Written answers
Thursday, 23 April 2015
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Local Government Reform
7. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the principle of subsidiarity, from the point of view of democracy and administrative efficiency, in respect of...
- Building Regulations Amendments
12. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to amend the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014; and his assessment of their effectiveness to date;...
- Housing Issues
13. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to the recent visit of the Minister of State, Paudie Coffey, TD, to a number of homes in County Donegal affected by...
- Homeless Accommodation Provision
14. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an estimate, per housing authority area, of the number of new builds that will be completed in each of...
- Housing Issues
15. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the consideration he and his Department have given to the issue of Mica-affected homes in County Donegal; his Department's...
- Housing Assistance Payments Data
16. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the introduction of the housing assistance payment; the numbers of local authorities and households...
- Shared Ownership Scheme
17. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will introduce a scheme to assist persons who are in difficulties with local authority shared ownership mortgages;...
- Local Authority Housing Maintenance
18. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the energy upgrade scheme to encourage energy for local authority housing will be extended to insulate those homes that...
- Social and Affordable Housing Data
19. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details on the way the social housing targets for 2015 to 2017 are to be met, in particular the amount...
- Irish Water Remit
20. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider amending the Water Procurement Act 1977, to allow for a range of application fees, to reflect the wide...
- Building Regulations Amendments
21. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress of the review of the Building Control Amendment Regulations 2014, to ensure that these regulations do not...
- Local Government Reform
22. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress on the implementation of the Local Government Reform Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
23. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a new tenant purchase scheme in order to enable tenants to purchase their homes from the local...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
24. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to tackle the social housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15561/15]
- Fire Service
26. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the reform of the fire service; and if he will provide a guarantee that the service will be retained under...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
27. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the capacity of voluntary housing associations to deliver social housing on the scale required; if he will consider...
- Emergency Accommodation Numbers
28. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the growing number of families awaiting access to emergency family accommodation; his plans to release...
- Septic Tank Inspections
29. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of septic tanks that his Department has inspected, both nationwide and in County Wexford; the number registered...
- Housing Estates
30. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that housing estates are taken in charge by local authorities; and if he will make a...
- Emergency Accommodation Provision
31. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount that has been spent on emergency accommodation by his Department and local authorities to tackle the immediate...
- Irish Water Administration
32. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a full report on whether the decision to hand over personal details of council tenants to Irish Water,...
- Pyrite Issues
33. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the discussions or contacts his officials have had with the Department of Finance in 2015, in relation to overcoming the...
- Electoral Reform
34. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that the design of ballot papers may affect the outcome of an election; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Dormant Accounts Fund
35. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of unallocated funds presently in the dormant accounts fund; the reason for their non-allocation, other than the...
- Pyrite Resolution Board Remit
36. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has provided guidance to the Pyrite Resolution Board in relation to the manner in which it is dealing with homeowners...
- Departmental Strategies
37. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which efforts are being made to reactivate various developments in towns and villages which were suspended in...
- Pyrite Remediation Programme
38. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans in relation to ongoing funding for the Pyrite Resolution Board and the housing agency, with regard to the...
- Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration
39. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the roll-out of the mortgage to local authority renting scheme and the apparent difficulties...
- Housing Estates
40. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to assist local authorities in having estates taken in charge; and if he will make a statement on...
- Building Regulations Amendments
41. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce changes to the building regulations as they affect self-build one-off houses, and extensions to...
- Water Charges Administration
42. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on any discussions he has had with Irish Water regarding a large volume of non-payment of water charges;...
- Homelessness Strategy
43. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to establish a tenancy protection unit in any area outside Dublin; if he recognises the urgent need for such a...
- Planning Issues
44. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for investigations into planning in six local authorities and County Donegal, arising from the June 2013 High...
- Water Charges Administration
45. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he supports water charges being based on metered use after 2019; his views on the Commission for Energy Regulation...
- Department of Social Protection
- Pension Provisions
46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider the granting of rights of representation to pensioner organisations as requested by the Electricity Supply Board Retired Staff...
- Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
47. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, who has been in constant employment for more than 40 years, qualifies for dental benefit ; and if...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
48. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determining an application for domiciliary care allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who...
- Money Advice and Budgeting Service
49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review and reverse the proposal to abolish the local companies for the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (details supplied), the...
- Social Welfare Payments Administration
50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if two recent deductions of €28 from weekly payment under the jobseeker's scheme, in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Pension Provisions
52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the Pensions Act 1990 in respect of the Electricity Supply Board Retired Staff Association (details supplied); and if she will...
- Disability Allowance Payments
57. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when payment of arrears will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16091/15]
- Child Benefit Eligibility
58. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will indicate when full Child Benefit will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 16, with particular reference to...
- Departmental Offices
59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if all proposals in relation to the provision of suitable accommodation for her Department in Ballybay, County Monaghan as outlined by the Ballybay...
- State Pension (Non-Contributory) Appeals
60. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal in respect of a reduced State Pension (Non-contributory) in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Department of Finance
- Bank Branch Closures
61. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details, in respect of both Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland, of any planned new branch openings or planned branch closures in County...
- IBRC Operations
62. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his Department's publication of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation's special liquidators' progress update report dated 12 March 2015, if his...
- Commencement of Legislation
66. To ask the Minister for Finance when a commencement order will be made in respect of changes to stamp duty provisions pertaining to farmland leasing, provided for in the Finance Act 2014; and...
- IBRC Liquidation
67. To ask the Minister for Finance the point at which the decision was made to start drafting of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Act 2013; if it is the case that the strained relationship...
- National Treasury Management Agency
68. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding barristers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16126/15]
- IBRC Operations
69. To ask the Minister for Finance if the closed process by which the former Irish Bank Resolution Corporation disposed of a company (details supplied) was fully in compliance with European...
- Banking Sector Remuneration
70. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of employees of Allied Irish Banks who were on salaries of between €100,000 and €200,000, €200,001 and €300,000,...
- Banking Sector Staff
76. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff employed by Allied Irish Banks at the end of 2014, and at the end of 2012. [16135/15]
- Home Renovation Incentive Scheme Eligibility
79. To ask the Minister for Finance if works covered under the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability are eligible under the home renovation incentive scheme in the case where they...
- Living City Initiative
80. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of pre-1915 properties in Dublin 2, 4 and 6 which could be eligible properties under the proposed Living City initiative; and if he will make...
- Mortgage Interest Rates
82. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to incentivise the banks to reduce the interest rate on variable rate mortgages; if he will indicate what those proposed plans are; and if he will...
- IBRC Operations
83. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify comments regarding a proposed relationship framework agreement with the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, where it was noted that an...
- Tax Compliance
84. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 5 March 2015, if the investigation into the tax affairs of medical consultants has been concluded; the lessons that...
- IBRC Investigations
85. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a full list of the investigations that have been conducted into the sale of a company (details supplied) by the Irish Bank Resolution...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Public Sector Staff Redeployment
86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the transfer arrangements that are in place for higher executive officers in the public service; if there are facilities at the moment...
- Public Procurement Contracts
87. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will review the centralisation of purchasing, and aggregation of requirements, resulting in bigger contracts, thereby excluding...
- Public Sector Staff Data
88. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of the number of State and Government employees, by Department and by county; and if he will make a...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- IDA Funding
89. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the State and State agency grants paid to and-or payable in the future to a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
- Job Retention
90. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will intervene with a company (details supplied) to save 160 jobs at risk at the Intellicom Contact Centre in Clonmel, County...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Beef Industry
91. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a premium is applied to steer and suckler beef and not to heifers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16027/15]
- Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
92. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make the provision of comfort slat mats eligible for grant aid under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme 2 when...
- EU State Aid Negotiations
93. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if approval has been received from the European Commission under state aid rules in relation to changes in stamp duty provisions...
- Agriculture Schemes
94. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 31 March 2015, the outcome of the recent consultation regarding the cohort of farmers who...
- Forestry Management
95. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the figures for the net discounted revenue and projected financial loss resulting from the reduction in forest productivity and...
- Forestry Sector
96. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the projected timber and financial losses resulting from wind blow, precipitated by tree felling, pursuant to the construction and...
- GLAS Administration
97. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which he opened the Green Low-Carbon Agri-Environmental Scheme for application; the latest date by which applications have...
- GLAS Data
98. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers with commonage in the country broken down by county; the number of applications received to date from farmers...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Training
100. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 318 of 15 April 2015, the training courses the military personnel of other states received here from the Defence Forces...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Human Rights Issues
101. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the proposals she put forward at the recent European Union Foreign Affairs Council in relation to the ongoing migration crisis and the recent...
- Commissions of Investigation
102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality having received further correspondence on behalf of their family, if she will reconsider her decision not to have an inquiry into the death of a...
- Commencement of Legislation
103. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will sign a commencement order or orders to bring the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 into force; if there is going to be a...
- UN Conventions Ratification
104. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality with reference to the pledges and commitments provided by the Irish Government during the election to the United Nations Human Rights Council...
- Residency Permits
105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will examine and expedite an application for temporary and limited leave to remain in the State, in respect of a person (details supplied)...
- Legislative Measures
106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason she intends to scrap the Lunacy Act 1871 which has been void since 1922, as per Article 72 of Saorstát Éireann (details...
- Residency Permits
107. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in order to make an application for Stamp 4 in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
- Garda Complaints Procedures
108. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on an appointment (details supplied), in view of the examination by the independent review panel; and if she will make a statement on...
- Military Aircraft Landings
110. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 393 of 15 April 2015, the reason, for the purposes of record keeping, a distinction is made between the...
- Crime Data
111. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the immediate measures she has put in place arising from the inspectors' recommendation in relation to the recording of crime; and if she will...
- Naturalisation Applications
112. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding residency status-eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 who has previously...
- Asylum Applications
113. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding residency status-eligibility for long-term residency-naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
- Leave to Remain
114. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if leave to remain will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford, in view of the fact that the person is...
- Naturalisation Applications
115. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position in regard to residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; if all documentation requested in connection...
- Residency Permits
116. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status entitlements or options of a child aged three and the child's mother, the child born of a non-European Union mother and a...
- Deportation Orders
117. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current residency status and future eligibility and entitlements in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she...
- Residency Permits
118. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22, who is in possession of an up-to-date Stamp 4, but whose...
- Naturalisation Applications
119. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if residency credits to date in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 are sufficient to facilitate eligibility for a...
- Deportation Orders Re-examination
120. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current residency status and eligibility for naturalisation-long-term residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24, who...
- Naturalisation Applications
122. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current residency status and eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
- Court Judgments
123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has sought a report from the Garda Commissioner asking for an assessment of the impact the recent Supreme Court decision in Director of...
- Garda Deployment
124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number and rank of members of An Garda Síochána presently based in Blackrock, County Louth; her plans to reduce the present number...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Legislative Measures
126. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to address the situation faced by foster parents of adult children whom they wish to adopt, but who are prohibited from doing so...
- Preschool Services
127. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position in relation to the free preschool year (details supplied), and his view on concerns regarding the current criteria; and if he...
- Child Custody and Access
128. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the extent to which a person (details supplied) in County Dublin has received courses in parenting skills or other counselling, with a view...
- Department of Health
- Health Services Staff Recruitment
129. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of an ophthalmologist for a location in County Galway; the practice of replacing staff who have retired; if the practice...
- Health Services
130. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients; and the number of patients diagnosed with Phenylketonuria, who have been referred to the National Centre for Inherited Metabolic...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
131. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the financial difficulties faced by many sufferers of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, due to the additional financial burden of paying for...
- Medicinal Products Availability
132. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce alternative treatments for opioid dependency such as Buprenorphine; when these treatments will become available; the way patients will...
- Medical Products
133. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ban the use of the chlorine dioxide protocol as a treatment for autism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16015/15]
- Medical Card Delays
134. 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, whose application is ongoing since September 2014, given...
- Medical Card Applications
135. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
136. To ask the Minister for Health the reason persons with mental illness are excluded from the long-term illness scheme once they reach 16 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the...
- General Medical Services Scheme
137. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to re-introduce the scheme whereby those who were on a gluten-free diet, due to suffering from coeliac disease, could obtain gluten-free products...
- Medical Card Data
138. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards, the number of general practitioner cards, as of 1 April 2015, and the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary...
- Cancer Screening Programmes
139. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been screened at Roscommon hospital under the national cancer control programme since it commenced in 2014; and if he will make...
- Hospital Services
140. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full progress report on the new endoscopy unit at Roscommon hospital, including works completed to date; if the works are running to...
- Medical Card Eligibility
142. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be issued, as a matter of urgency, in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15, whose child is in need of urgent...
- Hospital Appointment Status
143. To ask the Minister for Health if, and when, a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive an appointment at St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on...
- Medical Card Applications
144. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, in view of the fact that the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Shannon Airport Facilities
145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will clarify his earlier replies to parliamentary questions (details supplied) regarding the landing of an EC-130H aircraft at Shannon...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Funding
148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school (details supplied) in County Mayo; the funding that has been grant-aided to this school; the further funding that...
- School Placement
149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 who has been excluded from school since October 2014, and has not received any...
- Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was unable to receive financial support from Caranua for life-saving medicine, and to travel to hospital,...
- Bullying in Schools
153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide funding to support the yellow flag programme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16040/15]
- Summer Works Scheme Eligibility
154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to grant funding for windows recently made available through the summer works scheme being changed to a grant for a new...
- Primary Online Database
155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the antiquated categorisation of children in the ethnic or cultural background group within the primary online database...
- Schools Refurbishment
156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position in relation to a lease in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Pupil-Teacher Ratio
157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review class sizes in primary schools in advance of the next budget; her plans to initiate changes in the next five years, to...
- Capitation Grants
158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review the overall funding for children in education and to increase the capitation rates per school to take account of the...
- School Staffing
159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to restore middle management and leadership posts within schools, specifically including an increase in release days for teaching...
- Institutes of Technology Expenditure
160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of all expenses claimed by members of the governing body of Waterford Institute of Technology,...
- Broadband Service Provision
162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update regarding the provisions of broadband in a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a...
- School Playgrounds
163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding is available for the development of necessary playground space at primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a higher education grant will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Laois, in view of the person's total dependency...
- Student Grant Scheme Applications
165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a student grant application, whereby the student, who has spent the majority of his life within the Irish education system...
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to rectify the student grant scheme to allow students, who are under 23 years of age and independent of their parents, to be assessed...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Rental Accommodation Scheme Eligibility
167. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11, if he will outline the general policy regarding...
- Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
168. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when funds will be made available to Cork City Council to deal with the backlog of priority 1 housing adaption grants...
- Library Services Provision
169. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for improved library facilities in the Louth-East Meath constituency; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Local Government Fund
170. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the amount of local government funding that has been provided to each...
- Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
171. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the details of those on local authority housing waiting lists in Waterford city and...
- Local Authority Housing Data
173. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of new housing units built in Waterford city and county in each year from 2009 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; his...
- Rental Accommodation Scheme Data
174. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, by county, a breakdown of the number of units to be delivered through the rental accommodation scheme...
- Housing Adaptation Grant Applications
175. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the funding for home adaptation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and...
- Departmental Strategies
176. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he can take to facilitate the re-activation of various town centre developments, which were abandoned in the...
- Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
177. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the various local authorities in the greater Dublin region have sought funding from his Department...
- Social and Affordable Housing Applications
178. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which his Department is aware of new applicants applying for local authority housing, in some cases arising...
- Social and Affordable Housing Data
179. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the total number of persons on the various local authority housing lists has fluctuated in the course...
- Shared Ownership Scheme
180. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which his Department has been made aware of the number of distressed shared ownership loans recorded by the...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
181. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a review of the local authority loan system will be undertaken, with a view to making the system more accessible and...
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions
182. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the level of greenhouse gas emissions continues to be monitored, with particular reference to...
- Social and Affordable Housing Data
183. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will indicate which sales of former local authority houses, now freehold, continue to be purchased by investors; and...
- Unfinished Housing Developments
184. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the degree to which the various local authorities continue to monitor unfinished housing estates, with a view to achieving...
- Air and Water Pollution
186. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the degree to which various air pollutants continue to be monitored and identified; the extent to which such pollutants...
- Road Signage
188. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown, in tabular form, for each local authority in the State, indicating the amounts spent in...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Consumer Protection
190. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures that will be enacted to protect consumers in cases where the customers of some mobile telephone companies...
- Semi-State Bodies
191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has had discussions with the directors and management of Bord na Móna regarding the future terms and...
- Television Licence Fee Collection
192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 16 April 2015, the responsibilities of tourists who reside in mobile homes...
- Broadband Service Provision
194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the options available to communities considering putting in place alternative community broadband solutions, where there...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Wild Atlantic Way Project
195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will, in conjunction with Fáilte Ireland, review the omission of Cromane Peninsula from the Wild Atlantic Way, in view of the...
- Road Signage
196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown, in tabular form, indicating the amounts spent in each of the past seven years on road, street and related...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- National Parks and Wildlife Service
197. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the National Parks and Wildlife Service will erect signs in the vicinity of nesting white tailed eagles to warn fishermen, other...
- Arts Funding
198. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be provided in respect of a theatre company (details supplied), in view of the extremely valuable work carried out by...
