Written answers

Thursday, 16 July 2015

  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      11. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which he has engaged directly with the various local authorities with a view to identifying the extent to...
    • Homeless Accommodation Funding
      12. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will increase funding to the Dublin regional homeless services in view of a report by Dublin City Council citing a...
    • Property Tax Exemptions
      13. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has had any discussions with the Department of Finance over the past 12 months in order to enable home owners with...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      14. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of local authority houses to be completed in 2015. [28989/15]
    • Housing Assistance Payments Implementation
      15. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has analysed the data on the pilot operation of the housing assistance payment scheme, with a view to...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      16. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the provision of new social housing in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Property Tax Exemptions
      17. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on his Department's investigations into homes affected by mica in County Donegal; if he...
    • Water Charges Administration
      18. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on any planned information plans by his Department related to tenants living in rented accommodation and...
    • Water Charges Yield
      19. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the knowledge his Department has on the compliance rates for Irish Water bill payment; if his Department is concerned about...
    • Leader Programmes Administration
      20. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress made to date with the roll-out of the Leader programme for 2014 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Electoral Reform
      21. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to extend postal voting rights to persons who are due to be abroad on holidays on polling day; and if he will...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      22. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details on the level of progress being made on social housing provision targets for 2015; the number of...
    • Local Authority Housing Maintenance
      23. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will require local authorities, when undertaking planned maintenance and energy efficiency measures in council...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
      24. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will raise the income limits for applicants to qualify to get onto the social housing lists, particularly in County...
    • Electoral Commission Administration
      25. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on further proposed changes to the constituency boundaries between counties Carlow and Laois; if he will provide...
    • Animal Welfare
      26. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the management of dog pounds going out to tender for the first time, the steps he will take to ensure the...
    • Fire Stations Provision
      27. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the priority his Department has provided to the provision of a new fire station in Crossmolina in County Mayo, which is the...
    • Building Regulations
      28. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the revised building regulations, including lists of prescribed persons permitted to sign off and certify housing...
    • Homeless Accommodation Provision
      29. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the information supplied to him regarding the steady rise in the number of homeless persons in the Dublin...
    • Homeless Accommodation Funding
      30. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will explain the recent announcement of funding of €37 million for homeless services in Dublin, when the...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      31. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the new guidelines on wind farms will be published; and if they are likely to contain minimum set-back distances from...
    • Water Charges Administration
      32. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on any discussions held with tenants rights organisations in relation to the Environment (Miscellaneous...
    • Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls
      33. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to tackle unaffordable rents in the private housing market. [29005/15]
    • Irish Water Remit
      34. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to transfer responsibility for maintenance and upkeep of private sewers and lateral drains to Irish Water; and if...
    • Septic Tank Inspections
      35. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there are measures in place to assist a septic tank owner who suspects a problem with the functioning of a tank, which...
    • Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls
      36. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline Government plans to deal with high rents in the private rental sector; and when he will publish these...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      37. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason there has been a delay in publishing the revised wind energy guidelines; if he will confirm the date when they...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      38. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of meetings he has had with the Association of Local Government in Ireland and the Local Authority Members...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      39. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to fund Traveller-specific accommodation in each of the years 2015 to 2020; and if he will provide details of the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      41. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of units of social housing he expects to have available for immediate occupation in the third and fourth quarter...
    • Wastewater Treatment
      42. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will commit to extending the eligibility for the domestic wastewater treatment systems grants to include septic tanks...
    • Homeless Accommodation Funding
      43. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will address concerns regarding the projected shortfall of €18.5 million in the funding allocation from his...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      44. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update regarding the homelessness crisis and the Government plans to tackle the issue; and if he will...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      45. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the current expected shortfall in the housing and homelessness budgets for Dublin City Council; his plans...
    • Building Regulations
      47. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to address the issue of homes in County Donegal which are affected by mica; if he will adopt a similar approach...
    • Unfinished Housing Developments Data
      48. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of ghost or vacant housing estates that have been acquired by his Department and-or by local authorities and...
  • Department of Social Protection
    • School Meals Programme
      49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the amount of funding under the school meals programme that will be paid to a school (details supplied) in County Laois for the...
    • Social Insurance Data
      50. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the total yield from employer pay related social insurance in each year from 2010 to 2014; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Insurance Yield
      51. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the total yield from employee pay related social insurance in each year from 2010 to 2014; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Priorities
      52. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her Department's priorities for the remainder of this Dáil; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29591/15]
    • Fuel Allowance Expenditure
      53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if the Government will commit to protecting and maintaining the current fuel subsidy rates in the upcoming budget for 2016; and if...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      54. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will receive a back payment under the disability allowance scheme; and if she...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Data
      55. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the annual cost of payments in County Meath between 2011 and 2015 under the rent allowance and...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility
      57. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on extending eligibility for the domiciliary care allowance to persons aged under 18 years of age. [29700/15]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Data
      60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who receive domiciliary care allowance who are not eligible for disability allowance on reaching 16 years of...
    • Fuel Allowance Eligibility
      61. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason an application for a fuel allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Cork was refused; and if she will make a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Data
      63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost of restoring the Christmas bonus to 50%, 75% and in full; the number of persons who would benefit if it was re-instated on...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Expenditure
      66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost in 2015 of not proceeding with the reduction of the income disregard under the one-parent family payment scheme; and if...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      67. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost of extending the household benefits package to recipients of carer's benefit; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure
      68. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost of restoring the telephone allowance to 2013 levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29781/15]
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      70. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when payment following a successful appeal under the disability allowance scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      71. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will revise the requirement that school leavers must have left school for three months before they are eligible under the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied). [29863/15]
    • Maternity Benefit
      75. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the measures in place to ensure that new mothers who do not qualify for maternity benefit are not forced to go back to work before...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      76. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied). [29966/15]
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      79. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when rent support will be approved for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6W; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility
      80. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if and when a domiciliary care allowance will be awarded to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      81. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if an increase in rent allowance is payable to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare whose rent has increased to...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      82. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if rent support in respect of €900 per month rent, might be offered to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Appeals
      83. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if and when a relevant payment under the one-parent family payment scheme may be restored to a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      84. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the correct amount of jobseeker's allowance, family income supplement or alternative payable to persons (details supplied) in...
    • Child Benefit Data
      85. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number and percentage of claims under the child benefit scheme that are reviewed yearly; if the claims for review are selected...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Applications
      86. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who wishes to avail of the back to work enterprise...
    • Social Welfare Fraud Data
      87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of fraudulent payment claims identified in each of the past four years; the...
    • Postal Services
      88. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the interactions her Department has had with representatives from the Irish Postmasters Union; and its plans to continue to engage...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      89. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form for 2013 and 2014 and for 2015 to date, the number of persons to whom her Department provided...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the total cost of public advertising, statutory and non-statutory, funded by her Department in 2013 and in 2014; the corresponding...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      91. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost in 2013 and in 2014 of printing reports by her Department and agencies under the control of her Department; the...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      94. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite a review under the carer's allowance scheme in respect of a person (details supplied). [30095/15]
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      95. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [30096/15]
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      97. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application under the domiciliary care allowance scheme by a person (details supplied). [30098/15]
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal under the carer's allowance scheme by a person (details supplied). [30099/15]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      99. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she is responsible for all board appointments where such power to appoint persons to State boards is vested in her by statute;...
    • Departmental Funding
      100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the total current and capital funding allocated to her Department; the underspend or overspend under each category in 2015 to date...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      101. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if her Department or agencies under the authority of her Department have performed an assessment of the potential savings to be...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      102. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [30150/15]
    • Child Benefit Administration
      103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 has received yet another review of a child benefit claim following just days...
    • Departmental Reports
      105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when her Department's annual report for 2014 will be published. [30219/15]
    • Water Conservation Grant
      106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason those on social welfare and low incomes were due to receive water support payments when water charges were introduced,...
    • Postal Services
      108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection given her instruction to her officials to ensure that a neutral wording in respect of payment options is provided on her...
    • Social Welfare Code
      109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to allow self-employed persons pay extra voluntary contributions in order that they will be allowed access to social...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility
      110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason a number of seasonal workers in fish factories in the Killybegs area of County Donegal who also have small incomes from...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      116. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a social welfare appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; when this appeal will be dealt with;...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding an appeal under the carer's allowance scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; when a...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      118. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, in tabular form for 2013 and 2014 and for 2015 to date, the number of persons regarding whom her Department...
    • National Internship Scheme Data
      119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of participants employed on the JobBridge scheme for child care provision placements. [30382/15]
    • JobsPlus Scheme
      121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she is aware that jobseekers engaging in return to work interviews have been obligated to hand in advice to employers of a...
  • Department of Finance
    • VAT Rate Application
      122. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason there is value added tax on the environmental tax on gas bills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29717/15]
    • Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments
      123. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of lending undertaken by the National Pensions Reserve Fund small and medium-sized enterprises credit fund to date; the number of projects...
    • Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Management
      125. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of investment undertaken by the National Pensions Reserve Fund turnaround fund to date; the number of projects involved; the number of jobs...
    • Employment Investment Incentive Scheme
      126. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update in relation to the provision of approval from the European Commission in relation to the extension of the employment and...
    • Tax Code
      127. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reduce carbon tax on Bord Na Móna products to ensure future sustainability. [30191/15]
    • Departmental Strategy Statements
      128. To ask the Minister for Finance his Department's priorities for the remainder of this Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29585/15]
    • Insurance Compensation Fund
      129. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the payment of claims due by Setanta Insurance; the level of payments that are expected to be made; the approximate time frame for this...
    • Tax Data
      130. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, from the records of the Revenue Commissioners, for each of the years 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010 to 2013, the number of income...
    • Tax Yield
      131. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue to the Exchequer from applying caps of €800,000; €900,000; and €1 million, to principal private residence capital gains tax...
    • Tax Data
      132. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, for 2013 and 2014 and for 2015 to date the number of persons concerning whom the Revenue Commissioners provided data to...
    • EU-IMF Programme of Support
      133. To ask the Minister for Finance the average interest rate applying to each source of funds under the European Union-International Monetary Fund Programme of Assistance for Ireland; and if he...
    • Tax Data
      134. To ask the Minister for Finance the proportion of income earners exempt from income tax in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29727/15]
    • Tax Yield
      135. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue that would be raised by reducing the annual earnings limit, along with age-related percentage limits for maximum tax relievable contributions for...
    • Tax Reliefs Cost
      136. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimate of the annual cost for 2015 of each tax expenditure on the Statute Book; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29731/15]
    • Corporate Tax Compliance
      137. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of tax paid by companies operating in the International Financial Services Centre in Dublin, in 2013 and in 2014; and if he will make a statement...
    • General Government Debt
      138. To ask the Minister for Finance the change in the general Government debt from December 2007 to December 2014; how this is broken down between the building up of cash balances, paying for...
    • Tax Reliefs Data
      139. To ask the Minister for Finance the approximate number of litres of agricultural diesel, which qualified for tax relief, sold in each of the past three years; the approximate number of...
    • State Debt
      140. To ask the Minister for Finance his estimate of the current structural deficit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29736/15]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      141. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the reports completed by McCann Fitzgerald and Ernst and Young into certain corporate governance matters at the former Irish Nationwide Building...
    • Credit Unions
      142. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied with the manner in which the acquisition of a credit union (details supplied) by Permanent TSB has proceeded; if he expects an additional...
    • National Treasury Management Agency
      143. To ask the Minister for Finance the overall amount of money managed by the National Treasury Management Agency through the various State savings products; if he will provide a breakdown of...
    • Tax Compliance
      144. To ask the Minister for Finance the general Revenue compliance initiatives that are under way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29741/15]
    • NAMA Debtors
      145. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of asset transfers to family members by debtors of the National Asset Management Agency that have been reversed; the total value involved; and if...
    • NAMA Property Rental
      147. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of rent reductions that have been approved by the National Asset Management Agency; the number of applications outstanding at present; and if he...
    • Government Bonds
      148. To ask the Minister for Finance the take-up to date of sovereign annuity bonds by the pension industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29745/15]
    • National Pensions Reserve Fund Investments
      149. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the discretionary portfolio, including cash balances, held by the National Pensions Reserve Fund; when he expects the portfolio to be liquidated;...
    • State Claims Agency
      150. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the operation of the State Claims Agency, its success in limiting costs arising from personal injury and property damage claims against the...
    • IMF Loan Issues
      151. To ask the Minister for Finance the funding commitment to the International Monetary Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29748/15]
    • Budget Statement
      152. To ask the Minister for Finance the process, and estimated timeline, for each of the stages involved in the preparation of budget 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29749/15]
    • NAMA Transactions
      154. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of vendor finance that has been provided by the National Asset Management Agency in 2015 to date; the number of projects financed; the number of...
    • Tax Reliefs Data
      155. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of persons or mortgage accounts in receipt of tax relief at source, in each year from 2010 to 2014 and in 2015...
    • Tax Data
      156. To ask the Minister for Finance the taxation provisions in legislation that are due to expire at the end of 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29764/15]
    • Revenue Commissioners Audits
      157. To ask the Minister for Finance the up-to-date position for 2014 in relation to the Revenue Commissioner audits of self-employed contractors; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Banks Recapitalisation
      158. To ask the Minister for Finance if Ireland has prepared an application to the European Stability Mechanism for retrospective recapitalisation of the banks; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Yield
      163. To ask the Minister for Finance the yield that would be raised by increasing the price of cigarettes by €0.25; and by €0.50, and by these amounts across other tobaccos...
    • VAT Payments
      164. To ask the Minister for Finance if he expects to achieve the €100 million in Value Added Tax from changes to how it is applied for cross-border European Union telecommunications...
    • Tax Data
      165. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of interest paying accounts on which deposit interest retention tax was paid in each year from 2011 to 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Yield
      167. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount raised to date from the Bank Levy introduced in Budget 2014; the number of institutions to which the Levy was applied; and if he will make a...
    • Public Interest Directors
      170. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to appoint an additional Public Interest Director to the Board of the Bank of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29792/15]
    • Banking Sector Staff
      171. To ask the Minister for Finance when a new chief executive of Allied Irish Banks will be appointed; the steps that have been taken in this process, in 2015 to date; and if he will make a...
    • Bank Guarantee Scheme Administration
      172. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated funds covered by the eligible liabilities guarantee; the rate at which this will decline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29796/15]
    • Property Tax
      175. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of refunds that have been completed for second-hand home buyers who were incorrectly charged the local property tax in 2013; when the process will...
    • Universal Social Charge Payments
      176. To ask the Minister for Finance if the additional 3% universal social charge paid by self-employed persons earning over €100,000 expires at the end of 2015; if the budgetary...
    • Insurance Compensation Fund
      177. To ask the Minister for Finance the current balance in the Insurance Compensation Fund, his views that it is adequate to meet all possible claims on it; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tax Rebates
      178. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of hauliers availing of the rebate scheme for auto diesel; the total amount of the rebate in 2013 and 2014; his plans to streamline the process;...
    • Deposit Guarantee Scheme
      179. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of deposits covered by the deposit guarantee scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29809/15]
    • Seed Capital Scheme
      180. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax expenditure, and the number of participants and jobs supported under the employment and investment incentive and seed capital scheme, in each year...
    • Small and Medium Enterprises Debt
      181. To ask the Minister for Finance the latest information he has available as to the amount of small and medium enterprise debt outstanding; the amount which is in arrears; the amount...
    • Ireland Strategic Investment Fund Investments
      182. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of projects in which the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund has invested; the number of new jobs created as a result of these projects; and if he...
    • Tax Residency
      183. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Irish incorporated companies that are not judged to be resident here under the test of management and control, and which have advised the...
    • Mortgage Arrears Rate
      184. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential mortgage holders in the Irish market classified as non-co-operating, under the Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears; and if he will...
    • Mortgage Data
      185. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential mortgages held by Irish banks that have been securitised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29815/15]
    • Tax Reliefs Data
      186. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of customers for whom tax relief on their private medical insurance is capped; the percentage this is of all customers claiming tax relief on...
    • Tax Yield
      187. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of capital acquisitions tax paid in each year from 2010 to 2014, inclusive, in respect of farm buildings and farm land; and if he will make a...
    • Pension Provisions
      188. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reverse the 4% cap on withdrawal from approved medium retirement funds in circumstances such as a case (details supplied). [29841/15]
    • Tax Code
      189. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the handling by the Revenue Commissioners of super levy fines imposed on farmers in 2015; if these fines can be set-off against...
    • Credit Unions Regulation
      192. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the limit that one can save with a credit union; his plans to review this limit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29953/15]
    • Financial Services Regulation
      193. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the Central Bank of Ireland's new lending limits on financial institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29954/15]
    • Tax Code
      194. To ask the Minister for Finance if refund of income tax is payable in respect of rent paid in the past three years, in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      195. To ask the Minister for Finance the total cost of public advertising, statutory and non-statutory, funded by his Department in 2013 and 2014; the corresponding figure for agencies under the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      196. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost in 2013 and 2014 of printing reports by his Department and agencies under the control of his Department; the corresponding figure for annual reports;...
    • Ministerial Travel
      198. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline and itemise all expenditure undertaken by his Department, on private travel for him and-or for his private office; on legal fees; on...
    • Legislative Measures
      200. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider deferring the commencement of the remaining sections of the Credit Union and Co-operation with Overseas Regulators Act 2012 until such...
    • Credit Unions Regulation
      201. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the establishment of an independent regulator for the credit union sector, that is free to fulfil the legal mandate to ensure the...
    • NAMA Debtors
      202. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has a policy in relation to National Asset Management Agency debtors selling property on behalf of the agency, receiving or asking for...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      203. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is responsible for all board appointments where such power to appoint persons to State boards is vested in him by statute; if any politically-appointed...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      204. To ask the Minister for Finance the total current and capital funding allocated to his Department; the underspend or overspend to date in 2015 under each category, based on his Department's...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      205. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department or agencies under the authority of his Department have performed an assessment of the potential savings to be accrued if current paper-based...
    • Tax Reliefs Application
      207. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 127 of 19 May 2015, if persons are currently able to claim on the current Med2 form for the cost of attending a relevant...
    • Departmental Reports
      208. To ask the Minister for Finance when his Department's annual report for 2014 will be published. [30213/15]
    • EU Directives
      209. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the concerns raised in correspondence by the Irish League of Credit Unions regarding the transposition of the deposit guarantee directive into...
    • Customs and Excise Controls
      210. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of smuggling, cigarette smuggling and fuel laundering to the Exchequer; the total seizures in 2014 and in 2015 to date in each category;...
    • Petrol Stretching
      211. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 6 of 1 April 2015, the progress to date on the issue of petrol stretching and contamination; and if he will make a...
    • European Central Bank
      213. To ask the Minister for Finance the benefits of the quantitative easing programme to economic growth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30277/15]
    • IBRC Expenditure
      214. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 16 June 2015, if he is aware of the level of legal and professional fees incurred to date by the Irish Bank...
    • Pension Provisions
      215. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount AIB paid out in pensions to former employees in 2013 and 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30288/15]
    • Central Bank of Ireland Expenditure
      221. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on considerations by the Central Bank of Ireland on moving its Tree of Gold to its new headquarters, and the potential cost of...
    • EU Issues
      223. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the negotiations regarding the third memorandum for Greece held on 11 and 12 July 2015 in Brussels in Belgium, and if he will make a...
    • IBRC Expenditure
      224. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 231 of 16 June 2015, if he will provide a breakdown of the legal and professional fees as listed on page 62 of the Irish...
    • Tax Clearance Certificates
      225. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 4 who is paying local property tax by weekly instalments, by arrangement, is entitled to a tax clearance certificate....
    • IBRC Liquidation
      226. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 16 January 2014, if he will provide an update on the status of the tax audit concerned; and if he will make a...
    • National Debt
      228. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide the latest available statistics comparing the general Government debt and gross national debt ratio of Ireland to European Union and...
    • Tax Code
      229. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the annual value of all rate increases, or other forms of increase such as widening bands and changes to tax credits, using...
    • Tax Collection
      230. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the annual amount of revenue generated from all new personal taxes and charges introduced from 2008 onwards, including...
    • Banking Sector Data
      231. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the losses for subordinated and junior bondholders since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30409/15]
    • Exchequer Savings
      233. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the moneys saved by the State through changes achieved by negotiation on Ireland's debt since 2011; and if he will make a...
    • Universal Social Charge Yield
      234. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on all moneys collected, under the higher rate of universal social charge, on bonuses paid to bankers; and if he will make a...
    • Amusement Machine Licences
      235. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of amusement machine licences in place; and the amount of revenue accrued, in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      236. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which any assessment has been completed, with a view to identifying areas of potential flooding which could be remedied by...
    • Valuation Office
      237. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it was possible when the Valuation Office had oversight for foreshores for it to value the foreshore as land within the meaning of...
    • Departmental Properties
      238. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the next step to be taken by his Department, and a timeframe for this, in respect of a project (details supplied) in County Laois; and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      239. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a breakdown, by Department, of the annual amount of current and capital spending cuts for each year since 2008....
    • Programme for Government Priorities
      240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform her Department's priorities for the remainder of this Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29590/15]
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      241. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount paid in 2013 and 2014 and in 2015 to date, and the plans for future payments, under the national lottery good causes fund, in...
    • Financial Instruments
      242. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the provisions of the financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation that are due to expire at the end of 2015; and if...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      243. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of Public Servants enrolled in the single public service pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Public Sector Staff Remuneration
      244. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, the public sector posts, including in commercial State companies and Government advisers, for whom...
    • Public Procurement Contracts
      245. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 2 July 2015, the steps the Office of Government Procurement has taken by t to initiate a new...
    • Departmental Properties
      246. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if local social welfare offices are exempt from the payment of rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29852/15]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      247. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of investment from capital spending his Department has made in County Kildare since 2011; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Architectural Heritage
      248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Office of Public Works' plans to conserve, protect, and restore the rare and historic Killmacurragh House in County Wicklow; and if...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      249. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the opportunity and prospects for the promotion for existing civil servants; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of public advertising, statutory and non-statutory, funded by his Department in 2013 and in 2014; the corresponding figure for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      251. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost in 2013 and in 2014 of printing reports by his Department and agencies under the control of his Department; the corresponding...
    • Office of Public Works Expenditure
      254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the investments in County Cork made by the Office of Public Works in each of the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Office of Public Works Projects
      255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of work currently being carried out at an Office of Public Works managed tourist attraction (details...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      256. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works has any plans to provide toilet facilities at a tourist attraction (details supplied) in County Donegal;...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      257. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is responsible for all board appointments where such power to appoint persons to State boards is vested in him by statute; if any...
    • Departmental Budgets
      258. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total current and capital funding allocated to his Department; the underspend or overspend in 2015 to date under each category,...
    • Departmental Programmes
      259. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department or agencies under the authority of his Department have performed an assessment of the potential savings to be accrued...
    • Departmental Reports
      260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when his Department's annual report for 2014 will be published. [30218/15]
    • Commercial Rates Valuation Process
      261. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a mezzanine floor which is freestanding and not structurally attached to the building is excluded from a valuation assessment under...
    • Flood Prevention Measures
      262. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to address the flooding issue in Ahascragh in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30260/15]
    • Office of the Ombudsman Investigations
      263. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 23 June 2015, the options that are open to a person who is still dissatisfied with the way...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      264. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 12 June 2014, the outcome of the application for legal cost made by the Commission for...
    • Office of Public Works Properties
      265. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 314 of 13 May 2015 and 85 of 8 July 2015, if he will address the question (details supplied);...
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Work Permit Applications
      266. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision regarding their application for a work permit; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Strategies
      267. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his Department's priorities for the remainder of this Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29588/15]
    • Employment Rights
      268. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the options available to a person to ensure that a decision of the rights commissioner under the auspices of the Labour Relations...
    • Job Retention
      269. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the outcome of his discussions with an insurance company (details supplied) in relation to the need to retain the maximum level of...
    • Company Closures
      270. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the Company Law Review Group will meet to examine the events surrounding the closure of Clerys; and when the findings of their...
    • Company Law
      272. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views that the decision of the new owners of Clerys (details supplied) to transfer ownership of an insolvent company (details...
    • Innovation Vouchers Initiative
      274. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of applications for innovation vouchers; the number issued; the number redeemed; the value of vouchers redeemed for each...
    • Microenterprise Loan Fund Application Numbers
      275. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the number of applications received by the Microenterprise Loan Fund in each year since its...
    • Enterprise Ireland Expenditure
      276. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide in tabular form the amount of funding Enterprise Ireland has provided from the high potential start-up funding...
    • Development Capital Scheme
      277. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of take-up of the development capital scheme in each year since its establishment; the number of jobs supported; and if he...
    • Seed and Venture Capital Scheme
      278. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of take-up of the seed and venture capital scheme in each year since its establishment; the number of jobs supported; and if...
    • Innovation Fund Ireland
      279. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the level of take-up of the Innovation Fund Ireland in each year since its establishment; the number of jobs supported; and if he will...
    • Industrial Development
      280. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has examined mandating the Industrial Development Agency and Enterprise Ireland to jointly establish a new unit to attract and...
    • Enterprise Support Schemes
      281. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to create a one-stop-shop to act as a focal point of contact for support for prospective social enterprises; the approximate...
    • Enterprise Ireland
      282. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the standard procedure of Enterprise Ireland for investigating claims of fraud, wherein State funds have been invested and lost; and...
    • Departmental Funding
      284. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of investment from capital spending his Department has made in County Kildare since 2011; and if he will make a statement...
    • Enterprise Ireland Investments
      285. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the estimated gross contribution of Enterprise Ireland supported companies to the gross domestic product output of the economy; and if...
    • IDA Data
      286. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the estimated gross contribution of Industrial Development Agency Ireland supported companies to the gross domestic product output of...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      289. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost of public advertising, statutory and non-statutory, funded by his Department in 2013 and in 2014; the corresponding figure...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      290. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the cost in 2013 and in 2014 of printing reports by his Department and agencies under the control of his Department; the corresponding...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      293. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is responsible for all board appointments where such power to appoint persons to State boards is vested in him by statute; if...
    • Departmental Funding
      294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the current and capital funding allocated to his Department; the underspend or overspend in 2015 to date, under each category, based...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      295. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his Department or agencies under the authority of his Department have performed an assessment of the potential savings to be...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      296. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he will take to address the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Reports
      297. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when his Department's annual report for 2014 will be published. [30216/15]
    • Job Creation
      299. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way his Department has attempted to increase job creation through the Action Plan for Jobs; the number of jobs expected to be...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Local Authority Leases
      302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria in place to establish a long-term lease for the new location of the Tralee Oyster Fisheries Society's shellfish dispatch...
    • Departmental Strategy Statements
      303. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department's priorities for the remainder of this Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29578/15]
    • Agriculture Schemes Payments
      304. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount paid, of single farm payment, disadvantaged areas scheme, rural environment protection scheme in counties Westmeath and...
    • Sheepmeat Sector
      305. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason there is a rule in place that lambs purchased in a mart may not be exported live for 30 days after such purchase, when...
    • Fishery Harbour Centres
      306. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures being taken to prevent caravans from entering and staying at the harbour piers in Howth in County Dublin; and if he will...
    • Farm Safety Scheme
      307. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his Department has refused an application under the farm safety scheme for a cover for a slurry tank by a person (details...
    • Beef Data Programme
      308. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will accept a late application under the Beef Data and Genomics Programme 2015 to 2020 by a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Genetically Modified Organisms
      309. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has undertaken an impact assessment on the possible effects of the European Commission’s proposal (details...
    • EU Regulations
      310. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his position relating to Irish whiskey continuing to be included on the European Union list of GIs agreed with third countries in...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      312. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of investment from capital spending his Department has made in County Kildare since 2011; and if he will make a statement...
    • Single Payment Scheme Expenditure
      313. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount paid to farmers in County Mayo; the amount paid back by farmers in respect of alleged...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of a site visit in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal in relation to a single payment 2013; and if...
    • Sheep Technology Adoption Programme Payments
      315. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the review of a delayed payment to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare under the sheep technology adoption programme...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      316. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost of public advertising, statutory and non-statutory, funded by his Department in 2013 and in 2014; the corresponding figure...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      317. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost in 2013 and in 2014 of printing reports by his Department and agencies under the control of his Department; the...
    • Food Exports
      320. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the details of any discussions that have been held at political or official level with the Russian authorities in...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      321. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is responsible for all board appointments where such power to appoint persons to State boards is vested in him by statute; if...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      322. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the current and capital funding allocated to his Department; the underspend or overspend in 2015 to date, under each category, based...
    • Animal Welfare
      324. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that the Irish Coursing Club currently has registered three litters of greyhounds from a greyhound having her ninth...
    • Bord na gCon
      325. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Irish Greyhound Board will be allowed to continue to breach the legislation regarding eligibility of greyhounds running in...
    • Departmental Reports
      326. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department's annual report for 2014 will be published. [30206/15]
    • Live Exports
      327. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to engage with the European Union Commission to have current failures in the Common Market surrounding the export of live...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      328. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when farmers in Counties Roscommon, Leitrim and Longford and in east Galway whose payments under the agri-environment options scheme...
    • Single Payment Scheme Administration
      329. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that a penalty is not applied to an application under the Single Payment scheme (details supplied), where the calf...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      330. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 210 of 19 May 2015 and following the adoption of a recommendation by the Joint Oireachtas...
    • Animal Identification Schemes
      331. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 394 of 24 March 2015, the progress to date in discussions with An Post regarding access to the...
    • Grant Payments
      332. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the direct payments that have issued to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Aquaculture Licence Applications
      333. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to review the granting of a licence (details supplied) in County Donegal; if, in granting the licence, the impact on locals...
    • Beef Industry
      334. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the kill numbers at the Dunbia meat processing plant in Slane in County Meath for the years 2010 to 2014 and for...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Strategies
      335. To ask the Minister for Defence his Department's priorities for the remainder of this Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29582/15]
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      336. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of persons employed in the Athlone Army barracks in County Roscommon. [29647/15]
    • Defence Forces Reserve
      337. To ask the Minister for Defence the reason the Defence Forces are relying on private sector general practitioners, who are outside of the control of the Defence Forces, for the completion of...
    • National Emergency Plan Implementation
      341. To ask the Minister for Defence when the next meeting of the national emergency coordination committee will take place; the number of meetings that have taken place in 2015 to date; the...
    • Defence Forces Strength
      342. To ask the Minister for Defence the most up to date figures for the strength of the Permanent Defence Force with regard to all three services and all ranks; the gender break-down of same;...
    • Defence Forces Reserve Strength
      343. To ask the Minister for Defence the most up to date figures for the strength of the Reserve Defence Forces; the gender break-down of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      344. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of overseas missions in which the Defence Forces are involved; the number of personnel involved in each mission; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Defence Forces Recruitment
      345. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of additional recruits the Defence Forces have recruited in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29879/15]
    • Defence Forces Operations
      346. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide, in tabular form by county, a break-down of the number of suspect devices that the Army disposal unit has dealt with in 2015 to date. [29880/15]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      347. To ask the Minister for Defence the amount of investment from capital spending his Department has made in County Kildare since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29911/15]
    • State Bodies
      353. To ask the Minister for Defence if he is responsible for all Board appointments where such power to appoint persons to State Boards is vested in him by statute; if any politically appointed...
    • Departmental Funding
      354. To ask the Minister for Defence the current and capital funding allocated to his Department; the underspend or overspend in 2015 to date, under each category, based on his Department's...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      355. To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department or agencies under the authority of his Department have performed an assessment of the potential savings to be accrued, if current...
    • Departmental Reports
      356. To ask the Minister for Defence when his Department's annual report for 2014 will be published. [30210/15]
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      357. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to increase the number of Permanent Defence Force members assigned to the general Border region; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Alcohol Sales Legislation
      358. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to review the licensing laws, around the selling of alcohol and having supermarkets selling same; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Strategies
      359. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her Department's priorities for the remainder of this Dáil; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29589/15]
    • Prison Staff
      360. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding prison officers who are injured in the course of their work and who, as a result, are obliged to retire early on medical...
    • Garda Investigations
      362. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made in relation to a full investigation into the bombing in Belturbet in County Cavan in December 1972, which resulted in the death...
    • Crime Data
      363. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality with regard to section 19(c) of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994, as inserted by the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2002, the...
    • Garda Investigations
      364. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of suspected cases of illegal moneylending that have been investigated by An Garda Síochána in the past three years; the...
    • Garda Recruitment
      365. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the expected number of new Garda Síochána recruits to commence training in 2015; the additional cost in 2015 of increasing this number...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      366. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of investment from capital spending her Department has made in County Kildare since 2011; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Prisoner Data
      367. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total prison population; the number of prisoners, in tabular form, by prison; the capacity of each prison; the percentage occupation of each...
    • Prisoner Releases
      368. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of prisoners currently on temporary release, by prison; the type of offence the prisoners were...
    • Penal Policy Review Group Report
      369. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way she intends to reform penal policy; if she is satisfied with the operation of the community return scheme; and if she will make a...
    • Direct Provision Data
      370. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total population currently residing in direct provision centres; the number of persons, in tabular form, by centre; the capacity; and the...
    • Garda Data
      371. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of outstanding warrants nationwide on the Police Using Leading Systems Effectively, PULSE, system; if she is concerned at the number...
    • Legislative Measures
      372. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce new anti-corruption legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29923/15]
    • Personal Insolvency Act
      374. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of successful applications for personal insolvency arrangements, debt settlement arrangements...
    • Garda Deployment
      375. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to increase the number of gardaí on the beat in all areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29931/15]
    • Asylum Applications
      376. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No.122 of 11 June 2015, whether in the context of the examination of the case by the Office of the Refugee...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      377. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will meet with a person (details supplied) who has previously been in contact with her Department. [29941/15]
    • Garda Stations
      378. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to review the opening hours of Howth Garda station in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29947/15]
    • Naturalisation Applications
      379. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current and-or expected position in determining an application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24;...
    • Deportation Orders Re-examination
      381. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the deportation order in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24, who has reported each month to an immigration...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      382. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position regarding an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on...
    • National Identity Card
      383. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will introduce a national identity card which can be managed by generating a unique national identity code for every citizen, by using a...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      384. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of public advertising, statutory and non-statutory, funded by her Department in 2013 and in 2014; the corresponding figure for agencies...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      385. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost in 2013 and in 2014 of printing reports by her Department and agencies under the control of her Department; the corresponding figure for...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      388. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is responsible for all board appointments where such power to appoint persons to State boards is vested in her by statute; if any...
    • Departmental Budgets
      389. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current and capital funding allocated to her Department; the underspend or overspend in 2015 to date, under each category, based on her...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      390. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department or agencies under the authority of her Department have performed an assessment of the potential savings to be accrued if...
    • Firearms Licences
      391. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding firearms legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30167/15]
    • Departmental Reports
      392. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when her Department's annual report for 2014 will be published. [30217/15]
    • Courts Service
      393. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider the establishment of a division of the Small Claims Court to assist business in retrieving small payments from clients,...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      394. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to progress the issues raised at a meeting she had with the relatives of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement...
    • Courts Service
      395. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 421 of 24 March 2015 the plans the Office of Public Works has to refurbish Roscommon courthouse; and if she...
    • Sex Offenders Notification Requirements
      396. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons currently supervised in the community under a post-release supervision order under Part 5 of the Sex Offenders Act 2001;...
    • Fuel Quality
      398. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 74 of 28 January 2015, the number of complaints of petrol stretching and contamination received in each...
    • Data Protection
      400. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department was notified by the Department of Social Protection of an identity error in respect of a person (details supplied); the...
    • Crime Data
      401. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the target response time An Garda Síochána seeks to achieve for call-outs to reported incidents of crime, analysed per crime category,...
    • Garda Station Closures
      402. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way the closure of Garda stations has impacted on Garda call-out and response times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30347/15]
    • Crime Data
      403. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality given the recent publication of the Central Statistics Office's crime statistics, if an impact analysis of crime has been undertaken in the areas...
    • Garda Station Closures
      404. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the compensatory measures announced by her predecessor when closing Garda stations, including community and mobile Garda clinics, have...
    • Garda Deployment
      405. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí assigned to each Garda station in the Cavan-Monaghan division, from the end of May 2010 until the end of May 2015; the...
    • Community Alert Programme
      408. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 370 of 1 July 2014 (details supplied), if she will confirm that her Department, in partnership with the...
    • Equality Legislation
      409. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding equality legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30387/15]
    • Garda Disciplinary Proceedings
      410. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will revise the rules and code of conduct in An Garda Síochána following a case where a garda was disciplined for an...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      411. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Irish citizens currently involved in fighting in the Middle East or Africa; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30417/15]
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Child Care Services Provision
      412. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs given the commitment to improve the standard and availability of child care facilities, the provisions and supports that are available to...
    • Child and Family Agency Staff
      413. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers working with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency; and the financial budget for the agency for 2015-16. [30383/15]
    • Ministerial Work Programme
      414. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his Department's priorities for the remainder of this Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29580/15]
    • Inter-Country Adoptions
      415. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the work undertaken to date by his Department and by the Adoption Authority of Ireland to advance a bilateral adoption agreement with...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      417. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of investment from capital spending his Department has made in County Kildare since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Early Years Strategy Implementation
      418. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when he will commence the new registration process and if he is satisfied that all services will be registered through this process, as...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      420. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will meet with a person (details supplied) who has previously been in contact with his Department. [29942/15]
    • Youth Services Funding
      421. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to subsidise and make the cost of youth clubs and summer projects cheaper; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29955/15]
    • Departmental Advertising
      422. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of public advertising, statutory and non-statutory, funded by his Department in 2013 and in 2014; the corresponding figure for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      423. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost in 2013 and in 2014 of printing reports by his Department and agencies under the control of his Department; the corresponding...
    • Ministerial Travel
      425. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will outline and itemise all expenditure undertaken by his Department on private travel for him and-or his private office on legal...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      426. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is responsible for all board appointments where such power to appoint persons to State boards is vested in him by statute; if any...
    • Departmental Budgets
      427. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the current and capital funding allocated to his Department; the underspend or overspend in 2015 to date, under each category, based on his...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      428. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department or agencies under the authority of his Department have performed an assessment of the potential savings to be accrued if...
    • Youth Services Funding
      429. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department has received a funding application in respect of a youth facility (details supplied) in County Kildare; the status of the...
    • Child Care Services Expenditure
      430. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount his Department currently spends on the provision of child care to school-going and preschool-going children; and if he will make...
    • Departmental Reports
      431. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when his Department's annual report for 2014 will be published. [30208/15]
    • Child and Family Agency Services
      432. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps which have been taken by Tusla - Child and Family Agency to address concerns raised by the Health Information and Quality...
    • Early Years Strategy Implementation
      437. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will approve funding under the early years capital fund (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30241/15]
    • Child Care Services Regulation
      439. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No.132 of 24 February 2015, the progress to date on providing paediatric first-aid; the standards; his...
    • Child and Family Agency Services
      440. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will reinstate funding to a service (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30278/15]
    • Child and Family Agency Expenditure
      441. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the latest figures on spending, by local authorities, on guardians ad litem. [30285/15]
    • Early Childhood Care Education
      442. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the latest figures held by his Department, by local authority, on the number of special needs assistants who are available to children with...
    • Child and Family Agency Services
      443. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the latest figures on the number of children on waiting lists for counselling services; and the average waiting time for child counselling...
    • Children in Care
      444. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who was taken into State care; if he is aware of concerns that...
    • Child Care Services Funding
      445. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if specific funding will be allocated towards the ongoing costs of running a child care facility (details supplied) in County Cavan; if...
  • Department of Health
    • Drug Treatment Programmes
      446. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the issue of the diversion of methadone provided under the methadone maintenance programme to the illicit drugs trade; if his Department has...
    • Abortion Legislation
      447. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the latest Amnesty International poll on abortion rights here, according to which 67% of the population believe that it should be decriminalised...
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      449. To ask the Minister for Health when a diabetes podiatry post, which was sanctioned for Tullamore Hospital, County Offaly in the 2015 Health Service Executive service plan, will be filled and...
    • Health Services Data
      450. To ask the Minister for Health the number of investigations that have been carried out using the Health Service Executive Guidelines for Systems Analysis Investigation of Incidents and...
    • Hospital Consultants Recruitment
      451. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the pancreas transplantation programme at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9; his plans to ensure that the programme recommences; the efforts...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      452. To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated from his Department for home help provision in Dublin 8, 10 and 12; the services that provide this service in the community; the number of...
    • Home Help Service
      453. To ask the Minister for Health the qualifications required to be employed as a home help by the Health Service Executive or its funded services; if training is provided to home help staff;...
    • Departmental Programmes
      454. To ask the Minister for Health his Department's priorities for the remainder of this Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29587/15]
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      455. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a query regarding the treatment abroad scheme, in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Hospitals Funding
      456. To ask the Minister for Health given the recommendation of the Irish Hospital Consultants' Association to substantially increase funding for the acute hospital budget for 2016 in its...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      457. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an operation at Cork University Hospital for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Medical Card Applications
      458. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application for a person (details supplied). [29634/15]
    • Hospital Staff Data
      465. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors and nurses employed by Mullingar hospital in County Westmeath; the overall floor area utilised by the hospital. [29641/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      466. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application for a person (details supplied). [29649/15]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      480. To ask the Minister for Health when a bed will be made available for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary in the National Rehabilitation Hospital in County Limerick; the person's...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      481. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the medical card limit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29708/15]
    • Medicinal Products Prices
      482. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to reduce medication costs; the reason there is a large discrepancy between the costs here and in other European countries; and if he will make a...
    • Medicinal Products Supply
      483. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the items which require a prescription; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29711/15]
    • Medical Card Administration
      484. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the implementation of free general practitioner visit cards for persons over 70 years of age; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Provision
      485. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, by local health area the average waiting-time for ophthalmic assessment for primary or post-primary students. [29724/15]
    • Hospital Staff Data
      465. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors and nurses employed by Mullingar hospital in County Westmeath; the overall floor area utilised by the hospital. [29641/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      466. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a medical card application for a person (details supplied). [29649/15]
    • Health Insurance Data
      486. To ask the Minister for Health the amount raised from the levy on private medical insurance policies in each of the past four years; the rates of payment for different categories of insured...
    • Prescriptions Data
      487. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount raised from prescription charges in each year from 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Charges
      488. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount raised from the emergency department charges in each year from 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Expenditure
      490. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual cost of the drug payment scheme; the annual number of beneficiaries of the scheme; the number of individual...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
      491. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount raised by the State from charges on the estates of persons who received nursing home care under the nursing...
    • Health Services Charges
      492. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full list of the charges or co-payments which may apply to persons using the health service; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      493. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend by his Department on agency staff in each year from 2011 to 2014; the projected spend this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services Provision
      495. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the services being put in place for a child (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      496. To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate where gaps exist in the speech and language, child psychology and occupational services nationally, by county or Health Service Executive...
    • HSE Expenditure
      497. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 9 July 2015, if he will provide the information sought for June 2015, not April 2015 as provided in the reply; and...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      498. To ask the Minister for Health if officials in client registration medical cards are adhering to European Union Regulation 1408/17 when assessing individual applications for full medical...
    • Hospital Charges
      499. To ask the Minister for Health the amount his Department estimates is currently received for each episode of care for private patients in public hospitals at present; the average shortfall...
    • Audiology Services Provision
      502. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to legislate to ensure that qualified audiologists fit and prescribe hearing aids, given that, at present, it is open to persons to set up anywhere...
    • Medical Card Data
      503. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical cards as of 1 July 2015; the number of general practitioner cards on the same date; and the number for each type of card issued on a...
    • Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
      504. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form and by local health office area, the numbers waiting for orthodontic treatment at the end of June 2015, including the...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      505. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is provided with a hospital appointment as soon as possible. [29864/15]
    • Medical Card Drugs
      507. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to add a certain drug (details supplied) to the list of medicines covered under the medical card scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      508. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be carried out for a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29887/15]
    • Departmental Strategy Statements
      509. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the implementation of the e-health strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29889/15]
    • Health Services
      510. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made in implementing the Health Identifiers Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29890/15]
    • Proposed Legislation
      511. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the health information Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29891/15]
    • Data Protection
      512. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the specific data protection issues that have been considered in implementing the e-health strategy; if he is of the view that data...
    • Hospitals Capital Programme
      513. To ask the Minister for Health the capital plan for investing in health services in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29893/15]
    • Hospital Services
      514. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered the final report of the non-executive advisory board on the reconfiguration of acute hospital services in Cork and Kerry; his plans to...
    • Departmental Funding
      520. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of investment from capital spending his Department has made in County Kildare since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29901/15]
    • Care of the Elderly Provision
      521. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposals to upgrade the Breffni care unit in Ballyconnell in County Cavan, as this unit is of critical importance in the delivery...
    • First-Aid Training
      524. To ask the Minister for Health if fire service staff at Mullingar fire station in County Westmeath are all trained to use the defibrillators provided by the Health Service Executive; and if...
    • Departmental Reports
      525. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which his Department received the international evidence review on independent hospital trusts undertaken by the Health Research Board at his...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      526. To ask the Minister for Health The position regarding surgery for a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [29965/15]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      527. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients waiting for outpatient appointments in the department of endocrinology in St. James's Hospital in Dublin 8; and the average waiting time...
    • Hospital Procedures
      528. To ask the Minister for Health the number of terminations carried out under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 in 2014 that were abortions; and the number that were caesarean...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      529. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form and by local health area, the number of persons currently on the speech and language therapy assessment waiting list, and...
    • Health Insurance Regulation
      531. To ask the Minister for Health if he has further extended the date by which the Voluntary Health Insurance Board must acquire the necessary capital reserves to make an application for...
    • General Practitioner Services
      532. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, details of the number of general practitioner vacancies by local health area. [29989/15]
    • Hospital Staff Data
      533. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the most up-to-date figures for the number of vacant positions in each public and voluntary hospital in the following...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      534. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form and by Health Service Executive region, sub-divided by every 50,000 miles or 80,000 kilometres, the distances that have been...
    • Mental Health Services
      537. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the progress made in implementing each of the 31 recommendations in the 2011 Health Service Executive report, Time to Move...
    • Primary Care Centres
      538. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form details of the primary care centre projects announced on 17 July 2012; the current status of same; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      539. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of beds and wards in hospitals (details supplied); the number of those beds and wards that are currently closed;...
    • Alcohol Pricing
      540. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the discussions he has undertaken with the relevant members of the Northern Ireland Executive with regard to a joint approach to the...
    • National Children's Hospital Status
      541. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the progress made on the development of the national children's hospital since the selection of the site at St. James's Hospital in autumn 2012; the...
    • Hospital Procedures
      542. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of operations and procedures that have been cancelled or postponed in each public hospital in 2015 to date; and...
    • Hospital Services
      544. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the number of procedures the Health Service Executive procured from private and independent hospitals in 2015 to date; the amount spent...
    • HSE National Service Plan
      545. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the measures that have been introduced to achieve projected savings of €95 million from the annual drugs budget, as...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      547. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of critical care beds in each public hospital at the end of each of the years 2011 to 2014 and the latest figure...
    • Accident and Emergency Department Staffing
      548. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form for each public and voluntary hospital with an emergency department, the number of emergency medicine consultants in each;...
    • Hospital Services
      549. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form and by public and voluntary hospital the revenue raised between 1 January 2015 and 30 June 2015 from charges for private...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      552. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the number of staff at national director level, assistant national director level, general manager level and grade VIII level in the Health Service...
    • Departmental Advertising Budgets
      553. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the total cost of public advertising, statutory and non-statutory, funded by his Department in 2013 and in 2014; the corresponding figure for...
    • Departmental Reports
      554. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the cost in 2013 and in 2014 of printing reports by his Department and agencies under the control of his Department; the corresponding figure for...
    • Departmental Staff Remuneration
      555. To ask the Minister for Health to set down the cost in 2013 and in 2014 of issuing hard copy payslips to staff or retired staff by his Department and agencies under the control of his...
    • Ministerial Expenditure
      556. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline and itemise all expenditure undertaken by his Department on private travel for his purposes and his private office; as well as on legal...
    • Medical Card Applications
      557. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospice Services
      558. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to allocating more funding to the St. Francis Hospice in Dublin (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30092/15]
    • Dental Services Provision
      559. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the position regarding an application for dental braces for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      560. To ask the Minister for Health if he is responsible for all board appointments where such power to appoint persons to State boards is vested in him by statute; if any politically appointed...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      561. To ask the Minister for Health to set out the total current and capital funding allocated to his Department; the underspend or overspend in 2015 to date under each category, based on his...
    • Departmental Schemes
      562. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or agencies under the authority of his Department have performed an assessment of the potential savings to be accrued, if current paper-based...
    • Garda Vetting of Personnel
      563. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm whether the short form registration will be adequate to meet the registration requirements of CORU - Health and Social Care Professionals,...
    • Nursing Home Accommodation
      564. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a building project (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30153/15]
    • Maternity Services
      565. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his plans for existing maternity services at Mayo General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30154/15]
    • Disability Services Provision
      566. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the proposals to provide additional financial resources for disability services in Counties Cavan and Monaghan given the urgent need to provide...
    • Health Services Provision
      567. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the consolidation of paediatric services inCork; the capital funding that has been provided; when same is expected to be completed; and if he...
    • Hospital Services
      569. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to develop a regional laboratory service for Cork and Kerry hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30164/15]
    • Maternity Services
      571. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated additional annual cost of offering an ultrasound scan at 20 weeks gestation to every pregnant woman. [30174/15]
    • Hospital Staff
      574. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated annual cost of converting 200 currently non-training non-consultant hospital doctors posts into training posts. [30177/15]
    • Public Health Policy
      575. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the total budget and staff assigned to the healthy Ireland programme. [30178/15]
    • Health Services Provision
      576. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated start-up and operating costs of a motion analysis laboratory service for Cork. [30179/15]
    • Hospital Consultants Recruitment
      577. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of expanding the number of full-time consultants in paediatrics and neonatology to at least 320 whole-time equivalents, as recommended by...
    • Medical Card Administration
      578. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of providing medical cards to all children under six years of age, as recommended by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. [30183/15]
    • Vaccination Programme
      579. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include the roll-out of the meningococcal B vaccine, the varicella vaccine and the rota virus vaccine to all children, and the human papilloma...
    • Health Services Provision
      581. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recommendations of the international working group’s model for cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology for congenital heart...
    • Departmental Reports
      582. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department's annual report for 2014 will be published. [30215/15]
    • Hospital Beds Data
      583. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of critical care beds within the health service; the increase in intensive care unit bed numbers since the death of a person (details...
    • Hospital Consultants Recruitment
      584. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital consultant posts advertised since 1 January 2015; the number of such competitions with one or no applications; the number of such posts...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      585. To ask the Minister for Health the number of intermediate care vehicles deployed to 999 calls in each of the past six months for which data is available; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Expenditure
      586. To ask the Minister for Health further to the PA Consulting report and action plan into financial management of the health service in 2012, the steps taken to date to implement its...
    • Public Health Policy
      587. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in implementing the national rare diseases plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30261/15]
    • General Practitioner Services
      588. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the provision of general practitioner services by NowDoc; the impact that the change in the delivery of the service will have on...
    • Health Services Staff Remuneration
      589. To ask the Minister for Health further to Topical Issue matter of 25 March 2015, the progress to date in resolving the outstanding payment of arrears to the staff involved; and if he will...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review
      590. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in publishing the review of the fair deal nursing home support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30267/15]
    • Mental Health Services
      591. To ask the Minister for Health if the current review of mental health services in counties Roscommon and Galway will also include a review of the acute admission unit at Roscommon County...
    • Nursing Home Services
      592. To ask the Minister for Health if he will approve capital funding for the Sacred Heart Hospital in Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30270/15]
    • Hospital Facilities
      594. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide a cardiac catheterisation laboratory at Sligo Regional Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30275/15]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      595. To ask the Minister for Health the location of each of the 12 telemedicine stroke machines purchased under the TRASNA programme; if he will provide the locations where the machines are fully...
    • Ambulance Service Staff
      596. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff employed in the National Ambulance Service; if he will provide a breakdown for each station by grade and the number of administrative and...
    • Hospital Services
      597. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the situation regarding hospital overcrowding; and the amount spent since the beginning of the year specifically on this issue. [30300/15]
    • Hospital Accommodation Provision
      599. To ask the Minister for Health the proposals planned to increase bed capacity in Cavan General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30332/15]
    • Home Help Service Provision
      600. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the agency responsible for considering requests for home assistance in particular circumstances (details supplied); if assistance...
    • HSE Funding
      601. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the Health Service Executive is providing the same level of funding for 2015 to an association (details supplied) towards staff costs...
    • Nursing Education
      602. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding applications for the general nursing course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30386/15]
    • Home Care Packages
      603. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of full-time care to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30388/15]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      604. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an estimate of the cost of clearing all waiting lists in the health service. [30404/15]
    • Cancer Services
      606. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting times for County Mayo oncology patients for follow-up assessments to ascertain the progress of treatment at Galway University Hospital's centre of...
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      607. To ask the Minister for Health further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No.154 of 25 June 2014, if he will provide the latest available ambulance response time figures, first responder...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Departmental Programmes
      608. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his Department's priorities for the remainder of this Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29586/15]
    • Human Rights Issues
      609. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the response planned to counter the persecution and human rights abuses suffered by Falun Gong practitioners under the Chinese authorities...
    • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
      610. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if funding will be renewed in respect of the work of a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29626/15]
    • Human Rights Issues
      612. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to raise again at the European Union Foreign Affairs Council the need for the European Union to have a co-ordinated response to...
    • Middle East Issues
      613. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to raise at the European Union Foreign Affairs Council the need for the international community to honour commitments made at a...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      615. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to allocate additional funding towards the provision of humanitarian aid for Syria and that general region, given the ongoing...
    • Human Rights Issues
      616. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action or proposals planned to protect Christians and other religious groups from persecution around the world; the note the Government...
    • Overseas Development Aid
      617. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the Irish participation in the United Nation's third international conference on financing for development to be held...
    • Departmental Advertising Budgets
      618. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total cost of public advertising, statutory and non-statutory, funded by his Department in 2013 and in 2014; the corresponding figure...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      619. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cost in 2013 and in 2014 of printing reports by his Department and agencies under the control of his Department; the corresponding...
    • Middle East Issues
      623. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise at the European Union Foreign Affairs Council and with the United Nations the urgent need to comprehensively address the...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      624. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is responsible for all board appointments where such power to appoint persons to State boards is vested in him by statute; if any...
    • Departmental Funding
      625. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total current and capital funding allocated to his Department; the underspend or overspend in 2015 to date, under each category, based...
    • Passport Services
      626. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department or agencies under the authority of his Department have performed an assessment of the potential savings to be accrued, if...
    • Passport Applications
      628. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an application for a passport by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be examined urgently; and dealt with expeditiously,...
    • Middle East Issues
      629. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the ongoing conflict in the Republic of Yemen with his European Union counterparts; if he will do so at the next European...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      630. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the Government's and non-governmental organisations' efforts to secure the release of hostages held...
    • Departmental Reports
      631. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when his Department's annual report for 2014 will be published. [30214/15]
    • Consular Services Representations
      632. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish Government has formally requested the release of a person (details supplied) under a presidential decree; and if not, his plans...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      635. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 502 of 23 June 2015, if any of his officials visited Tbilisi in Georgia to gather first-hand...
    • Election Monitoring Missions
      636. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 504 of 23 June 2015, if any additional persons have been added to the election observation roster...
    • Official Engagements
      637. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any meetings he or his officials had with the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mr. Ali Larijani, during his visit...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • Aistear Curriculum Framework
      638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the roll-out of education inspections in early years settings from September 2015, the supports she has put in place for a...
    • Schools Establishment
      639. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the number of current primary school students living within 3 km of a site (details supplied) indicates that the site is viable as a location...
    • Special Educational Needs Data
      640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in primary, secondary and third level education who have dyslexia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29568/15]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      643. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the proposed project for a school (details supplied) in County Cavan; when this project is likely to go to tender; the...
    • Departmental Programmes
      644. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's priorities for the remainder of this Dáil; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29583/15]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      645. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reinstate the current level of special needs assistance support in a school (details supplied) in County Kildare, given her recent...
    • EU Funding
      648. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an application was not made to the EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund in respect of the former workers of a company (details supplied)...
    • Teacher Data
      649. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers employed in counties Westmeath and Longford and nationally at the primary, secondary, and third level. [29642/15]
    • School Staffing
      650. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants and school secretaries employed in counties Westmeath and Longford. [29643/15]
    • Schools Data
      651. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills The number of schools constructed to date within counties Westmeath and Longford. [29644/15]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      652. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Galway will be going to tender as the project is urgent and all design is complete and approved by her...
    • School Curriculum
      654. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the secondary school curriculum keeps changing on a regular basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29706/15]
    • School Textbooks Rental Scheme
      655. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a rental book scheme will be put in place for every school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29707/15]
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure a special needs assistant is provided in respect of a child (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if she will make a statement...
    • Student Grant Scheme Reform
      657. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to review the income criteria for Student Universal Support Ireland grants and to base the awarding of grants on net pay rather than...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      658. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application under the emergency works scheme in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will...
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      659. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual spend on apprenticeship training in each year since 2010; the number of apprentices in training in each year; the way this is broken...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      660. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will re-examine the special needs assistant allocation in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Cork in view of the complex...
    • School Transport Appeals
      661. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reconsider the refusal of school transport in respect of children (details supplied) in County Wicklow who have special needs and...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      662. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding recent correspondence in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      665. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of investment from capital spending her Department has made to County Kildare since 2011; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Properties
      666. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the current status of the legal transfer of property (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      667. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the position for students in repeat years who wish to apply for grant assistance which has caused confusion in...
    • Departmental Advertising
      668. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost of public advertising, statutory and non-statutory, funded by her Department in 2013 and 2014 respectively; the corresponding...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      669. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost in 2013 and 2014 respectively of printing reports by her Department and agencies under the control of her Department; the corresponding...
    • Third Level Funding
      672. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the capital investment plan for third level institutions; the amount of such funding allocated to Cork Institute...
    • Ministerial Appointments
      673. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is responsible for all board appointments where such power to appoint persons to State boards is vested in her by statute; if any...
    • Departmental Funding
      674. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total current and capital funding allocated to her Department; the underspend or overspend in 2015 to date, under each category, based on her...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department or agencies under the authority of her Department have performed an assessment of the potential savings to be accrued, if...
    • School Transport Provision
      676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or the Minister of State responsible for school transport will meet with parents of students affected by her Department's decision to...
    • Teachers' Remuneration
      677. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the provision of incremental credits for resource staff in the education system, based on additional information (details...
    • Third Level Fees
      678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork who initially started a course as a non-European Union student, but...
    • Departmental Reports
      679. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department's annual report for 2014 will be published. [30211/15]
    • Broadband Service Speeds
      680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps which she is taking to ensure that every further education and training and Youthreach centre has direct access to 100 megabite...
    • Education and Training Boards Staff
      681. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps which she is taking to address the current shortfall in the management structure at principal officer grade within the Education and...
    • Education and Training Boards
      682. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve capital funding to Galway-Roscommon Education and Training Board to refurbish its offices and training centre at Lanesboro...
    • Education and Training Boards Staff
      683. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will sanction the Galway-Roscommon Education and Training Board to recruit an adult education officer, an adult literacy organiser and an...
    • Student Grant Scheme Reform
      684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to change the student grant scheme so that mortgage repayments on the family home and the total number of dependent children in a...
    • Student Support Schemes
      685. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has prepared costings in respect of any proposals to provide student loans for postgraduate students. [30322/15]
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      687. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, figures estimates on the number of special needs assistants allocated by county in the years 2011 to 2014...
    • Capitation Grants
      688. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide estimates on the amount it would cost to restore the capitation grant for schools to pre-2008 levels. [30325/15]
    • National Council for Special Education
      689. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide estimates on the amount it would cost to restore resource teaching hours in primary schools to pre-2008 levels. [30326/15]
    • Springboard Programme
      690. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide figures on the annual cost of the Springboard Initiative. [30327/15]
    • Apprenticeship Programmes
      691. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide guideline estimates or targets for the number of apprenticeships she expects to be provided annually under the apprenticeship...
    • Minor Works Scheme Expenditure
      692. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide grant aid to primary schools to develop playgrounds where such facilities are lacking; and if she will make a statement on...
    • National Council for Special Education
      693. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the provision of special needs assistants for a school (details supplied) for the new school term commencing in...
    • School Relocation
      694. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a meeting will take place between her Department and representatives of a school (details supplied) in County Laois to discuss its need for...
    • National Council for Special Education
      695. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria by which special needs assistants are allocated; and specifically how her Department can guarantee the reasonable safety of a child...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      696. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions made for providing essential educational resources for children with profound developmental issues to prepare them to enter...
    • School Staffing
      697. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of teachers employed full-time at primary and at secondary level in county Donegal, in tabular form, for the years 2007 to 2015;...
    • Teaching Qualifications
      698. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a contract of indefinite duration employee (details supplied) of the Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board is unable to...
    • School Enrolments
      699. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills Her views on correspondence regarding a meeting with a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30385/15]
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Weather Forecasting
      700. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to add weather forecasts from weather stations in Northern Ireland to all of Met Éireann's weather reports...
    • Irish Water Funding
      701. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of equity capital that has been provided by the State to Irish Water in 2015 to date; the planned further...
    • Climate Change Policy
      702. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the Government's position on and aims for the conference of parties on climate change under the...
    • Motor Tax Yield
      703. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of motor tax collected in each local authority in 2015 to date [30188/15]
    • Legislative Measures
      704. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider including dormant safety deposit boxes under the provisions of the Dormant Accounts Acts, or other...
    • Local Enterprise Offices
      705. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will approve additional staff for the local enterprise offices in counties Roscommon and Galway; and if he will make...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      706. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason there has been an extreme delay in his signing-off the updated planning guidelines for wind developments; and...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
      707. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a new tenant purchase scheme will become operational; the way the discount on the market value of the property will...
    • Departmental Programmes
      708. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his Department's priorities for the remainder of this Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29584/15]
    • Waste Management
      709. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the percentage of total waste; and of electrical waste, re-used and recycled; his views that targets should be set for...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision
      710. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of the applications received from certain counties (details supplied), and the funding approved...
    • Planning Issues
      711. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation regarding the issue of controlling the height of adjoining property owners'...
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      712. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which his Department continues to monitor progress in regard to the completion of development works in...
    • Shared Ownership Scheme
      713. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which he and his Department have managed to address the inherited issue of distressed shared ownership...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      714. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which adequate resources remain available to the various local authorities to facilitate the provision of...
    • Housing Issues
      715. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which his Department is being made aware of new applicants applying for local authority housing, arising...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      716. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which this country remains compliant with international carbon reduction targets; the programme for the...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      717. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the new guidelines in respect of windfarms will become applicable; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Local Authority Housing
      718. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons currently on the various local authority housing lists; the extent to which rent increases are...
    • Air and Water Pollution
      719. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the degree to which monitoring continues to take place in respect of air and water pollution; if particular trends have...
    • Waste Management
      720. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the various forms of waste management are currently being used, with particular reference to the...
    • Local Authority Housing
      721. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of housing units offered to local authority housing applicants in County Kildare in the past six months; and if...
    • Waste Management
      723. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the completion of the remediation works at the Kerdiffstown dump in County Kildare; and if he will...
    • Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration
      724. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of landlords who have signed up to the rental accommodation scheme in County Meath in 2015; and if landlords in...
    • Housing Assistance Payments
      725. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the annual cost of the housing assistance payment in County Meath, between 2011 and...
    • Local Authority Finances
      726. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm where moneys are being held that were transferred from Skibbereen town council when it was abolished...
    • Capital Assistance Scheme
      727. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide the details of the approved housing bodies in Galway city and county, that had their proposals under...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      728. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when proposals submitted to Galway County Council by an approved body (details supplied), and subsequently prioritised for...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      729. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the allocation and the out-turn in expenditure for Traveller specific accommodation in the estimates for each year since...
    • Irish Water Administration
      730. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when it is intended to provide guidance to Uisce Éireann on the taking in charge of group water schemes to enable...
    • Fire Safety
      731. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on problems in a housing estate (details supplied) in County Kildare, given that he met recently with residents...
    • Water Charges Administration
      732. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide information regarding the water allowance that persons with a disability qualify for; and if he will...
    • Water Quality
      733. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on concerns regarding the quality of water in Dublin Bay; the measures his Department is taking to improve its...
    • Local Authority Finances
      734. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will indicate separately the development levy balance held in each local authority area; his views on the...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      735. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of off-the-road declarations for private motor vehicles in 2014 and in 2015 to date; how this compares with...
    • Local Authority Housing
      736. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of residential units owned by local authorities and by voluntary housing partnerships; and if he will make a...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
      737. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total Exchequer funding of social housing in each year from 2009 to 2014, by local authority; voluntary and...
    • Local Authority Housing Repossessions
      738. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by local authority; and housing body, of the number of homes they have repossessed in each...
    • Housing Finance Agency
      739. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the total amount of loans outstanding to the Housing Finance Agency in respect of each local authority; the date by which...
    • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
      741. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of local authority mortgages in existence; the total value of local authority mortgages outstanding; the number...
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      743. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that a fair share at least 17% of national lottery funding is allocated in budget 2016 for work on the...
    • Private Residential Tenancies Board Remit
      744. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the role the Private Residential Tenancies Board can play in resolving issues where tenants are allegedly involved in...
    • Household Charge Exemptions
      745. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide clarification on the household charge in 2012 in respect of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
      746. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of investment from capital spending his Department has made in County Kildare since 2011; and if he will make a...
    • Control of Dogs
      747. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will investigate the possibility of re-assessing the breed of German Shepherd current classification as a dangerous...
    • Proposed Legislation
      748. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update regarding the passing of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015; and if he...
    • Water Charges Introduction
      749. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the cost of water (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29951/15]
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      750. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of public advertising, statutory and non-statutory, funded by his Department in 2013 and in 2014; the...
    • Departmental Reports
      751. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost in 2013 and in 2014 of printing reports by his Department and agencies under the control of his Department; the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      752. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost in 2013 and in 2014 of issuing hardcopy payslips to staff or retired staff by his Department and agencies under...
    • Register of Electors
      754. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reform the electoral register system, which is not updated regularly and from which persons can often be...
    • Rural Development Programme
      755. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the new Leader programmes will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30080/15]
    • Housing Assistance Payments Administration
      756. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the roll-out of the housing assistance payment scheme; the success of the scheme; the...
    • Local Authority Funding
      757. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount provided by his Department to Cork City Council and to Cork County Council over each of the past four years, by...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      758. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is responsible for all board appointments where such power to appoint persons to State boards is vested in him by...
    • Departmental Funding
      759. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current and capital funding allocated to his Department; the underspend or overspend in 2015 to date under each...
    • Public Services Provision
      760. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department or agencies under the authority of his Department have performed an assessment of the potential savings...
    • Control of Dogs
      761. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to deal with the recently reported rise in biting attacks by dangerous dogs; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      762. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, details of the spending on the household adaptation grant, by county, for each year...
    • Homeless Persons Data
      764. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the latest monthly statistics held by his Department, on the number of persons and...
    • Housing Assistance Payments
      766. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of landlords in the private rented sector who have signed up to the housing assistance payment scheme, in each...
    • Local Authority Housing
      768. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has figures on the number of long-term vacant housing units owned by each local authority, and the...
    • Local Government Fund
      769. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details on the amount available in the local government fund in the years 2014 and 2015; and if he will...
    • Departmental Reports
      770. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when his Department's annual report for 2014 will be published. [30212/15]
    • Unfinished Housing Developments
      771. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 6 of 11 June 2015, the steps he has taken to engage with the credit institutions,...
    • Homeless Accommodation Funding
      772. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the €18 million shortfall for homeless services from this year's budget as announced by Dublin City...
    • Pyrite Issues
      773. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of building condition assessments with damage condition rating 2 received by the Pyrite Resolution Board to...
    • Library Services Staff
      777. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government When approval will issue to Cavan County Council in respect of a position (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he...
    • Disability Services Funding
      779. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding streams in place by which a local authority may make an application to carry out improvements in a town, so as...
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      780. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he or his officials have discussed with Irish Water its interaction with the Dunbia meat processing plant in Slane in...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      781. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an estimate of the average current cost per unit of new local authority housing built; and if he will...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      782. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an estimate, based on the current average annual cost, of the cost per unit of renting social housing...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Energy Schemes
      785. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to widen the eligibility criteria for the warmer homes schemes and the sustainable energy communities programme...
    • Energy Regulation
      786. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has examined the report on the regulation and inspection of gas installers operating here, which was compiled by...
    • Departmental Functions
      787. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his Department's priorities for the remainder of this Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29581/15]
    • Metropolitan Area Networks Programme
      788. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a review of the metropolitan area network is under way, or recently completed; the organisations and groups which were...
    • EU Directives
      789. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in the context of the upcoming European Union Directive 2014/61/CE, if he will implement a compulsory registry of...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      790. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will conduct a national broadband measurement scheme to identify high propriety areas, as a matter of urgency; and...
    • Postal Codes
      791. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will ensure that Eircode, in the introduction of the new postcode system, will have all placenames named and...
    • Mobile Telephony
      792. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he or his Department have had any recent communications with the communications regulator or the mobile telephone...
    • Energy Schemes
      793. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of grants, in tabular form, that were awarded as part of the better energy scheme in each year since its...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      795. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide specific information regarding the delivery of high-speed broadband for a townland (details supplied)...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      796. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of investment from capital spending his Department has made in County Kildare since 2011; and if he will make...
    • Energy Policy
      797. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the approximate cost of introducing a renewable heat incentive, which his Department plans to bring online next year; if...
    • National Broadband Plan Implementation
      798. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the proposals to provide modern broadband telecommunications infrastructure in an area (details supplied) in County...
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      801. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost of public advertising, statutory and non-statutory, funded by his Department in 2013 and in 2014; the...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      802. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost in 2013 and in 2014 of printing reports by his Department and agencies under the control of his Department; the...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      805. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is responsible for all board appointments where such power to appoint persons to State boards is vested in him by...
    • Departmental Funding
      806. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the current and capital funding allocated to his Department; the underspend or overspend in 2015 to date under each...
    • Information and Communications Technology
      807. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his Department, or agencies under the authority of his Department, have performed an assessment of the potential...
    • Public Service Obligation Levy Payments
      808. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the current position on the future of public service obligation payments to Tynagh and Aughinish power plants;...
    • Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme Implementation
      809. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the recent energy bulletin from the National Competitiveness Council that recommended ending the renewable...
    • Bord na Móna
      810. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures he has taken to resolve all human resource issues in Bord na Móna; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Departmental Reports
      812. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when his Department's annual report for 2014 will be published. [30209/15]
    • National Postcode System Establishment
      813. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on apparent discrepancies in a report (details supplied) regarding the postcode procurement process; and if he...
    • Bord na Móna
      815. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the high number of employees who have reported bullying in the workplace with Bord na Móna; and if he...
    • Departmental Funding
      820. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the level of funding made available as part of the BenefIT digital skills training grant scheme; and the way this funding...
    • Gas Networks Ireland
      821. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the proposals in place to extend the natural gas supply to Cavan town; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Broadband Service Provision
      822. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the discussion his Department has had with Eircom on the company's recently announced rural broadband investment plans;...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Marine Salvage
      823. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the legislation on the Statute Book that facilitates ordering vessel owners to move or raise wrecked vessels that are...
    • Departmental Programmes
      824. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his Department's priorities for the remainder of this Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29592/15]
    • Departmental Funding
      825. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding available from his Department for the specific improvement grant scheme in 2015; if he will support the provision of funding...
    • Public Bike Schemes
      826. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the usage statistics for the individual bike stations of the Cork bike scheme are available; the frequency with which the statistics...
    • Road Network
      828. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a section of roadway (details supplied) in County Kerry will be resurfaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29683/15]
    • Driver Licences
      829. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason full and proper US driving licences are only given the provisional status here with a 12-month duration; his plans to review...
    • Road Safety
      830. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding speed limit restrictions in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Legal Cases
      831. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 775 of 17 June 2014, previous parliamentary questions and correspondence with him and his...
    • Vehicle Clamping
      832. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the clamping arrangements that are in place at railway station car parks (details supplied) [29929/15]
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      833. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of public advertising, statutory and non-statutory, funded by his Department in 2013 and in 2014; the corresponding figure for...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      834. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost in 2013 and in 2014 of printing reports by his Department and agencies under the control of his Department; the corresponding...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      837. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is responsible for all board appointments where such power to appoint persons to State boards is vested in him by statute; if any...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      838. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current and capital funding allocated to his Department; the underspend or overspend in 2015 to date under each category based on his...
    • Departmental Projects
      839. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department or agencies under the authority of his Department have performed an assessment of the potential savings to be accrued...
    • National Car Test
      840. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that the views of vintage clubs are given detailed and favourable consideration in relation to their concerns regarding...
    • Swimming Pool Projects
      841. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the swimming pool grant scheme (details supplied); if he will provide, in tabular form, the amount granted to each...
    • Rural Transport Programme Expenditure
      842. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of spending by county, in tabular form, on the rural transport programme; the details of any departmental...
    • Road Tolls
      843. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of spending on compensation to toll operators on national routes from his Department; and the amount of expected compensation...
    • Motor Tax Collection
      844. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to receive the report from the interdepartmental group review on motor tax on heavy goods vehicles; his plans to...
    • Departmental Reports
      845. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when his Department's annual report for 2014 will be published. [30220/15]
    • Tourism Project Funding
      846. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will furnish a reply to correspondence (details supplied); if he will ensure financial support is provided for this flagship...
    • Sports Capital Programme Application Numbers
      847. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport given that figures are not available online, if he will provide a figure for the number of applications under the Sports Capital...
    • Aviation Issues
      848. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the position regarding the proposal to build an aviation fuel pipeline connecting Dublin Port to Dublin...
    • Parking Provision
      849. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding a proposal for parking bays on the footpaths on a congested residential road (details supplied) in Dublin 4; and...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      850. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of investment from capital spending his Department has made in County Kildare since 2011. [30330/15]
    • Rail Services
      851. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the upgrade of the Maynooth line from Connolly Station will commence; if it will include a new station at Cross Guns Bridge in...
    • Land Ownership
      852. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will publish a detailed place map showing how title to lands in the vicinity of the Royal Canal from Cross Guns Bridge in...
    • Cycling Facilities Provision
      853. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the grant application submitted to his Department in respect of the development of the Leitrim-Cavan greenway;...
    • Tourism Promotion
      855. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide, in tabular form, the total amount of funding allocated by Tourism Ireland and Fáilte Ireland to projects in...
    • Disability Services Provision
      856. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding streams in place by which a local authority can make an application to carry out improvements in a town, so as to make the...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Departmental Programmes
      857. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her Department's priorities for the remainder of this Dáil; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29579/15]
    • Easter Rising Commemorations
      858. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the criteria in place, the assessment process, the approval process and the appeals mechanism in place in respect of funding...
    • Legal Matters
      859. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if there have been any recent cases of employment or equality litigation involving employees at a centre (details supplied) in Dublin...
    • Turbary Rights
      860. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views that it is acceptable that a person (details supplied) in County Galway is now waiting over 14 months for a decision on an...
    • Arts Funding
      861. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she expects increased funding to the arts in the coming years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29945/15]
    • Departmental Advertising Expenditure
      862. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total cost of public advertising, statutory and non-statutory, funded by her Department in 2013 and in 2014; the corresponding...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      863. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the cost in 2013 and in 2014 of printing reports by her Department and agencies under the control of her Department; the...
    • Community Development Initiatives
      866. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount provided by her Department to Cork City Council and to Cork County Council, and to projects and community groups in County...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      867. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is responsible for all board appointments where the power to appoint people to State boards is vested in her by statute; if...
    • Departmental Funding
      868. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total current and capital funding allocated to her Department; the underspend or overspend in 2015 to date under each category...
    • Departmental Projects
      869. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department or agencies under the authority of her Department have performed an assessment of the potential savings to be...
    • Departmental Reports
      870. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when her Department's annual report for 2014 will be published. [30207/15]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      871. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the amount of investment from capital spending her Department has made in County Kildare since 2011; and if she will make a statement...
    • Arts Council Grants
      872. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide, in tabular form, the total amount of funding allocated by the Arts Council to projects in County Donegal for...

All of 2015's answers « Previous day Next day »

Answers this month

July 2015
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031 

See all of 2015

What are Written Answers?

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

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