Written answers

Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • UN Sustainable Development Goals
      108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the United Nations' sustainable development goals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36987/15]
    • Syrian Conflict
      109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on how the conflict in Syria can be ended. [36988/15]
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware, of the decision by the family of a person (details supplied) to appeal a decision that the British Prime Minister, Mr. David...
    • Trade Strategy
      111. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to his Dáil statement on 30 April 2015 regarding his efforts, as Minister, to promote Ireland's trade and export markets...
    • Official Engagements
      112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his meeting with the envoy of the United States of America, Senator Gary Hart; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made any representations to the Northern Ireland authorities regarding the length of remand that segregated prisoners are held...
    • Passport Services
      114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide details of alternative methods of identity verification which could release hard working gardaí from this...
    • Overseas Development Aid Expenditure
      115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way the allocation of the welcome increase in overseas development aid will be determined; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of requests that have been made to his Department by the military of the United States of America for landing permits at Shannon...
    • UN Resolutions
      117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support the Cuban people by calling for an end to the blockade by the United States of America which has been estimated to cost...
    • Trade Relations
      118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on Ireland's current trade status with China; if this trade continues to grow; if Chinese companies are, or will be,...
    • Middle East Issues
      119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent events in Palestine and Israel which have seen a number of civilians die in violent circumstances. [37732/15]
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress on establishing a reciprocal E3 visa with the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37731/15]
    • Consular Services Provision
      121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on his Department's efforts to support the families and friends of Irish students who lost their lives in Berkeley in...
    • Trade Relations
      122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his Department's plans for safeguarding Ireland’s trade relationship with the United Kingdoom, should the latter decide to exit the...
    • Human Rights Issues
      123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken to raise lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights internationally, in particular with states that criminalise...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on his Department's contacts with the independent chairperson of the review regarding the situation in Maghaberry Prison, and...
    • European Council Meetings
      125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his discussions with his European Union counterparts regarding the need to assist refugees from the Middle East and...
    • Overseas Development Aid Expenditure
      126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the precise timeline to which the Government plans to achieve the target of 0.7% of gross domestic product spending on overseas development...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will confirm whether the United States of America gunship, AC-130W, responsible for the horrific bombing of the Médicins Sans...
    • Middle East Issues
      128. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action the Irish Government or the European Union intends to take to force Israel to cease the increase in civilian deaths in Palestine,...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      129. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the Free Otegi, Bring all Basque Political Prisoners home campaign, which pushes for the release of Basque political...
    • European Council Meetings
      130. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had with his European counterparts; or at the European Union Foreign Affairs Council, in respect of the escalating...
    • EU Membership
      131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his European Union colleagues continue to examine and evaluate the consequences of a possible British exit from...
    • Undocumented Irish in the USA
      132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress on the establishment of a visa waiver scheme with the United States of America for undocumented Irish; and if he will make a...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      133. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will guarantee that none of the military planes of the United States of America that have passed through Shannon Airport or Irish...
    • Middle East Issues
      134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade given the continuing and escalating aggression by Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territories, resulting in a number of deaths...
    • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
      135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of any recent discussions that he had with the Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Ms Theresa Villiers, and-or with the British...
    • UN Sustainable Development Goals
      136. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline the work on the implementation of the sustainable development goals; and if Ireland will support the disability caucus...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his assessment of the Government's actions to highlight the ongoing genocidal activity against Christians, Yazidis and other Muslim...
    • Passport Services
      138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress being made with the proposed online passport application process; when he anticipates it will be in operation; and if he will...
    • Human Rights Issues
      139. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware, of the ongoing and continued detention of a person (details supplied), a non-violent anti-slavery activist in Mauritania;...
    • EU Migration Crisis
      140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his European Union colleagues have examined the EU's response to the recent refugee crisis with a view to...
    • Departmental Strategies
      141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, with the impending expiry of the Trading and Investing in a Smart Economy, the Government Trade, Tourism and Investment Strategy...
    • EU Migration Crisis
      142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the European Council's action plan with Turkey on the refugee crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • UN Committees
      143. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the legal obligations that exist directing the Government to act on the reports and recommendations of the United Nations human rights...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the contact he has had with Minister of Justice in the Northern Ireland Assembly, Mr David Ford, and with the British Secretary of State for...
    • International Agreements
      145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade recognising that Ireland has signed the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a humanitarian pledge to stigmatise,...
    • Northern Ireland Issues
      146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the representations made by him to the Northern Ireland authorities in relation to the lack of implementation of the stock-take of prison...
    • EU Migration Crisis
      147. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the €3 billion in aid for Turkey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37147/15]
    • European Council Meetings
      148. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the recent European Union Council meeting discussed the human rights situation in Egypt; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Department of An Taoiseach
    • Freedom of Information Data
      149. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Freedom of Information requests received by his Department in 2015 to date, in tabular form; the number of such requests where the period of consideration,...
    • Departmental Budgets
      150. To ask the Taoiseach the total estimated expenditure of his Department in 2015, in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of the year for 2015; the extra expenditure or...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      151. To ask the Taoiseach the allocation for his Department in 2016 which covers the Lansdowne Road agreement; and the demographic or other inflationary pressures. [37285/15]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      152. To ask the Taoiseach if he will indicate, in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the name of each appointee made from 7 March 2011 to date in 2015; the date of appointment;...
    • Jobs Data
      153. To ask the Taoiseach the number of jobs created in the past three years; and the number that were part-time contracts and full-time contracts. [37221/15]
    • Departmental Staff Data
      155. To ask the Taoiseach the number of civil servants under his remit that have been re-instated in recent years after taking a career break; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38733/15]
  • Department of Social Protection
    • Disability Activation Projects
      156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection for an update on the Disability Activation Project and Training Options Programme, providing training and skills upgrades to...
    • Social Welfare Appeals
      157. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will favourably examine an appeal by persons (details supplied), and allow for various costs such as mortgage interest...
    • Registration of Births
      158. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to alter the section of the Civil Registration Act 2004 dealing with the registration of births (details supplied); if...
    • Household Benefits Scheme
      159. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding electricity cuts in budget 2016; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Legislative Measures
      160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason determination orders issued by the maintenance recovery unit were not catered for in the legislation for the...
    • Exceptional Needs Payment Eligibility
      161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the policy and procedure for accessing emergency financial support for rental payments in private rental accommodation, while...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals
      162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason payment of a jobseeker's allowance to a person (details supplied) ceased. [37231/15]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      163. 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 Kerry, given that this...
    • Departmental Budgets
      164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the total estimated expenditure of her Department in 2015 in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of the...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      165. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the allocation for her Department in 2016 which covers the Lansdowne Road agreement; and the demographic or other inflationary...
    • Child Benefit Eligibility
      166. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans on extending child benefit to be paid to 18 year olds who are still in full time education. [37208/15]
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      167. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will clearly outline the process for getting a personal public service number on her Department's website. [37330/15]
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the entitlement to continue to receive a carer's allowance for a period of time after the care recipient enters a nursing home or...
    • Farm Assist Scheme
      169. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if her Department will facilitate the transfer of a farm assist payment for a farming couple; the issues involved in transferring...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      172. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will indicate, in respect of State boards under her Department's remit, the name of each appointee made from 7 March 2011...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      173. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will examine and expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, as all...
    • Illness Benefit Eligibility
      175. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason payment on submission of medical certificates is not being made in the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Illness Benefit Payments
      176. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason for the delay in paying illness benefit to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will expedite the...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      178. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will intervene in the decision to remove the disability allowance of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      179. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for a disability allowance appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, as all...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal in respect of an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a domiciliary care allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make...
    • Water Conservation Grant
      182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will clarify a matter in relation to the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; if her Department has received an...
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility
      183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13 who has been out of work since mid-August 2015 and who...
    • Social Welfare Benefits
      184. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if the Christmas bonus still applies to the same social welfare payments as in 2014; and if she will provide a list of the...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will consider allowing persons who have completed a six year term on a community employment scheme and who are approaching...
    • State Pension (Non-Contributory) Eligibility
      186. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason for the reduction in a State pension to a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a...
    • Carer's Allowance Eligibility
      187. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will examine and expedite a decision on an appeal for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      188. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when an application for a disability allowance will be finalised for a person in (details supplied) County Tipperary; and if she...
    • Jobseeker's Benefit Payments
      189. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cause of the delay into the investigation of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick who has sought to have a spousal...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      190. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a disability allowance or other relevant payments; and if she will make a...
    • Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility
      191. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why her Department refused to grant a supplementary welfare allowancea to a person (details supplied) for the purpose of clothing...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection for details of any groups which no longer qualify for the fuel allowance and the Christmas bonus announced in budget 2016. [37585/15]
    • Jobseeker's Allowance Payments
      193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will commit to providing a service that will facilitate a social welfare payment to be made into the personal bank account...
    • Back to Education Allowance
      194. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will revise the rules related to progression in the back to education allowance, to allow those persons undertaking...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when an application for a carer's allowance will be finalised for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
      196. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when an application for a domiciliary care allowance will be finalised for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      197. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when an application for a carer's allowance will be finalised for a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Data
      199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she has considered postponing three-monthly and six-monthly community welfare reviews of rent supplement entitlements for...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
      200. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will review an application for rent allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare, given the person's rent has...
    • Pension Provisions
      201. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if her Department has sought legal advice in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11 who is 67 years of age, living...
    • Community Employment Schemes Operation
      202. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if it is permitted to insist that Community Employment Scheme workers work on Sundays against their will; and if not, the recourse...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Payments
      203. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the measures that will be taken to ensure that a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 receives a higher level of rent supplement...
    • Family Income Supplement Payments
      204. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if it is fair that persons who have been forced to switch from a lone parent payment to a family income supplement due to age...
    • Family Income Supplement
      205. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason the family income supplement to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has been decreased by €300; if her...
    • Social Welfare Payments Administration
      206. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a payment to a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be reinstated; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Disability Pension Applications
      207. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will review an application for a disability pension by a person (details supplied) in County Longford, whose application...
    • Private Security Authority Remit
      208. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a Private Security Authority licence in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if...
    • State Pension (Contributory)
      209. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the changes made to the State Pension (Contributory) in the past five years; and the changes intended to take effect in the next...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Expenditure
      210. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the cost in 2016 of increasing the maximum child age of the one-parent family payment from its current threshold of seven years to...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding cohabitating couples and income thresholds; and if she will make a...
    • Disability Allowance Payments
      212. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a disability allowance payment to a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be reinstated; and if she will make a...
    • Domiciliary Care Allowance Payments
      213. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when payment of a domiciliary care allowance to a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be reinstated ; and if she will...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      214. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of review of a carer's allowance for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Disability Allowance Eligibility
      215. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Question No. 22 of 13 October 2015, if she will review whether the full amount of disability allowance is payable to a...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Number 33 of 13 October 2015, if all assistance possible has been provided to a person (details...
    • Social Welfare Code
      217. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views, that it is problematic for recipients of social welfare payments to provide proof to her Department of their actively...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals
      218. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will request the Appeals Office to expedite an appeal by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3, given that the person's...
    • Community Employment Schemes Data
      219. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of Community Employment Projects that are sponsored by local authorities, Údarás Na Gaeltachta, citizen...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      220. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an application for invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, as all relevant...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who is working full-time, but who is at risk of becoming homeless due...
    • Guardian's Payment Appeals
      222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when an appeal in respect of a guardian's payment to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be expedited; and if she...
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      223. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will receive a decision on an appeal in respect of a disability allowance....
    • Jobseeker's Allowance
      225. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 is not receiving the full jobseeker's allowance payment rate. [37919/15]
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      226. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo against the refusal of an application for an invalidity...
    • Social Welfare Code
      227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a couple who are not married but living together and where one person of the couple is working, and when it...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      228. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if persons (details supplied) in County Cork will be approved for a disability allowance and a carer's allowance; and if she will...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will consider a change to local community employment schemes to permit persons to continue participating in the schemes...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision regarding an application for a disability allowance; and if she will make...
    • Social Welfare Appeals Status
      231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on a social welfare appeal by a person (details supplied). [37980/15]
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position of persons who are receiving the back to education allowance, and how this affects their contribution record and...
    • Water Conservation Grant
      233. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will accept a late application for a water conservation grant from a person (details supplied) in County Galway, given that...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Administration
      234. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding rent supplement. [38047/15]
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection for an update on an application for invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
    • Youth Unemployment Measures
      237. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on the latest European Union labour force survey, which shows Ireland's youth unemployment level at 20%, which is twice...
    • Social Welfare Rates
      238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost in 2016 of increasing the disability allowance; the blind pension; the invalidity pension; and the...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      239. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if a carer's allowance will be approved for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [38063/15]
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      240. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason illness benefit and exceptional needs payments were not approved for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if...
    • Invalidity Pension Eligibility
      241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the supports available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is in receipt of an invalidity pension and who wishes to...
    • One-Parent Family Payment Applications
      243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the current position regarding an application for lone parents' allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if...
    • Carer's Allowance Appeals
      244. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection for an update on the status of an appeal for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and when the person...
    • Disability Allowance
      245. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when the suspension of a person's (details supplied) disability allowance will be rescinded; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Parliamentary Questions
      246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason a recent parliamentary question submitted by this Deputy was not answered (details supplied), given that the content of...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will examine and expedite an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied), as all relevant...
    • Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility
      248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the assistance available to the child of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare for eye care; and if she will make a...
    • Invalidity Pension Eligibility
      249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason a person in County Mayo has not been able to receive an invalidity pension; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue on an invalidity pension to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a...
    • Back to Education Allowance Appeals
      251. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will reconsider an application for a back to education allowance from a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if...
    • State Pensions Reform
      252. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection for details of reform measures in respect of the State pension introduced since 2011; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility
      253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to ensure that women who spent a lengthy period of time on home duties, and subsequently worked for up to 25 years and...
    • Departmental Offices
      254. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to a previous response, the level of liaison that has taken place regarding a case in Kerry (details supplied); if her...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      255. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a decision will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38184/15]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why a decision was made not to grant a disability allowance to a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow; if she is aware that...
    • Labour Activation Measures
      257. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will take steps to ensure that all job activation measures are available to all unemployed persons, regardless of their...
    • Exceptional Needs Payments
      259. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the budget that has been allocated for exceptional needs payments in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38209/15]
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      260. 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 disability allowance; the reason...
    • Dietary Allowance Applications
      261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Cavan will have an adult diet supplement allowance reinstated; and if she will make a...
    • Illness Benefit Applications
      262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for sick pay by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; if it will be expedited due to financial...
    • Respite Care Grant Applications
      263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection for an update on an application for a respite care grant for a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [38285/15]
    • Social Welfare Code
      264. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will consider revisiting the rule whereby persons who are in receipt of the widow's pension, and who work and pay PRSI,...
    • Invalidity Pension Appeals
      265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she will make...
    • Carer's Allowance Payments
      266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason payment of a carer's allowance is proposed to be suspended with effect from 5 November 2015, without an explanation to...
    • Disability Allowance Applications
      267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the up-to-date status of a social welfare appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a...
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why the system of acquiring personal public service numbers for non-Irish citizens was changed recently, whereby such persons now...
    • Carer's Allowance Application Numbers
      269. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of persons under 66 years of age who are in receipt of the carer's allowance in 2015; and if she will make a statement...
    • Community Employment Schemes Eligibility
      270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why a person (details supplied) in County Longford has been informed by a sector employer adviser that the person is unable to...
    • Carer's Allowance Applications
      271. 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 Longford; and if she will...
    • Family Income Supplement Data
      272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of family income supplement, by the number of children, by single parent households and by two-parent...
    • Departmental Advertising Campaigns
      274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if her Department has plans to run an advertising campaign to promote the uptake of the family income supplement in 2016; the...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [38337/15]
    • Disability Allowance Appeals
      276. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a person (details supplied) in County Longford with a disability allowance, as a matter of urgency, in view of...
    • Invalidity Pension Applications
      277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when an application for an invalidity pension by a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will be finalised; and if she...
    • Registration of Marriages
      278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if the provisions of the Civil Registration (Amendment) Act 2014 apply to US citizens residing here on a Stamp 4 basis, who wish...
    • Rent Supplement Scheme Eligibility
      279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to disregard maintenance as means for rent allowance for lone parents, given that the purpose of maintenance is to make provision...
    • Invalidity Pension Eligibility
      280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is entitled to an invalidity pension; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of civil servants under her remit who have been re-instated in recent years after taking a career break; and if she...
  • Department of Finance
    • NAMA Social Housing Provision
      282. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the delivery of 20,000 units for commercial sale by NAMA; and if any of these units will be made available for social housing or designated for...
    • Budget 2016
      283. To ask the Minister for Finance for the full year cost of the tax breaks given in budget 2016 to those earning, €70,000; €100,000; and €150,000, in tabular form; and if...
    • Departmental Budgets
      284. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated expenditure of his Department in 2015 in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of the year for 2015; the extra...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      285. To ask the Minister for Finance the allocation for his Department in 2016 which covers the Lansdowne Road agreement; and the demographic or other inflationary pressures. [37278/15]
    • Personal Public Service Numbers
      286. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason it is necessary to get a personal public service number for a deceased foreigner who is leaving a legacy to an Irish relative; and if he will...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      287. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will indicate, in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the name of each appointee made from 7 March 2011 to date in 2015; the date of...
    • Investor Compensation Company Limited
      288. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Investor Compensation Company Limited levy applies to public loss assessors in the insurance sector, given that the fund does not benefit their...
    • Tax Rebates
      289. To ask the Minister for Finance if a married couple (details supplied) in County Wexford, who were not given the correct marriage allowance for the past 18 years, will be reconsidered for...
    • Tax Code
      290. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding tax allowance and credits for couples living together; the reason the anomalies between married couples and unmarried couples still...
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      291. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the matter of the 2015 Central Bank category C industry funding levy which shows a 45% increase over last year, and a 300% increase in some...
    • Tax Exemptions
      292. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider changing the date that the exemption from inheritance tax applies, to the date of death of the benefactor, and not the date when the grant...
    • Credit Unions
      293. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will refrain from commencing the recommendcations in Consultation Paper 88 while considering the recommendation of the International Credit Union...
    • Currency Circulation
      294. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the result of any cost benefit analysis carried out by his Department on the rounding-up of prices, and change to the nearest 5 cent;...
    • European Central Bank
      295. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has estimated the impact of European Central Bank quantitative easing on growth rates on tax revenues since this policy began; and if he...
    • Home Renovation Incentive Scheme
      296. To ask the Minister for Finance further to parliamentary Question No. 245 of 20 October 2015, if he will clarify the apparent contradiction in the last two paragraphs in his reply in the...
    • Mortgage Interest Rates
      297. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the Central Bank report published in May 2015 entitled Influences on Standard Variable Mortgage Pricing in Ireland, in the context that this...
    • Property Tax Yield
      298. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of local property tax collected in the Dublin City Council area for the nine months, ending September 2014; ending September 2015; and if he will...
    • NAMA Operations
      299. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected payment schedules for future housing projects funded by the National Asset Management Agency; and his views on claims that there are...
    • Living City Initiative
      301. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications received under the living city initiative, by eligible city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37715/15]
    • Banking Sector
      302. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm the total value of facilities sanctioned by the Irish pillar banks that were offered to private developers for the purpose of site...
    • Tax Exemptions
      303. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify if budget 2016 altered the situation regarding the reply to Question No. 83 of 20 September 2015 in respect of persons who rent a room in...
    • Tax Code
      304. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to encourage employers to hire persons returning to work after being absent for a number of years for reasons of child rearing or other family...
    • Tax Exemptions
      305. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to exempt those over 66 years of age from stamp duty if they downsize their homes and purchase another; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Reliefs Data
      307. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason for the increase in the disregard applied to the tax relief for tuition fees in respect of third level education, from €2,750 to...
    • Vehicle Registration
      308. To ask the Minister for Finance if Ireland's vehicle registration tax measures infringe upon a number of European Union laws (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Tax Code
      309. To ask the Minister for Finance further to parliamentary Question No. 242 of 20 October 2015, if he is satisfied that in light of the decision of the European Union Commission in a legal...
    • Banking Sector
      312. To ask the Minister for Finance the terms under which Allied Irish Banks can redeem the contingent convertible bonds which the State holds in the bank; the manner in which a redemption of...
    • Tax Yield
      315. To ask the Minister for Finance the revenue calculated from capital gains tax in each of the years 1995 to 2014; and the applicable rates in each year. [37881/15]
    • Pension Provisions
      316. To ask the Minister for Finance the maximum amount that a person can withdraw per year from an approved minimum retirement fund before reaching the age of 75; his plans to change this...
    • Primary Medical Certificates Eligibility
      318. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the criteria in respect of the primary medical certificate; if he is aware that the Ombudsman referred to the need to change these...
    • Alcohol Sales
      319. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to regulate the importation of alcohol for direct sale, that is, by online sale to the home; and the measures that are in place to ensure duty is...
    • Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base Proposals
      320. To ask the Minister for Finance his position on the introduction of the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base; if this issue was ever discussed with the troika; if any commitment was...
    • Universal Social Charge Exemptions
      321. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of additional workers who would be removed from the universal social charge if the exemption rate was increased from €13,000 to...
    • Property Tax Exemptions
      322. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will include Longboat Quay and other residential buildings, with major fire safety or other structural issues, in a scheme to exempt the residents from...
    • Insurance Costs
      323. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has requested the Central Bank of Ireland, as regulator of the insurance industry, to report to his Department and the Houses of the Oireachtas on the...
    • Tax Reliefs Eligibility
      324. To ask the Minister for Finance the criteria under which a teacher is entitled to claim flat rate expenses; and if this payment is open to, teachers in English language schools and teachers...
    • Tax Code
      325. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address an issue regarding income tax raised by a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Tax Rebates
      326. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person in County Kildare (details attached ) is due a tax refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38113/15]
    • Compulsory Purchase Orders
      328. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Question No. 347 of 20 October 2015, and to the contents of the Finance Bill 2016 published on 22 October 2015, if he will outline the conditions...
    • Child Care Costs
      329. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered the introduction of tax relief for child care costs (details supplied). [38132/15]
    • Excise Duties Yield
      330. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of excise duty collected in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38196/15]
    • Central Bank of Ireland
      331. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken regarding allegations by whistleblowers of wrongdoing, whereby they conducted audits for the Central Bank of Ireland and were...
    • Pensions Levy
      332. To ask the Minister for Finance if the final 0.15% pension fund levy expires at the end of 2015, when the enabling relevant legislation will be deleted from the Statute Book; and if he will...
    • Ministerial Meetings
      334. To ask the Minister for Finance what specifically the agenda point media plans for senior persons for his meeting with AIB in September 2015 related to; and if he will report on the...
    • Banking Sector Regulation
      335. To ask the Minister for Finance to report on his discussions with Allied Irish Banks on the macroprudential rules introduced by the Central Bank; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Public Sector Staff Career Breaks
      336. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of civil servants under his remit that have been reinstated in recent years after taking a career break; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
    • Tax Exemptions
      337. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current position regarding an exemption from rates for all community sports clubs not registered under the 1904 Act which operate on...
    • Cross-Border Co-operation
      338. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the common chapter which formed part of the national development plan for the south of Ireland and the structural funds plan for the...
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      339. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the areas identified under catchment flood risk assessment and management studies in County Meath; if the draft...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      341. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated expenditure of his Department in 2015 in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of the year for...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      342. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the allocation for his Department in 2016 which covers the Lansdowne Road agreement; and the demographic or other inflationary...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      343. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will indicate, in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the name of each appointee from 7 March 2011 to date in...
    • Public Sector Staff Recruitment
      344. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Questions Number 419 and 421 of 22 September 2015, if he will clarify the Public Service Management...
    • Public Sector Staff
      345. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clarify a matter (details supplied) regarding the reinstatement of civil servants under his remit; and if he will make a...
    • Drainage Schemes
      346. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his proposals to carry out drainage work on a river (details supplied) in County Cavan; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Office of Public Works Expenditure
      347. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost to the Office of Public Works of private security, pest control, and other services relating to the securing or maintenance of...
    • Legislative Measures
      348. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will review and reverse all cuts under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 and similar emergency cuts...
    • Drainage Schemes
      349. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to a previous parliamentary question of 22 September 2015, when approval will be given for a drainage scheme on the Clare River;...
    • Public Sector Pensions
      350. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider the request of a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38180/15]
  • Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
    • Trade Data
      351. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which Ireland’s trade with various European countries throughout the European Union continues to grow; the way...
    • Departmental Budgets
      352. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the estimated expenditure of his Department in 2015, in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of the year for...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      353. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the allocation for his Department in 2016 which covers the Lansdowne Road agreement; and the demographic or other inflationary...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      354. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will indicate, in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the name of each appointee from 7 March 2011 to date in...
    • Job Creation
      355. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps Enterprise Ireland and the Industrial Development Agency Ireland are taking to create employment in Clonshaugh Business and...
    • Exchequer Payments
      356. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for a list of the cost to the Exchequer of Oifig Uachtarán na hÉireann; the main expenditure categories including staff...
    • Industrial Development
      357. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will direct the Industrial Development Agency Ireland to refurbish and upgrade the run-down industrial estates in County Kerry...
    • Back to Education Allowance Applications
      358. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if an application for a back to education allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be reviewed, given the...
    • Work Permit Applications
      359. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for an update on a general work permit application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Black Economy
      360. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the crackdown on exploitation of construction workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on...
    • Housing Issues
      361. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the impact of increasingly high rental prices in urban areas, specifically in the commuter belt areas of Kildare North, Meath and...
    • Jobs Protection
      362. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the action he has taken to protect jobs in companies (details supplied) due to a planned acquisition; and if he will make a statement...
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      363. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the annual spend on each regional action plan for jobs; for a breakdown on specific spending plans; the anticipated procurement plan...
    • Knowledge Development Box
      364. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for the information available on the planned knowledge development box initiative, as referred to in budget 2016; and if he will make...
    • Action Plan for Jobs
      365. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the action has Department has taken on delivering the regional potential strand of the 2015 Action Plan for Jobs; and if he will make...
    • Employment Rights
      366. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for an outline of the forthcoming legislation for enhancing the job security of those on short hour and zero hour contracts; and if he...
    • Patent Applications
      367. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the reason for the significant decline of national full-term patent filings received, following the publication of its annual report...
    • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
      368. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for an update on the discussions on the transatlantic trade and investment partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Legislative Measures
      369. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures he will take to implement the Construction Contracts Act 2013 at an early date; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Jobs Protection
      370. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the action he has taken to protect jobs at a company (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Company Law
      372. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has received any submissions regarding section 305(1) of the Companies Act 2014 relative to the income remuneration disclosures...
    • Departmental Agencies
      373. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the integration, on a practical level, that exists between InterTradeIreland and the local enterprise offices, Enterprise Ireland, the...
    • Economic Competitiveness
      374. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the latest ranking from the World Bank Doing Business report, which states that Ireland has dropped to No. 17 in the...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      375. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of civil servants under his remit who have been reinstated in recent years after taking a career break; and if he will make...
  • Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    • Departmental Agencies Staff Recruitment
      376. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will allow Teagasc, the Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority, to appoint sufficient staff to deal with its remit of...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      377. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork has not yet received payments under the disadvantaged areas scheme and single...
    • Harness Racing Industry
      378. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the Irish Harness Racing Association; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • North South Ministerial Council
      382. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine which Department has overall responsibility for biosecurity; his views on whether it is a matter for the North-South Ministerial...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      383. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on farm payments to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [37177/15]
    • Direct Payment Scheme Applications
      385. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a payment to a person (details supplied) in County Kerry under the areas of natural constraint scheme was reduced; and if...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      386. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive payments under the agri-environment options scheme for 2013 and 2014;...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      388. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when his Department will upload the maps for 2014 for a farmer (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Greyhound Industry
      389. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if public consultations have taken place with interested parties on the proposed muzzling of greyhounds at open coursing events; the...
    • Jobs Initiative
      390. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Number 376 of 21 April 2015 regarding the 2011 Killybegs County Donegal jobs initiative, if he has...
    • Crime Data
      391. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times the maximum penalties for animal cruelty offences have been applied by the courts under the Animal Health and...
    • Direct Payment Scheme Applications
      392. 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 Mayo; and if he will...
    • Knackery Industry
      393. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the regulations preventing knackery owners who have a dog food licence from delivering dog food to customers, while at the same time...
    • Afforestation Programme
      394. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of an afforestation project (details supplied) that is due to commence in County Mayo; if he has given approval for...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      395. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a payment under the disadvantaged areas scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      396. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated expenditure of his Department in 2015, in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of the year for...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      397. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the agri-environment option scheme 2015 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      398. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation for his Department in 2016 which covers the Lansdowne Road agreement; and the demographic or other inflationary...
    • TAMS Eligibility
      399. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if grant aid is available for control of farm yard pollution in circumstances where young persons are taking over family holdings...
    • Tuberculosis Eradication Programme Payments
      400. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will amend the current tuberculosis testing charges and exempt farmers from paying for more than one test in a year; and if he...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      401. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will indicate, in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the name of each appointee made from 7 March 2011 to...
    • Exports Data
      402. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the volume of exports of beef, dairy, fruit, vegetables, and marine products to all countries in each of the years 2010 to 2014, in...
    • Imports Data
      403. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the volume of imports of beef, dairy, fruit, vegetables and marine products from all countries in each of the years 2010 to 2014, in...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      404. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (detail supplied) will receive a payment under the areas of natural constraint scheme; the reason for the delay; and if...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      405. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to comply with direction CEI/14/007 of the Commissioner for Environmental Information and to release the specified records;...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      406. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the 2015 single farm payment scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      407. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the assistance available to young farmers inheriting the family farm and needing to invest in their farm yards to control farm yard...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      408. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a payment under the areas of natural constraint scheme for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      409. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare was not paid a single farm payment in 2014; when the person will receive the...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      410. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application for farm payments to persons (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Dairy Sector
      411. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on the European Union €800 million superlevy package intervention plan to help dairy farmers who have...
    • Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
      412. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking with European Union colleagues in relation to the transatlantic trade and investment partnership negotiations...
    • Trade Agreements
      413. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has had discussions at European Union level following the recent decision by the US to increase the tariff on all imported...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      414. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the disadvantaged areas scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Meetings
      415. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of meetings he and officials from his Department have had with lobbyists from fish producer organisations since the...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      416. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when persons (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payment under the single farm payment scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
      417. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when persons (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive payment under the disadvantaged areas scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Departmental Correspondence
      418. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Number 76 of 11 March 2015, if he will address a matter in respect of a person (details supplied)...
    • Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments
      419. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath will receive outstanding agricultural payments for 2014 and 2015, given that...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      420. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when outstanding headage payments will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Fish Quotas
      421. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received correspondence from a fisherman's organisation (details supplied) in County Donegal concerning permissible total...
    • Fishing Industry Development
      422. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of licences that have been applied for in the bays along our coast since 1 January 2010, in total; in each bay, by name,...
    • Aquaculture Development
      423. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the development of the aquaculture industry; if statistics are available on the number, of aquaculture businesses; the...
    • Agriculture Scheme Appeals
      424. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on an appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick in respect of a 2013 single payment and a disadvantaged...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      425. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) from County Donegal can expect to receive payment under the disadvantaged areas scheme and the...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      426. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive farm payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37747/15]
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      427. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to re-introduce the installation aid for young farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37749/15]
    • GLAS Data
      428. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have, to date, been officially informed that they have been accepted into the green low carbon...
    • Rural Development Plan
      429. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation in the rural development plan 2014 to 2020 for the new green low carbon agri-environment scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme
      430. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the assistance available from his Department to farmers, who are over 40 years of age, to build a shed to hold fodder; if no...
    • Fishing Industry
      431. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the qualifications or criteria that an entity or company must have or satisfy, to be eligible to deliver the next local action...
    • Beef Data Programme
      432. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of active participants in the beef data and genomics scheme; the number of farmers who have submitted samples; the number...
    • Harbour Authorities Properties
      433. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a property (details supplied) in County Dublin will be available for tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37788/15]
    • Basic Payment Scheme
      435. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive farm payments; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      436. 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 Mayo; and if he will...
    • Single Payment Scheme Appeals
      437. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare regarding an appeal of a penalty under the single farm...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      438. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a farmer (details supplied) in County Clare will receive payments under the single payment scheme and the areas of natural...
    • Farmers Indebtedness
      439. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views regarding the matter of loans to individual farmers from banks and financial institutions for the past three years, for...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments
      440. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive payments for 2014 and 2015 under the agri-environment options scheme;...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
      441. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if basic payments will be returned to a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Scéimeanna Rannach
      444. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine an bhfuil sé i gceist aige na rialacha a athrú chun gur féidir le hiascairí a fuair tonnáiste faoin...
    • Beef Data Programme
      445. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a non-genotyped four or five-star Irish Cattle Breeding Federation-rated cow in the herd prior to 5 June 2015, which is...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      446. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in the payment to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal under the area based payment scheme and the...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility
      448. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Louth will receive a payment under the single payment scheme; and if he will make a...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      449. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a single payment for 2015 to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme Applications
      450. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the lands associated with a herd number (details supplied) qualify for payments under the areas of natural constraints scheme now;...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      451. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for an update on payments to a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [37986/15]
    • Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme Applications
      452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a payment has not issued to a person (details supplied) in County Galway under the areas of natural constraints scheme and...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a payment has not issued to a person (details supplied) in County Galway under the areas of natural constraints scheme and...
    • Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme Applications
      455. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the area aid scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Tuberculosis Testing
      456. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for details of any improvement in the tuberculosis testing used on Irish cattle since it was first introduced; and if he will make a...
    • Waste Disposal
      457. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the licences necessary, and the regulations that must be complied with, when a person wishes to establish an animal waste disposal...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      458. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the basic payment scheme will issue to a person (details provided) in County Kerry; and if he will make a...
    • Animal Breeding Regulations
      459. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will review the rules and guidelines surrounding dog breeding establishments; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a farmer (details supplied) in County Clare will receive payments under the single payment scheme and the areas of natural...
    • GLAS Applications
      463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the closing date for the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme 2 until 20 December 2015; and if he will make a...
    • EU Funding
      464. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when €13.7 million made available by the European Union due to the crisis in the dairy industry will be paid to dairy farmers;...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      465. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment under the areas of natural constraints scheme and the basic payment scheme will issue to a farmer (details supplied) in...
    • Departmental Schemes
      466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of the areas of natural constraints scheme, if the cutbacks that applied since 2008 to it and to the disadvantaged...
    • Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications
      467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38190/15]
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person in County Mayo will receive farm payments; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Question No. 112 of 13 October 2015, when a payment will issue to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Bovine Disease Levies
      472. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a farmer from County Clare (details supplied) will receive a payment under the bovine viral diarrhoea compensation scheme; and...
    • Hardship Grant Scheme Applications
      473. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a hardship grant in respect of tuberculosis restrictions will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he...
    • Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme Applications
      474. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when headage payments for 2015 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      475. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork [38261/15]
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive payments under the single farm payment scheme and the areas of natural...
    • Waste Management Regulations
      478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his views on the spreading of human waste as slurry or fertiliser on Irish farmlands; the measures in place to protect the...
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      479. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to explain the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare only received a payment for 12.2 entitlements under the single farm...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the single payment scheme will issue to a person in County Tipperary (details supplied); and if he will make a...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Applications
      481. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 329 of 16 July 2015 if he will provide an update on this matter; and if he will make a...
    • Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Applications
      482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the disadvantaged areas scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will...
    • Suckler Welfare Scheme Payments
      484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the 2012 suckler cow scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a...
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will receive farm payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38352/15]
    • Single Payment Scheme Payments
      486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to explain the reason persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny have not received payment under the single payment scheme; if...
    • Single Payment Scheme Applications
      487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to explain the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare has not been facilitated with a farm payment; and if he will make a...
    • Basic Payment Scheme Payments
      488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a farmer (details supplied) in County Mayo will receive farm payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38380/15]
    • Agriculture Scheme Payments
      490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the steps he will take to ensure that all payments due to a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath under the...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      491. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the number of civil servants under his remit who have been reinstated in recent years after taking a career break; and if...
  • Department of Defence
    • Departmental Budgets
      492. To ask the Minister for Defence to set out the estimated expenditure of his Department in 2015 in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of the year for 2015; the extra...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      493. To ask the Minister for Defence to outline the allocation for his Department in 2016 which covers the Lansdowne Road agreement; and the demographic or other inflationary pressures. [37275/15]
    • Appointments to State Boards
      494. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will indicate, in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the name of each appointee made from 7 March 2011 to date in 2015; the date of...
    • White Paper on Defence
      495. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will support the Reserve Defence Force recommendation for the White Paper on Defence (details supplied). [37513/15]
    • Defence Forces Investigations
      496. To ask the Minister for Defence when he will publish the findings of the independent review by retired High Court judge, Mr. Justice Roderick Murphy, of the death of Private Hugh Doherty and...
    • Defence Forces Operations
      497. To ask the Minister for Defence further to the reply to Question Nos. 357 and 358 of 20 October 2015 if he will specifically and unambiguously confirm whether the triple lock mechanism and...
    • Freedom of Information Requests
      498. To ask the Minister for Defence for an update on a representation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38146/15]
    • Defence Forces Deployment
      499. To ask the Minister for Defence if his Department received any communications from the Department of the Taoiseach relating to the Defence Forces providing security around automated teller...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      501. To ask the Minister for Defence to outline the number of civil servants under his remit who have been reinstated in recent years after taking a career break; and if he will make a statement...
  • Department of Justice and Equality
    • Residential Property Prices Register
      502. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out her plans to improve the residential property price register by the inclusion of readily available information, such as whether the...
    • Disability Support Services
      503. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the programme schedule for the roll-out and implementation of the comprehensive employment strategy for people with disabilities; and...
    • Wards of Court
      504. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline her plans to implement the recommendations made by the Committee of Public Accounts relating to wards of court; if this will be done...
    • Syrian Conflict
      505. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set out her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the Syrian refugee crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Equality Issues
      506. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if legislation will be amended to ensure that persons with dyslexia are provided with the necessary assistance to sit aptitude tests and...
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      507. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding Kilmainham Garda station, Dublin 8; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Garda Remuneration
      508. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will reinstate the Garda Síochána annual rent allowance for new recruits; if she will acknowledge the important...
    • Crime Prevention
      509. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the actions his Government has taken to combat crime, especially in rural areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37159/15]
    • Spent Convictions Legislation
      510. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline her plans to bring the Spent Convictions Bill before the Houses of the Oireachtas, given her previous commitment that the matter would...
    • Prison Visiting Committees
      511. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the Irish Prison Service has failed to accommodate an urgent request by a cross-party group of Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas...
    • Magdalen Laundries Data
      512. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 167 of 13 October 2015, if she will provide a breakdown, by institution, of the 1,846 women and girls...
    • Proposed Legislation
      520. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of items of legislation regarding legal birth parents' progression to become inclusive of surrogate families. [37252/15]
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      521. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason persons (details supplied) have not received a genuine reply addressing their surrogacy concerns. [37253/15]
    • Garda Strength
      522. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of gardaí currently stationed at the Garda Síochána stations at Clondalkin Village and Ronanstown and at Lucan...
    • Departmental Budgets
      523. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated expenditure of her Department in 2015, in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of the year for 2015; the...
    • Magdalen Laundries Data
      524. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 168 of 13 October 2015, if she will provide a breakdown, by institution, of the 879 women and girls who...
    • Magdalen Laundries Report
      526. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of women who died in the Magdalene laundries who were taken home to be buried by their families, as stated in chapter 16, section 34...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      527. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the allocation for her Department in 2016 which covers the Lansdowne Road agreement; and the demographic or other inflationary pressures. [37282/15]
    • Immigration Policy
      528. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will ensure that persons visiting the Garda Síochána National Immigration Bureau offices receive information in the location of...
    • Firearms Licences
      529. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the average time it takes for the firearms section of her Department to process applications for import and export licences for non-military...
    • Proposed Legislation
      531. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reduce the bankruptcy term from three years to one year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37322/15]
    • State Bodies
      532. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will indicate, in respect of State boards under her Department's remit, the name of each appointee made from 7 March 2011 to date in 2015;...
    • Naturalisation Certificates
      533. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current status in determining residency on the basis of the Zambrano judgment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and...
    • Legal Aid Service Data
      534. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality for details of the legal practitioners who were paid for free legal aid in 2014 and the number of cases, by county, in tabular form; and if she...
    • Programme for Government Initiatives
      535. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the programme for Government's commitment to legislate to establish a Judicial Council, with lay representation; if she...
    • Independent Review Mechanism (1 comment)
      537. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the outcome of the 320 cases before the internal review mechanism; the number where no further action was recommended; further action was...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      538. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will request the Garda Síochána Inspectorate to examine allegations made by a person which have repeatedly been brought to her...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      539. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if resources will be allocated directly to the Garda Síochána traffic corps, given recent worrying reports of the low conviction rates...
    • Crime Data
      540. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of burglaries and thefts that were reported and detected in County Kerry in 2013 and 2014; and from 1 January 2015 to 30 June 2015;...
    • Garda Deployment
      541. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Síochána public service vehicle inspectors allocated to each division in 2013 and in 2014; and if she will make a...
    • Asylum Applications
      542. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in having an application for asylum by a person (details supplied) in County Longford reviewed; and if she will make...
    • Direct Provision System
      543. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question Number 129 of 8 October 2015, why a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been in direct provision for...
    • Road Traffic Accidents Data
      544. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of road traffic accidents reported to An Garda Síochána at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry in recent years;...
    • Crime Data
      545. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed charge notices that were issued to persons for speeding; the number of these persons, who paid within the 56-day period; who...
    • Bail Law
      546. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who re-offended while released on bail for other alleged crimes over the past five years; the types of crime allegedly...
    • Garda Retirements
      547. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí, by rank, who retired in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37509/15]
    • Road Traffic Offences
      548. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality with regard to 2013, 2014 and from 1 January 2015 to 31 October 2015, by District Court, the number of speeding offences committed; the number of...
    • Court Sittings
      549. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reported regional trial courts at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry over the past ten years; and if she will make a...
    • Garda Stations
      550. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the investment in Garda Síochána stations and facilities for An Garda Síochána, by county and in each of the past five years...
    • Property Registration Authority
      551. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address a matter in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath pertaining to the Property Registration Authority; and...
    • Charities Regulation
      552. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to fully implement the provisions of the Charities Act 2009, and in particular to bring forward appropriate regulations in respect of...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      553. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to provide funding for a closed circuit television network on the N4 route between Mullingar and Longford, including at junctions off...
    • Garda Deployment
      554. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the increase in the number of gardaí and Garda Síochána vehicles in the Sligo-Leitrim division in 2014 and 2015; the percentage...
    • Garda Transport Data
      555. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new patrol cars that were made available to members of An Garda Síochána undertaking policing in the Cork north and west...
    • Garda Stations
      556. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding that has been allocated for the construction of a new Garda Síochána station on the Kickham Barracks site in...
    • Spent Convictions Legislation
      558. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Spent Convictions Bill will proceed in Dáil Éireann; if Report Stage will have been taken by the end of the current Dáil...
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      559. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide funding to facilitate renovation works required to a residential house which is attached to the Garda Síochána...
    • Garda Strength
      562. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional gardaí provided in County Kerry in 2013, 2014 and from 1 January 2015 to 30 June 2015; and if she will make a...
    • Magdalen Laundries Report
      563. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the consultation she had with Mr. Justice Quirke concerning statements in his report (details supplied) regarding reserves for Magdalen women....
    • Courts Service
      564. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37711/15]
    • Legislative Measures
      565. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when section 9 of the Intoxicating Liquor Act 2008, which provides for the structural segregation of alcohol from other grocery products by means...
    • Firearms Licences
      566. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider appointing appropriate representatives from national shooting sports organisations such as the National Sports Coalition to...
    • Cabinet Committees
      567. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the progress on the working groups' recommendations; when she expects her Department to finalise a report on the...
    • Garda Data
      568. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who have been injured in incidents when their vehicles have been rammed in the past five years; and if she will make a...
    • Legislative Measures
      570. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Station Closures
      572. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Siochána stations that were closed in County Wexford between 1990 and 2000; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Stations
      574. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of previous parliamentary questions that this Deputy tabled regarding information on the relocation of Glanmire Garda station in County...
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      575. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her Department's plans to upgrade Castlepollard Garda station in County Westmeath, which is in a very poor state of disrepair; and the steps she...
    • Garda Deployment
      576. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of hours per week that Castlepollard Garda station is without a rostered garda; her plans to permanently increase the staffing...
    • Naturalisation Applications
      577. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will examine an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied), given that there has been an undue delay in processing it;...
    • Citizenship Applications
      578. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in determining an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if she will make a statement...
    • Garda Data
      579. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Question No. 192 of 22 October 2015, if she will provide the details for each of the years from 2011 to 2014 for each category of...
    • Crime Data (1 comment)
      580. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if online fraud and cybercrime are included in crime statistics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37930/15]
    • Legislative Programme
      581. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support matters (details supplied) regarding the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Garda Station Closures
      582. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the savings to date generated by the closure of 139 Garda Síochána stations since 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Naturalisation Applications
      583. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in determining an application for leave to remain in the State submitted in May 2012 by a person (details supplied) in...
    • Crime Prevention
      584. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will consider introducing the necessary resources for a pilot programme in County Tipperary to tackle the current crime...
    • Crime Data
      585. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convictions that have occurred and details of the sentences imposed following assaults or other interference with the work of...
    • Garda Deployment
      587. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on representations received from the Cooley Peninsula Community Alert Group regarding its concerns for the safety of members of An...
    • Crime Data
      588. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convictions and the details of the sentences imposed following the deliberate ramming of vehicles being operated by members of An...
    • Garda Deployment
      589. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the locations where newly trained Gardaí from Templemore, since it has reopened, have been allocated, by county; if priority has been given...
    • Garda Strength
      590. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which the manpower crisis in An Garda Síochána is being addressed, given the large number of gardaí who have resigned...
    • Legislative Programme
      591. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013 will be enacted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38138/15]
    • Court Accommodation Provision
      592. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the arrangements the Court Service will put in place by to facilitate car parking during construction of the new courthouse in Drogheda in County...
    • Road Traffic Offences
      593. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed charge notices issued to drivers between 31 July 2015 and 30 September 2015, for parking in a cycle track during its period...
    • Garda Equipment
      595. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda Síochána mountain bikes allocated to each Garda Síochána district within Dublin in 2014; and if she will...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      596. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will establish an independent investigation into an incident (details supplied); if she is satisfied with the response of An Garda...
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      597. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the details of the recently announced €1 million upgrade of Drogheda Garda station and the proposed works at Collon Garda...
    • Garda Misconduct Allegations
      598. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality what action she intents to take in the case of the death of a person (details supplied) in examining the conduct of the An Garda...
    • Visa Applications
      599. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the conditions under which a Kosovan national living in Germany may come to live here, in order to become a carer for a disabled Irish person....
    • Garda Station Refurbishment
      600. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality for details of the proposed refurbishment of the Bridewell Garda station in Dublin 7; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38359/15]
    • Migrant Integration
      601. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her Department's policy on migrants, including access to accommodation, employment, and legal protection; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Visa Agreements
      602. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if US citizens residing here on a stamp 4 basis, who wish to marry a non-EEA national who is not residing here, are required to meet a member of...
    • Electronic Tagging
      603. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason she has not signed the commencement order for sections 11,12 and 13 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007; the recommendations of the...
    • Garda Deployment
      604. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to ensure that additional Garda Síochána will be assigned to the Cavan-Monaghan division; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Visa Applications
      605. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current and expected position regarding an application for visas by persons in County Kildare (details supplied). [38395/15]
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      607. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of civil servants under her remit that have been reinstated in recent years after taking a career break; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Children and Youth Affairs
    • Domestic Violence Refuges
      608. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there is an inspectorate for refuges for those persons escaping domestic violence; if this inspectorate examines the standards of the...
    • Child Care Services Provision
      609. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will support an organisation (details supplied) in Dublin 10; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37709/15]
    • Child Care Costs
      610. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is considering measures in the area of child care costs, which would assist working parents of children in primary school, for those...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      611. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of providing one month of free preschool care. [37725/15]
    • Capitation Grants
      612. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a child care facility (details supplied) in County Kerry will be provided with the higher capitation in 2015 for two early child care...
    • Preschool Services
      613. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the source of the figure he cited on a programme (details supplied) on RTE that there are 10,000 vacant and unoccupied places in...
    • Departmental Budgets
      614. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated expenditure of his Department in 2015, in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of the year for 2015;...
    • Early Childhood Care Education
      615. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the flexibility available under the early childhood care and education scheme regarding the birth date of a child (details supplied); and...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      616. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the allocation for his Department in 2016 which covers the Lansdowne Road agreement; and the demographic or other inflationary pressures....
    • Appointments to State Boards
      617. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will indicate, in respect of State Boards under his Department's remit, the name of each appointee made from 7 March 2011 to date in...
    • Early Childhood Care Education
      618. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the early childhood care and education scheme; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Child Protection
      619. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding or support available to organisations which are required to provide child protection training to their members (details...
    • Early Childhood Care Education
      620. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs given the recent announced changes to the early childhood care and education scheme (details supplied), if he will revise the age criteria...
    • Foster Care Supports
      621. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will re-instate the foster carer's allowance to the full monthly rate for persons (details supplied) in County Wicklow [37410/15]
    • Early Childhood Care Education
      622. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way the changes to the early childhood care and education scheme will impact on a person (details supplied) [37431/15]
    • Emergency Accommodation Numbers
      623. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children known to his Department who are living in emergency accommodation, such as domestic violence refuges, and homeless...
    • Child and Family Agency Services
      624. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Question No. 33 of 21 October 2015, if he will provide a list of the approved organisations and solicitors firms that offer...
    • Child Care Services Data
      625. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to introduce a salary scale for workers in the child care industry to ensure  qualifications are reflected in salary...
    • Youth Services
      626. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the efforts being made to secure a youth or community worker for the west Wicklow region. [37763/15]
    • Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries
      628. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on a submission (details supplied) regarding the mother and baby homes commission of investigation; and if he will make a...
    • Child and Family Agency Funding
      629. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the financial breakdown of the Túsla, Child and Family Agency, budget for 2016; the allocation that has been granted to family...
    • Child and Family Agency
      630. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence by an organisation (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a...
    • Youth Employment Initiative
      631. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of the youth employability initiative; the funding available; the issues it will address; the age group it will target; the...
    • Early Childhood Care Education
      632. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is aware that the budgetary decision regarding the second year of the early childhood care and education scheme will effectively...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      633. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of civil servants under his remit that have been reinstated in recent years after taking a career break; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Health
    • Assisted Human Reproduction
      634. To ask the Minister for Health the current legislation relating to Irish citizens and their choice to use a surrogate internationally. [37251/15]
    • Health Services
      635. To ask the Minister for Health the progress that has been made or is proposed to be made to reform the Misuse of Drugs Acts to allow a cannabis nasal spray to be sold and used by persons...
    • Magdalen Laundries Report
      636. To ask the Minister for Health in respect of statements made by Mr. Justice Quirke (details supplied), if he has taken into account that Mr. Justice Quirke also said, that he reproduced the...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      640. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the costs of introducing speech language therapy on-site in primary schools for children with assessed special needs, which would...
    • HSE Funding
      641. To ask the Minister for Health if an immediate stream of funding is available for a social club for the elderly (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Staff Recruitment
      642. To ask the Minister for Health the reason supplementary panels are being commenced by the national recruitment service to fill nursing posts, given that panels are in place since 2012; and...
    • National Lottery Funding Applications
      643. To ask the Minister for Health when an application for national lottery funding will be finalised for a group (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the current status of the application;...
    • HSE Staffing
      644. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff at national director level; at assistant national director level, general manager level and grade VIII level, in the Health Service...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      645. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for an urgently required orthopaedic procedure at Merlin Park University Hospital...
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      646. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no specialised speech and language therapy for children with a speech delay and a hearing impairment; the reason the current system only...
    • Health Services Provision
      648. To ask the Minister for Health if any child has had advanced vision technology overseas funded by the Health Service Executive or his Department; the number of these children; the year this...
    • Hospital Services
      649. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocations provided for the implementation of the winter resilience plan, by hospital; if he is satisfied that all hospitals have been granted...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      650. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will be provided with a necessary ophthalmic procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37306/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      651. 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, as all the relevant information has been...
    • Departmental Expenditure
      652. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated expenditure of his Department in 2015, in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of the year for 2015; the extra...
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      653. To ask the Minister for Health when a children's outreach nurse will be appointed to Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37310/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      654. To ask the Minister for Health the specific reasons an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Galway was refused; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Departmental Funding
      656. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be restored to a body (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37346/15]
    • Registration of Nurses
      657. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the concerns of a nursing home provider (details supplied) regarding significant delays it is facing in the processing of nurse registration...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      658. To ask the Minister for Health if he will indicate, in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the name of each appointee appointed from 7 March 2011 to date in 2015; the date...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      659. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive an appointment with the pain management clinic in St. James's Hospital in Dublin 8; and if he...
    • Mental Health Services Provision
      660. To ask the Minister for Health if she will meet a group (details supplied) in County Dublin to discuss mental health issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37326/15]
    • Hospitals Building Programme
      661. To ask the Minister for Health when the building of a new laboratory in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Navan in County Meath will take place, as it has been on the estates management...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      662. To ask the Minister for Health the reason treatment of eye conditions for elderly persons is taking up to 18 months (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37447/15]
    • Health Services Staff Recruitment
      663. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding a shortage of typists which is causing a delay of up to four months in completing referral letters; and if...
    • Health Services Staff Data
      664. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of whole-time-equivalent consultant geneticists and whole-time-equivalent genetic counsellors employed in the public health system; and the...
    • Rare Diseases Strategy Implementation
      665. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the all-Ireland network of rare disease registries. [37451/15]
    • Registration of Nurses
      666. To ask the Minister for Health the average length of time it takes for the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland to process nurse registration applications; if he is satisfied that...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      667. To ask the Minister for Health if home help, or some form of assistance, will be put in place for a person (details supplied) in County Carlow to help the person cope with issues associated...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      668. To ask the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be made for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny as the person's general practitioner deems the case to be urgent. [37459/15]
    • Vaccination Programme
      670. To ask the Minister for Health the vaccination requirements for first responder volunteers; the assistance available, if any, to assist volunteers to meet the cost of any required...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      671. To ask the Minister for Health if eligibility for a medical card will be reviewed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Health Services
      672. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the differing arrangements across the Health Service Executive community health organisation 7 area by which occupational...
    • General Practitioner Services
      673. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 516 of 20 October 2015, his Department's estimate of the cost of extending free general practitioner care to all those...
    • Palliative Care Services
      674. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the progress in developing comprehensive palliative care services for counties Laois, Offaly, Longford and Westmeath, including a specialist...
    • Home Help Service Expenditure
      675. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funding to be allocated from budget 2016 to enhance home help services and home care packages; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Primary Care Centre Provision
      676. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position regarding a primary care centre for a location (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Facilities
      677. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress report on the development of a plan to improve the facilities, including the outpatient department and operating theatres, at the Mid-Western...
    • Health Services Provision
      678. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to rescind the proposal by the Health Service Executive to relocate all services from the Lantern Lodge Day Centre on New Road in Killarney in County...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      679. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a procedure for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37427/15]
    • Hospital Services
      680. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the nurse care staff levels and restoration of the full bed complement in Kerry General Hospital, in each of the community hospitals in the...
    • Services for People with Disabilities
      681. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support the urgent need for residential places for persons and children with a disability (details supplied) in Dublin 9; and if he will make a...
    • Dental Services Provision
      682. To ask the Minister for Health the initiatives being taken to address the growing frequency of children's tooth decay and the ongoing lack of a public scheme for diagnosis and treatment at...
    • Nursing Home Services
      683. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 530 of 20 October 2015 regarding the stalemate between the National Treatment Purchase Fund and AnovoCare nursing home,...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Eligibility
      684. To ask the Minister for Health when a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied) regarding the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37526/15]
    • Hospital Procedures
      685. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding gastric band operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37530/15]
    • Clinical Trials
      687. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce legislation requiring pharmaceutical companies to publish tests and clinical trials to ensure all trials are registered, a summary of...
    • Primary Care Centre Provision
      688. To ask the Minister for Health when construction will begin on the Curlew Road primary care centre in Dublin 12; when it will open; when the Armagh Road primary care centre, Dublin 12 will...
    • Medical Card Applications
      689. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite the renewal of applications for medical cards by persons (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement...
    • Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
      690. To ask the Minister for Health his proposals to expedite orthodontic treatment waiting periods in County Longford; if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Palliative Care Services
      692. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address and provide instructions to the Health Service Executive to fully develop a specialist palliative care service in counties Longford and...
    • School Staffing
      695. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a situation (details supplied) in a County Tipperary school; his plans to alleviate concerns and increase services at the school; if his...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration
      696. To ask the Minister for Health how the family home is treated in the financial assessment under the nursing home support scheme; how the proceeds from the sale of a home are treated if the...
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      697. To ask the Minister for Health the services that are available to young adults with intellectual disabilities; the capital funding that is being made available for organisations providing...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      698. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for a hip replacement at St. Vincent's Hospital will be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      699. To ask the Minister for Health why a medical card for persons (details supplied) in County Dublin was withdrawn by the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Hospital Staff Data
      701. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in voluntary hospitals receiving salaries of more than €100,000 per year as of the end of 2014, by clinical staff; by administrative...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      702. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position regarding the approval of the drug fampridine, Fampyra, for persons who suffer from multiple sclerosis; and if he will make a statement...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      703. To ask the Minister for Health when a cataract operation for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be carried out; if he is aware of the delays in this case; and if he will make a...
    • Disability Support Services Provision
      705. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive an appointment for physiotherapy and speech therapy from the South Kildare Network Disability...
    • Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
      706. To ask the Minister for Health further to Question No. 233 of 13 October 2015, if she will confirm that women who qualify under the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act...
    • Dental Services Provision
      721. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 233 of 13 October 2015, the arrangements being put in place in other areas of the Health Service Executive, where women...
    • HSE Funding
      723. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for funding by a group (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37680/15]
    • Health Services Access
      724. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for routine physiotherapy referrals to the Health Service Executive in the Carndonagh and Buncrana offices in County Donegal; if the...
    • Hospice Services
      725. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to progress the development of a level 3 hospice unit in the Midlands, which was promised 14 years ago, to help address the need for specialist...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      726. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an appointment for a medical procedure for a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      727. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting knee and hip operations in County Tipperary; the waiting times for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37716/15]
    • Health Services Data
      728. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting speech and language assessment in County Tipperary; the waiting times for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      729. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the current number of ambulances available in County Tipperary; and if the response times are being met. [37718/15]
    • Medicinal Products Supply
      730. To ask the Minister for Health the current policy on the provision of Epipens in urban centres and cities; and his plans to change this policy in the near future. [37726/15]
    • Patient Data
      731. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have undergone ostomy operations here in the years, 2010 to 2014; the number of persons here who currently have either an iliostomy...
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      732. To ask the Minister for Health the action he proposes to take to deal with consultants who are refusing to assist those persons, who are already on waiting lists, to travel to avail of...
    • National Lottery Funding Applications
      733. To ask the Minister for Health if national lottery funding will be provided to an organisation (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37733/15]
    • Hospital Services
      734. To ask the Minister for Health when a pre-operation assessment will be facilitated for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has been awaiting a pre-operation assessment and an...
    • Vaccination Programme
      735. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of the 110 teenage girls who having taken Gardasil and who have all presented with the same or similar life-altering symptoms should be...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      736. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for critical orthopaedic surgery to treat an 80o+ scoliosis curve; and if he will...
    • Hospital Transfers
      737. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to grant a transfer request submitted by a person (details supplied) in County Offaly, who has been on the waiting list for a transfer since 9 May...
    • Patient Data
      738. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients from County Donegal who have been referred to Ballykelly Hospital in County Derry in 2015 to date for MRI brain scans; the cost from...
    • Hospital Services
      739. To ask the Minister for Health the number of outpatients' clinics which have operated at Dungloe Community Hospital in County Donegal from 2010 to 2015 date, in tabular form; and if he will...
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      740. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting times for ambulances in the west Connemara area primarily served by the ambulance station in Clifden, in County Galway, measuring the time...
    • Health Services Provision
      742. To ask the Minister for Health his views on auditory verbal therapy (details supplied); the level of his Department's engagement with this particular form of therapy; his plans to include it...
    • Registration of Nurses
      745. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a nursing registration application by a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37825/15]
    • HSE Expenditure
      746. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend in the past 12 month period in each primary community and continuing care area on home nursing care for children with life-limiting conditions;...
    • Health Services Data
      747. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers on waiting lists in respect of assessment and treatment for speech and language therapy; physiotherapy; occupational therapy, by duration on the...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Administration
      748. To ask the Minister for Health the position in relation to a refund of the cost of medication for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Alcohol Sales Legislation
      749. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding alcohol-related harm; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37831/15]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      750. To ask the Minister for Health given the growing waiting lists for colonoscopies, and the high proportion of persons waiting longer than three months for a colonoscopy at public hospitals,...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      751. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on a long-awaited medical appointment for a person (details supplied) from County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37846/15]
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      752. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a specialised chair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37854/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      753. 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. [37857/15]
    • Cross-Border Health Initiatives
      754. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 is covered by the Health Service Executive to have hip replacement surgery carried out under the cross-border health...
    • Respite Care Services
      755. To ask the Minister for Health when respite care will be provided for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 13, given that hospitals previously providing care for this person, and other...
    • Hospital Charges
      756. To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding a situation whereby privately insured persons attend public hospitals for treatment and are charged privately through their health...
    • Medical Card Applications
      757. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; if he will issue a discretionary Medical Card to the...
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      758. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of an incident which occurred on 20 October 2015 at a school (details supplied) in County Louth in which an ambulance called to the scene of an...
    • Diabetes Strategy
      759. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed new model of care for adolescents with type 1 diabetes, outlined in the strategy document of the Paediatric Diabetes Working Group, which was...
    • Water Fluoridation
      760. To ask the Minister for Health if he has concerns regarding the methodology undertaken by the Health Research Board earlier in 2015, when reviewing the effects of the fluoridation of water,...
    • Home Help Service Provision
      761. To ask the Minister for Health when Home Help supports and a home care package will be provided to assist with the care of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; if he will confirm how...
    • Medical Negligence Claims
      762. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims of medical negligence that have been received against publicly funded health professionals in the past three years; of these, the number...
    • Orthodontic Service Waiting Lists
      763. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question N0. 60 of 14 October 2015, his views on a response issued by Galway University Hospital on 22 October 2015 stating that the...
    • Health Services Staff
      764. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide permanent employment for health care attendants and multi-task attendants on internships in a hospital (details supplied); if urgent...
    • Medical Card Eligibility
      765. To ask the Minister for Health the current status in determining eligibility for a medical card of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; the documentation still outstanding; and if...
    • Hospital Procedures
      766. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who has been referred to the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire; and...
    • Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage
      767. To ask the Minister for Health if it is possible to reimburse a multiple sclerosis patient for the drug Fampyra, which he has paid for on the drugs refund scheme, prior to its going onto the...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      768. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an appointment at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9 for a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath. [37985/15]
    • Primary Care Services Provision
      769. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list for Health Service Executive aids and appliances in north Dublin, for less than three months; three months plus to six...
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      771. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding extra recruiting of nurses for Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9; the number of nursing posts that will be filled before Christmas 2015; and...
    • HSE Agency Staff Data
      772. To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency nursing staff currently in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9; the number who have been contracted to this hospital for less than three months;...
    • Hospital Beds Data
      773. To ask the Minister for Health if all wards and beds will be opened in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9, for the winter period; the number of beds this would bring on board for this period; the...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      774. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for procedures in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9 for, up to three months; from three months plus to six months; six...
    • Hospitals Capital Programme
      775. To ask the Minister for Health the capital projects that will commence at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9, in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38005/15]
    • Hospital Beds Data
      776. To ask the Minister for Health the number of step-down beds that are available in the health service, now that Mount Carmel Hospital in Dublin 14, is open; the number of these that are in...
    • Accident and Emergency Departments Data
      777. To ask the Minister for Health the number of emergency department attendances, in January 2014; in January 2008; the total number of attendances in emergency departments in 2014 and in 2008;...
    • Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data
      778. To ask the Minister for Health the number of beds available under the fair deal scheme in January 2008 and in January 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38011/15]
    • Hospital Staff Recruitment
      779. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has advertised for a consultant urologist for Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal to replace the previous consultant...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      780. To ask the Minister for Health the number on waiting lists at Letterkenny General Hospital in County Donegal awaiting surgery under its urology department for the years 2011 to 2014, and in...
    • Cancer Services
      781. To ask the Minister for Health if referrals of breast cancer patients can be extended beyond County Donegal to increase the number of these patients at Letterkenny General Hospital to...
    • Hospital Staff
      782. To ask the Minister for Health if the service level agreements between the Health Service Executive medical education and training unit and the College of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of...
    • HSE Staffing
      784. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists employed by the Health Service Executive on a full-time equivalent basis in each of the years 2007 to 2014, and in...
    • Medical Card Appeals
      785. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position of a medical card appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38027/15]
    • Hospital Procedures
      786. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an operation at Cork University Hospital for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • General Practitioner Services
      787. To ask the Minister for Health if he has studied the research compiled by the National Association of General Practitioners, which reveals that the patient waiting time is now, on average,...
    • Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme
      788. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 22 October 2015, the name of the orthopaedic surgeon who has been retained by the surgical symphysiotomy payment...
    • Medical Card Applications
      790. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite an application for a medical card by persons (details supplied) in County Kerry, as they have submitted all relevant...
    • Respite Care Services
      793. To ask the Minister for Health if urgent consideration will be given to a request by Ballybay and Clones municipal mistrict in County Monaghan in respect of respite facilities (details...
    • Home Help Service Data
      794. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help persons employed; the number of recipients of same; the amount of home help hours; the total cost per year in each of the years 2010 to...
    • Medical Card Delays
      795. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in approving an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on...
    • Health Services Provision
      797. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive requires a receipt with proof of travel as part of the application for reimbursement of financial expenses for patients...
    • Medical Card Applications
      799. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry, as all relevant information has been submitted; and if he...
    • Proposed Legislation
      800. To ask the Minister for Health when the public health alcohol Bill will be published; if minimum unit pricing will be included; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38081/15]
    • Parliamentary Questions
      801. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the response time for questions submitted regarding the Health Service Executive, through the parliamentary question system has been extended from...
    • Health Services Data
      802. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for outpatient cataract surgery at University Hospital Galway following initial assessment; the number of procedures carried out in...
    • Nursing Staff Recruitment
      804. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the recruitment of paediatric nurses for the emergency department at Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe; and if he will make a statement...
    • Health Services Provision
      805. To ask the Minister for Health the reason patients attending the osteoporosis department in the regional hospital in Mullingar have to wait for two months for the results of a Dexa scan,...
    • Ambulance Service Response Times
      806. To ask the Minister for Health for details of the response times and the depot of departure of ambulances responding to Echo and Delta calls in north Kildare from September 2014 to October...
    • Health Services Data
      807. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently waiting for treatment at Naas Hospital in County Kildare; the treatments for which they are waiting; the time they have been...
    • Emergency Planning
      808. To ask the Minister for Health who will pay for the training of members of the public to administer certain medicines, including Epipens, in emergency situations; and if he will make a...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      809. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Roscommon will be called for an appointment; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospitals Capital Programme
      810. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the proposed redevelopment works for the Sheil Hospital in Ballyshannon, County Donegal; when work will commence on the ground at this...
    • Health Services Provision
      811. To ask the Minister for Health why no doctor contacted a person (details supplied) or that person's primary carer in Tralee, County Kerry, after the person had a seizure, to explain what...
    • Accident and Emergency Department Waiting Times
      812. To ask the Minister for Health why it takes from three to seven hours for persons to get a bed in a ward in Kerry General Hospital after they have been informed by a doctor in the accident...
    • Medical Card Administration
      813. To ask the Minister for Health to deal with a matter (details attached) regarding medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38122/15]
    • Hospital Charges
      814. To ask the Minister for Health the revenue raised in each year from 2007 to date from hospital charges on patients by emergency department charges; from inpatient charges, etc., each in...
    • HSE Funding
      817. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided to a charity (details supplied) for each of the years, 2011 to 2014, and for 2015 to date. [38133/15]
    • Disability Services Provision
      818. To ask the Minister for Health the regulations in place to ensure the quality of training received by service dogs to assist people living with disabilities; and if he will make a statement...
    • Nursing Home Services
      821. To ask the Minister for Health the long-term nursing home care available a person, without applying under the fair deal scheme, and without paying privately, especially when the person is...
    • HSE Funding
      822. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive will increase the financial supports offered to the Sligo and Leitrim Acquired Brain Injury Ireland service centre, as it...
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      824. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who is waiting to be seen at the plastic surgery clinic...
    • Medical Aids and Appliances Provision
      825. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance is available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare with the cost of specialised items required on medical grounds, which are not...
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      827. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the initiatives to facilitate referrals for pelvic and abdominal ultrasound by general practitioners in County Kerry; the current waiting...
    • Health Care Professionals
      828. To ask the Minister for Health when he will sign off on regulations to regulate the profession of psychotherapists and psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38176/15]
    • Hospitals Capital Programme
      829. To ask the Minister for Health if the Alzheimer's ward, unit 1, in St. Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire, County Cork, has been included in the quality improvement plan; and if he will make a...
    • Medical Card Reviews
      830. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made on a review of a medical card for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Hospital Staff Data
      831. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time self-harm liaison nurses allocated to Temple Street Children's Hospital and to Crumlin Children's Hospital; his plans to increase these...
    • Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
      832. To ask the Minister for Health if he will add ichthyosis to the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38198/15]
    • Speech and Language Therapy
      833. To ask the Minister for Health the status of speech and language therapy for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38236/15]
    • Health Services Provision
      834. To ask the Minister for Health the status of getting a developmental assessment for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38237/15]
    • Hospital Waiting Lists
      835. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age in Cork city and county who are currently on a waiting list for an ophthalmology procedure and surgery to be...
    • Drug Rehabilitation Clinics
      836. To ask the Minister for Health if funding is available to provide aftercare services in an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38248/15]
    • Disability Services Provision
      837. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that an adult with special needs in County Cork (details supplied) is provided with required services, which have been the subject of cuts at...
    • Audiology Services Provision
      838. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time in County Wicklow for an appointment with the community audiology service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38254/15]
    • Health Services Funding
      839. To ask the Minister for Health to deal with a matter (details supplied) regarding funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38262/15]
    • Hospital Appointment Status
      840. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a cataract operation for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38264/15]
    • Health Services Provision
      841. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Treatment Abroad Scheme
      842. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that travel claims under the treatment abroad scheme are currently on hold due to staff shortages in the relevant section of the Health Service...
    • Animal Disease Controls
      843. To ask the Minister for Health if the tradition of feeding pigeons with food scraps is deemed to be a potential hazard which may attract vermin such as rats; if there are any guidelines from...
    • Suicide Prevention
      844. To ask the Minister for Health to outline if an overall target for the reduction of suicide rates was set out by the then Government on the advice of the Minister for Health and Children, as...
    • Irish Blood Transfusion Service
      845. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the closure of the laboratories at the Irish Blood Transfusion Service in St. Finbarr's Hospital in Cork; the number of persons affected...
    • Dementia Services
      846. To ask the Minister for Health the investment that has taken place in Dementia services in each Health Service Executive area for each of the past six years; and if he will make a statement...
    • Medical Card Administration
      847. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the position regarding the centralising and processing of all Medical Cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38312/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      848. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite an application for a Medical Card by a person (details supplied) in County Longford. [38313/15]
    • Medicinal Products Licensing
      849. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department entered into discussions with the Department of Defence, before the mass issuing of Mefloquine-Lariam by the Defence Forces in 2001; and if...
    • Ambulance Service Provision
      851. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the ambulance service in the Louth-east Meath constituency. [38350/15]
    • Maternity Services
      852. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the availability of specialist feed for new-born children in maternity and paediatric hospitals at weekends and bank holidays; the steps...
    • Vaccination Programme
      853. To ask the Minister for Health the consent procedures afforded to parents of schoolgirls who are offered the human papilloma virus vaccine; the extent to which the consent procedures...
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      855. To ask the Minister for Health the national lottery grants his Department has allocated to Cork-based organisations in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; the amount awarded...
    • Health Services
      856. To ask the Minister for Health the spend-to-date and projected spend on introducing the individual health identifier system; and the breakdown for same. [38364/15]
    • Medical Card Applications
      857. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for a medical card by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, which was input on the Health Service Executive's system on...
    • Hospital Transport Services
      858. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding transport services to hospital for persons with limited transport means or with transport that is unsuitable for use with equipment such...
    • Hospital Appointment Delays
      859. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to enable a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath to be immediately admitted for a hip replacement procedure at Cappagh Hospital...
    • Palliative Care Provision
      860. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Service Executive will honour its commitment to ensure that the appropriate investment in palliative and end-of-life care services is provided...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      861. To ask the Minister for Health the number of civil servants under his remit that have been reinstated in recent years after taking a career break; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    • Overseas Development Aid
      862. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government's commitment to the percentage of our national income towards overseas development aid; the projection for the percentage of...
    • Military Aircraft Landings
      863. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the presence of aircraft with tail numbers (details supplied) in Shannon Airport on 18 April 2015; the reason for those...
    • Departmental Budgets
      864. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the estimated expenditure of his Department in 2015, in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of the year for 2015;...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      865. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the allocation for his Department in 2016 which covers the Lansdowne Road Agreement; and the demographic or other inflationary pressures....
    • Air Navigation Orders
      866. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of mid-air refuellers of the United States of America which passed through Shannon Airport in 2014 and in 2015 to date; the...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      867. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will indicate, in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the name of each appointee made from 7 March 2011 to date in...
    • ERASMUS Programme
      869. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support the students at Bethlehem University by strongly condemning their exclusion from the European Union Student Mobility...
    • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
      870. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on where the progress of his request to seek answers through the release of British Government files on the Dublin and...
    • Departmental Bodies
      871. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the interdepartmental committee on development has not met since the publication of One World, One Future: Ireland's Policy for...
    • Human Rights Issues
      872. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will condemn the treatment of 43 students participating in a demonstration in Mexico, who were rounded up by police and handed over to...
    • EU Treaties
      873. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade given the recent parliamentary elections in Switzerland, his views regarding the renegotiation of bilateral treaties between the European...
    • International Terrorism
      875. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the terror attacks in Turkey and the protest movement against these attacks; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
    • Middle East Issues
      876. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any contact with the Israeli embassy regarding the tone and manner of its online discourse, which is incredibly inaccurate and...
    • Departmental Staff Allowances
      879. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for details of the rent allowances paid to public servants and officials of his Department if placed on assignment in the United Kingdom and...
    • Shannon Airport Facilities
      880. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of military personnel who have passed through Shannon Airport since the start of 2015 on military and State aircraft, including...
    • Passport Services
      881. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of complaints from citizens living in rural areas who are having difficulty in getting their passport forms signed by a...
    • Air Navigation Orders
      883. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the six United States of America Marine Corps F18 Hornet fighter aircraft which were making the journey from the Middle East back to the...
    • Departmental Appointments
      885. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider the appointment of persons (details supplied) as goodwill ambassadors to San Diego in the United States of America,...
    • Middle East Issues
      886. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the possible revocation of Jerusalem residency of Palestinian communities on the outskirts of East Jerusalem; and if he will...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      887. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the devastating floods which have hit Sahrawi refugee camps in south-west Algeria; that the camps provide shelter to...
    • Passport Applications
      888. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if and when passports will issue to persons (details supplied) who were born in Ireland, whose parents are European Union nationals, and who...
    • Passport Services
      889. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there is potential to allow passport renewals to be signed by a Peace Commissioner or by another official in good standing, in order to...
    • EU Migration Crisis
      890. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which a co-ordinated humanitarian effort throughout Europe remains a possibility, in the context of the refugee crisis; and if...
    • European Security Strategy
      891. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the Council of Foreign Ministers is conscious of the tendency in some Member States to pursue policies that are not in...
    • EU Enlargement
      892. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which progress continues to be made in respect of the application by Turkey for membership of the European Union; and if he...
    • Foreign Conflicts
      894. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which realistic efforts continue to be made to bring about a ceasefire in Syria; the degree to which the European Union is...
    • Human Rights Issues
      897. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which women and girls, continue to be targeted by the Boko Haram; taken as hostages are being released; the efforts being made...
    • EU Issues
      898. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which any particular emphasis is placed on efforts within the European Union to address the issue of Euroscepticism; and if he...
    • Human Rights Issues
      900. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the persecution and abuse of Christians has been noted globally; if steps have been taken; are likely to be taken, to...
    • Trade Strategy
      901. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which new trading links can be established globally; it is expected that Ireland can benefit from such developments in the...
    • Humanitarian Aid
      902. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which humanitarian aid should be received by those persons for whom it was intended at all locations globally; and if he will...
    • Ukrainian Conflict
      903. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the European Union continues to engage with the Russian and Ukrainian authorities with a view to achieving a permanent...
    • Human Rights Issues
      904. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his Department directly, and through the aegis of the European Union, continue to engage with the authorities in...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      907. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of civil servants under his remit who have been reinstated in recent years after taking a career break; and if he will make a...
  • Department of Education and Skills
    • English Language Training Organisations
      908. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an offer to teach English to refugees being housed (details supplied) in County Kerry will be considered; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Education and Training Boards
      909. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if staff paid directly by a recognised school orvVocational education committee, whose salaries were adjusted with effect from January 2011, in...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      910. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the transport measures that will be put in place to assist a child in County Laois (details supplied) to attend school; the reason for the delay...
    • Departmental Properties
      911. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a vacant site (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be made available to the Kilkenny Order of Malta; and if officials from her...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      912. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) who has just completed a level 8 degree in social care is not able to avail of Student Universal Support...
    • School Services Staff
      913. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the statutory and additional entitlements of those employed to provide secretarial and or caretaking services to schools through the ancillary...
    • School Funding
      914. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for funding by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • Schools Designation
      915. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the delivering equality of opportunity in schools programme, and the review that was taking place; and if a school...
    • Teaching Contracts
      916. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why her Department does not allow a partial day's leave to be recorded for teachers who require time off from the classroom, and instead requires...
    • School Placement
      918. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she and her Department are taking to address a situation (details supplied) regarding a school place; and if she will make a statement...
    • Departmental Budgets
      919. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated expenditure of her Department in 2015, in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of the year for 2015; the...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      920. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37311/15]
    • Student Grant Scheme Applications
      921. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a student grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37314/15]
    • Departmental Expenditure
      922. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation for her Department in 2016 which covers the Lansdowne Road agreement; and the demographic or other inflationary pressures. [37276/15]
    • Student Support Schemes
      923. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on supports available for low-income students attending fee-paying institutions such as Griffith College and the Dublin Business...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      924. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will indicate, in respect of State boards under her Department's remit, the name of each appointee made from 7 March 2011 to date in 2015;...
    • Emergency Works Scheme Applications
      925. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm receipt of an application from a school (details supplied) in County Cork for grant aid under the emergency works scheme; if...
    • State Examinations
      926. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs students who avail of examination aids such as laptops and memory sticks; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Schools Administration
      927. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools that have a ban on edible nuts in place; if any legal issue has arisen because of such a ban; if her Department...
    • Schools Building Projects
      928. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis upon which there was a request for an extension to a planned school (details supplied) in Dublin 7; if she is aware of the existing...
    • International Students
      929. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken in the United States of America to bring additional students from there to Ireland for academic studies; and if she will...
    • Home Tuition Scheme
      930. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students availing of the home tuition grant in County Cork; the number of these who are at primary level and at post-primary level;...
    • Schools Establishment
      931. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the necessary requirements for a voluntary group of parents wishing to set up a new school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37414/15]
    • Special Educational Needs Data
      932. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school places available for children with autism-specific learning challenges within special educational units in County Cork at...
    • School Staffing
      933. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that the current ban on promotion in our national schools is seriously affecting schools and their ability to deliver a quality...
    • National Council for Special Education
      934. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to include the term Down syndrome on the list of disabilities in all National Council for Special Education literature and...
    • Home Schooling
      935. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a teacher can only remain in a home school liaison scheme post for five years; her plans to change this; the number of exemptions...
    • Languages Programme
      938. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of English as an additional language posts awarded from 2010 to September 2015 to date; by full-time post; by part-time post; by year....
    • School Transport Eligibility
      942. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school transport will continue to be provided for a family (details supplied) from September 2016; if not, the reason; and if she will make a...
    • School Enrolments
      943. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 589 of 20 October 2015, and noting that the religious values exception to the Act applies to more than 96%...
    • Multidenominational Schools
      944. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views regrading the lack of secular, multi-faith, non-faith primary and post-primary schools in the Dún Laoghaire constituency; that the...
    • Schools Building Projects Funding
      945. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has received a request from a school in County Cork (details supplied) regarding additional funding for works unforeseen at the...
    • School Admissions
      946. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the decision by the Canal Way-Basin Lane Educate Together school to only accept one stream of junior infants from 2016. [37601/15]
    • School Accommodation
      947. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the board of Ard Scoil Éanna secondary school roll number 60990G on the Crumlin Road in Dublin 12 has contacted her Department to offer...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      948. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a family who are in receipt of family income supplement from the Department of Social Protection cannot qualify for a SUSI grant due...
    • Schools Building Contractors
      950. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that all contractors working on a school in County Tipperary (details supplied) have been paid for the work they completed;...
    • Further Education and Training Colleges
      951. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Question No. 656 of 6 October 2015 regarding accountability and transparency in further education grading procedures, if she will note...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      952. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine and allow a grant appeal from a student (details supplied) in County Kerry as all the relevant documentation has been...
    • Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility
      953. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if home tuition can be provided for a child (details supplied) in Dublin 11 who has autism and is awaiting the outcome of a section 29 appeal,...
    • School Staffing
      954. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a staffing appeal and DEIS status for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on...
    • School Transport Provision
      955. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the provision of school transport for a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • School Staffing
      956. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse a decision to suppress a post at a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; if not, the reason; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      959. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the progress on a new building for a primary school (details supplied) in County Dublin; the reason for the delay in sanctioning...
    • Student Grant Scheme Appeals
      961. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will re-consider her Department's decision to refuse an appeal of a student grant by a person (details supplied), given that the person...
    • School Placement
      962. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions in place for 12 to 16-year old children who are expelled from school in County Wicklow (details supplied); and the funding...
    • School Staffing
      963. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence regarding the appointment of an additional administrative deputy principal for a school (details supplied) in County...
    • Home-School Liaison Scheme
      964. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for a reduction in the allocation of home-school liaison to a school (details supplied) in County Wexford; the steps the school may...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      965. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allocate resource teaching hours to a student (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
    • School Transport Administration
      967. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a school bus ticket for a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Weight of Schoolbags
      968. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to roll out the use of electronic tablets by all schoolchildren in an effort to reduce the stress and negative health effects...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      969. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure that the building of the new Holy Family school in Cootehill in County Cavan receives priority; and if she will...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      970. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants allocated to a special school (details supplied) in Cork city for the 2014-15 and the 2015-16 school...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      971. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for capital funding for a building project submitted by a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; if she is...
    • School Enrolments
      972. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond positively to the request for a third junior infants class for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16, due to the serious...
    • School Patronage
      973. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the patronage selection for the new national school in Stillorgan and Clonskeagh in County Dublin will commence; and if she will make a...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      974. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be provided for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 3 to undertake extension and upgrading works; and if she will make a...
    • Student Grant Scheme Payments
      976. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal​ will receive a student grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37960/15]
    • Minor Works Scheme Applications
      977. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve funding under the minor works grants scheme for the necessary structural improvements to a school (details supplied) in...
    • Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme Eligibility
      980. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale behind the requirement for participants in vocational training opportunities scheme to be in receipt of a payment from the...
    • School Enrolments Data
      981. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will analyse, the numbers attending primary and secondary schools in Kilkenny city; the projections for each school over the next five to...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      982. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to a person (details supplied) in County Cork who is in receipt of an invalidity pension and who wishes to pursue a third...
    • Schools Extra Curricular Activities
      984. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are guidelines regarding whether schools should stream school sports groups based on ability; and if she will make a statement on the...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      985. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current number of pupil places at a school (details supplied) in County Louth; the number of available places for this school for the 2016-17...
    • State Examinations
      986. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm if there is a policy in place whereby a definite percentage of students sitting each leaving certificate subject will fail...
    • Psychological Assessments
      987. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the need for a behaviour assessment for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38107/15]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      988. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of an application for capital funding (details supplied) for additional and improved accommodation by a school; and if she...
    • Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme Eligibility
      989. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Number 629 of 20 October 2015, the reason his Department's website does not make reference to the cumulative...
    • Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
      990. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise on the status of an application for a grant from Student Universal Support Ireland by a person in County Meath (details...
    • Special Educational Needs Service Provision
      991. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills notwithstanding a reply to a previous parliamentary question, the second level school placement options currently available to the child of a...
    • School Funding
      992. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of funding provided to schools in County Cork for capital works since March 2011; including the purpose of the funding; when...
    • School Enrolments Data
      993. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the increasing enrolment in primary schools annually, if she will provide an update on the projections, in terms of attendance; and school...
    • Higher Education Institutions Staff
      995. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the embargo on third level teachers returning to teach part-time still exists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38238/15]
    • Residential Institutions
      996. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what options are open to people who are not happy with the decisions that Caranua make; if she is satisfied with this situation; and if she will...
    • School Enrolments
      997. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes she is planning to introduce regarding the school admissions policy; when she expects these changes to be in place; and if she will...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      998. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for funding for an extra classroom and hall at a school (details supplied) in County Carlow; if approval and funding...
    • School Transport Tendering
      999. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will arrange for a substantive reply to correspondence issued to her Department on 23 September 2015 regarding school transport, which was...
    • Site Acquisitions
      1000. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress in identifying and securing a permanent site for a primary school (details supplied) in County Cork; when construction of the new...
    • School Accommodation
      1001. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the substandard accommodation at a school (details supplied) in County Cork; if her Department intends to consolidate the...
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      1002. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a proposed new school (details supplied) in County Louth; when works are expected to commence; and if she will make a statement on...
    • Special Educational Needs Staffing
      1003. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the working week hours for a special needs assistant (details supplied) in County Cork will be reinstated. [38307/15]
    • Schools Building Projects Status
      1005. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for funding by a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny for the purpose of a school building project; and if...
    • Education and Training Provision
      1007. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to the Exchequer in 2016 of extending the MOMENTUM programme to persons in receipt of disability payments and illness...
    • Minor Works Scheme Eligibility
      1008. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a minor works scheme will be introduced to enable schools to undertake improvement works. [38384/15]
    • Schools Refurbishment
      1009. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision by her Department concerning works to prefabricated facilities at a school (details supplied) in County Galway can be reviewed,...
    • School Transport Eligibility
      1010. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate a shortfall in the payment of the remote area grant for the years 2001 to 2011 to a person (details supplied) in County...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      1011. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of civil servants under her remit who have been reinstated in recent years after taking a career break; and if she will make a...
  • Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
    • Water Conservation Grant Eligibility
      1012. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway is not being facilitated with a water conservation grant; if this...
    • Water Conservation Grant
      1014. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason his Department interprets the words "on that date" as in section 5(1) of the eligibility criteria of SI No....
    • Private Residential Tenancies Board
      1015. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a Private Residential Tenancies Board dispute; and if he will...
    • Local Authority Funding
      1017. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding that has been allocated to the west Wicklow region in the past three years to deal with structural...
    • Schools Health and Safety
      1018. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the process a school needs to undertake to appoint a lollipop person to ensure the safety of the children crossing the...
    • Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
      1019. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views regarding persons who have an acute sensitivity to mobile phone radiation; if he is aware of this condition; if...
    • Wind Energy Guidelines
      1020. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the new planning guidelines for wind turbines; the set-back distances between wind turbines and...
    • Dormant Accounts Fund
      1021. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of dormant account moneys made available to the State since the inception of this fund; the breakdown of...
    • Waste Management Regulations
      1022. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government given the current state of negotiations with the tyre industry where two representative bodies have now walked away from...
    • Regeneration Projects Status
      1023. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to broaden the remit of the regeneration programme in County Limerick to take those towns on the perimeter of...
    • Local Authority Funding
      1024. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the central funding released to each local authority, by total released; by category; by total spend, in tabular form;...
    • Community Development Projects
      1025. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when an application submitted to his Department by a group (details supplied) in County Tipperary under the expressions...
    • Housing Assistance Payments
      1027. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware the waiting time for assessments under the housing assistance payment scheme or social housing may be...
    • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
      1028. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that owners of units under the affordable home scheme are compelled to pay €60 per month for...
    • Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
      1031. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the tenant purchase scheme; and when he expects the local authorities to be in a position to sell council...
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      1032. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the concerns of residents of Bettystown, County Meath, regarding the proposed construction of 370...
    • Local Authority Housing Maintenance
      1033. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the proposals for the refurbishment of housing units at Jamestown Court, Inchicore, Dublin 8, for which...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1034. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated expenditure of his Department in 2015, in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      1035. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the allocation for his Department in 2016 which covers the Lansdowne Road agreement; and the demographic or other...
    • Planning Issues
      1036. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to allow local authorities to take estates in charge that were originally holiday home schemes; and if he will...
    • Air Quality
      1037. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide to Dáil Éireann the modelling process conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency on...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      1039. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will indicate, in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the name of each appointee made from 7...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      1040. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government given the recent tragedy in south Dublin, if he will initiate a review of local authorities with a view to discontinuing...
    • Homelessness Strategy
      1042. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review his policy on homelessness given the crisis now developing; if he has received reports from local...
    • Homeless Accommodation Funding
      1043. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his Department's policy on how moneys allocated in the budget by Dáil Éireann to his Department are allocated;...
    • Water Quality
      1044. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will introduce a grant scheme for low-income households to assist with the replacement of lead pipes in their...
    • Planning Issues
      1045. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will support the matter of a complaint against a planning decision in which a medical report had not been included...
    • Pyrite Resolution Board Data
      1046. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an up-to-date list of the number of applications made to the Pyrite Resolution Board; the number of...
    • Foreshore Licence Applications
      1047. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update regarding the development of a harbour (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement...
    • Closed Circuit Television Systems
      1048. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the pilot funding for the provision of rural close-circuit television will be extended to County Clare; and if he will...
    • Property Tax Exemptions
      1049. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the process involved in reducing the list of properties in unfinished estates exempt from the local property tax...
    • Construction Sector Strategy
      1050. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has considered placing home bond schemes as a mandatory requirement for all residential building projects. [37587/15]
    • Irish Water Staff
      1051. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify the position regarding security of employment for permanent staff of local authorities, who were...
    • Local Authority Housing
      1052. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to proceed with the building of so-called modular housing estates, given recent renewed concern about health,...
    • Housing Assistance Payments
      1054. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of landlords who have signed up to the housing assistance payment programme in each of the four Dublin local...
    • Planning Issues
      1055. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has instructed the Dublin housing executive and the housing managers of the four Dublin local authorities to review...
    • NAMA Social Housing Provision
      1056. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to recent parliamentary questions, if he will confirm the number of housing units offered to Dublin City Council...
    • Ministerial Correspondence
      1057. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will respond to representations received from an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
    • Mortgage Schemes
      1058. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the mortgage subsidy scheme will remain in place for the foreseeable future; if the subsidy has increased since 2011;...
    • Emergency Accommodation Numbers
      1059. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons in hostel accommodation and in hotel accommodation, by gender; by adults, by children. [37705/15]
    • Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
      1060. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for a list of initial applications for funding made to his Department under the rural water programme (details supplied),...
    • Irish Water Expenditure
      1061. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the annual operation costs of delivering domestic water services, excluding capital expenditure, for each of the past...
    • Local Authority Housing Provision
      1062. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for details of the programme for social housing purchases in 2015; the number of units that have been purchased to date;...
    • Local Authority Funding
      1063. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the allocation for social and voluntary housing approved for Galway City Council and Galway County Council; the number of...
    • Harbours and Piers Funding
      1064. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of assistance paid to Clare County Council in 2014 and to date in 2015 towards the upgrading of the pier in...
    • Commercial Rates
      1066. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of rates billed, collected and written off by local authorities for each of the past five years in tabular...
    • Departmental Reports
      1067. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he received a report (details supplied) regarding an independent planning review; the cost of the report; the...
    • Housing Estates
      1068. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the large number of housing estates in County Tipperary which are not taken in charge by Tipperary...
    • Election Management System
      1069. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the entitlement of British citizens, who are long-term resident here, to vote in a general...
    • EU Directives
      1070. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for details of any communications that has taken place with the European Commission regarding breaches of the urban waste...
    • Local Authority Funding
      1071. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how much of the €57 million in funding which was allocated in March 2015 to Tipperary County Council has been used...
    • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
      1072. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding for housing adaptation grants for older people; for people with a disability living in private...
    • Motor Tax Exemptions
      1073. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the CO2 emission-based rate of tax applies to a vehicle (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Flood Risk Assessments
      1074. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views regarding the construction of a new sea wall along the coast road at Dollymount in Dublin 3, as it will...
    • Waste Management
      1077. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the disposal of tyres, particularity in the Dublin area; that the abundance of tyres available for use in...
    • Local Authority Housing Eligibility
      1078. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will legislate or issue a ministerial directive, as necessary, to the local authorities to permit persons (details...
    • Septic Tank Grants
      1079. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if assistance is available to a person to upgrade and improve a septic tank; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Local Authority Funding
      1080. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will support an application from Galway County Council for funding from his Department for the refurbishment of...
    • Traveller Accommodation
      1081. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of funding sought and allocated to Kildare County Council in each of the years 2011 to 2014 and in 2015 to...
    • Local Authority Funding
      1083. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for details of all allocations made by his Department to Limerick City and County Council for the completion of works in...
    • Water Conservation Grant Eligibility
      1084. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if persons who own more than one property and have registered for Irish Water on each property are entitled to the water...
    • Court Judgments
      1085. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the impact a court decision (details supplied) will have on the retrospective calculation of motor tax liabilities; and...
    • Local Authority Housing
      1086. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of qualified housing applicants who were moved from the housing lists to the rental accommodation scheme and...
    • Environmental Protection Agency Investigations
      1087. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the Environmental Protection Agency has noted any negative impacts in the Irish atmosphere and weather systems from...
    • Waste Management
      1088. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding the proposed waste tyre levy; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls
      1089. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the timeframe by which rent certainty proposals will be brought before the Cabinet; and consequentially before Dáil...
    • Election Management System
      1090. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the offshore islands not connected to the mainland by bridge or causeway that had polling stations on them for the last...
    • Motor Tax Rates
      1091. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify a taxation issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38181/15]
    • Register of Electors Administration
      1092. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will centralising checktheregister.ie, and having it run by his Department in place of local authorities, in light...
    • Fire Service
      1093. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the budget allocation in 2014 for the fire services capital programme; the amount spent; and if he will make a statement...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Administration
      1094. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how it is intended to qualify a family as being homeless in light of the new housing assistance payment regulations in...
    • Housing Assistance Payments Eligibility
      1096. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government how it is intended to proceed in cases of renewals or existing rentals where landlords indicate that they are happy to...
    • Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      1100. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status in respect of achieving targets set at EU level for climate change management, in particular under the EU...
    • National Lottery Funding Disbursement
      1101. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has engaged with the Irish Environment Network on the progress made on the provision of funding to the natural...
    • Planning Issues
      1102. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in light of the extraordinarily high planning fees paid in securing permission to change the use of land from commercial...
    • Departmental Funding
      1104. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will allocate funding to provide a community resource centre (details supplied) in Dublin 5; and if he will make a...
    • Register of Electors Administration
      1105. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if there is potential to allow applications for inclusion on the supplementary registers of electors to be signed by a...
    • Commencement of Legislation
      1106. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 570 of 3 February 2015, when the relevant sections of the Housing Miscellaneous...
    • Water Services Provision
      1107. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of a large number of houses in County Tipperary with possible lead piping and the potential cost of...
    • Farm Waste Management
      1108. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the spreading of human waste as slurry or fertilizer on Irish farmlands; the measures that are in place to...
    • Pyrite Remediation Programme Expenditure
      1109. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the moneys allocated in budget 2016 for the pyrite remediation scheme in 2016. [38310/15]
    • Harbours and Piers Development
      1110. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the plans for investment in Inis Oirr pier; and Ros a'Mhil Harbour, as part of the capital investment plan; and if he...
    • EU Regulations
      1111. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government why it is necessary to confine the period for bush burning to such a limited timespan. [38334/15]
    • Social and Affordable Housing Data
      1112. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of affordable homes that are rented out in each local authority area. [38341/15]
    • Mortgage Arrears Proposals
      1113. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the supports available for persons who are currently working on repaying arrears with their local authorities through the...
    • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
      1114. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the options for families in affordable homes if they cannot live in these homes due to overcrowding. [38343/15]
    • Dumping at Sea
      1116. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the application lodged by the Dublin Port Company to dump dredged material at sea, off the coast of...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      1117. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of civil servants under his remit who have been reinstated in recent years after taking a career break; and if...
  • Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
    • Inland Fisheries
      1118. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is aware that there is an invasion of the Asian clam species in the Shannon river which has the potential to harm...
    • Inland Fisheries Ireland Funding
      1119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if budget 2016 will provide additional funding to Inland Fisheries Ireland; if the 34% reduction in staffing over recent...
    • Energy Resources
      1120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is concerned that the Phillips 66 company has commenced a process to sell Whitegate Oil Refinery in Cork; the...
    • Departmental Budgets
      1121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the estimated expenditure of his Department in 2015, in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      1122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the allocation for his Department in 2016 which covers the Lansdowne Road agreement; and the demographic or other...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      1123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will indicate, in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the name of each appointee made from 7...
    • Biofuel Obligation Scheme
      1124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources for details of plans to make biofuel more readily available through fuel pumps in retail garages; and if he will make a...
    • Postal Codes
      1125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason Eircode will not change an incorrect code to address the correct postal address of a person (details...
    • Prospecting Licences
      1127. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether the granting of onshore options licences granted to companies (details supplied) to prospect...
    • Emergency Services Personnel
      1128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is aware of the situation of workers in the emergency call answering service run by Conduit company and British...
    • Post Office Network
      1130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the final report of the post office network business development group is due to be completed and published; and if...
    • Security of the Elderly
      1131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if financial assistance or grants are available to elderly persons who wish to install a landline for the purpose of...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to improve broadband in Kilrush, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37653/15]
    • Bioenergy Strategy
      1133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources given that the quantity of bioenergy on the planet is inherently limited, the steps he has taken to ensure that energy...
    • Postal Codes
      1135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the future use of the Eircode system; if An Post is one of the sponsoring bodies; if he has advised An Post...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      1138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding appointments to a board (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38085/15]
    • Telecommunications Services Provision
      1139. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to strengthen existing legislation to afford consumers of telecommunication products who experience disruption...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1140. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is aware of any local authority which, further to the publication of the national broadband strategy, has...
    • Environmental Protection Agency Investigations
      1141. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to list the individual names and the organisations, agencies and Departments of the participants in decisions to...
    • Broadband Service Speeds
      1142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources is he aware of the poor quality broadband service in the Moone area of County Kildare; the plans to enhance the service;...
    • Broadband Service Provision
      1143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the roll-out of broadband in County Limerick. [38281/15]
    • Mobile Telephony
      1144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the proposal to ban roaming mobile telephone charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38379/15]
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      1145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of civil servants under his remit who have been reinstated in recent years after taking a career break; and...
  • Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
    • Harbours and Piers Maintenance
      1146. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department is aware that two boats, a 30 m mussel dredger and a smaller fishing boat, have been abandoned and are derelict at the...
    • Air Navigation Orders
      1147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of requests made by the US in 2015 to date under the Air Navigation and Transport Act (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons...
    • Air Services Provision
      1148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the application from the City of Derry Airport for his Department to co-fund the re-instatement of the Derry to Dublin...
    • Driver Licences
      1149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a driving licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37304/15]
    • Departmental Budgets
      1150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated expenditure of his Department in 2015 in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of the year for...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      1151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the allocation for his Department in 2016 which covers the Lansdowne Road agreement; and the demographic or other inflationary...
    • Road Projects Status
      1152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the schedule of work for the proposed Adare bypass in County Limerick in terms of planning, land acquisitions and compulsory purchase...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      1153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will indicate, in respect of State boards under his Department's remit, the name of each appointee made from 7 March 2011 to date...
    • Road Tolls
      1154. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the concessions that will be made for motorists travelling to work via the M3 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Rail Services
      1155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of his plans for the completion of the railway (details supplied) from Navan to Dublin. [37446/15]
    • Road Projects Status
      1156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an application for funding for a road project (details supplied) in County Meath has been made; if it will be successful. [37376/15]
    • Fáilte Ireland
      1157. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will amend the system by which Fáilte Ireland awards its quality assured and quality approved guarantees and subsequent...
    • Air Navigation Orders
      1160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of requests made in 2015 to date by the United States of America for permits to transport munitions through Shannon Airport...
    • Taxi Regulations
      1161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the arrangements the Taxi Regulator has in place for communicating with taxi operators who have literacy issues; and if he will make a...
    • Road Traffic Legislation
      1162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the consolidation of the Road Traffic Acts will begin; the expected completion date, given reports that his Department has...
    • Tourism Promotion
      1163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that Tourism Ireland is taking in the print media in Canada to promote tourism to Ireland over the winter months; and if he...
    • Motor Insurance Coverage
      1164. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the rising costs of motor insurance for private vehicles and for taxis, with many motorists experiencing increases of...
    • Driver Test Centres
      1165. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of a request made to the Office of Public Works by the Road Safety Authority for a compound site to be made available in...
    • Driver Safety
      1166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the ongoing issue of high volumes of learner drivers concentrated in certain estates, such as an area (details...
    • Aviation Issues
      1167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on security inspections of aircraft which traditionally were carried out by his Department's inspectors but passed to the...
    • Wild Atlantic Way Project
      1168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans or proposals currently under consideration to extended the Wild Atlantic Way along the N69 to Limerick; and if he...
    • Road Safety
      1169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has given any direction to the Road Safety Authority and to national car test agencies to ensure that so-called clocking on cars...
    • Public Service Contracts
      1171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how the €28 million increase for the public service obligation contracts in budget 2016 will be allocated among the Coras Iompair...
    • Road Safety
      1172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the outcome of the discussions by Ministers of EU member states regarding car emission controls at a meeting of the European...
    • Road Improvement Schemes
      1173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current position regarding the R336 Bearna to Scríb road project in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the...
    • Driver Test Centres
      1174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the provision that has been made for learner drivers of heavy goods vehicles and buses to do their driving tests in counties Galway,...
    • Sports Capital Programme Applications
      1175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a decision will be made on an appeal by an organisation (details supplied) regarding an application for funding under the sports...
    • Road Safety Strategy
      1178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to publish a winter gritting map for use by motorists when deciding their route during the winter period. [37811/15]
    • Cycling Policy
      1180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the large number of cyclists who use headphones while in transit, putting themselves and fellow road users at risk; if...
    • Public Transport Provision
      1181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when funding will be provided to fund the provision of a bus rapid transit route along the Swords to Dublin city centre corridor, given...
    • Swimming Pool Programme Status
      1182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the value for money report on the local authority swimming pool programme (details supplied); and if he...
    • Bus Éireann Services
      1183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of the Bus Éireann fleet that was wheelchair accessible in 2014 and in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement...
    • Public Transport
      1184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the basis on which the consultation on the draft transport strategy 2016 to 2035 for the greater Dublin area and the associated...
    • Roadworthiness Testing
      1185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will recognise that owners of vintage vehicles cannot, and should not, be asked to comply with the regulations which would apply...
    • Public Transport
      1186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 353 of 22 October 2015, his plans to introduce regulations for legislation on the carriage of...
    • Sports Organisations
      1187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if all non-governmental sports bodies are accountable to Sports Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38193/15]
    • Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme
      1188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to use the connectivity fund arising from the sale of Aer Lingus to compensate deferred Aer Lingus pensioners for the huge...
    • Taxi Regulations
      1189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason applicants in isolated rural areas are finding it difficult to obtain a rural local area hackney licence; why the current...
    • Road Safety
      1190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the Department or agency that takes responsibility for the hazard to motorists posed by wild deer; the recourse that is available to...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      1191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of civil servants under his remit who have been re-instated in recent years after taking a career break; and if he will make...
  • Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    • Commemorative Events
      1192. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the date on which the national Famine commemoration will take place in 2016. [37770/15]
    • Heritage Projects
      1194. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps that need to be taken by Monaghan County Council to obtain funding from her Department to enable restoration works to be...
    • Census of Population Data
      1195. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way a person (details supplied) can access the 1926 census; and if it is possible to access one page only, under supervision....
    • Wildlife Regulations
      1196. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht why it is necessary to confine the period for bush burning to such a limited time span. [38333/15]
    • Departmental Budgets
      1198. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated expenditure of her Department in 2015, in tabular form; the budget for expenditure agreed at the start of the year for...
    • Lansdowne Road Agreement
      1199. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the allocation for her Department in 2016 which covers the Lansdowne Road agreement; and the demographic or other inflationary...
    • Appointments to State Boards
      1200. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will indicate, in respect of State boards under her Department's remit, the name of each appointee from 7 March 2011 to date...
    • Heritage Fund
      1201. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the grant assistance towards renovation and restoration available from her Department to owners of houses and homes that are listed;...
    • Údarás na Gaeltachta
      1202. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of jobs that were supported in the Dungloe area of County Donegal by Údarás Na Gaeltachta in each year from...
    • Island Communities
      1203. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for details of all subsidised passenger and cargo services to offshore islands, by island served; by frequency of the service in...
    • Calafoirt agus Céanna
      1204. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén fáth ar thug an tAire Stáit sa Roinn le fios i bhfreagra ar Cheist Dála Uimhir 118 an 14 Deireadh...
    • Scéim na bhFoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge
      1205. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén méid airgid a íocadh faoi scéim na bhfoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge gach bliain ó 2009 i leith, briste...
    • Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Payments
      1206. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a person (details supplied) will receive compensation under the turf cessation scheme for 2014 and 2015; and if she will make a...
    • Island Communities
      1207. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of days that the contracted passenger ferry services did not sail from each island to the mainland, by island, since...
    • Air Services Provision
      1208. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of days that the contracted air service did not fly to each of Oileáin Árann, by island, since January 2011;...
    • Burial Grounds
      1210. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the investigations concerning the possible use of lands within the Annaghdown Abbey complex for the expansion of the...
    • Departmental Staff Career Breaks
      1211. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of civil servants under her remit who have been reinstated in recent years after taking a career break; and if she will...

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