Written answers
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Job Losses
11. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will ensure the necessary support is provided by his Department to the workers at a company (details supplied) in Dublin; and if...
- Action Plan for Jobs
12. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update on the Regional Action Plan for Jobs 2015 for the Border region, which includes Donegal and which is due...
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
13. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the ISDS, or investor-state dispute settlement, as part of the transatlantic trade and investment partnership, through...
- Employment Rights
14. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to introduce legislation to prohibit the practice of trade union representative blacklisting by employers. [28667/15]
- Advisory Group on Small Business Recommendations
15. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he consulted with his Department's Advisory Group on Small Business on the impact of attachment orders on small and...
- Unfair Dismissals
16. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is aware of employers dismissing employees with long service as a cheaper option than giving a severance package; his plans to...
- Enterprise Support Services Expenditure
17. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a breakdown of the State funding his Department has awarded to foreign private companies in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014...
- National Standards Authority of Ireland
18. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is aware of the delays in obtaining approval from the National Standards Authority of Ireland for products produced at a company...
- National Carers Strategy Implementation
19. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his response to the recent family carers' scorecard which claims his Department has yet to engage with the national carers strategy....
- Departmental Reports
20. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason the remit for a study to carry out a report on zero-hour contracts was limited to a consideration of contracts for under...
- Employment Rights
21. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will bring forward legislation to insert a social responsibility clause into the Insolvency Act and the Companies Act, to ensure...
- National Carers Strategy Implementation
22. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress made by his Department in the role assigned to it under the national carers strategy in supporting working carers and...
- Living Wage
23. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has read the report of the Living Wage Technical Group; and whether he proposes to bring forward legislation to deal with this...
- Job Losses
24. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on the current status of the Cadbury-Mondelez jobs; his plans to boost jobs in Dublin Bay North; and if he will make...
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
25. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if at any point in the transatlantic trade and investment partnership negotiation process to date, he has had, or has raised, any...
- Company Closures
26. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his officials and his Department have a policy to open communication with companies and-or organisations in financial difficulty and...
- Economic Competitiveness
27. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he will take following the latest National Competitiveness Council Costs of Doing Business in Ireland 2015 report outlining...
- Employment Rights
28. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to review the effects seasonality has on work practices experienced by seasonal workers in counties such as Donegal, taking...
- Construction Sector Strategy
29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures he is taking to increase employment in the construction sector, following measures outlined by the sector which, if...
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
30. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views regarding the transatlantic trade and investment partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28661/15]
- Job Creation Targets
31. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which his Department has achieved the various targets in respect of job creation in both the manufacturing and services...
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
32. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he and his Department have concerns regarding the effects the transatlantic trade and investment partnership will have on farmers in...
- Enterprise Support Strategy
33. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation how his Department is assisting in progressing the objectives of the National Policy Statement on Entrepreneurship published in 2014;...
- Exports Controls
34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if human rights criteria have been considered when granting export licences for military list products to Israel in the past ten years;...
- Job Creation
35. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 31 of 16 October 2014, the strategies and policies in place to encourage enterprise and...
- Aviation Industry Regulations
36. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation whether he has conducted any research or investigation into employment practices in the aviation sector given the particular importance...
- Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
37. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will converse with both the Minister for Finance and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to address...
- Department of Social Protection
- Pension Provisions
38. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on Labour Court Recommendation 19293 (details supplied) of 22 July 2008; her views that it should be implemented without...
- Carer's Allowance Payments
39. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive arrears of a carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on...
- Family Income Supplement
40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 38 of 8 July 2015, if she will examine the policy, budgetary and operational implications of...
- One-Parent Family Payment Appeals
41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal under the one-parent family payment scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and...
- JobsPlus Scheme
42. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons under 25 years of age who would qualify for the JobsPlus incentive scheme as projected by her Department by...
- Pension Provisions
44. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding the processing and payment of outstanding Waterford Crystal pensions and lump sums to former employees; and...
- Child Benefit Administration
45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding her Department's policy on sending child benefit review forms to those in receipt of child benefit; how...
- Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
47. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will meet with organisations from the Dublin 15 area taking part in community employment schemes to discuss the ending of...
- Carer's Allowance Applications
52. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an application for a carer's allowance will be made for a person (details supplied) in County Longford; the...
- Farm Assist Scheme Payments
53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the amount it would cost to reinstate the payment levels under the farm assist scheme to pre-budget 2012 levels; and if she will...
- Farm Assist Scheme Data
54. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the total number of persons claiming under the farm assist scheme, by county, for each year since 2012; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Benefits Data
57. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of the number of persons in receipt of disability allowance, invalidity pension, family income...
- EU Funding
58. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the projects under the remit of her Department that received European Union funding in 2014 and to date in 2015; the amount of...
- Departmental Staff Redeployment
59. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if the employment of temporary clerical officers, TCOs, in her Department and, in particular, the awarding of long-term contracts...
- Social Welfare Benefits
60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on a matter (details supplied) regarding benefits and supports available from her Department; and if...
- Invalidity Pension Eligibility
62. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if an appropriate social welfare payment is available to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a...
- Invalidity Pension Payments
63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when arrears under the invalidity pension scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will...
- Carer's Allowance Appeals
64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the carer's allowance scheme; and if she will...
- Blind Person's Pension
65. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will support a matter (details supplied) regarding payment rates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29483/15]
- Disability Allowance Applications
66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will examine and expedite an application under the disability allowance scheme by a person (details supplied) in County...
- Labour Activation Measures
67. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will take measures to ensure that persons who were formerly self-employed may gain access to job activation measures on an...
- Unemployment Benefits
68. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views that changes are needed to ensure that former self-employed persons gain access to a greater range of supports from her...
- Unemployment Data
69. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views that persons who were previously self-employed but are now unemployed should be included in the live register figures; if...
- Department of Finance
- Flood Risk Insurance Cover
70. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a query on flooding and insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29429/15]
- Financial Services Ombudsman
71. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of customers at Permanent TSB who were wrongly moved from, or prevented from being on, a tracker mortgage, and who have had their case dealt with by...
- Financial Services Regulation
75. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on additional bank charges applied to bill pay zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29326/15]
- Tax Yield
76. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax recovered by the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2012 to 2014 and in 2015 to date, through a crackdown on tax avoidance schemes and tax...
- NAMA Staff Data
77. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff at a senior level who have left the National Asset Management Agency in each of the past three years, by grade; and if he will make a...
- National Treasury Management Agency Staff
78. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff at a senior level who have left the National Treasury Management Agency in each of the past three years, by grade; and if he will make a...
- Consumer Protection
79. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that the recent consumer protection legislation will regulate credit service providers, but not the special purpose vehicles which handle...
- Banking Sector Staff
80. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding bank employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29426/15]
- Banking Licence Applications
81. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications received for a banking licence in each of the past five years; the results of each application; and in each case if the person was...
- VAT Rate Application
82. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reducing the value added tax rate on telecom utility bills for pensioners. [29482/15]
- Tax Yield
83. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be generated from reducing the entry level adjusted income threshold to €120,000, and the full restriction level to...
- Tax Data
88. To ask the Minister for Finance the total value of share options exercised in 2014, which information would have been declared through the relevant tax on share option procedure, and also...
- Tax Code
91. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount refunded through the dividend withholding tax refund scheme, the real estate investment trust scheme, or on behalf of the certain non-resident...
- Seed Capital Scheme
97. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual cost to the Exchequer of start-up relief for entrepreneurs. [29513/15]
- Exchequer Savings
98. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue generated for the Exchequer through the abolition of the ability of Irish banks to carry historic losses forward, to write down profit, and to...
- Tax Code
99. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be generated for the Exchequer through increasing the capital gains tax rate to 34%, 35%, 36% 37%. 38%, 39%. [29516/15]
- Tax Yield
100. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be generated for the Exchequer through increasing the capital acquisitions tax rate to 34%, 35%, 36% 37%. 38%, 39%. [29517/15]
- Tax Code
103. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be generated through increasing the tax on cigarettes by €0.50. [29520/15]
- Gambling Sector
108. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of gaming licences and the number of gaming machine licences that are currently held; the number of each licence issued in each year, from 2010 to...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Flood Prevention Measures
109. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will indicate any current estimates by the Office of Public Works of the total cost of addressing flood risks in 300 areas of...
- Ministerial Pensions
110. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to introduce a cap on ministerial pensions, for example, until the debt-to-gross-domestic-product ratio reaches 60%; and if he...
- Departmental Offices
111. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total annual expenditure by Departments on the rental of State-occupied properties in Dublin city for the years 2011 to 2014,...
- Pension Provisions
112. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered amending the rate of the public service pension reduction on amounts over €100,000 to ensure that high paid...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Employment Appeals Tribunal
113. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the policy relating to the allocation of cases to the vice-chairpersons of the Employment Appeals Tribunal, together with year-by-year...
- Foreign Direct Investment
114. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he continues to attract new investment from new locations globally; the degree to which this continues to benefit...
- Economic Competitiveness
115. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which his Department continues to monitor the cost-base in the manufacturing and services sectors, with particular...
- Job Creation Data
116. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he continues to be in a position to encourage and facilitate job creation through the aegis of small and medium...
- Economic Competitiveness
118. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which the industrial cost-base here compares favourably with other European Union and non-European Union countries; and...
- Action Plan for Jobs
120. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he expects job creation over the next three years to focus on youth unemployment; and if he will make a statement...
- Foreign Direct Investment
123. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he expects the recently announced reduction in corporation profits tax in the United Kingdom to impact of foreign direct investment...
- Job Creation Data
126. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created in the past four years at manufacturing and service levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Entrepreneurship Plan
127. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures his Department has implemented to encourage entrepreneurial activity; the efforts in the past year; and if he will make a...
- Job Creation Data
128. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide details of jobs created in County Cork by the Industrial Development Agency and Enterprise Ireland supported...
- Action Plan for Jobs
130. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the number of jobs he anticipates the south-west region Action Plan for Jobs 2015 to 2017 will help create; and if he...
- Departmental Agencies Funding
131. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide a breakdown of the State funding that his Department has awarded to foreign private companies and to indigenous...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Beef Data Programme
132. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a payment under the beef data scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
133. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason €201.47 was deducted from a 2014 single farm payment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork....
- Departmental Correspondence
134. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a detailed reply will issue to a letter written by this Deputy on 15 April 2015; the reason for the delay with the reply; the...
- Agriculture Schemes Data
135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 391 of 26 May 2015 when the information will be provided; the reason for the delay in providing...
- Superlevy Fine
137. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is in a position to negotiate for the abolition of the superlevy fine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29315/15]
- Basic Payment Scheme Administration
138. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the national reserve will be as substantial in 2016 as it was in 2015; if those who did not apply in 2015 will be entitled to...
- Greyhound Industry
139. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the law in relation to greyhound breeding regulations, as it previously existed, was fully implemented, given...
- Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
140. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the results of an inspection carried out in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the effect the over-claim has on...
- Aquaculture Licences
141. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to commence section 13 of the Fisheries Acts that allows him to put time limits on the time given to make decisions under...
- Fisheries Protection
143. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a limit to the number of lobster pots any one person may have in order to ensure the sustainability of the...
- Beef Data Programme
145. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the next payment of the beef genomics programme will issue to farmers. [29465/15]
- Retail Sector
146. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider legislation, similar to that recently passed in France, which would make supermarkets give unsold produce to the...
- Single Payment Scheme Appeals
147. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will issue on an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Cork under the 2013-2014 single payment scheme, and...
- Beef Data Programme
148. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extent to which his Department consulted with and deferred to the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation Society Limited in the design...
- Department of Defence
- Vaccination Programme
156. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 8 July 2015 if he will explain his statement that the use of anti-malaria medication, including Lariam, is in...
- Naval Service Operations
157. To ask the Minister for Defence if he is aware that the Permanent Defence Forces Other Ranks’ Representative Association, PDFORRA, has stated that the crew of the LE Eithne are not...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Naturalisation Applications
158. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in offering long-term residency to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if provision will be made for the...
- Garda Deployment
159. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the figures by Garda Síochána district for Garda numbers and Garda car numbers in the districts covering Counties...
- Medical Treatment Complaints
160. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the redress available for survivors of a home (details supplied) in County Dublin who were subjected to vaccine trials; and if she will make a...
- Visa Applications
161. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision on a de facto visa application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway will be made; and if she will make a...
- Child and Family Agency Remit
162. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the guardianship of infants section of the Child and Family Relationships Bill will be enacted; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Visa Applications
163. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of student visas issued in the Irish Embassy in Beijing in China for students on co-operative...
- Road Traffic Offences
166. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 8 July 2015, where 15,824 offences of holding a mobile phone came before the courts and convictions...
- Courts Service Data
167. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 8 July 2015, where 15,824 offences of holding a mobile phone came before the courts and convictions...
- Penalty Points System Data
168. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 438 and 439 of 16 June 2015, regarding the payment of fixed-charge penalty point notices, if the...
- Driver Licence Data
169. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 357 of 23 June 2015, if this information has now been collated and if it will be forwarded to this Deputy's...
- Prison Staff
170. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when an appeal by a prison officer (details supplied) at Portlaoise prison in County Laois against the findings of an oral hearing in October...
- Prison Investigations
171. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a report regarding Portlaoise prison in County Laois carried out by a then assistant principal officer (details supplied) will be published....
- Garda Deployment
172. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the number of Garda Síochána will be increased at Coolock, Clontarf, Santry, Raheny and Howth in County Dublin following new...
- Legislative Measures
173. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the mediation Bill, as it provides substantial savings for the State and the Courts Service; and if she will...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
174. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the names of the barristers appointed to assist the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, together with details of the...
- Child Care Services Funding
175. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the difficulties being experienced by child care providers arising from the policy of Pobal in insisting that funding for...
- Local Authority Funding
176. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding that has been provided to Cork City Council in respect of the national play day, since 2011; the number of...
- Departmental Strategies
178. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the implementation of the national decision-making strategy; the measures that will be taken in assisting secondary school...
- Legislative Process
179. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the section of the Child and Family Relationships Bill 2015 dealing with adoption by step parents will be enacted; and if he will make...
- Early Childhood Care Education
180. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost to increase the capitation fee from €62.50 per child to €64.50 for 38 weeks and 52 weeks. respectively....
- After-School Support Services
183. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children currently availing of the free after-school child care scheme. [29448/15]
- Department of Health
- Mental Health Services
186. To ask the Minister for Health the names of the solicitors and barristers currently appointed as chairpersons of mental health tribunals, together with year-by-year details of the earnings...
- Hospital Services
187. To ask the Minister for Health the options available to a person (details supplied) who requires medical treatment; the hospitals which and the consultants who offer such treatment; and the...
- Health Services Staff
188. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to amend the Medical Practitioners Acts 2007 to 2011 to allow non-national doctors to access specialist training, as failure to do so is likely to...
- Hospital Food
189. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made in offering a wider variety of healthier foods on menus in hospitals following his meeting with hospital chiefs in 2014; and if he will make...
- General Practitioner Contracts
190. To ask the Minister for Health if he will negotiate with a representative body, the National Association of General Practitioners, on future general practitioner contracts; and if he will...
- Hospital Services
192. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment for a magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, scan at Cork University Hospital for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and...
- Nursing Education
193. To ask the Minister for Health when a full reply will issue to a letter written by this Deputy on 5 May 2015 on behalf of a person (details supplied); the reason no full reply issued in this...
- National Lottery Funding Application Numbers
194. To ask the Minister for Health when a detailed reply will issue to a letter written by this Deputy of 18 May 2015 (details supplied) to which two acknowledgements issued dated 25 May 2015...
- Bereavement Counselling Services
195. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider developing a national policy to provide parents and families access to appropriate, professional and qualified support when the death of a...
- Health Services Funding
196. To ask the Minister for Health if he has submitted a request to the Department of Finance and to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for a supplementary budget for his Department...
- Vaccination Programme
197. To ask the Minister for Health if there are details on the 873 girls who have been affected by the vaccine against the Human Papilloma Virus; his plans to check and evaluate the effects on...
- Health Services Provision
198. To ask the Minister for Health the monetary extent of the cuts to community nurses between 2013 and 2015; and the impact they have had on service provision, in particular home call outs to...
- Vaccination Programme
199. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a situation where the Health Service Executive had no supplies of the BCG tuberculosis vaccine; if he has sought a report on this from the...
- Disability Services Funding
201. To ask the Minister for Health if more funding will be provided to the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29367/15]
- Medical Card Applications
202. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo has not yet received a decision on an application for a medical card; when a decision will be made; and...
- Health Services
205. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who has been referred to the United Kingdom for mitrofanoff surgery in 2013 has still not had the...
- Accident and Emergency Departments
206. To ask the Minister for Health if he will visit the accident and emergency department of Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9 to meet front-line staff and to discuss with them the major increase in...
- Health Services Staff Data
207. To ask the Minister for Health the number of addiction counsellors who are employed by the Health Service Executive drug treatment service for each year between 2011 and 2014 and for 2015 to...
- HSE Staff Remuneration
208. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Health Service Executive management staff earning from €100,000 to €150,000; from €150,001 to €200,000; from...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme
209. To ask the Minister for Health if better terms under the fair deal scheme will be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; if the matter will be reviewed at an early date;...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
210. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding St. Michael's House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29427/15]
- Accident and Emergency Departments
211. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding accident and emergency departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29428/15]
- Long-Term Illness Scheme
212. To ask the Minister for Health the policy regarding the provision for specially adapted shoes or orthopaedic shoes under the long-term illness scheme; the entitlement for same per year; the...
- Hospital Appointment Status
213. To ask the Minister for Health if a hospital appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29439/15]
- Services for People with Disabilities
214. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of adult residential services units available for persons with intellectual disabilities by county since 2008;...
- Hospital Staff Recruitment
215. To ask the Minister for Health the proposals to increase staffing resources in a hospital (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29468/15]
- Health Services Staff
216. To ask the Minister for Health the proposals to have a person return to employment in the Health Service Executive (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Appointment Status
217. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Cork will be provided with a hospital appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29481/15]
- Alcohol Treatment Services
218. To ask the Minister for Health if a treatment facility (details supplied) in Dublin 7, which has been temporarily closed, will re-open in August 2015, as previously stated by the Health...
- Medicinal Products Prices
219. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year saving if the State was to set the ex-factory price of new pharmaceuticals based on the lowest, as opposed to the average, price in the...
- Medicinal Products Expenditure
223. To ask the Minister for Health the overall yearly spend on pharmaceuticals, in comparison to other European countries, on a per capita basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- HSE Budget
226. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated year-end deficit of the Health Service Executive in 2015; the breakdown of the overspend by the executive in each month in 2015 to date; and in...
- Health Services Staff Recruitment
227. To ask the Minister for Health the graduation numbers and the newly qualified entrants to speech and language therapy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and clinical psychology; and if he...
- Nursing Staff Remuneration
229. To ask the Minister for Health the full-year cost to the State of employing ten hospital nurses and ten community health nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29536/15]
- HSE Expenditure
230. To ask the Minister for Health the full-year cost to the State of employing ten primary care social workers, ten primary care counsellors, ten dieticians and ten podiatrists; and if he will...
- Hospital Beds Data
231. To ask the Minister for Health the average cost to the State of providing an acute hospital bed per night in each of the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29538/15]
- Nursing Home Services
235. To ask the Minister for Health if he will advise on the average cost per bed in nursing homes; the overall number of beds, both private and public; how this compares internationally; and if...
- Mental Health Services Report
236. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to replace A Vision for Change policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29543/15]
- Psychological Services
237. To ask the Minister for Health the number of practising clinical psychologists and the waiting lists for their services; his plans to increase the number; and if he will make a statement on...
- Mental Health Services Report
238. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of filling the remaining outstanding posts as recognised in A Vision for Change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29545/15]
- HSE Expenditure
239. To ask the Minister for Health if he has instigated any analysis of the costs of ending all admissions of children to adult wards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29546/15]
- Primary Care Services Provision
240. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the roll-out of primary care centres and primary care teams in each of the past five years; the number of teams and centres there were at the...
- Hospital Consultants Remuneration
241. To ask the Minister for Health the average pay of consultants, per consultant, in the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29548/15]
- Drugs Payment Scheme Threshold
242. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the numbers who have reached the maximum of €144 under the drugs payment scheme in the past four years; and if he will make a statement on...
- Nursing Staff Remuneration
244. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the details of average pay received by nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29551/15]
- HIQA Expenditure
245. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the details of the yearly cost of the Health Information and Quality Authority; the numbers employed by same; his plans to increase the numbers and...
- Health Promotion
246. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the details of the yearly spend on health promotion programmes and Healthy Ireland for the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Primary Care Services Provision
247. To ask the Minister for Health to set out details of the yearly spend on medications by the State in hospitals, in pharmacy settings, on branded and non-branded medications and on...
- HSE Staff Remuneration
248. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the details of the pay profile of non-clinical staff in the Health Service Executive; the number receiving over €100,000, over...
- Hospital Services
249. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the details of the total public funding for hospitals by size status; whether the hospital is under full public control or under the control of a...
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Applications
250. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the details of the average fair deal scheme waiting time at present; the numbers on the list; if any updated plan for its continued financing has...
- Cross-Border Health Initiatives
251. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the details of the various health initiatives that are being supported on an all-island basis; the yearly spend on same in the past four years; his...
- Health Services Provision
252. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the details of the plan for deep brain stimulation treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29560/15]
- Hospital Consultants Contract
253. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the number of consultants with Contract Types A, B, B*, and C, for each year since 2009; and the numbers of...
- Hospital Consultants Recruitment
254. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown, by Contract Type offered, that is A, B, B*, and C, of all the consultant posts that are currently open for recruitment. [29562/15]
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Services
255. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if post offices and their staff have been formally briefed on the recent changes in certain protocols for documentation required for...
- Passport Applications
256. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there is a need to have a payment details section on an Irish passport application form, when the payment for a passport is made at a...
- Consular Services Provision
257. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts he has made in relation to a person (details supplied) who is facing a 12-year prison sentence in the Philippines, without a...
- Coimhlintí Eachtracha
258. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade an bhfuil cás Ghasá tógtha aige sna Náisiúin Aontaithe agus san AE; cén toradh a bhí ar a...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Skills Development
259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which it is expected that the skills available through those on the live register may be matched to the skill requirements of the...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will re-evaluate the Special Needs Assistant allocation that has been provided to a school (details supplied) in County Cork, as part of...
- Schools Building Projects Status
261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on plans for a new school at Harcourt Terrace in Dublin 2; the size of the school that will be located there; when...
- Education and Training Boards Staff
265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names and the organisation and-or sector they represent of the five persons appointed to each Education and Training Board, under Section 30...
- Minor Works Scheme Eligibility
266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a minor works grant will be paid to primary schools in autumn 2014; if specific funding has been allocated for the grant in the Department's...
- School Transport Applications
267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a detailed reply will issue to a letter from this Deputy (details supplied) sent some considerable time ago; the time frame within which she...
- Action Plan on Bullying
268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have published their anti-bullying policy to the board of management, in accordance with the action plan on bullying;...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the request for extra special needs assistants she and her Department have received from a special school (details supplied)...
- Special Educational Needs Staffing
272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of requests for the allocation of special needs assistant that were denied, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Schools Amalgamation
273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school amalgamation (details supplied) in County Kerry; if the matter will be progressed as a matter of urgency; and if...
- Student Support Schemes
274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of reducing the student contribution fee by €250; and by €500. [29347/15]
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of amending the criteria for the Student Universal Support Ireland grant scheme to ensure students living further than 30 km...
- Student Universal Support Ireland Administration
276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications under the Student Universal Support Ireland grant scheme that have been awarded but not paid for in this and in...
- Student Grant Scheme Reviews
277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the individuals who participate in reviews of the Student Universal Support Ireland grant scheme guidelines each year; the organisations,...
- School Transport Expenditure
278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of reducing the parental contribution to the school transport scheme to €75 and to €50 for primary schoolchildren; and to...
- School Transport Provision
279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason school transport buses in County Kerry are not due back until 31 August 2015, given that the schools in the area will return on 27...
- Third Level Charges
280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding college fees for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29366/15]
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review the Student Universal Support Ireland grant scheme for those persons over 23 years of age, who are living in their parents'...
- School Transport Applications
282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the application for free secondary school transport to a school in County Kerry, in respect of a child (details supplied) in...
- School Accommodation
283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, by county, the number of temporary accommodation and prefabricated-type classroom structures purchased and...
- School Transport Applications
284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the position of school transport in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement...
- Special Educational Needs Service Provision
285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the NCSE policy on the provision of special needs assistants at preschool level; the number of assistants provided to children at this level...
- National Educational Psychological Service Staff
287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average salary of a National Educational Psychological Service psychologist; the number of such psychologists currently employed; their rates...
- Educational Projects
289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the consideration that has been given to the provision of assistance to the Greater Chernobyl Cause (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Recycling Policy
290. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a recycling scheme for gas appliances, similar to the Waste Electrical or Electronic Equipment...
- Waste Management
291. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to tackle the issue of food waste, particularly in view of the current negotiations...
- Urban Renewal Schemes
292. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated revenue, calculated by his Department, from a 3% vacant site levy, in accordance with the Urban Regeneration...
- Building Regulations
293. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will publish the new building regulations. [30357/15]
- Local Authority Services
294. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the upcoming Local Authority Service Indicators Report will be published. [29237/15]
- Pyrite Issues
295. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a redress board to deal with new and other anticipated claims in respect of Pyrite-damaged homes in...
- Local and Community Development Programme
296. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the development of Local Economic and Community Plans by local authorities; and if he will...
- Property Tax Data
297. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details on all local authorities in respect of Section 20 of the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012;...
- Youth Employment Initiative
298. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the Youth Employment Initiative under the Social Inclusion and Community Activation...
- Housing Regeneration
299. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding provided to Dublin City Council for the refurbishment of empty social housing units, known as voids, in each...
- Housing Provision
300. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the plans of the National Association of Building Co-Operatives to develop social housing...
- Social and Affordable Housing Provision
301. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to build new social housing in the Dublin 2, 4, 6, and 8 areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Septic Tank Inspections
303. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the sanctions that are imposed on local authorities which failed to meet the national inspection plan's target of 1,000...
- Waste Management
305. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the plans for a waste-to-energy plant in Gortnadroma in County Limerick; if he is aware of the concerns of...
- Social and Affordable Housing Maintenance
306. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has reviewed the case of the Parknasillogue social housing development in Enniskerry in County Wicklow,...
- Tree Remediation
307. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department will investigate the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 and the location of a dangerously...
- Irish Water Remit
308. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation to clarify the responsibility of Irish Water with regard to local water pipelines, and...
- Local Authority Housing Data
309. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the current list of vacant local authority properties in the four Dublin local authority areas and in...
- NAMA Properties
310. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current list of vacant National Asset Management Agency properties in the four Dublin local authority areas and in...
- Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
311. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce the promised tenant purchase programme; if the conditions of that programme have been agreed; and...
- Planning Issues
312. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if any guidelines to local authorities are in place regarding the taking in charge of roads and public utility...
- Local Government Reform
314. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details of financial savings achieved in each of the 31 local authorities in the first year after the...
- Planning Issues
315. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will amend legislation to allow persons to extend planning permissions for a second term; and if he will make a...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Television Licence Fee Yield
316. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the net amount of subsidies provided by the State for funding to Raidió Teilifís Éireann. [29503/15]
- Postal Codes
317. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the nine requirements of a postcode from his Department's own postcode working group were not incorporated...
- National Broadband Plan Implementation
318. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the budget that has been proposed to implement the intervention strategy as part of the national broadband plan. [29270/15]
- State Bodies Mergers
319. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of megawatts of energy that has been created due to the Bord na Móna - Coillte merger. [29271/15]
- National Broadband Plan Implementation
321. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to include a clause in contracts for commercial entities providing broadband roll-out services, which states...
- Seirbhísí trí Ghaeilge
323. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources cad iad na céimeanna atá i gceist aige a ghlacadh chun a chinntiú go n-oibreoidh an córas Eircód...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Road Improvement Schemes
324. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department's plans to re-surface the stretch of the Vevay Road in Bray in County Wicklow, beginning at Kate's Corner and ending at...
- National Car Test
325. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views that a postal notification for a national car test renewal (details supplied) would increase the number of motorists with...
- Public Transport
326. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Dublin Bus has any official or unofficial policy of asking apparently older customers to avoid taking seats on the upper decks of...
- Road Improvement Schemes
327. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding for a project (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29355/15]
- Public Transport
328. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Sherzer bridge at the North Wall Quay in Dublin 1 will be next opened by Córas Iompair Éireann; the cost of opening...
- Road Projects
329. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position of a road project (details supplied) in County Donegal; if he will ensure that funding is allocated to this project...
- Road Traffic Offences
330. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is an offence for a driver not to produce a driving licence when disqualified in court, in the same way that it is an offence to...
- EU Funding
331. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the projects under the remit of his Department that received European Union funding in 2014 and to date in 2015; the amount of European...
- Rail Services
332. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will investigate the poor service provided by Irish Rail to commuters on the Sligo to Dublin line (details supplied). [29430/15]
- Road Safety Authority
333. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the yearly cost of the Road Safety Authority; the numbers employed by same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29552/15]
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme
334. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of persons affected by the cessation of turf cutting and who have applied for compensation in the Carrickynaghtan Bog...
- Ministerial Correspondence
335. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a detailed reply will issue in relation to correspondence sent by this Deputy some considerable time ago in respect of persons...
- Irish Language
336. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures being taken to encourage increased enrolment in Irish colleges and the learning of Irish, with reference to the 20-Year...
