Written answers
Wednesday, 14 October 2015
- Department of Social Protection
- Water Conservation Grant
1. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal is not entitled to the water conservation grant; and if she will make a...
- Social Welfare Overpayments
2. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3 has been billed for a debt arising from a disability allowance payment for a...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
3. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a status update on an application for a domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied) in County...
- Carer's Allowance Applications
4. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a decision on an application for a carer's allowance; and if she will...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
5. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if an increase in rent allowance will be facilitated for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
- Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
6. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be granted an extension of time on a community employment scheme; and if she...
- Unemployment Benefits
7. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will consider amending social welfare rules so that if someone who is receiving unemployment benefits starts a company and...
- Water Conservation Grant
9. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will clarify a matter regarding the water conservation grant for persons (details supplied) in County Dublin who are paying...
- Department of Finance
- Tax Reliefs Application
10. To ask the Minister for Finance the differences between the old and new sections 481 for film; the body that administers the new scheme; if he is satisfied that the new scheme is working...
- Tax Code
11. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the situation whereby a semi-State employee's travel expenses may be subject to various deductions by the Revenue Commissioners; the...
- Tobacco Smuggling
12. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons prosecuted for cigarette and tobacco smuggling at Dublin Port and Dublin Airport in 2014, and in 2015 to date; the number of successful...
- Income Data
13. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide, based on tables (details supplied), corresponding tables based on the most recent available data. [35898/15]
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Commercial Rates Exemptions
14. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the up-to-date position regarding plans to make provision to exempt preschool providers from commercial rates (details supplied); and if...
- Public Sector Staff Recruitment
15. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he expects the public sector recruitment embargo to be completely lifted; the extent to which he expects recruitment to take place...
- Ombudsman's Reports
16. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 23 June 2015, his views on concerns that the in-house complaints process results in only 4%...
- Legal Costs
17. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount in legal fees incurred by the Commission for Public Service Appointments for 2015 to date; and for each of the past four...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Legislative Programme
18. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide an update regarding legislation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35832/15]
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Agriculture Scheme Payments
19. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal in relation to a headage payment for 2015; and if he will...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
20. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payments under the disadvantaged areas scheme; and if he will make a...
- GLAS Applications
21. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of putative applicants for the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme who were advised by Teagasc, the Irish Agriculture...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
23. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a headage payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35831/15]
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
25. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive a single payment; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
26. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the next tranche of payments are due under the agri-environment options schemes, AEOS 1, AEOS 2 and AEOS 3; if these payments are...
- Basic Payment Scheme Payments
27. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the areas of natural constraint scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he...
- Agriculture Scheme Data
31. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who applied for payments under the areas of natural constraint scheme in 2015; the numbers who have received a...
- Beef Data Programme
32. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of active applicants in the beef data and genomics scheme; the number who have submitted samples; the number of samples...
- GLAS Administration
33. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will justify the removal of the most popular measures under green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, low input permanent...
- Beef Data Programme
34. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is leeway under the beef data and technology programme for farmers where the land on their holding decreases by more than 20%...
- Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
35. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a penalty revision for 2014 in respect of the rural environment protection scheme was issued to a person (details supplied)...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
36. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the areas of natural constraint scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the reason for...
- Basic Payment Scheme Appeals
39. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made in relation to an appeal lodged under the 2015 basic payment scheme by a person (details supplied) in...
- Agriculture Schemes
40. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will be made in relation to an application under the national reserve and young farmers scheme by a person (details...
- Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the agri-environment options scheme will be made to a person (details supplied) in county Galway; and if he will...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Properties
42. To ask the Minister for Defence the staffing structure his Department has in place to oversee and manage the Curragh Plains in County Kildare; the annual cost of such management; his plans to...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- Crime Levels
43. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the recorded annualised crime statistics (details supplied) for the Cork city Garda district for the second quarter of 2015; and the second...
- Garda Civilian Staff Numbers
44. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is considering proposals to recruit civilian personnel to work in Garda Síochána stations with a view to reserving trained...
- Leaganacha Gaeilge d'Fhoirmeacha Foirmiúil
45. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality cad iad na socruithe atá déanta chun a chinntiú go mbeidh na foirmeacha dá dtagraítear in Ionstraim Reachtúil 398 de...
- Departmental Staff Redeployment
46. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department recently held competitions for staff for various overseas visa offices; the number of male and female applicants who applied;...
- Departmental Staff Promotions
47. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department recently held promotional competitions for appointment at higher executive officer level; the number of male and female...
- Garda Data
48. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out the number of members of An Garda Síochána who have retired or transferred from the Tipperary division, by grade, for each of...
- Visa Applications
49. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) has ever applied for a holiday or work visa; when that application was made; if it has been determined, the outcome...
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Domestic Violence Refuges
50. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to explain the reason that a centre (details supplied) in County Offaly has sustained 34% cuts to funding from the Health Service...
- Commercial Rates Valuation Process
51. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the up-to-date position regarding plans to exempt pre-school providers from commercial rates (details supplied); and if he will make a...
- Department of Health
- Primary Care Services Provision
52. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend free primary care to those who require long-term mental health treatment, and to exempt them from the prescription levy, as recommended by...
- Home Care Packages
53. To ask the Minister for Health if a Health Service Executive report into inadequate and inconsistent home care provision for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal has been initiated;...
- Health Services Provision
54. To ask the Minister for Health if the proposed community nursing unit (details supplied) in County Galway is included in the list of community nursing units to be constructed under the...
- Hospitals Inspections
55. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the report of the unannounced inspection at Letterkenny General Hospital by the Health Information and Quality Authority published on 8 October...
- Health Services
56. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding for persons using a service (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35828/15]
- Health Services Funding
57. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a payment is restored to trainees at training centres (details supplied) which are funded by the Health Service Executive; and if he will...
- Ministerial Correspondence
58. To ask the Minister for Health the number of representations his office and the office of his Minister of State have received regarding the allocation of staff and ambulances to the Tuam,...
- Hospital Services
59. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the hours of opening for the minor injuries unit at Monaghan general hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35836/15]
- Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
60. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for an orthodontic procedure at Merlin Park Hospital in County Galway; and if he...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
61. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list to see a consultant neurologist at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9; the average waiting times; the steps being taken to...
- Hospital Procedures
62. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for an ophthalmic procedure at Galway University Hospital; the reason this person...
- HSE Staff Remuneration
63. To ask the Minister for Health if home support workers in County Donegal are being deprived of their legal entitlements to premium payments by the Health Service Executive. [35863/15]
- HSE Staffing
66. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to employ more dental nurses for the Health Service Executive midland region. [35866/15]
- National Dementia Strategy
67. To ask the Minister for Health his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding dementia; his plans to address the concerns raised; if he has provided funding for it under any of the...
- Hospital Procedures
68. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the serious concerns being expressed by the community throughout the Tallaght area of Dublin 24 regarding reports that over 1,000 operations...
- Hospital Services
69. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) was one of the patients who had a delayed diagnosis in Bantry Hospital in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Hospital Appointment Status
70. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35882/15]
- Hospital Appointment Delays
71. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35887/15]
- HSE Funding
72. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a supplementary budget to provide money to the Health Service Executive to enable arrears due to social care workers in the Brothers of...
- Health Services Staff Recruitment
73. To ask the Minister for Health if additional staff will be provided at a health centre (details supplied) in County Westmeath in order to relieve pressure on existing staff; and if he will...
- Hospital Appointment Status
74. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment from Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal; and if he will make a...
- Vaccination Programme
75. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the hundreds of complaints that have been received by the Health Service Executive regarding the Gardasil vaccine; and the steps he will take to...
- Hospital Accommodation Provision
78. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the Cottage Hospital in Drogheda in County Louth; if it is a transitional care unit exclusively; and the number and type of beds and...
- Nursing Home Beds
85. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public and private nursing home beds that currently exist in county Louth, for each year from 2010 [35928/15]
- Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
86. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to change the means assessment of business and farm assets for the nursing home subvention scheme, so that there would be a cap of three years on the...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Passport Applications
87. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to change the law concerning the examination of applicants for passports, whereby the requirement to have the application stamped...
- Election Monitoring Missions
88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the name of each person who took part in Ireland's international election monitoring since the beginning of 2014, in tabular form; the cost...
- Foreign Conflicts
89. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the bombing of the hospital in Kunduz in Afghanistan by the armed forces of the United States of America on 3 October 2015,...
- Department of Education and Skills
- Teachers' Remuneration
90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding newly qualified teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35815/15]
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene in an application for a student grant for a person (details supplied) in County Mayo, who has been denied the special rate...
- Schools Building Projects Status
92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Offaly will receive a new school building, as it is still operating on a split site following an...
- Home Tuition Scheme
94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 644 and 645 of 6 October 2015, if she will explain the reference to removing the option from parents of...
- School Management
95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the relationship that exists between her Department and the Department of Defence in relation to the operations of a school (details supplied) in...
- Schools Building Projects Status
96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the concerns of a community (details supplied) in Dublin 24 which have been expressed to the planning department of South...
- Student Grant Scheme Appeals
97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if support from Student Universal Support Ireland will be offered to three students from the same family (details supplied) considering that they...
- School Transport Availability
98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a wheelchair accessible bus is not available to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Gaelscoileanna Issues
99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the right of parents in the Dublin West and south Meath areas to have their children educated through the medium of the Irish...
- Special Educational Needs Data
101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in primary and post-primary schools, respectively, who have been diagnosed with dyslexia; and if she will make a statement...
- Student Grant Scheme Delays
102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan has still not received a Student Universal Support Ireland grant; and if she will make...
- Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan is still awaiting the review of a special rate of the Student Universal Support Ireland...
- Departmental Contracts
104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 692 of 6 October 2015, if she will confirm whether a contract exists between her Department and the one...
- Home Tuition Scheme
105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35912/15]
- Schools Building Projects Status
106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1239 of 22 September 2015, in relation to a school (details supplied) in Dublin 9, if the contract for the...
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Commencement of Legislation
107. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the sections and subsections of the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015, that are commenced; that remain to be...
- Litter Pollution
108. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to provide additional funding to South Dublin County Council to allow it to continue to take effective action in...
- Water Charges Administration
109. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of water charges paid by schools, by county, for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
110. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when his Department will provide funding to Galway County Council for the tenant purchase scheme; the amount of funding...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Fuel Prices
111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding fuel prices (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35822/15]
- Mobile Telephony Services Provision
112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 9 of 28 April 2015, the reason service providers in respect of mobile telephone...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Road Signage
113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure the National Roads Authority provides sufficient signage for the amenity park in Moate in County Westmeath as was...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Archaeological Sites
114. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress her Department has made on the purchase of lands (details supplied); when the purchase will be complete; and if she will...
- Film Industry Tax Reliefs
115. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of applications for section 481 relief in 2015; the names of the films that have benefitted from this relief; and if she...
- Appointments to State Boards
116. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she plans to advertise publicly for the vacant position on the board of the Irish Film Board; and if she will make a statement...
- Offshore Islands
117. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding provided for in the Estimates for 2016 for island development offices and staff on non-Gaeltacht offshore islands; the...
- Calafoirt agus Céanna
118. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an mbeadh sí sásta casadh le toscaireacht ó phobal Inis Meáin le ceist forbairt Ché an Chalaidh Mhóir a...
