
      677. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the throughput of patients and procedures has been maintained at all public hospital accident and emergency departments, all fully...
    • Nursing Staff Provision
      678. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the shortage of nurses here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1574/15]
    • National Dementia Strategy
      679. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the recently published national dementia strategy indicating that up to 29% of all patients in a typical general hospital may have dementia while...
    • Motorised Transport Grant Applications
      683. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a replacement scheme for the motorised transport grant and mobility allowance which were abolished by the Government in February 2013,...
    • Hospital Equipment
      684. To ask the Minister for Health regarding a Topical issue raised by this Deputy on 20 June 2012, the current location of the unused X-ray machine which was located in the Ballymun Health...
    • Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
      685. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide figures in respect of waiting list for orthodontic treatment in County Kerry; his strategy to substantially reduce this list of applicants...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      686. To ask the Minister for Health the fire brigades that have signed up to and are operating the Health Service Executive recommended policy of fire service first-responder scheme which...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      690. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by his Department during 2014; if he will also provide details of all the relevant fees paid to...
    • Medical Card Applications
      691. To ask the Minister for Health if a full medical card will be awarded in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1679/15]
    • Audiology Services Provision
      692. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1690/15]
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      693. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the policy of reference pricing for prescription medication, if a person with cardiac disease who has been proven to be medically unable to take the...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      694. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a change in legislation to the long-term illness scheme which would include persons with spinal injuries such as syringomyelia to avail of the...
    • Water Fluoridation (1 comment)
      695. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Health Research Board's review of the international evidence on fluoridation of water; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      696. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical appointment will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1697/15]
    • Hospital Services
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding paediatrics facilities here, particularly in the Munster area where there is not ability to do MRI under anaesthetic; and if he will...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
      698. To ask the Minister for Health the number of fair deal grants issued by the Health Service Executive in each health area for each of the past three years in tabular form; and if he will make...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      699. To ask the Minister for Health the time taken to resolve an application for a fair deal grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1718/15]
    • Organ Donation
      700. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to initiate an awareness campaign for organ donation due to the alarming reduction in organ donors; his legislative plans whereby all citizens would...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      701. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children that have been assessed and approved for speech and language therapy in each county; the average waiting time for treatment in each...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      702. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reintroduce the winter bed initiative scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1727/15]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      703. To ask the Minister for Health the progress with respect to the waiting time for fair deal assessment; his plans to provide an interim subsidy for nursing home beds to alleviate the current...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the total impact on expenditure in his Department in 2014 of the transfer of the child and family services function to the Department of Children and Youth...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      705. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for the fair deal scheme will be examined in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Access
      706. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding medical issues in respect of a person in County Kildare; if the request may be addressed; if it cannot...
    • Accident and Emergency Services Provision
      708. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the difficulty in predicting the level of demand for emergency departments, owing to the nature of accidents and emergencies, if consideration has...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      709. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has identified the reasons some 1,200 nursing home beds are unoccupied, as confirmed by a survey conducted by Nursing Homes...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      710. To ask the Minister for Health the number of locum consultants currently attached to Portiuncula Hospital, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1764/15]
    • EU Directives
      714. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of EU directives which remain to be implemented within his Department; the name of these directives; the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      715. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the refusal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) [1801/15]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      716. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive a hearing aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1802/15]
    • Legislative Programme
      717. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the pre-legislative scrutiny...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      719. To ask the Minister for Health the number of secondments from his Department to external private firms in 2010 to 2014, inclusive, and to date in 2015; the firms involved; and if he will...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Trade Relations
      722. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of the memorandums of understanding with China; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49495/14]
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      723. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of agencies quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by his Department which have been scrapped, merged or...
    • Decentralisation Programme Data
      724. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the agencies or sections from his Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and expenses incurred...
    • Foreign Policy
      725. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will follow up on changes in Cuba and US relations with priority to be given to ending the economic blockade; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      726. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total moneys paid by his Department to external consultants, professional companies or advisers under the Action Plan for Jobs in each...
    • Departmental Schemes
      727. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the programmes or schemes his Department currently funds to maintain or increase the number of Irish citizens who gain work experience or...
    • Consular Services Provision
      728. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent of support and assistance, including financial assistance and in what circumstances, that his Department and the Irish Consular...
    • Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
      730. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon agus cad iad...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      731. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the total photography costs for his Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; the costs incurred...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      732. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and...
    • Passport Applications
      733. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the information required for a person (details supplied) to obtain a passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1550/15]
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      734. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by his Department during 2014; if he will also provide details of all the...
    • Diplomatic Representation
      735. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No 166 of 11 December 2014 if there have been any further developments in the provision of assistance for...
    • Religious Persecution
      736. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of discussions at recent EU Foreign Affairs Council meetings regarding the persecution of Christians; and if he will make a...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      738. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of the Stormont talks involving the Irish and British Governments and the five Northern Ireland Executive parties; and if he...
    • Religious Persecution
      743. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures being taken at a national and an EU level to address the persecution of Christians across the world; and if he will make a...
    • Human Rights Issues
      744. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures being taken at a national and an EU level to address the persecution of women and the abuse of female human rights across the...
    • EU Directives
      745. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the number of EU directives which remain to be implemented within his Department; the name of these...
    • Legislative Programme
      746. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      748. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of secondments from his Department to external private firms in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015; the firms...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport Expenditure
      751. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the school special transport grant will be paid at the end of each school term instead of the end of the school year. [49436/14]
    • Vocational Education Committees Accounts
      752. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the accounts of Cork County Vocational Education Committee for 2011 are completed; if there is a reason these accounts have not yet been laid...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that all small primary schools are retained and enhanced and that high speed broadband is installed in all these schools; and...
    • School Transport Provision
      754. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 390 of 9 December 2014 the additional mileage that would be incurred by Bus Éireann if it altered the...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      755. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form by county the schools that did not apply for broadband connection; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      756. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on plans for a new school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      757. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve and expedite a Student Universal Support Ireland grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she...
    • Momentum Programme
      758. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the use of Momentum courses and the progression rates of persons getting work from these courses, the reason there is no extra payments...
    • Psychological Assessments
      760. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a primary school pupil (details supplied) in County Cork will have an assessment of their needs; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations
      762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will be assessed as they need an up to date educational report to apply for reasonable...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      763. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow currently on schedule for delivery by the end of 2016; and if she will make...
    • Schools Building Projects Expenditure
      764. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital funding applications open to Salerno secondary school to fund the building of a multi-purpose sports and general activities hall at...
    • School Staffing
      765. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 395 of 9 December 2014, if the recommendation is that schools should differentiate between English...
    • School Accommodation
      766. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Kildare may permanently remain in the school in which it is currently occupying; if not, the reasons for...
    • Teacher Secondment
      767. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if approval will be provided to the extension of secondments of directors of education centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Home Tuition Scheme Provision
      768. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 194 to 197, inclusive, of 16 October 2014, in view of the internal e-mail sent by one of her officials on...
    • Schools Building Contractors
      769. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the pay and conditions of employment clause attached to the Kishoge community college, Lucan, County Dublin public...
    • Home Tuition Scheme Funding
      770. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 12 November 2014, the reason for her Department stating in its correspondence of 1 November 2010...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      771. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on advances her Department has made with respect to policy on physical restraint intervention from a health and safety...
    • State Examinations
      772. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if circumstances may be changed where a repeat leaving certificate student may sit one exam per day due to medical conditions. [49662/14]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      773. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork is not entitled to a Student Universal Support Ireland grant; and if she will make a...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      774. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding special needs assistant hours in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      775. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for capital funding for a sports hall by a post-primary school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if...
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      776. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of agencies quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by her Department which have been scrapped, merged or reduced...
    • Decentralisation Programme Data
      777. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agencies or sections from her Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and expenses incurred by...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      778. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the situation that enough persons (details supplied) with suitable trades are not becoming available in the workforce here;...
    • State Examinations Appeals
      779. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is possible to challenge the chief examiner's assessment of an answer in a leaving certificate appeal; if so, the appropriate procedure;...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      780. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding funding for a course; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1059/15]
    • State Examinations
      781. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will list the additional attributes for students which would be achieved by teachers correcting their own students work in a...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      782. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a bursary scheme for children graduated from DEIS schools; and if so, the application procedure for this scheme. [1076/15]
    • Child Protection
      783. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have not implemented the Stay Safe programme; the number that have indicated to her Department that they will not be...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      784. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the starting salary grade for a newly employed teacher at both primary and post primary level for each year...
    • Further Education and Training Programmes Funding
      786. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options open to an institution (details supplied) regarding funding for courses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1111/15]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      787. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total moneys paid by her Department to external consultants, professional companies or advisers under the Action Plan for Jobs in each year...
    • School Accommodation
      788. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for funding from a school (details supplied) in County Cork; the status of the application; when a decision...
    • Education and Training Boards
      789. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form for each of the past three years the number of external training programmes tendered and delivered in...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      790. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase special needs assistance in the schools in Ballymun, Dublin in view of the current lack of sufficient assistance in...
    • Higher Education Institutions
      791. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures in place to monitor use of public moneys provided to the Union of Students of Ireland. [1268/15]
    • Data Protection
      792. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the primary online database, if she will provide in tabular form the Government Departments including her Department, agencies and...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      793. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding victims of sexual abuse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1340/15]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      794. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when assistive technology will be made available in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      795. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a permanent building will be found for a school (details supplied) in County Cork. [1348/15]
    • Site Acquisitions
      796. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the purchase of a site for the new community college in Carrigtwohill, County Cork; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      797. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeframe for the completion of the internal job evaluation to be carried out in University College Cork to establish the correct rate of pay...
    • Institutes of Technology
      798. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her view on whether it is appropriate for an educational institution (details supplied) to withhold a qualification from a student on the grounds...
    • National Educational Welfare Board Remit
      799. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legal threshold for excluding students from primary and post-primary schools on a temporary and permanent basis. [1367/15]
    • Student Support Schemes
      800. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available to postgraduate students in the arts and humanities with the exception of the excellent schemes operated by the...
    • Schools Establishment
      801. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will publish the Report on the Configuration and Development of Post-Primary Schools in Limerick City, Croom and Pallaskenry for the...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      802. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding support required in respect of a person in County Monaghan; and if she will make a...
    • Data Protection
      803. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any penalty for parents who do not supply PPS numbers of their children to schools as part of the school surveys of pupils on behalf...
    • Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
      804. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon agus cad iad gráid...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      805. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the total photography costs for her Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; the costs incurred...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      806. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the use of external public relations firms employed by her Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014;...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      807. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes proposed regarding learning support and resource teacher allocation; if she will address the concerns raised by a school principal...
    • Schools Building Projects Administration
      808. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of construction-related projects her Department and State bodies under the aegis of her Department have signed public works contracts...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      809. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to implement the model of resource teaching and learning support proposed by the National Council for Special Education; and if she...
    • School Staffing
      810. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional primary and secondary school teachers that have been employed for each of the past seven years; and if she will make a...
    • Teacher Recruitment
      811. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she has taken, and those of her predecessor, to recruit additional post-primary teachers; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      812. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department requested its payroll provider to develop the software necessary to release the increments deferred under the Haddington Road...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      824. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if increments due to be paid to staff in her Department were paid on the due date. [1530/15]
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      825. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a definitive date by which payroll difficulties will be resolved satisfactorily. [1531/15]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      827. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons in her Department who have been tasked with ensuring that difficulties with her Department’s payroll in respect of...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      832. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a definitive date for the payment of the revised scale for 2011 entrants. [1538/15]
    • School Transport Eligibility
      842. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the school transport service of Bus Éireann has not yet arranged school transport for a group travelling between locations...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      843. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which teachers will receive the increments they are entitled to under Haddington Road agreement. [1551/15]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      844. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress regarding the replacement of the current school building of a school (details supplied) in County Galway with a new building; when...
    • Site Acquisitions
      846. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will arrange a meeting with representatives of her Department to include the senior architect and Clare County Council to discuss and...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      847. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schedule now being followed in respect of the proposed development of a second level school at Kingswood Heights, Tallaght, Dublin 24; and if...
    • Departmental Records
      849. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department plans to store PPS numbers of primary school pupils for 30 years; the plans her Department has in place to ensure the...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      850. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by her Department during 2014; if she will also provide details of all the relevant...
    • Third Level Staff Recruitment
      851. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in order that third level colleges may be permitted to fill posts...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      852. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if extra special needs assistant hours will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      853. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary that has applied for an extension; the timeframe for completion of works;...
    • Gaelscoileanna Issues
      854. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the reduction of an entire class of available spaces at a Gaelscoil (details supplied) in County Kildare; if her attention has been...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      855. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans for the new building in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9 where works were due to commence in 2014. [1688/15]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      856. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review a SUSI application which has been refused (details supplied) under section 14 (4) of the Student Support Act 2011 and...
    • SOLAS Staffing
      857. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of personnel currently employed by SOLAS head office; the skill sets employed within this group; the total salary cost associated with...
    • Education and Training Boards Establishment
      858. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of former FÁS employees reassigned or employed to each education and training board; the global budgets assigned to each ETB for...
    • Education and Training Boards Staff
      859. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of adult education officers and adult guidance counsellors employed by each ETB; the number of additional such officers allocated to...
    • Gaelscoileanna Issues
      861. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the limiting of the numbers of Gaelscoileanna around the State by patrons who seek to defend numbers at competitor schools...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      862. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a person who did not finish their electrical apprenticeship, but who has been working and practising with different electrical companies...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      863. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the granting of permanent status to a school (details supplied) in County Clare, if she will now sanction transport for students in...
    • EU Directives
      864. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the number of EU directives which remain to be implemented within her Department; the names of these...
    • Legislative Programme
      865. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in her Department that have been subject to the pre-legislative...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      867. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of secondments from her Department to external private firms in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015; the firms involved;...
    • Departmental Staff
      869. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a policy regarding secondments from and within her Department to external firms; when the policy was initiated and last...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Leader Programmes Administration
      870. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the person or body responsible for the delivery of Leader grant schemes in Gaeltacht areas; and if he will make a...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      871. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason Kerry County Council is no longer accepting cheques as a means of payment for road tax; and if he will make a...
    • Motor Tax Yield
      872. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total receipts collected for motor tax in 2013. [49644/14]
    • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Exemptions
      873. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a house owned by a company which is used periodically by its employees to stay in overnight while working on contracts...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Data
      874. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the annual number of persons in County Meath who have moved from rent supplement to the...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Expenditure
      876. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the implications for the taxpayer following on from the recent Redmond High Court judgment; his views on the amount the...
    • Thatching Grants Expenditure
      877. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applications made to his Department for thatching grants in each of the past three years; the amount drawn...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
      878. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress to date regarding the sale of flats to local authority tenants; if details of the transfer orders and...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      880. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason no progress has taken place since a person (details supplied) in County Cork was approved for the rural...
    • Local and Community Development Programme
      881. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will establish a north inner city partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49481/14]
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      882. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that the new policy on wind farm turbines (details supplied) will have no impact on the Rockmarshall...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      883. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the seniors alert scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authority Staff
      884. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will sanction the provision of a school warden in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Cork as a matter...
    • Waste Disposal
      885. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the option in legislation of the payment of waste collection for non-domestic and commercial waste...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      886. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he will take to close the loophole whereby a person with an untaxed motor vehicle which is not declared off...
    • Public Service Obligation Levy Application
      887. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if water services charges will be subject to the public service obligation, similar to ESB and gas. [49611/14]
    • Local Government Reform
      888. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for community fora (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49631/14]
    • Water Charges Exemptions
      889. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding Irish Water charges, if there are any allowances to be made for small farmers who are nearly solely dependent on...
    • Non-Principal Private Residence Charge Administration
      890. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the non-principal private residency penalties that were increased a number of months ago and the public...
    • Rented Housing Sector
      891. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding renting; if the National Assets Management Agency is currently in...
    • Vacant Properties
      892. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding vacant properties (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Water Services Funding
      893. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding historic funding to local authorities for water services; the amount of money that was allocated to...
    • Departmental Schemes
      894. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current status of the SSNO review that he instigated in July; if all of the charities who were affected by the cut in...
    • Departmental Records
      895. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department minutes meetings between Department officials and semi-State companies; and if he will make a statement...
    • Water Meters
      898. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason his Department proceeded with plans for water metering when advised against taking this course of action by...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      901. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the number of persons in County Meath who have made applications for local authority housing since...
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      905. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of agencies, quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by his Department which have been...
    • Decentralisation Programme Data
      906. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the agencies or sections from his Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and...
    • Water Charges Administration
      907. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Irish Water will deal with complaints and queries of persons who have not registered; if the first fix proposal will...
    • Water Meters Installation
      908. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of water meters that have been installed to date; and the percentage of meters that have been installed as...
    • Transport Legislation
      909. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the stated view of Dublin City Council that primary legislation is required to regulate the carrying of...
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      910. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a Leader funding application for a community group (details supplied) in County Mayo will be processed; the reason...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      912. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the targets he has set for the provision of social and affordable housing for each of the next five years; the number of...
    • Water Charges Exemptions
      913. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government where liability for payment lies with regard to Irish Water charges where the house is occupied solely by students...
    • Housing Issues
      914. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which Meath County Council has sought funding from his Department to meet current and emerging housing needs...
    • Local Authority Housing Rents
      916. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date by which statutory instruments will be made to commence the new local authority differential rent framework. [1313/15]
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
      921. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to put in place a new tenant purchase scheme for local authority houses; if and when this will take place; and...
    • Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
      922. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      923. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the total photography costs for his Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014;...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      924. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department per annum in...
    • Building Regulations
      925. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding building regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      926. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application by an organisation (details supplied) to Mayo North East Leader Partnership; if it...
    • Homeless Accommodation Provision
      928. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding funding for a homeless service; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      930. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will establish the Referendum Commission for the proposed referendums in 2015; if he will ensure the Referendum...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      931. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by his Department during 2014; if he will also provide details...
    • Planning Issues
      932. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if planning permission is needed to adapt a residential house (details supplied) into a shelter accommodation for the...
    • Local and Community Development Programme
      933. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding local community development; his plans to address the issues raised;...
    • Planning Issues
      934. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the process involved for the extension of planning permission for windfarms wind turbines; if a public notice-site notice...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Implementation
      935. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress of the housing assistance payment in view of its operation in selected local authority areas; when it is...
    • EU Directives
      936. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the number of EU directives which remain to be implemented within his Department; the...
    • Local Authority Staff
      937. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to increase local authority staffing levels in order to facilitate the delivery of the Government's housing...
    • Legislative Programme
      938. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      940. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of secondments from his Department to external private firms in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • National Oil Reserves Agency
      943. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total raised in each year from 2008 to 2014 from the 2 cent NORA levy on petrol and diesel; the manner in which the...
    • Post Office Network
      944. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will support the future of the post office network in 2015 as a matter of priority. [49444/14]
    • Environmental Policy
      945. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of 2015 European water framework directive, if his Department is prepared to withdraw IPPC licences from...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      946. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to prioritise the rapid roll-out of high-speed broadband to all areas of rural County Longford; and if he will...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      948. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to initiate a capital programme to supply natural gas to County Longford; and if he will make a statement on...
    • National Postcode System Implementation
      949. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will examine a submission regarding Eircode (details supplied); his views on this comprehensive and logical report;...
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      950. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the quantity in megawatts of renewable energy generating capacity that has received final planning permission by local...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      951. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to roll out efibre broadband to Ballyclough, County Limerick, in view of the fact that there are many persons...
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      952. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of agencies, quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by his Department which have been...
    • Decentralisation Programme Data
      953. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the agencies or sections from his Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      954. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on offering financial assistance to wireless Internet service providers in any capacity to assist them to...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      955. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total amount of moneys paid by his Department to external consultants, professional companies or advisers in relation...
    • Public Service Broadcasting Charge
      956. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the broadcasting charge (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1167/15]
    • Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
      957. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      958. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the total photography costs for his Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014;...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      959. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department per annum in...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      960. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will ensure that Arranmore Island, in view of the lack of appropriate broadband coverage for its inhabitants, will...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      963. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by his Department during 2014; if he will also provide...
    • Fuel Prices
      964. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources due to the decrease in the value of natural resources, including oil and gas, if this reduction will be passed on to...
    • EU Directives
      965. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the number of EU directives which remain to be implemented within his Department; the...
    • Legislative Programme
      966. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      968. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of secondments from his Department to external private firms in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Traffic Offences
      971. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce legislation to help tackle the ongoing illegal use of scrambler motorbikes by unlicensed and underage children; and...
    • Roadworthiness Testing
      972. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the situation where DOE certificates are backdated on previously out of date vehicles/trailers; if his attention...
    • National Roads Authority Projects
      973. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress anticipated of a roads project (details supplied) in County Kerry in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fáilte Ireland Funding
      974. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update from Fáilte Ireland on the proposed motorhome park for Youghal, County Cork; if he will provide funding...
    • Public Bike Schemes
      975. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the results of the tender process relative to the bike hire scheme; if he will provide the total of each tender; the analysis carried out...
    • National Car Test
      976. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current waiting time for a national car test at each of the test centres in the country; the provisions that are being made for...
    • Penalty Points System Offences
      977. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the analysis his Department has undertaken to investigate the disproportionate impact that will be felt by learner drivers in rural...
    • Motor Insurance Regulation
      979. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason an insurance company (details supplied) will not provide private motor insurance cover in respect of a person in County Cork....
    • Road Traffic Accidents Data
      980. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will forward a report on the number of accidents that have occurred on Irish roads with trailers being the cause of the accidents;...
    • Driving Test Regulations
      981. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason persons who received their full licence prior to 1989 are exempt from doing the trailer driving test and persons who passed...
    • Roads Maintenance
      983. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request the National Roads Authority to provide funding to upgrade the public lighting and install a pedestrian crossing on...
    • Penalty Points System Offences
      984. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce as a fixed penalty notice offence the offence of historical breaches of EU drivers' hours regulations similar to...
    • Road Safety Statistics
      985. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driver CPC training organisations found in breach of regulations during premises inspections conducted by Competence...
    • Road Projects
      986. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the width of road space allocated to motorised traffic travelling west on the N16 at Ash Lane and south on...
    • Road Safety Statistics
      987. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driver CPC training organisations found in breach of regulations during premises inspections conducted by a company...
    • Road Signage
      988. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will direct the National Roads Authority to relocate a large road sign which is located on the N7 to the rear of an area (details...
    • Sports Funding
      991. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the financial supports or grants that are available to boxing clubs funded by his Department, directly or via other bodies. [49628/14]
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      992. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a progress report on the development of the boxing centre of excellence on Knocknaheeny Avenue, Knocknaheeny, County...
    • Railway Stations Re-opening
      993. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to re-open Dunleer railway station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49671/14]
    • Road Projects Status
      994. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the provision of a motorway between counties Cork and Limerick; the current status of these plans; when will commencement...
    • Local Improvement Scheme
      995. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reopen the local improvement schemes for rural private roads. [49728/14]
    • Airlines Regulations
      996. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding recent IAG bids for Aer Lingus; and his plans to protect the vital national connectivity assets of Aer Lingus....
    • Public Service Obligation Services
      997. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on recent meetings held with workers and trade union representations in the public transport campaigns regarding the proposed...
    • Tourism Promotion
      998. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the success of the Wild Atlantic Way if consideration will be given to sharing the benefit of increased tourism activity by...
    • Driver Licences
      999. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the locations of the offices of the National Driver Licensing Service; if each office is publicly or privately owned; the offices that...
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      1000. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of agencies quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by his Department which have been scrapped, merged or...
    • Decentralisation Programme Data
      1001. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the agencies or sections from his Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and expenses...
    • Driving Test Regulations
      1002. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding driving tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1069/15]
    • Bus Éireann
      1003. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount spent by Bus Éireann on design and application of wrapping of its coaches in 2014. [1077/15]
    • Transport Costs
      1004. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the prohibitive fare hikes introduced by Dublin Bus which will see a five day bus pass increase, from €25...
    • Regional Airports Policy
      1005. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding negotiations with the European Commission in relation to Ireland's regional airport policy; the number of...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      1006. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount of moneys paid by his Department to external consultants, professional companies or advisers in relation to the jobs...
    • Road Projects
      1007. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the placement of street lighting on a motorway (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Road Safety
      1008. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with the National Roads Authority and the Road Safety Authority regarding the urgent need for essential improvement to...
    • Road Projects
      1009. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, in conjunction with the National Roads Authority, he will provide the funding to complete the surface dressing on the Castleisland...
    • Tourism Project Funding
      1010. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans he and Fáilte Ireland have to further invest in the immense tourism potential of Malin Head, County Donegal, Ireland's...
    • Superannuation Schemes
      1011. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will support the IASS pensioners in 2015 (details supplied) as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Penalty Points System
      1012. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 675 of 16 December 2014, if he will clarify a specific penalty points query (details supplied)....
    • Driver Licences
      1013. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress in negotiations to introduce an exchange programme for Irish driving licence holders with Newfoundland and Labrador in...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      1014. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he last met the chairperson and CEO of Iarnród Éireann; the issues discussed; when he will next meet the chairperson and...
    • Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
      1016. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon agus cad iad...
    • Roads Maintenance Funding
      1017. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the amounts paid to Limerick city and county council since 2011 for maintenance of roads; his plans...
    • Road Safety
      1018. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the safety of pedestrians on the public road network; if he has given consideration to the issues that arise where...
    • Tourism Project Funding
      1019. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will fund long distance greenways that are fenced and have a hard surface on them, where access is on a permissive basis or if it...
    • EU Proposals
      1020. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions undertaken by his Department to date to meet the requirements of the European Union’s Fourth Railway Package; and if...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      1021. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by his Department during 2014; if he will also provide details of all the...
    • Cycling Policy
      1022. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to allow exemptions for very young or hearing impaired cyclists to use footpaths; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Bike Schemes
      1023. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the Dublin bikes scheme to Dún Laoghaire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1721/15]
    • Public Transport
      1024. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Luas does not allow bicycles to be carried on its trams when that facility is available on DART services; and if he will make...
    • Rail Services
      1028. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the exceptionally positive passenger numbers for Iarnród Éireann, and particularly on the western rail corridor,...
    • EU Directives
      1029. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the number of EU directives which remain to be implemented within his Department; the name of these...
    • Legislative Programme
      1030. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1032. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of secondments from his Department to external private firms in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015; the firms...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta Issues
      1034. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding Údaras na Gaeltacht; the person-body responsible for the delivery of Údaras na Gaeltacht grant...
    • Departmental Schemes
      1035. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current status of a scheme (details supplied); the number of persons who have availed of the scheme since it was started to...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      1036. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her policy on encouraging conservation; the incentives that are in place for landowners to set aside appropriate land exclusively...
    • Hedge Cutting Season
      1037. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to extend the closing dates for hedge-cutting to mid-February due to birds nesting earlier. [1503/15]
    • Commemorative Events
      1038. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding available for committees-organisations towards 1916 centenary celebrations; when this funding will be available; the way...
    • National Monuments
      1039. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the Bronze Age walkway in Mayne bog, County Westmeath, was not listed by the Irish monuments service when it was...
    • Special Protection Areas Designation
      1040. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details in tabular form by county of the numbers of offers of compensation offered to landowners where...
    • Arts Council Grants
      1041. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that an application to the Arts Council for the visual artists workspace scheme 2015 was...
    • Special Protection Areas Designation
      1042. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the special protection areas for endangered birds, including the hen harrier, were established; the budget for same; the...
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      1043. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of agencies, quangos or other bodies within, funded by or established by her Department which have been scrapped, merged...
    • Decentralisation Programme Data
      1044. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the agencies or sections from her Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and expenses...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      1045. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total amount of moneys paid by her Department to external consultants, professional companies or advisers in relation to the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1046. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for recruiting staff at Killarney House in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1236/15]
    • Tuarascálacha Ranna
      1053. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil a fhios aici cathain a fhoilseofar an tuarascáil ón meitheal smaointe a bunaíodh i mí Aibreáin...
    • Orduithe Logainmneacha
      1054. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé mhéad ordú logainmneacha a rinneadh gach bliain le deich mbliana anuas; cé mhéad logainmneacha a...
    • Seirbhísí Oileán
      1057. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé i gceist aici aon athruithe a dhéanamh ar chaighdeán nó ar mhinicíocht na seirbhísí...
    • Inniúlacht sa Ghaeilge sa Stát Seirbhís
      1058. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht bunaithe ar an treoir a thug an Roinn Caiteachas Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe do gach Roinn, cad é líon agus cad...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      1059. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide in tabular form the total photography costs for her Department per annum in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; the costs...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      1060. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide in tabular form the use of external public relations firms employed by her Department per annum in 2011 to 2014,...
    • Special Protection Areas Designation
      1061. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will introduce a new scheme to assist farmers in preserving the hen harrier in designated special protection areas; the...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      1062. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details of all consultancy firms engaged by her Department during 2014; if she will also provide details of all...
    • Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge
      1063. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an dtabharfaidh sí tuairisc ar an dul chun cinn atá déanta i dtaca leis na bearta sa Straitéis 20 Bliain don...
    • EU Directives
      1064. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide in tabular form the number of EU directives which remain to be implemented within her Department; the name of...
    • Legislative Programme
      1065. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in her Department that have been subject to the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      1067. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of secondments from her Department to external private firms in 2010 to 2014, inclusive, and to date in 2015; the firms...

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