Written answers
Thursday, 26 February 2015
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- UK Referendum on EU Membership
8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will elaborate on the aim, contained in the Global Island, Ireland's Foreign Policy for a Changing World, of Ireland as a neighbour of...
- Undocumented Irish in the USA
12. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to meet with the Administration of the United States of America in relation to the urgent need to progress the proposed immigration...
- Humanitarian Access
13. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address, at United Nations and European Union levels, the seriousness of the ongoing crisis in South Sudan, the lack of air access...
- Foreign Conflicts
14. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to an attempted coup in Venezuela that was foiled and revealed on 12 February 2015; his views on attempted...
- Electoral Reform
15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an outline of the discussions he has had with Irish emigrant groups in relation to their ongoing campaigns to participate...
- UN Committees
16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support Ireland's engagement and participation in the first session of the UN debt resolution mechanism ad hoc committee, which...
- Northern Ireland Issues
17. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to take any particular initiative in relation to the need to progress outstanding aspects of the Good Friday and Saint Andrews...
- UN Funding
18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the current shortfall crisis around funding that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...
- Ukrainian Conflict
19. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the European Union, the United Nations and the international community, in general, are in a position to bring about a...
- Northern Ireland Issues
20. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his engagement with the British Secretary of State and Northern Ireland authorities, regarding the ongoing issues in Maghaberry Prison; and...
- International Summits
21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the priorities for Ireland at the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit; and the way he will address these matters in the May 2015 meeting here....
- Human Rights Issues
22. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to business practices being conducted by Irish companies in Western Sahara; if his attention has been drawn...
- Trade Strategy
24. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the role his Department and the embassy network are playing regarding the Year of Irish Design 2015, which is aiming to...
- Official Engagements
25. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent visit to Palestine and Israel; if he will also report on his meetings with political leaders there; and if he...
- Overseas Development Aid Provision
26. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to provide, as a matter of urgency, additional overseas development aid for South Sudan, due to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in...
- Human Rights Issues
27. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent executions carried out by the Jordanian Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8304/15]
- Consular Services Expenditure
31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cost of maintenance and repair work in the top ten Irish Embassies for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Northern Ireland Issues
32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on meetings he had with political leaders in the North and-or in the United Kingdom regarding the Stormont House Agreement....
- Ukrainian Conflict
33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the agreed ceasefire in Ukraine, that was due to come into place on15 February 2015 will hold, especially in the key...
- Foreign Conflicts
34. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of the Irish Government's involvement in any discussions, at European Union level, on the ongoing crisis in Libya;...
- Overseas Development Aid Oversight
35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update regarding Irish Aid's spend for 2014; the checks and controls in place to ensure there is no fraud and that...
- UK Referendum on EU Membership
8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will elaborate on the aim, contained in the Global Island, Ireland's Foreign Policy for a Changing World, of Ireland as a neighbour of...
- Undocumented Irish in the USA
12. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to meet with the Administration of the United States of America in relation to the urgent need to progress the proposed immigration...
- Humanitarian Aid
13. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address, at United Nations and European Union levels, the seriousness of the ongoing crisis in South Sudan, the lack of air access...
- Foreign Conflicts
14. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to an attempted coup in Venezuela that was foiled and revealed on 12 February 2015; his views on attempted...
- Electoral Reform
15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an outline of the discussions he has had with Irish emigrant groups in relation to their ongoing campaigns to participate...
- UN Committees
16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support Ireland's engagement and participation in the first session of the UN debt resolution mechanism ad hoc committee, which...
- Human Rights Issues
36. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views regarding the ongoing displacement of Tamil people in Sri Lanka; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8301/15]
- Department of Social Protection
- Respite Care Grant Eligibility
37. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if respite grant-care will be offered in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Job Initiatives
38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons within the Tuam area, County Galway, who are currently on job activation schemes, detailed by type of scheme; and if she will...
- Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the payment a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6 may qualify for while on a back-to-education course in view of the fact that the person was...
- Magdalen Laundries
41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if all social welfare offices have received a directive that the payments to Magdalen laundry survivors, made under the restorative justice scheme,...
- Disability Allowance Payments
42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Living Alone Allowance
43. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to the decision to backdate the living alone allowance in respect of a person (detail supplied) in County Wexford, if a review of this...
- Social Welfare Benefits Applications
44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine, and expedite, applications for a domiciliary care allowance and a carer's allowance, in respect of a person (details supplied)...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
45. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal for a carer's allowance will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
- Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the basis on which it was determined a person (details supplied) in County Kildare received an overpayment of jobseeker's allowance; and if she will...
- Jobs Initiative
47. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of participants in each electoral district, engaged in the JobBridge scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8577/15]
- JobsPlus Scheme
48. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a report outlining the cost of increasing the current assistance rate to an employer to employ a person in the JobsPlus scheme,...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an appeal regarding a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an increase in rent support can be approved in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
- Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility
52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) who made 723 ORD class social insurance contributions, and 1,078 class A1 social insurance contributions,...
- Mortgage Arrears Proposals
53. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of meetings she, or her officials, have held with a person (details supplied), in the context of a proposed bid to purchase...
- General Register Office
54. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total income derived by the general records office through fees paid by persons searching records at the office's site, in each of the past ten...
- Water Conservation Grant
55. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will share the results of the scoping exercise undertaken in her Department to determine the resources that will be required to administer the...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Reliefs Availability
56. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are tax breaks, or development relief, available for council contributions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8480/15]
- Liquor Licensing Laws
57. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the brewing, and selling, of beer by private businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8488/15]
- Tax Collection
58. To ask the Minister for Finance if a value added tax number might issue, at an early date, in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, in order to facilitate an early...
- Tax Compliance
59. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of any Revenue Commissioners compliance initiative, in respect of expenses claimed by self-employed persons and pay-as-you-earn...
- Parliamentary Questions
60. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will arrange for the detailed replies to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 248, 249 and 250 of 20 January 2015, to be forwarded, as indicated in the initial...
- Tax Credits
61. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a report which outlines the cost to the Exchequer of providing a €6,000 housing cost tax credit; his views that the housing cost tax...
- Tax Data
62. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate, in tabular form, and using the most recently available data from the Revenue Commissioners, the combined pre-tax total declared earnings...
- Mortgage Arrears Proposals
63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an outline of Permanent TSB's plans to sell non-performing mortgages; the number, and book value, of mortgages for sale; the current...
- IBRC Liquidation
65. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the efforts made at mediation between KPMG, as special liquidator of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, and former directors...
- Revenue Commissioners Investigations
66. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide for a Revenue Commissioners investigation into offshore pension transfers; the amount of pension savings the Revenue Commissioners believe...
- Employment Data
67. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons his Department believe to be self-employed in the State, and therefore, do not receive the pay-as-you-earn tax credit; and if he will...
- Pensions Levy
68. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans, in terms of the pension levy, which has significantly impacted upon pensions of retired workers who are on fixed incomes; if the said levy will be...
- Departmental Strategies
69. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he, or his Department, did not consult with the Central Bank of Ireland, before announcing a mortgage insurance proposal, in May 2014; if he intends...
- Mortgage Arrears Proposals
70. To ask the Minister for Finance the total numbers of meetings he, or his officials, have held with a person, or company (details supplied), in the context of a proposed bid to purchase...
- NAMA Debtor Agreements
71. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will issue guidelines, or directions, to the National Asset Management Agency that none of the agency's borrowers will be allowed to use any funds to pay...
- Credit Unions Regulation
72. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the proposed changes to the regulation of community-based credit unions; and if he will make a...
- Mortgage Data
73. To ask the Minister for Finance using records available to his Department and the Central Bank of Ireland, if he will provide details, for each financial institution with a banking licence,...
- Corporation Tax Regime
74. To ask the Minister for Finance if he, or officials from his Department, have had discussions with Ministers in the Stormont Executive, or their officials, regarding the proposal to cut the...
- Bank Stress Tests
75. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of additional capital required by PermanentTSB, arising from the recent European Central Bank stress tests; the steps the bank, he and his officials...
- NAMA Debtors
76. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of debtors the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, had on its books when all the loans were transferred; the number of debtors and the book...
- House Prices
77. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on house prices in Dublin and the new mortgage rules introduced by the Central Bank of Ireland recently; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Tax Reliefs Abolition
78. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on tax breaks lost for those who purchased hotels in 2009 and the scrapping of tax reliefs in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- IBRC Operations
79. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a copy of the relationship framework, which governed the interactions between his Department and the former management and board of the...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- By-election Issues
80. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total cost of each by-election to the current Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8485/15]
- Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total severance packages, individually detailed, received by any special advisers in his Department, or those under his aegis, since...
- Flood Risk Assessments
82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the Office of Public Works has deemed a portion of land (details supplied), in County Cork, to be a flood plain; if this...
- Valuation Office
83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the average length of time taken by the Valuation Office to issue a valuation certificate; if that time period has increased during the...
- Ombudsman's Remit
84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Ombudsman's remit extends to An Bord Pleanála and Eirgrid; when this changed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Work Permit Criteria
85. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a Canadian national who is married to an Irish citizen but has not previously worked or been a resident here requires a work permit...
- EU Regulations
87. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there have been discussions between his Department and the local enterprise offices in relation to grant-aid to companies and...
- Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
88. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total severance packages, individually detailed, received by any special advisers in his Department, or those under his aegis,...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
89. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a payment under the agri-environment options scheme 2 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
90. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the Single Payment Scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reason...
- Bord na gCon
91. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the Irish Greyhound Board will publish its annual reports for 2013, and 2014; the reason the Board have not produced those...
- Inland Fisheries
92. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received feedback in relation to the European Initiative FARNET, which covers 10,000 km of inland fisheries in Europe; his...
- Beef Technology Adoption Programme Payments
93. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a BTAP payment in respect of a person (details supplied); and if same will be expedited. [8634/15]
- Agriculture Schemes
94. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the specific disadvantage provision, under the National Reserve, to cover young farmers who became established,...
- Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
97. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total severance packages, individually detailed, received by any special advisors in his Department, or those under his aegis,...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- International Terrorism
99. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which she and her EU colleagues can counter the propaganda of ISIS which continues to lead to the indoctrination of young persons...
- Registration of Title
101. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the land registration status in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
- Crime Levels
102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the increase or decrease of crime here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8510/15]
- Court Orders
103. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 27 January 2015, if she will confirm the identity of each of the five-man team who carried out an...
- Fines Data
104. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality since the enactment of the Fines (Payment and Recovery) Act 2014, if she will provide, in tabular form and by county or on a district basis, the...
- Property Services Regulation
105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the difficulty being experienced by property service management companies in recruiting and retaining property...
- Immigration Policy
106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the survey and policy paper of the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, Ireland is Home, on the lives of undocumented migrants in Ireland...
- Crime Data
107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of burglaries and house break-ins reported in Maynooth, Leixlip, Celbridge, Kilcock, Clane, Carbury, Naas and Johnstownbridge in the...
- Parking Regulations
108. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will investigate a matter (details supplied) regarding parking tickets; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8563/15]
- Prisoner Data
109. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in prison, and the number in each institution; the number of prisoners not held in single cells, or rooms; and the number...
- Prison Education Service
142. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of workshop and work-training posts that are vacant in each prison; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8623/15]
- Residency Permits
145. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current residency status in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8636/15]
- Departmental Reform
146. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 18 November 2014, the additional steps that have been taken, on foot of the Guerin report, to change...
- Illness Benefit Payments
147. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if payments made by the Department of Social Protection to her Department in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow, for the...
- Garda Deployment
148. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will prioritise the deployment of more gardaí on the northside of Dublin in view of a 20% increase in burglaries there in 2014; and...
- Property Services Regulation
149. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the regulation which obtains in respect of estate agents; her plans for new regulation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8711/15]
- Garda Deployment
150. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that more gardaí are deployed in an area (details supplied) in Dublin 3 in view of the number of break-ins; and if she...
- Sentencing Policy
151. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to review the sentencing laws in this country, and introduce mandatory sentences; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8714/15]
- Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
152. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total severance packages, individually detailed, received by any special advisers in her Department, or those agencies under its aegis, since...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Early Child Care Education
153. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the current early childhood care and education scheme and school age child care capitation rates within the child care sector; and if he...
- Child Care Services Expenditure
154. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual cost of the community childcare subvention scheme; the number of children enrolled in it, in each year, from 2011 to 2014; and...
- Preschool Services
155. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of providing a second free pre-school year to children with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8696/15]
- Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
156. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total severance packages, individually detailed, received by any special advisers in his Department, or those under his aegis, since...
- Department of Health
- Proposed Legislation
157. To ask the Minister for Health when the Autism Bill will be put through Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8474/15]
- Hospital Waiting Lists
158. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting for spinal surgery at Cappagh Hospital, Dublin 11; the measures being taken to combat the waiting time at the hospital; and if...
- Magdalen Laundries
160. To ask the Minister for Health if all health centres have received a directive that the payments to Magdalene laundry survivors, made under the restorative justice scheme, are not to be...
- Services for People with Disabilities
161. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied) in County Kildare, who has multiple medical issues, and requires urgent attention and intervention, is not being...
- Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
162. To ask the Minister for Health if patients on orthodontic waiting lists in the midlands are being prioritised by date of birth. [8496/15]
- Departmental Funding
163. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide funding in respect of a project (details supplied) in County Kerry which wishes to assist the national ambulance service; and if he will...
- Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
164. To ask the Minister for Health if special boots will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow. [8503/15]
- Hospital Services
165. To ask the Minister for Health further to his comment in Dáil Éireann on 18 February 2015 that it is inappropriate for any section or Department in a hospital to declare itself a...
- General Practitioner Services
167. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to re-establish the general practitioner caredoc service in the north west; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8511/15]
- Departmental Staff Remuneration
168. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of issuing hard copy payslips to all employees paid by him; the number of staff issued with such payslips; the steps being taken to only issue...
- Medical Card Data
169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards refused or withdrawn in recent times in respect of persons who merited the award of a medical card and possessed same for a number...
- Medical Card Drugs
170. To ask the Minister for Health his views on expanding the medical card scheme to cover alternative medicines and treatments for persons suffering from multiple sclerosis; and if he will make...
- HSE Funding
172. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase the funding being provided to the Irish Stammering Association; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8522/15]
- Social Insurance Data
173. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that correspondence seeking the full history of paid, and credited, contributions for the years 1979 to 2012, in respect of a person (details...
- Hospital Appointment Status
174. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive an appointment in Roscommon County Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- General Practitioner Services
175. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to change the level of service of the North East Doctor on Call in the coming months. [8530/15]
- Medical Card Data
176. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards awarded to cancer patients in 2012, 2013 and 2014. [8531/15]
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
178. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will have an application under the fair deal scheme approved. [8534/15]
- Health Services Provision
179. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the closure of the weekly Warfarin clinic in Kilrush, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8542/15]
- HSE Staffing
180. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No.182 of 18 February 2015, if he will acknowledge there is no pay grade for assistant psychologists, as there is within the...
- Medical Card Applications
181. 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....
- Primary Care Centre Provision
182. To ask the Minister for Health following the decision of An Bord Pleanála to reject an application for permission to build a primary care centre at the Mellows Road site in Finglas,...
- Rare Diseases Strategy Implementation
183. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the National Rare Disease Plan for Ireland 2014-2018; the progress which has been made regarding the key recommendations in the plan; and if he...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
184. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of all the recognised medical conditions, illnesses and syndromes, which a term (details supplied) encapsulates, regarding the...
- Services for People with Disabilities
185. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for recent disruptions to services at a training and support centre (details supplied) for persons with disabilities in County Donegal; the number...
- Hospital Appointment Status
186. To ask the Minister for Health if an early date for assessment for a hip operation will be arranged in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will expedite the...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
187. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding public hospital waiting lists (details supplied). [8629/15]
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
189. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in Cork city, and county, awaiting approval under the nursing home support scheme; the number of persons in Cork city, and county,...
- Nursing Home Services
190. To ask the Minister for Health the action he is taking to provide the level of funding required to the supported care homes (details supplied) in counties Carlow and Kilkenny, to upgrade...
- Health Services Staff
191. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, who was an employee of the Health Service Executive, will be reviewed to determine if that...
- Appointments to State Boards
192. To ask the Minister for Health if a new director of the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council has been appointed; if the position went through the Public Appointments Commission; the way the...
- Medical Card Applications
193. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the medical cards, and pensions, in respect of older persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8682/15]
- Departmental Funding
194. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding ChildVision, the National Education Centre for Blind Children, which is at risk in losing its funding for 2015; his views on reversing...
- Tobacco Control Measures
195. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to Article 18 of the Havana Declaration, supported by the United Nations, and its implication on the plain tobacco packaging...
- Hospital Consultants Recruitment
196. To ask the Minister for Health if any new surgeons have been employed by the Health Service Executive to carry out kidney transplants in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Correspondence
197. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that correspondence, in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath, is dealt with, as this person has been in contact with...
- Health Services Funding
198. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding available for organisations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8705/15]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
199. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total severance packages, individually detailed, received by any special advisers to the office of An Tánaiste since January 2014,...
- Northern Ireland Issues
200. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions that took place at his recent meeting with the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; his views on measures which...
- Foreign Conflicts
201. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his European Union colleagues expect to be in a position to influence matters in Ukraine, with particular...
- Overseas Development Aid
204. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which Ireland’s aid programme continues to address the most seriously challenging situations in locations throughout...
- Human Rights Issues
205. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which his Department and embassy officials continue to liaise with the Egyptian authorities with a view to bringing about the...
- Infectious Diseases Epidemic
206. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the various Irish and other national aid agencies continue to assist in the fight against Ebola; the degree to which the...
- Human Rights Issues
208. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which his European Union and United Nations colleagues continue to monitor human rights abuses globally; the degree to which...
- Undocumented Irish in the USA
209. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress being made toward the regularisation of the undocumented Irish in the United States of America; and if he will make a statement...
- Syrian Conflict
210. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which aid, and support, can be provided to the civilian population in Syria; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
211. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his European Union colleagues can bring about better observation of human rights and the elimination of human...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plan, and form of education, being put in place for children with autism, and other mental health issues, when they reach 18 years of age;...
- Further Education and Training Programmes Expenditure
213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of expenditure on rented accommodation in the further education and training sector by education and training board area during each...
- Departmental Staff Remuneration
214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of issuing hard copy payslips to all employees paid by her; the number of staff issued with such payslips; the steps being taken to only...
- School Accommodation
215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposed location for the new Educate Together school in Castlebar, County Mayo; if the proposed venue is currently been used by any group,...
- School Staffing
216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide full-time contracts to secretaries, employed by the board of management, in secondary schools, in order for them to be in...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) from parents of children with Down's syndrome; her plans to provide children with Down's syndrome...
- Institutes of Technology Staff
218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 464 of 27 January 2015, if she will provide, for each institute of technology, the number of individual...
- School Accommodation
219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress in relation to the accommodation needs, and water treatment system upgrade, or replacement, at a school (details supplied) in County...
- Ministerial Advisers Remuneration
220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total severance packages, individually detailed, received by any special advisers in her Department, or those under her aegis, since January,...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Housing Assistance Payments Administration
221. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extra staffing that has been put in place to administer the forthcoming introduction of the Housing Assistance Payment...
- Postal Voting
222. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding persons who are out of the country on a polling day (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Derelict Sites
223. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria that constitutes a derelict building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8481/15]
- Election Management System
224. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the increase in the number of naturalised citizens, if he will issue guidelines to polling staff, in the...
- Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
225. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to re-introduce a tenant purchase scheme, or any similar type scheme, for occupants of local authority houses...
- Haulage Industry Regulation
226. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if consideration will be given to the request of the Irish Road Haulage Association (details supplied), in view of the...
- Voluntary Sector Funding
227. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the perilous funding situation of an organisation (details supplied), which conducts...
- Offshore Islands
228. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the funding provided to Inishbofin Island in 2013, and 2014 by the sections of his...
- Voluntary Sector Funding
229. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a decision will be made in respect of which organisations formerly in receipt of Pobal funding and now in receipt of...
- EU Directives
230. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to implement the European Union's clean air for Europe directive's national emissions reduction target for 2020;...
- Air Pollution
231. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the recent report by the Environmental Protection Agency into air quality here in 2013 and in particular the...
- Mortgage Arrears Proposals
233. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total numbers of meetings he or his officials have held with a person or company (details supplied) in the context of...
- Irish Water Funding
235. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Irish Water has been provided a credit rating by international credit ratings agencies; and if he will make a statement...
- Local Authority Housing Provision
238. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to tackle the housing crisis in Dublin; the new funding that is being provided to tackle social housing lists;...
- Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme
239. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on local partnership amalgamations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8709/15]
- Litter Pollution
240. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if consideration has been given to a matter (details supplied) regarding dog fouling; and if he will make a statement on...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Electricity Generation
241. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has examined converting the coal fired power station at Moneypoint, County Clare, into a biomass energy power...
- Energy Policy
242. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if biomass will form part of future Government energy policy. [8536/15]
- Broadband Service Speeds
243. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if and when effective, high speed broadband will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
244. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the process and procedure for the appointment of persons (details supplied) to the compliance committee of the...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Wild Atlantic Way Project
246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding Valentia Island, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8507/15]
- Road Projects Expenditure
247. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the allocation his Department made to provide for an inner relief road for Tuam, County Galway; when the inner relief road will be...
- Wild Atlantic Way Project
248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the investment, State agencies are making, or are planning to make, in developing the Fanad lighthouse in County Donegal as a key tourism...
- Road Projects Expenditure
249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has received a resubmitted funding application for a new bridge at Cockhill, Buncrana, County Donegal, to take road...
- National Roads Authority
250. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the persons-bodies that established the National Roads Authority; when same were set up and their responsibilities. [8537/15]
- National Transport Authority
251. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the persons-bodies that established the National Transport Authority; when same were set up and their responsibilities. [8538/15]
- Community Involvement Scheme
252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the abolition of the community involvement scheme; his plans for the reintroduction of this scheme; and if he will make a...
- Public Service Obligation Services
253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of the amount of money spent on public-service-obligation aviation routes, in 2012, 2013 and 2014; if he...
- Roadworthiness Testing
255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will publish the submissions that were received by the Road Safety Authority regarding a review carried out on the testing of the...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Arts Funding
258. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding committed by the Government for the planned multi-functional events centre in Cork; when the funding must be...
- Offshore Islands
259. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a breakdown of the current expenditure figures, detailing the funding from her Department to Inishbofin Island,...
- Fostaíocht sa Ghaeltacht
260. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén líon daoine atá fostaithe sa tionscal nua toitíní leictreonacha i gCorr na Móna, Co. na Gaillimhe;...
