Written answers

Thursday, 2 July 2015

  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Budget 2016
      7. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he continues to remain satisfied with his ability to maintain prudent spending policies in the context of the 2016...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      8. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the procurement policies invoked in the process of awarding the contract for fuel cards for staff of the Office of Public Works to a...
    • Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme
      11. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any further consideration will be given to the possible use of Government bonds to fund areas of urgently required infrastructural...
    • Public Sector Pay
      13. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide calculations as to the average effect of cost of living increases as calculated by the CPI since the advent of the...
    • Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme
      14. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will be making the promised capital expenditure statement; his key priorities for public capital expenditure over the next three...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      15. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the approval of the marriage equality referendum, if he will revise the arrangements for the spouses and children's...
    • Public Sector Reform Implementation
      16. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the criteria his Department utilises to anticipate and prepare for future human resource trends in the public service, including how the...
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      18. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide all new projects over €100,000 under the aegis of the Office of Public Works commencing in 2015; the estimated...
    • State Bodies Mergers
      19. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in the context of the rationalisation, merging or abolition involving over 180 State agencies to maximise the value for taxpayers if his...
    • Public Sector Reform Implementation
      20. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reform the performance measurement system in the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26116/15]
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      22. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status of flood relief works on the River Suck; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26109/15]
    • Public Procurement Regulations
      23. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the changes that have been made to the rules regarding the tendering process for public contracts in order that small sole traders and...
    • Public Sector Staff Data
      25. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the current gender breakdown across all Government Departments from assistant principal officer...
    • Haddington Road Agreement Implementation
      26. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has considered the job creation potential of removing the extra hours public servants were required to work under the...
    • Public Sector Pay
      27. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has considered reversing the provision that new entrants to the public service have lower pay and conditions than...
    • Exchequer Payments
      28. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide in tabular form the annual charge to the Exchequer for the outsourcing of goods and services by the public sector from...
    • State Properties
      29. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the arrangements in place regarding the tenure that the State has on the building known as Agriculture House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2....
    • Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme
      30. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the capital expenditure framework plan will be published; if it will list themes to the implemented or if it will include specific...
    • Fiscal Policy
      31. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if analyses are done on the economic benefits of capital projects versus the interest charged on Government borrowings over time; and if...
    • Government Expenditure
      32. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has read the Nevin Institute's Summer 2015 Quarterly Economic Observer, which predicts that Ireland will have one of the lowest, if...
    • Public Sector Staff Redeployment
      33. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to relocate staff working with the Office of Public Works; the reasons for their relocation; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Public Procurement Regulations
      34. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the level of compliance with regards to public procurement rules, policies and practices; if the Office of...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Social Welfare Code
      35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to increase the State pension, household benefits package and any other measures that will benefit pensioners; and if she will make a...
    • Maternity Benefit Applications
      37. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason an appeal in respect of a maternity benefit for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was referred by the social welfare appeals...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      38. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the difficulties facing rent allowance tenants in obtaining housing, her views on the need for measures to allow tenants to have their...
    • One-Parent Family Payments
      39. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total social welfare payment currently being received by persons (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      40. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      41. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made in respect on an application for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of requests for meetings she has received from private, external, non-State funded lobby groups; the...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      43. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an invalidity review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current position regarding an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make...
    • Insolvency Payments Scheme Applications
      46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a final decision will be made on an application for payment under the insolvency payments scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      47. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Code Reform
      49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans for time limiting the invalidity pension and shortening the duration of illness benefit. [26786/15]
    • One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility
      50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the new proposals for the one-parent family payment and rescind the regressive elements of the proposals before the introduction...
    • Personal Insolvency Act
      51. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the new personal insolvency measures announced on 30 May 2015 will come into effect, in particular, the proposed removal of a bank's veto on...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      53. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to expedite an application for disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; and if she...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      54. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if increase in rent support will be offered in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare whose rent has increased to €1,000...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      55. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if and when rent allowance will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 whose rent allowance has been suspended; and if...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      56. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the extent to which a person (details supplied) in County Kildare's further employment details have been recorded in the context of entitlement to a...
    • Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme Applications
      58. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if persons (details supplied) in County Kildare qualify for the back to school allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26866/15]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      59. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if rent support will be restored in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26869/15]
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Applications
      60. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an exceptional needs payment will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      61. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the expenses incurred by her between 2011 and to date in 2015 to include the date, expense type, description and...
  • Department of Finance
    • Ministerial Meetings
      62. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of requests for meetings he has received from private, external, non-State funded lobby groups; the number of...
    • Tax Reliefs Eligibility
      63. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons renting out a room or rooms in their home through AirBnB are eligible for the rent-a-room scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Banks Recapitalisation
      65. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a future bank bailout (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26752/15]
    • Tax Code
      66. To ask the Minister for Finance the recent changes in tax thresholds that have taken place or are about to take place for persons wishing to transfer property to family members; and if he...
    • IBRC Loans
      67. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of loan facility letters issued in respect of existing loans whereby changes were made to the terms and conditions of the loan by the former Anglo...
    • Money Laundering
      68. To ask the Minister for Finance regarding implementation of the European Union’s 4th anti-money laundering directive, the steps and timing he envisages for establishing a register of...
    • NAMA Assets Sale
      70. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason land and property thus far sold by the National Asset Management Agency to public bodies was not openly advertised to the public at any time during...
    • Pension Fund Fees
      71. To ask the Minister for Finance the deadline by which pension fund trustees must make payment of this year’s pension fund Levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26793/15]
    • Greek Government Bonds
      72. To ask the Minister for Finance Ireland’s direct and indirect exposure to Greek national debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26794/15]
    • Departmental Staff Training
      73. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all third level courses and training programmes provided for employees of his Department, and the...
    • Central Bank of Ireland Expenditure
      75. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all third level courses and training programmes provided for employees of the Central Bank of Ireland, and...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      76. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of all third level courses and training programmes provided for employees of the Revenue Commissioners, and the...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      77. To ask the Minister for Finance if he, as representative of Allied Irish Banks' largest shareholder, will request the senior management of the bank to reconsider its decision to outsource the...
    • NAMA Assets Sale
      78. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the background to the sale of the Spawell complex in Templeogue in Dublin 6W; if he will specify the National Asset Management...
    • Excise Duties
      79. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a lower rate of excise duty on low alcohol beers to incentivise the production of such products and to encourage persons to...
    • NAMA Assets Sale
      80. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the sale of a residential property (details supplied) by the National Asset Management Agency to an off-shore registered British Virgin...
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      87. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the expenses incurred by him between 2011 and to date in 2015, to include the date, expense type, description and amount;...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Commercial Rates
      88. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm whether 65% of ratepayers in County Limerick are to see a reduction in their rates at the expense of the other 35%,...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of requests for meetings he has received from private, external, non-State-funded lobby...
    • Commercial Rates Calculations
      90. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to recent representations from the Vintners Federation of Ireland, if he will consider the introduction of a rates system based...
    • Departmental Funding
      91. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the funding provided to benefacts.ie given that this service is already being provided by the underfunded...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      92. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason a company (details supplied) has terminated its contract, effective from 3 September 2015, with the Office of Government...
    • Departmental Staff Training
      93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of all third level courses and training programmes provided for employees of his...
    • Flood Relief Schemes Status
      94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeframe for when funding will be assigned and flood alleviation measures carried out in Claregalway, Montiagh and Carnmore in...
    • Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme
      95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he sees the possibility of prudently selected public capital works such as hospitals, schools and road projects being...
    • Public Expenditure Policy
      96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he has evaluated the value of savings and reform in the context of a contribution to national recovery over the past...
    • Public Procurement Regulations
      104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which public procurement remains a central feature of the control of costs throughout the public sector; the degree to...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which he foresees the need to increase the numbers employed in various sensitive areas of the public sector with a view to...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Ministerial Meetings
      107. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of requests for meetings he has received from private, external, non-State funded...
    • IDA Site Visits
      108. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, by county, a breakdown of the number of Industrial Development Agency sponsored visits for each year since 2012...
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      110. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, in tabular form, the expenses incurred by him from 2011 to date in 2015, including the date, expense type,...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Ministerial Meetings
      111. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of requests for meetings he has received from private, external, non-State funded...
    • Rural Development Programme
      112. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider allocating any unused funds arising from schemes under the rural development programme Pillar II and...
    • GLAS Administration
      113. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered permitting commonage farmers signed up to the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme to be only held...
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      116. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, the expenses incurred by him from 2011 to date in 2015, including the date, expense type,...
  • Department of Defence
    • Defence Forces Medicinal Products
      117. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of soldiers who were administered mefloquine and Primaquine by the Army, despite having been diagnosed as glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      119. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of requests for meetings he has received from private, external, non-State funded lobby groups; the number of...
    • Naval Service Strength
      120. To ask the Minister for Defence if there will be a recruitment drive for the Naval Service this year; if so, if he will provide details of same; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      121. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide in tabular form the expenses incurred by him between 2011 and to date in 2015 to include the date, expense type, description and amount; if...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Ministerial Meetings
      122. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of requests for meetings she has received from private, external, non-State-funded lobby groups;...
    • Direct Provision Data
      123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of direct provision centres there are currently in operation; the number of residents in each as of 1 June 2015; the situation on 1...
    • Child Abuse
      124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the revelations emanating from the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry in Northern Ireland that An Garda...
    • Crime Data
      127. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidences of robbery recorded against persons in the Kildare north Garda Síochána division for the Leixlip and...
    • Departmental Staff
      128. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the post of Secretary General in her Department is to be filled; if she will report on the Garda Síochána districts currently...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      129. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that adequate resources are provided to the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains, in view of the very...
    • Naturalisation Certificates
      130. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the process to be followed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway in order to regularise that person's position and...
    • Residency Permits
      131. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 179 of 18 June 2015, the position in regard to long-term residency and eligibility for naturalisation in...
    • Immigration Status
      132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed to regularise the residency status of a person (details supplied) in County Clare who has been employed without...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      134. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in regard to long-term residency and eligibility for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24;...
    • Deportation Orders Re-examination
      135. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to setting aside a deportation order in the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 22 who have established...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      136. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in regard to determining an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cavan; and...
    • Deportation Orders
      138. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in regard to regularising the residency status of a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      139. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in regard to determining the naturalisation of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • HIQA Reports
      140. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will respond to the Health Information and Quality Authority report, Louth Meath Child Protection and Welfare Inspection Report....
    • Ministerial Meetings
      141. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of requests for meetings he has received from private, external, non-State funded lobby...
    • Youth Services Funding
      142. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps he will take to protect funding for the 600 Foróige youth clubs which engage in a range of projects and programmes; if he...
  • Department of Health
    • Medical Card Applications
      147. 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...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      148. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of requests for meetings he has received from private, external, non-State-funded lobby groups; the number of...
    • Health Services Staff
      149. To ask the Minister for Health the protection in place for Health Service Executive staff who are accused of assaulting or abusing a patient or service user in facilities for persons with...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      150. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will receive the orthopaedic shoes for which that person has been waiting for some time. [26716/15]
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      151. To ask the Minister for Health the facilities available in counties Wicklow and Carlow for those under 18 years of age who need assistance for addiction; the organisations that assist the...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Applications
      152. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make an urgent determination in regard to an application for night time nappies in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products Availability
      153. To ask the Minister for Health the action the Government will take to halt the online trade in illegal medicines, in view of a recent fatality. [26728/15]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      154. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange an early date for an urgent surgical procedure in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement...
    • Maternity Services
      155. To ask the Minister for Health the number of drug detoxification beds that are available in the Dublin area and nationally which are specifically for pregnant women; and if he will make a...
    • HSE Staffing
      158. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Health Service Executive staff employed to work in County Kildare, including staff grade and salary. [26751/15]
    • Regulatory Bodies
      159. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make available all data, documents and information that state that he is satisfied the Health Products Regulatory Authority operates to the highest...
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      160. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Products Regulatory Authority has been involved in any litigation, directly or indirectly, in respect of Roaccutane since its authorisation in...
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      166. To ask the Minister for Health if salary increments are paid in section 39 agencies. [26774/15]
    • Health Services Funding
      167. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of additional costs being incurred by disability organisations which receive funding from the Health Service Executive; if there is any estimate...
    • Universal Health Insurance
      168. To ask the Minister for Health if media reports of a €3,000 average cost per adult for universal health insurance are correct; if he has received the results of the costing exercise;...
    • Hospital Facilities
      169. To ask the Minister for Health when the new cystic fibrosis ward at Cork University Hospital will open; the reason previous targets for the opening have not been met; and if he will make a...
    • Health Services Staff Training
      170. To ask the Minister for Health the level of financial supports, or otherwise, available to Irish students hoping to undertake postgraduate studies in audiology in Edinburgh in Scotland in...
    • Noise Pollution
      171. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding noise pollution from a hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26788/15]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      172. To ask the Minister for Health if he will appoint the required staff to the cystic fibrosis specialist unit in Cork University Hospital, given that all the facilities provided have been made...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      173. To ask the Minister for Health when will a person (details supplied) in County Mayo, who has been on the surgical waiting list since 8 July 2014, be called for a spinal operation. [26808/15]
    • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
      174. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for assessment and registration of nurses with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland; the longest time it has taken a nurse to...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      178. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 557 of 16 June 2015, his views on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway who is verging on becoming...
    • Hospital Services
      179. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding rheumatology outpatient clinics at Merlin Park in County Galway for the months of July to August 2015; the number of cancellations of...
    • Hospital Consultants Recruitment
      180. To ask the Minister for Health when a rheumatologist will be appointed to Mayo General Hospital on a full-time rather than a rotational basis; if the rheumatologist will have a full back-up...
    • Hospital Facilities
      181. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the new cystic fibrosis ward will open in Cork University Hospital; and his views on the delay in opening the ward. [26817/15]
    • Hospital Staff
      182. To ask the Minister for Health his views that the current staffing crisis being experienced within Listowel Community Hospital in County Kerry poses a real threat to the viability of the...
    • Medical Card Administration
      183. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has, both prior to and since centralisation of medical card administration, assumed responsibility for all operational...
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      184. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make staff available for the €3 million high-observation psychiatric unit at Kerry General Hospital, which was completed in December 2014, as...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      185. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take steps to have a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath admitted to St. James's Hospital under the care of a consultant neurosurgeon for...
    • Medical Card Applications
      186. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a medical card will be provided in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26864/15]
    • Medical Card Reviews
      188. To ask the Minister for Health if and when a renewal of a medical card will take place in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • HSE Correspondence
      189. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take steps to ensure that correspondence (details supplied) which has been furnished to medical personnel will be immediately addressed, that the...
    • Medical Card Administration
      190. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of cases received by the Health Service Executive where a doctor certified that a person should be granted a...
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      191. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the expenses incurred by him from 2011 to date in 2015, including the date, expense type, description and amount; if each...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Ministerial Meetings
      192. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the number of requests for meetings he has received from private, external, non-State funded lobby...
    • Foreign Policy
      193. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the United States of America is still interfering in the affairs of Cuba, despite claims that there are normalised relations; if...
    • Departmental Communications
      194. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if information is regularly updated to advise Irish persons on safety concerns while visiting certain countries; if such information is...
    • Departmental Funding
      195. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has received any request for financial assistance from Galway City Council and from Sligo County Council in respect of...
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      196. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form the expenses incurred by him from 2011 to date in 2015, including the date, expense type, description and...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Skills Development
      197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place to assist the technical and skills training, for example, boning and so on, of operatives in meat factories; if she will...
    • School Transport Appeals
      198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when correspondence will issue in relation to a school transport appeal in respect of a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Student Accommodation
      199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the current crisis facing students in obtaining accommodation in Dublin city, and the need for a long-term solution to be...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the number of requests for meetings she has received from private, external, non-State funded lobby groups;...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Appeals
      201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills notwithstanding her previous replies, if she will review the decision to refuse funding for a playground surface upgrade in the case of a school...
    • School Management
      202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given that an investigation pursuant to section 19 of the Education Act 1998 has been carried out in a school (details supplied) in County...
    • School Transport Applications
      203. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine and expedite a remote area grant in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Kerry for the 2015-16 school year, as all...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason schools have not been informed of their special needs assistant allocation for September 2015 in advance of the school holidays; if...
    • Third Level Institutions
      205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Comptroller and Auditor General has reported on the auditing of the accounts of University College Dublin in recent years; the outcome and...
    • School Staffing
      206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update regarding the merited appeal due to exceptional circumstances and the importance of the retention of a teacher in...
    • Higher Education Schemes
      207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason all class H occupations are excluded from the higher education access route programme, in view of the disparate nature of skill and...
    • Languages Programme
      208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy at primary level and at secondary level education concerning the granting of an exemption from learning Irish to children with autism...
    • Childhood Obesity
      209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding childhood obesity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26832/15]
    • School Transport Provision
      210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure those eligible will have an opportunity to submit applications to avail of the school transport service for a school (details...
    • School Staffing
      211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding secondary school teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26889/15]
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the expenses incurred by her from 2011 to date in 2015, including the date, expense type, description and...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Private Rented Accommodation Standards
      213. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will set up a housing standards test, similar to the national car test model for cars, to combat the extremely high...
    • Redundancy Payments
      214. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding enhanced redundancy for persons (details supplied) in County Mayo following discussions on this...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration
      215. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that persons can transfer from the rental accommodation scheme in one local authority to the scheme in...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Maintenance
      216. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent of progress in making housing voids habitable again in each of the four local authorities in the Dublin area;...
    • Waste Management
      217. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to an application for a waste facility permit, the typical waiting times from when the application is...
    • Waste Management Regulations
      218. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way the waste regulator operates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26681/15]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      219. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the number of requests for meetings he has received from private, external and...
    • Local and Community Development Programme
      220. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the local development companies and local authorities that have tendered an expression of interest in delivery of the...
    • Electoral Reform
      221. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he plans to take to address the fact that many homeless persons are currently unable to vote in any election...
    • Local Authority Funding
      222. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has received any request for financial assistance from Galway City Council and from Sligo County Council...
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      223. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the expenses incurred by him from 2011 to date in 2015, including the date, expense...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Invasive Fish Species
      224. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures being taken to stop the proliferation of dace, an invasive species, in the River Barrow. [26750/15]
    • Ministerial Meetings
      225. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the number of requests for meetings he has received from private, external,...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      226. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the current levels of broadband in Baltinglass, Blessington and Dunlavin in County Wicklow and in...
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      227. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide in tabular form the expenses incurred by him from 2011 to date in 2015, including the date, expense...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Light Rail Projects Expenditure
      228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if cellars running under roads have to be purchased prior to Luas works being commenced. [26682/15]
    • Light Rail Projects
      229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied that the minimum disruption to traffic, pedestrians and businesses is being caused by the ongoing Luas works in Dublin...
    • Rail Network
      230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the continuing encroachment on the closed and disused railway alignment from Athenry in County Galway to Collooney in County...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the number of requests for meetings he has received from private, external, non-State funded lobby...
    • Road Safety
      232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the bridge and the road on which it is in Kildangan, County Kildare, is frequently used by big and small vehicles but...
    • Road Tolls
      233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of revenue generated for the Exchequer through toll plazas in 2013, 2014 and to date in 2015; and if he will make a statement...
    • Dublin Bus Services
      234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of routes that Dublin Bus operates as of 22 June 2015; if he will provide the same as of 22 June on each year from 2012 to...
    • Public Transport Initiatives
      235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that in October 2012 the National Transport Authority published a report, Bus Rapid Transit Core Dublin Network, in which...
    • Road Network
      236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the proposed improvement to the N22 blackspot at Knockaderry Hill, adjacent to the Skahies county road...
    • Road Signage
      237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will arrange to have signage urgently erected on the Wild Atlantic Way at the Kilcummin junction entrance to Cloghane and Brandon...
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      238. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide in tabular form the expenses incurred by him between 2011 and to date in 2015 to include the date, expense type,...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Ministerial Meetings
      239. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide in tabular form the number of requests for meetings she has received from private, external, non-State funded...
    • National Parks Projects
      240. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on a request by a company (details supplied) to operate its business in Wicklow National Park; and if she will make a...
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      241. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide in tabular form the expenses incurred by her from 2011 to date in 2015, including the date, expense type,...