Written answers
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
- Department of Education and Skills
- Industrial Disputes
121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the scheduled teachers' strike on junior certificate reforms. [3371/15]
- Value for Money Reviews
123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the value for money review of small rural schools will be published; the reason for the delay in doing so; and if she will make a statement...
- Educational Disadvantage
124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to include schools built in disadvantaged areas after the commencement of the DEIS programme in the programme; when such schools are...
- Language Schools
127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has had discussions with the Department of Justice and Equality on the matter of the recent High Court ruling on English language schools;...
- Site Acquisitions
128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on site acquisitions for the provision of two new primary schools (details supplied) in Midleton, County Cork;...
- School Guidance Counsellors
129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied with the current system regarding guidance counselling services in second level schools, in view of the fact that since 2011...
- Schools Data
130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will demonstrate the figures which her Department is relying on to determine forward planning in north Kildare, in particular with regard...
- Departmental Properties
131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if adequate funding will be provided to maximise the potential of the apprenticeship training centre in Mount Lucas, County Westmeath; the rent...
- Language Schools
132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she will be taking following the recent court decision in relation to language schools; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Teacher Training Provision
133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of restoring the grant for student teachers' attendance at Gaeltacht courses; if she has carried out an assessment of the impact of this...
- Schools Building Projects Administration
134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a cost benefit analysis has been carried out on the use of public private partnnerships to build schools; the number of such projects in the...
- Teachers' Remuneration
135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the pay conditions for new teachers and the lack of qualification allowances for new post-primary teachers; if she will...
- Capitation Grants
136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will restore the capitation grant for primary schools to its previous level to help the survival of these schools; and if she will make a...
- Physical Education
137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of the report Schools Fitness Challenge 2015 that shows that a high number of 15 to 16 year old boys show early onset of heart...
- Schools Building Projects Status
138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question no 177 of 2 October 2014, the further progress, in the provision of new schools in Carrigtwohill, County Cork...
- School Curriculum
139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on having transition year used for a series of pre/mini apprenticeship courses allowing students to better explore their prospective...
- School Accommodation
140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views regarding Kildare Wicklow Education Training Board's failure to meet parents of pupils in a school (details supplied) in County...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way she proposes to address concerns that have been expressed regarding the school profiling element of the proposed new special needs model;...
- Teacher Training Places
142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties in getting teachers to agree to facilitate a student for a ten-week teaching placement in...
- Teachers' Remuneration
144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address an anomaly in the process of the abolition of allowances from new beneficiaries from January 2011 which has left a small...
- Schools Data
145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out her views with regard to the primary online database of students personal public service numbers and other personal information; the...
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will amend the student grant scheme in order that mortgage repayments on the family home are considered in the means test for grant...
- Schools Building Projects Status
147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when building works on schools (details supplied) in counties Leitrim and Roscommon will commence; when both new schools are scheduled for...
- School Staffing
148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse, partially, if not fully, the small school pupil requirement thresholds announced in budget 2012 in view of the improving...
- School Enrolments
149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the extent to which she is aware of difficulties arising from the school enrolment process at various schools throughout the country,...
- School Staffing Appeals Mechanism
150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will put in place an appeals mechanism to allow isolated small schools appeal their staffing allocation based on their geographic...
- School Guidance Counsellors
151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set down her plans to provide schools with ring-fenced resource hours for the employment of those holding a recognised qualification in...
- School Staffing
152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 1 July 2014 to detail the number of relief teaching days allocated to teachers on a departmental...
- Bullying in Schools
153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the extent to which her Department continues to monitor the incidents of school bullying; if she is conscious of the fact that a...
- School Staffing
154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to support the valuable contribution played by schools within rural communities; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Teachers' Remuneration
155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to explain the reason the Government has breached the terms of the Haddington Road agreement with the non-payment or delayed payment of...
- School Enrolments
156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the situation whereby more than 120 applicants cannot access a place in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15, in...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the progress that is being made to have training in the hospitality sector included in the redesign of the...
- Department of An Taoiseach
- Employment Data
159. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons employed in County Louth from 2007 to 2014, in the manufacturing industry, including agri-business, multinationals and small and medium...
- Unemployment Data
160. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details of the unemployment figures in Tallaght, Dublin 24, for the latest month for which figures are available; if he will also provide a comparison...
- Tribunals of Inquiry Expenditure
161. To ask the Taoiseach the extent to which matters relating to the Moriarty tribunal have been concluded and final bills in respect of costs to all parties agreed and-or discharged or pending;...
- National Risk Assessment
162. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the national risk assessment strategy and its planned implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3384/15]
- Income Data
163. To ask the Taoiseach the disposable per capita household income for the years 2011 to 2014, inclusive, in the midland counties of Longford and Westmeath as compared to County Dublin; and if...
- Ministerial Travel
164. To ask the Taoiseach if he will itemise the exact cost of the Irish delegation's attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in each of the past three years and the...
- Department of Social Protection
- Social Welfare Code
166. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide the details of the reduction to widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner’s pension in the past two budgets; if...
- Ministerial Meetings
168. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will meet with the Tara Mines pensioners group (details supplied). [3291/15]
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for a domiciliary care allowance will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she...
- Disability Allowance Applications
170. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on their application for disability allowance; and if she will make a...
- Family Income Supplement
171. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the family income supplement payment must stay the same for 12 months even if there is a change in the family's income; and if she will...
- Pension Provisions
172. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 17 September 2014, if the review of personal pension vehicles has taken place; if the issue of...
- Job Initiatives
174. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons on JobBridge; the average duration of a JobBridge placement; if participants in JobBridge are counted as employed or...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she can offer any assistance in this case; and...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ascertain from the carers' allowance section of her Department when relevant departmental papers and comments regarding a carers'...
- Public Services Card Provision
177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a drivers licence was retained by staff when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 attempted to register for their public service...
- Disability Allowance Appeals
179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [3743/15]
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Review
181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the review for the domiciliary care allowance will be completed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make...
- One-Parent Family Payment Applications
182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determination of application for one-parent family allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare...
- Disability Allowance Data
183. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the annual number of persons refused disability allowance on the grounds of insufficient medical evidence due to...
- Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme
184. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of recent Central Statistics Office figures that show 30.5% of persons experience enforced deprivation (details supplied), if he will...
- Department of Finance
- Corporation Tax Regime
185. To ask the Minister for Finance if he foresees any possible threats to the 12.5% corporation tax regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3578/15]
- Primary Medical Certificates Eligibility
186. To ask the Minister for Finance the circumstances in which incapacitated persons applying for a primary medical certificate, can have their medical examination carried out in provincial...
- Tax Reliefs Availability
187. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider using car parking fees as an option for commuters availing of the annual tax saver scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Legislative Measures
188. To ask the Minister for Finance the purpose of the finance (tax appeals commission) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3300/15]
- Bank Charges
189. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the high number of young persons who have emigrated over the past number of years, if he will instruct the State-owned banks to carry out a review...
- Banking Sector Remuneration
190. To ask the Minister for Finance the salary the new AIB chief executive officer will earn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3337/15]
- Legislative Measures
191. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason behind the decision to regulate the servicing agent for the mortgage rather than the owner or fund holding the loan when preparing the Consumer...
- Living City Initiative
192. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress of the Living City Initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3397/15]
- Public Sector Staff Recruitment
193. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason staff who had multiple renewals of temporary contracts working for the Revenue Commissioners in Ennis, County Clare were not awarded permanent...
- NAMA Operations
194. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will investigate a matter (details supplied) concerning the National Asset Management Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3407/15]
- Property Tax Data
195. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners reports a 95% compliance rate for payment of the property tax for the year 2014, in view of the fact that the Revenue...
- State Banking Sector
197. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the proceeds by institution from the disposal of investments in the State supported banks in each year since 2012; and if...
- Bank Guarantee Scheme Fees
198. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the fees received from the eligible liabilities guarantee scheme in each year since its inception. [3415/15]
- Public Sector Staff Recruitment
199. To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts being made to provide access to full-time Civil Service employment for the 62 temporary clerical officers working for the Revenue Commissioners in...
- Tax Code
201. To ask the Minister for Finance if recent changes in the cap on the finance-benefit in kind transfers that parents can gift to their children tax free also refer to the transfer of land,...
- NAMA Property Rental
202. To ask the Minister for Finance the options available to a business person otherwise eligible for a National Asset Management Agency rent abatement scheme whose landlord is not co-operating...
- Tax Collection
203. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the fact that Horse Racing Ireland is seeking to secure an adequate and consistent level of multi-annual funding from the Exchequer for horse...
- VAT Rate Reductions
204. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost to the Exchequer if the 13.5% VAT rate was reduced to 13%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3508/15]
- Tax Rebates
205. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is due a tax refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3541/15]
- Pension Provisions
206. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding PRSA accounts (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3548/15]
- Bank Charges
207. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount collected by each State backed bank in maintenance fees or overdraft facility charges for each of the past five years on bank accounts that have...
- Home Repossession Rate
208. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has assessed the numbers of home repossessions which are ratified and are occurring; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3577/15]
- Pensions Levy
209. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding altering the conditions of private pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3617/15]
- Credit Register Administration
210. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that have been taken to establish a central credit register here; when the register will be up and running; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Tax Code
211. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce financial transaction taxes and carbon tax on airline ticket levies in order to raise additional resources to fund sustainable...
- Tax Credits
213. To ask the Minister for Finance if appropriate tax credit will be applied in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3741/15]
- Tax Collection
215. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason under 18 year old persons who have a savings bank account must pay 41% DIRT tax on their savings interest; and if he will make a statement on the...
- State Banking Sector
217. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for selling the State’s interest in AIB; his plans to retain a shareholding in the bank; if so, the extent of the shareholding; and if he...
- Mortgage Lending
218. To ask the Minister for Finance if new regulations on mortgages such as a loan to value ceiling would affect affordable housing schemes such as those run by county councils. [3816/15]
- Pension Provisions
219. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the PFT-SFT threshold for divorced persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3830/15]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Coastal Protection
220. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if her attention has been drawn to the serious damage caused to the costal protection and sea defences of a beach (details supplied) in...
- Public Procurement Contracts
221. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on lowering the turnover threshold which must be reached by small and medium-sized enterprises as part of the public...
- Public Sector Pensions Levy
223. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the public sector pension levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Public Procurement Contracts Data
224. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 and 74 of 15 January 2015, if the Office of Government Procurement holds data on all public...
- Public Sector Pensions
225. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if changes have been made since 2013 or are planned to be made to the pensions of Ministers, Ministers of State and Office Holders in...
- Office of Public Works Projects
226. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expected eventual cost of the fence which is to be erected by the Office of Public Works around the Castletown Demesne, Celbridge,...
- Legislative Measures
228. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current position regarding FEMPI (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3621/15]
- Valuation Office
229. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a not-for-profit sporting club may apply for a revision of a rateable valuation in respect of a premises they are now using and which...
- Public Procurement Regulations
230. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the number of instances where a Department or agency has enforced the contractual remedy of...
- Public Sector Pensions
231. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons that have had their pension entitlements over calculated by PeoplePoint; the options open to pensioners who...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- IDA Data
232. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 258 of 14 January 2015, the number of visits of potential investors-Industrial Development...
- Economic Growth Initiatives
233. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the structures that will be put in place to rebalance economic development in regional areas such as County Carlow and the south east...
- Consumer Protection
234. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will amend the relevant legislation to ensure consumers' 14 day cooling off period begins at the commencement of the service...
- Company Registration
235. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will request of the Companies Registration Office to remove the inappropriate job description, married woman, from the list of...
- Job Creation Data
236. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in a tabular form the annual number of new jobs announced by the Government between 2011 and 2014; and the number...
- Visa Numbers
237. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visas that have issued to non-EU nationals employed in the meat industry here for each of the past ten years; and if he...
- Job Creation
238. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the policy changes he plans to implement to encourage greater job opportunities for counties Longford and Westmeath; and if he will...
- Departmental Reports
239. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans regarding zero hours contracts; and the timeline for same. [3582/15]
- Jobs Data
240. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a breakdown by county of the 19,705 new jobs created by Enterprise Ireland in 2014. [3641/15]
- Job Creation Data
241. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a breakdown by county of the new jobs created by Enterprise Ireland in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. [3642/15]
- IDA Supports
242. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a foreign direct investment unit building to accommodate between 200 and 300 employees will be supported by his Department; if...
- IDA Site Visits
243. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency sponsored visits to County Tipperary in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014; and the...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Rural Development Plan
245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposed timetable for the implementation of the new national rural development plan; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Farm Retirement Scheme
246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a new early retirement scheme for farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3259/15]
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
247. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive their disadvantage area aid payment; and if he will make a statement on...
- Forestry Grants
249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the native woodlands scheme will be brought back; if so, the form of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3325/15]
- Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas
250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress to date on the implementation of the CEDRA, Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas, report; the status...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a rural environment protection scheme payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and...
- Farm Inspections
252. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the policy of unannounced farm inspections. [3409/15]
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of a disadvantaged area premium for 2014 will issue to a person (details supplied) County Donegal. [3419/15]
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
254. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the maximum age of a horse so that it will be eligible to be counted as a livestock unit under the area-based compensatory allowances...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Limerick received payment for only one of their nine entitlements; and if he will...
- Bord na gCon Administration
256. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there has been or will be testing of greyhounds for the new and reportedly widely-used drug stanozolol, particularly in view of...
- Bord na gCon
257. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his view on the move to replace five of the seven board members of the Irish Greyhound Board; if he will provide details of the five...
- Rural Development Plan
258. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the rural development plan which was submitted to the European Commission in Brussels last July, and he latest...
- Agriculture Schemes Payments
259. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when 25% payment in respect of single farm payment and the agri-environment option scheme will issue in respect of a person (details...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason single farm payments were withdrawn in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
- Teagasc Research Programme
261. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update with regard to the establishment of a suckler research herd at a location (details supplied) in County...
- Equine Industry Issues
262. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has given consideration in consultation with Connemara Pony Breeders Association to initiating a specialist report on the...
- Equine Identification Scheme
263. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps being taken to ensure all horses are micro-chipped; his plans to impound all non-micro-chipped horses; the up-to-date...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
264. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 20 January 2015, when a single farm and disadvantaged areas scheme payment will issue in...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
265. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in granting a person (details supplied) in County Donegal the agri-environment options scheme payment...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2012 single farm payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Cork whose agri-environment options scheme payment for 2013 was the subject of a penalty due...
- Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is entitled to a payment under the single payment scheme for 2012 following their...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
269. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive a disadvantaged areas scheme payment for 2014; if a disadvantaged areas...
- GLAS Establishment
270. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when applications will be accepted under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Agriculture Schemes Administration
271. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the use of any 2015 funding allocated but unused for the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme to be redirected to...
- Rural Development Plan
272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the rural development plan (details supplied) which was submitted to Brussels by the Government in July 2014; and if he...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
273. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the remaining 25% agri-environment options scheme payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow....
- Fishing Vessel Licences
274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a licence held by a person (details supplied); the reason this licence was historically issued for in each...
- Tuberculosis Eradication Programme Payments
275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to review the compensation payment made to farmers who have tuberculosis reactors in their herds as same has remained...
- GLAS Establishment
276. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme farm scheme; if he will ensure that the scheme is up and...
- GLAS Eligibility
277. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria being considered for water vulnerable areas under the new GLAS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- TAMS Administration
278. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of TAMS; if he will ensure that the scheme is implemented at an early date; and if he will make a...
- Common Agricultural Policy Reform
279. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the areas of natural constraint; when this will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Agriculture Schemes Administration
280. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a mechanism for young trained farmers who were established prior to 2010 and who could not avail of installation...
- Beef Data Programme
281. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the beef data genomics scheme; if he will ensure that the new scheme is implemented at an early date;...
- Agriculture Schemes Administration
282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on revisiting his recent proposal for the application to the national reserve for young farmers because the five year rule...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of an agri-environment option scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Personnel
284. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 1 of 14 January 2015 and his statement that medical assessment of Defence Forces personnel forms part of the training...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Community Alert Programme
285. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will fund or part-fund community alert groups to cover their increased costs and in particular the costs of text messaging, in view of the...
- Magdalen Laundries
286. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason she is not implementing the full recommendations (details supplied) of Judge Quirke's report in respect of the Magdalene scheme as...
- Legislative Programme
287. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding children's legal rights; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3327/15]
- Naturalisation Certificates
288. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to extend residency to naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is married to...
- Legislative Programme
289. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the possibility of legislation for harsher penalties for persons who issue threats specifically to public servants and local...
- Deportation Orders
290. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) a Somalian national was deported to Tanzania; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3416/15]
- Prison Security
292. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the unit to train attack dogs is gone from Wheatfield prison; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3422/15]
- Immigration Status
293. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding long-term residency-eligibility to apply for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
- Referendum Campaigns
295. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to establish a referendum commission in view of the referendum on marriage equality provisionally proposed by the Government for May...
- Deportation Orders
296. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a review of a deportation order has been concluded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who has been in this jurisdiction...
- Immigration Status
297. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current residency status and the procedure to be followed to regularise their family's residency position in the case of a person (details...
- Garda Transport Provision
298. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to provide funding for the purchase of additional unmarked vans to An Garda Síochána; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Garda Expenditure
299. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount that was spent on fuel by An Garda Síochána vehicles in 2013 and 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3505/15]
- Ministerial Meetings
300. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on a case (details supplied) and the proposed inquiry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3522/15]
- Proposed Legislation
301. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will publish the gambling control Bill; when the legislation is expected to be enacted; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Firearms Seizures
302. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide by year the number of handguns recovered by an Garda Síochána during the years 2004 to date in 2015 which had been...
- Legal Aid Service Reform
303. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reform the criminal justice system to include a complete overhaul of the legal aid system and to address the issue of repeat...
- Haddington Road Agreement Implementation
304. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 14 January 2015, the reasons specific to her Department the workforce de-layering has not yet been...
- Garda Data
305. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí currently assigned to the drugs unit in County Donegal; if she will provide a breakdown of the way these are assigned...
- Garda Misconduct Allegations
306. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on a case (details supplied); if she will support the family concerned; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Garda Operations
307. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the significant fall in the number of Garda checkpoints and the number of breath tests from 2008 to 2014; and, in view of the...
- Garda Strength
308. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to restore the Garda traffic corps to its full operational size in view of the continuing increase in crashes and loss of life and...
- Gambling Legislation
309. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for regulating online gambling providers; and the procedures in place for monitoring current unregulated gambling providers operating...
- Irish Prison Service
310. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the interventions put in place to address the number of women imprisoned here. [3733/15]
- Prisoner Releases
311. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department is collaborating with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to ensure that there is appropriate...
- Mortgage Arrears Proposals
312. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the possibility of introducing a model of legal support similar to the services provided by the Housing Rights Service in...
- Legislative Measures
315. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the progress that is being made on plans to introduce paternity leave and shared maternity leave; and if she...
- Departmental Correspondence
316. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will make direct contact with persons (details supplied) in Dublin 6; if she will provide details of the investigation of a case. [3800/15]
- Legislative Measures
317. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the recent traumatic events in France and the recommendation of the Constitutional Convention, the plans the Government has to hold a...
- Community Policing
318. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on Garda community policing (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3897/15]
- Court Orders
319. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 150 of 21 January 2015 the extent to which it is permissible for members of the public to represent...
- Firearms Licences
320. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter (details supplied) raised by her Dáil contribution of 15 January 2015; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Garda Vetting of Personnel
321. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding Garda vetting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3943/15]
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- School Completion Programme
322. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 749 of 17 September 2014, if the ESRI review of the school completion programme has been or is close...
- Children in Care
323. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Health Service Executive is referring or has referred children or young persons to a residential premises in Drumgowna, Muff,...
- Early Child Care Education
324. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of introducing a universal pre-school session of 3.5 hours per day, five days a week for all children aged between three and five...
- Child Care Services Provision
327. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will support the Edenmore Early Education Centre, Dublin 5 with increased investment and a cohesive early childhood education and...
- UN Convention on Children's Rights
329. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures that are being put in place to prepare for the UN review of Ireland’s records on children’s rights in view of...
- Departmental Funding
330. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form all funding awarded for youth projects in County Waterford by year since 2011 to date in 2015, including...
- Department of Health
- Special Educational Needs Staffing
331. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with representatives of Meath Fight for the Future Campaign with regards the cutting of special needs assistants from preschools in County...
- Speech and Language Therapy
332. To ask the Minister for Health the services and options available for children in need of speech and language therapy intervention from a school (details supplied) in County Kerry,...
- Accident and Emergency Services Provision
333. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a proposal by the Irish Fire and Emergency Services Association that an integrated fire-based emergency medical services on a national basis...
- Hospital Appointment Status
334. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a date for a medical procedure in respect of a person (detaiols supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Parking Charges
335. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be provided to waiving car parking charges for family members and others who have to experience long delays in having loved ones seen at...
- Hospital Appointment Status
336. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a date for a procedure in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3304/15]
- Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
338. 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. [3306/15]
- HIQA Inspections
339. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recent Health Information and Quality Authority reports into centres run by an organisation (details supplied) in County...
- Symphysiotomy Reports
340. To ask the Minister for Health the circumstances where the families of recently deceased victims of symphysiotomy can establish an entitlement to redress under the scheme of redress as...
- Drugs Payment Scheme Administration
341. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the availability of a drug (details supplied) used for the treatment of multiple sclerosis; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Generic Drugs Substitution
342. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of generic substitution; if a doctor can dictate on a prescription that a certain medication is to be dispensed if it is felt that...
- Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
343. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expedite orthodontic waiting times in County Tipperary; if his attention has been drawn to a specific case (details supplied); and if he will make...
- Health Services Staff
344. To ask the Minister for Health the number of qualified nurses that remain on the graduate scheme introduced in 2013; and the number of hospitals included in the scheme. [3329/15]
- Nursing Staff Remuneration
345. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals that have reversed cuts to nurses' pay under the graduate scheme and that have returned these nurses to a full first year staff nurse...
- Hospital Appointment Status
346. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will get an appointment for an operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3382/15]
- Cancer Screening Programmes
347. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update regarding the extension of the BreastCheck programme to women aged between 65 and 69 years; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Alcohol Pricing
348. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the introduction of a minimum unit price for alcohol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3399/15]
- National Treatment Purchase Fund
349. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3403/15]
- Hospital Appointment Status
350. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment to the National Referral Centre for Paediatric Gastroenterology at Crumlin...
- Medical Card Administration
351. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline each stage of the medical card application process, with particular reference to the recently introduced stage between the medical officer's...
- Medical Card Delays
352. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the processing of a medical card application in respect of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and when a decision will be...
- Hospital Appointment Status
353. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for life saving heart surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Ambulance Service Provision
354. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1112 of 17 September 2014 regarding the reviews of the National Ambulance Service, if the National Capacity Review, the...
- Home Help Service Provision
355. To ask the Minister for Health if the announced employment of additional home help staff will be employed from the current panel (details supplied). [3473/15]
- Hospital Appointment Status
356. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3482/15]
- Hospital Staff Recruitment
357. To ask the Minister for Health if a rheumatologist has been appointed to Mayo General Hospital; if not, when the appointment will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3483/15]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
358. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been left waiting for in excess of three months for a space in the National Rehabilitation Hospital; if he will...
- Hospital Services
359. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the shortage of occupational therapists in Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, County Offaly resulting in a person...
- Hospitals Data
360. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that was generated through parking charges at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 for the years 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Nursing Home Inspections
361. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that emergency funding is secured for accommodation upgrades for public nursing homes, whose future has been cast in doubt due to their...
- Vaccination Programme
362. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the new vaccination against meningitis B, Bexsero, here; when a decision will be made as to whether this drug will be made available in...
- Medicinal Products Supply
363. To ask the Minister for Health further to recent media reports, when the investigation into the severe shortage in supplies of commonly used medicines, including Eltroxin, will commence; the...
- Home Help Service Provision
367. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding home help service in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3556/15]
- Medical Card Eligibility
368. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused an over-70s medical card even though he satisfies the financial assessment; and if he will make a...
- Hospital Appointments Administration
369. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for a hip replacement surgery from Cappagh hospital; and if he will make a...
- Nursing Home Services
370. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the proposals regarding St. Joseph's Hospital, Ardee, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3585/15]
- Health Services Provision
371. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update for assistance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3591/15]
- Hospital Appointments Administration
372. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3596/15]
- Hospital Investigations
374. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a file (details supplied) sent to him in June 2014 regarding the death of a person in Castlebar hospital on 15 February 2013; if he will refer...
- Medical Card Drugs
375. To ask the Minister for Health if he will re-examine the list of drugs that are available on the medical card for persons who suffer with multiple sclerosis; the drugs that are currently...
- Disability Services Provision
376. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements being considered in respect of the provision of disability services at a location (detail supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- Nursing Staff Recruitment
377. To ask the Minister for Health the average time the Health Service Executive national recruitment service processed applications for nursing positions of whatever scale and grade in the...
- Nursing Staff Provision
379. To ask the Minister for Health his views on delays in processing applications for nursing positions of whatever scale and grade and that this is an urgent matter in view of the current nurse...
- Registration of Nurses
380. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to intervene in the ongoing dispute between nursing unions and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland regarding increased registration fees; and...
- Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
381. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of oversight and governance of the Nursing and Maternity Board of Ireland; if in view of the spending of State funds and...
- Nursing Staff Provision
382. To ask the Minister for Health the agency nursing staff provided for care under home care packages; the position regarding cases where agencies lack the required staff; the way suitable...
- Primary Care Centre Provision
383. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date on primary care centre projects in County Waterford, including St. Joseph's in Dungarvan, Waterford city and Tramore; the timeframe for...
- Health Services
385. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding accommodation needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3714/15]
- Pension Provisions
386. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review a pension case in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3716/15]
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
387. To ask the Minister for Health when a fair deal scheme application will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Health Services Expenditure
388. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the overall health spend here per capita and also as a percentage of GDP and of GNI in tabular form over the past five years and also with...
- Medical Card Applications
389. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the determination of an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
- Hospital Procedures
390. To ask the Minister for Health when the parents of an eight year old child (details supplied) in County Clare will be provided with the results of an EEG exam which took place in Crumlin...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
391. To ask the Minister for Health the number of homes under the fair deal scheme which are being rented out privately; the number of homes under the fair deal scheme which remain unoccupied...
- Services for People with Disabilities
392. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the Health Service Executive occupational therapy services in Dublin north; the circumstances under which a child with a...
- Hospital Services
393. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for St. Patrick's Hospital, County Waterford. [3746/15]
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
394. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the fair deal, or nursing home support scheme, is due to be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3766/15]
- Nursing Home Inspections
395. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the situation regarding public nursing homes that are at risk of failing to meet Health Information and Quality Authority...
- Hospital Appointments Administration
396. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly will receive a hospital appointment with the pain management clinic, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9. [3784/15]
- Medical Card Eligibility
397. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are still cases of persons, and especially young children, being refused discretionary medical cards, despite being extremely ill and in view...
- Mental Health Services Provision
398. To ask the Minister for Health his views on implementing recommendations (details supplied) regarding residential care. [3798/15]
- Nursing Home Inspections
399. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include private nursing home care agencies under the remit of the Health Information and Quality Authority, or any other regulatory bodies, in...
- Magdalen Laundries Report
400. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he is not implementing the full recommendations (details supplied) of Judge Quirke's report in respect of the Magdalen scheme as originally...
- Motorised Transport Grant Eligibility
401. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the findings of the interdepartmental group on the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant; the timeframe in place for...
- Infectious Disease Screening Service
402. To ask the Minister for Health if patients are tested for MRSA as a matter of routine when admitted to Mayo General Hospital; the number of patients tested positively for MRSA on admission...
- Community First Responders Network
403. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the interface which has been developed by the National Ambulance Service, the command and control centre and the community first responders;...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
405. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will have a fair deal scheme application approved. [3867/15]
- Hospital Accommodation Provision
408. To ask the Minister for Health when additional beds will open in Dingle Community Hospital, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3880/15]
- Disease Incidence
409. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 468 of 20 January 2015, if he will specify the incident which is under investigation which lead to the decision to...
- Respite Care Services
410. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding respite care in respect of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3894/15]
- Disability Services Provision
411. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Prader-Willi Syndrome which is a severe condition that affects approximately 200 adults and children here is not provided the appropriate funding...
- Prescription Charges
412. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 679 of 25 February 2014 and the subsequent reply under Standing Order 40A, if his attention has been drawn to the...
- HSE Complaints Procedures
413. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been brought to a complaint (details supplied) made to the Health Service Executive; the actions taken to ensure such a situation does not...
- HSE Correspondence
414. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to have correspondence which has been furnished to the Health Service Executive in relation to a personnel matter in respect of a person (details...
- Hospitals Building Programme
415. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 27 November 2014 if he will confirm the design team has been appointed to this project and is working on stage 1...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Applications
417. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason only two-year passports were issued in respect of persons (details supplied) with Irish citizenship; and if the persons will be...
- Trade Missions
418. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to undertake a trade mission to Japan; the way a company can apply for a position on such a delegation; and if he will make a...
- Debt Restructuring
419. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the UN General Assembly vote on 5 December 2014 to establish the modalities for the implementation of a multilateral legal...
- Air Navigation Orders
420. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 617 of 20 January 2015 the reason his Department gave for refusing each of the 19 permits under the...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Apprenticeship Programmes
421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a matter (details supplied) regarding SOLAS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3752/15]
- Public Sector Allowances Review
422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision made when the honours degree allowance was abolished that teachers, who were not working on the 5 December 2011,...
- Food Industry Development
423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that there are sufficient opportunities for training operatives in the meat industry, including butchers-boners; the details...
- Schools Building Projects Status
424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school extension project in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on...
- Teachers' Remuneration
428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the anomaly which has arisen regarding allowances paid to primary teachers who achieved degree qualifications...
- Apprenticeship Programmes
429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will permit students to go directly into apprenticeships after their junior cycle exams where such students, though gifted in certain...
- Industrial Disputes
430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions being taken to resolve the junior cycle dispute with teachers; if a resolution is imminent; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Schools Building Projects Status
431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 18 which is planned to progress to construction in 2015;...
- Teachers' Remuneration
432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the honours allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3391/15]
- Student Universal Support Ireland Expenditure
434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual budget the Student Universal Support Ireland has for advertising and for communications each year since its establishment. [3408/15]
- Irish Language
435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the report Analysis of Bilingual Competence: Language Acquisition Among Young People in the Gaeltacht by an Chomhairle um...
- School Patronage
436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the fact that national schools of all patronages, when seeking State recognition and thereby State funding, legally committed...
- Children First Guidelines
445. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes made since the publication of a report (details supplied) regarding the enforcement of legislation and constitutional provisions in...
- School Patronage
448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a report that does not indicate that the Department's present policy of creating multi-denominational patronages will ultimately lead...
- Schools Data
450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a copy of all school roll numbers from the introduction of such numbers; if she will include the name and position of the...
- Visiting Teacher Service
452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 877 of 4 November 2014, if her officials have completed their consideration of the review of the visiting...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
453. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that offers of places to the only new autism spectrum disorder classes in the Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown...
- School Funding
456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the board of management of a Catholic primary school will be made liable for the recent compensation award to a teacher; and if she will make...
- Visiting Teacher Service
457. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the review carried out into the visiting teacher service; when the review will be published; and if she will...
- School Curriculum
458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to making computing a compulsory subject for the leaving certificate (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Teachers' Remuneration
459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of Circular 0008/2013 her views on a situation (details supplied) pertaining to a number of persons who are excluded from receipt of a...
- State Examinations Exemptions
460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student (details supplied) in Dublin 15 with a learning difficulty has been refused a waiver for the leaving certificate when a...
- School Funding
461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the amount invested by her Department into schools in County Galway, broken down by year between 2011 and 2014 and by primary...
- Residential Institutions (1 comment)
462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that have been expended to date by Caranua and under which headings; and the number of persons that received payment, including...
- Schools Building Regulations
463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy of her Department to new school buildings; and the provision of access for disabled children, particularly where the new building has...
- Institutes of Technology Staff
464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff in each institute of technology employed in permanent wholetime posts; the number of staff in each institute of technology...
- Schools Building Projects Applications
465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the capital application in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Galway; if it will be included on...
- Schools Health and Safety
467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the external lighting in the internal road network within the school campus at Blacklion, Greystones, County Wicklow will be made...
- School Management
468. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding loco parentis in a classroom situation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3699/15]
- Teachers' Remuneration
469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding teachers' pay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3702/15]
- Industrial Disputes
470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on discussions with teachers since the strike action on 22 January 2015; and if she will make a statement on the...
- School Transport Eligibility
471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a public transport route operated by Bus Éireann from Listowel to Tralee, County Kerry bus station only is considered as a school...
- Schools Amalgamation
472. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the proposed amalgamation of the national schools in Kanturk, County Cork; and if she will make...
- School Accommodation
473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a planning decision will be made on temporary accommodation for a new post-primary school (details supplied) in County Kildare; when a...
- Schools Building Projects Status
474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if approval for a new building project (details supplied) in County Kildare will be included in the Government's five year plan or if a...
- Teachers' Remuneration
475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the situation of a primary school teacher (details supplied) and 29 similar cases who, due to an anomaly, lost the payment of...
- Schools Data
476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason, when completing the primary online database forms, parents are being asked for their children's PPSN numbers and religion; the...
- Schools Building Projects Status
477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will prioritise the building of a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [3768/15]
- Third Level Institutions
478. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for a third level sub-campus or institution in Drogheda, County Louth particularly a concept of a Drogheda/Dundalk Institute of...
- Capitation Grants
479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the reduction in capitation grants will be reversed as the cumulative effect of these cuts are placing serious strain on many schools'...
- Advertisements in Schools
480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views that it is appropriate for Irish Water to sponsor a poster competition for green schools, in view of the fact that the United Nations...
- Schools Building Projects Status
482. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of a school (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3837/15]
- School Staffing Appeals Mechanism
483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when an appeal to retain teaching posts in a primary school for 2015-16 will be accepted and decided upon by her Department; the full process and...
- Schools Building Projects Status
484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding provision of a new primary school to replace the existing old school and prefabricated classroom accomodation of...
- Education and Training Boards
485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the new education and training board are selecting qualified trainer / trainer companies; the consideration that is being given to...
- Education and Training Boards Staff
486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that the supervising officers from the education and training board are versed and experienced in the discipline on the...
- School Accommodation
487. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress in analysing demographic data to determine where additional school accommodation will be required; the basis upon which certain...
- Home Tuition Scheme
488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to correspondence sent to her by a person (details supplied) regarding the home tutorial scheme dated 6 October...
- Schools Amalgamation
489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 534 and 535 of 20 January 2015 regarding the proposed amalgamation of schools (details supplied), if she...
- School Enrolments
490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she has become aware of school enrolment difficulties at a school (details supplied) in County Kildare and other locations...
- Schools Building Projects Administration
492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she can meet or enhance the school building programme at primary and second level with particular reference to locations of...
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she expects pupil-teacher ratios and class sizes to improve in the current year; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Gaelscoileanna Issues
494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she continues to examine the case put forward by promoters in Leixlip, County Kildare, for the provision of a...
- Bullying in Schools
495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which efforts continue to be made to combat school bullying; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3903/15]
- Special Educational Needs Staffing
496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which special needs teachers remain available to all schools throughout County Kildare in line with requirements; if any particular...
- Student Grant Scheme Administration
497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which Student Universal Support Ireland continues to deal adequately with the administration of higher education grants; the number...
- Industrial Disputes
498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she continues to have ongoing dialogue with the teaching unions with a view to reaching agreement in respect of outstanding...
- School Enrolments
499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent of enquiries, section 29 appeals or other submissions received in connection with difficulties arising in respect of access and...
- School Patronage
503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent of her ongoing dialogue with the authorities in respect of smaller urban or rural denominational schools with a view to meeting, in so...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration
504. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will revise the valuations for the mortgage to rent scheme as with the increase in valuations in the housing market...
- Proposed Legislation
505. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to re-establish the previous policy of rural proofing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Noise Pollution
506. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the remedies that are made available to landlords whereby in an apartment building one resident an owner occupier is...
- Illegal Dumping
507. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the toxic dumping into the Dundalk, County Louth, water supply; if there will be...
- National Lottery Funding Disbursement
508. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the amendment accepted to the National Lottery Bill, including natural environment agencies, as potential...
- Mortgage to Rent Scheme Applications
509. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of residential mortgages approved under the mortgage to rent scheme to date; and if he will make a statement on...
- Homeless Accommodation Provision
510. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress that has been made to tackle homelessness both in Dublin and nationwide since the homelessness forum met in...
- Compulsory Purchase Orders
511. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will streamline the compulsory purchase order process for lands at dangerous locations along regional and local...
- Proposed Legislation
513. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the proposed provisions to be included in the new water services Bill. [3501/15]
- Pyrite Remediation Programme Expenditure
514. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of building condition assessments with damage condition rating 2 received by the Pyrite Resolution Board; and...
- Appointments to State Boards
516. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if three of the nine board members of the Western Development Commission appointed by his predecessor on behalf of the...
- Homelessness Strategy
517. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the launch of the homelessness strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46773/14]
- Water Charges Administration
518. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in respect of late payment charge-dwellings under the Water Services Bill 2014, when that late payment charge comes into...
- Local Authority Housing Rents
519. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 918 of 14 January 2015 if local authority rents will increase from current rates...
- Security of the Elderly
521. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the engagement that has taken place between his Department and the community alert...
- Social and Affordable Housing Data
522. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total number of social housing built in 2009 and each subsequent year, including plans for 2015. [3583/15]
- Energy Regulation
523. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans regarding regulation of certain home heating (details supplied). [3584/15]
- Information and Communications Technology
524. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied with the role his Department is playing in driving eGovernment strategy through better local...
- Appointments to State Boards
525. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the make-up of the board of An Bord Pleanála fully represents urban rural interests; and if he will make a...
- Social and Affordable Housing Data
526. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the 35,000 target for so-called direct built housing for each of the years from 2015 to...
- Commercial Rates
527. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress achieved with local authorities in reducing the rates burden on businesses; and if he will make a statement...
- Private Rented Accommodation Standards
528. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is a register of all rented properties here; if not, if a register will be compiled; and if he will make a...
- Pyrite Issues
529. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the fact that had the BC(A)R 2014 been introduced prior to the building boom in the 1990s to 2008, and been...
- Housing Data
530. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households nationally occupying accommodation rented directly from one of the 34 local authorities; the...
- Homelessness Strategy
531. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for interim measures to deal with rising homelessness here before the promised social housing is operational;...
- Rural Development Programme Funding
532. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when Leader funding will be made available under the rural development programme; the EU regulations groups must meet to...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
533. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a project (details supplied) in County Mayo which has received State funding is refusing to accept tenants from...
- Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme
534. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to concerns expressed by community groups around the way SICAP is being implemented,...
- Local Authority Charges Yield
535. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the total amount in tabular form raised from parking fees by Tipperary County Council and its...
- Housing Regeneration
536. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the work being done to deal with voids in local authority housing stocks in County Cork; if funding will be made available...
- Climate Change Policy
538. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason his Department views it appropriate to include a timeframe of up to 2017 for the preparation and implementation...
- Legislative Programme
539. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he anticipates publishing planning legislation that will introduce greater certainty and obligations with regard to...
- Waste Management
540. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress that has been made regarding the promised review of the waste management industry that was made by the...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
541. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by local authority area of the number of new social homes that are targeted to be built by...
- Seanad Reform
542. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1485 of 17 September 2014, the number of meetings of the technical working group on...
- Seanad Elections
543. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has conducted any research on the accuracy of the National University of Ireland and University of...
- Building Regulations Compliance
544. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of inspections of building projects by building control officers, by county, since the introduction of the...
- City Status
545. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on city status for the greater Drogheda metropolitan area plan as the way forward as there are 76,000 persons...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
546. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the housing supports available in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on...
- Library Services
547. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his Department's proposals to amalgamate the library services in Cork city and County Cork; the discussions that have...
- Leader Programmes Applications
553. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of an application to Mayo North East LEADER Partnership by an organisation (details supplied); if the...
- Insurance Industry Regulation
554. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the legal basis for the HomeBond scheme; his views on the role of the State in the matter; his further views on the way...
- Mortgage to Rent Scheme Applications
555. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding a mortgage to rent case in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Cork; the next steps in...
- Leader Programmes Applications
556. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason there is a continuing delay in processing a payment by Mayo North East LEADER Partnership to an organisation...
- Leader Programmes Funding
557. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress that has been made with the new Leader programme; when it will be launched; the criteria required; and when...
- Voluntary Sector Funding
558. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the present staffing issue at his Department which is delaying funding to volunteer...
- Building Regulations
559. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he is taking to provide and promote energy-efficient housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Wind Energy Guidelines
560. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the revised guidelines for wind energy will be published; and if they will apply to projects that have prior...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Renewable Energy Generation
562. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to follow the example set by certain German cities, such as Munich and Frankfurt, which have pledged to move to...
- Broadband Service Provision
563. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the residents of the Geesala and Bangor Erris area, County Mayo will receive access to adequate broadband as they have...
- National Broadband Plan Implementation
564. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress of the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3395/15]
- Public Service Charges
565. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update regarding the introduction of a broadcasting charge; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Broadband Service Provision
566. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position in respect of broadband for Killoe on the outskirts of Lonford town; if same will be rolled out as a matter...
- Exploration Licences
568. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide details of licences which were issued for oil exploration, both onshore and offshore in Irish...
- Public Service Obligation Levy
569. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views that an adjustment to the public service obligation, PSO, levy should be made considering the changing market...
- National Digital Strategy Implementation
570. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will examine an application to the national digital strategy, Knowledge Society Division in Adelaide Road, Dublin...
- Appointments to State Boards
571. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of persons who applied under the public application process for each of the vacant positions on the board of...
- Inland Fisheries
572. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the effectiveness of the current system for counting on Irish waterways; his further views that it is...
- Inland Fisheries Ireland Investigations
573. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the most recent social impact study was completed in relation to the effect the closure of salmon and eel fishing is...
- Inland Fisheries
575. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to conduct a review of the composition of the two standing scientific committees with a view to having a fair...
- Fisheries Protection
576. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department received feedback regarding the European initiative, FARNET, which covers more than 10,000 km. of...
- Broadband Service Provision
577. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the plans he has for the provision of an effective broadband service for an area (details supplied) in County Tipperary;...
- North-South Interconnector
578. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the requests of local communities in the north east that in the event of the proposed North-South...
- Energy Schemes
579. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding grants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3922/15]
- Energy Conservation
580. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding grants for boilers burning woods (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
- National Broadband Plan Implementation
581. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the promotion of the broadband mapping consultation process that has been embarked on with local community groups and...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
582. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has read the document Investing in Our Transport Future: A Strategic Framework for Investment in Land Transport; his views that it...
- National Driver Licensing Service
584. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason driving test facilities in County Galway do not have public toilet facilities and designated parking for the centre in view of...
- Parking Provision
586. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will expand pay and display facilities for car parking at train stations nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Public Transport Provision
587. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if submissions made towards the public consultation on the north Dublin transport strategy will be made public. [3299/15]
- Sports Capital Programme Administration
588. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the sports capital programme will next be open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3400/15]
- Compulsory Purchase Orders
589. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legislation under which the National Roads Authority proposes to compulsory purchase order lands for the Dublin to Galway Greenway,...
- Roadworthiness Testing
590. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the road testing of vintage vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Cycling Facilities Provision
591. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to expand bicycle lanes here; the projects ongoing or planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3490/15]
- Public Transport Fares
592. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reduce public transport prices and expand bus and rail services to incentivise the use of public transport, particularly in...
- Local Improvement Scheme
593. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will increase the funding to Kerry County Council for local improvement scheme road projects to address the large waiting list; and...
- Rail Network
594. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Iarnród Éireann plans to install indicator points at each DART station to show commuters where each train carriage will...
- Public Transport Fares
595. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views that the recent decrease in oil prices by almost 50% should be reflected by a reduction in public transport ticket prices; and...
- Roadworthiness Testing
596. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views that a change is required to the regulations relating to the definition of vintage cars so that there is a rolling 30-year age...
- Traffic Calming Measures
597. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will arrange to have traffic calming measures installed in Barraduff Village, County Kerry, especially at the Killarney side, as...
- Public Sector Pensions
598. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason his Department has failed to address the pension entitlement issues of those former employees of his Department that...
- Taxi Licences Renewals
599. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a taxi-small public service vehicle licence renewal in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if...
- Sports Capital Programme Expenditure
600. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a grant in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 6W; when all funds will be advanced to this...
- EU Funding
603. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to apply for EU CER funding in 2015 for the proposed M7 motorway scheme, which involves carrying out necessary widening of the...
- State Airports
604. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the loss of routes and reduction of services at Cork Airport in recent months; his plans to provide greater autonomy to Cork...
- Road Projects Status
605. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the planned upgrade of the Dunkettle interchange in County Cork; if funding is in place for the project to...
- Cycling Facilities Provision
606. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on cycle greenways being critical infrastructure in the context of the compulsory purchase order process; and if he will make a...
- Rail Services
609. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 993 of 14 January 2015, if his Department has funding available for the opening of railway...
- Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme
610. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding changes to the pensions of persons currently in payment under the Irish Aviation Superannuation Scheme; if his...
- Road Traffic Legislation
612. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 608 and 610 of 20 January 2015, if the road traffic Bill 2015 will include both legislation for...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
614. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason in the recent document, Investing in Our Transport Future: A Strategic Framework for Investment in Land Transport, the role of...
- Coastal Erosion
615. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken to protect coastal road and rail infrastructure from storms; the projects that are currently under way in this...
- Road Traffic Legislation
616. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to the Topical Issue debate on 15 January 2015, if he will examine a reply (details supplied) issued by Dublin City Council which...
- Military Aircraft Landings
617. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 617 of 20 January 2015 if he will provide a breakdown of the country of origin of the 606...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Visual Artist's Workspace Scheme
619. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the visual artists' workspace scheme; if 83% of that scheme's funding has been allocated to the...
- Special Areas of Conservation Appeals
620. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of all appeals conducted by the Designated Areas Appeals Advisory Board in 2013 and 2014 on objections to...
- Air Services Provision
621. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the tendering for services and aerodrome management between the Aran Islands and Inishbofin and Cleggan, County Galway, will be...