Written answers
Thursday, 26 November 2015
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Legislative Measures
7. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the development of new copyright legislation; if he is taking on board the key recommendations or legislative suggestions...
- Job Creation
11. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken over the past five years to encourage job creation and new inward investment in County Donegal, given that there...
- Foreign Direct Investment
13. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his assessment of foreign direct investment in the Dublin area in the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41427/15]
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
14. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will report on the latest meetings he has had regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; the measures he will...
- Job Creation Targets
16. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he expects job opportunities in the manufacturing and service sectors to be created over the next ten years, with...
- Job Initiatives
17. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures he is taking to stem the continuing reduction in the number of persons of between 20 and 34 years of age in the labour...
- Legislative Measures
18. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the Consumer Rights Bill will be brought to Second stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41758/15]
- Business Regulation
19. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures that will reduce the regulatory burden for small businesses, given recent surveys on red tape for small business; and if...
- Action Plan for Jobs
20. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in the context of the designation of Galway as a United Nations educational scientific and cultural organisation city of film, the...
- Company Closures
21. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has met with Natrium Limited on the future of the Clerys Store. [41752/15]
- Employment Rights
22. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if legislation will be brought before the Dáil prior to the next general election to end the practice of zero-hour contracts, and...
- Job Losses
23. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he will take to replace jobs lost at Bank of America and AvantCard in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim; and if he will make...
- Job Creation Data
24. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if County Donegal has fallen behind other parts of the country in terms of job creation; if poor road and broadband infrastructure in...
- Action Plan for Jobs
25. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the initiatives he has to deal with youth employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41426/15]
- Export Controls
26. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 20 of 4 November 2015, the criteria used in the assessment of applications for licences for the...
- Microenterprise Loan Fund Application Numbers
27. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of entrepreneurs under 25 years of age who have accessed the microfinance fund; the additional measures that are in place to...
- Employment Rights
28. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on If and When Contracts, as they are described in the recent University of Limerick study on short-hour and zero-hours...
- Job Losses
29. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he will implement changes to ensure that no other workers lose their jobs in the manner in which the Clerys workers lost their...
- Skills Development
30. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he has identified any particular or specific skills requirements and deficiencies which need to be addressed in...
- Department of Social Protection
- Employment Data
31. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will indicate, arising from job opportunities in the past three years, the extent to which such positions have been filled...
- Illness Benefit Payments
32. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied that it is equitable that persons on the gateway scheme must wait for six waiting days before receiving any...
- Illness Benefit Applications
35. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for illness benefit by a person (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if she will make a statement...
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments
37. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection a breakdown of the payment supports for funeral costs under supplementary welfare in excess of €2,500 per recipient, by...
- Community Employment Schemes Operation
38. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on a matter (details supplied) regarding community employment scheme supervisors and payment on retirement; and if she...
- Respite Care Grant Applications
39. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will review an application for a respite care grant by a person (details supplied), noting the exceptional circumstances;...
- Disability Allowance Eligibility
40. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when an application for a disability allowance will be processed for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will...
- Disability Allowance Appeals
41. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) will be made. [42091/15]
- Invalidity Pension Payments
43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when payment of an invalidity pension will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
- Carer's Allowance Applications
44. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when payment of a carer's allowance will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement...
- Disability Allowance Payments
45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when payment of a disability benefit will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a...
- Disability Allowance Applications
47. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an application for a disability allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Roscommon; the...
- Carer's Allowance Applications
48. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if she will make a...
- Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications
49. 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...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Applications
50. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why rent support has been refused to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Supplementary Welfare Allowance Applications
51. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection notwithstanding replies to previous parliamentary questions, when a basic social protection payment will be made to a person...
- Disability Allowance Eligibility
52. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the regulations a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6, who has had to visit his homeland and who is due to return here soon, has...
- Rent Supplement Scheme Data
53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the amount spent on rent supplement, by month, in 2014 and to date in 2015; the number of families in receipt of the supplement by...
- Illness Benefit Applications
54. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for illness benefit by a person (details supplied) in County Limerick; and if she will make a...
- Household Benefits Scheme
55. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to restore the telephone allowance to pensioners as part of the household benefits package; and if she will make a...
- Department of Finance
- Credit Unions Restructuring
57. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to dissolve the Credit Union Restructuring Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42050/15]
- Pensions Data
59. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons, other than public service occupational pensioners, receiving annual occupational pensions exceeding €12,000 per annum,...
- Tax Code
60. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any circumstances or precedent whereby retirement relief from capital gains tax on the sale of agricultural land holdings can be, or has been,...
- First-Time Buyers' Supports
61. To ask the Minister for Finance the current supports, and any potential support mechanisms that are coming onstream, for first-time buyers; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Credit Unions
64. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of credit unions subject to lending restrictions; the nature of these restrictions, by number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42167/15]
- Property Tax Administration
65. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 69 of 19 November 2015, why he has come to the conclusion that the Bara judgment case concerned the sharing between two...
- Property Tax Rate
66. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on concerns regarding the postponing of the planned revaluation of properties for purposes of the local property tax; the basis under which this...
- Central Bank of Ireland
67. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff in the Central Bank of Ireland who received bonus or retention payments in 2014; the total level of such payments; if his permission for...
- Motor Car Credit Market
68. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank of Ireland has carried out analysis of the credit market for car loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42252/15]
- Mortgage Lending
69. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgages issued outside the terms of Central Bank of Ireland limits for first-time buyers in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the...
- State Aid Investigations
71. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the European Commission’s investigation into the tax affairs of a company (details supplied) in Ireland; the number of specific requests...
- Insurance Compensation Fund
72. To ask the Minister for Finance the current estimate by the joint administrators of the losses at a company (details supplied); the role of the insurance compensation fund in dealing with...
- Banking Licence Applications
73. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications received and granted for a banking licence, in each year since 2011, in tabular form. [42257/15]
- Tax Reliefs Data
74. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons or mortgage accounts in receipt of tax relief at source in each year from 2012 to 2015 in tabular form; the projected cost of the scheme...
- Fuel Laundering
75. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual cost to the Exchequer of the use of illegally washed diesel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42260/15]
- Tax Data
76. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimate of the cost for 2015 of each tax expenditure on the statute books; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42261/15]
- Central Bank of Ireland Investigations
77. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the reports completed by McCann Fitzgerald and by Ernst and Young into certain corporate governance matters at the former Irish Nationwide...
- Financial Services Regulation
78. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have not passed the Central Bank of Ireland’s fitness and probity regime in the banking and finance industry; and if he will...
- National Pensions Reserve Fund Investments
79. To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the discretionary portfolio, including cash balances held by the National Pensions Reserve Fund; when the portfolio will be liquidated; and if he...
- Carbon Tax Yield
80. To ask the Minister for Finance the forecast revenue that will be raised by the carbon levy on each product on which it is applied in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears Breaches
81. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of complaints that have been made against banks for non-compliance with the code of conduct on mortgage arrears since it was instituted, the number...
- Banks Recapitalisation
82. To ask the Minister for Finance the funds currently covered by the eligible liabilities guarantee, the rate at which this will decline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42269/15]
- Tax Credits
83. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost and the number of companies that benefited from the research and development tax credit, in each year from 2011 to 2014, in tabular form; and if he...
- Property Tax Collection
84. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons who have opted to pay their local property tax by means of a deduction from their social protection payment; the number of instances...
- Consultancy Contracts Data
85. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount paid out to named consultants and consultancy firms in 2015 to date, in tabular form; the description of the work provided; and if he will make a...
- Departmental Staff Remuneration
86. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff of the Revenue Commissioners who earn salaries from €300,001 to €400,000; €200,001 to €300,000; €150,001...
- Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
- Flood Prevention Measures
89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason funding, an application for which was made in August 2015 but was rejected, will not be made available by the Office of Public...
- Flood Relief Schemes
90. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm the recent recommendations of the consulting engineer in relation to the tendering for and appointment of a contractor...
- Consultancy Contracts Data
91. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount paid out to named consultants and consultancy firms in 2015 to date, in tabular form; the description of the work provided;...
- Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
- Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
92. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the reformed approach advocated by the European Union for investment protection in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment...
- Job Creation Targets
93. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the potential number of projected jobs that will be created, and the number that will be created in each region, under Enterprise...
- Employment Rights
100. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation given correspondence showing a company offering a training rate of pay below the minimum wage, if he is aware of the prevalence of...
- Trade Agreements
101. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if any ongoing monitoring or review of the human rights situation in Colombia, as proposed at the Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise...
- Work Permit Applications
103. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will facilitate a further application for a work permit by a person (details supplied) in County Carlow whose previous...
- Departmental Agencies Staff Recruitment
104. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of requests for additional funding or staff resources the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement made; the number...
- Knowledge Development Box
105. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he expects the knowledge development box to continue to facilitate inward and indigenous investment,...
- Job Creation
106. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which this jurisdiction remains an attractive and competitive location for inward and indigenous investment likely to...
- Action Plan for Jobs
111. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when he expects all of the jobs lost during the economic downturn to be replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42244/15]
- Equal Opportunities Employment
112. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which women and men have had equal opportunity to take up jobs in the workplace over the past four years; the extent to...
- Small and Medium Enterprises Supports
113. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which he expects job opportunities to arise through small and medium sized enterprises, and the extent of specific...
- Action Plan for Jobs
114. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which the cost base in the manufacturing and services sectors remains competitive; and if he will make a statement on...
- Regional Development
115. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his proposals for job creation throughout the regions, with particular reference to the need to achieve a reasonable balance in terms...
- Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
116. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why a payment under the single payment scheme for a person (details supplied) in County Wexford has not yet been processed, following...
- Basic Payment Scheme Applications
117. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in issuing a payment under the 2015 basic payment scheme to a person (details provided) in County Cork; and...
- GLAS Eligibility
118. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is eligible to apply for the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme 2016; and if he...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
119. 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; the reason for the...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
121. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the single payment scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reason for the...
- Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments
122. 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; the reason for the...
- Single Payment Scheme Payments
123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the single payment scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the reason for the...
- Forestry Sector
124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the establishment that grants moneys that have been recouped by the forestry service from individual companies, as these moneys...
- Basic Payment Scheme Applications
125. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine an application under the basic payments scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; if the payment will...
- Fishing Industry
126. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a scallop entitlement on a licensed fishing boat (details supplied) in County Kerry will be decommissioned; and if he will make a...
- Agriculture Scheme Payments
128. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue under the 2015 basic payment scheme and the areas of natural constraint scheme to a person (details supplied)...
- Department of Defence
- Defence Forces Recruitment
129. To ask the Minister for Defence the special considerations that are put in place for applications from persons with dyslexia when sitting the aptitude test for the Defence Forces; and if he...
- Department of Justice and Equality
- EU Directives
130. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the rationale behind the age limit of eight years of age of children whose parents apply to take parental leave; if she will increase this age...
- Prisoner Privacy
131. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commission an immediate investigation into the leaking of information to journalists by prison authorities regarding the case of a...
- Residency Permits
132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected residency status and eligibility for long-term residency of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who has applied...
- Deportation Orders
134. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current residency status and likelihood of upgrade for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 and the person's family; and if she will make...
- Citizenship Applications
136. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current and expected residency status, including eligibility for naturalisation, of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will...
- Residency Permits
137. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current status in determining residency for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42146/15]
- Immigration Status
138. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current residency status and potential eligibility for long-term residency and naturalisation for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22;...
- Refugee Status Applications
143. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who made an application for protection more than five years ago and who are currently in the protection process, at...
- Garda Investigations
144. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will seek a report from the Garda Síochána as to the status of its investigation arising from a report made to it (details...
- Garda Operations
145. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of arrests made for possession of drugs for personal use in Dublin, in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will...
- Court Procedures
147. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the general process by which a summons to court is worded in relation to road traffic penalty point offences; if the wording is drafted by...
- Equality Legislation
148. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to bring forward changes to section 7(3)(c) of the Equal Status Act 2000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42281/15]
- Department of Children and Youth Affairs
- Counselling Services
149. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funding for a counselling service (details supplied) in Dublin 13 will be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Department of Health
- Hospital Investigations
150. To ask the Minister for Health if he has read the report by Beaumont Hospital in Dublin 9 into the death of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42058/15]
- Hospital Procedures
151. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding persons who require transcatheter aortic valve implantation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Hospital Appointment Status
152. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry will be performed; if he is aware of delays in this case; and if he will make a statement on...
- Addiction Services
153. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who availed of all public addiction services, both alcohol and drugs services, in 2014 and in 2015 to date; the number currently on...
- Medical Card Applications
158. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Offaly has been refused a medical card; if he will include spinal injuries under the long-term illness scheme;...
- Dental Services Waiting Lists
159. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a dental appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42124/15]
- Health Services Staff
160. To ask the Minister for Health subsequent to the closure of the acute inpatient unit in St. Brigid’s Hospital, Ballinasloe, County Galway, and as a consequence of the redeployment of...
- Health Services Staff Data
161. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical or non-medical positions, including in catering, that are currently unfilled in Toghermore House, Tuam, County Galway; the amount spent...
- Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage
162. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reinstate concessions for coeliac patients in terms of dietary requirements being available on the medical card and-or long-term illness scheme; if...
- Medical Card Applications
163. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the refusal of a medical card to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42150/15]
- Hospital Procedures
164. To ask the Minister for Health if and when access to required tests and assessments at St. James's Hospital in County Dublin will be afforded to a person (details supplied) in County...
- Professional Qualifications
165. To ask the Minister for Health the status of determining the appropriate named professional representative body for physical therapists and physiotherapists; the status of ongoing...
- Health Services
167. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath is provided a Prader Willie Syndrome 24 residential support plan; should the lead time...
- Hospital Appointment Status
168. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [42178/15]
- Hospital Appointments Administration
169. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for surgery will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow. [42179/15]
- Medicinal Products Prices
170. To ask the Minister for Health the measures introduced in 2015 to reduce the cost of medicines to patients and the taxpayer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42183/15]
- Obesity Strategy
171. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department will publish a new obesity policy. [42184/15]
- Health Care Policy
172. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department will publish a new oral health strategy. [42185/15]
- Maternity Services
173. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department will publish a new maternity care strategy. [42186/15]
- National Cancer Strategy Publication
174. To ask the Minister for Health when his Department will publish a new cancer strategy. [42187/15]
- Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland
175. To ask the Minister for Health why the Irish nursing board has not issued a reply to an application for registration by a person (details supplied) in County Mayo; the reason for the delay;...
- Hospital Waiting Lists
176. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42198/15]
- Health Services
177. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1 who requires long-term care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42202/15]
- Services for People with Disabilities
178. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will be considered for placements with any of the service providers Prosper Fingal, Gheel, Praxcis Car, or Eve...
- Hospital Services
179. To ask the Minister for Health the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland hospital group's winter capacity plans to deal with the busiest time of the year; the measures that are in place to...
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Diplomatic Representation
180. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for details of the ambassadors from Ireland who have come from the private or public sector, from the Department of Foreign Affairs and...
- Departmental Expenditure
182. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will revert to this Deputy (details supplied) regarding credit cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42078/15]
- Official Travel
183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will revert to this Deputy on (details supplied) regarding air fares; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42079/15]
- Departmental Programmes
184. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of young persons who are expected to participate on the Fréamhacha programme in 2016; the activities the programme will...
- Middle East Issues
185. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that a family (details supplied) is fighting against immediate eviction from their East Jerusalem home in favour of an...
- Human Rights Issues
186. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that from 9 November 2015 to 13 November 2015, in the space of less than one week, three prominent Colombian human rights...
- Department of Education and Skills
- School Funding
190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a statutory instrument has been put in place in respect of the Protestant block grant, which has a fund of approximately €6.5 million...
- Schools Building Projects Status
191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when two schools (details supplied) in County Meath will proceed to construction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42065/15]
- Educational Disadvantage
192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her review of the delivering equality of opportunity in schools programme will be finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Education and Training Boards
194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the status of approval for a centre for education and training under the auspices of Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board...
- Gaelscoileanna Issues
195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to provide extra primary Gaelscoil places in Navan, County Meath. [42165/15]
- Teacher Data
197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set down the number of teachers who have taken career breaks, resigned or retired from a school (details supplied) in County Louth since...
- School Enrolments Data
205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of over-subscribed primary schools according to the latest information available to her Department; the proportion of primary schools...
- Schools Building Projects Administration
206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding the building of new schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42200/15]
- Teacher Redeployment
207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to extend supplementary redeployment panel access to Montessori-trained teachers such that they would be eligible to apply for...
- School Enrolments
208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on section 7(3)(c) of the Equal Status Act 2000, which permits religious based discrimination in schools admissions policy. [42282/15]
- Department of Environment, Community and Local Government
- Motor Tax Exemptions
209. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider an exemption from motor tax for blood motor bicycles, a volunteer service that transports blood...
- Local Authority Charges Non-Payment
210. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons who have made settlements in respect of the non-principal private residence tax; the amount raised;...
- Foreshore Issues
211. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will address the lease evaluation of a community based non-profit sporting club (details supplied) in County Cork...
- Building Regulations Amendments
212. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to current planning rules which allow for the exemption of small-scale domestic property extensions from...
- Water and Sewerage Schemes Status
213. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will revert to this Deputy on (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42080/15]
- Departmental Funding
214. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when an application submitted to his Department under the expressions of interest for recreation projects 2015 will be...
- Local Authority Housing Data
216. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of residential units here owned by local authorities and by voluntary housing partnerships; and if he will make...
- Departmental Funding
219. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the basis on which funding allocations were made in respect of the scheme to support national organisations; the selection...
- Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
- Company Data
220. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount EirGrid has spent on advertising and sponsorship in 2015 to date, and for each of the past four years; who are...
- Energy Resources
221. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the steps he is taking in order to ensure the Whitegate Oil Refinery is maintained as an operable refinery for the future...
- Renewable Energy Generation
222. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he will publish proposals on the refit for solar power; the likely rate of the tariff, at such point in time; and if...
- Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport
- Motor Tax Collection
223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number, as a percentage of the total, of the renewals for motor tax that were carried out online for each of the years 2011 to 2014;...
- Swimming Pool Projects
224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a request for funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42216/15]
- Motor Insurance Coverage
226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on preventing insurance companies from raising significantly the price of car insurance when an existing customer renews a...
- Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
- Deer Hunting
227. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of gun day licences that were given out to a gun club (details supplied) in County Sligo in the 2014 to 2015 season by An...
