Written answers

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Beef Industry
      157. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on progress in the review of the quality pricing system operated in the beef industry, as agreed at the beef round table...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
      158. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the involvement he and his Department have had regarding the definition of ineligible forage areas and what is meant by permanent...
    • Beef Industry
      159. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the recently published rich list which includes the names of Irish beef barons, his views on the latest reduction in steer...
    • GLAS Eligibility
      161. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which payments under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme continue to be made available and accessible to the...
    • Bord na gCon
      163. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the nature and length of sanctions imposed by Bord na gCon on greyhounds who tested positive for banned substances in 2014 and 2015;...
    • Beef Exports
      164. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the beef currently being exported to the United States of America is in carcass form or in the form of processed cuts; and if this...
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications
      165. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken to expedite the decision making process in relation to finfish aquaculture licences; his plans on making any...
    • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
      166. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has carried out an impact assessment of the effect of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on food...
    • Bord na gCon
      167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recommendations made in last year's Indecon Bord na gCon report that have been fully implemented to date; the measures...
    • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
      168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has carried out an impact assessment of the effect of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on animal...
    • GLAS Eligibility
      169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the problems under the organic farming scheme and the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, where a farmer may have...
    • Animal Welfare
      170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has conducted reviews of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 since its enactment; his views in relation to whether he is...
    • Hare Coursing
      171. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will initiate a new investigation and-or review into hare coursing, with a view to removing its exemption from prohibition...
    • Rural Development Programme
      172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans on opening the various schemes under the rural development scheme to new applications; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Live Exports
      173. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has found export markets for Friesian calves so as to avoid a collapse of the beef market in 18 months time when too many dairy...
    • GLAS Administration
      174. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the second phase of the Green Low-Carbon Agri-Environmental Scheme for 20,000 farmers is opening in August 2015, as is being...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      175. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure young farmers who commenced farming prior to 2008 will be eligible to apply under the national reserve for...
    • Hare Coursing
      176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action he is taking to address the situation in Clonmel, County Tipperary during the National Coursing meeting, where hares were...
    • Superlevy Fine
      177. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the anticipated amount of the super levy fine on Ireland; the steps he has taken to get this eliminated or reduced; the success of...
    • GLAS Administration
      178. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the teething problems relating to the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, in which the computer system has been causing...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
      180. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will have a role or an input into the definition of ineligible areas and permanent grassland as they relate to his Department's...
    • Rural Development Programme
      181. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when it is hoped the rural development programme for Ireland will be agreed; if he has yet received the letters of comfort he has...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      182. To ask the Taoiseach the contracts a person's businesses and-or subsidiaries (details supplied) have with his Department; the value of these contracts; their length; and the other companies...
    • Legislative Process
      183. To ask the Taoiseach the number of pieces of legislation that were submitted for pre-legislative scrutiny by his Department since 2011; his plans to allow pre-legislative scrutiny for any...
    • Departmental Bodies Data
      184. To ask the Taoiseach the average age of chairpersons and non-executive directors of State or partially State-owned companies, of State bodies, of semi-State bodies and of State agencies...
    • Emigration Data
      186. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Irish nationals and non-Irish nationals who have emigrated from Ireland in each year from 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12666/15]
    • Job Creation Data
      187. To ask the Taoiseach if he will indicate out of the total number of jobs created or lost in the workplace in County Kildare in each of the past ten years and in 2015 to date, the number of...
    • UK Referendum on EU Membership
      190. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to develop a strategic position for Ireland in the event of the United Kingdom withdrawing from the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Humanitarian Assistance Scheme
      191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the assistance available to residents who cannot obtain flood insurance on their home; the updates that are available regarding same; and if she...
    • Home-makers Scheme
      192. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if persons who are caring for children with a disability, in cases where the domiciliary care allowance payment is being received but where they do...
    • Social Insurance Yield
      193. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the yield in 2014 from the 4.25% employers' pay-related social insurance rate, which applied to employees with weekly earnings of less than...
    • Employment Support Services
      195. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the training opportunities available to an unemployed person who has been refused participation on a community employment scheme and on SOLAS...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Applications
      196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the exceptional needs payment to meet funeral costs in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare has been...
    • Citizen Information Services
      197. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will appoint a member of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service to the Citizens Information Board as it is appropriate and critical that this...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Applications
      198. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which the exceptional needs payment granted is adequate to cover funeral costs in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • One-Parent Family Payments
      199. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent of payment and weekly amount that is likely to remain available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare under the one-parent...
    • Child Benefit Payments
      200. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount and likely duration of child benefit payment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Homeless Persons Supports
      201. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 214 of 24 February 2015, 498 of 5 November 2013, 104 and 105 of 23 September 2014, and in view of the...
    • Universal Retirement Savings Group
      202. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will publish the minutes of meetings held between her Department and the Department of Finance pertaining to the Universal Retirement Savings...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      203. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when appeals in respect of supplementary allowance and disability allowance in regard to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      204. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason participants in the Tús work placement initiative must have a bank account in their names when other social welfare payments can be...
    • Widow's Pension Eligibility
      205. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will indicate eligibility for a widow's pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if eligibility for a widow's...
    • Mortgage Interest Relief Appeals
      206. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a decision on a review of a mortgage interest supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan has been delayed; when...
    • Guardian Status
      207. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the delay in reinstating guardian’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 in view of the fact that it has been...
    • Treatment Benefit Scheme Applications
      208. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry is eligible for a grant to obtain a hearing aid under the treatment benefit scheme; and if she will...
    • Public Services Card Provision
      211. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether it is reasonable for a citizen to be required to take a day off work to attend an appointment to obtain a new public services...
    • National Internship Scheme Data
      212. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 15 July 2014, since that reply issued, the number of investigations that have taken place following...
    • Labour Activation Measures
      213. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 1 May 2014, since that reply issued, the number of persons who have had their jobseeker's benefit or...
    • Youth Guarantee
      214. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 1 May 2014, since that reply issued, the number of persons who have had their jobseeker's benefit or...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      215. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 76 of 1 May 2014, since that reply issued, the number of persons who have had their jobseeker's benefit or...
    • Work Placement Programmes
      218. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who have taken part in the gateway scheme in the Fingal, South Dublin, Dún Laoghaire Rathdown, Dublin City,...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      219. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way an overpayment decision was determined, providing the details in tabular form for each year, in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      220. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will cease contacting and encouraging social welfare recipients to utilise banks rather that post offices for direct electronic...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      222. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal for jobseeker's allowance respect of a person (details supplied) in county Galway; and if she will make a...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility
      223. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 24 March 2015, if students in those situations will be facilitated in completing their courses with the...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Application Numbers
      224. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the one parent family payment in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13138/15]
    • Disability Allowance Data
      225. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of disability allowance in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13139/15]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      226. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the conditions under which holders of a public service vehicle licence or plate licence qualify for jobseeker's allowance; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      228. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will introduce a scheme of educational supports and training to assist full-time carers of children with disabilities and other special...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      229. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress, to date, in determining an appeal to backdate a carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if an...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      230. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an increase in rent support will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has three dependent children and...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Data
      231. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of persons in receipt of rent supplement, and at each limit, per county. [13192/15]
    • School Meals Programme
      233. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of schools in County Louth currently benefiting from school meals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13202/15]
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      234. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware that persons are losing out on a significant portion of their contributory pension as a result of changes implemented by her...
    • Carer's Allowance Delays
      235. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the length of time reviews for carer's allowance are currently taking; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13209/15]
    • One-Parent Family Payment Applications
      236. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the correct level of one-parent family payment due in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      237. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will approve an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      238. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in order to encourage persons with intellectual disabilities to take up opportunities of rehabilitative employment, if she will consider putting in...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      239. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an increase in rent supplement will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      240. To ask the Minister for Social Protection If she will expedite a decision on an application for domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Appeals
      241. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for a State pension (contributory) will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      242. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to expedite an application for an appeal to the chief appeals office by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath, in...
    • Social Welfare Offices
      243. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the capital cost of recent improvement works to her Department facilities in County Louth, by location; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Meals Programme
      244. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of schools availing of funding from her Department for the provision of school meals that have run out of funding for this academic year...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      246. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 223, 227, 230 and 247 of 24 March 2015, if she will ensure that all pensioners contacted in the initial...
    • JobsPlus Scheme
      247. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be provided to the extension of the JobsPlus scheme to incorporate apprenticeships; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility
      248. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 348 of 15 April 2014, if she will be reviewing policies regarding the domiciliary care allowance in view of...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      249. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal in respect of a carer's allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Finance
    • Photographic Identification
      252. To ask the Minister for Finance if the social welfare card is acceptable proof of identity when opening post office or bank accounts for the purposes of receiving social welfare payments....
    • Standards in Public Office Commission
      253. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the appropriateness of his ownership of Portuguese Government bonds, in view of his membership of the Eurogroup and the Economic and Financial...
    • Credit Unions
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason previous members of a credit union (details supplied) have had their death benefit insurance cancelled, despite a commitment that their existing...
    • Pensions Levy
      255. To ask the Minister for Finance when the pension levy on private pensions will be removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12720/15]
    • Financial Institutions Levy
      256. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of all levies currently in place on the financial sector; the amount each levy raised in 2014; if he will indicate in each case...
    • Fuel Trader's Licence
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of filling stations in each county that have a mineral oil trading licence; the number of licences that have been revoked, extinguished or expired...
    • Fuel Inspections
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 10 March 2015, the reason there has been such a marked decline in spot checks and the number of samples of petrol...
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of investments made by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund in each county since its inception; the total...
    • Life Insurance Policies
      262. To ask the Minister for Finance the increases in the cost of life assurance policies that have been made in the past year at State-backed banks; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Vehicle Registration
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance if registered TAN holders will be notified of impending increases in vehicle registration tax due amounts in respect of vehicles the TAN holders have had...
    • Sovereign Debt
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a full up-to-date audit of Irish Government bonds with his spring statement to Dáil Éireann. [12990/15]
    • Fiscal Data
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the current debt to gross national product totals and ratios for the years 2007 to 2015. [12991/15]
    • Debt Conference
      266. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding holding a debt conference in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5473/15]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      267. To ask the Minister for Finance if he met the Governor of the Bank of England, Mr. Mark Carney, when he was in Dublin on 27 January 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5476/15]
    • Irish Water Establishment
      268. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of all correspondence between his Department and other Departments and between his Department and the Central Statistics Office and...
    • Corporation Tax Regime
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions held with the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, recently in relation to Ireland's corporate tax rate; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Investigations
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has held an investigation, or plans to hold an investigation, into allegations of widespread abuse of the relevant contracts tax 1 sub-contracting...
    • Income Data
      271. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the most up-to-date figures on the total earnings of the following income categories: the top 1%, 10% and 20%, indicating for each category...
    • Tax Yield
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue the Exchequer has received from the exploration of natural oil and gas reserves in each of the past three years; the current estimate of...
    • Income Inequality
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the growing levels of inequality as highlighted by the think tank for Action on Social Change in a recent report, if he will acknowledge that the...
    • Tax Code
      274. To ask the Minister for Finance the assessment he has carried out on the likely effects that the proposed Google tax, or diverted profits tax, in Britain might have on Ireland; the...
    • Tax Collection
      275. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of cases that are currently under appeal with the Revenue Commissioners; and the numbers annually under appeal since 1995. [13228/15]
    • Mortgage Lending
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the lack of competition in the Irish mortgage market; his plans to bring variable rate mortgages in line with the eurozone average; the estimated...
    • Property Tax Application
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will investigate matters raised in correspondence regarding a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13249/15]
    • Property Tax Administration
      280. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding property tax liabilities in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Limerick; if contact will be made to resolve the issue; and...
    • Home Repossession Rate
      281. To ask the Minister for Finance further to parliamentary question No. 280 of 24 March 2015, noting that the Central Bank of Ireland's residential mortgage arrears and repossessions...
    • Credit Card Interest Rates
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of commercial decisions to increase interest rates on credit cards that have been notified to the Central Bank of Ireland in the past 18 months;...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Commercial Rates Impact
      285. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the rateable valuations being applied to wind farms have been examined by him to determine the effect the increases will have on...
    • Tourism Funding
      286. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform regarding his Department and agencies-bodies under his remit, the amount of money spent on an annual basis on maintaining, marketing,...
    • Public Sector Staff Sick Leave
      287. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider reversal of SI 124 of 2014 on foot of the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Act...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of requests his Department received from the Department of Foreign Affairs in the years 2013 and 2014 for permission to...
    • Child Abuse Reports
      289. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has received a business case from the Child and Family Agency and from the Courts Service of Ireland to cost proposals...
    • Leader's Allowance
      290. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of Teachtaí Dála and Seanadóirí who are in receipt of annual funding from the leaders allowance fund; the...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      294. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the recruitment process for clerical officers to the civil service; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      297. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for the implementation of recommendations arising from the recent report on the performance review of the public works...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Workplace Disputes
      298. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if legislation is in place to deal with employee-employer disputes regarding issues such as hours of work and pay; and if he will make...
    • Public Service Contracts
      299. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if zero hour contracts are used in the public sector. [13190/15]
    • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
      300. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 299 of 3 February 2015 and the reply to the Ceann Comhairle subsequent to this Deputy's appeal...
    • Industrial Disputes
      301. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to a current dispute (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13092/15]
    • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
      304. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on the discussions held regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Commission...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • GLAS Eligibility
      305. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS planner number will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [13014/15]
    • Aquaculture Licence Numbers
      306. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications for aquaculture licences since 1 January 2010; the number granted; the number refused; the current...
    • Agriculture Schemes Eligibility
      307. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has looked at the problems for the forgotten farmer, farming from 2002 to the end of 2007 and under 40 years of age who has no...
    • GLAS Eligibility
      308. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork who has submitted an application under the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      309. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the agri-environment options scheme 2 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for...
    • Agriculture Schemes Eligibility
      310. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme and the farm safety scheme has been received in respect of a...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      311. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason penalties were imposed on a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the single payment scheme in 2012; the reason...
    • TB Eradication Scheme
      312. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that local district veterinary offices are issuing letters to farmers, up to six weeks in advance of herd tests,...
    • Bord na gCon
      314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that all records and information of greyhound microchipping is available to the general public; if he will instruct...
    • Land Transfers
      315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway is not being allowed to transfer a parcel of land to a son; and if he will...
    • Land Parcel Identification System
      316. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of the fine imposed on Ireland by the European Union in relation to the land parcel identification system; the progress...
    • Agriculture Schemes Appeals
      317. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of appeals in relation to the over-declaration of land under the single payment and the disadvantaged areas payment which...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals
      318. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 318 of 3 February 2015, when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be notified of the...
    • Forestry Grants
      319. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a forest road grant payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      320. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive payment under the agri-environment options scheme 3 which was due in...
    • Milk Quota
      321. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding milk quotas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13007/15]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
      322. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the interpretation of ineligible areas under the disadvantage areas scheme will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications
      323. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application for an offshore fish farm in Galway Bay; when a decision is expected; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Installation Aid Scheme Eligibility
      324. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the iniquity in the installation aid available to farmers who established their holdings in 2008 and 2009; and if...
    • Agri-Strategy 2025
      325. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the Irish Farmers' Association's Agri-Strategy 2025, and the eradication of...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      332. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 5 March 2015, when the information will be provided; the reason for the delay; and if he...
    • Equine Industry
      333. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he will not meet persons (details supplied) in County Galway who are involved in a major equine development in China, in...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      334. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has made representations to the European Union regarding the reclassification of dogfish to remove this species from the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      335. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the anomaly whereby young farmers who commenced farming prior to October 2008 and who are still under 40 years of...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      336. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a payment under the disadvantaged areas scheme for 2014; and if he will...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      337. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the 2014 agri-environment options scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the...
    • Common Agricultural Policy Subsidies
      338. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the subsidies available to tobacco growers under the Common Agricultural Policy; his plans to alter these; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      339. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on a payment under the 2014 disadvantaged areas scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Rural Development Programme
      340. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide more specific information on the low-cost loans that will be made available to farmers and rural enterprise, as...
    • GLAS Eligibility
      341. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the presence of heather in grazing land results in that land being ineligible for payment under the new green low-carbon...
    • Agriculture Schemes Appeals
      342. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the maximum, minimum and average times to bring an appeal submitted by a farmer to a conclusion, in respect of a ground eligibility...
    • Forestry Premium Payments
      344. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will grant a forestry premium in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dairy Sector
      345. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the detailed independent figures available to his Department regarding investment in the dairy industry, both at farm gate and...
    • Agricultural Production
      346. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that adequate steps will be taken to ensure the development of the agrifood sector, notwithstanding impositions in...
    • Food Labelling
      348. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the degree to which he remains satisfied regarding the adequacy of regulations to ensure the highest possible standards in regard to...
    • Agricultural Production
      349. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he expects agricultural production to increase throughout each sector in the next five years; and if he will make...
    • Fishing Industry
      353. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which provision continues to be made to ensure the survival of families dependent on the fishing industry in the...
    • Artisan Food Sector
      354. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he sees further scope for development and employment in the artisan food sector; and if he will make a statement...
    • Animal Identification Schemes
      355. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which all non-sporting horses have been registered electronically, or otherwise; if the welfare of such animals...
    • Exports Growth
      356. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the various markets for Irish dairy products have expanded in each of the past five years and in 2015 to date;...
    • Cereal Sector
      357. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he is satisfied in respect of the future prospects for the cereal growing sector over the next eight years; and...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      358. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the agri-environment options scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will...
    • Agricultural Production
      359. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which he continues to monitor the future growth prospects for the beef, lamb, pigmeat and poultry industries, with...
    • Fishing Industry
      360. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which employment prospects for families dependent on the fishing industry remain positive; and if he will make a...
    • Fish Quotas
      361. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which the European Union measures to conserve fish stocks continue to show positive results, to date; and if he will...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Pensions
      362. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 21 January 2015, if due process has been accommodated in this instance, with particular reference to re-instating...
    • Army Barracks Closures
      363. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans for the former Army barracks in Clonmel in County Tipperary; if costs have been incurred in maintaining and securing the site since its closure; if...
    • Military Neutrality
      364. To ask the Minister for Defence his views on whether the planned centre in Kinsale in County Cork honouring the Irish in military units will potentially affect Ireland's neutrality due to...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Legal Aid
      367. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the options available to drivers who have had penalty points levied against them and who cannot afford to be legally represented when challenging...
    • Parental Leave
      368. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce changes to parental leave rules to allow parental leave be taken for all children up to 18 years of age; her views that...
    • Passport Controls
      369. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason requests from both her Department and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport in the summer of 2014 for extra civilian staff to...
    • Sexual Offences Data
      370. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she will take to address the low rates of reporting of sexual violence and abuse; and her views that this is connected with the failure...
    • Proposed Legislation
      372. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the new legislation for asylum seekers; and when she expects it to be before Dáil Éireann; and the implications...
    • Asylum Applications
      373. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 307 of 10 March 2015, the places that the majority of applicants seeking refugee status or asylum are...
    • Garda Deployment
      374. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the Garda station in Kilcock in County Kildare; if she will address the concerns of local residents regarding the...
    • Residency Permits
      375. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reckonable stamp 4 years accredited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; the extent to which these are...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      376. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence regarding allegations of Garda intimidation and harassment in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and...
    • Garda Station Closures
      377. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a Garda station (details supplied) in County Donegal; if the station is operational at the moment; if not, when Garda...
    • Immigration Status
      378. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to regularise the status of the children of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if she will make a...
    • Residency Permits
      379. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress, to date, in determining an application for residency, arising from the marriage of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare to...
    • Courts Service Administration
      380. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Courts Service of Ireland has conducted best practice research into the management of children and family services in the courts in other...
    • Departmental Funding
      381. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when full funding will be restored to an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12930/15]
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      382. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will request An Garda Síochána to adopt a zero tolerance approach to anti-social behaviour at a location (details supplied) in...
    • Prisoner Transfers
      383. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware that an Irish citizen (details supplied) is currently incarcerated in Madrid in Spain, that the person has applied to...
    • Criminal Prosecutions Data
      384. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of prosecutions of disqualified drivers with no licences in the years 2012 to 2014 and in 2015...
    • Road Safety Strategy
      388. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the current collaborative measures between An Garda Síochána, the Courts Service of Ireland and the Road Safety Authority...
    • Garda Training
      389. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the initial and ongoing self-defence and combat training provided to gardaí in Templemore, County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Measures
      390. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will publish the sexual offences Bill 2015 providing for criminalisation of the purchase of sex; and her plans to have it enacted. [13048/15]
    • Traffic Fines
      391. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of revenue generated from speeding fines in County Galway in each of the years 2012 to 2014; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Drugs Seizures
      393. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the value of illegal drugs destroyed has dropped each year since 2010, from €14,930,279.80 in 2010 to €404,153 in 2014;...
    • Firearms Licences
      394. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the average length of time it takes her Department to process import and export licences for non-military guns; the criteria required for an...
    • Stardust Fire
      395. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will meet the Stardust Relatives and Victims Committee, in view of the fact that 14 February 2015 was the 34th anniversary of the tragic...
    • Programme for Government Initiatives
      396. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the commitment in the programme for Government to help homeowners in distress; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Measures
      397. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will enact a statutory instrument under Part 15 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 to insert elders and vulnerable adults under the...
    • Courts Service
      399. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the regulations governing public access to the public sittings of District and Circuit Courts; the circumstances in which public attendance at...
    • Residency Permits
      400. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 341 of 24 February 2015, if the applicants have responded, or had a response made on their behalf; if such...
    • Criminal Prosecutions
      401. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will publish the findings of the internal Garda investigation into the murders of persons (details supplied), as promised by a...
    • Firearms Licences
      402. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the review of firearms legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13246/15]
    • Garda Station Closures
      403. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda stations that have closed in the years 2012 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Crime Levels
      405. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the overall crime level has risen since 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13260/15]
    • Garda Operations
      406. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any measure has been introduced to replace the Garda mobile units initiative that was discontinued; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Residency Permits
      407. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to update a stamp 4 in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
    • Proposed Legislation
      408. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the proposed family leave Bill will be published; if it will deal with the issue of maternity leave and premature births where babies have...
    • Residency Permits
      409. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the correct procedure to be followed to update stamp 4 in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Forensic Science Laboratory
      410. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has examined the potential delivery of a new, for purpose, forensic laboratory for Forensic Science Ireland; the considerations that will...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      411. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the record of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow who was convicted of an offence but subsequently cleared of this alleged...
    • Firearms and Ammunition Security
      412. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding legal gun ownership; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Funding
      413. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the funding mechanism available from her Department to support community text alert schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      414. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 9 April 2014, when the information requested will be supplied. [13350/15]
    • Court of Appeal Establishment
      415. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the progress of the new Court of Appeal in reducing the high level of appeals waiting to be heard in the Supreme...
    • Crime Investigation
      416. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts being made to address the concerns of the family and supporters of a person (details supplied) who was murdered in July 1985; and if...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      417. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there is such a delay with a Garda vetting application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; when the application...
    • Prisoner Data
      418. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total prison population; if she will provide in tabular form the number of prisoners, broken down by prison; the capacity of each prison; the...
    • Garda Strength
      420. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vacancies outstanding by rank; the period of time they have been vacant; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Deployment
      422. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form and by county the number of gardaí assigned by station in March of each of the years 2009 to 2015; and...
    • Crime Prevention
      423. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the way the extra €2.8 million to tackle youth crime announced in December 2014, has been allocated; if...
    • Owners Management Companies
      424. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce legislation or take measures to assist residents in multi-unit estates with management companies to release house owners...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Children in Care
      425. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to establish a longitudinal study over ten years which would follow young persons who leave care in order to map their transition...
    • Child Abuse Prevention
      426. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will report on the work of the Ryan report monitoring group since its establishment, to date; and the date on it will...
    • Social Workers Recruitment
      427. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the shortage of social workers for children at serious risk; the measures he will take to remedy this; and if he...
    • Early Years Strategy Publication
      428. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to introduce a national early years strategy. [12842/15]
    • Child Care Services Data
      429. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will conduct a quality audit across all early years services to provide baseline data for policy development and implementation....
    • Child Care Qualifications
      430. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to expand the learner fund to support child care workers in progressing to levels 7 and 8 of the Further Education and Training...
    • Early Child Care Education
      431. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to ensure equal access to early years care and education, including access to the free pre-school year for children with special...
    • Youth Services Funding
      432. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when full funding will be restored to an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12928/15]
    • Commissions of Inquiry
      433. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of the resource constraints preventing full implementation of the Ryan report recommendations; and the estimated...
    • Youth Cafés Provision
      434. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding an application for funding by Attic Youth Café in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Health
    • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
      435. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to allocate responsibility for the national drugs strategy to an existing Minister of State in view of the seriousness of the issue; and if he will...
    • HIQA Investigations
      436. To ask the Minister for Health in the interest of child protection, if his Department has sought to ensure the publication of the Health Information and Quality Authority report into the...
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      437. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in the health sector who continue to be paid at rates above the agreed public pay scales; the amount of additional payment in each case;...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
      438. To ask the Minister for Health the reason only patients with certain long term-illnesses are eligible for free medication that is not means tested, while patients with other chronic...
    • Health Services
      439. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to have a Jigsaw hub in County Limerick, in view of the fact there are now ten Jigsaw hubs in other communities, and young persons in County Limerick...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      440. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical appointment will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12694/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      441. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the renewal of a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12735/15]
    • Health Services Allowances
      442. To ask the Minister for Health if an application to the Health Service Executive for the payment of a gratuity for a non-pensionable person will be reviewed in respect of a person (details...
    • Medical Card Applications
      444. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on an application for a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12817/15]
    • Departmental Meetings
      445. To ask the Minister for Health the interaction and support that may be offered to an organisation (details supplied); if he will arrange a meeting with officials from his Department to...
    • General Medical Services Scheme Data
      446. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the reported difficulty in filling vacant rural General Medical Services practice panels in recent times, the number of general practitioner...
    • Hospital Procedures
      447. To ask the Minister for Health if statistics are collected on colonoscopies performed in public and private hospitals; if they adhere fully to guidelines as per the Royal College of Surgeons...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      448. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the situation at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, where availability of theatres for surgical procedures is severely curtailed...
    • Hospital Groups
      450. To ask the Minister for Health if he will seek an independent review of all contracts awarded without a competitive process by the Saolta-Galway Roscommon University Hospital Group since its...
    • Symphysiotomy Reports
      451. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the Government symphysiotomy payment scheme, the total number of offers made and accepted to date at €50,000, €100,000 and...
    • Vaccination Programme
      454. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider the introduction of the meningitis B vaccine into the primary childhood immunisation schedule as soon as possible; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      455. To ask the Minister for Health when a payment known as twilight premium will be made to social care workers and leaders in Brothers of Charity Services and Ability West; if his attention has...
    • Palliative Care Services
      456. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a comprehensive service plan for palliative care in the midlands region; if budget provisions are being allocated for same, and for what...
    • Medical Card Applications
      457. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite an application for a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, in view of the fact that all relevant...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      458. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances serving County Longford from its department adjoining St. Joseph's Care Centre, County Longford, at any given time; and if...
    • Hospital Equipment
      459. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the technical difficulties with a piece of equipment at Louth County Hospital, with regard to cataract surgeries; when the issue...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      460. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an appointment in the ophthalmology department in Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      461. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive follow-up medical treatment following a recent procedure in view of the fact the person was...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      462. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Meath will be granted a medical card in view of comorbid conditions. [12918/15]
    • Health Services Provision
      463. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of a day centre in Marino-Fairview in Dublin 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12924/15]
    • Hospital Facilities
      464. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of revenue generated through sales at the shop and restaurant in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9 in 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Provision
      465. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence regarding the welfare of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12939/15]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      467. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of an ambulance call-out (details supplied) in County Laois; if there were delays in the availability of an ambulance; if this was...
    • Medical Card Applications
      468. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite an application for a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, in view of the fact that all relevant...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      472. To ask the Minister for Health the reason special footwear is not being provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if funding will be provided without delay; if...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      473. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny with a consultant vascular surgeon at Waterford Regional Hospital, in...
    • Organ Donation
      474. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting transplants in each of the following, heart, liver, lung, kidney and pancreas; and due to current shortfall in donors the number...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      475. 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. [13006/15]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      476. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug Regorafenib Stivarga will be made available to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13027/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      477. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical appointment will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13030/15]
    • General Practitioner Services
      478. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners in receipt of the rural practice allowance; the names of each general practitioner and the location of their practice; the...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      481. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons he has ceased providing mental health services to children and adolescents in Gorey in County Wexford and forced families from north Wexford to...
    • Health Insurance Cover
      483. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the treatment of periods of cover for children and parents, where health insurance premiums are paid on their behalf by either their...
    • Vaccination Programme
      484. To ask the Minister for Health if he will pursue the widest and earliest possible implementation of effective vaccines against all strains of meningitis and septicaemia; and if he will make...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      485. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of medical card reviews issued by the Health Service Executive to persons under 70 years of age for each month...
    • Health Services
      487. To ask the Minister for Health when payment will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13157/15]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      488. To ask the Minister for Health when the consideration by the Health Service Executive of funding the medication Regorafenib Stivarga will conclude; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Respite Care Services
      489. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding respite care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13165/15]
    • Hospitals Policy
      490. To ask the Minister for Health if a conflict of interest arises in respect of the chief executive officers of hospital groups being appointed by the Health Service Executive to manage the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      493. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a surgical intervention in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13176/15]
    • Health Services
      494. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 who suffers from epilepsy and requires a guide dog. [13198/15]
    • Hospital Beds Data
      495. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there are beds lying empty in Killarney Community Hospital and St. Columbanus home in County Kerry when, following treatment at Kerry General...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes Availability
      496. To ask the Minister for Health the drugs counselling services provided to persons under 18 years of age in Dundalk, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13207/15]
    • Nursing Home Beds
      498. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Longford has been denied a respite place at Charleville House in Tullamore, County Offaly; and if he will make...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      499. To ask the Minister for Health in order to encourage persons with intellectual disabilities to take up opportunities of rehabilitative employment, if he will consider putting protections in...
    • Health Services Provision
      500. To ask the Minister for Health if much needed physiotherapy will be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation
      501. To ask the Minister for Health when the implementation of the national positive ageing strategy will commence; and when the consultation process will commence. [13225/15]
    • National Dementia Strategy
      502. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the national dementia strategy (details supplied); if dementia will be recognised as a long-term illness with regard to obtaining a...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes Funding
      504. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided for the north east local and regional drug and alcohol task force, on an annual basis from 2010; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff
      505. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the 19 maternity units in hospitals that are funded as level 2 units only; his views on the connection between that lower level of funding and...
    • HIQA Reports
      506. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the reports into the reasons behind the baby deaths (details supplied) in Portlaoise in County Laois, promised by the Health...
    • HSE Staff Issues
      507. To ask the Minister for Health the officials within the Health Service Executive who sanctioned the Office of Nursing and Midwifery Directorate in the executive in suspending a person...
    • National Dementia Strategy Implementation
      510. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the national dementia strategy; if proper home care packages will be made available to persons with dementia, and their families; and if...
    • HSE Staffing
      511. To ask the Minister for Health the reason counselling psychologists are not eligible to apply for Health Service Executive psychology posts to work with children and adolescents in...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      513. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for a cataract operation will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • HSE Staff Issues
      514. To ask the Minister for Health with reference to comments made by him (details supplied), his views on the treatment of a person by the Health Service Executive who was suspended by its...
    • General Practitioner Services
      515. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 411 of 10 March 2015, if he will provide details of the issues raised in relation to the reply, and North East Doctor on...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      516. To ask the Minister for Health the funding for mental health per head of population per county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13277/15]
    • Health Insurance Contracts
      518. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding health insurers insisting that policy holders who cancel their policy during the policy year pay the insurer an amount equal to the...
    • Homeless Accommodation Provision
      519. To ask the Minister for Health the number of drug free short-term beds available to homeless and recovering addicts in each of the four Dublin local authorities; the number of detox beds...
    • Medical Products
      520. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on an application to the Health Service Executive by a company (details supplied) to have funding for the drug Fampyra...
    • Dental Services Provision
      521. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will receive the necessary treatment through the public dental system; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • HSE Staffing
      522. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding recruitment of nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13309/15]
    • National Dementia Strategy Implementation
      523. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the Health Service Executive proceeds with development of appropriate training courses for family and other informed carers in keeping...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      527. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 442 of 10 February 2015, the level of negotiations he has had regarding utilising St. Joseph's Hospital in County...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      528. To ask the Minister for Health the space currently utilised by the Health Service Executive for the provision of mental health services and other services on the St. Loman's Campus in...
    • Hospital Consultants Recruitment
      529. To ask the Minister for Health the time frame for the recruitment of a second palliative consultant for the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar in County Westmeath; and the terms of the...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      530. To ask the Minister for Health the recruitment process for the recently announced new positions at the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar in County Westmeath; the timeframe for same; the...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      531. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment from the ear, nose and throat department in Letterkenny General Hospital; and if...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      532. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal is on the routine or urgent list with orthopaedics in Sligo Hospital; when this person can expect an...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      533. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a charitable community (details supplied) which is providing care and supports to 275 persons in a range of ages, most of whom are full-time...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      534. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway is waiting eight months for a cataract operation at University Hospital Galway; if same will be...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      535. 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. [13391/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      536. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      537. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is given an appointment for a magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, scan at Midland Regional...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • European Defence Capabilities
      538. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has responded to the unhelpful comments of the President of the European Commission, Mr Jean Claude Juncker, in relation to the...
    • Human Rights Issues
      539. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his Department have made any representations to the ambassador of the People's Republic of China, or to any other Chinese...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that a child with special needs in a special school was subjected to prone restraint 360 times in 2014; if she is aware that the...
    • School Enrolments
      541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the legislation on school enrolment will be enacted; and the current directive from her Department on enrolment in primary and post-primary...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 is eligible for a grant to purchase a laptop to help with college examination studies; and if she...
    • School Patronage
      543. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the divestment process will be progressed in 2015 and beyond. [12678/15]
    • School Curriculum
      545. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the education about religion and beliefs curriculum development by the National Council for Curriculum and...
    • School Staffing
      546. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools that continue to have a concessionary post under the delivering equality of opportunity in schools scheme; and if...
    • State Examinations
      549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the marking system for the junior and leaving certificate examinations has not changed since 1969; her plans to review the system, and...
    • Departmental Funding
      551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of all non-governmental organisations in receipt of funding and-or grants from her Department in each of the past five...
    • Residential Institutions Data
      552. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names of groups for survivors of abuse in residential institutions that were funded by her Department during the period 2001 to 2013; and the...
    • School Accommodation
      553. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the child protection and financial concerns outlined in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Child Abuse
      555. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the judgment in a case (details supplied), if she will confirm if others are eligible to be included in any further redress in respect...
    • Transfer of School Infrastructure
      556. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the negotiations for the transfer of school infrastructure owned by 18 religious orders, as cited in the...
    • National Literacy and Numeracy Strategy
      557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review guidance issued to schools as part of the national literacy and numeracy strategy in order to increase the length of time...
    • School Curriculum
      558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce comprehensive literacy planning for all classes in schools. [12834/15]
    • Literacy Levels
      559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which her Department analyses literacy outcome data trends. [12835/15]
    • Educational Disadvantage
      560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to develop a strategy that clearly outlines the future strategic direction of supports for educational disadvantage. [12836/15]
    • Legislative Process
      562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will publish a plan for the implementation of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004. [12838/15]
    • Departmental Reports
      563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will publish the review of the visiting teacher service. [12839/15]
    • Departmental Funding
      564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding allocated to the schools building programme for the five years of its duration. [12840/15]
    • School Accommodation
      565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to keep the inventory of school accommodation updated on a regular basis. [12841/15]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding assistive technology for children with autism spectrum disorder; and if she will make a...
    • Summer Works Scheme Applications
      567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update regarding windows in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      568. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is an application with her Department for a new school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and the position regarding same. [12881/15]
    • State Examinations
      569. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for leaving certificate reform. [12912/15]
    • School Staffing
      570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the loss of legacy posts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12914/15]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      571. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if and when required special needs educational supports will be provided in the case of a child of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Departmental Communications
      572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the consultation between her Department, the Office of Public Works and Dublin City Council on identifying a...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the 18 religious congregations contributing towards the cost of the redress scheme for victims of abuse in...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 11 March 2015 and subsequent correspondence (details supplied) concerning specific speech and...
    • Clár Tógála Scoileanna
      575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad é an líon áiteanna a bheidh ar fáil sna Gaelcholáistí (sonraí tugtha) sa chéad bhliain don...
    • Rollú Scoile
      576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad é an líon daltaí a bheidh ag fágáil na mbunscoileanna (sonraí tugtha) ag deireadh mhí an Mheithimh, 2016...
    • School Enrolments
      577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the case of a child (details supplied) in County Carlow; if the appropriate supports will be put in place at one of the local...
    • School Funding
      578. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding options available for schools who wish to build an astro park on their school grounds; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staffing
      579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of a school and the delivering equality of opportunity in schools scheme band 1 (details supplied) in Dublin 9, if she will provide an...
    • School Accommodation
      580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new autism spectrum disorder unit will be opened at a school (details supplied) in September 2016; if she will provide an update on the...
    • School Staffing
      581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an application by a school (details supplied) in County Kildare for curricular concession posts was refused by her Department, in view...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      582. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will remove the registration fee for apprenticeships which in some cases is now €900 and is creating an obstacle to persons...
    • School Staffing
      583. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support the appeal for the retention of a fourth classroom teacher in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans and timeframe for a new school (details supplied) in County Galway; if a site has been purchased for the new school; when construction...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will add Down's syndrome to the list of low-incidence disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13090/15]
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      586. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 776 of 24 March 2015, the form of consultation between her Department and the Department of Social...
    • Education Policy
      588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the work of the transition reform steering group and the proposals it is developing on the transition of school...
    • Site Acquisitions
      589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will arrange for her Department to contact an interested party with regard to the acquisition of a site currently owned by her Department...
    • School Management
      590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 756 of 24 March 2015, if a school is allowed to operate without a board of management under the...
    • School Transport Fees
      591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding travel expenses in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility
      592. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child (details supplied) in County Cork with autism spectrum disorder can receive an increase of home tuition hours; and if she will make a...
    • Sports Facilities Provision
      593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a submission in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Carlow, regarding the provision of astroturf pitches; if...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
      594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to allocate schools under the delivering equality of opportunity in schools scheme band 2 an additional base allocation under the...
    • School Staffing
      595. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a staffing appeal submitted by a school (detailed supplied) in County Tipperary; when a decision will be reached; and if...
    • Education and Training Boards Staff
      596. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied) affecting a group of teachers in Limerick city; her plans to address this matter;...
    • School Patronage
      597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the purpose of the deeds of variation in national schools; and if there was any monetary compensation involved in the deeds of variation. [13273/15]
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      598. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve an application for additional classrooms in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she will make...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      599. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review the current provisions of the job sharing scheme for special needs assistants in both primary and post primary schools...
    • Schools Building Contractors
      600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in relation to the public procurement process in respect of works to be carried out at a school (details supplied)...
    • Education and Training Boards Expenditure
      601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 26 February 2015 to detail the amount of expenditure on rented accommodation in the further...
    • Third Level Fees
      602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 505 of 10 February 2015 when a reply will be provided detailing the projected cost of abolishing fees for...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 441 of 17 February 2015 when the Teaching Council will provide an update on the operation of Regulation 5...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a progress report will be available on the promised new school building (details supplied) in County Galway; when the site will be...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the actions being taken to address concerns by special needs assistants over the reduction of their working hours and the...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Water Services Provision
      606. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will amend the Constitution to include a provision that a referendum would have to be held on any legislation...
    • Water Charges Administration
      607. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out his views on the proposed legislation to enforce payment of water taxes; his further views on the widespread...
    • Water Conservation Grant
      608. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out the total projected cost of the water conservation grant, including all administrative and staffing costs....
    • Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme
      609. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how the outcome of the social inclusion and community activation programme tendering process resulted in five vital...
    • Local Authority Housing
      610. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 and the regulations to be made thereunder will be implemented in...
    • Fire Service Staff
      611. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to set out the terms and conditions that exist for fire fighters in respect of the payment of pension entitlements by...
    • Fire Service
      613. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a risk assessment was conducted on the potential outcomes of the implementation of the national directorate for fire...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      614. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the cuts to funding for the next round of the Leader programme through to 2020; and if consideration...
    • Housing Data
      624. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of the housing developments, by county, in each of the four categories under the national...
    • Local Authority Finances
      625. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that the management of Sligo County Council believe it will be difficult for the council to submit a...
    • Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
      626. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons currently on local authority housing waiting lists in South Dublin county, Fingal county, Dún...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Applications
      627. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applications each local authority has received under the housing assistance payment scheme; the number of...
    • Water Charges Exemptions
      628. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 will be exempt from paying water charges. [12869/15]
    • Control of Dogs
      629. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is legislation proposed to deal with the matter of dogs barking in residential areas, particularly at night time,...
    • Housing Issues
      639. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to the recent visit of Minister of State, Deputy Paudie Coffey, to a number of homes in County Donegal affected by...
    • Housing Provision
      640. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied with the availability of sheltered housing and senior citizen housing in the Dublin Bay North...
    • Local Authority Staff Data
      643. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of senior executive engineers and analogous, including acting-up and...
    • Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme
      644. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will reconsider the decision not to fund Ballymun Whitehall area partnership under the social inclusion and...
    • Irish Water Administration
      645. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost to the Exchequer of dissolving Irish Water immediately and returning the responsibility for citizens' water and...
    • Irish Water Establishment
      646. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost to date to the Exchequer for the establishment and operation of Irish Water and metering. [12977/15]
    • Local Authority Staff Data
      649. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of local authority staff who are 100% externally funded by his Department,...
    • Private Rented Accommodation Standards
      650. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the pressures that will be applied by private landlords to their tenants in order for them to keep their premises clean...
    • Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
      651. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the allocation for housing to Leitrim County Council in 2013, 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Leader Programmes Administration
      652. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason for the continuing delay in processing a payment (details supplied) in County Mayo; if it will be expedited due...
    • Irish Water Administration
      653. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of all correspondence between his Department and other Departments, and between his Department...
    • Library Services Provision
      654. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a system of charges for the use of local authority library services; and if he will make a...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
      655. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to allow local authorities to re-open the tenant purchase scheme; the reason the scheme has been closed for 12...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      656. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will extend current bridging for all organisations (details supplied) currently within the bridging scheme to the...
    • Local Authority Housing Eligibility
      657. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a 17 year old mother can be discriminated against and refused access to social housing; and if he will make a statement...
    • Fuel Laundering
      658. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details in tabular form, by year and by local authority, of the amounts allocated by his Department to...
    • Local Authority Assets
      661. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the rationale for closing the Ballymun shopping centre; and if he will provide costings for the necessary...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      663. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a survey (details supplied) which indicates that noise sensitivity is particularly problematic for 40% of...
    • Septic Tank Grants
      664. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the grant assistance available to households to upgrade their septic tank system in advance of an inspection; and if he...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      665. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the concern of many community groups in relation to the proposed changes to the senior alert scheme; and...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      666. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 871 of 24 March 2015, if he supports the requirement for applicants under the...
    • Local Government Audit Service
      667. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding planning matters in County Carlow; and if he will make a...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      668. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of new houses that need to be built to solve the social housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authority Funding
      670. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding available within his Department which can be allocated to Sligo County Council for the 2015 Fleadh Cheoil; and...
    • Local Authority Assets
      671. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that Dublin City Council is proposing to sell a site (details supplied) for use as a supermarket that was...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      672. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the land that is available in the Dublin City Council area for development under the social housing strategy; the areas...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes Availability
      673. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of drug free short-term beds available to homeless and recovering addicts, in each of the four Dublin local...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      674. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the number of mortgage-to-rent cases completed, by each local authority; each financial...
    • Local Authority Staff Remuneration
      676. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, a list of the top ten earners employed by Donegal County Council and their salaries ;...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      677. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to resolve the homeless situation in Waterford city and, in particular, the plans there are to put...
    • Local Authority Finances
      679. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that Sligo County Council has had a deficit in its revenue account in the years 2008 to 2014; if he is...
    • Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Administration
      682. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the reduced funding for the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme and the fact that a number of...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Warmer Homes Scheme Eligibility
      684. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the eligibility criteria for the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland warmer homes scheme, which only...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme Administration
      685. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 190 of 1 October 2014, the start and end dates of the validation exercise to which...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      686. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans regarding rebates for persons or businesses selling electricity back to the grid using photovoltaic solar...
    • Energy Prices
      687. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps that will be taken to ensure the energy efficiency measures and the obligations which have been placed on the...
    • Postal Services
      688. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will liaise with An Post to carry out minor upgrading of the existing information and technology systems in post...
    • Energy Efficiency
      689. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his assessment of the progress being made in achieving binding European Union measures for energy efficiency by the State...
    • Internet Safety
      690. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will support the 30 recommendations in the O'Neill report, in respect of online abuse and the protection of...
    • Electricity Generation
      691. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress that has been made by his Department to extend Smart Grid efficiency to all parts of County Longford; and if...
    • National Gas Grid
      692. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will extend the gas pipeline to County Longford, in view of the fact that the local economy depends on such...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      693. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 24 March 2015, and in view of difficulties experienced by the enterprise...
    • Disability Services Provision
      694. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will facilitate a disabled platform for anglers at the entrance under the new bridge over the River Maine at...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      695. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the implementation of the national broadband plan; if all the areas in County Longford...
    • Post Office Network
      696. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the workings of the business development group established to find new opportunities for...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Projects
      697. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has received an application for funding from Donegal County Council for the construction of a bridge (details supplied) in County...
    • Tourism Industry
      698. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding property regulators; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13547/15]
    • Sports Capital Programme Data
      699. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the proportion of applications approved under the last two rounds of his Department's sports capital programme; and the reasons...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      701. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to allocate funding for the upgrading of the R556 and R551 between Abbeydorney and Ballyduff in County Kerry, as the state of...
    • Road Safety
      702. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the health and safety measures employed by officials of the Road Safety Authority when carrying out roadside inspections of vehicles,...
    • Sports Facilities Provision
      703. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Government-supported initiatives at local and national level that have been pursued to develop the sport of basketball in the past...
    • Road Safety
      704. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the application by local authorities of the guidance document for the control and management of traffic at roadworks to...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      705. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps which have been taken to utilise publicly-owned lands and existing public rights of way to route the new greenway between...
    • Taxi Regulations
      706. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the National Transport Authority is unwilling to amend the regulations in respect of small public service vehicles to allow...
    • National Car Test
      707. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the Road Safety Authority's recommendations on the roadworthiness testing of vintage vehicles (details supplied);...
    • Road Projects
      708. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a footpath (details supplied) in County Kerry will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12917/15]
    • Rail Services
      709. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps Iarnród Éireann will take to tackle fare evasion; the amount Iarnród Éireann lost through fare evasion in...
    • Driver Licence Data
      711. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 597 of 10 March 2015 and the reply received from the Road Safety Authority, if he will provide, in...
    • Private Bus Operators
      712. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that Ulster Bus has been awarded licences for certain routes, such as the Buncrana to Derry route, and that Ulster...
    • Sports Facilities Provision
      713. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the financial options available to the State in supporting the construction of a national ice arena which could be used for exhibitions...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      714. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide extra funding for local improvement schemes to Sligo County Council and Leitrim County Council as the current scheme...
    • Tourism Data
      715. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of the visitor numbers in the top ten most popular tourist attractions in Cork city for each of the past five...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      717. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding an application to the low cost safety scheme in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Mayo; and...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      720. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce a grant scheme to support the adaptation of taxis as wheelchair friendly vehicles; and if he will make a statement...
    • Road Safety
      721. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to imposing a compulsory speed reduction on a main road where a school (details supplied) in County Kerry...
    • Load Transport Permits
      722. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider centralising the issuance of abnormal load permits or standardising the issuance of such permits as variance in...
    • Driver Licence Renewals
      723. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason there are such long delays in processing applications for and renewals of licences in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • National Car Test
      724. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the body responsible for ensuring safe standards are maintained at car testing centres in areas where staff carry out emission testing;...
    • Railway Stations Upgrade
      725. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to modernise the Broomebridge railway station in Cabra in Dublin 7 as the Luas cross-city line will link up to it, and there is...
    • Rail Network
      726. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timeframe for the proposed change of the manual crossing at Pelletstown in Ashtown in Dublin 15 to provide greater capacity as the...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Animal Welfare
      727. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is aware of further breaches of the law banning stag hunting by the Ward Union Hunt; her views that various persons are openly...
    • Commemorative Events
      728. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans her Department has in place to celebrate the centenary of the 1916 Rising at the home of Seán Mac Diarmada in...
    • Plean Teanga
      729. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil plean teanga iarrtha ar Uisce Éireann; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [13076/15]
    • Commemorative Events
      730. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to a flag captured by the 4th Battalion of the Leinster Regiment of the British Army in County...
    • Special Areas of Conservation Management
      731. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when data was last gathered on the corncrake species in the Meenlaragh to Falcarragh special protection area in County Donegal; the...

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