Written answers

Wednesday, 15 April 2015

  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child Care Services Provision
      11. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update on the recent Inter-Departmental Group policy seminar, in which he invited child stakeholders to contribute to...
    • School Completion Programme
      12. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is committed to the work of the school completion programme, and the need for funding to be maintained; and if he will make a...
    • Child Poverty
      13. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is aware that the present housing crisis is one of the biggest contributors to child poverty, curtailed educational attainment and...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      14. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is now in a position to provide extra resources to child care providers, in respect of children with additional and special needs; and...
    • Child Protection
      15. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the report by the Health Information and Quality Authority into child protection and welfare services in the Cork area that...
    • National Youth Strategy
      16. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 150 of 24 February 2015, the progress that has been made in the development of a National Youth...
    • Child Protection Services
      17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will report on the measures his Department is putting in place to monitor the wellbeing of children currently residing in emergency...
    • Early Child Care Education
      18. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in relation to the Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures policy framework from 2014 to 2020, the progress at achieving the commitment to...
    • Child Abuse
      19. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the procedures in place for carrying out investigations into cases of historical child abuse by State institutions; and if he will make a...
    • School Completion Programme
      20. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a commitment to reversing cuts to the school completion programme and ensuring that the programme is secured for the...
    • National Youth Strategy
      21. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 150 of 24 February 2015, if the stakeholder consultation process on the National Youth Strategy has...
    • School Completion Programme
      22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the fact that funding of the school completion programme has been cut from €32.9 million in 2008 to €24.7 million...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      23. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which the provision of adequate child care facilities continues to be a priority, with particular reference to the large...
    • Early Child Care Education
      24. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a second full free preschool year for all children from the beginning of the new school year; and if he will make a...
    • Youth Services Funding
      25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will restore the 30% cut in youth services provision since 2008, including the cuts made by his Government since coming to office; and...
    • Child Mortality
      26. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the infant mortality rate of children in direct provision; and if he agrees that, as Minister for Children, he has a duty of...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      27. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if material gathered by the mother and baby homes commission of investigation can be made available to An Garda Síochána for use...
    • Counselling Services
      28. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to reduce waiting times for counselling services for child victims of sexual abuse. [14472/15]
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      29. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the criteria laid down by her Department regarding the implementation of community employment schemes; and the reason an existing scheme could close...
    • Departmental Funding
      30. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the position of supervisor of the North Leitrim Men's Group will be advertised and filled in view of the fact that the current incumbent retires...
    • Birth Certificates Administration
      31. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an error on a birth certificate in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be corrected; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Funding
      32. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a funding application by a child care organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Appeals
      33. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive a decision on an application for domiciliary care allowance for a child. [13884/15]
    • Employment Support Services
      34. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the operators of a new local area hackney service are eligible to qualify for the back to work scheme or other start-up business assistance in...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reconsider her recent decision not to increase rent supplement in County Meath; if her Department will review the figures for rent...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      36. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of increasing the basic weekly social welfare rate of €188 back to €196. [13916/15]
    • Pension Provisions
      37. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on the Cadbury's pension fund; the total worth of the fund in the years 2012 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and her plans for...
    • Family Income Supplement Eligibility
      39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that mothers who are losing their one-parent family payment when their child turns seven and who work less than 19 hours a week...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if persons who are seeking rent allowance are being provided with a form that does not allow the option of using post offices to deal with this...
    • Unemployment Benefits
      41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the long-term unemployed. [14006/15]
    • National Internship Scheme Data
      42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons availing of JobBridge and other employment initiatives (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Community Services Programme
      43. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on a matter regarding the number of staff to be appointed to a company (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a...
    • JobsPlus Scheme
      44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the minimum hourly rate of pay under the JobsPlus scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14030/15]
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will introduce a new programme for those over sixty years of age who are finishing their tenure on a community employment scheme, which...
    • Back to Education Allowance Eligibility
      47. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the guidelines that were previously in place and allowed students exiting Youthreach and going on to post leaving certificate courses to access the...
    • Widow's Pension Eligibility
      49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the application for a widower's pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 was disallowed. [14061/15]
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the support that is available for self-employed persons with contributions on low income. [14091/15]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      53. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will extend rent support in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14099/15]
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      54. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on State pensions for married couples and the restrictions placed on them regarding joint assets; the limit on assets of a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      56. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the activation options open to recipients of disability allowance; and if she will provide, in tabular form, the numbers of recipients who availed of...
    • Irish Language
      62. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps being taken to promote the use of Irish in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14177/15]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      63. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Allowance Data
      66. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if computerised data on the medical conditions giving rise to claims for disability allowance are stored, as recommended by the value-for...
    • One-Parent Family Payments
      67. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will acknowledge that it is current Government policy to discourage lone parents from engaging with postgraduate education in view of the fact...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      68. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the updated number of applicants for jobseeker's allowance and jobseeker's benefit; the average timeframe for processing new applications; and the...
    • Home-makers Scheme
      71. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to make adjustments to the home-maker's scheme; when these changes are planned to come into force; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • National Fuel Scheme
      72. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there are grants available from her Department for home heating solid fuel stoves or ranges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14329/15]
    • Postal Services
      73. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the concerns of postmasters in rural post offices regarding letters being sent from her Department to pensioners...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      74. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will approve and expedite an appeal under the carer's allowance scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she...
    • Water Conservation Grant
      76. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way in which the water conservation grant will be paid to residents; and if will be paid in one payment or in instalments. [14363/15]
    • Child Benefit Eligibility
      77. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to increase the age limit for receipt of child benefit beyond 17 years to include dependent children still in full-time education; and if...
    • Postal Services
      78. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of her Department's initiatives to transfer funds electronically directly into personal accounts for persons in receipt of social welfare...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      79. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the weekly means of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be re-examined as the person claims the incorrect figures are being used...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      81. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if changes to the assessment process for carer's allowance will be reversed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14443/15]
    • State Pensions Payments
      83. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form and by county, the number of State pensions (contributory) and (non-contributory) granted and refused from 1...
    • Invalidity Pension Payments
      84. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form and by county, the number of invalidity pensions granted and refused from 1 January 2014 to date in 2015; the...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      85. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, by county, the number of recipients of illness benefit granted and refused from 1 January 2014 to date in 2015;...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility
      86. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on an issue (details supplied) regarding voluntary work while in receipt of a jobseeker's payment; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance Data
      87. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form and by county, the number of recipients of disability allowance granted and refused from 1 January 2014 to date...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Data
      88. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form and by county, the number of recipients of the domiciliary care allowance granted and refused from 1 January...
    • Family Income Supplement Data
      89. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, by county, the number of recipients of family income supplement granted and refused from 1 January 2014 to date...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Data
      90. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form and by county, the number of recipients of farm assist granted and refused from 1 January 2014 to date in 2015;...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      91. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine a disability allowance appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, in view of the fact that it has been...
    • Rural Social Scheme Application Numbers
      92. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form and by county, the number of recipients of the rural social ccheme granted and refused from 1 January 2014 to...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      93. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to increase the rate of jobseeker's allowance payments for young persons who are most at risk of homelessness, in line with those young...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      96. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal under the invalidity pension will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      97. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal under the carer's allowance will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      98. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal under the jobseeker's allowance will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make...
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      99. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the proposed changes to the special status of some community employment programmes; when these changes are intended to begin and what they will...
    • Family Income Supplement Payments
      101. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a family income supplement payment amount will be reviewed in the event that a person in receipt of the one-parent family payment transfers to...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      103. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a personal public service number in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      104. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding pensions for community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility
      105. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the changes to age limits effective from 3 July 2015, when a one-parent family payment recipient must apply for the back to education...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Applications
      106. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application under the farm assist scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      108. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when an oral hearing will take place in respect of an appeal for a carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Pensions Council
      110. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the initiatives that the Pensions Council plans to undertake in 2015 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14760/15]
    • Departmental Bodies Establishment
      111. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the persons who have been appointed to the interdepartmental group on auto-enrolment; the external bodies or persons who are, or will be, consulted...
    • Occupational Injuries Benefit
      112. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 receiving an occupational injury benefit. [14786/15]
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      114. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the decisions made on appeals in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo, following a recent oral hearing; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      115. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal of a decision under the carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
    • Back to Work Family Dividend Scheme Administration
      117. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in passing legislation to give effect to the back-to-work family dividend; her plans to alleviate the situation for those...
    • Respite Care Grant Applications
      118. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for the refusal of a respite care grant for 2014 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      119. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason for a refusal of a jobseeker's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; and if she will make a statement on...
    • One-Parent Family Payments
      120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cuts made to the one-parent family payment from 2008 to 2015; and if she will provide a breakdown identifying the budget measure giving rise to...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Data
      121. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for domiciliary care allowance received by her Department in 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015; the number, in tabular form,...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      122. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under her control; the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each...
  • Department of Finance
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      123. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the disabled drivers value added tax and vehicle registration tax refund scheme to ensure it reflects the real cost involved in changing a...
    • Tax Code
      124. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax position in relation to farmers who add their son or daughter to their herd number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14510/15]
    • International Bodies Membership
      125. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for Ireland to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13889/15]
    • Tax Code
      126. To ask the Minister for Finance if operators of the new local area hackney service are obliged to pay income tax on their earnings from the hackney service; and if he will make a statement...
    • Tax Data
      127. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which C2 subcontractors were registered in the construction, meat processing and forestry sectors, per year, between 2000 and 2014; and the...
    • Tax Collection
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance if the national C2 monitoring group is still operational; and if not, the way in which the Revenue Commissioners monitor subcontractors who were formerly C2...
    • Universal Social Charge Exemptions
      131. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of workers who would be removed if the universal social charge entry point was increased from €12,012 to €14,875. [13921/15]
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      132. To ask the Minister for Finance if an application for tax relief for vehicles purchased for use by persons with disabilities will be reviewed in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Insurance Coverage
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance the options available to consumers in respect of insurance companies who refuse to offer insurance against flood damage, despite no flooding having occurred...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      134. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the establishment of the credit register; the number of companies that applied to manage the register; and of these, the...
    • VAT Payments
      136. To ask the Minister for Finance the value in monetary terms of value added tax being paid back to the United Kingdom because companies have succeeded in tendering for public procurement, in...
    • NAMA Social Housing Provision
      139. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of social houses that were made available by the National Asset Management Agency for County Galway; his plans to allocate more; and if he will...
    • IBRC Loans
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list, in order of ranking, of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation's creditor categories; if he will confirm which category of creditors...
    • Property Tax Administration
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance the issues he is referring to in the terms of references of the local property tax when he states that a number of issues have arisen in relation to its...
    • VAT Rate Application
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a utility company (details supplied) which offers a discount can apply the value added tax before it deducts the discount; and if he will make a...
    • Insurance Industry Regulation
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the regulation of companies providing life insurance cover; the number of companies providing such cover in the years 2012 to 2014, and...
    • Financial Services Regulation
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 279 of 31 March 2015, if he will provide the documentation requested (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Tax Rebates
      146. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a refund of tax in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14203/15]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of distressed mortgages on family homes which are held by financial institutions not regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland, but which may be...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      148. To ask the Minister for Finance the level of oversight and input his Department and the Central Bank of Ireland have in retail banks setting interest rates. [14280/15]
    • Tax Rebates
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has entitlements to a tax rebate in regard to all of taxes paid; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Credit Card Interest Rates
      150. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions No. 53 of 25 March 2015 and No. 283 of 31 March 2015, if he will explain the apparent contradiction in his replies...
    • Mortgage Lending
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of first-time buyers who have purchased mortgages from the companies that the ICS distribution platform was sold to; and if he will make a...
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      153. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 277 of 24 March 2015, the level of contact between the Irish Financial Services Centre Clearing House Group and the...
    • Tax Reliefs Eligibility
      154. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a tax issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14418/15]
    • Tax Exemptions
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax shelters and tax exemptions, that allow the better-off to avoid paying their fair share of taxes, that have been eliminated or restricted since March...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a report on his meeting with Governor Honohan on 2 April 2015, listing all issues discussed, decisions taken and commitments made. [14423/15]
    • VAT Rebates
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance if money will be reimbursed to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14451/15]
    • Tax Code
      159. To ask the Minister for Finance if the scheme of tax incentives for child care facilities promoted in the Finance Act 1999 left any obligation on crèche owners, who rent out the...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      160. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank of Ireland has reviewed the split-mortgage proposals offered by Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland to struggling mortgage holders in...
    • Mortgage Lending
      161. To ask the Minister for Finance in relation to the new limits for mortgages for residential dwelling units, if he will outline the limits for new mortgages for first-time buyers and for...
    • Budget Targets
      162. To ask the Minister for Finance the maximum permissible budgetary adjustment possible in budget 2016, based on the latest available statistics, following negotiations with the European Union...
    • Irish Water Funding
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance the effect and-or cost of the current situation where Irish Water is placed on the books on the deficit-surplus; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Pensions Levy
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance following the end of the levy on pension funds, the steps he will take to remedy the reduction in the pension funds caused by this levy; and if he will make a...
    • VAT Rebates
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the fact that Cystic Fibrosis Ireland raised almost €9 million for hospital building projects over the past four years, of which 23% value...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      166. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the high variable interest rates Irish banks are charging (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14584/15]
    • Tax Code
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding inheritance tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14599/15]
    • Budget Consultation Process
      168. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to establish a budget office which would cost alternative budgets prepared by opposition parties; and if he will provide costings for the election...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is possible to claim income tax relief in respect of contributions paid by a deceased person, under the Nursing Home Support Scheme; if so, the person...
    • Proposed Legislation
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Taxation and Certain Other Matters (International Mutual Assistance) Bill will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14737/15]
    • EU Regulations
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance if legislation will be introduced in relation to vulture funds (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14756/15]
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      173. To ask the Minister for Finance if a review of the Central Bank of Ireland's Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears will take place (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      174. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax implications in a case were the child of a farmer under the Young Farmer Top-Up Scheme receives entitlements by transfer from the parent; and if he...
    • Fuel Trader's Licence
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance with reference to the opening statement on fuel fraud provided to the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications on 3 December 2014, which referred to...
    • VAT Exemptions
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain the anomaly whereby persons buying feed for horses do not pay value added tax, while persons in the greyhound industry are obliged to pay...
    • Tax Exemptions
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 of 26 March 2015 regarding the single Person Child Carer Tax Credit, his plans to address the difficulties that arise...
    • Bank Restructuring
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish the restructuring plan as approved for PermanentTSB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14816/15]
    • Tax Collection
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of interest levied and collected by the Revenue Commissioners in respect of each of the years 2012 to 2014 in respect of late payment of tax...
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are impediments to temporary staff who are employed by outsourced companies on behalf of the Revenue Commissioners when they seek to apply for...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to assist homeowners in arrears and facing repossession; if he will develop a scheme that permits the homeowners to remain in their house; and if he...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will have discussions with the banks to examine the possibility of a small loans policy which would include the option of having repayments taken from...
    • Tax Code
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of lowering the top rate of income tax by 1%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14926/15]
    • Semi-State Bodies Dividends
      190. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under his control; the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Commercial Rates Exemptions
      191. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding crèches in the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      193. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the planned flood relief scheme in Cork City; if he will provide an estimate of the timeline in the delivery of...
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      194. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ascertain from the Office of Public Works when a final report will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Semi-State Bodies Dividends
      195. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the policy he has with respect to dividend payments to the Exchequer from commercial semi-State bodies; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      196. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of restoring the public sector pay cuts that took place over a number of budgets, by each Government Department; and if he will...
    • Scéim Oibreacha agus Cosanta Cósta
      197. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform an bhfuil sé i gceist ag Oifig na nOibreacha Poiblí airgead a chur ar fáil láithreach chun an creimeadh cósta i...
    • Garda Station Closures
      198. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position in relation to a Garda Síochána barracks (details supplied) in County Sligo; and the Office of Public Works plans...
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      199. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the flood relief works required to the embankment at Bellurgan in County Louth. [14150/15]
    • Public Service Annual Leave
      200. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the maximum number of days annual leave persons are entitled to, across the public service, including State agencies; and if he will...
    • Architectural Heritage
      201. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a matter regarding boat operators (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14697/15]
    • Public Service Redeployment
      202. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to open up the public service and Civil Service so that public servants may transfer freely into the Civil Service, similar to...
    • Injury Warrants
      203. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details in respect of all Government Departments where employees therein have been the beneficiary of injury warrants...
    • Valuation Office
      204. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in relation to the soon to be passed Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012, he will clarify the situation, and if the changes in...
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      205. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on concerns (details supplied) in Dublin 3 regarding reversal of pay cuts in the public service; and if he will make a...
    • Office of Public Works Functions
      206. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans of the Office of Public Works to intervene and carry out a detailed inspection of the drainage and sewer at a location...
    • Semi-State Bodies Dividends
      208. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under his control; the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Registered Employment Agreements
      209. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to introduce the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill to provide a new legislative framework for registered employment...
    • Proposed Legislation
      210. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will introduce the Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill to provide for collective bargaining rights before the summer...
    • Employment Rights
      211. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Unfair Dismissals Acts or Terms of Employment (Information) Acts include a definition for commencement of employment. [13927/15]
    • Regional Enterprise Strategy
      213. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 5 of 26 March 2015, if the €250 million, over five years, in additional funding was...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
      214. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding small and medium sized enterprises. [14004/15]
    • Company Returns
      217. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding audits (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14098/15]
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      218. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, a list of the organisations that have made submissions to his Department on the proposed...
    • Work Permit Criteria
      220. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on removing the position of chiropractor from the ineligible list of occupations for work permits; and if he will make a...
    • IDA Site Visits
      222. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of site visits by IDA Ireland client or prospective client companies, in tabular form and on a county basis, for the first...
    • Employment Rights
      223. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on measures to tackle zero-hour contracts; when legislation will be brought before Dáil Éireann; and if he...
    • Industrial Disputes
      224. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will intervene in a dispute in a company (details supplied) to reach a solution which would be acceptable to all parties...
    • EU Directives
      225. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to set out his plans to transpose the European Union directive on part-time work into Irish law ; and if he will make a statement on...
    • EU Programmes
      227. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to set out the reason for not implementing the social entrepreneurial axis under progress microfinance of the employment and social...
    • Irish Language
      228. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to set out his views on the type and extent of training being provided to the cohort of staff identified as proficient in providing...
    • Local Enterprise Offices
      229. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on the status and operation of the protocol between his Department and Údarás na Gaeltachta regarding the...
    • Semi-State Bodies Dividends
      230. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under his control; the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Bord na gCon Expenditure
      231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details on the total salaries being paid to the Irish Greyhound Board; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Aquaculture Development
      232. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of his acknowledgement that no radical change in the aquaculture sector was to be expected from the Seafood Development...
    • Seirbhísí Farantóireachta
      233. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén réiteach fadtéarmach a dhéanfar chun páirceáil fheiliúnach a chur ar fáil saor in aisce...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the position regarding a single farm payment for 2014 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      235. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the outcome of a site inspection in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
    • Common Fisheries Policy
      236. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is representation from environmental non-governmental organisations on the discard implementation group to advise on the...
    • Milk Supply
      237. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to explain the reason a person (details supplied) County Kerry was disqualified as a milk supplier in the mid 1990s; and if he is...
    • Grassland Sheep Scheme Applications
      238. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine and expedite a payment under the grassland sheep scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry;...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      239. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if penalties applied to 2013 and 2014 single farm payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be...
    • Scéim um Roghanna Comhshaoil Talmhaíochta
      240. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cén pionós faoin Scéim um Roghanna Comhshaoil Talmhaíochta atá curtha ar fheirmeoir i gContae na Gaillimhe...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
      242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out his plans to adopt Article 4(1)(h) of European Union Regulation 1307/2013 to help flexibility, standards and objective...
    • Rural Development Programme
      243. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if applications are open for the recently announced €200 million fund by the European Union Commissioner, Mr Phil Hogan, for...
    • Food Safety Standards Regulation
      244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will prohibit the use of glyphosate herbicide as a result of its toxic impact. [13981/15]
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to explain the reason a person (details supplied) has been the subject of a €1,300 fine under the single farm payment for...
    • Rural Development Programme
      246. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the European Commission is launching its roadshow to explain the workings of a new guarantee system to ensure access to credit...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      247. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to explain the reason an overpayment under the disadvantaged areas scheme 2013 has been notified to a person (details supplied) in...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out his views on the statement by the Minister of State with responsibility for rural affairs to the Joint Committee on...
    • Forestry Premium Payments
      249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive a forestry premium payment. [14023/15]
    • Departmental Funding
      250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the funding allocated in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of an appeal under the 2013 single payment scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he...
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of an on-site visit under the 2013 single payment scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
      255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will take Article 4.1.H of Pillar 1 legislation into consideration, which allows for local conditions and so on to be taken...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      256. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a payment under the agri-environment options scheme for 2014 was not paid in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      257. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department's position on proposals made by a company (details supplied) in County Dublin; his plans to support smoked fish...
    • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
      258. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the protection measures currently being discussed by his Department and European Union agriculture officials to protect Irish...
    • Irish Language
      259. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps being taken to promote the use of Irish in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14168/15]
    • Aquaculture Data
      260. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of aquaculture operations that exist on land in this State; the location of same; the number of persons who are employed...
    • Nitrates Usage
      261. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding nitrates regulations and penalties being imposed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick;...
    • Single Payment Scheme Data
      262. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in counties Longford and Westmeath in receipt of the single farm payment; and the percentage these farmers were...
    • GLAS Data
      263. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of fully completed applications under the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme received to date, under each tier;...
    • GLAS Administration
      264. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to facilitate all commonage farmers who wish to submit an application under the green low-carbon...
    • GLAS Payments
      265. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the fact that the deadline for applications under the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme is 22 May 2015, if he...
    • Beef Exports
      266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will account for recent reports that Irish beef exports to the United States of America are unlikely to hit targets set by him,...
    • Farm Safety Scheme
      267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the farm safety campaigns that are planned with the Health and Safety Authority, in view of the fact that leading industry experts...
    • Agriculture Schemes Eligibility
      268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the provisions that are being made for the many young old farmers who established their holding before 2008, referred to as the...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      269. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a recent European Commission report which recommended reducing the Irish beef herd by 35% and the dairy herd by 5.5%, in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      270. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the deferral announced by European Union Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Phil Hogan, for the milk superlevy, the payment...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      271. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the discussions he has had with the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, in relation to the development of the...
    • Beef Data Programme
      272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be paid in full for 2013 under the beef data programme; the options available to...
    • Fisheries Protection
      273. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 265 of 10 March 2015 and a meeting officials of his Department had with a person (details...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payments under the agri-environment options scheme; the reason for the...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when persons (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payment under the single payment scheme and the disadvantaged areas...
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme Administration
      276. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the impact the recent announcement of an amendment to the tuberculosis eradication movement regulations will have...
    • Beef Data Programme
      277. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the beef genomics scheme will be initiated; in view of the importance of a thriving suckler cow herd, if he will consider...
    • Beef Industry
      278. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current status of the beef forum; when the forum will be at its full implementation level; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Superlevy Fine
      279. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will, in conjunction with the European Commission, minimise the financial impact on dairy farmers who are burdened with super...
    • Dairy Sector
      280. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the proposed dairy forum will be set up; the stakeholders who will be represented on this forum; and if he will make a statement...
    • Farmers' Charter
      281. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress update on the negotiations for a new charter of rights for farmers; if simplification of the Common Agricultural Policy...
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the event of farmers adding a son or daughter to their herd number, if this is treated as a transfer of 50% of the basic payment...
    • Dairy Equipment Scheme Applications
      283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application under the dairy equipment scheme will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny;...
    • Animal Welfare
      284. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 17 December 2014 and subsequent correspondence (details supplied), if he will ask the...
    • Forestry Grants
      285. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application for a forestry road grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [14532/15]
    • GLAS Eligibility
      286. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the presence of any heather in a parcel of land makes it ineligible for inclusion as low input permanent pasture for the purposes...
    • Departmental Funding
      288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which the €241 million development programme for the seafood sector will develop added-value seafood processing in...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      289. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the tendering process in respect of a lease (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Control of Dogs
      290. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 349 of 24 March 2015 and in view of the subsequent meeting between his Department and the Irish...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
      291. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria whereby a farmer can participate in his Department's basic payment scheme in 2015, for the first time; and if he will...
    • Fisheries Offences
      292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-Irish vessels that have received penalty points in Irish waters in 2014 and from January to March 2015. [14590/15]
    • Forestry Management
      294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will explain the policy of Coillte regarding the management of tree-felling operations in scenic areas of high ecotourism...
    • Farmers' Charter
      295. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress made with the new charter of rights for farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14666/15]
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      296. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 27 January 2015, if he will clarify a matter regarding entitlements (details supplied);...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      297. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive a payment under the agri-environment options scheme; the reason for...
    • H298
    • Animal Identification Schemes
      298. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding purchasing calf tags in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Forestry Grants
      299. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to put a forestry grant in place to assist farmers in planting new trees to replace those that were knocked during the...
    • Agriculture Schemes Applications
      300. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments under the disadvantaged areas scheme and the agri-environment options scheme will issue in respect of a person (details...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      301. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the payments and penalties in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the 2013 single payment...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an application under the single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Bovine Disease Controls
      303. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if herdowners with animals that have tested positive for bovine viral diarrhoea are legally obliged to dispose of these animals; and...
    • Forestry Grants
      304. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a forestry application will be processed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Fish Landings
      305. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken in relation to the information which was brought to his attention regarding the systematic and regular...
    • Animal Welfare Bodies
      306. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to re-open discussions with the Irish Seal Sanctuary, and to support it in view of the fact that it has its CHY number...
    • Direct Payment Scheme
      307. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the skillset and qualifications available to the inspectorate of his Department for those charged with the carrying out of ground...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      308. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a reply will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [14812/15]
    • Single Payment Scheme Eligibility
      309. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views that the €40,000 ceiling is preventing farmers from getting into the new single payment scheme; and if he will make...
    • Aquaculture Development
      310. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 293 of 10 March 2015, in which he acknowledged that no radical change in the aquaculture sector...
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications
      311. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 10 March 2015, the experts from whom he is seeking the very detailed scientific and...
    • Aquaculture Data
      313. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the annual production outturn for marine finish aquaculture and, separately, for marine shellfish aquaculture for each of the years...
    • Sea Lice Controls
      315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the dramatic increase in sea lice infestation in certain marine salmon farms, if he regards his Department's sea lice...
    • Coillte Teoranta Dividend
      316. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dividend paid to the Exchequer for each year from 2000 to 2014 by Coillte; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14933/15]
    • Semi-State Bodies Dividends
      317. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under his control, the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Training
      318. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide for the years 2011 to 2014, inclusive, the number of military personnel from other states receiving training here; the states they come...
    • Defence Forces Investigations
      319. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will support a matter (details supplied) regarding Irish United Nations veterans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14480/15]
    • Defence Forces Properties
      320. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will ensure the provision of a lease to an organisation (details supplied) in County Westmeath in respect of the former Army barracks in Mullingar; if...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      321. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under his control; the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Taxi Regulations
      322. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the rationale for not allowing 18-seat vehicles which meet European standards to be licensed as public service vehicles (details supplied) in...
    • Proposed Legislation
      323. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if an impact study has been carried out on the proposed legislation in the English language teaching industry for the 27 week holiday-work...
    • Road Traffic Accidents Data
      324. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number and type of road traffic accidents which have occurred on the stretch of the R152 between the M1 motorway near Drogheda in County...
    • Garda Expenditure
      325. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amounts paid to the GoSafe company to operate speed cameras in the year 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13868/15]
    • Garda Deployment
      326. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will discuss with the Garda Commissioner the possibility of increasing the number of gardaí attached to the community policing unit...
    • Firearms Certificates
      327. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount collected by An Garda Síochána from issuing firearm certificates in the years 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015. [13918/15]
    • Immigration Data
      328. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that were denied entry at Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Ports and Cork, Shannon and Dublin Airports in the years 2013 and...
    • Garda Deployment
      329. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí currently driving on chief's permission in the years 2013 and 2014, and to date in 2015. [13920/15]
    • Peace Commissioners Data
      330. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality If she will provide a list of registered peace commissioners in County Carlow on 1 March 2015; and if she will identify those who have been put...
    • Legislative Measures
      331. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the wards' fund and Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill; and if she will make a...
    • Garda Deployment
      332. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given in co-operation with the local Garda section to Duleek Garda station in County Meath opening for longer hours; and...
    • Garda Expenditure
      334. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of money spent on utilising taxi services by An Garda Síochána in the years 2012 to 2014, inclusive, and in 2015 to date;...
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      336. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the SAFE Ireland report The Lawlessness of the Home: on women’s experience of seeking legal remedies to domestic violence and...
    • Leave to Remain
      337. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for leave to remain can be facilitated in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if she will make a statement...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      338. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support the proposal of a public inquiry into all of the cases of alleged Garda malpractice. [14073/15]
    • Prison Staff
      339. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the rostering arrangements for prison staff in the reception units of the prison service, where prisoners who have been committed to prison are...
    • Prisoner Transport
      340. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the annual cost of transporting persons committed to prison for the non-payment of fines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14084/15]
    • Asylum Applications
      341. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; the degree to which this case was examined, in view of the...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      342. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the revenue generated from speeding fines in County Louth for each year since 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14090/15]
    • Citizenship Applications
      343. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current residency status of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; if an application for citizenship can be facilitated; and if she will...
    • Human Rights Issues
      344. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received a report from the Committee for the Prevention of Torture following its visit here in September 2014; her plans regarding...
    • Family Reunification
      345. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed by a person (details supplied) in County Carlow who arrived here as an accompanied minor, aged 13 years. [14103/15]
    • Spent Convictions Legislation
      346. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when legislation allowing for convictions to be deemed spent will be debated in Dáil Éireann; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Illegal Immigrants
      347. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the undocumented migrants and any regularisation proposals being considered; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Irish Language
      348. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to promote the use of Irish in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14176/15]
    • Garda Recruitment
      349. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is envisaged that candidates from Bands 2 and 3 from Stage 1 of the Garda recruitment process will be brought forward for consideration...
    • Family Reunification Applications
      352. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will expedite a family reunification application in respect of a person (details supplied). [14245/15]
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      353. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a case (details supplied) as part of the Independent Review Mechanism; when she expects a recommendation on this case from the...
    • Garda Operations
      354. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No.737 of 25 March 2014, if she will provide a reply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14267/15]
    • Visa Numbers
      355. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of short stay C visas that were granted; and applied for, in each visa office in the years 2011...
    • Drugs Seizures
      356. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 393 of 31 March 2015, the value of illegal drugs awaiting destruction, currently in the possession of An...
    • Garda Oversight
      357. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the payments made to a person (details supplied) as Chairperson of the Garda Authority; the functions this person has been undertaking and the...
    • Legislative Measures
      358. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to enact the Garda Síochána (No.3) (Amendment Bill) 2014; and if it will be commenced in its entirety, or in a piecemeal...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      359. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support a case (details supplied); if she will meet the family involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14411/15]
    • Family Mediation Service
      360. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that a full-time and dedicated family mediator is immediately allocated to the Letterkenny Family Mediation Office; if she is...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      363. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the 1972 Dublin bombings, the investigation and supports for the victims and their families; and if she will...
    • Crime Prevention
      364. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to target the practice of sex trafficking here; if she will provide an update on the general scheme of the criminal law...
    • Citizenship Applications
      365. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for citizenship or naturalisation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • Immigration Controls
      366. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the number of Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service inspections of language schools, for each year from...
    • Court Judgments
      368. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter regarding a High Court case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14580/15]
    • Deportation Orders Data
      369. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of deportation orders signed under section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999, since its enactment;...
    • Immigration Data
      370. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of persons granted leave to remain on humanitarian grounds, under section 3 of the Immigration...
    • Garda Resources
      371. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for Malahide Garda station in County Dublin, including resources. [14612/15]
    • Community Policing
      372. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the community policing plans in high amenity areas. [14613/15]
    • Garda Strength
      373. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda numbers in each district and sub-district with a population of 36,000. [14614/15]
    • Crime Data
      375. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current crime statistics, by category, for the Malahide sub-district area, compared to five and ten years ago. [14616/15]
    • Guardian Status
      376. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide clarification regarding correspondence in relation to the Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015; and if she will make a...
    • Prisoner Data
      377. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 2 April 2015, if she will clarify the severity of crime, by category, of which the 293 prisoners...
    • Alcohol Sales Legislation
      378. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to legislate in respect of the alcohol home delivery service which creates concern and also enables under-age drinkers to access...
    • Crime Prevention
      379. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the actions she will take to address knife crime in Dublin, and in particular on public transport in Dublin; if she has considered introducing...
    • Powers of Attorney
      383. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce legislation to resolve the issue of children of adults with dementia being denied access to see their parent by the...
    • Legal Aid
      384. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases in which the Legal Aid Board is currently providing legal representation before the courts, in the form of civil legal aid to...
    • Garda Operations
      391. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the process for remedy to situations where the Garda Síochána call to a property with a warrant, and where the warrant was issued...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      393. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 148 and 149 of 21 January 2015, if she will provide the information sought; and the reason for the delay....
    • Garda Disciplinary Proceedings
      394. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 348 and 349 of 24 February 2015, if she will provide the information sought. [14750/15]
    • Garda Deployment
      395. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to Rush in County Dublin in April 2012 and subsequent years, excluding those currently on long-term leave,...
    • Garda Equipment
      397. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason resources to equip gardaí to patrol Rush area in County Dublin on bicycles has not been authorised; and the way she plans to...
    • Community Policing
      398. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the crime statistics in Rush in County Dublin for the first three months of every year between 2012 and 2015. [14796/15]
    • Immigration Status
      400. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 12 March 2015, if the person subject of the aforementioned question has been accorded the status of...
    • Garda Investigations
      401. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 328 of 17 February 2015, if she has received a report on the matter from the Garda Commissioner; and if...
    • Firearms Licences
      402. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 324 of 17 February 2015, if she will provide an update on the progress made by the joint working group of...
    • Immigration Status
      403. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14872/15]
    • Student Visas Eligibility
      405. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the role of Marketing English in Ireland on determining the accreditation of English language schools; the guidelines used to determine whether...
    • Garda Equipment
      406. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of extra Garda vehicles that were fitted with automatic number plate recognition equipment in the years 2013 and 2014 and in 2015 to...
    • Garda Deployment
      407. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí per Garda district; the number and location of each Garda station in each district and their opening hours, including...
    • EU Directives
      408. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position on the proposed maternity leave directive, COM (2008) 637; her views on the matter with particular reference to the proposed...
    • Garda Strength
      409. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on recent comments by the Garda Representative Association that garda numbers are currently insufficient to provide the services...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      411. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date on the investigations into the bombing in Belturbet in County Cavan in December 1972, which resulted in the death of...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      413. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the enforcement of speed limits in the port tunnel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14957/15]
    • Semi-State Bodies Dividends
      414. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under her control; the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Foster Care Supports
      415. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is aware that payments to full-time foster parents of high-needs children are currently being reduced when families need to avail of...
    • After-School Support Services
      416. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total number of children and households availing of the after-school child care scheme. [14866/15]
    • Education Standards
      418. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the provisions made to ensure that children in residential care, including in secure units, are receiving the education to which they are...
    • Education Welfare Service
      419. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the number of children in residential care has come to the attention of the education welfare board during the years 2012 to 2014 and in...
    • Juvenile Offenders
      420. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the education facilities available at Oberstown in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13937/15]
    • Child Care Services Regulation
      421. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding crèches in the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14076/15]
    • Youth Services Provision
      422. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in relation to the value for money and policy review of youth programmes, the steps he will take to ensure that the young people's...
    • Irish Language
      424. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps being taken to promote the use of Irish in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14170/15]
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      425. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the subsidiary principle of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Children in Intercountry Adoption was implemented in the adoption...
    • Child and Family Agency Staff
      426. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the recent dismissal, without prior notice or disciplinary procedures, of a person (details supplied), whose...
    • Child and Family Agency
      427. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children from Ireland who have been sent to Kibble in Scotland in the years 2011 to 2014; the cost in each of those years;...
    • Child and Family Agency Staff
      428. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of staffing levels in Tusla-Child and Family Agency, including the number of vacancies in each area, both...
    • Child Care Services Regulation
      429. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the child care sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14453/15]
    • Commissions of Inquiry
      430. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Commission of Inquiry for mother and baby homes is scheduled to officially begin; the structure and timeline for various aspects...
    • Child Care Costs
      432. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to alleviate the financial burden on parents who have very large child care costs; and if consideration has been given to a...
    • Counselling Services
      433. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to reduce waiting times for counselling services for child victims of sexual abuse. [14645/15]
    • Child Care Services Funding
      434. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to address the situation whereby child care service providers receive capitation for 38 weeks, but their staff are entitled to be...
    • Child Care Costs
      435. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which he expects to be in a position to influence the provision of adequate child care facilities, particularly in the...
    • Youth Services Provision
      436. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which his Department continues to liaise with the various youth support organisations, with a view to ensuring the provision...
    • Bullying of Children
      437. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which his Department monitors the extent of bullying taking place outside work or school and cyber bullying; if any...
    • Child Protection
      439. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of incidents of child abuse of a physical, psychological or sexual nature, reported directly or indirectly to his Department or...
    • Juvenile Offenders
      442. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total number of places of detention currently available to cater for juvenile offenders; the extent of rehabilitative or counselling...
    • Child Protection
      444. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the degree to which he expects to be in a position to offer assistance to voluntary bodies or agencies providing counselling or other...
    • Departmental Programmes
      447. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which the Area-Based Childhood Programme 2013-2016 continues to be monitored and implemented by his Department, with...
    • Youth Services Funding
      448. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which he continues to liaise with Kildare Youth Services in order to ensure the adequacy of funding and resources to meet its...
    • Semi-State Bodies Dividends
      449. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under the aegis of his Department; the policy of a dividend payment to the...
  • Department of Health
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      450. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive a decision on an application under the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      451. 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. [13874/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      452. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appointment at St. Luke's Hospital in Dublin 6 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Applications
      453. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [13883/15]
    • HSE Investigations
      454. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the investigation into the case of a person (details supplied) who was a patient at Redwood in County Meath; and if he will make a...
    • HSE Staff Remuneration
      455. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an employee of an organisation (details supplied) in County Galway has not received twilight premium-time payments; and if he will make a statement...
    • Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
      457. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the waiting time for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13 who is on the waiting list for orthodontic work; and if he will make a...
    • Orthodontic Service Provision
      458. To ask the Minister for Health when persons (details supplied) in County Limerick will be called for orthodontic assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13931/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      459. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied) in County Louth who is currently waiting for an echo-cardiogram; if he will confirm...
    • Dental Services
      460. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be scheduled for dental work. [13938/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      461. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for a medical procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13941/15]
    • HSE Staff Remuneration
      462. To ask the Minister for Health the reason workers in an agency (details supplied) were never paid twilight premium-time payments, although these were promised to them; the reason the Health...
    • Fire Service
      463. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to utilising the services of fire fighters, employed full-time or on a part-time retainer, in their capacity as trained emergency first responders,...
    • Disease Management
      464. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the issues raised with regard to the testing, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease, since the hearing of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on...
    • HSE Investigations
      465. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the second investigation into the tragic loss of a baby (details supplied), and other cases of concern that have taken place in the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      466. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied). [13975/15]
    • Motorised Transport Grant
      467. To ask the Minister for Health when a motorised transport grant or an alternative to same will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13986/15]
    • Nursing Education
      468. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the Health Service Executive's plans for the rapid growth in the older-old population, that will present an extensive increase in the requirement for...
    • Hospital Consultants Recruitment
      469. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the delay in bringing the Beaumont renal transplant programme into operation, which requires the...
    • Hospital Services
      470. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14010/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      471. To ask the Minister for Health when person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive an appointment in the South Infirmary Hospital in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      472. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an urgent throat operation in the South Infirmary Hospital in County Cork in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and...
    • Health Strategies
      473. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a workforce plan for the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14015/15]
    • Patient Safety Agency Establishment
      474. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a patient safety authority as outlined in the programme for Government 2011; the form this authority will take; and if he will make a...
    • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
      475. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to create a position for a Minister to oversee issues related to drug abuse and overdose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14026/15]
    • Suicide Prevention
      476. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make funding available to provide suicide prevention courses in post-primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14029/15]
    • HIQA Investigations
      477. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Information and Quality Authority automatically carry out investigations into care centres, when information emerges that employees have been...
    • Health Services Allowances
      478. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that a person in County Waterford applying for a grant for a wig through the Health Service Executive is entitled to a substantially lower grant...
    • Medical Card Applications
      479. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14052/15]
    • Primary Care Centres
      480. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update in relation to a project (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14054/15]
    • Hospital Closures
      481. To ask the Minister for Health his views on reports that Bantry General Hospital was closed to ambulance and SouthDoc patients recently; the reason for this closure; if this was a short-term...
    • Primary Care Centre Provision
      482. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken thus far towards the delivery of a primary care centre (details supplied) in County Cork; the current status of the project; the...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      483. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make the necessary appointment at Galway University Hospital to carry out a procedure for a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      484. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway has been waiting for a long period of time for a hip operation; when it is anticipated that the...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      485. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make available the drug, Regorafenib, to treat patients (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14093/15]
    • Regulation of Health and Social Care Professions
      486. To ask the Minister for Health the progress following a memorandum of understanding between the Health Information and Quality Authority and the Mental Health Commission, on working together...
    • Health Care Professionals
      487. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will ensure that twilight premium-time payments are made to social care workers employed by the Brothers of Charity and Ability...
    • Debt Collection
      488. To ask the Minister for Health his views that hospital debt collecting agents are understanding of the harsh economic realities for the less well off in society; his further views that many...
    • Health Insurance
      489. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the drive towards private health care currently taking place with the 2% levy for those of 34 years of age and older taking out private cover, his...
    • Patient Transport
      490. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene and ensure that there is a day ambulance service offered for elderly patients, many of whom are old and in receipt of State pensions, and...
    • Hospice Services
      491. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to address the differential in funding for hospice care per capita between the midlands region and other regions in the mid-west...
    • Health Services Access
      494. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a place in a health centre in County Kildare in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Services
      495. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the ambulance and trolley crisis at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14139/15]
    • Rights of People with Disabilities
      496. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a matter on protecting children and adults with an intellectual disability (details supplied); and the plans in place to protect children...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      497. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons registered for the drug payment scheme; the number of medical card holders respectively who are currently being prescribed Nadolol to...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      499. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the availability of convalescence beds and respite beds in the Saint Columbanus Home and Community Hospital in Killarney in County...
    • Irish Language
      500. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to promote the use of Irish in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14175/15]
    • Health Services
      501. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to a briefing received from Cystic Fibrosis Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14180/15]
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      502. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No 479 of 21 January 2015, if he will provide an update on the application lodged with the Health Service Executive for the...
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      503. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding midwives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14211/15]
    • Mobility Allowance Review
      505. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding a mobility allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      506. To ask the Minister for Health the ratio of expenditure annually on psychotropic and anti-depressant medications prescribed under the general medical services scheme to annual expenditure on...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      507. To ask the Minister for Health if mechanisms are in place to ensure that costs for services within residential and respite care facilities for children and adults with disabilities are...
    • Care of the Elderly Provision
      511. To ask the Minister for Health when the revised standards for residential care for older persons will be published and implemented. [14222/15]
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      512. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the massive regional variation in the cost of psychotropic and anti-depressant medications prescribed under the general medical services scheme,...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      513. To ask the Minister for Health in the context that he informed Dáil Éireann on 29 January 2015 that treatment for depression usually involves a combination of medication, talking...
    • Health Services
      514. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospitals where Ketogenic treatment is available; the waiting lists for such treatment at such hospitals; the number of patients who have...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      515. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the planned 45-bed adult psychiatric acute admissions unit, to be located at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Healthcare Campus in...
    • National Children's Hospital
      516. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the treatment of cystic fibrosis at the national children's hospital (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Services
      517. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding cystic fibrosis patient rooms (details supplied) in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14250/15]
    • Hospital Staff
      520. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding shortages of frontline staff (details supplied) in cystic fibrosis centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14253/15]
    • Health Services Funding
      521. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding Cystic Fibrosis Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14254/15]
    • Palliative Care Provision
      523. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding palliative care (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14259/15]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      524. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the payment of the Fair Deal nursing home support scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Applications
      525. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a renewal of a medical card in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14262/15]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      526. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the payment of the fair deal nursing home support scheme in respect of a person ( details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make...
    • Hospital Investigations
      527. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the family of a person (details supplied) are supplied with a full career-group affiliation history of the key personnel at Beaumont...
    • Health Services
      528. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Dublin has been left with no transport to the Balbriggan Alzheimer's day care in County Dublin, due to being...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      529. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form and for each local health area, the number of persons currently on the speech and language therapy assessment waiting list;...
    • HSE Funding
      531. To ask the Minister for Health if funding of €1 million for staff costs required to be met in order to open the new cystic fibrosis unit in University Hospital Limerick, which was...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      532. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14296/15]
    • Health Services Provision
      533. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a matter (details supplied) regarding residential accommodation has not been addressed. [14304/15]
    • Hospital Facilities
      534. To ask the Minister for Health the plans the Health Service Executive has for upgrading the paediatric unit at Cork University Hospital; the plans to improve the facilities at the hospital...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      535. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide resources through the Health Service Executive to provide front-line cystic fibrosis clinical staff at Cork University Hospital; and if he...
    • Proposed Legislation
      536. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposed soft opt-out system for organ donation; when this will come before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement...
    • Respite Care Services
      537. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the Health Service Executive has considered, or would consider in the future, providing respite services for persons with intellectual...
    • Health Services Reports
      540. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the Health Service Executive's planned report on lymphoedema services; when it will be completed; if it will feed into the...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
      541. To ask the Minister for Health the number of citizens on the fair deal scheme waiting list in each county since the scheme commenced. [14321/15]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      543. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the commitment of the Health Service Executive, if he will review the recruitment process for psychologists; if he will ensure that this process is...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      544. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the staffing levels in each Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services team, with details of all vacancies; and his plans for...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      545. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the staffing levels at primary care level, with whole-time equivalent numbers in each area, both geographical and professional;...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      546. To ask the Minister for Health if he will compare the current number of inpatient beds available for children with mental health difficulties here with international best standards and...
    • HSE Governance
      548. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent inquiries by the public accounts committee into good governance in the Health Service Executive. [14342/15]
    • Hospital Staff
      549. To ask the Minister for Health the date that the community-based paediatric palliative care nurse will begin in Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal. [14350/15]
    • Health Services Access
      550. To ask the Minister for Health the status-steps taken to implement the proposal, as discussed with him during a meeting with Our Children's Voice representatives on 4 February 2015, for an...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      551. To ask the Minister for Health the supports and services that are in place for sufferers of fragile X syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14367/15]
    • Hospital Closures
      553. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm and clarify the status of elective surgery at Kilcreene hospital in County Kilkenny, which serves the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency and the...
    • Vaccination Programme
      554. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding meningitis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14374/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      555. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding an appointment at Cork University Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      556. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be scheduled for surgery. [14380/15]
    • Health Services Provision
      557. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a building (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14409/15]
    • Health Services Access
      558. To ask the Minister for Health if he will raise the need for cross-Border funding of the White Oaks addiction treatment centre in Derryvane, Muff, County Donegal, with his Northern...
    • Fire Service
      559. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish that the guidelines that were agreed by the chief fire officers in counties Donegal, Leitrim and Sligo fire service, ambulance service,...
    • Health Insurance Community Rating
      560. To ask the Minister for Health if persons currently working and paying taxes in Northern Ireland and availing of the National Health Service there, but who are resident in the Republic of...
    • Medical Card Data
      561. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of medical card applicants in the category aged 66 years and over who obtained credits under the headings,...
    • Alcohol Sales Legislation
      563. To ask the Minister for Health if measures (details supplied) will be considered as part of the alcohol strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14427/15]
    • Autism Support Services
      564. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Health Service Executive regional specialist autism spectrum disorder teams; the location of each team; the areas they cover; if he will provide...
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      565. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that 20 inpatient rooms for cystic fibrosis patients are needed at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9, where there are currently only seven such...
    • National Children's Hospital Status
      566. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update regarding the construction of the national children's hospital; his views on concerns regarding delays in constructing the...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      567. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the critical shortage of front-line cystic fibrosis staff in the health service; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Organ Donation
      568. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of upcoming legislation that impacts on cystic fibrosis care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14447/15]
    • Proposed Legislation
      569. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update regarding the health information Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14448/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      572. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, who has submitted all relevant...
    • National Dementia Strategy Implementation
      574. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the funding model for private nursing homes to recognise the complex and high-dependency needs of persons with dementia in specialist care...
    • Medical Card Applications
      575. To ask the Minister for Health when a medical card will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14499/15]
    • Home Help Service
      576. To ask the Minister for Health his views on seven-hour contracts for home help staff (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14513/15]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
      577. To ask the Minister for Health his views on proposals to increase nursing home charges (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14514/15]
    • Home Help Service
      578. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the issue of cover replacements for home helpers taking holidays; if the Health Service Executive will be provided with a budget...
    • Hospital Staff
      579. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) resigned from a post in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9; and the steps he has taken to operate the unit in view of the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      580. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14539/15]
    • Hospital Facilities
      582. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the new acute psychiatric unit at Cork University Hospital; when it will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14548/15]
    • Disability Services Provision
      583. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of existing clinicians, the number of therapy posts and the number and grade identified as being required...
    • Hospital Facilities
      586. To ask the Minister for Health the funding that will be allocated to the cystic fibrosis unit in University Hospital Limerick; when these funds will be allocated; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      587. To ask the Minister for Health the measures his Department is taking to address the lack of potential candidates for recruitment to the Irish health services, in particular cystic fibrosis...
    • Patient Data
      588. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of patients who accessed the cystic fibrosis paediatric inpatient service; who accessed the cystic fibrosis...
    • National Children's Hospital Status
      589. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the status of the new children's hospital in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14573/15]
    • Patient Data
      590. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of persons diagnosed with cystic fibrosis in the years 2012 to 2014 and in 2015 to date. [14574/15]
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      591. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be provided to Cystic Fibrosis Ireland to complete the two new paediatric inpatient rooms in Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      592. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding from his Department that has been provided to the Irish Guide Dog Association in each of the past four years, in respect of the assistance...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
      593. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the commitment in the programme for Government on the fair deal system of financing nursing home care; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      595. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine an appointment for a surgical procedure in Kerry General Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      596. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an operation at Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital in Dublin 11 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if...
    • Medical Card Applications
      598. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has not received any reply to an application for the renewal of a medical after four months; and if he...
    • Health Services
      599. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for glasses in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      600. To ask the Minister for Health if persons currently working and paying taxes in Northern Ireland, and availing of the National Health Service there, but who are resident in the Republic of...
    • Departmental Budgets
      601. To ask the Minister for Health the cumulative amount of funding removed from his Department and Health Service Executive budgets since 2009, in view of the fact that he recently reported to...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the proposed changes to the ambulance services from Dublin Fire Brigade; if he will provide an update on any proposed changes that his...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      603. To ask the Minister for Health his Department's current measures to address access to mental health services for those under 18 years of age; if he will report on the collaborative measures...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      604. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for a new hearing aid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Children's Hospital Status
      605. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which plans and preparations are progressing in respect of the new children’s hospital; the extent to which previous plans costing in the...
    • Hospital Consultants Recruitment
      606. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of consultant positions vacant in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9; the length of time they have been vacant; the...
    • Medical Inquiries
      607. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to find the details of how an investigation into home birth practice (details supplied) was undertaken, in view of the fact that the...
    • Accident and Emergency Department Staffing
      608. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine concerns by the Irish Nurses Organisation regarding the urgent need for an appropriate increase in staffing levels at the accident and...
    • Health Promotion
      609. To ask the Minister for Health the policy that is in place to ensure the benefits of breastfeeding are highlighted to new mothers. [14696/15]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      610. To ask the Minister for Health the constitutional protections currently in place for in vitro embryonic human life; the proposals in place to alter such protections; and if he will make a...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      611. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on mental health services for those under 18 years of age; the number of those under 18 years of age being currently being treated in adult...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      612. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of anecdotal reports of those with disabilities discontinuing employment to remain in receipt of a medical card and related care; if...
    • Hospital Services
      613. To ask the Minister for Health when the new €15 million acute psychiatric unit will open in Cork University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14726/15]
    • Orthodontic Service Provision
      615. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding orthodontic treatment in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14751/15]
    • Health Insurance
      616. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address concerns that have been raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in County Cork regarding the operation of the Health...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      617. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appointment at Cork University Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Registration of Nurses
      618. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of time it currently takes to register as a nurse, from the time of submitting an application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14777/15]
    • Care of the Elderly Provision
      622. To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding the urgent need to address gerontological care and the requirement for a viable workforce plan in this regard. [14784/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      623. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14787/15]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
      624. To ask the Minister for Health if an application under the fair deal scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will be given urgent attention, in view of the fact...
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      625. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to deal with supposed miracle cures for autism being marketed here, some containing bleach. [14810/15]
    • Health Services Provision
      626. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene to ensure that a deficit issue in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork is dealt with, in order that there is...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14813/15]
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      628. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the National Treatment Purchase Fund; the areas it is being focused on at present, its budgets in each of the past three years; where...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      629. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposed takeover of Dublin Fire Brigade by the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14832/15]
    • Dental Services
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a matter (details supplied) in Dublin 5 relating to medical card patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14834/15]
    • Health Strategies
      631. To ask the Minister for Health the proposed timescale for completion of a new national cancer strategy, the proposed membership of the review group, if he will consider including a patient...
    • General Medical Services Scheme Administration
      632. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an appeals process available to a medical card patient if a general practitioner removes that patient from his or her General Medical Services...
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      633. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed breakdown on the cost of a packet of branded Xanax which is generic alprazolam, of branded Lipitor which is generic atorvastatin...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      634. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a referral to Saint James' Hospital in Dublin 8 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry in view of that person's...
    • Nursing Home Services
      635. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to extending the remit of registered nurse prescribers to address the needs of medical card holders in private nursing home...
    • Pharmacy Services
      636. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the concept of a minor ailment scheme involving Irish pharmacies; if he is aware of the high success rate of such schemes in other jurisdictions;...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      637. To ask the Minister for Health if an eight-year waiting time for access to a dermatologist in counties Carlow and Waterford is the exception rather than the rule; his plans to reduce such...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      638. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated completion cost of the children's hospital; if he will provide a breakdown of this; when the planning application will be lodged; and if he will...
    • Maternity Services
      639. To ask the Minister for Health the number and location of public maternity hospitals; the capital funding that was allocated to these since 1990 to date in 2015; and if he will make a...
    • Primary Care Centre Data
      641. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the primary care list of 35 centres published in 2012; the cost to date; the estimated time of completion; and the estimated total...
    • Hospital Groups
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the hospital grouping lists; the person who is the chief executive officer of each group; when the appointments took place; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Provision
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding occupational and speech and language therapy in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      645. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under his control; the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each company; the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      646. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he raised with the Obama Administration the introduction of a waiver policy for Ireland, currently available through the embassies of the...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      647. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has held with European Union Ministers for Foreign Affairs and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs on the...
    • Human Rights Issues
      649. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will immediately and publicly call on the Egyptian Government to release a person (details supplied). [13979/15]
    • Irish Language
      650. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps being taken to promote the use of Irish in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14174/15]
    • Citizenship Status
      652. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14286/15]
    • International Relations
      653. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will reaffirm Ireland's position of supporting small countries' right to self-determination and their right to apply social policies...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      654. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will condemn, and make Ireland's views known at European Union level regarding, the serious reports (details supplied) that Israeli...
    • Civil Registration Documentation
      656. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason there has been a delay in processing the MP2A and MP1 forms in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who is due...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      657. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of permissions sought for military aircraft from the United States of America to overfly Irish airspace on 28 February 2015; the...
    • International Agreements
      659. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the agreement made on 2 April 2015 between Iran and other world powers on the Iranian nuclear programme. [14594/15]
    • Foreign Conflicts
      660. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise with the Israeli ambassador the case of a person (details supplied) who, for unexplained security reasons, was refused a...
    • North South Ministerial Council
      663. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the next North-South Ministerial Council meeting will be held; the issues to be discussed at this meeting; and if he will make a...
    • Overseas Development Aid Expenditure
      664. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding allocated by his Department to overseas development aid as a percentage of gross national income from 1997 to 2014, inclusive;...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      666. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact he has had with his European Union and United Nations counterparts regarding the increasingly desperate humanitarian crisis at...
    • Diaspora Policy
      667. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has held discussions with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport following his decision to cancel the proposed plan to create...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      668. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under his control; the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • School Transport Provision
      669. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding those over 70 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14001/15]
    • Education Standards
      670. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the report of Quality and Qualifications Ireland on the academic standards necessary for the accreditation of...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      671. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the trade papers that apprentice pipe fabricator welders and apprentice fitters receive upon completion state plumber rather than...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      672. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the Caranua fund, her plans to widen the criteria to include the children of the survivors of residential abuse in order that they...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      674. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the special education section within her Department has not replaced a person within the visiting teacher service and ensured that a...
    • Education and Training Boards Staff
      675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the redundancies in January 2015 made by the Education and Training Board of four local training initiative co-ordinators and assistant...
    • Capitation Grants
      676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason capitation grants are lower for primary schools than for secondary schools; her plans to increase primary school capitation levels;...
    • Language Schools
      677. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the ability of non-Accreditation and Co-ordination of English Language Services schools to appear on international registers to...
    • School Staffing
      681. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being taken to ensure that a proper level of resource teaching is made available to pupils in a school (details supplied) in...
    • School Funding
      682. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the policy of withdrawing funding for schools who were previously designated under the delivering equality of opportunity in...
    • School Staffing
      683. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that an appeal from a school (details supplied) in County Donegal has been received by her Department's primary staffing...
    • Disadvantaged Status
      684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will designate a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 under the delivering equality of opportunity in schools scheme band 1, in view of...
    • School Staffing
      685. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an appeal to the decision of her Department not to award an English teacher as an additional language teacher to a school...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      687. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff in the special education support service; their job titles; the number of these who will transfer to the new inclusion...
    • School Staffing
      689. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff in the visiting teacher service; their job titles; the number of these who will transfer to the new inclusion support service...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      690. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the new inclusion support service within the National Council for Special Education; the total number of staff who...
    • Youthreach Programme Funding
      691. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rates of payment provided to Youthreach students during each of the past five years; and the total payments allocated to these students...
    • Post-Leaving Certificate Courses
      692. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rates of grant available for students participating in post leaving certificate courses; and the reason students under 18 years of age cannot...
    • Quality and Qualifications Ireland Accreditation
      693. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills where the leaving certificate applied fits within the quality and qualifications Ireland framework. [14050/15]
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      694. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will re-examine a submission for roof replacement in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry, in view of the fact that the...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      695. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made towards delivering high-speed broadband to all national schools; when all national schools will have access to high-speed...
    • Schools Establishment
      697. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that the Educate Together primary schools in Wicklow and Greystones in County Wicklow, form part of the new catchment area...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      698. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support a matter (details supplied) regarding students with mild general learning disabilities; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      699. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a Teaching Council of Ireland regulation; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      700. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grant, financial assistance and bursary available in respect of a person (details supplied) who wishes to continue studies in the United...
    • Irish Language
      701. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to promote the use of Irish in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14172/15]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      702. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the decision not to make an item of equipment available to a child (details supplied) in County Cork. [14209/15]
    • School Curriculum
      703. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of the additional attributes achieved by teachers correcting their own students' work in a classroom, which is not...
    • Education and Training Boards
      704. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a building (details supplied) in County Galway is currently being rented by the Galway Roscommon Education and Training Board; the suitability...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      705. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will include a child (details supplied) in County Cork in the free school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Patronage
      706. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the deeds of variation change the legal standing of national schools; if there is a danger that such deeds of variation might be seen to...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      707. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in design work for the provision of a new school in the case of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if she will...
    • Residential Institutions
      708. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 572 of 31 March 2015, the potential locations identified by Dublin City Council for the proposed memorial...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      710. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the requirements for school placements set out by the Teaching Council of Ireland for qualifying as a teacher through professional master of...
    • International Students
      711. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage increase in international students studying here each year, since coming to office; and the percentage increase in students coming...
    • Programme for Government Implementation
      712. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, the commitments under the programme for Government which her Department is responsible for; the progress...
    • Institutes of Technology Staff
      713. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No.158 of 1 April 2015, the number of persons employed in Letterkenny Institute of Technology in County Donegal...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      714. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a full reply will issue in respect of correspondence to her Department, regarding an application for a remote area grant in respect of a...
    • Schools Administration
      715. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide for the obligatory ongoing maintenance of the Clárleabhar in primary schools, following the introduction of the primary...
    • Schools Refurbishment
      716. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if maintenance works will be carried out at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14553/15]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      717. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to include the term Down's syndrome on the list of disabilities in all National Council for Special Education literature and...
    • Public Sector Staff Sick Leave
      718. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the pay a teacher is entitled to when on long-term sick leave. [14581/15]
    • Student Grant Scheme Representations
      719. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if earnings paid in universal social charge will be disregarded as gross income in the higher education means testing system; and if she will...
    • School Enrolments
      720. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the religion of a child's parents being used to allocate school places; her views on religion not being a criteria for the...
    • Schools Administration
      721. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene in a situation involving a school in County Kilkenny to resolve a lengthy dispute between the parents of a child (details...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      722. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 26 March 2015, in which she stated that she had been advised by Caranua that there are no applicants...
    • Physical Education Facilities
      723. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide funding to build an Astro pitch at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry, in view of the fact that physical education...
    • School Patronage
      724. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the national school system (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14754/15]
    • Student Universal Support Ireland Administration
      725. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was initially informed that the person would receive the special rate of student grant,...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address pay issues for teachers. [14764/15]
    • School Services Staff
      727. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to improve pay and conditions for grant-paid school secretaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14765/15]
    • Industrial Disputes
      728. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the industrial dispute at Saint Angela’s College in County Sligo; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Sick Pay Scheme Reform
      729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on recent calls by teachers to introduce a regularised leave system for teachers who have been assaulted in the workplace, in order...
    • Teaching Contracts
      730. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address casualisation of the teaching profession; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14768/15]
    • Schools Building Projects Application Numbers
      731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number and location of schools built under the Fingal schools model; and if he will provide details of any such buildings presently planned...
    • Schools Extra Curricular Activities
      732. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if planning permission is needed to run a crèche and-or after-school facility in a school; the requirements for running such a facility; the...
    • State Examinations
      733. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify the position in relation to a student suffering an illness (details supplied) during State examinations; and if she will make...
    • School Staffing
      735. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will retain the current teaching complement at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Designation
      736. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date a review took place in relation to the issue of the status of a school (details supplied) in County Mayo under the delivering equality...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      737. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made with re-tendering a project for a school building (details supplied) in County Galway; when a contractor will be appointed to...
    • School Patronage
      738. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the planned changes to the status of national schools; the proposals regarding the introduction of a lease by deed of variation; and if she will...
    • Departmental Reports
      739. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the report on researching the policies and practices in other jurisdictions such as Wales and the Catalan region in Spain, that are...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      740. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes that have been introduced to Special Education Support Services; the rationale behind these changes; and if she will make a statement...
    • School Equipment
      741. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding reading equipment in a school, in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Accommodation
      742. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the payment of a grant under the additional accommodation scheme 2014 to a school (details supplied) in County Limerick;...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under her control; the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer from each...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Motor Tax Collection
      744. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that less well-off motorists who avail of the three month or six month motor tax payment option are no...
    • Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme
      745. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the reduction of approximately 50% in social inclusion and community activation programme funds, and of 40%, an...
    • Motor Tax Exemptions
      746. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a person who is in receipt of invalidity pension or illness benefit, and previously purchased a commercial vehicle in a...
    • Local Development Companies Administration
      747. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the recent comments by the Minister of State with responsibility for rural affairs to the Joint Committee on...
    • Vehicle Registration
      748. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider vehicle registration tax exemptions for tractors, where owners have been incapacitated; and if he will...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Implementation
      749. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the implementation of the housing assistance payment scheme; the counties in which the...
    • Environmental Impact Statements
      750. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the statutory and European Union requirement for the environmental impact statement for the Codling Park...
    • Constitutional Convention Recommendations
      751. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the implementation of the Constitutional Convention's recommendations in relation to reform of the electoral...
    • House Purchase Schemes
      752. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reinstate the first-time buyer's grant in order to help persons who are finding it very difficult to get on...
    • Local Authority Housing
      753. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the date by which Meath County Council will receive the funding to the value of €35 million, as committed to tackle...
    • Litter Pollution Fines
      754. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of fines for dog fouling that were issued by Waterford County Council, Waterford City Council and Waterford...
    • Fire Service Staff
      756. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding pension entitlements in respect of retained fire fighters (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Funding
      757. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the Scheme to Support National Organisations; if he will provide bridging funding to the...
    • Motor Tax Rates
      758. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No.599 of 24 February 2015, if his Department regularly reviews the cost of...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      759. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a system of direct debit or standing order payments for motor taxation; and if he will make a...
    • Capital Assistance Scheme
      760. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a company (details supplied) in County Leitrim can apply for lottery funding from his Department; when this lottery...
    • Leader Programmes Administration
      761. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when final announcements will be made in relation to the forthcoming Leader programme; if it is intended to allow all...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
      764. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when statutory instruments will be made, setting a commencement date for the introduction of the new scheme for the tenant...
    • Leader Programmes Expenditure
      765. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of his comments regarding Leader funds spent on local historical books and rural tourism brochures, the amount,...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      766. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will elaborate on the allocation of moneys that were announced by him in relation to Leader funding; if he...
    • Housing Provision
      768. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      769. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department relating to Irish Water since 1 January 2014; the...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      771. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government where the new motor taxation office in County Donegal will be located; when this relocation of the current office will...
    • Housing Finance Agency
      772. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff employed in the Housing Finance Agency; and the annual cost of its operation. [14119/15]
    • Housing Issues
      773. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has carried out a detailed study of houses in County Donegal that have been identified by the MICA...
    • Waste Disposal
      774. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to appoint a single agency to oversee and manage the collection and disposal of used tyres, which will create a...
    • Irish Water Funding
      775. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total cost to the Exchequer, to date, of establishing Irish Water; and the projected cost for 2015 and 2016. [14133/15]
    • Waste Management
      776. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding waste collections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14142/15]
    • Housing Provision
      778. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to his announcement of local authority social housing targets for 2015 to 2017 announced on 1 April 2015, if he...
    • Irish Language
      779. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps being taken to promote the use of Irish in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14173/15]
    • Homeless Accommodation Provision
      780. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a comprehensive report on the measures that have been undertaken to deal with the issue of...
    • Referendum Campaigns
      781. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding voter turnout; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Leader Programmes Expenditure
      782. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures and funding schemes in place to improve, via digital means, the footfall for business in many rural towns and...
    • Postal Voting
      783. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the growing interconnected world in terms of employment and travel, his views that the postal vote system is...
    • Grant Payments
      784. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an estimate of the costs to be incurred by his Department in respect of administering the new...
    • Community Development Projects
      785. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will investigate the way a separate payment of 1% of Local and community development programme funding is now lower...
    • Private Residential Leases
      786. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on an anomaly in the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, which does not expressly prohibit the signing of a private...
    • National Oversight and Audit Commission Remit
      787. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of times that the National Oversight and Audit Committee for local authorities has met, since its...
    • Building Regulations
      788. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that the technical guidance document to Part L, 2011 of the Irish Building Regulations requires...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      790. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 31 March 2015, if he will review the decision to ban rent supplement...
    • Polling Stations
      791. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding working at polling stations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Drainage Schemes
      792. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is a special certified certificate required for the manufacture of drainage equipment (details supplied); and if...
    • Illegal Dumping
      793. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent of powers and obligations which local authorities have to control litter and illegal dumping of household...
    • Disability Access Projects
      794. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the future funding and status of the Dublin 12 Disability Mainstream Access Project (details...
    • Building Regulations
      796. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures taken to improve the standards of apartments being built; the changes that have been brought about, or will...
    • Mortgage Lending
      797. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to the new limits for mortgages for residential dwelling units, if he will outline the limits for new...
    • Building Regulations
      798. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to exempt one-off houses and extensions to existing houses, under the new building controls and regulations; and...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      799. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount allocated to each local authority in 2014 and 2015 for the adaptation...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Eligibility
      804. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that more families can access the rental accommodation scheme in County Meath; and if he...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      805. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount his Department allocated to counties Kilkenny and Carlow for the Leader...
    • Fire Safety Regulations
      811. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the procedures the housing sections of local authorities have in place to safeguard against the spread of domestic fires...
    • Homeless Accommodation Provision
      812. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if those families who are awaiting placement through the homeless central placement service have homeless priority on the...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Implementation
      814. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if persons in receipt of housing assistance payment retain their homeless priority on local authority housing lists; and...
    • Climate Change Policy
      815. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the form of geo-engineering or climate control actions that are being performed in the County Westmeath area in view of...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      816. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when funding allocation will issue to local authorities (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Local Authority Expenditure
      817. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the checks he has in place to ensure that each local authority is in compliance with Government rules on procurement; if...
    • Local Authority Legal Services
      818. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the names of each firm of solicitors that has been appointed by each county council...
    • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
      820. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason interest rate decreases have not been passed onto mortgage holders who are part of the affordable housing or...
    • Private Residential Tenancies Board
      821. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the issue of a private dwelling eviction case (details supplied) which has been referred to the Private Residential...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      822. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason responsibility for supplying security for elderly and disabled persons has been given to Pobal; the reason its...
    • NAMA Social Housing Provision
      825. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on National Asset Residential Property Services Limited; the number of units that have been...
    • Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
      826. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide clarification on the waiting lists for voluntary housing; the way these allocations are being decided;...
    • Planning Issues
      827. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the process of reviewing the 2007 Planning Guidelines on Development Plans, with particular reference to whether the...
    • Semi-State Bodies Dividends
      829. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under his control; the policy of a dividend payment to...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      830. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the Geological Survey of Ireland recently published a tender for public relations services with a requirement...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      831. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if EirGrid will continue with a 400 kV overhead tower and overhead lines at a location (details supplied) in County...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      832. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to make gas available in a town (details supplied) in County Galway; to put in place the necessary...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      833. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will include an area (details supplied) in County Clare in the national broadband scheme; and if he will provide an...
    • Broadcasting Sector
      834. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures in place, and planned measures, to encourage the development of home-grown Irish and Irish-language...
    • Irish Language
      835. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps being taken to promote the use of Irish in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14171/15]
    • Broadband Service Provision
      836. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to upgrade the broadband service at a location (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if he will make contact...
    • Inland Fisheries Ireland
      838. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the decision was made for Inland Fisheries Ireland to open a research centre in Dublin 24; what is the rationale for...
    • Hydraulic Fracturing
      839. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the public health precautions that have been considered by his Department, with regards to hydraulic fracking exploration...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      840. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the broadband infrastructure plans for the Mullaharlin-Heynestown Road area in Dundalk, County Louth; and if he will make...
    • Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme Implementation
      842. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the solar tariff (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14759/15]
    • Broadband Service Provision
      843. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on correspondence (detail supplied) regarding fibre optic broadband; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Semi-State Bodies Dividends
      846. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under his control; the policy of a dividend payment to...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Penalty Points System
      847. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of a case (details supplied) where penalty points have not been removed by the date they should have been; the number of...
    • National Car Test
      848. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legal standing on persons who are now driving with an expired national car test certificate due to the current back-log of accessing...
    • Public Transport
      849. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legislative position regarding the licensing of motorcycles or motortrikes for the carrying of paying passengers; his plans to deal...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      850. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he will take to increase the road space available to cyclists to ensure greater safety and distance from vehicles. [13913/15]
    • Road Safety
      851. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will conduct a public information campaign aimed at motorists, related to the safety of cyclists on roads; and if he...
    • Cycling Policy
      852. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he has taken to increase the number of cyclists; and his future plans in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Tolls
      853. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reduce the cost of toll charges for light goods vehicles, in view of the differential that the owners of such vehicles have...
    • Road Network
      854. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action that has been taken since the Dublin Port tunnel opened to ban any tunnel user from using the tunnel; the reason for such...
    • National Car Test
      855. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the national car test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13956/15]
    • Roadworthiness Testing
      856. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding commercial vehicle roadworthiness tests; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Road Safety
      857. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding certificates of professional competence; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Severe Weather Events Expenditure
      858. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on a project (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14062/15]
    • Wild Atlantic Way Project
      859. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine correspondence (details supplied) regarding a request that the entire coastal area of Valentia Island in County Kerry...
    • Road Tolls
      860. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport where the revenue collected by tolls on the M50 in the past five years has been used; and if he will provide an annual breakdown of same....
    • National Roads Authority
      863. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of staff in the National Roads Authority; and the annual cost of its operation. [14118/15]
    • Rail Network
      864. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether Iarnród Éireann should open the brand new railway station at Kishogue, which has been closed since its...
    • Road Signage
      865. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if equal prominence will be provided on motorway signs to both English and Irish place names; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Irish Language
      866. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken to promote the use of Irish in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14178/15]
    • Roadworthiness Testing
      867. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the current Road Safety Authority recommendations in relation to the roadworthiness testing of vintage vehicles;...
    • National Roads Authority Projects
      868. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department and the National Roads Agency have a policy in relation to adopting roundabout schemes throughout the country, where...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      869. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rationale for the exemption provided to Irish Rail, regarding access for persons with disabilities, under Statutory Instrument No....
    • Sports Capital Programme Eligibility
      870. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider funding under the 2015 sports capital programme for the provision of floodlighting for an all-weather pitch in...
    • Roadworthiness Testing
      871. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding vintage vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14282/15]
    • Public Transport Provision
      872. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views that public moneys are being used to good effect by the National Transport Authority on Bus Rapid Transit, Swiftway-BRT, the...
    • Road Safety
      873. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify the rules regarding sulky ownership and use on public roads; his plans to legislate and regulate the use of sulkies on...
    • Driving Test Regulations
      874. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding driving tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14346/15]
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      875. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the 2014 sports capital grant will be available to draw down (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Road Safety Strategy
      876. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action the Road Safety Authority and Meath County Council plan to take to improve road safety on the stretch of the R152 between the...
    • Roads Maintenance
      877. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding for a bridge (details supplied) in County Donegal, in view of the effect new weight restrictions are causing...
    • Marine Accidents
      878. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to release the reports of marine accidents, which are over 30 years old, to the National Archives of Ireland, in accordance...
    • Rail Network
      879. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Irish Rail cut down trees on the rail line in Cobh in County Cork, leaving the former site of Irish Fertilisers Industries...
    • Sports Funding
      880. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding an application for a sports grant in respect of a soccer club (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he...
    • Road Safety
      881. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures taken to ensure that second-hand imported tyres comply with safety regulations (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Driving Test Regulations
      883. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons taking driving tests in 2014 who had language interpretation assistance during the test; the number in each test...
    • Taxi Regulations
      887. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the case being taken by taxi drivers in respect of the deregulation of the taxi industry a number of years ago;...
    • Dublin Bus Services
      888. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount that Dublin Bus has collected through unclaimed refund receipts in the years 2012 to 2014 and in 2015 to date. [14884/15]
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      889. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 566 of 25 March 2015, which he referred to the Irish Aviation Authority for answer, if he will...
    • Sports Capital Programme Administration
      890. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the commitment to provide funding of €30 million towards the redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh in...
    • Semi-State Bodies Dividends
      891. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under his control; the policy of a dividend payment to the Exchequer...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Wildlife Regulations
      892. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding seagulls (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14426/15]
    • Wildlife Conservation
      893. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the extinction of Irish hares from North Bull Island in Dublin City; her further views on action to restore and preserve...
    • Special Areas of Conservation Criteria
      895. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the criteria used in designating a Special Area of Conservation; in designating the Lough Corrib Special Area of Conservation; if...
    • Heritage Properties
      896. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will provide urgent consideration to the purchase of a property (details supplied) in County Cavan, in view of its...
    • Comharthaí Bóthair
      897. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil dualgas ar údaráis áitiúla faoi Alt 33(2)(c) d’Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla na...
    • Seirbhísí Farantóireachta
      898. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé i gceist aici fóirdheontas díreach a dheonú i leith an chostais a bhaineann le ticéid...
    • Seirbhísí Eitilte
      900. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a lorgófar tairiscintí don chonradh aerthaistil go dtí oileáin Árann; an bhfuil i gceist aici...
    • Heritage Properties
      901. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for details of the person responsible for running Killarney House in County Kerry; the number of staff it is intended to have to run...
    • Departmental Funding
      902. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 1010 of 24 March 2015, the amount of money transferred from the Vote of the Department of...
    • World Heritage Sites
      903. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of her Department's application to United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to have the...
    • Wildlife Regulations
      904. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht regarding the recent public consultation conducted on Section 40 of the Irish Wildlife Act, the way any change to the section, if...
    • Gaeltacht Policy
      905. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her strategy to revive the gaeltachtaí (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14167/15]
    • Irish Language
      906. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps being taken to promote the use of Irish in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14169/15]
    • State Land Ownership
      907. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the area of bog owned by the State in Clonmoylan Bog (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme
      908. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of plot owners who were paid money for turf plots in Clonmoylan Bog (details supplied) in County Galway, under schemes...
    • Forbairt na nOileán
      916. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cad iad na pleananna atá aici don fhorbairt gheilleagrach agus chun poist a chruthú ar Chléire, Contae Chorcaí;...
    • Waterways Ireland Staff
      917. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views that it is reasonable that 32 days annual leave is granted for the position of Regional Manager of the Western Region in...
    • Heritage Council Applications
      918. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide an update on a heritage council application (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a...
    • Conservation Rangers
      919. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of conservation rangers that are employed, by county; the criteria that determines...
    • National Landscape Strategy
      920. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status and planned implementation schedule for the National Landscape Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Semi-State Bodies
      922. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of the semi-State commercial companies under her control; the policy of a dividend payment to the...

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