Written answers

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child Care Costs
      130. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the Central Statistics Office figures, showing a rise in the cost of child care in 2014; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Child Care Services Funding
      131. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the adequacy of the capitation grant, for the providers of the free pre-school year; and his further views, that the current...
    • Child Care Services Regulation
      132. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the new childcare regulations will revise the standards, with regard to paediatric first aid; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Child Care Costs
      133. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the cost of child care in counties Kildare and Meath, and similar high-pressure commuter...
    • Preschool Services
      135. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a second full free preschool year for all children in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Responsibilities
      136. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his responsibilities in the area of child mental health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7756/15]
    • Early Child Care Education
      137. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of consultation with the Department of Education and Skills and-or the Department of Health, on necessary supports for children...
    • Direct Provision Data
      138. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the infant mortality rate of children in direct provision, where, according to the Department of Justice and Equality figures,...
    • Child and Family Agency Expenditure
      139. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to provide funding for domestic abuse services, on the basis of population; and the way this will impact in County Laois. [7692/15]
    • Bullying of Children
      140. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the ongoing measures in operation to protect children or teenagers from bullying outside the classroom; if adequate provisions are in place...
    • Legislative Measures
      141. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to revise section 88 of the Children Act 2001 which relates to detention on remand, in view of the reply to Parliamentary...
    • Youth Services Expenditure
      142. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total funding, in each scheme, provided in 2014, under his Department’s youth services grant scheme, to special projects for...
    • Preschool Services
      143. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will report on consideration being given to extending the free year of preschool education; if this will involve extending the daily...
    • Children in Care
      144. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to combat the poor oversight in some State-run care homes, where the use of drugs, and daily anti-social behaviour, has become...
    • School Completion Programme
      145. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans for funding the school completion programme 2015. [7759/15]
    • Child Care Services Funding
      146. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will increase the capitation fee payable under the early childhood care and education scheme, to the level required to provide the...
    • Child Protection
      147. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which the welfare and well-being of children is adequately protected, in all circumstances and situations, throughout the...
    • Child and Family Agency Staff
      148. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of the high turnover of social workers employed by Túsla, the Child and Family Agency, in view of the fact...
    • Child Care Costs
      149. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the findings of the Think-tank for Action on Social Change report, which sees Ireland second in the European Union, when it...
    • National Youth Strategy
      150. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress that has been made by his Department regarding the development of a youth policy framework; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Legislative Measures
      151. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if all sections of the Youth Work Act 2001 have now been commenced; if the reviews of the Act, and the National Youth Work Development...
    • Child Care Services Regulation
      152. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to publish the revised child care regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7698/15]
    • Child Care Services Funding
      153. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a capitation grant for all children in child care, until they are eligible to attend primary school; and if he will make...
    • Aftercare Services
      154. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update on the resources being made available for aftercare services for children and young persons leaving State...
    • School Completion Programme
      155. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a detailed update on the review of the school completion programme, which has been in operation since 2002; and the...
    • Youth Services Funding
      156. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans for greater investment in community youth clubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7748/15]
    • Care Orders
      157. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on care orders; and the steps that are open to parents, when they are dissatisfied with the manner in which Tusla, the Child and...
    • Child Care Services Expenditure
      158. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the findings by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development that Ireland's investment in child care is one of the...
    • Youth Justice Strategy
      159. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is satisfied that detention for children is used, only in cases of last resort, as mandated in the Youth Justice Action Plan 2014...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      160. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there will be a separate and distinct module for those of mixed race, as part of the mother and baby homes inquiry, that is explicitly...
    • Child Care Services Funding
      161. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide the minimum salary levels for employees of child care providers, who are in receipt of the capitation fee, in view of...
    • Child Care Qualifications
      162. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of engagement between his Department and the Department of Education and Skills, in establishing greater professional...
    • National Carers Strategy
      163. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his assessment of the level of support that is currently available for young carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7749/15]
    • Child and Family Agency Expenditure
      164. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will address the funding crisis affecting domestic abuse services, including the County Laois domestic abuse service. [7691/15]
    • Ombudsman for Children Remit
      165. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to extend the power of the Ombudsman for Children, including areas actively under consideration, and a timeframe for delivery, in...
    • Child Poverty
      166. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures taken to tackle the rise of child poverty as outlined in the report of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (details...
    • School Completion Programme
      167. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his priorities for the school completion programme 2015. [7760/15]
    • Early Years Strategy Implementation
      168. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will extend eligibility for the existing learner fund to all child care staff, in order to enable all staff to access third level...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Census of Population Data (1 comment)
      169. To ask the Taoiseach the population changes in the Ballymun area, Dublin, from 1997 to date in 2015. [7726/15]
    • Economic Management Council Meetings
      171. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of dates the Economic Management Council has met with the banks operating here; if he will provide the issues discussed at each meeting. [7939/15]
    • Departmental Communications
      172. To ask the Taoiseach if he is implementing a plain English policy, as outlined by the National Adult Literacy Agency, in his Department's communications; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Unemployment Data
      173. To ask the Taoiseach the current unemployment rate in County Kerry; and the rate for each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7513/15]
    • Security Checks
      175. To ask the Taoiseach if he or any predecessor in office has ever received a report from the complaints referee appointed under section 9 of the Interception of Postal Packets and...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Community Employment Drug Rehabilitation Projects
      176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of nationwide 47 dedicated community employment drug schemes that are operating at full capacity; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • One-Parent Family Payments
      181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of the rates of lone parents' allowances for the years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. [7728/15]
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views that long-term family carers are not eligible for the contributory State pension (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on...
    • Respite Care Grant Payments
      183. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be given to increasing the respite care grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7821/15]
    • Health and Safety
      184. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the concerns of staff in her Department of exposure to asbestos due to renovation works at the offices at High Road, Letterkenny,...
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      185. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the opportunities available for persons who have completed their three year participation in a community employment scheme, especially those who are...
    • Further Education and Training Programmes Funding
      186. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the funding available from the case officers in the Intreo offices for all courses, for example, fork-lift training, Further Education and Training...
    • Further Education and Training Programmes Provision
      187. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is a training scheme or allowance available in respect of a person with a disability (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if she will make a...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      188. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal for a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • One-Parent Family Payments
      190. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 11 of 5 February 2015, when she will conclude her deliberations on lone parents who are affected by a...
    • Social Welfare Code
      191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are persons still in receipt of dual social welfare payments; if so, if she will provide a breakdown of which payments; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      192. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision will be expedited on an appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, in view of the fact that the oral hearing...
    • Child Benefit Eligibility
      193. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding payment of child benefit and a one-parent family allowance, and any arrears accruing therefrom, in the case of a person...
    • One-Parent Family Payments
      194. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of persons in receipt of one-parent family payments in 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015; the...
    • Local Employment Service
      195. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when adequate funding services will be made available to County Kildare Local Employment Service Network Limited, for the purpose of...
    • Departmental Customer Charters
      196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of each step of the internal processes in her Department that take place, when a person wishes to make, and escalate, a...
    • Pension Provisions
      197. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding compensation payment to former staff of a company (details supplied) in respect of their pension scheme; when payments will...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      200. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the income a parent receives for the domiciliary care allowance in respect of the extra costs incurred for a child because of their special...
    • Free Travel Scheme Eligibility
      201. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the free travel companion pass for visually impaired children is not widened to include children with other physical or intellectual...
    • Disability Activation Projects
      204. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the outstanding performance of the disability activation project also know as Project DAWN in the Roscommon Disability Support Group DALE...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Applications
      205. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if particular family circumstances will be taken into consideration when considering the application for an exceptional needs payment to discharge...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      207. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she deems it acceptable that a 23 year old, living with their parents, may be limited to a payment of €100 per week, under the age-related...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      208. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the full extent of entitlement to a disability allowance-invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • Registration of Births
      209. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the information that is recorded on a person's birth certificate; and if it includes the mother's date of birth. [8129/15]
    • Community Development Projects
      210. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason her Department has ceased funding a community arts project (details supplied) in Dublin11; and if she will review this decision in view...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit
      211. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 559 of 10 February 2015, if she will investigate the situation whereby school secretaries have to sign-on...
    • Departmental Staff Relocation
      213. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) who has mobility difficulties and who has requested, on a medical consultant's...
    • Community Employment Schemes Review
      215. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that her Department is currently reviewing the contractual arrangements between community employment supervisors and their...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      217. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Applications
      218. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of maintenance recovery cases which are outstanding; the number of children involved; the corresponding figures for those making such...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      219. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a domiciliary care allowance and a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • State Pensions Payments
      220. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of the over-80s allowance; the cost of this in 2014; the number of State pension recipients who currently...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      221. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff
      222. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the proposal to require all public sector workers under the aegis of her Department who interface with service users to wear a name...
  • Department of Finance
    • Company Registration
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a comprehensive list of all multinational companies that have their headquarters here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8124/15]
    • Budget Consultation Process
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to further reform the budgetary process; and if he is considering establishing an Oireachtas budgetary oversight office or budgetary scrutiny...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of regulations relating to engine cc numbers for cars which are allowed for drivers who have undergone amputation; if there is an...
    • Tax Collection
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance the criteria used by the Revenue Commissioners, before calling in the sheriff, to pursue taxes owing. [7704/15]
    • Credit Unions
      227. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to create a third force in Irish banking, using the credit union network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7734/15]
    • Property Tax Exemptions
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to providing a property tax exemption to households where a high level of care is required; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Code
      229. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax implications for a parent, who wishes to financially assist their child with mortgage repayments, where the mortgage is half-paid but the child is...
    • Fuel Laundering
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cases of reported petrol stretching the Revenue Commissioners have detected, or received, since January 2014; the number of these cases that are...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to assist those who invested their pension fund with a company (details supplied) and whose fund was misappropriated, leaving them without any...
    • Tax Credits
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a tax allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7937/15]
    • Income Inequality
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address the income inequalities here, as outlined in the report of the Think-tank for Action on Social Change, launched on 16 February 2015. [7949/15]
    • Banking Operations
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the frustration among the public and business community that automated teller machines (ATMs) in the State are often not...
    • Revenue Commissioners Resources
      238. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to provide funding to the Revenue Commissioners for the purchase of additional mobile X-ray vans; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Rebates
      239. To ask the Minister for Finance if a refund of income tax will be granted to a person outside of the normal four-year rule, if the overpayment of tax arises due to an error on the part of...
    • Revenue Commissioners Investigations
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in respect of that person's employment. [7999/15]
    • National Pensions Reserve Fund Investments
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in detail, all the spending and investments from the National Pensions Reserve Fund's discretionary portfolio; including the Ireland...
    • Fuel Laundering
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of lost revenue to the State by diesel laundering over each of the past five years; the number of cases successfully prosecuted of those involved...
    • Fuel Rebate Scheme
      243. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details suppled) regarding a fuel rebate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8100/15]
    • Fiscal Policy
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had discussions with the European Commission regarding the expenditure benchmark, and its application to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Stability and Growth Pact
      245. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Budget Statement 2016 will be drafted with full regard to the expenditure benchmark; and further to Parliamentary Question No. 43 of 3 December 2014,...
    • Tax Credits
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance if an application for single person child care credit will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, in view of the fact that...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      247. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on concerns at the current levels of home mortgage variable interest rates being charged by the pillar and other banks, especially in view of the...
    • Tax Code
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners treat payments to Reserve Defence Force Army Reserve/Naval Service Reserve volunteers the same as payments to employees, meaning...
    • Departmental Staff
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the proposal to require all public sector workers under the aegis of his Department who interface with service users to wear a name badge; and if...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address a serious flooding risk at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a permit and a competition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7883/15]
    • Freedom of Information Remit
      257. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when an An Garda Síochána will be in a position to accept requests under the Freedom of Information Acts; and if he will make...
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the former Castletownshend Garda station, County Cork [8069/15]
    • Departmental Staff
      260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the proposal to require all public sector workers under the aegis of his Department who interface with service users to...
    • Sick Leave Entitlement
      261. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way persons with a critical illness can avail of sick leave, if they have used up all of their sick leave entitlement in one year,...
    • International Agreements
      263. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No.241 of 17 February 2015, if, and the way, Ireland's treaty obligation to ensure progressive...
    • Ministerial Pensions
      266. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, a list of the annual pension payments to former Ministers and taoisigh, following the Haddington...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Equality Tribunal Cases
      267. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is satisfied with the manner in which the Equality Tribunal conducts itself and deals with cases that are brought to its...
    • Carer's Benefit Eligibility
      269. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he will take to make employees aware of their entitlement to carer's benefit and carer's leave; and if he will make a...
    • Workplace Relations Services
      270. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if consideration will be provided to implementing an initiative, similar to the Carer Positive initiative in Scotland, which...
    • Tax Code
      271. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in respect of that person's employment....
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      272. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding Drogheda in County Louth with respect to the recently announced jobs strategy; the reason Drogheda, which is...
    • International Bodies Membership
      273. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there has been any movement towards Ireland joining the CERN project; and the amount this would cost the Exchequer. [8212/15]
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Coillte Teoranta Lands
      274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of Coillte Teoranta being issued last week with an urgent enforcement notice by Roscommon County Council requiring it to...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding 2014 payments due in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Harbours and Piers Funding
      276. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when funding will be provided for the completion of the breakwater at Greencastle, County Donegal. [7670/15]
    • Installation Aid Scheme Eligibility
      277. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures he has put in place to support old young farmers who missed out on the installation grant in 2008 and, in view of the...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
      278. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on an appeal in respect of the agri-environment options...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      279. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when single farm payments will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      280. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when area based payments for 2013 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Milk Quota
      281. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has received an application for a special allocation of milk quota, due to a non-notifiable disease outbreak, in...
    • Agriculture Schemes Appeals
      282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of appeals processed by the Agriculture Appeals Office in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7798/15]
    • Legislative Measures
      289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to review the legislation on tree-felling, in view of recent court decisions on personal injury awards; and if he will make...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      290. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a payment due to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, under the agri-environment option scheme, has issued in full....
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      291. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on an agri-environment options scheme and sheep technology adoption programme scheme in respect of a...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update regarding the action his Department is taking to fill vacant properties on Howth pier, County Dublin,...
    • Tourism Promotion
      293. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has held any meetings with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding opportunities to promote, and increase,...
    • Harbours and Piers
      294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the main findings of the most recent annual Howth Harbour users' forum undertaken by his Department; and if he will make a statement...
    • EU Directives
      295. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has sought the advice of the Attorney General on the constitutionality of his actions to comply with hen harrier designation,...
    • Harbours and Piers
      296. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the Howth public realm assessment currently being undertaken by Fingal County Council, and its aim...
    • Trade Missions
      297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the work of his Department to open new markets for Irish food products since 2011; the progress which has been...
    • Agriculture Schemes Eligibility
      299. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will expedite verification of land eligibility, by means of a field inspection, in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • GLAS Establishment
      300. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme; when the scheme will be open for applications; and if...
    • Grassland Sheep Scheme Payments
      301. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a payment under the grassland sheep scheme due in 2014 will be paid without further delay in respect of a person (details...
    • Departmental Staff
      303. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views that it is appropriate that officers of his Department, who have already carried out inspections on a number of...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      304. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason some of the agri-environment options scheme 2 payments for 2014, in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo,...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      306. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason penalties on single farm payments were imposed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he...
    • Sheep Technology Adoption Programme Payments
      307. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • TAMS Eligibility
      308. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the points system, relating to the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, closed on 31 December 2013; and if he will make a...
    • TAMS Data
      309. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the points system was used for the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, and the number of applicants who were rejected; and...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Reserve
      310. To ask the Minister for Defence if there are allowances, stipends or benefits-in-kind, generally treated like wages, for the membership of the Reserve Defence Force; and if he will make a...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      311. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to sanction additional recruitment for the Army in 2015. [8106/15]
    • Air Corps
      312. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will explain the number of routine flights over the greater Clondalkin area from Baldonnel; his views on the necessity of these flights, with due regard...
    • Defence Forces Reserve Training
      313. To ask the Minister for Defence the conditions necessary to qualify for a period of paid training; the way time-in-attendance for unpaid training, including voluntary unpaid training, is...
    • Departmental Staff
      314. To ask the Minister for Defence his views on the proposal to require all public sector workers under the aegis of his Department who interface with service users to wear a name badge; and if...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Family Reunification Data
      315. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 20 January 2015, if she will provide a breakdown of the reasons provided for spouses or civil...
    • Naturalisation Certificates
      319. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will reduce the application fee or the fee for a certificate of naturalisation to enable greater access to citizenship to those unable to...
    • Garda Operations
      321. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will assign additional resources to the Tallaght Garda station to allow for effective action to be taken, in respect of crime in...
    • Fuel Laundering
      322. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of suspected petrol stretching cases the Garda is currently investigating; the number of these cases that are in counties Longford and...
    • Firearms Licences
      323. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update concerning firearms (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7853/15]
    • Garda Deployment
      324. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the number of gardaí assigned to each divisional drug unit for 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015. [7868/15]
    • Drugs Crime
      325. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her responsibilities in the area of addressing the misuse of drugs here; the number of staff that are assigned in her Department for tackling the...
    • Garda Reserve
      328. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date extra powers in the area of public order will be granted to attested members of the Garda Síochána Reserve; and if she will...
    • Visa Applications
      329. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will examine a stamp 4 application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Criminal Prosecutions Data
      330. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who have been prosecuted to date for abuse of elders under the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Persons Act 1997. [7946/15]
    • Garda Transport Data
      332. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of marked and unmarked vehicles attached to the Garda technical bureau, that were withdrawn from the fleet in the years 2012, 2013 and...
    • Stardust Fire
      333. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on correspondence (details supplied) concerning new evidence on the Stardust fire tragedy; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Missing Persons
      334. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding missing persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8055/15]
    • Constitutional Convention Recommendations
      336. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which she received the report from the Attorney General-led working group which has, for the past two years, been studying the...
    • Firearms Licences
      337. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding gun licences; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8064/15]
    • Asylum Applications
      338. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 357 of 10 February 2015, the timeframe to assess an application for asylum or subsidiary protection; if...
    • Departmental Staff Careers
      339. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason an assessment by managers is required as part of the internal higher executive officer competition but is not required for the...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      340. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8123/15]
    • Residency Permits
      341. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress, to date, in respect of entitlement to remain here, under section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999, in the case of persons (details...
    • Charities Regulation
      343. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Charities Regulatory Authority is inviting applications from schools and other education bodies; if guidance on the registration process...
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      344. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way the Child and Family Relationships Bill 2013 will deal with couples who have a child by assisted human reproduction, which was carried...
    • Court Accommodation Provision
      345. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an outline of the projects undertaken, thus far, as part of the strategic courts project, under the Government infrastructure...
    • Stardust Fire
      347. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the Knox investigations into the Stardust tragedy; if she accepts that the information unearthed, which was previously not in the...
    • Garda Disciplinary Proceedings
      348. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 325 of 23 October 2014, in relation to gardaí suspended from duty in 2014, the types of activity for...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission
      350. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details of any meetings she had with the former chairman of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (details...
    • Bankruptcy Applications
      351. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied with the current numbers seeking bankruptcy under the new legislation; her future plans to review the three-year term for...
    • Garda Deployment
      352. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for the deployment of the newly trained gardaí graduating from Templemore, County Tipperary; if such deployments will seek to...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Home Schooling
      353. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position in regard to his Department's guidelines for children's home schooling for two days a week, while they attend school for the...
    • Homeless Accommodation Provision
      354. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the care plans that are being put in place by the relevant authorities for dealing with homeless families with children that are housed in...
    • Child Care Services Funding
      355. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is satisfied with the current level of Government investment in child care; his views that this investment is one of the lowest in...
    • Child Care Costs
      357. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the current cost of child care for families where both parents are working; his views on child care costs becoming tax...
    • National Carers Strategy
      358. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the support that is available for young carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7815/15]
    • Child Care Costs
      359. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs regarding child care costs, his plans to provide any or extra financial relief to families, who pay extortionate amounts for their child...
    • Youth Services Funding
      360. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total funding, in each scheme, provided in 2014, under his Department's youth services grant scheme, special projects for youth scheme,...
    • Ombudsman for Children Remit
      361. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Ombudsman for Children will be empowered to investigate complaints by the 1,200 children who live in direct provision; and if he...
    • Aftercare Services
      362. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding provision of aftercare for young persons leaving residential child care and their legal rights to same; and if he...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      363. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding negotiations between the Adoption Authority of Ireland and the Russian authorities in respect of the bilateral...
    • Adoption Records Provision
      364. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the mother's date of birth would ordinarily have been recorded on her file when she was placing her child for adoption; and if, for this...
    • Bullying of Children
      365. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which his Department continues to address issues of bullying among teenagers or young adults outside of the classroom; if a...
    • Departmental Liaisons
      366. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which his Department maintains regular contact with groups, bodies or agencies involved in the support of children, with...
    • Youth Services
      368. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which his Department supports youth service programmes throughout the country, with a view to ensuring the availability to...
    • Suicide Prevention
      369. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which his Department remains in contact with, and supportive of, statutory and voluntary agencies providing counselling and...
    • Direct Provision System
      370. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which his Department monitors the well-being of children in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Children in Care
      372. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which children in care, of all ages, continue to receive adequate support and supervision, with particular reference to those...
    • Child Poverty
      373. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which the issue of child poverty continues to be monitored by his Department, with particular reference to the need to...
    • Child Protection
      374. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which his Department continues to monitor such areas, as possible child pornography, with particular reference to ensuring...
    • Youth Services Funding
      375. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which he expects to be in a position to continue support for Kildare Youth Services, in line with increased demands and...
    • Juvenile Offenders
      376. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which he continues to monitor the need for rehabilitative support for child or juvenile offenders, with particular reference...
  • Department of Health
    • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
      377. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allocate responsibility for the national drugs strategy to an existing Minister of State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7647/15]
    • Tobacco Control Measures
      378. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland has officially responded to the objections from ten member states to the plain packaging Bill as it is obliged to do so under the EU transparency...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      380. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which child psychiatric services remain adequate to meet modern challenges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8283/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      381. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive an orthopaedic appointment; if the person's case has been listed as urgent; and if he will...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
      382. To ask the Minister for Health the number of fair deal beds available in the north-east region. [7649/15]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Expenditure
      392. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocated for the fair deal scheme across the State since 2009. [7659/15]
    • Primary Care Reimbursement Service Payments
      394. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners who have been subject to the removal of the rural practice allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7661/15]
    • Cancer Screening Programmes
      396. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of patients referred to Letterkenny General Hospital from BreastCheck in County Donegal for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014. [7664/15]
    • Hospital Procedures
      397. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of breast cancer-related surgeries carried out in Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal in the years 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014....
    • Hospital Staff
      398. To ask the Minister for Health the cross-Border options that have been examined to enable the appointment of a second breast cancer surgeon at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal,...
    • Hospital Consultants Recruitment
      399. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to ensure a permanent consultant urologist is appointed to Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal as soon as possible; and if...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      400. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application under the fair deal scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      401. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of public and voluntary hospitals that have single or common waiting lists, a combination of public and private...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      402. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment for a hip replacement surgery in Saint James's Hospital in Dublin 8 will be arranged as soon as possible in respect of a person (details...
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      403. To ask the Minister for Health the reason cancer patients who attend public hospitals for treatment have their intravenous treatment undertaken free of charge whereas patients who are on the...
    • Orthodontic Service Provision
      404. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding orthodontic treatment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7705/15]
    • Nursing Home Repayment Scheme
      405. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding nursing home payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7722/15]
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      406. 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. [7723/15]
    • Hospital Transfers
      407. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a transfer request in respect of a person (details supplied). [7735/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      409. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Services
      410. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made with regard to the reconfiguration of gynaecology services in County Cork; the locations where public gynaecology services are now provided;...
    • National Carers Strategy Implementation
      412. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update regarding the implementation of the national carers strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7809/15]
    • Mental Health Act Review
      414. To ask the Minister for Health if the Mental Health Act will be amended to require health professionals to involve the carers of mental health patients in their treatment; and if he will...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      415. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update regarding the introduction of community mental health teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7812/15]
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      416. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 428 of 16 December 2014 (details supplied), if he will open the two beds in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin,...
    • Hospital Services
      418. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a computed tomography, CT, scan at University Hospital Waterford; the number of persons that have been waiting for a scan in...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      419. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite final approval for a fair deal nursing home support scheme application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      420. To ask the Minister for Health if a required shower seat can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7828/15]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      421. 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, following a further referral from that person's...
    • Medical Card Applications
      422. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
      423. To ask the Minister for Health when he last chaired a meeting of the Oversight Forum on Drugs; the number of times it has met in 2015; the number of times it met in 2014; and if he will make...
    • Environmental Health Issues
      424. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has any function, or role, from a public health point of view, in relation to rats, rodents and infestation in persons' houses,...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      425. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the treatment abroad scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
      426. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, an update on the implementation of each of the 63 actions in the 2009 to 2016 National Drugs Strategy; and if he will make...
    • Local Drugs Task Forces Funding
      428. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the funding provided each year, since 2010, to each of the local and regional drugs task forces. [7862/15]
    • HIQA Remit
      429. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take immediate action, and amend legislation to allow the Health Information Quality Authority to investigate individual complaints within...
    • General Practitioner Services
      430. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the number of general practitioners in practice in each of the counties, Cavan, Monaghan, Louth and Meath; the number of these, by...
    • Health Services Funding
      431. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding approved for a centre (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, in each of the past five years; the amount of funding allocated; the way this...
    • Dental Services Provision
      432. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of removal of dental services in Carrick-on-Suir Health Centre, County Tipperary; if alternative local facilities will be secured to...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      433. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a project (details supplied) which is currently being delivered by Saint Colmcille's Gaelic Athletic Association Club,...
    • Medical Card Applications
      434. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in assessment of recently submitted documentation, in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in respect of a pending...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      438. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the increase in numbers waiting for surgery for over a year in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; if any particular plan has been, or...
    • Medical Card Applications
      439. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7912/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      441. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 will receive a date for hip replacement surgery in Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dublin 11. [7915/15]
    • Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
      442. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, based on local health offices-areas and indicating those of 16 years of age and under, and those above 16 years of age,...
    • Health Services Funding
      443. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to a group (details supplied) to meet an immediate budgetary shortfall; if he will guarantee future funding, at an...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      444. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a treatment for the disease paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      445. To ask the Minister for Health when the employment file of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be released by the Health Service Executive, in view of the numerous requests made...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      446. To ask the Minister for Health if additional hours will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Galway to ensure adequate support as that person moves into adult services; if...
    • Patient Data
      447. To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate the current location of data for patients of the former hospital Mount Carmel Hospital, and the way in which these patients can access...
    • Hospital Consultants Recruitment
      448. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place by the Saolta University Health Care Group to recruit a second laparoscopic colorectal surgeon to work at Letterkenny General Hospital,...
    • HIQA Investigations
      449. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the time required to go through the complaints procedure in the Health Information and Quality Authority, from receipt of...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      450. To ask the Minister for Health if, and when, a replacement for the mobility grant scheme will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7955/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      451. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive an appointment for a hip replacement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7956/15]
    • HSE Agency Staff Expenditure
      452. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the Health Service Executive spent on agency staff in January 2015; the proportion of the agency's anticipated expenditure on agency staff in 2015...
    • HSE Staff Remuneration
      453. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has funding in its 2015 budget to cover increments for staff in 2015; the level of funding that will be required to pay such...
    • Hospital Consultants Remuneration
      454. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has funding in its 2015 budget to pay increased salaries to hospital consultants, who were employed on lower pay rates after...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      455. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to ensure that reports that a child has spent three weeks in an adult psychiatric unit will not be replicated; if he will confirm that...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      457. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 428 of 16 December 2014, and in view of correspondence (details supplied), if the 16 closed beds in paediatric services...
    • HSE Reports
      458. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a case (details supplied) regarding the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7993/15]
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      459. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recognise those employees who are categorised as sessional workers, but have long-service records with the Health Service Executive, in respect of...
    • Hospital Consultants Contract
      460. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce consultants fees, and pay, within the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5719/15]
    • Magdalen Laundries
      461. To ask the Minister for Health if acupuncture, massage-based therapy and reflexology will be available to Magdalen women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6975/15]
    • Medical Card Administration
      462. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the processing of first-time applicants (details supplied) for medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8065/15]
    • Health Services Provision
      463. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the effects on services offered in physiotherapy in Ballymun Health Centre, Dublin 11, due to the moratorium on recruitment; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      464. To ask the Minister for Health when the location the 50 new paramedic posts for the west of Ireland will be posted; if he will provide this data, by county; and if he will make a statement...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      465. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which it is within his remit to consider the health needs of preschool children, with special needs, starting their education in September 2015,...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      466. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the status of an application under the fair deal scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he...
    • HSE Properties
      467. To ask the Minister for Health the overall cost of converting hospitals and community care databases to accommodate Eircode. [8090/15]
    • Hospital Procedures
      468. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appointment for a medical procedure in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway. [8104/15]
    • Health Services Provision
      469. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a day care centre (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8111/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      472. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will receive a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8120/15]
    • HIQA Reports
      473. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of concerns raised that the Health Information and Quality Authority is failing to carry out comprehensive reports by not...
    • HSE Investigations
      474. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the policy, in relation to physical restraints, at a hospital (details supplied); if it is the case that an elderly person admitted to...
    • Health Services Provision
      475. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a child (details supplied) in County Louth, who has been assessed by an occupational therapist as meeting the...
    • Health Services Staff
      476. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of those resident at an address (details supplied) in County Dublin, and the proposal to replace the nursing staff with care...
    • HSE Agency Staff Expenditure
      477. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money being spent annually by hospitals on agency nurses, and other agency health staff, due to the public sector embargo on recruitment; and if...
    • Hospital Services
      478. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 446 of 20 January 2015, the progress in obtaining a reply from the Health Service Executive; the action he will take to...
    • Medical Card Applications
      479. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8160/15]
    • Graduate Nursing Scheme
      480. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the graduate nurse scheme, where newly qualified nurses in the midlands region are receiving 85% salary during their first year of...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      481. To ask the Minister for Health the steps which are being put in place to facilitate spinal surgery at Galway University Hospital; the number of adults awaiting this procedure; the longest...
    • Hospital Services
      482. To ask the Minister for Health when a date will be issued for an urgent operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Drugs Payment Scheme
      483. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 342 17 February 2015, the way very elderly or disorientated patients make the necessary applications for refunds; his...
    • Patient Transfers
      484. To ask the Minister for Health the policy position in place within the Health Service Executive to deal with the issue of patient transfer by taxi; if taxi use is carefully co-ordinated; if...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      485. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review eligibility for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      486. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment for Saint James' Hospital, Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Card Delays
      487. To ask the Minister for Health the average timeframe a person can expect to wait on a decision from the client registration unit, in relation to a discretionary medical card; and if he will...
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      488. To ask the Minister for Health his views on utilising the services of fire fighters, employed full-time or on a part-time retainer, across the State, in their capacity as trained...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      489. To ask the Minister for Health the supports a person (details supplied) in County Dublin received from the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8224/15]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      490. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the pension-related deduction is not taken into account when assessing means for a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8229/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      491. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Staff
      492. To ask the Minister for Health if the allegations of staff changes from nursing staff to care administrators at a group home (details supplied) in County Dublin, within the community for...
    • Hospital Staff
      493. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent on agency staff at Portlaoise hospital, County Laois in 2014; and the anticipated spend on agency staff, at this hospital in 2015. [8257/15]
    • Hospital Transfers
      494. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal was admitted to Letterkenny General Hospital; when this person was referred to Galway University...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      496. To ask the Minister for Health if counselling services are provided, free of charge, as part of the public mental health service, in view of the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • Primary Care Centre Provision
      497. To ask the Minister for Health when the building of a primary health care centre will commence, consisting of the health centre, the Mother McCauley centre and the Alzheimer's centre on...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Foreign Conflicts
      498. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken to assist in the search for the kidnapped schoolgirls, abducted in Nigeria in April 2014; the actions he will take;...
    • Consular Services Provision
      500. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide more support in respect of a person (details supplied) awaiting trial in Egypt; if he will make this a priority case....
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      501. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support the international efforts to have a free and fair campaign for democratic elections in Venezuela, without outside...
    • Easter Rising Commemorations
      502. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the Government's invitation to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, to the 1916 Commemorations; and if he will make a...
    • Emigrant Support Services
      503. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 420 of 17 February 2015, that his Department's emigrant support programme is funding a global...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      504. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will condemn the slaughter of the native Christians of Egypt, known as Copts, other Christians, and civilians, by Islamic State of...
    • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
      505. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to provide a full briefing to the Justice for the Forgotten Group, in relation to the Stormont House Agreement; and if he will...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      506. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the legislative measures that will require implementation by the Houses of the Oireachtas, following the Stormont House Agreement; the...
    • Human Rights Issues
      507. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the criticisms of the Global Island policy document, in relation to the diminished role of Irish foreign...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      508. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the targets for overseas development aid provided for by his Department for the next five years, both as a monetary figure and as a...
    • Consular Services Expenditure
      509. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his Department’s policy with regard to refurbishing embassies and ambassadors’ residences; the cost of these works, by year,...
    • Overseas Development Aid Oversight
      510. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a full audit has been conducted into the budget allocation to Irish Aid in 2014; if there were matters of concern, raised in this audit,...
    • International Terrorism
      511. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent comments by the Italian Foreign Minister in relation to the threats posed to Europe from the Islamic State; and if...
    • Migration Issues
      512. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on evidence that European Union countries have been found guilty of committing push-back offences for asylum seekers entering the...
    • Departmental Staff
      513. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the proposal to require all public sector workers under the aegis of his Department who interface with service users to wear a...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Schools Complaints Procedures
      514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a standardised complaints system for schools and a teaching fitness to practice system as proposed is planned. [7902/15]
    • Springboard Programme
      515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the choices and uptake of Springboard courses for persons in receipt of one-parent family payments in 2012,...
    • Teacher Secondment
      516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her proposals to limit to five years, retrospective to 2010, experienced advisers on secondment to schools to provide continuing professional...
    • School Data
      517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of teachers and pupils for the school year 2014/2015 in certain schools (details supplied) in...
    • School Funding
      518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of capital funding invested by her Department in schools (details supplied) in County Cork, since 2008, broken down by school; and if...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils in a class in a primary school that is legally considered to be big; if there is such a provision in law; and when an extra...
    • School Staffing
      520. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils in a class in a primary school that entitles the class to a classroom assistant. [7725/15]
    • Schools Administration
      521. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she understands her position, and that of her Department, to be the primary regulator of State-supported schools; in consequence of this...
    • Young Carers
      522. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to increase awareness of young carers in the education system, so as to ensure that young persons who are under pressure,...
    • Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility
      523. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on extending the provision of home tuition in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she will make a statement...
    • Schools Building Projects Administration
      524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for a new school to cater for the current and future needs of the Ballycullen, Firhouse and Oldcourt areas in Dublin 24; and if she...
    • Digital Strategy for Schools
      525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the digital strategy for schools; the current expected publication date; if the draft strategy has been circulated to...
    • SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Places
      526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding training placement or schemes in respect of persons with intellectual disabilities (details supplied); and if she will...
    • Third Level Institutions
      527. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans regarding the redevelopment of Clermont College, County Wicklow; and if a decision has been made regarding the redevelopment of the...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to concerns (details supplied) by parents of a child with Down's syndrome; if children with Down's syndrome will be provided...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide funding to make a school yard safe in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Data
      530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of one-teacher schools that are located within an eight kilometre distance of a school of similar patronage and language of...
    • School Enrolments Data
      531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when school enrolment figures for the 2014-2015 academic year will be published. [7927/15]
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the conditions under which an honours degree allowance is awarded to teachers who qualified from Marino Institute of...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      533. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a qualification (details supplied) will be recognised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7991/15]
    • School Staffing
      534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of two-teacher primary schools that would have lost a second teacher in 2015-2016 but now stand to retain a second teacher on the...
    • School Enrolments Data
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of one-teacher primary schools, with 19 pupils in 2014/2015; and if she will provide a tabular breakdown, by relevant county and local...
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision to decline the application for assistive technology in respect of a child ( details supplied) in County Cork....
    • School Placement
      549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the parents of children due to complete their primary education at the autistic unit in a school (details supplied) should progress, in...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if extra special needs assistant hours will be approved in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Site Acquisitions
      551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the land where a proposed national school (details supplied) in County Cork was to be built but later abandoned for planning...
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the education and training board has ceased its sponsorship of a community arts project (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if she...
    • School Enrolments
      554. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take for parents in relation to their children being in the catchment area for a junior school in Malahide, County Dublin, but...
    • Third Level Admissions Entry Requirements
      556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who are educated in the North of Ireland and who undertake A level examinations, yet who reside in the South of Ireland, will be...
    • Planning Issues
      557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made on the redevelopment of an old school building (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the allocation of resource hours for children with Down's syndrome, who will commence school in September 2015;...
    • Third Level Fees
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a stipulation that returning expatriates must be resident here for three of the past five years and in secondary education to avail...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has finalised the respective roles for SOLAS and institutes of technology for the apprenticeship implementation plan; if she will examine...
    • Departmental Staff
      562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the proposal to require all public sector workers under the aegis of her Department who interact with service users to wear a name...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Irish Water Funding
      563. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the loans raised by Irish Water from private banks; if security has been provided for such loans; if guarantees of any...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Implementation
      564. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the new housing assistance payment is expected to be introduced in the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council...
    • Motor Tax Yield
      565. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the allocation of motor tax proceeds from 2008 to date in 2015; and the revenue received to date in 2015. [7729/15]
    • Postal Voting
      566. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reform the postal voting application system before the date of the next referendum to allow for more...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      567. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if senior citizens groups which administer the monitored alarm scheme can also apply to administer the carbon monoxide...
    • Departmental Schemes
      569. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the recipients of his Department's grant scheme for maintaining trails in 2013 and 2014; if his Department will operate it...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      570. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff losses from his Department in each year since 2007 in comparison to other Departments. [7730/15]
    • Local Authority Housing
      571. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will issue a call for projects under the capital assistance programme from local authorities; and if he will make...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      572. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding that has been allocated for the housing adaption grant scheme in 2015; the amount that has been...
    • Departmental Schemes
      573. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if an organisation (details supplied) will be granted funding under the scheme to support national organisations for its...
    • Motor Tax Rates
      574. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out the motor tax rates for agricultural vehicles owned by persons who do not actively farm; whether they differ to...
    • Library Services
      575. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out his plans to open public libraries on Sundays in advance of State examinations; his views on whether it is...
    • Redundancy Payments
      576. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 344 of 1 April 2014 if he will provide an update on discussions between his...
    • Pyrite Resolution Board Expenditure
      577. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government from where the pyrite remediation scheme draws its funding and the number of households that have applied for funding to...
    • Construction Sector Strategy
      578. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of his recent statement that property developers will be loaned money at low rates by the State to pay for roads,...
    • Local Authority Staff Recruitment
      579. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to explain the effect the current recruitment embargo is having on the ability of local authorities to deliver their...
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      580. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will publish the outcome of the appeals process conducted by Pobal, following the exclusion of funding to over 20...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme
      581. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set down the number of homes that have been remediated under the pyrite remediation scheme in the years 2014 and 2015....
    • Environmental Protection Agency Expenditure
      582. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline the policy and practice of the Environmental Protection Agency on the recovery and enforcement of legal costs,...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Criteria
      583. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out the circumstances under which a local authority may withhold payment of rent to a landlord who has agreed to...
    • Commercial Rates
      584. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a local authority has the power to levy commercial rates on the owner of a commercial premises rather than the tenant;...
    • Local Authority Housing Eligibility
      585. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details, in tabular form, on the local authorities which require local authority housing applicants to...
    • Building Regulations Amendments
      586. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to outline his plans to amend the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014 to address the concerns relating to...
    • Water Charges Administration
      587. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is in a position to fully appreciate the considerable difficulties which have been placed on families by the failure...
    • Building Regulations Qualifications
      588. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the Fennelly recommendations on the registration of architects; if he will provide the...
    • Register of Electors
      589. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 499 of 17 February 2015 to outline the work his Department will do to advertise the...
    • Irish Water Remit
      591. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the precise statutory provision which enables Irish Water to charge a connection fee for the connection of new...
    • Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme
      592. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the results of the public tendering process, to select local programme implementers to deliver the social inclusion...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      593. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of persons exiting emergency homeless accommodation to take up...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      594. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report to Dáil Éireann on the current implementation of his national housing and homeless strategy,...
    • Local Authority Housing Eligibility
      597. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a local authority is required to adopt and publish rules in relation to succession to tenancy; and the actions that can...
    • Motor Tax Rates
      599. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will reduce the level of motor tax paid for periods of less than one year, so there is not a financial disadvantage...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      600. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will devise a policy which will allow inter-transfers for local authority tenants between the various county and...
    • Planning Issues
      601. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if landowners who are subject to a historic land sterilisation order have a right to have the order partially lifted by...
    • Water Quality
      602. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if funding will be made available for localities (details supplied) currently being provided with inferior quality...
    • Register of Electors Administration
      605. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the Dáil Éireann constituency electoral register for the year 2015-16, provided to Deputies, may be provided...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
      606. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the incremental tenant purchase scheme for existing local authority dwellings will be operational; the discounts that...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Public Service Obligation Levy Application
      607. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to reduce the public service obligation levy on charities and sporting organisations due to the increased costs...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      608. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to update broadband in the Ballycanew and Ballyoughter area of County Wexford. [7808/15]
    • Invasive Fish Species
      609. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on plans to tackle the infestation of Asian clam on the River Shannon at Lanesboro in County...
    • Fishing Industry
      610. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the income for 2014 for the State-owned fisheries on the River Moy at the Ridgepool Cathedral beat and the Spring Wells...
    • Fish Farming
      611. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the count on the salmon-run returns on the boxes in the Ballina fisheries in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      612. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when an area (details supplied) in County Tipperary will be included for high-speed broadband; the reason for the delay...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Safety Strategy
      614. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine the speed limits in residential estates, schools, places of assembly for example cinemas, theatres, community centres...
    • Public Transport Provision
      615. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures in place to ensure that private bus operators who have been found to use illegal fuel are disqualified from tendering for...
    • Driver Safety
      616. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider relaxing the regime with regard to L-plate drivers, to allow them to travel unaccompanied, within a 20 km radius of...
    • Road Network
      617. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that motorists are catered for adequately on the M8 motorway connection between Dublin and Cork, with no online...
    • Motor Tax Yield (1 comment)
      618. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the portion of the proceeds received from motor tax in 2015 that will go towards repairing roads and footpaths. [7729/15]
    • Haulage Industry Regulation
      619. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action the Road Safety Authority has taken to investigate possible breaches of regulation 10 of the European Communities (Road...
    • Harbour Authorities Membership
      620. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a schedule of the current directors of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company, to include the date of their first...
    • Harbour Authorities
      622. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm that all moneys agreed to be repaid by a person (details supplied), a former director of Dún Laoghaire Harbour...
    • Driver Licences
      623. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of cases of driving licence fraud that the National Driver Licence Service has identified since October 2013; if any cases...
    • Tourism Industry
      624. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide, in tabular form, by county, the amount of Fáilte Ireland capital grant paid over the past five years. [7917/15]
    • Fáilte Ireland Expenditure
      625. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form, by festival, the amount of Fáilte Ireland grant paid to arts festivals over the past five years....
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      626. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to legislate to address the regulation of rickshaws in Dublin and other urban tourist centres. [7950/15]
    • Railway Stations Upgrade
      627. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if European funding is available for the railway system, for example, the re-opening of Dunleer railway station in County Louth; and if...
    • Public Transport
      628. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the public transport projects that received European Union funding in the years 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Air Traffic Control Services
      629. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the alleged use of Irish controlled airspace by two Russian bomber planes on 28 January 2015; if he has spoken to the...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      630. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the poor state of repair of Fintra bridge in Killybegs, County Donegal; if he will provide funding in...
    • Tourism Project Funding
      631. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria used for the allocation of capital funding for tourism projects; and if he will provide, in tabular form, the allocation of...
    • Air Navigation Orders
      632. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the exemptions granted under section 6 (weapons and munitions designed for use in warfare), and section...
    • Severe Weather Events Response
      635. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the allocation of funding of €16.2 million, for the repair of damage caused by severe weather,...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Commemorative Events
      636. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if invitations are being extended to relatives of those who fought in the 1916 Easter Rising for the Government's celebratory events;...
    • Departmental Funding
      637. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when her Department will issue payment for a replacement crane on a boat (details supplied); the reason for the long delay in issuing...
    • Special Protection Areas Designation
      639. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has sought the advice of the Attorney General on the constitutionality of her actions to comply with hen harrier designation,...
    • EU Programmes
      640. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Department and an agency under its aegis, (details supplied), have recently been...
    • National Monuments
      641. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the contact her Department has had with Kildare County Council in relation to works required at a location classed as a national...

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