Written answers

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Strength
      116. To ask the Minister for Defence the current strength of the Defence Forces, male and female, at all ranks; the degree to which the strength of the Defence Forces is likely to fluctuate over...
    • White Paper on Defence
      117. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the White Paper on Defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21285/15]
    • Defence Forces Equipment
      118. To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department has found a solution to ensure that six ambulances which were purchased for the Defence Forces have been made safe to use, given that,...
    • Overseas Missions
      119. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces personnel currently deployed on United Nations, European Union and other humanitarian missions; his plans in relation to same;...
    • Air Corps
      120. To ask the Minister for Defence the progress on consideration of the report for the Emergency Aeromedical Support Service Establishment Group; when it is envisaged that a decision will be...
    • Naval Service Vessels
      121. To ask the Minister for Defence the role of the LE Eithne in the European Union response to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean; if he will guarantee that it, or any other Irish vessel,...
    • Naval Service Operations
      122. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on the involvement of the Irish Naval Service in the Mediterranean migrant crisis; the level of engagement he has had with his European...
    • White Paper on Defence
      123. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on the recent symposium on the proposed White Paper on Defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21732/15]
    • Overseas Missions
      124. To ask the Minister for Defence if he has met the five members of the Defence Force's medical team who have returned home after four months in Sierra Leone, where they assisted efforts to...
    • Defence Forces Equipment
      125. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to improve the radar capabilities of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21733/15]
    • Defence Forces Expenditure
      126. To ask the Minister for Defence his views on whether there is a need to increase expenditure on defence over the next decade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21736/15]
    • Defence Forces Reorganisation
      127. To ask the Minister for Defence the savings that have been made as a result of the abolition of the Western Brigade; the estimated cost of restoring it; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Overseas Missions
      128. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to deploy Naval Service and Army resources on a Mediterranean humanitarian mission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21291/15]
    • Irish Red Cross Governance
      129. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on developments within the Irish Red Cross; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21734/15]
    • Commemorative Events
      130. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the role he expects the Defence Forces to play in the 1916 commemorations; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Defence Forces Reorganisation
      131. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will commit to the restoration of the Western Brigade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21710/15]
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      132. To ask the Minister for Defence his views regarding the progress made, and the contacts he has had with the person concerned, in relation to the process that he indicated, during Question...
    • Defence Forces Equipment
      133. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 22 April 2015, if he is aware of the moral conflict facing Defence Forces personnel who do not wish to handle or...
    • Overseas Missions
      134. To ask the Minister for Defence his views on the health and safety of Irish troops in the Golan Heights in Syria, considering that two United Nations peacekeepers were recently injured by...
    • Defence Forces Medicinal Products
      135. To ask the Minister for Defence if he is aware of the freedom of information request, released by the British Ministry of Defence in April 2015, which revealed almost 1,000 former servicemen...
    • Defence Forces Investigations
      136. To ask the Minister for Defence if he has received the report from former High Court Judge, Mr.Justice Roderick Murphy, which reviewed the deaths of persons (details supplied); and if he...
    • Defence Forces Medicinal Products
      137. To ask the Minister for Defence if he is aware of any under-reporting to the Health Products Regulatory Authority of the suspected adverse effects of the use of Lariam by members of the...
    • Defence Forces Equipment
      138. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will acknowledge the concerns raised by members of the Defence Forces that Irish military hardware and equipment being purchased from Israel and from...
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      139. To ask the Minister for Defence his views in relation to the number of occasions that members of the Defence Forces were deployed on aid to the civil power duties at Shannon Airport in 2015;...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Employment Data
      140. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to continue to publish monthly statistics of the number of persons on the live register, in addition to the new monthly unemployment estimates; and if he will...
    • Seirbhísi trí Ghaeilge
      142. To ask the Taoiseach cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí i nGaeilge atá ar fáil ón Roinn...
    • Suicide Incidence
      143. To ask the Taoiseach the processes undertaken by the Central Statistics Office in the recording and reporting of suicide statistics, including the collection of statistics from Garda...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      144. To ask the Taoiseach the number of commissions of investigation established under the aegis of his Department during the term of the current Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • British-Irish Co-operation
      147. To ask the Taoiseach the progress arising from the commitment to an intensive programme of work made in the implementation of the Joint Statement by the Irish and British Governments, which...
    • Trade Agreements
      153. To ask the Taoiseach if he will list, in tabular form, meetings on the proposed European Union-United States of America transatlantic trade and investment partnership, or any of the other...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Social Insurance Payments
      154. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a self-employed person may choose to pay the minimum contribution in order to put on a Class S PRSI contribution, even if his or her income is...
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      155. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the funding available to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 17 who is pursuing a National Qualifications Authority of Ireland level 5 course and...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      156. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a domiciliary care application will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22310/15]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      157. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 will receive a decision on a claim for a carer's allowance and a domiciliary care allowance. [21236/15]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      162. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal regarding a carer's allowance will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      164. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a payment and arrears will issue regarding an application for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      165. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal regarding a carer's allowance will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [21274/15]
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      166. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a Department inspector will review payments under the disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick who is...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      167. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for an invalidity pension for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      168. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive arrears of payments under the disability allowance, from 21 November 2014 onwards; and...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding arrears due to her Department in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      170. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person who is not entitled to a payment under the jobseeker's allowance due to spousal income is not entitled to sign on; the reason...
    • Family Income Supplement Data
      171. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of children currently covered by the family income supplement payment. [21426/15]
    • Invalidity Pension Eligibility
      172. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Meath is deemed no longer eligible for invalidity pension, given that the person's circumstances...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      173. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a claim for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if a review of this decision has...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      174. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a claim for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Social Welfare Application Forms
      175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is aware of the difficulties being encountered by teachers working on a casual basis in a number of schools in getting social welfare forms...
    • Community Employment Schemes Data
      176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the child care employment and training support programme for community employment scheme participants; the number...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be reviewed; and if she will make a...
    • Social Insurance Data (1 comment)
      178. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the savings and costs to the Exchequer in 2013 and 2014, and in 2015 to date, arising from the changes to the banding system of the State Pension...
    • Social Insurance Rates
      179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is aware of the financial impact the changes to the average contribution bands have made to persons who were approaching retirement and who...
    • Free Travel Scheme Eligibility
      181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a free travel companion pass will be provided for a person under 16 years of age where the parent, who is entitled to a free travel pass and a...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Data
      182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of jobseeker's allowance who have never made any pay related social insurance contributions, by...
    • Interdepartmental Working Groups
      183. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of meetings of the interdepartmental working and retirement group that have taken place since its inception; the recommendations the...
    • One-Parent Family Payments
      184. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the options available in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is currently in receipt of a one-parent family payment, which...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      185. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision regarding the backdating of an application for a carer's allowance; and if...
    • Seirbhísi trí Ghaeilge
      186. To ask the Minister for Social Protection cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí i nGaeilge atá ar...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      187. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      189. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement...
    • Community Employment Schemes Data
      190. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the costs of the community employment schemes for each year from 2009 to 2014; the projected costs and actual...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her Department's approach to applications for jobseeker's holiday entitlement, in particular to the fact that applicants for the entitlement will...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      192. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on a disability allowance will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • One-Parent Family Payments
      194. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of families in Dublin whose one-parent family payment will be reduced in July 2015; and if she will provide details per post code. [21560/15]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      195. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress to date in determining an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Fuel Allowance Eligibility
      196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review eligibility for a fuel allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      197. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive a decision on an application for a carer's allowance. [21565/15]
    • Social Insurance Payments
      198. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) and provide an explanation for the circumstances of the historical confusion over that...
    • Back to Work Family Dividend Scheme Data
      199. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown, by county, of the number of persons in receipt of the back to work family dividend; and if she will make a...
    • Widow's Pension Eligibility
      200. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if contributions accruing from employment from 1974 to 1976 have been taken into consideration when deciding eligibility for a widow’s,...
    • Respite Care Grant Administration
      201. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reinstate the 20% reduction to the respite care grant; if she will increase the grant in the upcoming budget; and if she will make a...
    • Dietary Allowance Administration
      202. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to re-introduce the dietary allowance for coeliac food; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21634/15]
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      203. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total amount paid to the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in respect of compensation for free television licences...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      206. To ask the Minister for Social Protection pursuant to changes made under the Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013 with regard to retained fire fighters accessing jobseeker's allowance and...
    • Family Income Supplement Appeals
      207. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on an appeal in respect of a family income supplement; and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      208. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason all applications for social protection payments have electronic bank transfer as the preferred payment option; if she considers this to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      209. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for farm assist will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      211. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for a disability allowance will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      212. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal regarding a disability allowance will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary. [21719/15]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      214. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress, to date, in the determining an application for a disability allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Social Welfare Overpayments
      215. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has a debt registered against her; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21777/15]
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      216. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a social welfare appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if it will be expedited; and if she will...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      217. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for a carer's allowance will be determined in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      218. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a late appeal will be accepted in respect of an alleged overpayment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, who submitted a...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      219. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the level of payment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is receiving €138 per week, who has no other source of...
    • Community Employment Schemes Data
      220. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, in five year blocks, the length of service accrued by currently employed community employment scheme...
    • Free Travel Scheme Eligibility
      221. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a companion free travel pass in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a statement...
    • Free Travel Scheme Administration
      222. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to extend the free travel pass to include pensioners from other European Union countries; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Water Conservation Grant
      223. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the name of the successful tenderer for the information technology development, via an existing framework agreement, for the online application and...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      225. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork regarding an entitlement to a disability allowance; if this allowance...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      226. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a decision has been made on an application for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      227. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the policy in relation to the audit procedure to be carried out by community employment schemes on an annual basis; the separate audit procedures...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      228. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine and expedite an application for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will...
    • Back to Work Family Dividend Scheme
      229. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if payment of the back to work family dividend scheme will be backdated to January 2015, when the form was first submitted, as opposed to March 2015...
    • Pension Provisions
      230. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will conduct public hearings along the lines of those under way at the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs in the European Parliament...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      231. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a decision remains with an inspector since March 2015 pertaining to a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      232. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of claims under the dental treatment services scheme in each of the years 2010 to 2014; the annual...
    • Treatment Benefit Scheme Administration
      234. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the approximate cost of restoring the range of treatments and qualifying criteria which applied for the dental treatment services scheme prior to...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Expenditure
      235. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse the cut to the one-parent family payment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22002/15]
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Payments
      236. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding assistance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22005/15]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      237. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10, who is a claimant under the jobseeker's allowance scheme, can be granted a place on a momentum course...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      238. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a payment under the carer's allowance scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Data
      239. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if any person who was previously self-employed, and who was refused a jobseeker's allowance by virtue of the means test, is included in her...
    • Pension Provisions
      240. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to introduce a scheme to address cases (details attached); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22051/15]
    • One-Parent Family Payments
      241. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the child care supports will be put in place to ensure that those receiving payment under the one-parent family payment can avail of returning...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      242. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the various changes in eligibility criteria for persons applying for the State pension (contributory), introduced since budget 2012 to date in 2015;...
    • Maternity Benefit Applications
      243. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress, to date, in determining an appeal for maternity benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      245. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon, in relation to that person's application for a carer's allowance; the...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      246. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if a positive outcome will...
    • Grant Payments
      250. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the requirement and procedure whereby a householder who has registered with Irish Water may obtain the water conservation grant; and if she will...
    • Treatment Benefit Scheme Administration
      251. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is assistance available for a person needing replacement glasses; if there is a maximum contribution paid; and if she will make a statement...
    • Farm Assist Scheme Appeals
      252. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal for farm assist in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      253. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will reinstate the electricity allowance for pensioners, in view of the significant reduction in this allowance over the past number of...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      254. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an increase in rent allowance will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, whose rent has been increased from...
    • One-Parent Family Payments
      255. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the phased nature of changes to the lone parent's allowance since 2012, that the full impact of the changes has been considered with...
    • Child Care Services Data
      256. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the additional child care facilities and subvention that have been put in place for single parents, since the phased changes to the qualification...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      257. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for disability allowance submitted by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, in view of the fact that the...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      258. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the payment available for a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of a carer's allowance for a daughter who is away for three months from 24...
    • Free Travel Scheme Administration
      260. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the impact the Government’s privatisation of public transport services will have on the free travels scheme; if she will carry out an...
    • Free Travel Scheme Eligibility
      261. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions she will take to ensure that the senior citizens and disabled travellers who use the free travel scheme do not suffer a reduced public...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      262. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22350/15]
    • Community Services Programme
      264. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made regarding a recommendation by Pobal concerning a community association (details supplied) in County Cork which applied...
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      265. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to reduce the age eligibility parameter for participation in community employment schemes, from 25 to 21; her views on the progress that...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      266. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to ensure that people who have reached 60 years of age are allowed unlimited participation in community employment schemes, when both the...
    • Departmental Staff Data
      267. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 26 May 2015, if she will outline the number of case officer vacancies in each region; and the estimated...
    • Back to Work Allowance
      268. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to provide, in tabular form, the number of relevant contract tax contractors on the back-to-work scheme in the years 2012 to 2014 and in 2015 to...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      269. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when Rent Support will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Insolvency Payments Scheme Applications
      270. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when her Department will complete a review of the case of a person (details supplied) who has sought access to the insolvency payment scheme. [22443/15]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      271. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current position and eligibility in respect of disability allowance and invalidity pension in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • National Internship Scheme Placements
      272. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is aware of any social work positions being advertised under the JobBridge scheme; and her views on whether this is appropriate in the...
    • Fuel Allowance Applications
      273. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a fuel allowance will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin, in view of the circumstances outlined; and if she...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      274. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there has been a change to the long-standing custom and practice whereby the social welfare appeals system would be exhausted before the State...
    • Child Poverty
      275. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the United Nations Children's Fund report Innocenti Report Card 12 (details supplied); the responsibility of her...
    • Pay Related Social Insurance
      276. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost of eliminating the Pay Related Social Insurance step effect, as it impacts on employees. [22514/15]
    • Commissions of Investigation
      277. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of Commissions of Investigation established under the aegis of her Department, in tabular form, since the Commissions of Investigation...
  • Department of Finance
    • Tax Code
      280. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding cohabiting couples who own a shared property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21350/15]
    • Tobacco Seizures
      281. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of negotiations at European Union level to renew the Philip Morris International agreement; Ireland's attitudes to the possibility of renewing and...
    • Pensions Levy
      282. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence regarding private pension funds (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21851/15]
    • Illicit Trade in Tobacco
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps being taken to deal with the illegal sale of tobacco; his plans to strengthen the legislation dealing with its sale; and if he will make a statement...
    • IBRC Operations
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that minutes of meetings between the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation and his Department in August 2012 record that the restructuring of a...
    • EU Regulations
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the appearance of a person (details supplied) at the Public Accounts Committee on 14 May 2015, where the person indicated that a number of changes...
    • Special Liquidator Fees
      286. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the appearance of a person (details supplied) at the Public Accounts Committee on 14 May 2015, where the person indicated that they had the fee...
    • IBRC Review
      287. To ask the Minister for Finance further to a person's statement at the Public Accounts Committee on 14 May 2015, that there would have been an initial scoping by the Special Liquidator to...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      288. To ask the Minister for Finance if it is the expectation of the Special Liquidator that unsecured senior and subordinated bondholders will be repaid from the surplus of the Irish Bank...
    • Tax Rebates
      292. To ask the Minister for Finance if a tax refund will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; the options that are available to that person; and if he will make...
    • Corporation Tax
      293. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding corporation tax (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21310/15]
    • Tax Credits
      294. To ask the Minister for Finance if €495,352.00 relevant contracts tax will be paid by the Revenue Commissioners to a company (details supplied); if the Revenue Commissioners made an...
    • National Pensions Reserve Fund Investments
      295. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the use of the money from the National Pension Reserve Fund's sale of its Bank of Ireland holding (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Tax Compliance
      296. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13 has been informed of a tax liability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21364/15]
    • IBRC Operations
      297. To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost, including legal fees, public relations costs and so on, to the State of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation strategy towards the former...
    • Banking Sector Investigations
      298. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of the work known as Project Atlas conducted by PwC on certain banking issues; the persons who paid for the project; and if he will make a statement...
    • Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears
      299. To ask the Minister for Finance if a company (details supplied) has stated it will commit to the Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Legislative Measures
      300. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015 will be applied retrospectively for customers in current mortgage arrears; and if...
    • Pensions Levy Yield
      301. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount for the first quarter collected by the Exchequer on the stamp duty levy and pension fund assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Central Credit Register
      302. To ask the Minister for Finance when the Central Credit Register will be fully operational; the steps that have been taken, thus far, in its implementation; the reason for the delay in...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      303. To ask the Minister for Finance when an application form for tax relief in relation to vehicles purchased for use by persons with disabilities will be approved in respect of a person...
    • Tax Reliefs Availability
      304. To ask the Minister for Finance if tax relief is available to a person who disposed of shares to purchase agricultural land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21475/15]
    • Revenue Commissioners Resources
      305. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will increase the number of dog teams available to the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21482/15]
    • Tax Credits
      306. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is in receipt of the correct tax credits, and so on, for a married person with two dependant children; and if...
    • Capital Allowances
      307. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of tax breaks for private hospitals and the land gift scheme for each of the years 2010 to 2014 and for 2015 to date; his plans to continue...
    • Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge
      308. To ask the Minister for Finance cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí i nGaeilge atá ar fáil...
    • Banking Operations
      309. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the State owned Allied Irish Banks unilaterally abolishing overdraft facilities to sporting organisations; if he considers this further evidence...
    • Home Renovation Incentive Scheme Data
      310. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications that have been received and approved, to date, in each county, under the home renovation incentive scheme; and if he will provide a...
    • Tax Rebates
      311. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in County Cork is due a refund of income tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21635/15]
    • Tax Credits
      312. To ask the Minister for Finance when an application for incapacitated child tax credit will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Code
      313. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of capital gains tax entrepreneur relief in 2014; the projected cost in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21742/15]
    • Tax Yield
      319. To ask the Minister for Finance Dublin's tax contribution to overall Exchequer finances in 2013. [21878/15]
    • Tax Data
      320. To ask the Minister for Finance in view of the fact that the Finance Act 2007 removed Irish securities stamp duty reliefs market maker, broker dealer, and closings relief and introduced the...
    • Tax Yield
      321. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue in the form of taxation that was generated by the sale of alcohol in 2014. [21912/15]
    • Primary Medical Certificates Eligibility
      322. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change the criteria for the primary medical certificate; the measures he plans to implement to address the concerns of the Ombudsman in relation...
    • Housing Provision
      323. To ask the Minister for Finance what was the projected requirement of housing units to be built annually to meet demand, up to and including 2015, at the time the National Asset Management...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      324. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce legislation to compel the banks to reduce the rate of variable mortgages to bring it close to parity with average European variable...
    • Credit Unions Restructuring
      325. To ask the Minister for Finance the total administration costs of the Credit Union Restructuring Board for each calendar year since its establishment; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Living City Initiative
      329. To ask the Minister for Finance the protocol for selecting the areas included in the Living City Initiative; if he will consider including the areas of the Royal Canal Bank and...
    • Insurance Compensation Fund
      330. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress that has been made in respect of the liquidation of Setanta Insurance; if those caught up in outstanding claims are facing any losses; the role...
    • Vehicle Registration
      331. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a search and rescue organisation was refused a request for a vehicle registration tax exemption on a vehicle required to carry out that...
    • Household Charge Collection
      332. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of how an amount is due from a person (details supplied) in County Laois, in respect of the household charge arrears; how a...
    • Motor Insurance Regulation
      333. To ask the Minister for Finance given the significant increases in the cost of motor insurance in recent months and the pressure this is placing on family finances, especially in areas...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      334. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will support a matter (details supplied) regarding mortgage interest rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22140/15]
    • Redundancy Payments
      335. To ask the Minister for Finance the Revenue Commissioners' views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a redundancy situation. [22153/15]
    • Pensions Levy
      336. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding private pensions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22202/15]
    • NAMA Investment Funds
      337. To ask the Minister for Finance the composition of the Special Purpose Vehicle as regards private and public investment; if a profit has been delivered over the past five years; and if he...
    • Tax Credits
      339. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding income tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22228/15]
    • Banking Sector Staff
      340. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on Allied Irish Bank's decision to outsource work and staff from its application and development management teams within its information technology...
    • Tax Reliefs Eligibility
      341. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend a property tax incentive to larger towns, similar to that offered by the Living City Initiative; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • IBRC Operations
      342. To ask the Minister for Finance if, on their appointment or at any time since, the special liquidators of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation have identified examples where the previous...
    • Vehicle Registration
      343. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that it is reasonable for the Revenue Commissioners to charge an administration fee of €500 to persons seeking repayment under the vehicle...
    • Tax Collection
      344. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will facilitate further discussions in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, in order to reach an amicable...
    • Consumer Protection
      345. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the current regulation of gift cards, and with the charges of one particular brand of gift card from a company (details supplied); the value of...
    • Tax Code
      346. To ask the Minister for Finance the current taxable status of the salaries of retained firefighters; the tax take received from the pension levy on this group in the years 2012 to 2014 and...
    • Tax Yield
      347. To ask the Minister for Finance the current tax take from the RCT sector in 2012, 2013, 2014 and the expected tax take for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22417/15]
    • Stability and Growth Pact
      348. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the comments of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council on the Government's spring statement and stability programme update submission to the European...
    • Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme
      349. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to alter the qualifying criteria for accession to the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme, for persons with disabilities; his plans...
    • Home Renovation Incentive Scheme
      350. To ask the Minister for Finance if the home renovation incentive scheme is being reviewed with a view to extending its life-span beyond 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
      351. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will list, in tabular form, the representations received by him, his Department and his Department’s Minister of State, on the European Union and...
    • IBRC Liquidation
      352. To ask the Minister for Finance if the special liquidator of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation is aware of any documents being stolen from the bank since his appointment, or has been...
    • IBRC Loans
      353. To ask the Minister for Finance if the review of transactions undertaken by Irish Bank Resolution Corporation announced by him on 23 April 2015 will involve an examination of the interest...
    • Consumer Protection
      357. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank of Ireland has established protocols for financial institutions who wish to outsource information technology functions; if its approval is...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      360. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of commissions of investigation established under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form, since the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Departmental Expenditure
      363. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total cost incurred by his Department in holding the two recent referenda and the by-election in the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency;...
    • Decentralisation Programme Data
      364. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown of all the decentralisation projects, by county, from 2003 to 2011; the number of jobs decentralised; the...
    • Public Sector Pay
      365. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the establishment of an independent public sector pay commission, similar to the Low Pay Commission, to oversee an evidence...
    • Civil Service Exchange Scheme
      366. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of civil servants who have been involved in the exchange programme committed to in the joint statement of the Irish and...
    • Public Sector Pensions Levy
      367. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on reversing the levy on public sector pensions that was in place since March 2012; if this is an issue he will be discussing...
    • Flood Risk Insurance Cover
      368. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21308/15]
    • EU Directives
      369. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the proposed date for Ireland to enshrine the new European Union public procurement directives, that will require all public bodies...
    • Public Sector Pay
      370. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will support the restoration campaign for low paid public service staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21459/15]
    • Public Sector Pensions Levy
      374. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if reductions in the Public Sector Pension Levy will apply equally to those who are working and those who are retired; when he...
    • Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge
      375. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí i nGaeilge...
    • EU Directives
      377. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the three European Union procurement directives due to be enacted into Irish law by April 2016 have been implemented; the progress of...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      378. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way he will improve access for small businesses to public tendering processes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21575/15]
    • Departmental Properties
      379. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the comments made by the Minister for Social Protection by way of reply to the Topical Issue put before Dáil...
    • Fuel Charge Card Contract
      381. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the contract for fuel cards for staff of the Office of Public Works transferred to a company (details supplied); and the basis for...
    • Boat Permits
      382. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a landing permit will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      383. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of the flood levels at the Little Brosna, especially at Riverstown in County Tipperary; his plans to liaise with Offaly...
    • Commercial Rates Exemptions
      384. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform regarding the Valuation (Amendment) Act 2015, when the provisions exempting parts of buildings used by sporting clubs from commercial...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      385. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the collapse of a bank at the quay in Garrane, Killorglin, County Kerry; and if he...
    • Public Sector Pay
      386. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the restoration of public service pay (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21983/15]
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      388. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 300 of 24 March 2015, the status of the flood relief plans for the River Deel, Crossmolina, County...
    • Civil Service Renewal Plan
      389. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to improve accountability in the Civil Service and public sector and to ensure that every employee has a clear job...
    • Performance Management and Development System
      390. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reform the performance measurement system in the Civil Service and public sector; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Sector Pay
      391. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out, in tabular form, the gross and net impact on 1 January 2016 of the public service stability agreement for a single worker...
    • Pensions Levy
      398. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of changes to the pension levy in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22413/15]
    • Flood Relief Schemes Applications
      400. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether the Office of Public Works received any funding requests from either Dublin City Council or Fingal County Council in 2014 and to...
    • Valuation Office
      401. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied with the current staffing levels of both the Valuation Office and the Valuation Tribunal, regarding the extensive...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      402. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the status of a works scheme (details supplied) in County Galway, in view of the delay to the project; and when it...
    • Heritage Centres
      403. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on concerns regarding the downgrading of a heritage centre (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      405. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that has been made in boosting competitiveness and productivity and supporting innovation, research and development,...
    • Regional Development
      406. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if consideration will be provided to making Drogheda, County Louth, a designated location for an advanced factory unit; and if he will...
    • Human Rights Issues
      407. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on his recent trade mission to Bahrain; his views on the European Union's strategic framework on human rights, which...
    • Exports Controls
      408. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if any export licences for military list products to Israel have been granted since the end of the first quarter of 2014; if there...
    • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
      409. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the introduction of investor-state dispute settlements to Ireland, as part of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment...
    • Seirbhísi trí Ghaeilge
      411. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí i nGaeilge...
    • Enterprise Support Services Provision
      412. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will support a matter (details supplied) regarding supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22006/15]
    • IDA Supports
      413. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the efforts IDA Ireland have taken to find alternative employment options for Moy Isover Limited, Ardfinnan, Clonmel, County...
    • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
      414. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will list, in tabular form, the representations received by him, his Department and his Department’s Ministers of State,...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      415. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of commissions of investigation established under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form, since the Commissions of...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Bord na gCon
      418. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the Irish Greyhound Board accounts for 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      419. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a payment under the agri-environment option scheme 3; and if he will...
    • Forestry Premium Payments
      420. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application for a forestry premium will be revisited, in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will...
    • Agriculture Schemes Administration
      421. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 365 of 21 April 2015, if the phrase on-the-spot check in respect of eligibility in the...
    • Single Payment Scheme Administration
      422. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to the recent publication of the guidelines on land eligibility, if he will confirm that these guidelines also apply to...
    • Agriculture Schemes Appeals
      426. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal regarding a penalty under the large single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Single Payment Scheme Administration
      427. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 365 of 21 April 2015, if he will clarify the relevance of Article 24(3) of Regulation (EU) No....
    • Farm Inspections
      428. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he agrees with European Union Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Phil Hogan, that no-notice inspections should...
    • Bord na gCon Staff
      430. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the persons in charge of human resources in the Irish Greyhound Board; the reason one person has complete charge over who gets to...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      431. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has had payments under the agri-environment options scheme 3 for 2014-2015...
    • Fish Farming
      432. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for refusing to provide the inspection and check lists for marine fish farms, for the years 2012 to 2014, for the...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      434. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications that have been made to his Department in respect of the Scottish derogation measure regarding the basic...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      435. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will issue on an appeal in respect of a 2013-2014 single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Fishing Industry
      436. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding fishing trawlers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21417/15]
    • Bord na gCon Staff
      437. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the role and scope of the welfare officer on the Irish Greyhound Board; if the holder of that role has any mandate as regards alleged...
    • Fish Farming
      439. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of serious and continual overstocking of certain finfish farms. [21490/15]
    • Commonage Division
      441. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if commonage in respect of farmers (details supplied) in County Kerry will be declared compliant; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Food Safety Standards
      442. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views that the proposed new Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership trade agreement could lead to a substantial fall in...
    • Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge
      443. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí i nGaeilge...
    • Bord na gCon Staff
      444. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has confidence in the Chairperson and board members of the Irish Greyhound Board; if he is satisfied with the Chairperson's...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Eligibility
      445. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo cannot claim a payment for ponies under the agri-environment options scheme;...
    • Fish Waste
      446. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department or any of the agencies under the remit of his Department have carried out an investigation into the dumping of dead...
    • Grant Aid
      447. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to provide grant aid under either the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme or the farm safety scheme for the...
    • Fishing Industry
      448. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on calls to discontinue the sub-segmentation of tonnage and kilowatts, in order to enable the Irish fishing industry to...
    • Agriculture Schemes Applications
      449. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made on an application in respect of persons (details supplied); the reason for the delay; and if he will...
    • Beef Data Programme
      450. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal may avail of the suckler cow scheme in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      451. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 357 of 12 May 2015, when a decision will be made in relation to an independent review in...
    • Fishing Industry
      452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will respond to issues raised with him by a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21789/15]
    • Superlevy Fine
      453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason he did not succeed in obtaining a concession regarding the super levy fines that were levied on Ireland in 2015, in view...
    • Fishing Fleet Modernisation
      455. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to implement changes to the current fishing fleet management system (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Afforestation Programme
      456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the effects on landscape and tourism, if he will investigate if a sign for planning permission for forestry use of land...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding vacant land in Howth Fishery Harbour (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Greyhound Industry
      458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 399 of 26 May 2015, the number of persons employed in the greyhound industry, as of 1 January...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision on a 2013 single farm payment will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will...
    • Agriculture Schemes Applications
      460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 300 of 15 April 2015, when payments will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare;...
    • Food Waste
      461. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding supermarkets and food waste; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21940/15]
    • Bord na gCon Remit
      462. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any of the greyhounds that raced in the 2015 Con and Annie Kirby Memorial Stake in County Limerick tested positive for banned...
    • Bord na gCon Administration
      464. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Chairman of the Irish Greyhound Board has met with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, as...
    • Bord na gCon Remit
      466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason three investigators into an incident at Dundalk Greyhound Stadium, County Louth, initiated by the Irish Greyhound Board,...
    • Bord na gCon Administration
      467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Irish Greyhound Board plans to sell the greyhound stadium at Harold's Cross in Dublin 6W, prior to a change in zoning for the...
    • Bord na gCon
      468. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the pension deficit in the Irish Greyhound Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21966/15]
    • Bord na gCon Funding
      469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that all private tracks funded by the Irish Greyhound Board are compliant in paying entry fees to the Irish...
    • Bord na gCon Administration
      470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on reports that greyhounds which tested positive for procaine had their positive tests annulled under a threshold that was...
    • TB Eradication Scheme
      471. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the monitoring being carried out on deer that are infected with tuberculosis; the communication his Department has with the Office of...
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments
      472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payments for the suckler cow scheme for the year 2012 will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry. [21982/15]
    • Bord na gCon
      473. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of fines handed out by the Control Committee of the Irish Greyhound Board for the various breaches, since March...
    • Direct Payment Scheme Eligibility
      475. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the area aid overpayment of €46 to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; the parcel of land this...
    • Beef Data Programme
      476. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a 2014 payment under the beef data and genomics programme; and if he...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding action taken against his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on a matter regarding inequality for old young farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Fish Farming
      479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to previous parliamentary questions from this Deputy in April 2014, if he has now received the legal advice he sought and...
    • Beef Data Programme
      480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will make adjustments to the new beef data and genomics scheme as many aspects of the new scheme are over-complicated, the...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Eligibility
      481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason disadvantaged area based payments/single farm payments have not issued to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and...
    • Agriculture Schemes Eligibility
      482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a response will issue in relation to representations made regarding old young farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      483. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports available to farmers who are not young farmers in relation to building a slatted shed; and if he will make a statement...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the further evidence required from a person (details supplied) in County Mayo to support a claim for an agri-environment options...
    • Agriculture Schemes
      485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine notwithstanding a general election between now and early 2016, his plans for a young farmers scheme in the allocation of entitlements...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal under the single farm payment scheme 2013-2014; and if he...
    • Bord na gCon
      487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 87 of 27 May 2015, if he will indicate the number of the 128 samples sent for drugs testing to...
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications
      488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department will decide upon the large number of individual applications for a shellfish aquaculture licence in respect of...
    • Fisheries Offences
      489. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of any fin fish installations which were not located within their licensed areas in whole or in part, including their...
    • Bord na gCon
      491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has taken measures to investigate the latest drugs scandal (details supplied) in the greyhound industry; and if he...
    • Fisheries Protection
      492. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what actions he has taken to regulate dredge fisheries to halt widespread destruction of fragile sea-floor habitats such as in...
    • Fishing Industry
      493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 217 of 6 May 2015, and in view of his acknowledgement that the implementation of the landing...
    • Departmental Strategies
      494. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the proposed national strategy for aquaculture has not been made available to the public at the same time as the draft...
    • Fisheries Protection
      495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 218 of 6 May 2015, if the business case for financial resources for the Sea Fisheries...
    • Forestry Premium Payments
      496. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review a name change for a person (details supplied) in County Clare regarding forestry premium; and if he will make a...
    • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
      497. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will list, in tabular form, the representations received by him, his Department and his Department’s Ministers of State...
    • Bord na gCon Staff
      498. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, in respect of the past ten years and of 2015 to date the total number of employees, full-time...
    • Bord na gCon
      499. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Irish Greyhound Board ever returned a positive test for prohibited substances for a greyhound (details supplied); if so, the...
    • Animal Disease Controls
      500. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 284 of 15 April 2015, if he will provide a copy of the European Union Commission's confirmation...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      501. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of commissions of investigation established under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form, since the Commissions of...
  • Department of Defence
    • Overseas Missions
      504. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide, in detail, the activities of personnel of the Defence Forces during their latest mission in Afghanistan; and his views on whether this...
    • Seirbhísi trí Ghaeilge
      505. To ask the Minister for Defence cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí i nGaeilge atá ar fáil...
    • Defence Forces Equipment
      506. To ask the Minister for Defence the steps his Department is undertaking during procurement of defensive equipment by his Department to ensure human rights due diligence is undertaken; and...
    • UN Missions
      507. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on Ireland’s participation in the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force mission in the Golan Heights; and if he will...
    • Naval Service Vessels
      508. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide a progress report on the current mission of the LÉ EITHNE and its crew in the Mediterranean; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Defence Forces Fatalities
      509. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the measures being taken to obtain justice for the families of persons (details supplied). [21723/15]
    • Easter Rising Commemorations
      510. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will make military personnel available for a 2016 commemoration event (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21745/15]
    • Irish Red Cross Governance
      511. To ask the Minister for Defence when he will announce the new nominees to the General Assembly of the Irish Red Cross; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21746/15]
    • Defence Forces Strength
      512. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which the strength of the Defence Forces has fluctuated in the past three years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22392/15]
    • Defence Forces Personnel Data
      513. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of promotional positions, waiting to be filled throughout the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22393/15]
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      514. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which the number of women in the Defence Forces, at all ranks, has varied in the course of the past five years; and if he will make a statement...
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      515. To ask the Minister for Defence the total strength of the Defence Forces currently serving overseas, at all ranks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22395/15]
    • Naval Service Operations
      516. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which the Naval Service continues to successfully carry out its operations in the Mediterranean; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      517. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which the services of the army, navy and air corps continue to be called on to assist on international peace-keeping and-or rescue missions; and...
    • European Defence Capabilities
      518. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which he continues to influence Defence policy at European Level, with particular reference to the need to ensure that Defence Forces throughout...
    • Defence Forces Strength
      519. To ask the Minister for Defence the degree to which he remains satisfied regarding the ability of the Defence Forces to respond to any emergency that might arise; if the quality and extent...
    • UN Missions
      520. To ask the Minister for Defence the extent to which payments from the United Nations in respect of overseas service by the Defence Forces remain up to date; and if he will make a statement...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      521. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Commissions of Investigation established under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form, since the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • International Terrorism
      524. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which discussions continue to take place at European Union level, with a view to assuring a high degree of preparedness in the...
    • Refugee Status
      525. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the LÉ Eithne is depositing refugees that it finds in the Mediterranean, in Malta and in Italy; if it is the case, under the...
    • Deportation Orders
      526. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress, to date, in determining an application pursuant to section 3(11) of the Immigration Act, 1999 (as amended), in the case of a person...
    • Immigration Policy
      527. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on changes to be made in the Garda National Immigration Bureau, to end long queues outside its office on Burgh Quay...
    • Proposed Legislation
      528. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2014; when the Bill will be enacted; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Immigration Status
      529. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current and-or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 who is eight years living here; and if she...
    • Legal Aid
      530. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the qualifying criteria for persons availing of free legal aid; if she has considered putting a limit on the number of times persons can avail of...
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      532. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision on an urgent Garda vetting application will be made in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow. [21435/15]
    • Direct Provision System
      533. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the Health Information and Quality Authority report on the provision of child welfare services for children in direct provision...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      534. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to set up a task force to deal with anti-social behaviour in housing estates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21454/15]
    • Garda Equipment
      535. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide funding for the purchase of extra mountain bikes for An Garda Síochána; when the force last received new mountain...
    • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
      536. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to have a Garda youth diversion project for an area (details supplied) in Dublin 13. [21479/15]
    • Immigration Policy
      537. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address an issue (details supplied) regarding visa policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21492/15]
    • Same-sex Marriage
      538. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality following the passing of the marriage equality referendum, if she will confirm the earliest date by which same-sex couples will have civil...
    • Seirbhísi trí Ghaeilge
      539. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí i nGaeilge atá ar...
    • Proposed Legislation
      540. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 508 of 26 May 2015, if the reformed and consolidated Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2014 will contain a...
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      541. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the policy of An Garda Síochána in relation to domestic violence; the specific training provided to Gardaí to assist them in...
    • Garda Oversight
      542. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce a criminal justice inspectorate similar to that in place in the North of Ireland, as recommended by the Oireachtas Joint...
    • Proposed Legislation
      543. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the Mediation Bill 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21632/15]
    • Travel Documents
      544. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a travel document will issue to facilitate a humanitarian visit to a person's mother in their country in the case of a person (details...
    • Immigration Status
      545. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress, to date, in determining an application for residency, on the grounds of family dependency on an Irish national, in the case of a...
    • Residency Permits
      546. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the current residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Clare who has been living and working here...
    • Deportation Orders
      549. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set down the current residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      551. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if stamp 4 will be extended to cater for an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she...
    • Deportation Orders
      552. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement...
    • Visa Applications
      553. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the progress to date in the determination of an application for a visa in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare;...
    • Equality Legislation
      554. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will repeal section 37.1 of the Equality Act 2004. [21713/15]
    • Constitutional Convention Recommendations
      555. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has considered the Constitutional Convention's report on blasphemy; if she will legislate for the recommendation rather than deal with it...
    • Legislative Programme
      557. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider tightening the law in an area (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21740/15]
    • Garda Vetting Applications
      558. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 213 of 28 April 2015 the reason for the delay in issuing a Garda clearance in respect of a person (details...
    • Immigration Status
      560. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the progress to date in determining an application for stamp 4 in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she...
    • Legal Services Regulation
      561. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the legal services authority will be in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21814/15]
    • Garda Deployment
      562. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out her views on a matter regarding anti-social behaviour in a town (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement...
    • Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
      563. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details, in tabular form, of State funding to Women's Aid for the past ten years, including in 2015 to date. [21847/15]
    • Garda Deployment
      564. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline her plans to allocate additional gardaí from the selection of qualified Garda recruits to Tralee town in County Kerry in view of...
    • Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes
      565. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the prison system has engaged or assisted in recent times in any research programmes in the areas of treating challenging behaviour, self...
    • Debt Collection
      566. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline her plans to introduce legislation to deal with debt collection; if such legislation will apply to all debts; when she anticipates...
    • Domestic Violence Refuges
      567. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the total funding provided for each of the years 2009 to 2014, inclusive, and for 2015 to date by her Department to a refuge (details...
    • Garda Strength
      568. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will confirm the strength of the Cork city Garda traffic corps as at 1 June 2013, 31 December 2013, 1 June 2014, 31 December 2014 and 1...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      569. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the justice system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22008/15]
    • Court Accommodation Provision
      571. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set down the date for the commencement of the new courthouse in Letterkenny, County Donegal; her views on whether the car parking provision...
    • Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission
      572. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she proposes to appoint a High Court judge to preside over an inquiry into a recent death (details supplied) as requested by the Association...
    • Prisoner Health
      573. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide figures for the health care budget allocated to the prison service as a whole in each of the years 2012 to 2014, inclusive;...
    • Garda Forms
      574. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the procedures for Form 104 reporting by gardaí to the Central Statistics Office, particularly the manner...
    • Deaths in Prison
      575. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the cause of death determination process in use to record causes of death in prisons; the process involved in recording and conveying...
    • Criminal Law
      577. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the heads of the criminal law (sexual offences) (amendment) Bill 2014 (details...
    • Legislative Measures
      578. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline her views regarding the issue of a person who is concerned with section 4 of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013, which...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      579. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the closed-circuit television footage available relating to the alleged assault and death of a person (details supplied) in 2002 at Portlaoise...
    • Visa Applications
      580. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will prioritise the joint family visa application in respect of a child (details supplied) in Dublin 15 as the child is due to start...
    • Crime Levels
      581. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide figures in respect of crime rates in the Stepaside area of Dublin south by type of crime for the periods March 2011 to March...
    • Deportation Orders
      582. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the fact that the website of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service only lists seven deportations on 11 March 2015, when the...
    • Visa Applications
      583. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons some 3,003 persons were refused entry into the country; the nationalities of those refused entry; if she will provide a breakdown of...
    • Garda Operations
      584. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware that a number of protesters were held against their will, unable to exit a small enclosure sealed by An Garda Síochána,...
    • Criminal Law
      586. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the status of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2014; if she will expedite the matter before...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      587. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to her reply of 27 May 2015 to Parliamentary Question No. 103 of 25 March 2015, with the breakdown on cases before each District Court...
    • Penalty Points System Data
      588. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 6 May 2015, which was in follow up to Parliamentary Question No. 399 of 21 April 2015,...
    • Crime Data
      589. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested and charged with theft of a vehicle in Dublin in each of the years 2012 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; the number of...
    • Garda Recruitment
      590. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects the two posts of Deputy Garda Commissioner to be filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22430/15]
    • Subsidiary Protection Applications
      591. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will confirm the current residency status of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Family Law Cases
      592. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of plans for legal and constitutional change to facilitate a restructuring of the family court system; if it is still intended...
    • Residency Permits
      593. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Asylum Applications
      594. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress, to date, in the determining an application, by reference to provisions of section 3(6) of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended) and...
    • Residency Permits
      595. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made, to date, in determining an application for right to residency based on parentage of an Irish citizen child in the case of a...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      596. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in respect of an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she...
    • Residency Permits
      597. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      599. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Commissions of Investigation established under the aegis of her Department, in tabular form, since the Commissions of Investigation...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Departmental Funding
      602. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of funding awarded to the resource centre in Mullingar, County Westmeath in the past four...
    • Child and Family Agency Services
      603. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an appropriate placement will be provided by Tusla in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Services Funding
      604. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide assurances that there will be no cuts to the Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency after June 2015, as feared by...
    • Early Child Care Education
      606. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on correspondence in relation to a community playgroup (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Juvenile Offenders
      607. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of children held on remand since January 2013, on a monthly basis; the average length of...
    • Disability Services Funding
      608. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will ensure that the funding from Tusla is not removed from agencies such as the Disability Equality Support Agency (details...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      609. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of city and county child care committees in existence; the budget for each one of these; the way these committees differ in...
    • HIQA Reports
      610. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the Health Information and Quality Authority report on the provision of child welfare services for children in direct...
    • Child and Family Agency Funding
      611. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will assist in resolving an issue (details supplied) regarding a resource centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Seirbhísi trí Ghaeilge
      612. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí i nGaeilge atá...
    • Child and Family Agency Funding
      613. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the long-term future for Westmeath support services against domestic abuse in Mullingar, County Westmeath; the future for its manager...
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      614. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the bilateral agreement between Ireland and Russia on inter-country adoptions; the reason more progress is not being made on...
    • Child and Family Agency Funding
      615. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position relating to cuts in Túsla - Child and Family Agency funding for June 2015 regarding day care (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • Child Care Services Funding
      616. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to introduce capital funding for private childcare providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21650/15]
    • Child and Family Agency Funding
      617. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding an application for funding for an organisation (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
    • Early Child Care Education
      619. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of centres authorised to deliver early childhood education and care that are operating without the required planning permission;...
    • Child Care Services Funding
      620. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on correspondence in relation to the Edenmore early education centre (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and the cuts in funding; and...
    • Child and Family Agency Funding
      621. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will re-instate funding to an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21879/15]
    • Child and Family Agency Services
      622. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when he expects to respond and allocate adequate resources to deal with the immediate crisis of more than 550 children on the waiting list...
    • Preschool Services
      623. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on changing the eligibility criteria for the free pre-school year in order that it can be availed of by a child aged three years;...
    • Disability Support Services
      624. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding funding from the Disability Equality Specialist Support Agency; and if he will...
    • Child and Family Agency Funding
      625. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, is cutting funds to the Meade Day Care in Donaghmede in Dublin 13, by 10%; if he will...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      626. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if changes to the childcare system have been considered (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21981/15]
    • Child Care Services Regulation
      627. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the standards that providers of child care have to meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21995/15]
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      628. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action he will take in relation to the internal Health Service Executive report commissioned in 2012 as part of the McAleese inquiry,...
    • Child Protection
      629. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is aware of any allegations of abuse in relation to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who has been in the care of the...
    • Child and Family Agency Expenditure
      630. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the 10% reduction in Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, funding to a day care centre in Dublin 11 (details supplied); how...
    • Child Poverty
      632. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 272 of 19 May 2015 regarding the steps being taken to address the issues identified in United Nations...
    • Child and Family Agency Expenditure
      633. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on a matter regarding Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, funding (details supplied) for a bereavement support group in County...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      634. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of commissions of investigation established under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form, since the Commissions of...
  • Department of Health
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      637. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the immediate need for resources to be sanctioned by his Department for an automated external defibrillator in respect of a school (details...
    • Home Care Packages
      638. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of people who have been approved for home care packages, but who are on waiting lists for receipt of this...
    • Departmental Schemes
      640. To ask the Minister for Health the progress in relation to the reinstatement of the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant; and the reason for the delay. [22664/15]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      642. To ask the Minister for Health if exact waiting times for each Health Service Executive area are available for mastectomy prosthesis and surgical bras, swimsuits and so on, if so, if he will...
    • Medical Card Applications
      643. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare, who is participating on a community employment scheme, will be issued with a medical card; and if he will...
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      644. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on discussions with pharmaceutical companies regarding reducing the cost of drugs used in the health service. [21261/15]
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      645. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that under the Health Service Executive service plan 2015 money was allocated for four mental health High Observation Units, if he will...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a medical card was refused in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare, in view of the fact that the person's circumstances, both...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      647. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for specially fitted shoes in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow, in view of the fact that the shoes...
    • Health Services Data
      648. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that the reporting system for deaths of babies in Irish hospitals is upgraded and streamlined to ensure that the national perinatal...
    • State Claims Agency
      649. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims to the State Claims Agency against individual maternity units for the years 2008 to 2014 and for 2015 to date; if he will provide the...
    • HIQA Reports
      650. To ask the Minister for Health if he will acknowledge that there is a conflict of interest in the Health Service Executive drawing up the terms of reference into the independent report of...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      651. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the problem the Health Service Executive is having hiring obstetricians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21334/15]
    • Hospital Consultants Contract
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the Health Service Executive's compliance unit will spend hiring forensic accountancy services to assess work that some hospital consultants are...
    • Patient Data
      654. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the establishment of the new patient identity numbers system within the Health Service Executive will cost; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes Funding
      655. To ask the Minister for Health if there is assistance available to families (details supplied) towards the cost of residential alcohol rehabilitation for a family member; and if he will make...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes Availability
      656. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the Barrymore programme at the Stanhope Centre, Lower Grangegorman, Dublin 7 will not go ahead as planned in June 2015 and the...
    • Hospice Services
      657. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider, as part of his maternity review, the establishment of a number of perinatal hospice care centres; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      658. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 618 of 15 April 2015, the amount of time it currently takes to register as a nurse, from the time of submitting an...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      659. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, by county, the current delays being experienced in processing applications under the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Charges
      660. To ask the Minister for Health if financial assistance will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick, who is not in a position to pay hospital invoices; and...
    • Primary Medical Certificates Applications
      661. To ask the Minister for Health if an application will be processed for a primary medical certificate in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a...
    • Vaccination Programme
      662. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the recent situation where the Health Service Executive had no supplies of the BCG tuberculosis vaccine; if he has sought a...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      663. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of children with rheumatology conditions currently waiting for physiotherapy services in the Kildare and west Wicklow area; and if he will...
    • Nursing Home Repayment Scheme
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a claim under the national repayment scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a...
    • General Medical Services Scheme
      665. To ask the Minister for Health the outcome of recent mediation talks which have taken place between the Health Service Executive, the company which operates the NoWDOC general practitioner...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      667. To ask the Minister for Health the exclusivity agreement currently in place between the Health Service Executive and a recruitment company (details supplied); if the company is unable to...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Threshold
      668. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing the current €144 maximum monthly threshold of the drug payments scheme in €10 intervals; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Funding
      670. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 315 of 19 May 2015, the total value of the estimated gap between the current per diem charges referred to and the...
    • Health Services Data
      671. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 324 of 19 May 2015, the estimated number of patients who will benefit from the diabetes cycle of care, which is to cost...
    • Hospital Staff
      672. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of hospital managers and directors of services in the Health Service Executive who also sell services to the executive while...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      673. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Offaly will receive an appointment for an MRI scan at the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore, County Offaly. [21423/15]
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      675. To ask the Minister for Health when funding for a wheelchair will be allocated in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21447/15]
    • Respite Care Services
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding respite care services in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21455/15]
    • Hospital Services
      677. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the long delays in receiving patients' biopsy reports from the dermatology unit in Galway University Hospital; if this delay is due to a...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      678. To ask the Minister for Health the eligibility status after 31 July 2015 of the discretionary medical card holders whose discretionary medical cards were lost between July 2011 and May 2014...
    • Hospital Services
      679. To ask the Minister for Health the referral criteria in place for paediatric selective dorsal rhizotomy in hospitals; the rationale provided for same; if there is a national guideline...
    • HSE Properties
      681. To ask the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's plans for lands in Ratoath, County Meath, purchased to build a medical centre on ten years ago; the time frame for development...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      682. To ask the Minister for Health his Department's targets for child and adolescent mental health services appointment waiting times; the estimated cost of ending the placement of children in...
    • Seirbhísi trí Ghaeilge
      683. To ask the Minister for Health cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí i nGaeilge atá ar fáil...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      684. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the planning for a third palliative care consultant for the midlands, to be based at Mullingar Hospital, County Westmeath; when...
    • Universal Health Insurance Funding
      686. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the latest details on universal health insurance, the stage the scoping exercise for funding is at; when this funding estimate will be...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      687. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, whose sole income totals less than...
    • Orthodontic Service Provision
      688. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a child (details supplied) in County Meath must wait two and a half years before she will be fitted with braces by the orthodontic unit in Navan,...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      689. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will receive a hospital appointment. [21581/15]
    • Alcohol Pricing
      690. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the progress of Government plans to outlaw below-cost selling of alcohol; his plans to introduce the public health...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      691. To ask the Minister for Health if he or his Department is aware that funding is not available for a new cancer drug called TDM1, also known as Kadcyla; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Substance Misuse
      692. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the very significant funding cuts to the Barrymore House residential programme; in view of the clear demand for the service, if funding will be...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      693. To ask the Minister for Health when the drug Fampyra will be included on the drugs payment scheme, in view of the ongoing financial hardship experienced by persons who are prescribed this...
    • Medical Card Applications
      694. To ask the Minister for Health the progress, to date, in the determining an application for a medical card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Care of the Elderly Funding
      696. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, details of the funding provided annually for the past six years to community services, by home help, home care packages,...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Expenditure
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of the drugs payment scheme; the annual savings that have been made in each budget over the past six years, through changes in the threshold; and if...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      698. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent annually on speech and language therapy; the number waiting for appointments; if he will provide an update on the reconfiguration of services;...
    • Medical Card Applications
      699. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, in view of the fact that the...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      700. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available for Happy Talk Cork City Partnership Ltd, to assist with its three-year plan catering for the speech and language needs of...
    • Alcohol Pricing
      701. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a minimum unit pricing on alcohol, as a means to curb alcohol abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21631/15]
    • Primary Care Centres
      703. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres currently in operation; the number currently planned to be opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21640/15]
    • HSE Staffing
      704. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health nurses who have left their posts in each year since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21641/15]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      707. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the status of the Fair Deal Review; the time frame for its completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21644/15]
    • HSE Staffing
      708. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the details of the number of consultants employed at Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise, County Laois in each of the...
    • Hospitals Funding
      710. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of funding allocated to Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise, County Laois for each of the years 2008 to...
    • HSE Staffing
      711. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the details of the number of consultants employed at the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar, County Westmeath for each...
    • Hospitals Funding
      713. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of funding allocated to the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar, County Westmeath, for each of the years...
    • HSE Staffing
      714. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the details of the number of consultants employed at Our Lady’s Hospital in Navan, County Meath, by speciality, for...
    • Hospitals Funding
      716. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of funding allocated to Our Lady’s Hospital in Navan, County Meath for each of the years 2008 to 2014...
    • HSE Staffing
      717. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the details of the number of consultants employed at Cavan General Hospital, by speciality, for each of the years 2009 to...
    • Hospitals Funding
      719. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of funding allocated to Cavan General Hospital, County Cavan for each of the years 2008 to 2014 and for 2015 to...
    • HSE Staffing
      720. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the details of the number of consultants employed at Louth County Hospital, by speciality, for each of the years 2009 to...
    • Hospitals Funding
      722. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of funding allocated to Louth County Hospital for each of the years 2008 to 2014 and for 2015 to date; and if...
    • HSE Staffing
      723. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the details of the number of consultants employed at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth, by speciality,...
    • Hospitals Funding
      725. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of funding allocated to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, County Louth for each of the years 2008 to 2014...
    • HSE Staffing
      726. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of consultants employed at Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal, by speciality, for each of the years...
    • Hospitals Funding
      728. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of funding allocated to Letterkenny General Hospital, County Donegal for each of the years 2008 to 2014 and for...
    • HSE Staffing
      729. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of consultants employed at Roscommon County Hospital, by speciality, for each of the years 2009 to 2014 and for...
    • Hospitals Funding
      731. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of funding allocated to Roscommon County Hospital for each of the years 2008 to 2014 and for 2015 to date; and...
    • HSE Staffing
      732. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of consultants employed at Sligo Regional Hospital, by speciality, for each of the years 2009 to 2014 and for...
    • Hospitals Funding
      734. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount of funding allocated to Sligo Regional Hospital for each of the years 2008 to 2014 and for 2015 to date; and if...
    • HSE Waiting Lists
      735. To ask the Minister for Health the number on waiting lists in respect of assessment and treatment for speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, with breakdowns by...
    • Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
      736. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown, by county and time frame, of the number of persons currently waiting for orthodontic treatment for six months, one year, two...
    • Medical Card Applications
      737. To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate eligibility for a Medical Card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Charges
      738. To ask the Minister for Health the average cost of attending a day ward in semi-private hospitals; if there are measures which may help alleviate financial burden on patients who find...
    • Medical Card Applications
      739. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a Medical Card was refused in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth, in view of the person's illness; if the application can be...
    • Medical Card Administration
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a file from the client registration unit in Dublin has not been forwarded to the medical card appeals office in Ballyshannon, County Donegal,...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      741. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to cover persons with coeliac disease under the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21712/15]
    • Medical Card Data
      742. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards; the number of general practitioner cards, as of 1 May 2015; and the number for each type of card issued on a discretionary basis,...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      743. To ask the Minister for Health when a new wheelchair will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21727/15]
    • Departmental Funding
      745. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider an application for grant aid (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21744/15]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      746. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not been granted a wheelchair assessment in Seat Tech Enable Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Vaccination Programme
      748. To ask the Minister for Health the level of information relating to side effects for vaccinations that are provided to parents in schools for school vaccination programmes; and if he will...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      749. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in re-examining entitlement to a medical card, in view of new information submitted in recent weeks in the case of persons (details...
    • Nursing Home Inspections
      750. To ask the Minister for Health his plans extend the powers of the Health Information and Quality Authority, the Ombudsman or other State agencies to investigate individual complaints in...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      751. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance available in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare whose child requires specialised glasses and frames beyond the norm; and...
    • Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
      752. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Meath will receive an appointment with the orthodontic department, Health Service Executive health centre,...
    • Health Services Staff
      754. To ask the Minister for Health if the position of mental health inspector is vacant, including any temporary absence due to illness; the timeframe it has been vacant, or temporarily vacant;...
    • School Meals Programme
      755. To ask the Minister for Health his views on representations from the Irish Heart Foundation (details supplied) which stressed the need for nutritious school food; and if he will make a...
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      756. To ask the Minister for Health the most recent ambulance call-out response times; if targets are being reached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21784/15]
    • HSE Expenditure
      757. To ask the Minister for Health the full-year cost of an ambulance, including staffing and external costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21785/15]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      760. To ask the Minister for Health the latest details of integration of ambulance services in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21788/15]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      762. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to extending the fair deal scheme to cover access by Border area residents of this State to available beds in nursing homes...
    • Medical Card Applications
      763. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a medical card, submitted in January 2015, in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo [21825/15]
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      765. To ask the Minister for Health the extent of North-South co-operation, in relation to the issues of mental health and suicide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21831/15]
    • Midwifery Services
      766. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop more free-standing birth centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21838/15]
    • Health Promotion
      769. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the breast-feeding rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21841/15]
    • HSE Staffing
      770. To ask the Minister for Health the number of pancreas transplant surgeons operating in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9; and his view on the operation of transplants procedures in this area...
    • Health Services Access
      771. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding occupational therapy in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21852/15]
    • Maternity Services
      772. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the maternity steering group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21888/15]
    • HSE Staffing
      773. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health posts due under the Budget 2015 allocation of €35 million that had been advertised as at the end of quarter 1, 2015; the...
    • Health Services
      774. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend, or mainstream, the CARE programme of alcohol treatment service, which is piloting in Finglas, Ballymun, Dublin 11 and North County Dublin,...
    • Vaccination Programme
      775. To ask the Minister for Health the details of side effects of Gardasil vaccination; if he is aware of particular concerns with this vaccine; if he or the Health Service Executive is...
    • Medical Card Applications
      776. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will receive a decision on an overdue medical card application [21908/15]
    • General Practitioner Services
      777. To ask the Minister for Health the level of service provided by the general practitioner out of hours service in the north east region, Counties Cavan, Monaghan, Louth and Meath; the number...
    • HSE Funding
      778. To ask the Minister for Health if he will restore the €2.5 million in funding to addiction services, in view of the fact the cuts in funding are having a negative effect on recovery...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      780. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for urgent and non-urgent arrhythmia clinic appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21921/15]
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      781. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug nadolol, which is used to treat Long QT syndrome, has been removed from the drugs payment scheme; and if so, if it will be re-instated with...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      782. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time in the Mater Hospital, Dublin 7, for urgent and non-urgent cardiology outpatient appointments; the waiting time for inpatient...
    • Autism Support Services
      783. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting on a full diagnostic assessment for autism in Waterford University Hospital; if he will provide a detailed breakdown...
    • Hospital Consultants Recruitment
      784. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 19 November 2014, if he will provide a progress update on the recruitment for a consultant dermatologist in...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      786. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the massive increase in numbers waiting for surgery, for over a year, in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9; if a particular plan has...
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      789. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a respiratory nurse currently working in Wexford General Hospital with asthma patients; if not, his plans to recruit one in the near future; if he...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      790. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a matter (details supplied) regarding services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22004/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      791. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive an appointment; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Procedures
      792. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in being called for a procedure in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Magdalen Laundries
      793. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an internal Health Service Executive report in relation to the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, County Cork, commissioned in 2012 as part of the...
    • Hospital Appointments Administration
      794. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details, for each of the Cork hospitals, and broken down by specialty and discipline, for example, cardiac, renal, paediatric and so on; the...
    • Orthodontic Service Provision
      795. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding orthodontic braces in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22047/15]
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      797. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 494 of 21 April 2015, if he will provide an update (details supplied). [22077/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      798. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently examine an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      799. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the assessment waiting list for speech and language therapy in counties Galway and Roscommon primary community continuing care areas;...
    • Health Services Provision
      801. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the assessment waiting list for occupational therapy in counties Galway and Roscommon primary community continuing care areas; the age...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      817. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for a cataract operation will be provided in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, following a further urgent referral; and if he...
    • Hospitals Expenditure
      818. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the financial performance for year-to-date 2015 against budget for every acute hospital; and if he will make a statement...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      819. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, details of each child and adolescent mental health service by Health Service Executive administrative area, broken down...
    • Mental Health Services Funding
      820. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the financial performance in the year to date 2015 for each mental health service, broken down by Health Service Executive...
    • Suicide Prevention
      822. To ask the Minister for Health the suicide prevention policies applied at the Central Mental Hospital; the number of suicide-related deaths per year over the past ten years at that facility;...
    • Mental Health Commission Remit
      823. To ask the Minister for Health how many prosecutions the Mental Health Commission recommended be taken, or has initiated, under Part 2 or Part 5 of the Mental Health Act 2001; if is he...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      824. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support a person (details supplied) with a disability. [22139/15]
    • Health Strategies
      825. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the Choosing Wisely policy that is in use in the United States of America, Australia, Germany and other countries has been examined in an...
    • Organ Donation
      826. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have been facilitated in the paired kidney exchange programme with the United Kingdom in each year from 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to...
    • Audiology Services Provision
      828. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the waiting times for audiology assessment in each of the counties Roscommon, Leitrim and Galway; if he will provide, in...
    • Health Services Staff
      829. To ask the Minister for Health the names and qualifications of the persons who conducted the investigation into the allegations made against a person (details supplied) who was struck off...
    • HIQA Issues
      830. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the Health Information and Quality Authority's standards position regarding the funding required by the L'Arche community project, County...
    • Hospital Groups
      831. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the establishment of the various hospital groups, in particular the Royal College of Surgeons group; if he will provide a...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      832. To ask the Minister for Health whether the estimated cost to the State of between €330 million and €365 million for the introduction of free general practitioner, GP, care for...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      836. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult and paediatric patients waiting for neuro-rehabilitation beds for longer than two months, six months and 12 months; the numbers of such...
    • Health Insurance
      837. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an issue concerning private health insurance raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      838. To ask the Minister for Health the information, advice and supports that have been provided to a group (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22199/15]
    • HSE Staffing
      839. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of Health Service Executive marriage solemnisers, in view of the approval of the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution...
    • Dental Services Expenditure
      841. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the Health Service Executive offering dental grants to travel to Northern Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • HSE Funding
      842. To ask the Minister for Health if there are funding streams available to an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork for providing services that are ancillary to its core function; and...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      843. To ask the Minister for Health the update on the review of Lantern Lodge day care centre, New Road, Killarney, County Kerry, as residents are worried and concerned regarding any proposed...
    • Hospitals Data
      844. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive keeps a record of the total number of denial of liability letters and notes issued by nurses in acute hospitals to hospital...
    • Health Services Data
      846. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of persons waiting for their first appointments for talk therapies, for example, psychoanalysis, cognitive...
    • Hospital Services
      847. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of any outreach programme operated by the hospitals in County Cork, whereby a member calls to a person in the city or county who may...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      848. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time, mean and median, for an orthopaedic inpatient treatment in the Saolta University Health Care Group; if he will confirm if the Saolta...
    • Health Services Access
      849. To ask the Minister for Health the protocols and access policy in place to ensure that oncology patients at Mayo General Hospital can access appropriate treatment by a specialist oncology...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      850. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway who has been on the waiting list since 6 March 2015 and is suffering considerable continuous pain can expect...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
      851. To ask the Minister for Health in the case of the nursing homes support scheme, if it is possible for a person in receipt of support under the scheme to apply for a deferral ancillary State...
    • Proposed Legislation
      852. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce legislation to regulate the counselling and psychotherapy sector to ensure that all regulated practitioners would be educated to at least...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      856. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an appointment for a hip and knee operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22256/15]
    • Health Services
      857. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence received regarding adult day placement in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      858. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to relocate a Health Service Executive managed training service centre for people with disabilities (details supplied) in County Donegal; if a review...
    • Autism Support Services
      859. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the minimum age requirements at which a child may receive a diagnosis of Autism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22283/15]
    • Early Intervention Services
      860. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Cork will receive an appointment for a assessment through the early intervention services; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      861. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway who has been awaiting an urgent MRI scan, vital to monitor a brain tumour, since November 2013 when they were...
    • Medicinal Products Expenditure
      862. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent each year by the Health Service Executive on the treatment of fibromyalgia with Lyrica, Cymbalta and Amitriptyline; and if he will make a...
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      863. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene to ensure that financial support is provided to a person (details supplied) in County Cork who requires to travel to the UK on a regular...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      864. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a treatment facility (details supplied) in Dublin 7 is temporarily closing down; how long it is planned that this facility will remain closed; the...
    • Primary Care Centre Provision
      866. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposal to provide a new health facility at a location (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      867. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding provision of an electric wheelchair in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Care Professionals
      868. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the establishing of Regulation Boards in professions provided in section 26(1) of the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005....
    • Hospital Services
      869. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the recent decision regarding the moving of complex surgeries from the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, and the curtailing of...
    • Drug Treatment Programmes Places
      870. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on methadone maintenance programmes in each of the Community Care Areas for 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015; and if he will make a...
    • Care of the Elderly Provision
      871. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive can provide figures for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015 of carers it has employed in Meath; and if he...
    • Medical Card Administration
      873. To ask the Minister for Health if it is possible to amend the medical card guidelines to enable significant credit union repayment in such situations as house renovations, to be deemed as an...
    • Medical Card Applications
      874. To ask the Minister for Health the current position in relation to application for Medical Card in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Care Standards
      875. To ask the Minister for Health if the European Union involves itself in setting hospital standards and regulations across Europe. [22439/15]
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      876. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of the overall health budget spent on primary care in this State; his views on how this compares with similar jurisdictions; and if he will make...
    • General Practitioner Training
      877. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioners who are currently in training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22442/15]
    • Hospital Investigations
      878. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the details of an incident that occurred in St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin 4 (details supplied); and the steps that have been taken as a...
    • Hospital Services
      879. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate antenatal and gynaecology services at Dungloe Community Hospital in County Donegal; if he will provide a timeframe as to when he expects...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      880. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recruit a full-time consultant psychologist for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in County Waterford; if he is satisfied with...
    • Irish Medical Organisation
      881. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding the Irish Medical Organisation and IMO-related companies have received under the Health Service Executive funded drugs target saving...
    • General Practitioner Services
      882. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, by county, the numbers and lists of general practitioners who have signed up to the proposed free GP care plan for...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      883. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding provision of services for children with ASD at a school in County Cork; if the matter will be...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      884. To ask the Minister for Health when the increases in staffing levels and the number of beds agreed by the current staff and the HSE at the mental health unit in University Hospital Galway...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      885. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of the new mental health facility planned for the campus at University Hospital Galway. [22512/15]
    • Commissions of Investigation
      886. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Commissions of Investigation established under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form, since the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 came...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • International Summits
      889. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding Ireland's participation in international negotiations; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Millennium Development Goals
      890. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps that have been taken to strengthen common efforts by the Irish and British Governments to achieve the United Nations Millennium...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      891. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his meeting with the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, on 24 May 2015. [21263/15]
    • Passport Applications
      892. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason there is no dedicated Teachta Dála line available for urgent passport queries; his views that an Irish national applying for...
    • Passport Services
      893. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the passport rapid renewal service will be made available in the Cork Passport Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Diplomatic Representation
      894. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to reopen the Irish Consulate General Office in Cardiff; the estimated cost of re-opening that office; and if he will make a...
    • Death Penalty
      895. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will intervene to seek to secure the release of a person (details supplied), who is currently on death row in Pakistan for the crime...
    • Seirbhísi trí Ghaeilge
      896. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí i nGaeilge atá...
    • Historical Conflicts
      897. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will recognise the Armenian genocide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21571/15]
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      898. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland sought an apology from the British Government of the former British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, for the Great Famine; and if...
    • Passport Applications
      899. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress to date in determining an application for a passport in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      901. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position in relation to a time frame to achieve the 0.7% in Official Development Assistance in foreign aid; and if he will make a...
    • Millennium Development Goals
      902. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans and objectives for the United Nations Financing for Development, Third International Conference to be held in Ethiopia on 13 to 16...
    • Consular Services Provision
      904. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the recent devastating earthquakes in Nepal, if he will develop a register for Irish citizens in all countries susceptible to...
    • Foreign Policy
      905. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the legal action of the Argentinian State against unlawful hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation activities on the...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      906. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of his recent discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and the leaders of the political parties in the...
    • Consular Services Provision
      907. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts that have been made by his Department to assist a person (details supplied) who is an Irish citizen and who is currently being...
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      908. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the next open competition for the post of First Secretary will be held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22195/15]
    • Israeli Settlements
      910. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on Israel's plans to forcibly relocate up to 7,000 Palestinian Bedouins from 46 communities in occupied Palestine, and in view of...
    • Syrian Conflict
      912. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the case of a Palestinian refugee (details supplied) who had to flee his home in Syria due to the conflict there, who has...
    • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
      913. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade If he will list, in tabular form, the representations received by him over the past three years, his Department and his Department’s...
    • Climate Change Policy
      914. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of meetings the Inter-Departmental Committee on Development has had since the publication of One World, One Future:...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      919. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her Department discriminates against girls who attend an all girls primary school, in view of...
    • Bus Éireann
      920. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that Bus Éireann is the organisation responsible for keeping safety records on school transport, and with regard to the...
    • Road Safety
      921. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that her staff have made known to her the existence of a report that remains in draft form, that was commissioned in...
    • Education and Training Boards
      922. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to reinstate the training allowance for persons who are engaged on community-based training programmes, to ensure that these allowances...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      923. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans on building and opening a secondary school in an area (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      924. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places currently in Autism Spectrum Disorder classes in Dublin North, by school; the number of places due to come on stream in the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      925. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding recent correspondence in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Educational Projects
      927. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the withdrawal of funding from the post-primary European Studies Programme; and if she...
    • Teaching Council of Ireland
      928. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Offaly will be credited with the time from when that person's application to the Teaching Council was...
    • School Patronage
      929. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support the proposal for a new Irish Medium Primary School in the Marino, Dublin 3 and Drumcondra, Dublin 9 area; and if she will...
    • Student Universal Support Ireland Administration
      930. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will indicate eligibility for a higher education grant in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      931. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action that is being taken to reduce primary school class sizes to the European Union average; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Administration
      932. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding teaching in primary schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21358/15]
    • School Funding
      933. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the same funding will be provided to primary schools as to secondary schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Teacher Recruitment
      934. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding promotions for teaching staff (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21361/15]
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      935. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding teachers' pay (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21362/15]
    • School Funding
      936. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide support to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9 in 2015-16; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21380/15]
    • School Enrolments
      937. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school enrolment for students based in a catchment area (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if she will make a statement...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      938. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be released for a new school (details supplied) in County Roscommon following the announcement that it will be included in...
    • School Guidance Counsellors
      939. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the findings of a new survey of guidance counsellors (details supplied) which found that 69% of respondents in the free education...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      940. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the exclusion of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal from the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, DEIS,...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      941. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a pilot study will examine resource hours' allocation for children with Down's syndrome; when the changes from the pilot study will be...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      943. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if eligibility for Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools status will be reviewed for schools currently not covered (details supplied);...
    • School Accommodation
      944. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's position on correspondence which it received from a school (details supplied) in County Wicklow regarding the need for...
    • Teachers' Panel Rights
      945. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a qualified primary school teacher with five years' experience may access panel rights to secure a permanent position; and if she will...
    • Seirbhísi trí Ghaeilge
      946. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí i nGaeilge atá ar...
    • Third Level Fees
      947. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the financial assistance with regard to fees that is available for a person entering third level for the first time who is on the back to...
    • School Accommodation
      948. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the need for prefabricated units to be replaced by permanent accommodation in Lucan, County Dublin; and if she...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      949. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether it is acceptable or fair for adults in their early 30s who have returned to college to obtain further skills and knowledge...
    • School Enrolments
      950. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding school admissions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21564/15]
    • Schools Building Projects Applications
      951. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new building will be provided for a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21587/15]
    • Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge
      952. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills conas mar atá ag éirí leis an scéim phíolótach páirt-tumoideachais a luaitear i dtuarascáil na Roinne,...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      953. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be allowed use a bus service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21611/15]
    • School Enrolments Data
      954. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the increasing enrolment in primary schools annually, the projections in terms of attendance and school buildings her Department has...
    • School Curriculum
      955. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the primary curriculum review being carried out by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment will be completed; if she will provide...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      956. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the savings accrued annually from the changes made to the pupil-teacher ratio of fee-paying schools; the number of staff positions annually that...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      957. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the tendering process for the new building approved in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Galway; when it is...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      958. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite the appointment of a special needs assistant in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
    • Proposed Legislation
      959. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the draft technological universities Bill 2014 in view of the fact that if implemented as currently drafted it will lead to a...
    • School Transport Administration
      960. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the fact that the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and her Department told the 2007 European Commission investigation into...
    • School Transport Provision
      961. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a long-running school transport scheme on a County Mayo island (details supplied) is supported into the future; her views...
    • Educational Disadvantage
      962. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to lower the enrolment threshold for an administrative principal in Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools 2 in urban areas; and...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      963. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the allocation of an additional alleviation post in respect of a primary school (details supplied) in County Galway in view...
    • State Examinations
      964. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for readers that were received by the National Educational Psychological Services, on the grounds of a specific...
    • School Accommodation
      965. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position and status of an application for funding in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      966. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school building project (details supplied) in County Kildare; if this will be included in the next five year...
    • School Patronage
      968. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, figures on the number of primary and post-primary schools that have been established since 2000, including...
    • School Staffing
      969. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Clare will be facilitated with a temporary English language teacher as an additional language teacher;...
    • School Enrolments
      970. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence regarding a non-denominational school in the Dublin Bay North area (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
      971. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether it is unjust that victims of institutional abuse, who had previously been eligible for services under the Education Finance...
    • Teacher Training Provision
      973. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No.159 of 28 May 2015, the criteria that were used for the application of derogations with regard to...
    • Student Grants Data
      974. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of students receiving maintenance grants under the third level student grant scheme at each...
    • State Examinations Appeals
      975. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of fully paid-up entrants in the 2014 leaving certificate who appealed their results, and the corresponding figures for exempt...
    • Teacher Data
      976. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the pilot of new model for allocating resource teachers to schools, the cost of adding the additional resource teacher posts; the...
    • Fee Paying Schools
      977. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, for each of the past five years, the amount of funding provided to each fee paying school for the purchase...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      979. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an appeal for a student grant by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement...
    • Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board
      980. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request that Caranua make contact with a person (details supplied) in order to process that person's claims for payment with regard...
    • Education Policy
      981. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 180 of 7 May 2015, the nature of the succession planning engaged in by the support services; the reason the...
    • Third Level Facilities
      984. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received a report on the increased rent for campus accommodation at third level colleges for the next college year; the proposed...
    • School Accommodation
      985. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding funding in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22053/15]
    • Institutes of Technology
      986. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the proposal to merge Cork Institute of Technology and the Institute of Technology Tralee, County Kerry; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      987. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the proposed cut to the provision of special needs assistants at a primary school (details supplied) in County Cork [22126/15]
    • State Examinations
      988. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications for reasonable accommodation at the certificate examinations scheme due to physical or behavioural conditions made to...
    • Education and Training Boards
      989. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedures for schools within the Education and Training Boards structure which leave to become community schools directly under control of...
    • State Examinations Reviews
      990. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why a concession made to teachers on having projects which are at a current level of 50% or over the final grade, retained within certification,...
    • Third Level Fees
      993. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if student fees will be refunded by the National University of Ireland Galway to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if her...
    • Teacher Training Provision
      994. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an audit of the skills, specialisms and expertise of each seconded member of the support services, such as her Department's constituent...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      995. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update in respect of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 24, stating the progress made to date, the next steps and...
    • Pupil-Teacher Ratio
      996. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a detailed report, in tabular form, of the average class size, per subject, in secondary schools. [22191/15]
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      998. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is entitled to be paid at the pre-January 2011 salary scale as a teacher, similar to those persons...
    • Teacher Data
      1000. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of qualified teachers, members of the Teaching Council, who operate in post-leaving certificate colleges, and the number of...
    • Teaching Contracts
      1001. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff who had reached 65 years of age, had retired from an institute of further education (details supplied) in County Wicklow and...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      1002. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a new school building project (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Examinations Fees
      1004. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of difficulties encountered by parents in rural areas when paying examination fees to the State Examinations Commission; and if...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      1006. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 810 of 26 May 2015, the reason her Department did not also facilitate the parents of the children who...
    • Home Tuition Scheme
      1007. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 811 of 26 May 2015, if she will confirm that the millions of euro that were paid annually to the one...
    • Pension Provisions
      1008. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 270 of 17 July 2014, if the pension related deduction was improperly applied to a person (details...
    • Physical Education Facilities
      1009. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure that an application for a sports hall by a school (details supplied) in County Westmeath, which was originally submitted in...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      1010. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the planning permission for a new school (details supplied) in Fermoy, County Cork, will be lodged; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Third Level Courses Availability
      1011. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason post graduate courses in social work are not available, given the age profile of many mature students, who would be excellent...
    • School Discipline
      1012. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the important work done in the behaviour support classroom in a school (details supplied) in County Cork; that this was a...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      1013. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of commissions of investigation established under the aegis of her Department, in tabular form, since the Commissions of...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Electoral Reform
      1016. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the Electoral Act 1992 and voting rights in respect of the emigrant population (details supplied);...
    • Rural Development Programme
      1017. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the LEADER programme. [21379/15]
    • Pension Provisions
      1018. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide support to the National Firefighters Association regarding the pension levy (details supplied); and if...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Maintenance
      1019. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will support a matter (details supplied) regarding housing alterations; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Climate Change Policy
      1020. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the co-operation on climate change issues that has been progressed between the Irish and British Governments, arising...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      1021. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when approval will be granted to tender for the construction of housing units for homeless people (details supplied); and...
    • Building Regulations Amendments
      1022. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the review of the Building Control Amendment Regulations 2014 (SI No. 9); if the requirements for...
    • Planning Issues (1 comment)
      1023. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of a planning application by a United States of America company for a private for-profit gasification...
    • Waste Management
      1024. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for the development of a civic amenity site in north Kildare to provide adequate recycling services for the...
    • Register of Electors
      1025. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way Galway City Council could issue a letter to allow a member of the public, who had been incorrectly removed from...
    • Climate Change Policy
      1026. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding climate change, the national policy position and definition of...
    • Air Quality
      1027. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of air quality monitoring sites; their locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21335/15]
    • Waste Management
      1030. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it is acceptable that waste companies can charge by weight, without providing proof of weight of each bin by way of a...
    • Local Authority Finances
      1031. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, on a county basis, the amount of money each council has in reserves, under Part V...
    • Waste Management
      1033. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a bin waiver scheme. [21433/15]
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      1034. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will release the funding for necessary adaptation works for local authority housing without further delay. [21444/15]
    • Architectural Heritage
      1035. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his current powers and obligations in respect of protected structures of architectural heritage within the ownership of...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      1036. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government under what wind guidelines will a planning application (details supplied) be adjudicated; and if he will make a statement...
    • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
      1037. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership trade agreement could lead to a significant...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
      1038. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the new tenant purchase scheme for local authority tenants will be introduced. [21489/15]
    • Rural Development Programme
      1039. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will seek additional funding to address concerns regarding Leader (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Domestic Violence Refuges
      1040. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the costs involved in renovating the former Debtors' Prison, Green Street, Dublin 7, into a refuge for victims of...
    • Seirbhísi trí Ghaeilge
      1042. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí i...
    • Departmental Funding
      1043. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that funding of a national development officer position for MOVE (Men Overcoming Violence) Ireland is...
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      1044. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an explanation as to the reason a polling station (details supplied) in the Dún...
    • Local Authority Funding
      1045. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total local government funding from central funds to Tipperary County Council for 2015; if he will provide, in...
    • Local Authority Staff Data
      1046. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in each grade employed by North Tipperary County Council in each...
    • Local Authority Funding
      1047. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the total local government funding from central funds to North Tipperary County...
    • Irish Water Administration
      1050. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of all the data sources used by Irish Water to set up its household database; and if he will...
    • Control of Dogs
      1051. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government based on his previous response, and in view of the last time the Irish Veterinary Association was consulted regarding the...
    • Disability Services Provision
      1052. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a house is uninhabitable and the owner is under 66 years of age, the schemes or grants that are available; and if he...
    • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Applications
      1053. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a derogation will be granted to qualify for the mortgage to rent scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in...
    • Leader Programmes Applications
      1054. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding an application to Mayo north east Leader partnership (details supplied) in County Mayo. [21749/15]
    • Private Residential Tenancies Board
      1059. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he plans to review the operation and functioning of the Private Residential Tenancies Board; and if he will make a...
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      1060. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if attempts have been made to change the law, whereby the perpetrator of domestic violence is evicted from the local...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      1061. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the contract for fuel cards of staff of a local authority was awarded to a company (details supplied); and the way...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      1062. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason funding towards the development of a sewage treatment plant in Carrigaholt in County Clare, as a pilot...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      1063. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has received legal advice that An Bord Pleanála should delay any oral hearings into the Emlagh...
    • Septic Tank Inspections
      1064. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a local authority is required to inspect a septic tank, where the individual householder reports that the septic tank...
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      1067. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the loan restructuring options available under the local authority mortgage arrears resolution process; his plans to...
    • Building Regulations
      1068. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if consideration will be given to the banning of hard flooring such as tiles and laminate floor covering in apartments,...
    • Housing Finance Agency
      1069. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the interest rate charged by the Housing Finance Agency for local authority loans has remained at 2.75% since...
    • Vehicle Registration
      1071. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review and broaden the documents of proof which can be accepted by local authorities as proof of ownership of...
    • Commercial Rates
      1072. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on any proposals to reduce commercial rates obligations on wind farm operators, as well as his views on the...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      1073. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions his Department is taking in response to recent reports by ALONE, that one older person became homeless every...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant
      1075. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount that will be allocated in 2015 to local authorities for mobility aid grants, housing adaptation grants and...
    • Departmental Funding
      1076. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the funding stream from his Department to the Irish Deaf Society; and if he will make a...
    • Irish Water Administration
      1078. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the legislation underpinning the Irish Water pipe maintenance responsibility graphics (details...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      1080. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that the present guidelines in relation to the set-back of wind turbines from houses comply with the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      1082. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details, in tabular form, of the funding for social housing in each local authority for the years 2000...
    • Commercial Rates
      1083. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reform the commercial rates system to ease the significant burden on small to medium sized business; and if...
    • Regeneration Projects Status
      1084. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for each of the following regeneration projects which were previously subject to Public Private Partnerships...
    • Departmental Funding
      1085. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the details of the funding under the scheme to support national organisations that has been granted...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      1086. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that sufficient funding to tackle homelessness has been awarded to the region encompassing County Kildare, as...
    • Local Authority Expenditure
      1087. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reporting requirements that are in place for local authorities, in relation to the break-down of their spending on...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      1088. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views that it is permissible for a housing authority to refuse to provide emergency accommodation for families; and...
    • Graffiti Issues
      1095. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the by-laws in place to penalise people engaging in graffiti; the funding available for removal and prevention; his views...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      1096. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of the new Part V regime for developers, including the percentage of homes they build which...
    • Building Regulations
      1097. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the technical report prepared by his Department in relation to the tests carried out on the concrete blocks which are...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
      1098. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money which was allocated to Westmeath County Council for the construction of local authority housing in...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      1099. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce regulations to oblige banks which repossess properties that have sitting tenants to honour...
    • Air Pollution
      1100. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the environmental impact studies that have been undertaken on the vapours released from aircrafts; whether environmental...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      1101. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current regulations in relation to the erection of telecommunications masts immediately adjacent to homes and...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      1102. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how the funding for housing adaptation grants for the elderly and disabled, as allocated from Exchequer funds to the...
    • Public Sector Pensions Levy
      1103. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason local authority members are continuing to pay pension levy deductions despite the fact that they are not...
    • Social Insurance Payments
      1104. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason local authority members are continuing to have PRSI class deductions taken from their allowances despite not...
    • Local Authority Staff Data
      1105. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the numbers of staff employed in the local authority building control section in each...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      1106. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of commissions of investigation established under the aegis of his Department, in tabular form, since the...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Renewable Energy Projects
      1109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a briefing on the role of An Bord Pleanála in fast-tracking European Union renewable energy...
    • Electricity Transmission Network
      1110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress that has been made in further interconnectivity North-South and East-West to facilitate security of supply...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to tackle the inadequate broadband service in a location (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will...
    • Inland Fisheries Ireland Remit
      1112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the policy used by Inland Fisheries Ireland when selecting companies to be part of its promotions, both nationally and...
    • Seirbhísi trí Ghaeilge
      1113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      1114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the level of community engagement in the process of the rolling-out of high speed broadband in remote areas, thus far;...
    • Television Licences Data
      1116. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total amount of money paid to Raidió Teilifís Éireann in respect of revenue from television licences...
    • National Postcode System Expenditure
      1117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the contracts his Department has with Capita Ireland; the amounts of money involved in any such contracts; and if he...
    • Natural Gas Grid
      1118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is aware that the proposed Bord Gáis pipeline into County Kerry has bypassed the Shannon Estuary, which has...
    • Energy Policy
      1119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department has engaged with the Irish oil industry and appropriate public bodies to determine any policy options...
    • Legislative Process
      1120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to complete the enactment of the Minerals Development Bill in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      1121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when a reasonable standard of broadband will be available in Fennagh, County Carlow. [21979/15]
    • Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan Implementation
      1125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on the offshore renewable energy development plan implementation, with particular emphasis...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      1126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide an update on his Department's knowledge on the progress of the Codling Windpark project; if this...
    • Better Energy Homes Scheme
      1127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason there is no grant-aid or other incentive available for the installation of photovoltaic solar systems to...
    • Renewable Energy Projects
      1128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual amount paid out in constraint payments to the hydro industry, as a...
    • Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan
      1129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the National Strategic Environmental Assessment for Energy will be completed. [22216/15]
    • Electricity Generation
      1130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide the figures for output of electricity onto the grid from the semi-State owned wind farm at Mount...
    • Wind Energy Generation
      1131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of wind turbines currently in the State; the current number applied for; the additional number needed to...
    • Exploration Licences
      1134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources regarding onshore licensing options granted to a number of companies in 2011, the reason the 31 March 2015 acreage...
    • Corrib Gas Field
      1143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the projected start date for gas production from the Corrib field; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22272/15]
    • Exploration Licences
      1144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to publish new licensing terms derived from the Wood Mackenzie review; if so, when these terms will be made...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1146. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to alter the national broadband map to take account of the announcement by Eircom to extend fibre broadband...
    • North-South Interconnector
      1147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will instruct EirGrid to cease all works on the North-South interconnector project and to underground the project,...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      1149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the Department responsible for the financial oversight and corporate governance of Bord na Móna; the proposed...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      1151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of commissions of investigation established under the aegis of his Department in tabular form since the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      1154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date progress on the development and upgrading of the Milltown-Killorglin road at Kilderry, County Kerry; the commencement...
    • Motor Insurance Coverage
      1155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he proposes to implement to deal with the high increase in motor insurance, particularly for young drivers; and if he will...
    • Road Network
      1156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria that were used to award the State contract to operate three motorway service stations (details supplied) on behalf of the...
    • Local Improvement Scheme Funding
      1157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will introduce ring-fenced funding for local authorities in respect of roads under the local improvement scheme; and if he will...
    • Community Involvement Scheme
      1158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to re-introduce a community involvement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21374/15]
    • Harbours and Piers
      1159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for Dún Laoghaire Harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21412/15]
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      1160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a list of the applicants from County Donegal who have made applications under the sports capital programme in 2015;...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      1165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on progress on the development of a greenway along the route of the old west Clare Railway between Ennis and...
    • Semi-State Bodies
      1166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 192 of 25 February 2015, if he will inquire from Irish Rail the reason it has not responded to...
    • Tourism Promotion
      1167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps Tourism Ireland is taking to attract additional visitors in the age bracket of 18 to 30 years to come here from the United...
    • Seirbhísi trí Ghaeilge
      1168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí i nGaeilge...
    • Public Transport
      1169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the figure for a fine will be recalculated in respect of a person (details supplied), in view of that person's circumstances; and if...
    • Polasaí don Ghaeilge
      1170. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport an bhfuil aon choinníoll teanga curtha ag gabháil aige leis an socrú i dtaobh na scaireanna in Aer Lingus a dhíol;...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      1171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he and his Department have taken since 4 December 2014, when he replied to a parliamentary question highlighting the...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      1173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if two sections of a road (details supplied) will be prioritised for re-alignment works; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Aer Lingus Sale
      1174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21813/15]
    • Noise Pollution
      1175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to residents in County Dublin regarding a noise pollution matter (details supplied); and if he will make...
    • Driver Licence Renewals
      1176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the procedures the Road Safety Authority has in place to enable Irish driver licence holders who are outside the State to renew or...
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Recruitment
      1177. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 180 of 28 May 2015, if he will support (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Licences
      1178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans regarding Ireland and the Canadian Province of Alberta, which may lead to the mutual recognition of driver licences in each...
    • Taxi Regulations
      1179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority plans to introduce a new grant scheme for wheelchair accessible taxis similar to the 2014 scheme;...
    • Motor Insurance Coverage
      1181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department's position on non-negligent motor accidents, where liability cannot be assigned to any party; his plans for legislation...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      1182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a sports capital grant in respect of a group (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement...
    • Rail Services
      1183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will conduct a review of the Irish Rail ticketing system to ensure that all elderly and other vulnerable passengers who have...
    • Taxi Regulations
      1184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to amend legislation to allow for the retrospective transfer of a taxi licence from one party to another in circumstances...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      1185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to be in a position to reverse the curtailment of the specific improvement grant scheme to allow local authorities carry...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • An Maolú i leith na Gaeilge san Aontas Eorpach
      1187. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sí i gceist ag an Rialtas a iarraidh ar an Aontas Eorpach deireadh a chur in 2017 leis an maolú ar...
    • Heritage Projects
      1188. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding that is available from her Department to carry out restoration works to the court house-market house in Castleblayney,...
    • Departmental Funding
      1190. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has received a request for funding from a committee (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Natural Heritage Areas Designation
      1191. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 1142 of 4 November 2014, when she plans to bring forward the legislation referred to; whether...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      1192. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is in a position to respond favourably to correspondence from a community group (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she...
    • Departmental Funding
      1193. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding mechanisms available through her Department for smaller heritage and tourism projects; and if she will make a statement...
    • Seirbhísí i nGaeilge
      1194. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cé na bearta atá á ndéanamh ag a Roinn chun an pobal a chur ar an eolas faoi na seirbhísí i nGaeilge...
    • School Transport Provision
      1195. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Whether she plans to continue the school bus services linked to the ferry for second level pupils from Inishbofin, County Galway, in...
    • Heritage Projects
      1196. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will direct the Heritage Council to consult and advise Monaghan County Council, as is provided for in the Heritage Act 1995,...
    • Departmental Funding
      1198. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the grants that may be available under the arts and heritage umbrella for a committee trying to organise an Irish entertainment...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme
      1199. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon will receive a payment under the turf cutting compensation scheme; the reason...
    • Departmental Funding
      1200. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will re-open the Gaeltacht road grant scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21810/15]
    • Arts Funding
      1201. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on Offaly County Council's proposal to advance the development of Tullamore Arts Centre; and if she will make a statement...
    • Exports Controls
      1202. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a list of all export licences issued by the National Gallery of Ireland in each of the years from 2010 to 2014...
    • Register of Cultural Objects
      1204. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if any works of art owned by the Alfred Beit Foundation, have at any stage been entered on the national register of cultural...
    • Arts Funding
      1206. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the music capital scheme will be open for applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22186/15]
    • State Properties
      1207. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the promoter of a festival (details supplied) is paying to use a State property; if so, the fee payable and if it has been paid;...

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