Written answers

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Fisheries Protection
      106. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the scientific investigations that are being carried out, or will be carried out, on wild salmon stock; if the Government...
    • Media Mergers
      107. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures he is considering to better regulate the ownership of media in the State; if he can account for the reason,...
    • Broadcasting Sector Regulation
      108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he is taking to protect the independence of our national broadcasters; the improvements that are being put in...
    • Fuel Prices
      110. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is concerned at the continuing impact of the increase in the price levels of fuel on households and on the issue of...
    • Postal Services
      113. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department has studied the impact of likely competitive pressures on An Post, arising from the Postal Services...
    • Broadband Service Charges
      114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied that the wholesale pricing being offered by enet is sufficient to allow retail service providers to...
    • Biofuel Obligation Scheme
      117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to make biofuel more readily available through fuel pumps in retail garages; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the timeline for the roll out of high speed broadband to rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Inland Fisheries
      120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there has been any further development in restocking Irish rivers with eels, or if compensation will be made available...
    • Hydraulic Fracturing
      121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the recent Leitrim County Council vote of no confidence in a company (details supplied) appointed to carry...
    • Television Licence Fee Collection
      122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views that there are potential data protection issues involved in sourcing information from television providers in...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there are any expected delays in the implementation of the national broadband plan; if so, the details of the updated...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views that it is acceptable that there is no solution identified to provide broadband in substantial parts of County...
    • Renewable Energy Exports
      126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there has been any move to renew talks on the export of renewable energy from Ireland to Britain. [23139/15]
    • Media Mergers
      127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the latest developments concerning media merger guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22977/15]
    • Sea Angling Sector
      128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if plans exist to develop sea angling in the west of Ireland, in view of its potential for tourism; the support currently...
    • Broadcasting Sector Regulation
      129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider a revised definition of the term "public service broadcast" in the context of the implementation of...
    • Post Office Network
      130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps being taken to support the maintenance of the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hydraulic Fracturing
      131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide any preliminary update on research directed at examining the potential environmental and human health...
    • Broadcasting Charge
      132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to introduce a broadcasting charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22939/15]
    • Post Office Network
      133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps taken, or likely to be taken, to enhance the role and profitability of An Post, with particular reference to...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Government is committed to providing fibre broadband to every household in County Donegal; if not, the reason for...
    • Inland Fisheries
      136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the timeline for the inland fisheries (modernisation and consolidation) Bill; his views regarding the revoked eel fishing...
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Crime Data
      137. To ask the Taoiseach when statistics for crime and justice will be published for quarter 3, 2014 onward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23006/15]
    • Commissions of Investigation
      138. To ask the Taoiseach the funding structure of the investigation into the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation liquidation. [23037/15]
    • Commissions of Inquiry
      139. To ask the Taoiseach if he envisages sections of the Commission of Inquiry chaired by Judge Fennelly being published before the whole report is completed; when same will be published; and if...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      143. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or on a career break broken down by zero to six months, six to 12...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      144. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form broken down by year the total photography costs for his Department since coming into office, inclusive of costs incurred from the use...
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      145. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form broken down by year the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming into office; if he will provide...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      146. To ask the Taoiseach the total amount spent on external information and technology consultants by his Department in the years 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      147. To ask the Taoiseach the protocols in place since March 2011 to set standards in parliamentary replies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23507/15]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      150. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the number of appointments to State boards; the number of vacancies in State...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      151. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form for each year from 2009 to 2014 and for 2015 to date, the total number of freedom of information requests received by his Department;...
    • Legislative Process
      152. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the pre-legislative scrutiny procedure in the...
    • Departmental Staff Expenses
      154. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent in each of the years 2011 to 2014, inclusive, and in 2015 to date on staff subsistence payments and staff...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      155. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide, in tabular form and by year, details of all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011; the costs per report; the...
    • Census of Population Data
      156. To ask the Taoiseach the number of persons over 65 years of age, by county, in counties Wicklow, Wexford, Louth, Tipperary and Mayo. [23866/15]
    • International Summits
      157. To ask the Taoiseach the issues that were discussed at meeting of the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States; the decisions that were taken; the actions that...
    • Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
      159. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party, Ms Nicola Sturgeon, since the recent election in the United Kingdom; and if...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Proposed Legislation
      161. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the advice or recommendations advanced in the formulation of the Gender Recognition Bill 2014; if she is satisfied that the proposed removal of a...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Expenditure
      162. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the implications of cuts to the one-parent payment for persons (details supplied); her plans to address this...
    • Invalidity Pension Payments
      163. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on an invalidity pension; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a...
    • Illness Benefit Appeals
      164. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for illness benefit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      165. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on all public and private official and unofficial engagements and meetings with a person (details supplied) and senior executives...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals
      166. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 was awarded a rent supplement payment that was €123 lower than the person had received...
    • Post Office Network
      168. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to withdraw the new social protection forms which recommend payment through banks and discourage use of the post office, in view of the...
    • Invalidity Pension Eligibility
      169. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has sufficient contributions to qualify for an invalidity pension; the reason for the decision...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      170. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      171. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive disability allowance arrears; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      173. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average time for processing appeals in respect of carer's allowance; in view of the undue waiting time for many applicants, her plans to review...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      174. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for invalidity pension in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on a review of carer's allowance; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      176. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a domiciliary care allowance application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary was refused disability allowance; the grounds on which the person was deemed to be not...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal of refusal of disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      180. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the eligibility of school bus drivers to social welfare payments during the periods when they are unemployed, namely, school holidays; the...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will conduct a study on the number of staff hours in her Department that are spent on requesting Members of Dáil Éireann to...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      182. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an appeal regarding a social welfare payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will issue; and if she...
    • Disability Allowance
      183. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal, who has secured a paid internship, will be cut, given that...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      185. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will facilitate an increase of rent support in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Redundancy Payments
      186. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a redundancy repayment request in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; the reason this money has been...
    • Illness Benefit Eligibility
      187. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when disability allowance or illness benefit will be awarded in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make...
    • Back to Education Allowance Payments
      188. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when a Bbck to education allowance will be paid in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      189. 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...
    • Work Placement Programmes
      190. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to have the Gateway programme independently evaluated; if such an evaluation has already occurred; if so, the findings of same; and if she...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a carer's allowance file in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be forwarded to the Social Welfare Appeals Office, in...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      192. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim; the reason for the...
    • EU Funding
      193. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on funding available to food banks (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23382/15]
    • Social Welfare Schemes
      194. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the impact of the various social protection measures on poverty and income inequality (details supplied), from 2008...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      195. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in her Department currently on a sabbatical or a career break, broken down by zero to six...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      196. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, broken down by year, the total photography costs for her Department since coming into office, inclusive of...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      197. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, broken down by year, the use of external public relations firms employed by her Department since coming into...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      198. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total amount spent on external information and technology consultants by her Department in each of the years 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to date;...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      199. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the protocols in place, since March 2011, to set standards in parliamentary replies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23506/15]
    • State Bodies
      202. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, in respect of State boards under her Department's remit, the number of appointments to State boards; the...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      203. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal in respect of an Invalidity Pension for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Process
      205. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the number, name and date of Bills initiated in her Department, that have been subject to the pre-legislative...
    • Departmental Staff Expenses
      207. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent in each year from 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date on staff subsistence payments, staff...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      208. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, for each year, all external consultant reports commissioned by her Department since March 2011; the costs per...
    • Respite Care Grant Eligibility
      209. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is entitled to a respite grant for 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23709/15]
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      210. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a decision on an appeal in respect of an invalidity pension for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure
      211. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of restoring the six-monthly scale and polish entitlement under the dental treatment benefit scheme. [23766/15]
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      217. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal for invalidity pension will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a...
    • Community Employment Schemes Data
      218. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of community employment supervisors and assistant## supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23851/15]
    • Pension Provisions
      219. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the Labour Court recommendation of 22 July 2008 by a person (details supplied), that stated that an agreed pension scheme should be...
    • Disability Allowance Data
      221. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons on a disability allowance, by county for counties Wicklow, Wexford, Louth, Tipperary and Mayo. [23865/15]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      223. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to and notwithstanding Parliamentary Question No. 269 of 9 June 2015, if rent support for two outstanding weeks can be authorised in the...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      224. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when arrears in relation to a claim for a disability allowance in respect a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will be paid; if same will...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Data
      225. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of jobseeker's allowance claimants aged 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23928/15]
  • Department of Finance
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions taken from the recommendations made in the Moriarty tribunal report, which he received in March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • VAT Payments
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance the changes on VAT returns with respect to sales of coal for the periods November-February 2014 and November-February 2015 compared to the period...
    • Invalidity Pension Payments
      229. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary is being taxed on an invalidity pension, second pension, for the year 2011; and if he will make a...
    • IBRC Expenditure
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the legal and professional fees incurred by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in relation to the ongoing legal dispute...
    • Commissions of Investigation
      232. To ask the Minister for Finance if the current €10 million threshold for the commission of investigation into Irish Bank Resolution Corporation is credible. [23034/15]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on all public and private, official and unofficial, engagements and meetings with a person (details supplied), and with senior executives...
    • Banking Sector
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the independent review carried out by a company (details supplied) of certain matters pertaining to Ulster Bank; if he is satisfied with the...
    • Irish Fiscal Advisory Council Reports
      236. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to make a detailed response to the findings in the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council's latest report; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Corporation Tax
      240. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, for each of the past ten years, the amount of tax revenue accrued by the Exchequer from corporation tax and separately,...
    • Banking Sector Redundancies
      241. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding outsourcing by a bank, and its implications for customers and staff; and if he will make a statement...
    • Living City Initiative
      242. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to move the order to commence the Living City initiative five-year qualifying period. [23180/15]
    • Commissions of Investigation
      243. To ask the Minister for Finance why he met with Fianna Fáil's Leader and spokesperson on Northern Ireland and Sinn Féin's Vice President on the proposed terms of reference for...
    • Petrol Stretching
      244. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will direct the Revenue Commissioners to take a proactive approach to counteract petrol stretching and diesel laundering, and in particular to put in...
    • Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments
      245. To ask the Minister for Finance the investments made through the National Pensions Reserve Fund, the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, and the Innovation Fund Ireland in biotechnology...
    • Tax Rebates
      246. To ask the Minister for Finance if any refund of tax paid is due to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23289/15]
    • Property Tax
      248. To ask the Minister for Finance when the review of the operation of the local property tax will be complete; when the findings will be published; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • NAMA Operations
      249. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will investigate a matter (details supplied) regarding the National Asset Management Agency to ascertain if any impropriety has occurred; and if he will...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      250. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or a career break, broken down by zero to six months, six...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      251. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, broken down by year, the total photography costs for his Department since coming into office, inclusive of costs incurred...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      253. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount spent on external information technology consultants by his Department in the years 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      254. To ask the Minister for Finance the protocols in place since March 2011 to set standards in parliamentary replies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23500/15]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      257. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the number of appointments to State boards; the number of vacancies in State...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      258. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, for each year from 2009 to 2014 and for 2015 to date, the total number of freedom of information requests received by his...
    • Legislative Process
      260. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the pre-legislative scrutiny...
    • Irish Water Establishment
      261. To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects confirmation from EUROSTAT on the status of Irish Water on the Government balance sheets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23652/15]
    • Legislative Process
      263. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department since September 2013. [23665/15]
    • Departmental Staff Expenses
      264. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent in each year from 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date on staff subsistence payments and staff taxi...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      265. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, by year, all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011; the costs per report; the...
    • Tax Code
      266. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a tax credit and-or refund system for persons who require gluten free bread for medical purposes, and who do not have a...
    • Deposit Interest Rates
      269. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reduce the rate of deposit interest retention tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23741/15]
    • IBRC Loans
      270. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of borrowers who refinanced their loan from the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation at a 100% rate, between the date of liquidation and 31 December...
    • Insurance Industry Regulation
      272. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps his Department has taken, or plans to take, to address the regulatory and consumer protection issues arising from massive consolidation in the...
    • IBRC Loans
      273. To ask the Minister for Finance if any Ministers, former Ministers, or their immediate family members had loans with Anglo Irish Bank or with the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation which...
    • IBRC Operations
      274. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that there was a conflict of interest where some former directors of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation became directors of companies (details...
    • Credit Availability
      276. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding business loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23909/15]
    • IBRC Loans
      278. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Limited and the selling off of loans to a company which has a...
    • Deposit Guarantee Scheme
      279. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the Irish League of Credit Unions and the deposit guarantee directive; and if he will make a...
    • Tax Credits
      280. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will reverse his decision regarding the tax credits and benefits associated to health insurance (details supplied). [23941/15]
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Referendum Expenditure
      281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full cost of holding the referendum on the age of eligibility for election to the Office of President; and if he will make a...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations
      282. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions taken from the recommendations made in the Moriarty tribunal report which he received in March 2011; and if he will make a...
    • EU Funding
      284. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on proposed changes to the Ireland Wales INTERREG 5A programme to exclude inland counties including County Kildare which had...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      285. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on all public and private, official and unofficial engagements and meetings with a person (details supplied), and with...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      286. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress of work under the catchment flood risk assessment management systems in respect of a location (details supplied) in County...
    • Stability and Growth Pact
      287. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he agrees with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council that the budgetary projections in the 2015 stability programme update do not present...
    • Budget Targets
      288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he agrees with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council that post 2016, the medium-term projections for expenditure and tax revenue in the...
    • Pension Provisions
      289. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the unwinding of the public service pension reduction for existing pensioners in payment; and if he will make a...
    • Rialacháin Stocaireachta
      291. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform cén fáth gur i mBéarla amháin, go dtí seo, atá gach comhfhreagras leis an bpobal agus le grúpaí...
    • Seirbhísi trí Ghaeilge
      292. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Caiteachais Phoiblí agus Athchóirithe cén socrú atá déanta ag a Roinn chun déileáil le...
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      293. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 251 of 10 February 2015, if he will provide a further update in relation to a project (details...
    • National Monuments
      295. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update in relation to the completion of a project (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Public Sector Staff Redeployment
      297. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are exceptional circumstances which would enable a non-established long-serving civil servant in the Office of Public Works to...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      301. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or a career break, broken down by...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      302. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, broken down by year, the total photography costs for his Department since coming into office,...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      303. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, broken down by year, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      304. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total amount spent on external information and technology consultants by his Department in each of the years 2010 to 2014 and in...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      305. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the protocols in place, since March 2011, to set standards in parliamentary replies; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Consultancy Contracts
      307. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has renegotiated external information technology consultancy contracts and costs since March 2011; and if he will make...
    • State Bodies
      308. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the number of appointments to State boards; the number of...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      309. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, by year from 2009 to 2014 and for 2015 to date, the total number of freedom of information requests...
    • Legislative Process
      310. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the...
    • Departmental Staff Expenses
      312. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date on staff subsistence...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      313. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, by year, all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011; the costs...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      314. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the status of works (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Flood Relief Schemes
      315. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the relief available to businesses and residents who are unable to obtain flood insurance, pending the completion of the Douglas flood...
    • Public Sector Pay
      316. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual percentage increase which will accrue, under the Financial Emergency Measures in the...
    • Harbours and Piers
      319. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when works are due to commence on the upgrading of a slipway (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Sector Staff Data
      320. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the average age of full-time staff across the Civil Service; the way this compares with the average age of public servants in each of...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Reports
      321. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the actions taken from the recommendations made in the Moriarty tribunal report, which he received in March 2011; and if he will make...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      323. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on all public and private, official and unofficial, engagements and meetings with a person (details supplied), and...
    • IDA Jobs Data
      324. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual number of direct jobs in Industrial Development Agency Ireland foreign-owned client...
    • IDA Site Visits
      325. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of visits made by the Industrial Development Agency to County Westmeath in 2014 and to date in 2015; the number of such...
    • Employment Conditions
      326. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on a report (details supplied) by the Young Workers Network, and especially the finding that 90% of those under 35 years of...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      327. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or a career break, broken down by...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      328. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, broken down by year, the total photography costs for his Department since coming into office...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      329. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, broken down by year, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      331. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the protocols in place, since March 2011, to set standards in Parliamentary replies; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Consultancy Contracts
      333. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department has re-negotiated external information and technology consultancy contracts and costs since March 2011; and if he...
    • State Bodies
      334. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the number of appointments to State boards; the number of...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      335. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, for each year from 2009 to 2015 and for 2015 to date, the total number of freedom of information...
    • Legislative Process
      336. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the...
    • Departmental Staff Expenses
      338. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date on staff subsistence...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      339. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, by year, all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011; the...
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      341. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the timeframe and targets in relation to the roll out of his Department’s regional enterprise strategy for the midlands region...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Harbours and Piers
      342. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to works undertaken at a quay (details supplied) in County Galway; if a foreshore license was...
    • Tuberculosis Incidence
      344. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding his Department's testing of deer for tuberculosis (details supplied) in County Wicklow; his plans to expand...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      345. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the beef genomics scheme will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      346. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on all public and private, official and unofficial, engagements and meetings with a person (details supplied), and...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      347. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the details of a satellite inspection, carried out under the 2014 single payment scheme, will issue in respect of a person...
    • Forestry Grants
      348. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding forestry payments in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      349. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in a payment under the agri-environment options scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Rural Development Programme
      350. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures available under the rural development programme to assist farmers affected by flooding; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Funding
      351. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the finance available for a privately-owned mart to further develop and expand, if it is providing an essential service in a...
    • TAMS Payments
      352. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the payment of a grant for a milking machine in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if...
    • Agriculture Schemes Eligibility
      353. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position with respect to the allocation of entitlements under the old young farmers criteria, in respect of a person (details...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      354. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a single payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Appeals
      355. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position in relation to an appeal under the agri-environment options scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      356. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payments for 2013 under the single payment scheme and the disadvantaged...
    • Agriculture Schemes Penalties
      357. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal for a 2013 penalty in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Schemes Eligibility
      358. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the compensation available to farmers who have recently had an outbreak of tuberculosis on their farms. [23223/15]
    • GLAS Data
      359. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applicants who have applied, to date, under the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, by county, and indicating...
    • Agriculture Schemes Data
      360. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who are, at present, in the rural environment protection scheme 4; the agri-environment options schemes 1; 2;...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      362. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date that the tendering process will begin for properties in Howth Fishery Harbour in County Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      363. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will clarify the detail of an alleged overpayment in a 2012 disadvantaged areas payment in respect of a person (details...
    • Agriculture Schemes Data
      364. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers in counties Longford and Westmeath who have signed up for the beef genomics scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      365. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break, broken down by...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      366. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, broken down by year the total photography costs for his Department since coming into office...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      367. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, broken down by year, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      368. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount spent on external information technology consultants by his Department in each of the years 2010 to 2014 and in 2015...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      369. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the protocols in place, since March 2011, to set standards in parliamentary replies; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Consultancy Contracts
      371. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has renegotiated external information technology consultancy contracts and costs since March 2011; and if he will...
    • State Bodies
      372. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the number of appointments to State boards; the number of...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      373. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, for each year from 2009 to 2015 and for 2015 to date, the total number of Freedom of Information...
    • Legislative Process
      374. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      375. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the rural environment protection scheme for the year 2011 will issue in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Legislative Process
      376. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department since September 2013. [23658/15]
    • Departmental Staff Expenses
      377. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and i n 2015 to date on staff...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      378. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, by year, all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011; the...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      379. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a building in Howth Fishery Harbour (details supplied) in County Dublin will be available during the upcoming tendering process;...
    • Local Authority Funding
      381. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of all applications submitted by Mayo County Council for funding under the Local Authority Harbour Development and Marine...
    • Tax Code
      382. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a value added tax refund will be issued to farmers whose income does not reach the value added tax registration threshold in...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
      383. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason persons (details supplied) in County Galway have not been granted any entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • EU Directives
      384. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the policy in place regarding micro chips for horses, greyhounds and farm animals; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Bord na gCon
      385. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his role in the appointment of stewards and officials in greyhound sports, both at track and coursing levels; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Defence
    • Ministerial Meetings
      386. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on all public and private, official and unofficial, engagements and meetings with a person (details supplied), and with senior executives...
    • Overseas Missions
      387. To ask the Minister for Defence if he raised any opposition to the European Union proposal to commence a military mission to prevent illegal smuggling off the coast of Libya; and if he will...
    • White Paper on Defence
      388. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the White Paper on Defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23344/15]
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      389. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break, broken down by zero to six months, six...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      390. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide, in tabular form, by year, the total photography costs for his Department since coming into office inclusive of costs incurred from use of...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      391. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide, in tabular form, by year, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming into office; if he will...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      392. To ask the Minister for Defence the total amount spent on external information technology consultants by his Department in each of the years 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      393. To ask the Minister for Defence the protocols in place, since March 2011, to set standards in parliamentary replies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23497/15]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      396. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the number of appointments to State boards; the number of vacancies in State...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      397. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide, in tabular form, for each year from 2009 to 2014, inclusive, and for 2015 to date, the total number of freedom of information requests...
    • Defence Forces Reorganisation
      398. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 9 June 2015, the estimated cost of restoring a three-brigade structure in the Permanent Defence Force. [23622/15]
    • Legislative Process
      399. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide, in tabular form, the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the pre-legislative scrutiny...
    • Departmental Staff Expenses
      401. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent in each of the years 2011 to 2014, inclusive, and in 2015 to date on staff subsistence payments...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      402. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide, in tabular form, by year, all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011; the costs per report; the...
    • Naval Service Operations
      403. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on the welfare of migrants who have been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by the crew of the LE Eithne. [23782/15]
    • Defence Forces Personnel
      405. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 132 of 9 June 2015, when he expects to have considered the Office of the Attorney General's advice in view of the length...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Direct Provision System
      406. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to end direct provision without further delay, as the living conditions are extremely unsuitable and almost one-third of those involved...
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Recommendations
      407. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the actions taken from the recommendations made in the Moriarty tribunal report, which she received in March 2011; and if she will make a...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      409. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the actions that have been taken in respect of the Kingsmill massacre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23087/15]
    • Immigration Policy
      411. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she expressed objections to the Mare Nostrum project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23334/15]
    • Naval Service Operations
      412. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if any migrants assisted by the crew of the LE Eithne in the Mediterranean Sea have claimed asylum under Irish law; and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Measures
      413. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will commence the legislative provisions, including section 4 governing the investigative powers of the Charities Regulatory Authority;...
    • Proposed Legislation
      415. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce legal recognition of pre-nuptial agreements in view of the legal recognition of cohabitation agreements for non-married...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      416. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the budget and the number of staff allocated to the Policing Authority for the year 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22997/15]
    • Prisoner Data
      417. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of prisoners in the prison population by prison; the capacity of each prison; the percentage occupation of each prison; and if...
    • Departmental Staff
      419. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to appoint a Secretary General to her Department; the process that has been followed to select the new Secretary General; and if...
    • Departmental Reports
      420. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the actions taken within her Department following the report of the independent review group on the Department of Justice and Equality; the...
    • Proposed Legislation
      421. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her position with regard to the proposal to establish injection centres for those engaged in illegal drug use; and if she will make a statement...
    • Crime Data
      422. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of offences which have been committed by persons while on bail in 2014 and in 2015 to date; the percentage of those on bail this...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      423. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of times since she assumed office that she has met with representatives of the Bar Council of...
    • Emergency Services Personnel
      424. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality how she plans to address the increasing number of attacks on emergency service staff, including prison officers; and if she will make a statement...
    • Istanbul Convention (1 comment)
      425. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Istanbul Convention will be fully implemented; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23007/15]
    • Courts Service Administration
      426. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the current waiting period for a civil case to be heard before the High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme...
    • Court of Appeal Establishment
      427. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the full capital cost of establishing the Civil Court of Appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23010/15]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      428. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total cost of ministerial security for each year from 2011 to 2014 and for 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Operations
      429. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views that it is essential to provide certain constitutional officeholders with adequate, secure and up-to-date transport services in order...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      430. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will report on all public and private, official and unofficial, engagements and meetings with a person (details supplied), and with senior...
    • Proposed Legislation
      431. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that the rights of the church and religious orders will be protected following the inclusion of the provision that marriage...
    • Legislative Programme
      432. 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...
    • Motor Insurance Coverage
      433. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to review the enforcement of the requirement for all drivers to have insurance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23066/15]
    • Claims Processing
      434. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase the monetary limit of claims which can be brought to the Small Claims Court, in view of the fact that the €2,000...
    • Migrant Integration
      435. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the Office for the Promotion of Migrant Integration has not issued a call for proposals for integration work, as it had stated was its...
    • Immigration Status
      436. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for a Stamp 4 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; if the matter will be urgently...
    • Anti-Social Behaviour
      437. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding anti-social behaviour in Dublin 5; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23141/15]
    • Penalty Points System Data
      438. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers who paid their Fixed-Charge Penalty Point Notices within the 56 days provided, by District Court area, for each of the...
    • Garda Data
      440. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when An Garda Síochána plan to provide a change in the PULSE (Police Using Leading Systems Effectively) system, to enable it to...
    • Garda Inspectorate Reports
      441. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on an aspect of the Garda Inspectorate report (details supplied); the timeframe for implementation of this procedure; the possible...
    • Immigration Status
      443. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23194/15]
    • Garda Station Opening Hours
      444. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the regular opening hours of all Garda stations in the Salthill and Clifden divisions in County Galway; if they do not open at regular hours, the...
    • Garda Recruitment
      445. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a candidate who sat a stage 3 Garda trainee competition test in the Public Services Appointments in Dublin, in the specialised Irish stream,...
    • Garda Transport Data
      446. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda Community Relations vans that came into the fleet in 2013 and 2014; the number that were withdrawn during the same...
    • Family Reunification
      447. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to make an application for family re-unification in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if...
    • Immigration Status
      448. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in order to regularise the status of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Spent Convictions Legislation
      449. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012; when she expects it to be enacted; when necessary supporting procedural changes...
    • Departmental Funding
      450. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total funding allocated by her Department and its agencies, and through any grant systems operated by her Department, in tabular form, for...
    • Disability Services Provision
      451. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the protocol regarding the provision of sign language interpreters for deaf persons when they are being interviewed by, or giving statements to,...
    • Domestic Violence Policy
      453. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the Government's strategy to tackle sexual offences and crimes that are committed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23356/15]
    • Child and Family Agency Services
      454. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the ceasing of funding from Túsla - Child and Family Agency to the Rape Crisis Network Ireland, in view of her Department's...
    • Garda Reserve
      455. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on whether the €1,000 annual remuneration paid to members of An Garda Síochána Reserve is sufficient; her plans to...
    • Garda Strength
      456. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of gardaí stationed in Clondalkin, Lucan and Ronanstown in County Dublin, as at 31 May on...
    • Charities Regulation
      457. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if concerns regarding the charity regulator (details below) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23396/15]
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      458. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in her Department currently on a sabbatical or a career break, broken down by zero to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      459. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, by year, the total photography costs for her Department since coming into office, inclusive of costs...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      460. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, by year, the use of external public relations firms employed by her Department since coming into office; if...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      461. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount spent on external information technology consultants by her Department in each of the years 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to date;...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      462. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the protocols in place, since March 2011, to set standards in parliamentary replies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23504/15]
    • Consultancy Contracts
      464. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has renegotiated external information technology consultancy contracts and costs since March 2011; and if she will make a...
    • State Bodies
      465. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in respect of State boards under her Department's remit, the number of appointments to State boards; the number of vacancies...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      468. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, for each year from 2009 to 2014 and for 2015 to date, the total number of freedom of information requests...
    • Legislative Process
      470. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number, name and date of Bills initiated in her Department, that have been subject to the...
    • Departmental Staff Expenses
      472. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date on staff subsistence payments,...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      473. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, by year, all external consultant reports commissioned by her Department since March 2011; the costs per...
    • Alcohol Sales
      474. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 208 of 28 April 2015 and 127 and 143 of 14 May 2015 in respect of distance sales of alcohol, if she is...
    • Coronor Service
      475. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the coroners and assistant deputy coroners who are acting in each functional area; the annual remuneration...
    • Proposed Legislation
      476. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the draft General Scheme of the consolidated Bill on domestic violence will be published; if she envisages that it will be published before...
    • Registration of Title
      477. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she will take to have an application for registration in the Land Registry immediately expedited, in respect of a company (details...
    • Law Reform Commission Recommendations
      479. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the multi-party legislation, and the implementation of this important and significant...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Departmental Funding
      480. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total funding allocated by his Department and its agencies, and through any grant systems operated by his Department, in tabular form,...
    • Domestic Violence Refuges
      481. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide any further financial assistance, through his Department or through the Health Service Executive, to a housing...
    • HIQA Reports
      482. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to the Health Information and Quality Authority report of child and family service areas of counties Louth and Meath, the number of...
    • Ministers' Meetings and Engagements
      506. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will report on all public and private, official and unofficial, engagements and meetings with a person (details supplied), and with...
    • Youth Services
      507. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs with regard to the Kerry Diocesan Youth Centre, the way local youth services and officials in his Department are working more...
    • Child Care Services Inspections
      508. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of registered child care facilities in County Carlow, operated privately or by the community; the number of these that have been...
    • Departmental Funding
      509. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding assistance will be provided to an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Child and Family Agency Funding
      511. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason he has not met with the Rape Crisis Network Ireland following postponing a previously arranged meeting in January 2015; his...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      512. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break, broken down by zero...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      513. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide, in tabular form by year, the total photography costs for his Department since coming into office, inclusive of costs...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      514. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide, in tabular form by year, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming into...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      515. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the total amount spent on external information technology consultants by his Department in each of the years 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      516. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the protocols in place since March 2011 to set standards in parliamentary replies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23495/15]
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      518. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department has renegotiated external information and technology consultancy contracts and costs since March 2011; and if he will...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      519. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide in respect of State boards under his Department's remit the number of appointments to State boards; the number of...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      520. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide, in tabular form for each year from 2009 to 2014 and for 2015 to date, the total number of freedom of information...
    • Legislative Process
      521. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide, in tabular form, the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the...
    • Departmental Staff Allowances
      523. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date on staff subsistence...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      524. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide, in tabular form by year, all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011; the costs per...
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      525. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the financial records for Bessborough mother and baby home were not handed over to the Health Service Executive in the 2011...
    • Child and Family Agency Funding
      528. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will confirm that Tusla-Child and Family Agency has cut its funding to the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Health
    • Abortion Services
      536. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the Amnesty International report on the criminalisation of abortion here (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      537. To ask the Minister for Health if it is appropriate that the Health Service Executive has decided to centralise a methadone treatment centre in Mountview Health Centre in Dublin 15 located...
    • Organ Donation
      538. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposed transplant opt-out scheme; if it is his intention to proceed with such a scheme; the engagements he has had with...
    • Hospital Services
      539. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the transplant programme at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, specifically since the retirement of a person (details supplied); the names and...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      540. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and on when the person can expect an appointment with the consultant...
    • Medical Card Administration
      541. To ask the Minister for Health when the introduction of the general practitioner visit card for over-70s will commence; if the card will be issued automatically, or if an application will be...
    • Nursing Home Services
      542. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, by county, the 26 public nursing homes at risk of being non-compliant with Health Information and Quality Authority...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      544. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on all public and private, official and unofficial engagements and meetings with a person (details supplied) and with senior executives...
    • Hospital Services
      545. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Kerry is eligible for the National Treatment Purchase Fund; if not, the waiting time for the person's surgery; and if...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      546. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the report by the expert group that assessed the application for the inclusion of I-Port Advance to the list of reimbursable items in the...
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      547. To ask the Minister for Health the reason construction has not commenced on the approved two-storey building for South Tipperary General Hospital (details supplied) despite a commitment that...
    • Eating Disorders
      548. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a county statistical analysis of those presenting for eating-related disorders, by type of disorder; by male and female; the...
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      549. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a company (details supplied) initially developed the drug Isotretinoin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23069/15]
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      555. To ask the Minister for Health if national lottery funding will be provided to an organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23112/15]
    • Health Services Access
      556. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who cannot receive access to ultraviolet light treatment for the skin condition...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      557. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical appointment for an urgent surgical procedure for a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement...
    • Primary Care Centre Provision
      558. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding representations in respect of the roll out of primary care centres (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      559. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical appointment will be expedited in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23131/15]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      560. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the length of time it is taking to deal with reviews in respect of medical cards; when he expects a decision to be reached in such a review...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      561. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23159/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      562. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      563. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the cross-Border directive, which allows citizens to seek medical care in other European Union and European Economic Area member states and to be...
    • Hospital Services
      564. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that units (details supplied) at Connolly Hospital in Dublin 15 will remain open, and that existing places for residents will remain secure,...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      565. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of refurbishing the new ambulance station in Loughglynn in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23184/15]
    • Hospital Services
      567. To ask the Minister for Health the implications which the new rehabilitation unit at Roscommon County Hospital will have on the operation of the hospital's helipad; and if he will make a...
    • Hospitals Capital Programme
      568. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the capital project at Roscommon County Hospital to develop a new central sterile services department; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Provision
      569. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has to attend an eye clinic in Naas when there is a clinic in Athy. [23191/15]
    • Disability Services Provision
      570. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding respite care in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23195/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      571. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a full discretionary medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a...
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      572. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the fine of €250 that nurses had to pay at the end of May 2015 if they had not paid their annual registration fee; when it was...
    • Medical Card Applications
      574. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in view of the person's circumstances. [23210/15]
    • Health Strategies
      575. To ask the Minister for Health his Department's policy on illnesses caused by water damage and mould contamination; in particular, its opinion of the relationship between such environmental...
    • Medical Card Applications
      576. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for renewal of a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Facilities
      577. To ask the Minister for Health his views that it would be more appropriate for patient interests if the main entrance to Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 24, was an automatic open-and-close system...
    • Hospital Services
      578. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Cork can have a knee operation done privately, as the person has been waiting on the public list for four years; and...
    • Medical Card Applications
      579. 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; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Provision
      580. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical procedure in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23275/15]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      581. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to appoint a full-time consultant paediatrician dermatologist for Temple Street Hospital in Dublin 1; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • HSE Complaints Procedures
      582. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 458 of 14 February 2015, if he will examine a case (details supplied) regarding the Health Service Executive. [23281/15]
    • Health Services Provision
      583. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter regarding the treatment of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon, and on ambulance delays in this case; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Applications
      584. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23291/15]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      585. To ask the Minister for Health when the position for a consultant dermatologist will be filled in Waterford University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23292/15]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      586. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hearing aid in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23295/15]
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      587. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent withdrawal, for cost saving reasons, of the essential emergency cardiac drugs Ephedrine and Epinephrine from ambulances, save those...
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      588. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recent withdrawal of stand-by ambulance crews under the new rostering regime; his further views on the potential impact this will have in...
    • Medical Card Data
      589. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical card holders from six years of age to 17 years of age. [23301/15]
    • Hospital Services
      590. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23307/15]
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      591. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review 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 Waiting Lists
      592. To ask the Minister for Health the measures his Department has taken to ensure that the over 480,000 patients who are on a waiting list across the State's hospitals awaiting treatment...
    • Positive Ageing Strategy Implementation
      593. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will act on the National Positive Ageing Strategy 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23312/15]
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
      594. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons seeking placement approval under the fair deal scheme in counties Longford and Westmeath; the average duration of wait; and if he will...
    • Mental Health Services Report
      595. To ask the Minister for Health when the review of the A Vision for Change document will be complete; the time frame for release of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23321/15]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      596. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of a Mygo chair in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Nursing Home Services
      597. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of all payments, by type of payment, made to a nursing home (details supplied) in County Galway for each of the years from 2011 to...
    • Medical Card Applications
      598. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision is expected on an application for a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • International Agreements
      599. To ask the Minister for Health the potential changes that may be brought about in the health sector by the introduction of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and if he will...
    • National Children's Hospital Status
      600. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the development of the new national paediatric hospital; his views on the current planning and budgetary situation; and...
    • Primary Care Centre Provision
      601. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a progress report on the provision of a primary health centre in north Clondalkin, Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • National Drugs Strategy Budget
      602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the funding made available to each local and regional drugs task force for each of the years 2010 to 2014 and for 2015 to...
    • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
      603. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the fact that the current national drugs strategy concludes in 2016, his plans to develop a new strategy; if he has established a public...
    • HSE Staffing
      604. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of internal grade 8 positions created in the Health Service Executive from 2005 to 2014 and in 2015 to date....
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      606. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or a career break, broken down by zero to six months, six...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      607. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form and by year, the total photography costs for his Department since coming into office, inclusive of costs incurred from the...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      608. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form and by year, the external public relations firms employed by his Department since coming into office; if he will provide...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      609. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount spent on external information technology consultants by his Department in each of the years 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      610. To ask the Minister for Health the protocols in place since March 2011 to set standards in parliamentary replies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23502/15]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      613. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in respect of State boards under his Department's remit the number of appointments to State boards; the number of vacancies in State boards...
    • Food Safety Standards Regulation
      614. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a ban on the sale of energy drinks to children under 18 years of age; to regulate the quantity of caffeine, taurine or other substances...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      615. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, for each year from 2009 to 2014 and for 2015 to date, the total number of freedom of information requests received by his...
    • Medical Card Applications
      616. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made in relation to an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make...
    • Legislative Process
      619. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the pre-legislative scrutiny...
    • Home Help Service Data
      620. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the percentage of the population over 65 years of age who are receiving home help hours in counties Clare and Limerick,...
    • Medical Card Applications
      621. 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, as the person has submitted all...
    • Health Services
      622. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding residential care in respect of a person who has Prader-Willi syndrome; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      624. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date on staff subsistence payments and staff taxi...
    • Departmental Reports
      625. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, by year, all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011; the costs per report; the...
    • Hospital Charges
      626. To ask the Minister for Health the number of bed nights in a public hospital that privately insured patients used in 2015 to date; the amount of extra income that these charges will bring...
    • Medical Card Applications
      627. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      628. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 399 of 10 March 2015, if he will confirm the action that has been taken by the Health Service Executive and his...
    • Dental Services Waiting Lists
      630. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults with special needs waiting for dental treatment under general anaesthetic, including a breakdown of the number waiting more...
    • Dental Services
      631. To ask the Minister for Health the public dental clinics that have closed since 2008; and if he will indicate this as a percentage of the total number of public dental clinics that existed...
    • Dental Services Provision
      632. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 317 of 19 May 2015, if he will indicate those Health Service Executive dental clinics that did and did not defer...
    • Dental Services Waiting Lists
      633. To ask the Minister for Health the number of six to eight year old children and the number of nine to 11 year old children on the waiting list for dental assessment or screening. [23762/15]
    • Dental Services Expenditure
      634. To ask the Minister for Health the total annual expenditure on the public dental service each year since 2008. [23763/15]
    • Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the 2008 and current average waiting time for orthodontic treatment, broken down by Health Service Executive area. [23764/15]
    • Dental Services Provision
      636. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the vocational training scheme in dentistry, which was paused in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23765/15]
    • Dental Services
      637. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of restoring the biannual scale and polish entitlement under the dental treatment services scheme. [23772/15]
    • Vaccination Programme
      643. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the concerns of parents over the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil; the level of his Department's engagement in an information...
    • Health Services
      644. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to conduct a review of services for transgender people, with a view to increasing provision to meet demand, increase locations, and reduce costs for...
    • Dental Services
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists practising; and graduating each year; and if he has plans to increase this number. [23797/15]
    • Respite Care Services
      647. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of respite beds available in Dublin in each of the years 2012 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; if there are waiting...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      649. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clients accessing services for adults with intellectual disabilities in 2015; if there are waiting lists for these services and, if so, the...
    • Medical Card Applications
      650. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review, with a view to awarding on discretionary grounds, an application for a Medical Card in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Hospital Services
      651. To ask the Minister for Health the current full range of services available in Kerry General Hospital for children with diabetes; the way the level of services in the hospital compares with...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme
      652. To ask the Minister for Health if iports will be added as approved products on the Long Term Illness Scheme for children with diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23850/15]
    • Registration of Nurses
      654. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses and midwives who have to take enforced leave from the Health Service Executive due to their names being removed from the register of...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
      656. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, for end May 2014 and end of May 2015, for each local health area, the numbers of persons awaiting placement under the fair...
    • HSE Expenditure
      657. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the total Health Service Executive budget for each of the years 2011 to 2014 by the following directorates - primary care,...
    • Health Services
      658. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the provision of a service (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23913/15]
    • Hospital Services
      659. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has commissioned, undertaken and/or completed any reports and/or reviews of service provision at University Hospital Waterford...
    • National Treatment Purchase Fund
      660. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the 2,684 cases on the National Treatment Purchase Fund inpatient-day case list for 30 May 2013 in Cork University Hospital, the number of these...
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who took part in the trial of the drug fampridine; the benefits the clinical trial results demonstrated; and if the full extent of the...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      663. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment to attend University Hospital Galway for an urological procedure; and if...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of patients from Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal, in tabular form, who are currently on the waiting list to be seen by a...
    • Dental Services
      665. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 will receive an appointment for dental implants. [23960/15]
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Human Rights Issues
      666. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the recent murder of a person (details supplied), if he plans to raise the case with the Colombian Government in the context of...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      668. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on all public and private, official and unofficial engagements and meetings with a person (details supplied), and with...
    • Passport Applications
      669. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 17 June 2014, if the application process is now completed in view of the conclusion of the...
    • Passport Services
      670. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to revise the wording of the existing Passport Express web page on the An Post website in order to provide further clarity and...
    • Passport Applications Data
      671. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the average passport express turnaround times, in tabular form, per month, for the period January to May 2015; and if he will make a...
    • Passport Services
      672. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps being taken to address any anticipated surge in the number of passport applications received by the Passport Office; his plans to...
    • Human Rights Issues
      673. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the use of excessive police force against young persons and minority groups (details supplied) in McKinney, Dallas, Texas,...
    • Travel Statistics
      674. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish persons who have visited Japan, China, India and South Korea in the years 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement...
    • Israeli Settlements
      675. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that Belgium has introduced guidelines requiring chain stores to specifically label agricultural products which come from...
    • Consular Services Staff
      676. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if local indigenous staff working at the various Irish embassies around the world are paid the Irish minimum wage and have standardised...
    • Overseas Missions
      677. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he raised any opposition to the European Union proposal to commence a military mission to prevent illegal smuggling off the coast of...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      678. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break, broken down by zero to...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      679. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide, in tabular form, by year, the total photography costs for his Department since coming into office, inclusive of the...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      681. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total amount spent on external information technology consultants by his Department in each of the years 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      682. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the protocols in place since March 2011 to set standards in parliamentary replies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23501/15]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      685. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the number of appointments to State boards; the number of...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      686. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide, in tabular form, for each year from 2009 to 2014 and for 2015 to date, the total number of freedom of information...
    • Legislative Process
      687. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide, in tabular form, the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the...
    • Departmental Staff Allowances
      689. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date on staff subsistence...
    • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
      690. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide, in tabular form, by year, all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011; the costs per...
    • Ukrainian Conflict
      691. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the sanctions by the G7 states against Russia. [23785/15]
    • Passport Applications
      692. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a passport will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23927/15]
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • State Examinations
      693. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding examination support for the leaving certificate; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Employment Support Services
      694. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the European Social Fund, targeted at poverty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23381/15]
    • School Staffing
      695. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons a school (details supplied) in Dublin 6 was refused an English teacher as an additional language teacher; if she will re-examine the...
    • Irish Language
      696. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Meath will be afforded an exemption for Irish when the person commences secondary school in September...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      697. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on all public and private, official and unofficial engagements and meetings with a person (details supplied), and with senior...
    • Teacher Secondment
      698. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 158 to 160, inclusive, of 28 May 2015, the reason for the decision not to continue providing a derogation...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      699. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for funding submitted by a school (detailed supplied) in County Tipperary; the status of this application...
    • National Council for Special Education
      700. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason some schools are advertising for special needs assistant posts but the National Council for Special Education is not showing any...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      701. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure that a child (details supplied) in County Wicklow will receive all necessary special needs assistance care and resources, in...
    • School Enrolments Data
      702. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of pupils enrolled in the schools (details supplied) beginning in each of the academic years from 2010 to 2014; and if she will make a...
    • School Staffing
      703. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times retired teachers were employed in schools (details supplied) in County Louth in the 2014-15 academic year; the length of time...
    • State Examinations Commission
      704. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retired teachers or other persons who were employed as supervisors and-or attendants for State examinations in 2014 and 2015; the...
    • School Staffing
      706. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure for making a complaint against a principal of a school; the role of her Department in a complaint against a principal; and if she...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      708. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will facilitate a meeting between her officials and representatives of a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • School Staffing
      709. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will facilitate a meeting between her officials and representatives of a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      710. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school building (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23352/15]
    • Teacher Training Provision
      711. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of providing training for all teachers at post-primary level in the mental health and emotional wellbeing aspect of the Social, Personal...
    • School Staffing
      712. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Louth was allocated a second deputy principal for the 2014-15 academic year; if this is a permanent...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      713. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in her Department currently on a sabbatical or career break, broken down by zero to six...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      714. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, by year, the total photography costs for her Department since coming into office, inclusive of the costs...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      715. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, by year, the use of external public relations firms employed by her Department since coming into office; if...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      716. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount spent on external information technology consultants by her Department in each of the years 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to date....
    • Parliamentary Questions
      717. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the protocols in place, since March 2011, to set standards in replies to parliamentary questions; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Building Contractors
      719. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a report by the contractors administration services regarding the Carrickpherish, Waterford school building public works contract has been...
    • Consultancy Contracts
      721. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has renegotiated external information technology consultancy contracts and costs since March 2011; and if she will make a...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      722. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in respect of State boards under her Department's remit, the number of appointments to State boards; the number of vacancies...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      723. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional courses or qualifications that teachers with specific United Kingdom teaching qualifications and experience (details supplied)...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      724. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, for each of the years 2009 to 2014 and for 2015, to date the total number of freedom of information...
    • Legislative Process
      725. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, the number, name and date of Bills initiated in her Department that have been subject to the...
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a Student Universal Support Ireland grant in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Process
      727. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, the number, name and date of Bills initiated in her Department since September 2013. [23663/15]
    • Departmental Staff Expenses
      728. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date on staff subsistence payments...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, by year, all external consultant reports commissioned by her Department since March 2011; the costs per...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      730. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a policy regarding the attendance of special needs assistants at meetings to prepare individualised education programmes...
    • School Meals Programme
      731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans for her Department to take over the responsibility for food provision in schools from the Department of Social Protection. [23722/15]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      732. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason she has not met with the Irish Heart Foundation to discuss the matter of food provision in schools. [23723/15]
    • School Meals Programme
      734. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any monitoring process in place to ensure that schools engage in providing health foods; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staffing
      735. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department has failed to provide additional administrative support to a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; her views on...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      736. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Roscommon has to wait a further year to receive the learning support hours applicable to the...
    • School Accommodation
      737. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to sanction resources for the redevelopment of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      738. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to maintain the current level of special needs assistance support in a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will...
    • State Examinations
      739. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any adjustment in marking will be made as a result of the much criticised imbalance (details supplied) between the higher and ordinary level...
    • School Patronage
      740. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the existence of a religious ethos in education; her further views that this has a negative impact on employment equality in...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      741. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional support available for persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23796/15]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      742. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the case of a young person (details supplied) regarding resource hours. [23827/15]
    • School Accommodation
      743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding provided to a school (details supplied) in County Laois for additional works, following approval for one mainstream classroom, as...
    • School Placement
      744. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will be granted a place for next year in the school that the person is currently enrolled in due...
    • State Examinations
      745. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the leaving certificate for the ordinary level mathematics examination 2015; and if she...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      746. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding special needs assistance hours in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Tribunals of Inquiry Reports
      747. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions taken from the recommendations made in the Moriarty tribunal report, which he received in March 2011; and if...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      749. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider grant assistance for proprietors of vacant units, to allow such units to be converted and refurbished...
    • Water Supply
      750. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that 40% of schools have no access to free drinking water for students; and his plans to address this...
    • Environmental Policy
      751. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which carbon reduction targets are likely to be achieved in the short, medium and long term; and if he will...
    • National Heritage Plan
      752. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide funding to allow a walkway (details supplied) in County Galway to be included in the walks scheme; and...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Applications
      753. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a new tenant purchase scheme will be introduced to allow tenants of county councils to purchase their own homes; and...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      754. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on all public and private, official and unofficial, engagements and meetings with a person (details...
    • Control of Dogs
      756. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government within the context of the Control of Dogs Acts, his plans to introduce new legislation aimed at providing greater...
    • Derelict Sites
      757. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to examine the issue of abandoned residential properties which are not in a derelict condition, many of which...
    • Fuel Laundering
      758. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 658, 659, 660 and 662 of 31 March 2015, if he will provide an update on his...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      759. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to enable suppliers to update and alter previous submissions made via the local authority quotes procurement...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Maintenance
      760. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount County Donegal will be allocated out of the €91 million investment in refurbishing, energy efficiency...
    • Legislative Measures
      761. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to draft secondary legislation in relation to section 130 of the Local Government Act 2001; if so, to the time...
    • Planning Issues
      762. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify the secondary legislation and guidelines that apply in relation to section 247 of the Planning and...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      763. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding available from his Department towards supporting community and development groups who wish to paint and...
    • Disability Services Funding
      764. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the future funding and status of the Dublin 12 disability mainstream access project (details...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      765. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of homes due to be built under the social housing 2020 strategy in counties Longford and Westmeath in each of...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Data
      766. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment recipients in counties Longford and Westmeath in 2014 and to date in 2015, and...
    • Building Regulations
      767. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to implement changes to the building control amendment regulations, Statutory Instrument No. 9 of 2014, to...
    • Water Quality
      768. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has directed Irish Water to replace lead piping in households in Dublin Bay north; his plans to announce a programme...
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      769. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm the person or body responsible for the Ard Dealgan complex in Dundalk in County Louth; the person or...
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      770. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of compulsory purchase orders made by Louth County Council in each of the years from 2011 to 2015; and if he...
    • Derelict Sites Data
      772. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of sites currently registered as derelict in County Louth; the levies or fees that have accrued in the case of...
    • Local Authority Functions
      776. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the necessary steps to be undertaken by a local authority in declaring and registering a site or property as a dangerous...
    • Leader Programmes Administration
      778. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the rolling out of the Leader programme; when local groups and businesses will be able to...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      779. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered an incentive scheme to encourage home-scale waste treatment plants; and if he will make a statement...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      780. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      781. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, by year, the total photography costs for his Department since coming into office,...
    • Public Relations Contracts Expenditure
      782. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, by year, the use of external public relations firms employed by his Department since...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      783. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount spent on external information technology consultants by his Department in each of the years 2010 to 2014...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      784. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the protocols in place, since March 2011, to set standards in parliamentary replies; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      787. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the number of appointments to State boards;...
    • Local Authority Staff Remuneration
      788. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of a common policy in relation to payment to local authority workers for overtime, and in particular for...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      789. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, for each year from 2009 to 2014 and for 2015 to date the total number of freedom of...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      790. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding small businesses and road tax for heavy goods vehicles; and if he...
    • Legislative Programme
      791. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject...
    • Requirements Governing Holding Elected Office
      792. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the limits on holding elected office; if there are grounds for concerns that those with a history of mental health...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      794. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date on staff...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      795. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, by year, all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March...
    • Seniors Alert Scheme
      796. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the current provision of senior community alarms by local community groups, and any future plans in this...
    • Local Authority Staff Recruitment
      797. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received a request from Mayo County Council to sanction the appointment of new staff at the council; the details...
    • Register of Electors
      802. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1025 of 9 June 2015, in which he stated that there is no provision in law for making...
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      803. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government following the extension of the scheme to support national organisations funding for another year, his plans to put in...
    • Local Authority Funding
      804. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to announce public realm funding for local authorities in 2015; if respective funding allocations will be the...
    • Voluntary Sector Funding
      805. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government following the recent allocation of €41,448 to MOVE Ireland - Men Overcoming Violence, the way this funding compares...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      806. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding allocated and availed of by the local authorities in Counties Wicklow, Tipperary, Louth, Wexford and...
    • Rural Development Programme Funding
      807. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the total Exchequer funding allocated to the Western Development Commission, in the...
    • RAPID Programme
      808. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the total Exchequer funding allocated to the revitalising areas by planning,...
    • Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas
      809. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the implementation of the report by the Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas; the...
    • Leader Programmes Funding
      810. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will enable Leader programme partnership groups to maintain their delivery of services on par with the delivery of...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Media Mergers
      812. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether new media mergers legislation is required, and if it should be retrospective in scope and content....
    • Ministerial Meetings
      813. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will report on all public and private, official and unofficial, engagements and meetings with a person (details...
    • Public Service Obligation Levy (1 comment)
      814. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to reduce the public service obligation levy on sporting organisations; if he is aware of how negatively this...
    • Fisheries Protection
      815. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide information on the current situation in relation to eel fishing; if he will confirm if the review...
    • Telecommunications Infrastructure
      816. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the availability of adequate critical infrastructure, such as ready...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      817. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to what extent eircom's roll-out of end-to-end fibre-to-home broadband to the areas of Churchill, Fintown, Gleneely,...
    • Electricity Generation
      819. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of plans to create a smart electricity grid, including enabling sell-back to the grid at the household level;...
    • Bord na Móna
      820. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the recent discussions with Bord na Móna on the temporary closure of two briquette factories in Counties Tipperary...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      821. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when fibre broadband is expected to be rolled out to Whitestown, Greenore, County Louth; and if he will make a statement...
    • Environmental Policy
      823. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on The Earth Statement, made in April 2015 by the 17 leading scientists and economists who make up the Earth...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      824. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break,...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      825. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide, in tabular form, by year, the total photography costs for his Department since coming into office,...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      827. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the total amount spent on external information technology consultants by his Department in each of the years 2010 to and...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      828. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the protocols in place since March 2011 to set standards in replies to parliamentary questions; and if he will make a...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      831. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the number of appointments to State boards;...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      832. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form for each year from 2009 to 2014 and for 2015 to date, the total number of freedom of...
    • Legislative Process
      833. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject...
    • Departmental Staff Expenses
      835. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the total amount spent in each year from 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date on staff...
    • Consultancy Contracts Data
      836. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form by year all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March...
    • Hydraulic Fracturing Policy
      837. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding a ban on hydraulic fracturing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Broadband Service Provision
      838. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is aware of the concern of the north-west regional executive committee of the Irish Business and Employers...
    • Broadband Service Speeds
      842. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form by county a breakdown of the current estimated spread and rate of high-speed broadband...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      843. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources following the publication of the national high-speed coverage map for 2016, if he will provide a national high-speed...
    • Energy Policy
      844. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in the context of a national energy policy, if consideration was given to energy conservation as an alternative to...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      846. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans regarding the provision of high-speed broadband in the Cork region; if he will address the concerns raised by...
    • Broadband Service Speeds
      847. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which he remains satisfied regarding the provision of modern high-speed broadband in all areas throughout...
    • Alternative Energy Projects
      848. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which the various forms of alternative energy production have been sufficiently progressed to meet European...
    • Natural Resources
      849. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which an audit continues to be done in respect of the availability of natural resources under the...
    • Corrib Gas Field
      850. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the schedule for the availability of gas from the Corrib gas field for the national grid; the extent to which supply is...
    • Post Office Network
      851. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which he continues to have discussions with An Post with a view to ensuring the long-term viability and...
    • Electricity Generation
      852. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will express, as a percentage of daily electricity requirements, the amount of electricity now being generated from...
    • Energy Prices
      853. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which at European Council meetings discussions have revolved around the cost of energy across the European...
    • Gas Exploration Licences
      854. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of oil, gas or other exploration licences issued over the past ten years that have not been activated to date;...
    • Exploration Industry Data
      855. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent of any commercial discoveries of oil, gas, or other minerals, onshore or offshore in the past five years to...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      856. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources on foot of the recent announcement in relation to the rural broadband scheme, his plans for the type of broadband for the...
    • Electric Vehicles
      857. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which electrically powered motor vehicles have increased in numbers, and are likely to do so in the coming...
    • Energy Efficiency
      858. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to amend Statutory Instrument Number 426 of 2014 which deals with energy efficiency regulations; if so, the...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Motor Insurance Regulation
      859. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to make legislative changes to encourage all drivers to take out motor insurance; his views that the current penalties for not...
    • Penalty Points System
      860. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driver penalty points which cannot be applied to the driver licence record file due to the fact that the driver licence...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      861. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when funding will be put in place to bypass Macroom and Baile Bhuirne in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Sale of Aer Lingus
      863. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the sale of Aer Lingus (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22965/15]
    • Road Safety
      864. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legal standing of the closed circuit television footage which is due to commence at the accident blackspot at the red line Luas in...
    • Road Network
      865. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide information regarding the section of the M50 between Exit 13 and Exit 14; the number of vehicles which passed through...
    • Rail Network
      866. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the National Transport Authority will conclude its report on a rail line to the airport; and if he will support a light rail,...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      867. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on all public and private, official and unofficial, engagements and meetings with a person (details supplied), and with...
    • Motor Insurance Regulation
      868. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the procedures and supports in place to assist persons who are involved in traffic accidents, where the person who caused the damage is...
    • State Bodies
      869. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the contract of the chief executive officer of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company (details supplied) is renewed on a...
    • Haulage Sector
      876. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will restructure commercial vehicle road tax in line with comparable costs in Northern Ireland, in order to save jobs in the...
    • Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme
      877. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the cuts to deferred Irish Airlines (General Employees) Superannuation Scheme pensions; and if he will make a...
    • National Car Test
      878. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to ensure that the national car test takes due regard of medical adaptions to vehicles; and if he will make a...
    • Sports Funding
      879. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding allocated to the development of basketball in the North East Basketball League over the past ten years from Basketball...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      880. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he last met the chairperson and chief executive officer of the Dublin Airport Authority; the issues discussed; when he will next...
    • Sports Funding
      881. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a grant in respect of an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork; when all funds will be advanced to this...
    • EU Funding
      882. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the projects which the Government has submitted under the first call for proposals under the connecting Europe facility for...
    • National Transport Authority Remit
      884. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Transport Authority has plans for sustainably powered transport for rural areas and for urban areas; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      885. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the number of staff in his Department currently on a sabbatical or career break, broken down by zero...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      886. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form and by year the total photography costs for his Department since coming into office, inclusive of the...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      889. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the protocols in place since March 2011 to set standards in replies to parliamentary questions; and if he will make a...
    • Public Service Obligation Services
      891. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the tendering of public service obligation bus routes. [23235/15]
    • Public Transport Fares
      892. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the annual inflation rate in the transport sector; and the rate of increase in average ticket prices...
    • Departmental Contracts
      894. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has re-negotiated external information technology consultancy contracts and costs since March 2011; and if he will make...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      895. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the number of appointments to State boards; the number of...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      896. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form for each year from 2009 to 2014 and for 2015 to date the total number of freedom of information...
    • Harbour Authorities
      897. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the meaning of the term "other" in the profit and loss account as issued by Dún Laoghaire...
    • Harbour Authorities Appointments
      900. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that there is a vacancy on the board of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company if a worker director will now be...
    • Fáilte Ireland
      901. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to previous parliamentary questions if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all directors' fees and expenses paid to a...
    • Harbour Authorities
      903. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1031 of 26 May 2015 his views on whether fees to chairpersons and members of Dún Laoghaire...
    • Legislative Process
      904. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the number, name and date of Bills initiated in his Department that have been subject to the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      906. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the total amount spent in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date on staff subsistence...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      907. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form and by year all external consultant reports commissioned by his Department since March 2011; the costs...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      908. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the process and timing involved in the 2015 sports capital programme now that all applications have been submitted; and if he...
    • Regional Road Network
      909. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will indicate the details of the 2015 funding for roads, by municipal district, to County Monaghan; if he will give a breakdown of...
    • Sports Funding
      911. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of State funding provided to the Football Association of Ireland in each of the years 2008 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; the...
    • Departmental Functions
      912. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the input of his Department, or any other Department, in the running of international matches and major fixtures in association football,...
    • Sports Funding
      913. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional funding from his Department has been sought to assist the Football Association of Ireland in meeting debt obligations; and...
    • Departmental Functions
      914. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the promotion of association football, given the tremendous health benefits of football and the important role of the sport...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      915. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with Bus Éireann to ensure the existing schedule for bus services from Killarney via Rathmore in County Kerry, via...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Wildlife Conservation
      916. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding Bull Island in north Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ministerial Meetings
      917. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on all public and private, official and unofficial, engagements and meetings with a person (details supplied), and...
    • Architectural Heritage
      918. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the level of monitoring her Department undertakes of local authorities' implementation of ministerial recommendations regarding the...
    • Wildlife Conservation
      919. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to reintroduce a programme to ensure the development of habitats for the hen harrier, in co-operation with landowners, and...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      920. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of staff in her Department currently on a sabbatical or career break, broken down by...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      921. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in tabular form, by year, the total photography costs for her Department since coming into office, inclusive of...
    • Public Relations Contracts Data
      922. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in tabular form, by year, the use of external public relations firms employed by her Department since coming...
    • Departmental Contracts Data
      923. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total amount spent on external information technology consultants by her Department in each of the years 2010 to 2014 and in 2015...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      924. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the protocols in place, since March 2011, to set standards in parliamentary replies; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Appointments to State Boards
      927. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in respect of State boards under her Department's remit, the number of appointments to such boards; the number...
    • Freedom of Information Data
      928. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in tabular form, for each year from 2009 to date in 2015, the total number of freedom of information requests...
    • Animal Disease Controls
      929. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when deer were introduced to the national park in Letterfrack, County Galway; when Lyme disease was detected in the deer herd; the...
    • Legislative Process
      930. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in tabular form, the number, name and date of Bills initiated in her Department that have been subject to the...
    • Departmental Funding
      931. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will advise of the conditions of the 2007 approval of funding for an arts centre (details supplied) in County Offaly. [23654/15]
    • Departmental Staff Allowances
      933. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in tabular form, the total amount spent in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date on staff...
    • Departmental Reports
      934. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in tabular form and by year, all external consultant reports commissioned by her Department since March 2011;...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Payments
      935. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason a payment under the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme has not yet been made in respect of a person (details...

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What are Written Answers?

The parliamentary question is a great way for TDs to discover information which the government may not wish to reveal. Ministers reply via written answers, a list of which gets published daily.

We let you vote on whether or not the answer given is adequate.