Written answers
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Industrial Relations
12. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the legislation he has promised in relation to collective bargaining; if he will provide some...
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
13. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the chapters of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership regarding regulatory co-operation; if he will provide a...
- Action Plan for Jobs
14. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which measures continue to be taken to monitor the jobs market, with a view to ensuring early detection, where jobs may...
- Employment Appeals Tribunal
15. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if additional resources will be required to reduce current waiting times for Employment Appeals Tribunal hearings from the current...
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
16. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has given due consideration to the damage the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will create for Ireland and other...
- Economic Competitiveness
17. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the competitiveness of this economy to attract foreign direct investment, while...
- Industrial Relations
18. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when promised industrial relations legislation will be introduced on collective bargaining rights, and on enhancing existing...
- Job Losses
19. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will ensure that the necessary support is being provided by his Department to the workers at Cadbury's in Coolock in Dublin 5,...
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
20. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the concerns raised in many corners regarding the human rights implications of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment...
- Industrial Relations
21. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the forthcoming Industrial Relations Bill, which reportedly will restore some sectoral registered employment agreements, will also...
- Employment Rights
22. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if it is his intention to bring in legislation to deal with zero and low hour contracts, particularly in the context of the ongoing...
- Industrial Relations
23. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will confirm that the July 2015 deadline for the introduction of robust collective bargaining legislation is still on track; and...
- Company Law
24. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Companies Act 2014, which is to be commenced on 1 June 2015, will make provision for regulating aggressive and intimidating...
- Construction Contracts
25. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the appointment of the chairman for the panel of adjudicators will go before the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and...
- IDA Staff
26. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the appropriateness of the Industrial Development Agency's direct intervention in the upcoming same-sex marriage...
- Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme
27. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of analysis undertaken by his Department, and agencies under the remit of his Department on the availability of existing and...
- Research and Development Supports
29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to encourage greater levels of research and development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18357/15]
- Aer Lingus Staff
30. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he supports the position of Aer Lingus cabin crew staff and their union, IMPACT, in opposing the partial outsourcing of...
- EU Directives
31. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is prepared to support the proposals for the seafarers directive, proposed by Liadh Ní Riada MEP, which aims to provide the...
- Employment Rights
32. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of 62,000 workers registered in the construction industry as self-employed, that is more than 50% of the total workforce, his...
- IDA Expenditure
33. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the element of Industrial Development Agency new investment, research and development expenditure, and...
- Action Plan for Jobs
34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a list of the disability related action in the Government’s Action Plan for Jobs 2015. [18378/15]
- Economic Competitiveness
35. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation considering he is the lead Minister for the Action Plan for Jobs, the steps he will take following the latest National Competitiveness...
- Investor-State Dispute Settlements Mechanism
36. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he supports the proposal of the European Commissioner, Ms Cecilia Malmström, to the European Parliament Committee on...
- Employment Rights
37. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures he will introduce to improve security for workers on zero hour contracts, low hour contracts and short-term contracts, and...
- Employment Data
38. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will write to the Central Statistics Office to formally request it to compile official statistics regarding zero hour and low...
- Enterprise Support Services Provision
39. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation under the Action Plan for Jobs, the concrete measures that will be taken to improve the supports for self-employed persons and...
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
40. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on the current status of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; the time-frame the Government is working...
- Construction Contracts
41. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the chairperson and panel of adjudicators, as provided for in the Construction Contracts Act 2013, have been appointed. [18380/15]
- Cross-Border Enterprise Initiatives
42. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will explore the development of a cross-Border development zone with the Assembly’s Minister for Enterprise, Trade and...
- IDA Site Visits
43. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency sponsored visits by potential investors to County Donegal in 2014; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Strategies
44. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views that the consultation period for a successor to the Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation was too short and too...
- Job Creation
45. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress on securing an alternative tenant for the Bank of America facility in Carrick on Shannon, County Leitrim; and if he will...
- Industrial Relations
46. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is in favour of trade union representatives at the Cadbury-Mondelez plant in Coolock in Dublin 5 having full access to the...
- Employment Rights
47. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is satisfied that self-employed persons are afforded the same rights as pay as you earn workers; his views on concerns expressed...
- Department of Social Protection
- Social Welfare Appeals
48. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the Social Welfare Appeals Office would not investigate an appeal, subsequent to her Department advising a person (details supplied) to...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
- Child Benefit Eligibility
50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider introducing a qualified child increase for persons in receipt of a widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's...
- Back to Education Allowance
51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will change the rules regarding back to education allowance to ensure that persons coming from Youthreach are eligible to qualify for the...
- Fuel Allowance Payments
52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will extend payments under the fuel allowance, in view of the unseasonably colder weather after 3 April 2015; and if she will make a statement...
- One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility
53. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for one parent family payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make...
- Employment Support Services
54. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a request by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 to do a Safe Pass course was denied until the person finds employment, when in fact...
- Disability Allowance Applications
55. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Departmental Offices
56. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm that the status of her Department's offices in Ballybay in County Monaghan will not be changed; that this office will continue to...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
57. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine an appeal for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on...
- Pension Provisions
58. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is the case that the rate band changes introduced by her on 1 September 2012 militate disproportionately against working women when they reach...
- Disability Allowance Applications
59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a disability allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, as all relevant information has...
- Invalidity Pension Applications
60. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, who has severe back problems...
- Social Welfare Overpayments
61. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an overpayment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18863/15]
- Department of Finance
- Living City Initiative
62. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the Living City Initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Vehicle Registration
63. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a car, which has been fully approved under the national car test, must also pass a vehicle export examination before its owner may export it under...
- Mortgage Arrears Proposals
64. To ask the Minister for Finance in respect of the Residential Mortgage Arrears and Repossession Statistics for Quarter 4, 2014 published by the Central Bank of Ireland, the number of the...
- Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland
65. To ask the Minister for Finance the way the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland will be treated in the national accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18746/15]
- Black Economy
66. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will put a special task force in place to propose ways of restricting persons trading on the black market, and the consequent evasion of taxes, and the...
- Exchequer Deficit
67. To ask the Minister for Finance the change in millions of euros in the Exchequer deficit in the period January 2015 and April 2015, compared to the same period in 2011; and the contribution...
- Central Bank of Ireland Expenditure
70. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of printing each note of each denomination of euro notes, that is, the cost of printing the €5, €10 note and so on. [18773/15]
- IBRC Operations
71. To ask the Minister for Finance if he or his Department were ever informed of, or made aware of, any allegations concerning write-downs being provided on debt for personal borrowings in the...
- Universal Social Charge Payments
73. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who only pay universal social charge at the 1.5% rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18787/15]
- Consumer Protection
75. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to protect consumers whose loans are sold to third parties; when he expects legislation in this regard to be enacted and operational; and if he will...
- Financial Services Regulation
76. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of payment institutions regulated in the State; the names of same; the date each one was licensed; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Property Tax Exemptions
77. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications made for exemption from local property tax, in respect of pyrite damage in categories 2 and 1, the progress made and the number of...
- Vehicle Registration
78. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the vehicle registration tax export repayment scheme charges eligible citizens €500 administration, deducted from repayable vehicle...
- Mortgage Interest Relief Expenditure
80. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the estimated loss to the Exchequer of mortgage interest tax relief on rental income in 2014. [18857/15]
- Property Tax Yield
83. To ask the Minister for Finance the total property tax income from landlords in 2014. [18860/15]
- Banking Sector
84. To ask the Minister for Finance if cost benefit analysis has been carried out on the merits of retaining Allied Irish Banks in the State sector, in view of the failed record of the management...
- Tax Collection
88. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a notice of tax liability in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Waterways Issues
89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the structural condition of a crossing at a canal (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Company Law
90. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there is any upcoming legislation to amend the rules whereby private companies, with a significant or large number of workers and a...
- Employment Rights
91. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to amend the Protection of Employees (Part-Time) Work Act 2001, and any other relevant employment legislation, to enable...
- NSAI Inspections
92. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is aware of the delays in providing approval from the National Standards Authority of Ireland for products being produced; that...
- NSAI Staff
93. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of employees in the National Standards Authority of Ireland, in each year from...
- NSAI Inspections
94. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is aware of the difficulties faced by a company (details supplied) in County Carlow, as a result of the delay in approving...
- Job Creation Data
95. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation out of the total number of jobs created in the past four years, the proportion of those in manufacturing; and in the service sectors;...
- Job Creation
96. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which job creation, in both the manufacturing and services sectors, continues to be spread throughout the regions; and if...
- Horizon 2020 Strategy Funding
98. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he expects the Irish jobs market to benefit from European Union support, by way of direct grant aid, or otherwise,...
- Equality Issues
99. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which women and men have had equal opportunity to take up jobs in the workplace over the past four years; the extent to...
- Foreign Direct Investment
100. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he continues to attract new investment to this jurisdiction from new locations globally; the degree to which this...
- Small and Medium Enterprises Employment Numbers
101. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new small or medium sized enterprises, and the resultant number of jobs created, arising therefrom, in the past three...
- Work Permit Applications
102. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will indicate, arising from work permit applications in each of the past five years to date in 2015, the extent to which such...
- Job Creation
103. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the level of assistance and opportunities for job creation available to the...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Bord na gCon
104. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views that it is appropriate that the Irish Greyhound Board has been deemed suitable for inclusion in a Bord Fáilte...
- Single Payment Scheme Appeals
105. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 391 of 21 April 2015, if a decision has been made; if so, when the decision was made; and the...
- Direct Payment Scheme
106. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a penalty applied to an area based payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be reviewed. [18735/15]
- GLAS Administration
107. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when farmers, who have applied for the new green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, will be notified that they have been accepted...
- Bord na gCon Funding
108. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the 2013 accounts for Bord na gCon will be published; if he will provide details of the way the additional €2.8 million...
- Bord na gCon Staff
109. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the former internal auditor of the Irish Greyhound Board was made redundant in 2013; if he will provide details of the...
- Bord na gCon Remit
110. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the equipment for the detection of prohibited substances in racing greyhounds, located in the National...
- Bord na gCon Administration
111. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the skills gap identified by the Indecon Report 2014, in relation to the Irish Greyhound Board, has been...
- Bord na gCon Remit
112. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the legal status of greyhounds registered and racing, whose registration was in breach of the...
- Bord na gCon Administration
113. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the decision-making process regarding the loan of €250,000 that Bord na gCon provided to the Davis Road Greyhound Stadium; if...
- Bord na gCon Remit
115. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details on the enforcement of the Welfare of Greyhounds Act 2011, and in particular the provisions limiting the...
- GLAS Administration
116. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the closing date for receipt of completed applications for the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme by at...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
117. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare was not informed of a clawback from a payment under the rural environment...
- Beef Exports
118. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the agreement to export beef to the United States of America was signed; if he will provide details, and the amount of beef that...
- Farm Inspections
119. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a charter for farm inspections was introduced; if he proposes any amendments to this; and if so, when. [18847/15]
- Suckler Welfare Scheme Applications
120. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application under the 2012 suckler welfare scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be reviewed;...
- Agriculture Schemes Payments
121. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when outstanding payments will issue under the 2014 single payment, the disadvantaged areas scheme and the rural environment...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Garda Stations
122. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the status of a Garda station (details supplied) in County Kildare; if there have been inquiries or plans for...
- Citizenship Applications
123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has any discretion in expediting citizenship applications, where the resident may not have reached the five-year minimum; and if so, the...
- Naturalisation Certificates
125. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if it is possible for persons with residency status here to travel to the United Kingdom, or to work in the United Kingdom, without undermining...
- Witness Protection Programme
127. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total expenditure per annum on the witness protection programme in the years 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if she will make a...
- Property Services Regulatory Authority Administration
132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will direct the Property Services Regulatory Authority to reply to a complaint (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
- Sexual Offences Data
133. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of sex offenders on the sex offenders register; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18819/15]
- Petrol Stretching
134. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 308 of 10 March 2015, and in view of the fact that much of the information originally sought therein is...
- Family Law Cases
135. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a proposal to provide Family Law Court facilities (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Child and Family Agency Funding
136. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the Tusla – Child and Family Agency national lottery grants scheme is not available this year; and if he will make a...
- Children Services Committees
137. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if it is the case that children services committees have not been established in all 17 Túsla–Child and Family Agency areas; if...
- Child Protection
138. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to revelations in County Laois and County Offaly, if there are other areas of the country where there are concerns regarding child...
- Child and Family Agency Expenditure
139. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update as to the budget for information technology services within Túsla – Child and Family Agency, and...
- Child and Family Agency Reports
140. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide details of a contract that was awarded to a company (details supplied) to conduct a review of Túsla–Child...
- Residential Institutions
141. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update on a report that was in preparation regarding Glen Álainn in County Cork; when this review of services...
- Child Care Services Provision
142. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied) and advise on the reason these children, who were referred by the public health...
- Department of Health
- Hospital Appointment Status
143. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be provided by the Ear Nose and Throat Department in the Midland Regional Hospital in Tullamore in County Offaly, in respect of a person...
- Health Insurance
144. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the details of the proposed Health Insurance (Reform) Bill 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18743/15]
- Hospital Services
145. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on installing a birthing pool in Waterford Regional Hospital; the date on which it was installed; the number of women who have used the pool...
- Medicinal Products Availability
146. To ask the Minister for Health regarding the Health Products Regulatory Authority that has 289 adverse drug reaction reports in association with Roaccutane since 1983, if he will provide a...
- Health Products Regulatory Authority
147. To ask the Minister for Health if Health Products Regulatory Authority employees held a position with a pharmaceutical company (details supplied) prior or since 1983; and if he will make a...
- Autism Support Services
150. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for supporting children with autism spectrum disorder in extra-curricular activities that may improve their social skills and also contribute to...
- Medical Card Applications
153. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be awarded a discretionary medical card, following a significant deterioration in that person's health; and...
- Treatment Benefit Scheme
155. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there have been delays in approval of the optical benefit forms, up to two months or more currently, in areas (details supplied) in County...
- Hospital Appointment Status
156. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive a date for a heart bypass operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18793/15]
- National Cancer Strategy Implementation
157. To ask the Minister for Health the composition of the working group charged with the preparation of the new national cancer strategy; if he will consider including a patient representative...
- Cancer Incidence
159. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons diagnosed with cancer each year; diagnosed at early stage; diagnosed through screening programmes; the types of cancer involved; the...
- Medical Card Applications
160. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, as the person has submitted the necessary paperwork;...
- Health Services
161. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied) in County Monaghan has been waiting since June 2014 for further assessment for a possible diagnosis of development...
- Public Health Policy
162. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 426 of 6 May 2015, if he will confirm with a "Yes" or "No" reply if his Department has undertaken any research to...
- HSE Investigations
163. To ask the Minister for Health following the internal Health Service Executive investigation of an independent midwife (details supplied), if further investigations of this midwife are...
- Registration of Nurses
164. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for nursing registration in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Sovereign Debt
165. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he attended the second committee session in relation to the sovereign debt restructuring processes to be considered by the United Nations...
- Data Collection Issues
166. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he or his Department officials have discussed the recent judgement in the United States of America, regarding the data collection...
- UK Referendum on EU Membership
167. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way he and his Department are preparing for the referendum on European Union membership that is proposed in the United Kingdom in 2017;...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Transport Applications
168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine and expedite a remote area grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, for the school year 2014-2015, in...
- Teachers' Remuneration
169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if those who have been paid over the past two years, at a post 2011 entrant fee of €34 hourly, should in fact have been paid at the...
- Skills Development
170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which jobs have been created in the high skilled and medium skilled sectors in the past 12 months; the degree to which a pattern in...
- Emergency Works Scheme Applications
173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an emergency works scheme application in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a...
- Language Schools Closures
174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that will be put in place to support students who have lost out substantially on the recent language school closures; the further...
- Special Educational Needs Data
175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children at primary school with a moderate learning disability; the total cost to her Department, if the July provision was...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Government's policy in relation to the education of children with autism; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18738/15]
- Teacher Data
177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, on a per education and training board basis, the number of second level education and training board school...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 505 of 6 May 2015, and notwithstanding the listing of numbers of teaching and teaching support staff and...
- State Examinations
179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a list, for each of the past three years, of the number of applications made for readers for leaving certificate...
- Site Acquisitions
182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school building project (details supplied) in County Meath. [18829/15]
- Emergency Works Scheme
183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide funding for the science room of a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if she will review emergency applications for...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Water Services Provision
184. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the rural water programme will be announced. [18708/15]
- Living City Initiative
185. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the grant assistance and-or tax relief available to owners of commercial buildings who wish to renovate their premises,...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
186. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the list of the proposed social housing building programmed, submitted by Wicklow County Council; if...
- Building Regulations
187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the problems with supplies of homes, his views that there is a need to abolish the building-design-and-assign...
- Motor Tax Collection (2 comments)
188. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans, or if consideration will be given to a proposal, to allow for motor tax to be paid in monthly instalments, by...
- Community Development Projects
190. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider allocating funding of €26,000 to allow a project (details supplied) in Dublin 12 to continue...
- Leader Programmes Administration
191. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the concerns of island communities surrounding the delivery of the new Leader programme; his plans to...
- Irish Water Administration
192. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the names of the public sector sources which are permitted to provide the personal details of persons to Irish Water,...
- Local Authority Housing Data
193. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, by local authority, the number of housing units which have been leased by local...
- Social and Affordable Housing Data
194. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applications for new builds made to his Department by Mayo County Council under the social housing strategy;...
- Water Charges Administration
199. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that in order to comply with the water framework directive it will, in future, be necessary to apply...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Broadband Service Provision
200. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he will take to ensure that appropriate high speed broadband is available to the residents of Ballynacargy in...
- Pension Provisions
201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the Electricity Supply Board has not incorporated the legislative provisions of the Energy (Miscellaneous...
- Aviation Industry Regulations
207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will indicate any examination which his Department has made of the levels of stress on Irish pilots; if he has liaised with the...
- Pension Provisions
204. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding pensions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18715/15]
- Motor Insurance Coverage
205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that motor insurance companies are charging excessive rates (details supplied) for persons who have been out of the...
- Road Network
206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the proposed bypass at Ardee in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18837/15]
- Driver Licence Renewals
209. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a trailer licence, category BE, will be re-instated on a person's licence (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Departmental Agencies Staff Recruitment
210. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will address the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding public appointments; and if she will make a...
- Island Communities
211. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if Phase II of the restoration works, to be funded by her Department, will be carried out on an island (details supplied); and if she...
