Written answers

Tuesday, 3 February 2015

  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • National Mitigation Plan
      132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, now that the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill has been published, his Department's response in terms of the preparation...
    • Land Acquisition
      133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the model being used, including issues such as the land acquisition and access, to develop greenway projects. [4346/15]
    • Sale of Aer Lingus
      134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the sale of Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4360/15]
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of plans his Department may have for a sports capital scheme in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dublin Bus Services
      137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the plans for the Swiftway rapid bus services; and if he will make a commitment to keep the service under...
    • Tourism Promotion
      138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a tourism initiative similar to The Gathering is not being developed around the centenary of the 1916 Rising; his plans to...
    • Traffic Management
      139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he plans to address the increasing congestion on the M50; the current capacity reached at rush hour on the M50; and if he will...
    • Air Navigation Orders
      140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details on his Department's role in the processing of exemptions for the carriage of munitions of war on civil...
    • Penalty Points System Investigation
      141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views following the latest Garda report revealing widespread continued breaches in the penalty point system, in view of the...
    • Sale of Aer Lingus
      142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reject the International Airlines Group take-over bid for Aer Lingus, in the interests of maintaining the future of the...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      143. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the fraud prevention measures utilised on funding provided through the sports capital grant programme; the investigations that occurred...
    • Sale of Aer Lingus
      144. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Governments position on International Airlines Groups' €1.3 billion take-over bid of Aer Lingus. [4336/15]
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      145. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for improving cross border transport links; and if he will commit to meeting with his counterparts in Stormont to discuss...
    • Road Projects
      146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to confirm funding for the upgraded M7 Naas-Oberstown interchange and Sallins bypass; if his attention has been drawn to the...
    • Wild Atlantic Way Project
      147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a new marketing initiative to promote the winter Wild Atlantic Way, to bring more visitors to drive the Wild Atlantic Way...
    • Road Tolls
      148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his discussions with his UK counterpart in view of the new HGV tolls applying to Irish hauliers there; his plans on introducing a similar...
    • Rail Services
      149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his policy in relation to the development of heavy rail services throughout the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Sale of Aer Lingus
      150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on wide-spread concern that the possible take-over of Aer Lingus by IAG could result in large job losses and threaten...
    • Public Transport Provision
      151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the six short listed schemes in the Fingal-north Dublin Transport study appraisal report; and when there will be a long...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the position of the introduction of greenway projects in County Galway. [4345/15]
    • Rural Transport Services Provision
      153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to implement the recommendations contained within the CEDRA report pertaining to his Department; and if he will make a...
    • Roadworthiness Testing
      154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the regulations covering the commercial vehicle roadworthiness certification; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Process
      155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the implementation of Part 4 of the Taxi Regulation Act 2012 and the relevant Schedules; if his attention has been drawn to...
    • Air Navigation Orders
      156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he is satisfied with existing arrangements between his Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding the...
    • Taxi Regulations
      157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he had discussions with the National Transport Authority regarding the changes to the taxi fares model and that consultative process;...
    • Pension Provisions
      158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the contact his Department has had with Aer Lingus and the Shannon Airport Authority regarding the way different actuarial assumptions...
    • Tourism Policy
      159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his policy in relation to the development of long distance greenways for cycling and walking; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Sport and Recreational Development
      160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for promoting women in sport in view of the successes of women athletes here. [4344/15]
    • Sale of Aer Lingus
      161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on discussions held with trade union representatives and community organisations on the sale of Aer Lingus. [4361/15]
    • Driver Licences
      162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the discrepancies occurring when drivers fail to produce their licences in court, when drivers fail to surrender...
    • Tourism Policy
      163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on making 2016 a year of the home gathering, a nationwide year of Irish persons holidaying at home and going someplace here...
    • Sale of Aer Lingus
      164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he is satisfied that any takeover of Aer Lingus will involve adequate protection for national interests such as...
    • Public Transport
      167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the current financial situation in the CIÉ group of companies; if he will provide an update on same; and if he will...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Appointments to State Boards
      168. To ask the Taoiseach the total number of representations in written or oral form he, his officials or advisers have received from a person (details supplied) seeking the appointment of...
    • Office of the Attorney General
      169. To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff currently employed in the Attorney General's office engaged in the drafting of legislation; if he is satisfied that there is sufficient staff and...
    • National Flag
      170. To ask the Taoiseach the reason the Tricolour was flown at half-mast recently following the death of the King of Saudi Arabia, which country has the worst human rights record in the world;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      171. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form for the years 2007 to 2010 the total photography costs for his Department, including a list of which photographers were booked, the...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      174. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form a list of all external public relations firms hired by his Department and associated costs incurred from 2007 to 2010; and if he will...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Paternal Leave Costs
      175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost associated with allowing four weeks of paternity benefit to fathers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4328/15]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an appeal of a decision on a disability allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Carer's Allowance Delays
      179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when all arrears in respect of a carer's allowance application will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who...
    • Labour Activation Measures
      181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a list of education, training and activation measures that are open to persons who are unemployed but who are not in receipt of...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Data
      182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has estimates of the number of persons who are unemployed but who are not in receipt of a jobseeker's allowance by virtue of the...
    • Job Initiatives
      184. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of all library and archiving related JobBridge positions in publicly funded bodies since the establishment of the...
    • Work Placement Programmes
      185. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on permitting persons on disability allowance to access Gateway and Tús schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4465/15]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      186. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, for the years 2007 to 2010,inclusive, the total photography costs in her Department, including a list of which...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      189. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form a list of all external public relations firms hired by her Department and associated costs incurred from 2007 to...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      190. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when an oral hearing in respect of a carer's allowance application will take place in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance
      192. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Data
      193. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons under 25 years of age who are on an age-related social welfare payments, with a breakdown by the number in each year of age....
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      194. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the grounds on which a new rent supplement form is required in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Living Alone Allowance
      195. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason elderly persons living here who are in receipt of a United Kingdom pension are discriminated against by not being entitled to a...
    • Carer's Benefit Payments
      196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person in receipt of carer's benefit and working 15 hours per week, is entitled to be paid for public holidays under the Organisation of...
    • Disability Allowance
      200. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if persons with cystic fibrosis in receipt of disability allowance are allowed an easing of means-testing if, in the event of marriage, there are...
    • Free Travel Scheme
      201. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide assurance that there are no plans to abolish the free travel passes for companions of the elderly; and if she will make a...
    • Departmental Programmes
      202. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons on the JobBridge programme as at 28 January 2015; the number of persons on community employment schemes, rural social schemes...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      203. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person aged over 55 years who commenced a community employment scheme in April 2013, having spent 156 weeks in receipt of a qualifying social...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      204. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Longford will receive notification from the social welfare appeals office regarding their current appeal;...
    • Registration of Births
      205. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to IT difficulties being experienced in the Dublin office of the registrar of births; if these IT difficulties have...
    • Departmental Investigations
      206. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status, for social welfare purposes, of ESB meter readers; if they are considered self-employed or sub-contractors by her Department; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      208. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the weekly amount by which repayment of overpayment in the period January 2013 to May 2014 in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      209. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 184 of 4 November 2014 and in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 who was in dispute with the...
    • Social Insurance Payments
      210. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out her views on the risk and if she will acknowledge the challenge in moving from unemployment to self-employment by considering an...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      211. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the amount expended on rent allowance in each of the years 2008 to 2013, inclusive, for Dublin City, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal...
    • Social Insurance Refunds
      214. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on the current one-year backlog for processing PRSI refunds; and the measures that will be put in place to ensure citizens...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      216. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to reports that the community employment and employment services programmes are now only accepting persons on...
    • Water Conservation Grant
      217. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the total anticipated cost of the water conservation grant to her Department including any additional administration requirements and so...
    • Community Employment Schemes Places
      222. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there will there be an adequate training budget to meet the three-year training requirements for participants in health and social care services...
    • Public Services Card Provision
      225. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 17 and 30 of 5 March 2014 the progress that has been made with the roll-out of the new public services card...
    • Community Welfare Services
      226. To ask the Minister for Social Protection whether front-line services provided by her Department to the individual citizen have suffered dramatically, given that many urban centres are...
    • Family Income Supplement Data
      227. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of public servants in receipt of family income supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47835/14]
    • Child Poverty
      228. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has undertaken any impact analysis studies on the effect on children of the cut to the lone parent allowance; and if she will make...
    • Social Insurance Payments
      229. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to alter the tax collection structure in a manner which would enable self-employed persons to make contributions that would provide income...
  • Department of Finance
    • Corporation Tax Regime
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number of companies operating in the Irish tonnage tax regime in each year from 2003 to 2014; the number of persons...
    • Energy Prices
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which his Department monitors the economic impact of energy costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5003/15]
    • Tax Code
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 79 of 22 January 2015, the process in place in the Revenue Commissioners to verify entitlement to a personal fund...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance his view on draft proposals from the European Commission on the capital buffer which must be held by constant net asset value funds; and if he will make a...
    • Eurozone Crisis
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance the amounts in which and the dates on which Ireland's contribution to the EU loans to Greece will be repaid; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Pension Provisions
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons subject simultaneously to both the public service pension levy and the private pension levy for each of the past three years; and if he...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding recruitment in the Revenue Commissioners (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4431/15]
    • Bond Markets
      237. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether there is a bubble in the sovereign bond market; his views on whether Irish sovereign bonds are currently overvalued; the risk assessment...
    • European Central Bank
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the recent measures announced by the European Central Bank will be of benefit to Ireland in terms of measurable indicators; his views on...
    • Banks Recapitalisation
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he will take in the Court of Justice of the European Union with respect to the actions of either or both the European Central Bank or the European...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form for the years 2007 to 2010 the total photography costs in his Department, including a list of the photographers who were...
    • VAT Rate Application
      243. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is legally possible to charge a different, higher VAT rate for goods bought online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4528/15]
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form a list of all external public relations firms hired by his Department and associated costs incurred from 2007 to 2010; and...
    • Tax Rebates
      245. To ask the Minister for Finance if VRT paid on cars in 2009, which had been imported from the UK throughout 2008 and kept in storage never having been driven on Irish roads and eventually...
    • Exchequer Revenue
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the currencies which the State's financial reserves, as managed by the National Treasury Management Agency, are denominated...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide figures, in tabular form, the currencies the financial reserves of the Central Bank of Ireland are denominated in; and if the recent major...
    • Bank Charges
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a change in regulations to the way bank charges will be applied on accounts with low balances; where the charging of fees greatly reduces...
    • Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
      250. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46772/14]
    • Economic Statements
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the spring statement planned by the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3279/15]
    • Home Renovation Incentive Scheme Applications
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the total number of applications received under the home renovation incentive to date; the total value of activity under...
    • Credit Register Establishment
      253. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank of Ireland will outsource the operation of the new credit register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4679/15]
    • Negative Equity Mortgages Data
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons whose homes are in negative equity. [4682/15]
    • Mortgage Applications Approvals
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance if new mortgage rules apply to a person who currently has mortgage approval but has not yet drawn down their mortgage; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers that claimed for medical expenses in their tax returns in 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4728/15]
    • Medical Card Data
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers that had a medical card in 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4729/15]
    • Universal Social Charge Yield
      259. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of money collected by the State in 2014 through the universal social charge on the portion of income between €0 and €10,036 of all...
    • Tax Rebates
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners has a policy of withholding tax refunds until a person has paid their property tax for the coming year; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance the current structure relating to DIRT on investments and long-term investments; if concessions in respect of DIRT exist for persons who are unemployed or on...
    • European Fund for Strategic Investments
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on Ireland investing in the European Fund for Strategic Investments; his further views regarding Ireland potentially being left out of the steering...
    • European Central Bank
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the performance of the European Central Bank in regard to its role in respect of the prudential supervision of credit institutions as laid out in...
    • Real Estate Investment Trusts
      274. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of investment funds and real estate investment trusts to which the National Asset Management Agency has sold commercial and...
    • Tax Code
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to make changes in the next budget to treat cohabiting couples the same as married couples in terms of their income tax; the cost to the Exchequer...
    • Revenue Commissioners Investigations
      277. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions being taken to detect the illegal use of green diesel; the number of detections in 2013 and 2014 of such illegal activity; the actions taken as a...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises Debt
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of survey results by ISME that 57% of companies which had applied for loans were refused, if he will significantly increase the target for lending in...
    • Property Tax Exemptions
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4878/15]
    • Debt Restructuring
      280. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the call for a eurozone debt conference in response to the recent Greek election result; and his further views on chairing such a conference in...
    • Debt Write-downs
      281. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has estimated the likely impact on the Irish fiscal situation from a write-down of Greek debt of the suggested minimum order of 50% in view of the Irish...
    • Tax Reliefs Cost
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount the child care services tax relief cost the State for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4997/15]
    • National Payments Plan Implementation
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the implementation of the national payments plan launched in April 2013; the progress in rolling out of basic bank accounts; the...
    • Tax Data
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of self-assessed taxpayers by county for the years 2011 to 2014 inclusive; the number and type of attachment orders placed by the Revenue...
    • Tax Yield
      286. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the annual relevant contract tax revenue collected and tax refunded between 2000 and 2007. [5019/15]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Public Sector Reform Implementation
      287. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the establishment of the accountability board of the Civil Service will be set up as per the committee for review of public service...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form for the years 2007 to 2010 the total photography costs in his Department, including a list of which...
    • Freedom of Information Remit
      291. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any semi-State companies have made a business case to his Department seeking an extension of time before that company will be subject...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Funding
      292. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an application for funding has been received from Limerick City and County Council in respect of flood alleviation measures in...
    • Public Procurement Contracts Social Clauses
      293. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress of evaluating the use of social employment clauses in public sector procurement under the devolved schools programme; and...
    • Departmental Funding
      294. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way and the reason the decision to revive Irish Nonprofits Knowledge Exchange was made; if alternative approaches were considered;...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      297. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding job vacancies in the Civil Service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4991/15]
    • Semi-State Bodies Remuneration
      298. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of all bonus payment to chief executives of commercial semi-State agencies under the remit of his Department...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
      299. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the way the partnership is being structured; the position on...
    • Credit Guarantee Scheme Implementation
      300. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to review the credit guarantee scheme to assist customers of banks whose bank has left the Irish market; and if he will make...
    • IDA Site Visits
      301. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the date of each visit by an Industrial Development Agency or Enterprise Ireland prospective client to the former NEC factory in...
    • Industrial Development
      303. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of companies located at the business and technology park in Roscommon town; the profile of those companies; the efforts the...
    • IDA Portfolio
      304. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a list of the sites owned by the Industrial Development Agency in County Cork and which have potential use for...
    • Local Enterprise Offices
      305. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if local enterprise offices have targets imposed by his Department; if he will provide a breakdown on a county basis as to the targets...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      306. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form for the years 2007 to 2010 the total photography costs in his Department, including a list of which...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      308. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form a list of all external public relations firms hired by his Department and associated costs incurred...
    • National Flag
      309. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he approved the lowering of the national flag over his Department's building on Kildare Street, Dublin 2 on 23 January 2014; and if...
    • Job Creation
      310. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that has been made in creating job opportunities in Dublin North East and Dublin North Central; his plans to further...
    • IDA Site Visits
      311. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency site visits undertaken in Dublin North East and Dublin North Central in 2013 and 2014; his...
    • Enterprise Ireland Expenditure
      312. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide the payments in 2014 by Enterprise Ireland by company, county and by payment type; and if he will make a statement...
    • Community Enterprise Centres
      313. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the BDM programme for community enterprise centres, CEC, will be in place; if he recognises the achievements of CECs; if there...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Farm Assist Scheme Applications
      314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide farm scheme regulations in CD form to assist applicants with literary difficulties such as dyslexia and so on as...
    • Animal Welfare Expenditure
      315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will provide funding to a voluntary organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      316. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2013 AEOS payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Reform
      317. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the criteria blocking young farmers who are under 40 years of age but who have been farming for more than five...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      318. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a decision on their disadvantaged area scheme payment 2012 appeal. [4403/15]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      319. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged area scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement...
    • Special Areas of Conservation Designation
      321. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 22 January 2015, the exact areas of Dunbulcan Bay, County Galway, that were surveyed as...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      322. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form for the years 2007 to 2010 the total photography costs in his Department, including a list of...
    • Fisheries Protection
      324. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the scientific information underlining SI 591 of 2014 in relation to lobster stocks; the basis he is concerned about lobster stock...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      325. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 237 of 30 September 2014 and 78 of 10 December 2014 if all payments have issued under the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      326. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 300 of 16 December 2014 if he will provide an update on an appeal for 2014 single payment...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      327. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) will receive their agri-environment option scheme payment; the reason for the delay in payment; and...
    • Control of Horses
      328. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to tackle the problem of loose, feral horses or neglected horses in urban areas of Dublin; and if he will make...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      329. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form a list of all external public relations firms hired by his Department and associated costs...
    • Special Protection Areas Designation
      330. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to compensate farmers whose land has been designated as special protection areas for the hen harrier; if his...
    • GLAS Establishment
      331. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the GLAS scheme will be fully operational. [4579/15]
    • Rural Development Programme Funding
      333. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the funding of tillage groups will become operational. [4582/15]
    • Special Areas of Conservation Designation
      334. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that adequate compensation will be paid for farmers who have had their land designed special areas of conservation...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      335. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments of agri-environment options scheme moneys and hardship grant regarding TB restrictions will issue in respect of a...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      336. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form the details of agency staff costs incurred by his Department or its aegis in 2012, 2013 and 2014,...
    • Agriculture Schemes Eligibility
      337. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to implement the Scottish derogation so that young farmers who farmed actively pre-2010 will qualify for the national...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      338. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a 2014 AEOS 3 payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Íocaíochtaí Scéim na Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste
      339. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén uair a dhéanfar íocaíocht faoi Scéim na Limistéar faoi Mhíbhuntáiste don bhliain 2014 le...
    • Sheep Technology Adoption Programme Payments
      340. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a sheep technology adoption programme payment will issue in of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      341. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue under the 2014 disadvantage area based scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      343. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue under the AEOS1 scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for the delay...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      346. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be receiving their REPS payment. [4944/15]
    • Beef Data Programme
      347. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the beef data genomics scheme will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      348. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an AEOS payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [4998/15]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      349. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged area payment for 2014 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who met their...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      350. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of all bonus payments to chief executives of commercial semi-State agencies paid in each year from 2011 to...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      351. To ask the Minister for Defence the options available in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork to rejoin the Army; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4480/15]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      352. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form for the years 2007 to 2010 the total photography costs in his Department, including a list of which photographers were...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      354. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form a list of all external public relations firms hired by his Department and associated costs incurred from 2007 to 2010; and...
    • International Agreements
      355. To ask the Minister for Defence the specific details of the defence agreement that he has signed with the British Defence Secretary; if he will attend before the Committee on Justice,...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Stardust Fire
      356. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has reviewed the information and meeting request sent to her by representatives of a committee (details supplied); and if she will meet...
    • UN Conventions Ratification
      357. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the likely ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by the Irish State; when this ratification is likely to...
    • Insolvency Service of Ireland
      358. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of personal insolvency practitioners who have applied for payment in respect of insolvency proposals which were vetoed by creditors;...
    • Construction Sector Strategy
      359. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the system of e-conveyancing will be rolled out; if he will be available to all bank customers; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Peace Commissioners Appointments
      360. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure regarding a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 becoming a peace commissioner; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Good Friday Agreement
      361. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Irish Government at any stage entered into an agreement with the British Government as part of the Northern Ireland Peace Process in...
    • Criminal Law
      362. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a harassment case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4399/15]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      363. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the grounds on which an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 14 was refused; and if she will make...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      364. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action she has taken to address the concerns raised in section 20.4 of the Guerin report; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Expenditure
      365. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form for the years 2007 to 2010 the total photography costs in her Department, including a list of which...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      367. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application for leave to remain in accordance with Section 3(6) of the Immigration Act 1999 as...
    • Visa Applications
      368. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures or the process by which a person from the Ukraine can come and stay here either by way of work permit or to come here and seek a...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      369. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form a list of all external public relations firms hired by her Department and associated costs incurred from 2007...
    • Magdalen Laundries
      370. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will ensure that all survivors of the Magdalen laundries will receive HAA cards as proposed in the recommendations of Justice Quirke's...
    • Court Accommodation Provision
      371. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to the establishment of a designated family law court in Cootehill, County Cavan, to serve Cavan and Monaghan,...
    • Garda Equipment
      372. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda will consider the use of technology (details supplied) in rural policing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4592/15]
    • Garda Deployment
      373. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda community officers by Garda division and Garda station throughout the State. [4619/15]
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      374. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the protection available to a person (details supplied) who has been subjected to harassment; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Magdalen Laundries
      375. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support the women who spent time in the Magdalen laundries as a matter of priority, in particular in providing the full Health...
    • Garda Recruitment
      376. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the recent Garda recruitment campaign, the current position of bands 1, 2 and 3, which were formed in the recruitment process; in view...
    • Charities Regulation
      377. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will instruct the Charities Regulatory Authority to allow voluntary members to opt out of supplying their PPS numbers when updating their...
    • Citizenship Applications
      378. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on a citizenship application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Human Rights Issues
      379. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on the November launch of the 16 Days of Action campaign to raise awareness about gender-based violence; and if she will make...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      380. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the options open to residents in County Louth living with anti-social behaviour; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4868/15]
    • Magdalen Laundries
      381. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the Magdalen laundries redress programme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4883/15]
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      382. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the safety orders available to persons who are being harassed, threatened or intimidated by persons known to them, for example a sibling...
    • Liquor Licence Applications
      383. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a waiver will be considered in the case of a small retailer (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Fuel Quality
      384. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of complaints regarding petrol and diesel quality received by the Garda during the past 12 months in County Louth and that portion of...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Detention Centres Data
      385. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of the Oberstown campus, including the number of cases of self harm and suicide attempted by clients; if there...
    • Legislative Measures
      386. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when he will publish the new child care regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4318/15]
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      387. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will include the Westbank Home, Greystones, County Wicklow, on the list of institutions to be investigated by the Ryan commission;...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      388. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form for the years 2007 to 2010 the total photography costs to his Department, including a list of which...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      390. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in tabular form a list of all external public relations firms hired by his Department and associated costs incurred from...
    • Early Child Care Education
      391. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied) regarding child care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4616/15]
    • Departmental Funding
      392. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a breakdown of the funding that was awarded by his Department to youth services in Dublin North East and Dublin North...
    • Child Care Costs
      393. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to provide assistance towards child care costs for working parents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4734/15]
    • Adoption Data
      394. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of couples that have been granted declarations of eligibility and suitability to adopt under the relevant sections of the...
  • Department of Health
    • Health Services
      396. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet a person (details supplied) to discuss the person's concerns regarding Prader-Willi syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Suicide Incidence
      397. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who died by suicide in 2014; the numbers under 30 years of age; if he will provide a breakdown of males and females; and if he will make...
    • International Bodies Membership
      398. To ask the Minister for Health the proposals put forward regarding the urgent need to reform the World Health Organization in view of the concerns expressed by many member countries of the...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      399. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents admitted to adult beds in 2014. [4313/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      400. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is a continuing delay in processing the application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if same will...
    • HSE Agency Staff Data
      403. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of agency staff employed by the Health Service Executive; the cost of agency staff in 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      404. To ask the Minister for Health when the public health (alcohol) Bill will come through the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4329/15]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      406. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding children with muscular dystrophy who are being refused funding for wheelchairs; the reason this vulnerable group of children are being...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      407. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for the fair deal scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if it will be expedited due to extenuating...
    • Residential Institutions
      408. To ask the Minister for Health the differences there are between the HAA card and the medical support in the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014. [4386/15]
    • Data Protection
      409. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken by his Department since his rise to the position of Minister to ensure that data protection issues are eradicated from the PCRS;...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      410. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be provided home help hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4404/15]
    • Health Services Provision
      411. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in making funding available for the construction of a much-needed day centre in Youghal, County Cork, which currently has full valid planning...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      412. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a reassessment of a medical card application in respect of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 10; and when a decision on their case...
    • Medical Card Applications
      413. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10; and when a decision on their case will issue. [4420/15]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      414. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department has received representations from members of the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association; the actions that have been taken as a result; and...
    • HSE Funding
      415. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a specific financial allocation by the Health Service Executive to patients who suffer from Prader-Willi syndrome or if it is part of the mental...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      419. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be reached on a medical card review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in view of the fact that this review has been...
    • Rare Diseases Strategy Implementation
      420. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the implementation of the recommendations contained in the National Rare Disease Plan for Ireland 2014-2018; and the number of...
    • Medical Card Applications
      421. To ask the Minister for Health if a full medical card will be approved as a matter of urgency in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny based on the medical evidence...
    • Health Services Provision
      422. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided to deliver the appropriate health care plan in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow as a matter of urgency; if...
    • Hospital Procedures
      423. To ask the Minister for Health the number of elective surgeries that were performed at University Hospital Waterford in January 2015; the number of those scheduled surgeries that were...
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      424. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce free cancer screening programmes for men; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4482/15]
    • Hospital Staff Data
      425. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full time-part time MRI radiographers that are employed at the Cork University Hospital; the hours worked by these radiographers; his plans to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      426. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for the years 2007 to 2010 the total photography costs in his Department, including a list of which photographers were...
    • Carer Supports
      429. To ask the Minister for Health the availability of supports to family carers in County Louth; if the Health Service Executive currently fund in home respite care in the county; the agencies...
    • Hospital Consultants Contract
      430. To ask the Minister for Health the official policy in relation to the circumstances in which category C consultant posts should be approved both for new entrants and for doctors wishing to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      433. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a list of all external public relations firms hired by his Department and associated costs incurred from 2007 to 2010; and...
    • Health Services
      434. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in assessing a person (details supplied) in Dublin 20 for dyslexia; and when they will receive a date for their assessment [4553/15]
    • Maternity Services
      435. To ask the Minister for Health the way the extra €2 million allocation in the 2015 Health Service Executive service plan will be spent with regard to current pressures within the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      436. To ask the Minister for Health the way he proposes to reduce waiting times for breast prostheses for women who have had mastectomies; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in...
    • Abortion Legislation
      437. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who have availed of terminations under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013; the number of women who have been refused; his...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      438. 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. [4596/15]
    • Day Care Centres
      439. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the proposed day care centre for a town in County Cork (details supplied) that was originally allowed to proceed by the Health...
    • Health Services Staff
      440. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that the minimum number of agency staff are being employed by the Health Service Executive in County Meath in order that full-time staff...
    • Hospital Facilities
      441. To ask the Minister for Health if he will utilise the beds in St. Brigid's Hospital, Shaen, Portlaoise to alleviate the crisis of bed shortage in the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise,...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      442. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to instruct the Health Service Executive to commence the recruitment of at least ten permanent staff nurses at the Midland Regional...
    • Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
      443. To ask the Minister for Health his proposals to expedite orthodontic treatment waiting periods in County Longford; if his attention has been drawn to a specific case (details supplied) in...
    • National Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation
      444. To ask the Minister for Health the role his Department plays in the implementation of the objectives of the National Positive Ageing Strategy; and if he will provide in tabular form the...
    • National Lottery Funding Applications
      445. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will make a fund available for community groups to apply for grant aid to purchase and install community defibrillators; if he will pilot...
    • Open Disclosures Policy
      446. To ask the Minister for Health his disposition towards a legal duty of candour for health professionals as introduced in the neighbouring island in November 2014; his plans to introduce...
    • Motorised Transport Grant Data
      447. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update regarding the new mobility allowance scheme that was promised for persons with disabilities; when it will commence; the amount it...
    • Maternity Services
      448. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding indemnity insurance in respect of a person (details supplied); his views on this person's insurance which has been taken away; and if he...
    • Medical Card Data
      449. To ask the Minister for Health the number of taxpayers that had a medical card in 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4723/15]
    • HSE Staffing
      451. To ask the Minister for Health the amount by which staffing will increase in the accident and emergency department of Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 following the recent negotiations between...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      452. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an overview of the current provision of State-funded home help services here; his views that more State-funded home helps are needed to...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
      453. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in Dublin North East and Dublin North Central that have availed of the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • HSE Staffing
      454. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that there are five occupational therapist posts vacant in County Galway and 435 children in the early intervention services in County...
    • HSE Agency Staff Expenditure
      455. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form details of agency staff costs expended by the Health Service Executive in 2012, 2013 and 2014; the specific staff roles and...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      456. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for a cataract operation will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      457. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the services for cystic fibrosis patients; his plans in 2015-2016 for providing adequate care for these patients; and if he...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      458. To ask the Minister for Health the position in regard to a ward in a hospital (details supplied) in County Dublin; if the decision will be re-examined and the ward reopened as a matter of...
    • Hospitals Data
      459. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if a full status report will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • HSE Staffing
      460. To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate the accounting officer for the Health Service Executive as of 1 January 2015. [4786/15]
    • Obesity Strategy
      461. To ask the Minister for Health the initiatives to deal with obesity that have been taken in past ten years; the programmes or proposed programmes to deal with this problem being rolled out;...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      462. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment to see a consultant in Letterkenny General Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Proposed Legislation
      463. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to bring forward new legislation with regard to hospital groups; if there is a statutory basis for their establishment or any requirement for such;...
    • Drug Pricing Agreement
      464. To ask the Minister for Health if negotiations involving his Department, the Health Service Executive and the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association for a successor drug pricing...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
      465. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting placement under the fair deal scheme; the average waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4798/15]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      466. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in the determination of an application for the fair deal scheme in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he...
    • Respite Care Services
      467. To ask the Minister for Health if and when respite care will be arranged in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is cared for by her daughter on an ongoing basis; and...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      468. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 311 of 9 December 2014, when a reply will issue. [4810/15]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      469. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for an assessment of need in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      470. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for assessment for a hip operation will be arranged at an early date in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow as the case...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
      471. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 89 of 15 October 2014, his views on the allowable deductions under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Allowable...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      472. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the role of the arts in the health service; if there is evidence that investment in this area is worthwhile; his plans to further invest in this...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      473. To ask the Minister for Health the way the lifting of the moratorium on recruitment in the public sector will affect front-line hospital staff; the impact he envisages this measure will have...
    • Hospital Services
      475. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of arthritis services in County Mayo; if he will ensure that a full-time rheumatologist be appointed to Mayo General Hospital in...
    • Proposed Legislation
      476. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the health information Bill the consultation process that has taken place; if he will provide a list of those who have been directly involved in the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      477. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the national waiting list management protocol system with its stated waiting time of eight months as it pertains to scheduled care...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      479. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health beds available for under 18 year olds; the number of these beds used in 2014; and the mental health outpatient services available...
    • Accident and Emergency Departments
      480. To ask the Minister for Health the accident and emergency figures for Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 for 27 January 2015 and for the previous week; and the average response times for the...
    • Hospital Consultants Recruitment
      481. To ask the Minister for Health if a full-time bone marrow transplant consultant will be appointed to Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9. [4898/15]
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      482. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health posts that were approved in 2013 and still remain unfilled. [4899/15]
    • Patient Transport Provision
      483. To ask the Minister for Health if transport to and from hospitals in Dublin will be provided or paid for by his Department or the Health Service Executive in respect of a person (details...
    • Nursing Home Services
      484. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding St. Joseph's Hospital, Ardee, County Louth; the outcome of the proposed spend of the budget of €750,000; in view of the planning...
    • Health Services Data
      485. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in County Donegal with high medical needs, that is complex disabilities, life limiting diseases, and terminal illnesses. [4930/15]
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      486. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the introduction of BreastCheck for women aged 65 to 69; when the first cohort of women aged 65 will be called; when the first cohort of...
    • Health Services Data
      487. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with heart failure here; the estimated cost of treating the condition on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Residential Institutions
      488. To ask the Minister for Health the way he will address the disturbing revelations of the unacceptable and poor standards of care at certain parts of Áras Attracta, County Mayo. [4947/15]
    • HSE Complaints Procedures
      490. To ask the Minister for Health the levels of accountability that exist within the Health Service Executive nationally when members of the public write to express concern or complain about a...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      491. To ask the Minister for Health if an immediate appointment will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [4960/15]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      492. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will receive urgently needed hearing aids; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4990/15]
    • Semi-State Bodies Remuneration
      493. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of all bonus payments to chief executives of commercial semi-State agencies paid in each year from 2011 to 2014 under the remit of...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Departmental Expenditure
      494. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form for the years 2007 to 2010 the total photography costs in his Department, including a list of which...
    • National Flag
      496. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the flag over his Department's building was flown at half mast on 23 January 2015 to mark the death of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia; and...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      497. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form a list of all external public relations firms hired by his Department and associated costs incurred from...
    • International Relations
      498. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to invite his Spanish counterpart to Dublin to discuss strengthening ties between the two countries; and if he will make a...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      500. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 618 of 27 January, 2015 if he is responsible for authorising the transiting of foreign military...
    • Passport Services
      501. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the arrangements his Department has in place to identify Irish citizens living in Taiwan should the circumstances arise; the arrangements in...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Educational Qualifications
      502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if prior recognition is accepted by Bord Fáilte for chefs with apprenticeships combined with continual service and references, in place of...
    • SOLAS Training Allowance
      503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the reinstatement of the training allowance paid to persons in SOLAS-funded training programmes; and if she will make a...
    • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Provision
      504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to continue the overseas graduate programme which was operated by FÁS; if any analysis of the programme was undertaken; if so, if...
    • Education and Training Boards
      505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the situation facing education and training boards, following the 2014 local elections, who have not reconstituted their...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be provided for a new school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4401/15]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      507. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person in receipt of the back to education allowance will qualify for a Student Universal Support Ireland grant; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      508. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to replace the 30-year temporary accommodation for a special national school (details supplied) in County Dublin with a new building;...
    • Primary Online Database
      509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to defund the education of any children whose parents object to their information going on the primary online database,...
    • Data Protection
      510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the primary online database and the Data Protection Commissioner, following her statement that the Data Protection...
    • Primary Online Database
      512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that has been spent on the primary online database project since its inception; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4474/15]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form for the years 2007 to 2010 the total photography costs in her Department, including a list of which...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form a list of all external public relations firms hired by her Department and associated costs incurred from 2007...
    • School Funding
      519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide additional funding in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 20 to allow them to carry out a dyslexia assessment on...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a unit will be approved in a school (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4559/15]
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to address the anomaly which has deprived 30 or so teachers of just over €3,000 annually since the teaching...
    • Schools Building Projects Expenditure
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding her Department has spent on new school building projects in County Meath since 2011; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding her Department has spent on emergency works in County Meath since 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Teaching Qualifications
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a degree course will be recognised by the Teaching Council of Ireland for the purpose of teaching at second level (details supplied). [4617/15]
    • School Placement
      527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 21 January 2015, the manner in which this issue is being examined; the persons responsible for...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Data
      528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the details of agency staff costs incurred by her Department or its aegis in 2012, 2013 and 2014, including...
    • Schools Data
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a recent form issued by her Department to be completed by primary school students seeking information on their ethnic background...
    • State Examinations
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 will be provided with access to a scribe for their leaving certificate examination in view of the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student whose parent is a State employee earning in the region of €65,000 per year, but who is engaged in the insolvency process and...
    • Obesity Strategy
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the initiatives to deal with obesity that have been taken in the past ten years; the programmes or proposed programmes to deal with this problem...
    • School Funding
      534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding invested by her Department in schools in County Cork, broken down by year between 2011 and 2014, and by primary and...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      536. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review the measures taken with regard to teachers' allowances as outlined in her Department's Circular 70/2011. [4802/15]
    • School Transport Eligibility
      539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions her Department has in place for providing transport for students with disabilities who wish to attend the North West Regional...
    • School Funding
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a funding applications in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry [4871/15]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Laois who is in receipt of one parent family payment will be approved for a SUSI grant for a third level...
    • School Playgrounds
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is open to schools to apply for one off funding for developing a play space facility; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4896/15]
    • Primary Online Database
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department is developing a primary online database; the reason her Department is seeking to collect data in relation to the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make arrangements for a meeting between her Department's building unit and a delegation from a school (details supplied) in County...
    • School Accommodation
      545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will liaise with the Office of Public Works in order to have temporary premises in place for the summer in respect of a school (details...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a tender will be allocated in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 8; when the broadband speed will be updated and improved;...
    • School Funding
      547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial support received from the Department for the development of sports facilities at a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath....
    • Schools Amalgamation
      548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application by schools (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4963/15]
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the honours degree allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4992/15]
    • Departmental Programmes
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the evaluation of Springboard; if the evaluation reports are made available; if she will report on the group charged with...
    • Schools Building Contractors
      551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to parliamentary Question No. 508 of 20 January 2015, if the annual number of school build programme direct jobs created she has supplied...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Water Conservation Grant
      552. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the €100 water conservation grant will be backdated to assist persons with water charges to cover the period...
    • Water Charges Administration
      553. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has estimated the level of non-payment of water charges that would result in expenditure in Irish Water...
    • Leader Programmes Administration
      554. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when rural development plan funding will be open for applications, following the reconfiguration of Leader groups. [4580/15]
    • Foreshore Licence Applications
      556. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has authorised by way of foreshore licence or by other means the removal of sand from the tidal part of the Akeragh...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      558. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the exact circumstances in which a homeowner can have their property remediated when their home deteriorates from a damage...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      559. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when an allocation for funding to local authorities for social housing will be approved; the overall estimate for this...
    • Political Funding
      561. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason political party units are not permitted from opening an account in a credit union; and if he will make a...
    • Waste Management
      562. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a new waste regulator to help bring down costs for consumers; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
      563. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide update on the implementation of the tenant purchase scheme; if he will provide a list of all local...
    • Waste Disposal
      564. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the proposals his Department have with regard to putting a levy on the end of life tyres; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Private Partnerships Data
      565. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the role of elected officials in a public-private partnership project between a local authority and a private company,...
    • Arts Funding
      566. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the requirements for the provision of art work under the per cent art scheme whereby the public partner in the PPP is a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      567. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form for the years 2007 to 2010 the total photography costs in his Department, including a...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      569. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form a list of all external public relations firms hired by his Department and associated...
    • Legislative Measures
      570. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will sign off on legislation or statutory instrument, further to and inclusive of the Housing (Miscellaneous...
    • National Volunteering Strategy
      571. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has developed a national volunteering strategy; when this strategy will be implemented; the content of...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      572. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his future plans for the seniors alert scheme; if his Department plans to continue administering the scheme; if the value...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      573. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update regarding the refurbishment work due to be undertaken in an area (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • Election Management System
      574. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify the position regarding Northern Ireland holders of Irish passports and entitlements to vote in...
    • Local Authority Staff Data
      575. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form by local authority such as service area housing, planning and so on, the number of...
    • Foreshore Licence Applications
      576. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that a foreshore licence application (details supplied) has remained in the Chief State Solicitor's...
    • Arts Funding
      577. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will take into account the importance of the role of the arts in rural communities when allocating future Leader...
    • Waste Management Expenditure
      578. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps that have been taken to tackle the increasing cost of waste disposal in County Sligo; and his views on restoring...
    • Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls
      579. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if consideration has been given to the introduction of some form of rent control; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Data
      580. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of units that are currently under the rental accommodation scheme in County Meath; and if he will make a...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Expenditure
      583. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the details of the 24 orders for reduced costs for persons on foot of findings of non-co-operation made...
    • Proposed Legislation
      584. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation to protect the rights of residents in mobile home parks; if his attention has been...
    • Local Authority Charges Application
      585. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the plans by Limerick council to place a charge on local authority tenants to cover the...
    • Air Quality
      587. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on his Department's plans on implementing the decision of the Government to ban the sale of...
    • Local Authority Housing Data
      588. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the large number of vacant local authority houses which have been lying idle in south...
    • Private Rented Accommodation Standards
      589. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation to rescind the former Minister, John Gormley's legislation to ban bedsits, as this act...
    • Semi-State Bodies Remuneration
      590. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of all bonus payments to chief executives of commercial semi-State agencies paid in each year...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Inland Fisheries Stocks
      591. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of sea trout and salmon recorded as being caught on the river Maine and Brown Flesk for the year January 2014-...
    • Energy Policy
      592. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report on the review of energy options for the State with the inclusion of nuclear power. [4383/15]
    • Renewable Energy Generation
      593. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the Pathways to Power report January 2015 compiled by the WWF and international marine...
    • Broadcasting Sector Regulation
      594. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a definition of public service broadcasting as it applies to the distribution of funds from the...
    • Television Licence Fee Collection
      595. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of persons currently employed in the role of television licence inspector in each county; and the total number...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      596. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form for the years 2007 to 2010, the total photography costs in his Department, including a...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      598. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form a list of all external public relations firms hired by his Department and associated...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      599. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans for extending high quality broadband to an area (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • North-South Interconnector
      600. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason EirGrid has not consulted with the communities affected by the North-South interconnector regarding specific...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      603. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department has considered the use of anaerobic digestion technology as an energy source here; and if he will make...
    • Commission for Energy Regulation
      604. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of recent strong criticism of the performance of the Commission for Energy Regulation in relation to CER’s...
    • Energy Regulation
      605. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the role the Commission on Energy Regulation has in the regulation of oil, petrol and diesel prices in the Irish economy;...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      606. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress to date in the identification of areas within the constituency of Louth where commercial operators will not...
    • Energy Prices
      607. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if an economic division exists in his Department; if so, the extent to which comparisons continue to be made between...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      608. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of areas in counties Longford and Westmeath that will require State...
    • Semi-State Bodies Remuneration
      609. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a list of all bonus payments made to chief executives of commercial semi-State agencies under the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Roads Maintenance
      610. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Car Test
      611. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the national car test cannot be facilitated at present in an area (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Motor Insurance Premiums
      612. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the rising rates of car insurance premiums due to the increase in the number of road traffic...
    • Roadworthiness Testing
      613. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the owner of a vehicle (details supplied) has been asked to present for a DOE test only a few months after their previous...
    • Aer Lingus Sale
      614. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views confirming that the current 25.1% State shareholding in Aer Lingus prevents the airline from disposing of any of the Heathrow...
    • Road Projects Status
      615. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will retain and reallocate the funding for the N86 Tralee to Dingle road in County Kerry following the resolution of the current...
    • Road Projects
      616. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans for increasing the M7 to three lanes at Naas, County Kildare; his views that such an investment would improve the...
    • Taxi Regulations
      617. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a report on the number of taxi licence holders who have returned the S15 form, which relates to the inheritance of a...
    • Road Projects
      618. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Roads Authority has received a traffic management plan from Meath County Council for Slane; and if he will make a...
    • Aviation Policy
      620. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the finalisation of the national aviation policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4445/15]
    • Public Service Obligation Services
      621. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost to the Exchequer of the PSO route between County Kerry and Dublin for 2012, 2013 and 2014. [4446/15]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      622. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide, in tabular form for the years 2007 to 2010, the total photography costs in his Department, including a list of which...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      624. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form a list of all external public relations firms hired by his Department and associated costs incurred...
    • Rail Services
      625. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding Iarnród Éireann's plans to improve audio announcements on the DART; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Sports Capital Programme Data
      626. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the number of all weather pitches that have received funding over the past five years from the sports...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      627. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the points system used in deciding on sports capital grants schemes and the placing on the list of successful-unsuccessful applicants;...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      628. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the frequency that the sports capital grant applicants are sanctioned for moneys that have been returned to his Department by groups who...
    • Traffic Management
      629. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of heavy goods vehicle and non-heavy goods vehicle traffic in respect of each of the following toll roads...
    • Rail Services
      630. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the Irish Rail proposal to connect Dublin Airport to Cork and Galway by rail; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Transport Provision
      631. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update regarding proposals to provide a new public transport connection between Dublin Airport and Dublin city...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Data
      632. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the details of agency staff costs incurred by his Department or its aegis in 2012, 2013 and 2014,...
    • Road Projects
      633. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reactivate the M20 Cork-Limerick motorway project; and if there is work being done on this project at present. [4767/15]
    • Public Transport Provision
      634. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the tendering out process of Dublin Bus orbital routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4364/15]
    • Sports Capital Programme Eligibility
      635. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the sports grant scheme is available to a scout troop; if not, the equivalent capital grant system that is in place to assist the work...
    • Tourism Promotion
      636. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason CIE Tours International is selling tours to the UK from the US; the way the company is managing its foreign exchange risk if...
    • Air Navigation Orders
      637. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria or conditions on which munitions permits are granted to civilian aircraft carrying foreign troops under Air Navigation...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      638. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the condition of the surface of a street (details supplied) in County Kerry will be improved; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Safety
      639. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe involved for the consultation process regarding the requirements for testing classic and vintage vehicles; his views on...
    • Sporting Events
      640. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he continues to liaise with the various national and international sporting bodies with a view to attracting events...
    • Aer Lingus Sale
      642. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he continues to recognise the pivotal importance of the need to ensure continued and reliable air service in and out...
    • Transport Infrastructure
      643. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which road, rail, air and sea transport facilities continue to be measured in the context of overall integration with...
    • Public Transport Provision
      644. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which community rail services are available to the majority of towns and villages throughout the country, the residents of...
    • Road Projects Status
      646. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he expects to be in a position to provide the necessary funding for the commencement of works in respect of the...
    • Tourism Employment
      647. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which he expects employment in the tourism sector to increase worldwide in the future; the likely economic benefit to this...
    • Regional Airports
      648. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that adequate focus remains on the need to ensure the future of regional airports in the context of a modern economy;...
    • Tourism Promotion
      649. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which Ireland is marketed abroad as a business conference centre and having particular regard to the economic need of all...
    • Regional Airports
      650. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the degree to which he sees opportunities to advance the possible development of air transport hubs around some of our regional airports;...
    • Road Safety
      651. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which well-known and identifiable accident black spots remain an issue throughout the country; the extent to which efforts...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Inland Waterways Development
      652. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in view of the proposed Waterways Ireland canal by-laws, when she will make a final decision on the proposed new by-laws; if she will...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      653. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide in tabular form for the years 2007 to 2010 the total photography costs in her Department, including a list of...
    • Special Protection Areas Designation
      656. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the plight of farmers whose lands have been designated as special protection areas...
    • Commemorative Events
      657. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the studies available within her Department to identify Famine graves as they are dispersed across the country; if a register of...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Payments
      659. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a person (details supplied) in County Longford will be issued with a compensation payment under the cessation of turf cutting...
    • State Properties
      660. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 15 January 2015, if any property is owned by Údarás na Gaeltachta in the...
    • Departmental Funding
      661. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding she plans to provide to counties Longford and Westmeath for the preservation of protected structures; and if she will...
    • National Monuments
      662. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding the proposal to purchase the Moat of Granard (details supplied); when this project will proceed; and if she...
    • Hedge Cutting Season
      663. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on extending the hedge cutting season from 1 March 2015 to 15 March 2015 as much of the ground was impassable during the...
    • Special Areas of Conservation Management
      664. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a copy of any appropriate assessment and opinion issued by the National Parks and Wildlife Service on the plan to...
    • Arts Plan
      665. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for amending, or revisiting the Arts Act 2003; if she will review its operation in consultation with the arts community;...
    • Arts Funding
      669. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, in view of improving budgetary conditions, she will increase funding to the arts in the coming years; if there is long-term plan...
    • Arts in Education Charter
      670. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will review the Arts and Education Charter as artists have suggested it is weak and under used; her views on strengthening the...
    • Arts Promotion
      673. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the role of Culture Ireland promoting the arts internationally; her further views on the sustainability of Culture...
    • Arts Funding
      675. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the sources of funding available to a festival (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cultural Policy
      676. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way the name for the new centre at Teach an Phiarsigh in Ros Muc, Connemara, County Galway, was chosen; and if it would be more...

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